@gilliss.bsky.social
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George—a U.S. citizen and veteran—wasn’t able to communicate with anyone while detained by I.C.E. He even missed his daughter’s birthday.
This is a gross injustice, and it’s happening all over the country.
This is a gross injustice, and it’s happening all over the country.
December 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
George—a U.S. citizen and veteran—wasn’t able to communicate with anyone while detained by I.C.E. He even missed his daughter’s birthday.
This is a gross injustice, and it’s happening all over the country.
This is a gross injustice, and it’s happening all over the country.
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“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:
The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
theintercept.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, a TN sheriff had a 61-yr-old man arrested for posting a meme on Facebook, which the sheriff absurdly construed as a threat. It was pretty clearly bullshit but I dug into the case using FB & public records and now it looks even worse. My latest @theintercept.com:
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More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys
October 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys
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If you lose to the Vikings in the UK you should be forced to change your team name to The Benedictines
October 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
If you lose to the Vikings in the UK you should be forced to change your team name to The Benedictines
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It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.
“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.
ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground
ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.
abc7chicago.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.
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The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
I don't know how to yell any louder.
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This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
www.whitehouse.gov
September 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.
Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”
September 15, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.
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I made a little short list of what I think are entirely reasonable complaints and demands:
September 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I made a little short list of what I think are entirely reasonable complaints and demands:
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Trump didn’t increase the ICE budget 20x and start building concentration camps just to deal with illegal immigrants. He wants his own personal army, a federal national guard, like Putin’s Rosgvardiya. And he wants people to get used to their doing whatever they want, 4th Amendment be damned.
July 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Trump didn’t increase the ICE budget 20x and start building concentration camps just to deal with illegal immigrants. He wants his own personal army, a federal national guard, like Putin’s Rosgvardiya. And he wants people to get used to their doing whatever they want, 4th Amendment be damned.
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Of course, the Medicaid and SNAP cuts are appropriately getting the most attention. But almost lost has been the dramatic expansion of ICE, dwarfing every other law-enforcement agency combined. I had feared a private Trump vigilante force. Much worse. An official one.
July 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Of course, the Medicaid and SNAP cuts are appropriately getting the most attention. But almost lost has been the dramatic expansion of ICE, dwarfing every other law-enforcement agency combined. I had feared a private Trump vigilante force. Much worse. An official one.
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I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
June 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
June 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Lee: Would say it would be “illegal DEI” for a lesson plan on the Tulsa race massacre?
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
McMahon: I’d have to get back to you
Lee: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
McMahon: I’d like to look into it more and get back to you on it.
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I am not trying to be glib when I say this at all, in fact I've dedicated the better part of a year of my scholarly activity to taking seriously this idea that the "gain" of sabotaging US science is precisely the direct, unmitigated harm it does to well-educated urbanites—because they're the enemy
Huge scale of destruction - on science, technology, on students and researchers' careers, on patients, caregivers, private industry and for no discernable gain.
“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ
June 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I am not trying to be glib when I say this at all, in fact I've dedicated the better part of a year of my scholarly activity to taking seriously this idea that the "gain" of sabotaging US science is precisely the direct, unmitigated harm it does to well-educated urbanites—because they're the enemy
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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Trump: "Have you noticed that lots of law firms have been signing up with Trump? $100 million. Another $100 million for -- ah -- damages that they've done ... they give me a lot of money considering they've done nothing wrong."
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Trump: "Have you noticed that lots of law firms have been signing up with Trump? $100 million. Another $100 million for -- ah -- damages that they've done ... they give me a lot of money considering they've done nothing wrong."
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These people are irredeemable. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 PM
These people are irredeemable. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...
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On the one hand, decades of libertarians warning about how concentrating power in the state would make the state much more dangerous if it was taken over by an authoritarian look pretty wise right now. On the other hand, lots of those same libertarians are now cheerleading for that authoritarian.
March 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
On the one hand, decades of libertarians warning about how concentrating power in the state would make the state much more dangerous if it was taken over by an authoritarian look pretty wise right now. On the other hand, lots of those same libertarians are now cheerleading for that authoritarian.
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I want the exact opposite of this. Let them in. Shame the tyrants. Show the Maduros of the world how well liberalism can do for their very own people. Make the autocrats feel small, ineffective, and vulnerable. Which they are.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REVOKES TEMPORARY LEGAL STATUS FOR 530,000 CUBANS, HAITIANS, NICARAGUANS AND VENEZUELANS IN THE U.S. EFFECTIVE APRIL 24 - FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICE
March 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I want the exact opposite of this. Let them in. Shame the tyrants. Show the Maduros of the world how well liberalism can do for their very own people. Make the autocrats feel small, ineffective, and vulnerable. Which they are.
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#standupforscience2025 In Philadelphia was beautiful. Sending love to all my bothers and sisters of the laboratory.
#sciencenotsilence
#standupfightback
@standupforscience.bsky.social
These were my fav signs. Good job @x
#sciencenotsilence
#standupfightback
@standupforscience.bsky.social
These were my fav signs. Good job @x
March 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
#standupforscience2025 In Philadelphia was beautiful. Sending love to all my bothers and sisters of the laboratory.
#sciencenotsilence
#standupfightback
@standupforscience.bsky.social
These were my fav signs. Good job @x
#sciencenotsilence
#standupfightback
@standupforscience.bsky.social
These were my fav signs. Good job @x