Dara Hellman
@darahellman.bsky.social
ASNC PhD, California girl...oh and everything happened in 1170.
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it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: December 27 edition" — Erika Kirk sells it, Donny Convict smells it, and so much more...
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this week in stupid: December 27 edition
Erika Kirk sells it, Donny Convict smells it, and so much more...
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December 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: December 27 edition" — Erika Kirk sells it, Donny Convict smells it, and so much more...
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Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
wrd.cm
December 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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A short text explaining what is going on with ICE as a resource for kids (like … teens?) to read or for parents to read and had to talk to kids.
Hi Doug, Thanks for the feedback. Here a revised version:
theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/under...
theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/under...
Understanding Deportation for Children
By Ernesto Castañeda, PhD
theimmigrationlab.org
December 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A short text explaining what is going on with ICE as a resource for kids (like … teens?) to read or for parents to read and had to talk to kids.
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Thoughts from a community activist in Memphis:
"If you are part of the Memphis [Un]Safe Task Force & conducting ICE operations, you are in fact ICE. The US marshals, DSS, FBI, HSI, SCSO, MPD, ATF, etc. All ICE."
"If you are part of the Memphis [Un]Safe Task Force & conducting ICE operations, you are in fact ICE. The US marshals, DSS, FBI, HSI, SCSO, MPD, ATF, etc. All ICE."
December 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Thoughts from a community activist in Memphis:
"If you are part of the Memphis [Un]Safe Task Force & conducting ICE operations, you are in fact ICE. The US marshals, DSS, FBI, HSI, SCSO, MPD, ATF, etc. All ICE."
"If you are part of the Memphis [Un]Safe Task Force & conducting ICE operations, you are in fact ICE. The US marshals, DSS, FBI, HSI, SCSO, MPD, ATF, etc. All ICE."
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ICE is not allowed to use deadly force unless someone is poses an immediate danger to themselves or others. So, I will take the claim that the people who were shot tried to run over the ICE agents with a large grain of salt.
December 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
ICE is not allowed to use deadly force unless someone is poses an immediate danger to themselves or others. So, I will take the claim that the people who were shot tried to run over the ICE agents with a large grain of salt.
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More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn
Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure
www.statnews.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
More on the continuing purges at #NIH. Now 13 out of 27 institute directors have been gotten rid of. This is not normal. @jonathanwosen.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/n...
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Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Filming them committing terrorism is now itself an act of terrorism?
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This should be the first thing Trump is impeached for. Easy to prove and easy for the public to understand.
If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This should be the first thing Trump is impeached for. Easy to prove and easy for the public to understand.
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From the removal of joy to global destruction, 16 reasons I hate AI
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Patrick Freyne: AI’s weird billionaires want us all to be atomised units of labour and consumption
The weird billionaires behind artificial intelligence are desperately trying to shoehorn AI chatbots into every bit of technology you own
www.irishtimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
From the removal of joy to global destruction, 16 reasons I hate AI
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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A neat little nugget of medieval coal history as we come to the end of a year where the UK has just finished it first 15 months freed from coal power, but the US has slid backward on so many energy fronts. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #Speculations #MedievalSky
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A neat little nugget of medieval coal history as we come to the end of a year where the UK has just finished it first 15 months freed from coal power, but the US has slid backward on so many energy fronts. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... #Speculations #MedievalSky
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Russia Bombards Kyiv as Zelensky Prepares for Talks With Trump
December 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Russia Bombards Kyiv as Zelensky Prepares for Talks With Trump
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These are the days to return or exchange any incorrectly sized pieces of armour you may have received for Christmas - 1320s, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.754, f. 70r
December 27, 2025 at 5:42 AM
These are the days to return or exchange any incorrectly sized pieces of armour you may have received for Christmas - 1320s, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.754, f. 70r
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"Maryland joined 18 states and the District of Columbia Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging a Health and Human Services declaration last week that health care facilities offering gender-affirming care to minors would be barred from Medicare and Medicaid."
#Maryland #USA #Healthcare #Courts
#Maryland #USA #Healthcare #Courts
19 States and DC Are Suing to Protect Gender-Affirming Care for Youth
The lawsuit challenges a Health and Human Services declaration last week that bars providers from Medicare and Medicaid.
truthout.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"Maryland joined 18 states and the District of Columbia Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging a Health and Human Services declaration last week that health care facilities offering gender-affirming care to minors would be barred from Medicare and Medicaid."
#Maryland #USA #Healthcare #Courts
#Maryland #USA #Healthcare #Courts
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Trump says the DOJ is being “forced” to work on the Epstein files and demands they say “NO MORE” and “Release all of their names” of Democrats in the Epstein files to “embarrass them.”
This is not the language of an innocent man.
This is not the language of an innocent man.
December 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Trump says the DOJ is being “forced” to work on the Epstein files and demands they say “NO MORE” and “Release all of their names” of Democrats in the Epstein files to “embarrass them.”
This is not the language of an innocent man.
This is not the language of an innocent man.
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My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.
December 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
My family and I, and the entire Japanese American community on the West Coast, were denied due process during our internment in WWII. It is a cherished, critical right for all people within the U.S.’s borders.
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I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Judge Blocks Detention of British Researcher Who Scrutinizes Online Hate
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I did not understand this: one of the five Europeans the US has barred from traveling to the United States...is a permanent resident who lives with his family in the US.
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
Now he is worried about being arrested and deported for the crime of monitoring online hate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/u...
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Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Every Democrat running for office needs to promise investigations and full prosecutions from top to bottom, remove its funding bloat then break up the agency and distribute its core remaining useful functions across other agencies.
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Off their heads and arguing - Typical family Christmas - 14th century, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 107, f. 99v
December 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Off their heads and arguing - Typical family Christmas - 14th century, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 107, f. 99v
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Either, or... both! They all work.
December 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Either, or... both! They all work.
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Legend Imran Ahmed (CEO of CCDH) just sued the U.S. Government for the wildly inappropriate visa sanctions. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York just granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against this inappropriate government action.
What a Christmas gift!
What a Christmas gift!
December 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Legend Imran Ahmed (CEO of CCDH) just sued the U.S. Government for the wildly inappropriate visa sanctions. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York just granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against this inappropriate government action.
What a Christmas gift!
What a Christmas gift!
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It’s been said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless they've had a dog. Billy Collins agrees, and he recently released his 12th volume of poetry, called “Dog Show." https://to.pbs.org/4qlm9sj
Poet Billy Collins explores love, loss and life in 'Dog Show'
It’s been said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless they've had a dog. Billy Collins agrees, and he recently released his 12th volume of poetry, called “Dog Show." Senior arts c...
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December 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It’s been said that nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless they've had a dog. Billy Collins agrees, and he recently released his 12th volume of poetry, called “Dog Show." https://to.pbs.org/4qlm9sj
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Into the void: how Trump killed international law
Into the void: how Trump killed international law
The rules-based global order, its institutions and value system face a crisis of legitimacy and credibility as the US turns away
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Into the void: how Trump killed international law
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We might not be able to watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas” around a TV together like we once used to, but we can still listen to its classic soundtrack—that rare artistic artifact that transcends what it was made to accompany, writes Anna Holmes:
The Sound of a 'Charlie Brown' Christmas
Growing up, my holidays were profoundly shaped by the soundtrack to a classic animated special.
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We might not be able to watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas” around a TV together like we once used to, but we can still listen to its classic soundtrack—that rare artistic artifact that transcends what it was made to accompany, writes Anna Holmes: