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Ken Miller
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Theoretical Neuroscientist, Columbia University
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 13d
Congratulations! Looking forward to seeing what comes out of the group --
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 21d
Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line.

www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...
Graphic of an IDF sniper along with a quote from a sniper: "There's a line that if the Gazans waiting for food cross, I can shoot them. It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different way every time, and I'm there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, 'Take it down, take it down.' I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I've stopped counting Xs. I have no idea how many I killed, a lot. Children."
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 29d
SCOTUS allowing ICE to racially profile will embolden Trump to use ICE & military against his political opponents, potentially demanding citizenship checks at polls & intimidating Dem voters in 2026. Already seeing such tactics with occupation of LA, DC & Chicago www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 29d
Again & again, the Supreme Mullahs rule that Trump can act unlawfully & unconstitutionally & violate constitutional rights w/o restriction, at least until the courts finish the process of officially resolving the legality of these acts (and S.M.'s may well ultimately decide they're legal).
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 29d
Breaking News: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on ICE agents in Los Angeles, allowing them to make indiscriminate stops based on factors like ethnicity.
Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops
A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Sep 8
I wrote a substack article:
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What Columbia Sacrificed In Its Deal With The Trump Administration
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Aug 21
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 27
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 26
A $ doesn't go very far, unfortunately: money has to first go through money changers who take a significant %, then it has to buy food on the market at wildly inflated prices. But it seems to be the only way to help other than pushing gov'ts to change. I attach a FAQ from the baby formula group.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 26
For anyone wanting to contribute to get aid into Gaza: I've been told that Project Sameer is "the gold standard" for this, one of their projects: chuffed.org/project/help...
& a friend tells me this is a trusted source, getting baby formula in: chuffed.org/project/1387...
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North Gaza: Food, Water & Other Distributions
Translating Falasteen (Palestine), in collaboration with The Sameer Project, launched a fundraising campaign to support families in Gaza facing severe hardships. Our mission is to provide essential ai...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · Jul 26
“A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres.
"I witnessed the Israeli Defense Forces shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · Jul 26
"They are criminal... I have never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population".

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
www.bbc.com
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 25
My understanding is Dem state legislators are afraid to leave the state for 30 days to prevent redistricting because they will incur $15K fines. A wealthy person could offer a gift of $21K ($15K after taxes) to everyone who is fined at a cost, for 50 people, of ~$1M. Is there such a wealthy Dem?
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 25
notice: unusual activity, need to change pwd. But w/o account's email, I can't change my pwd, so can't login. Attempts to get xitter support to do something thus far utterly fruitless. I'll keep trying, but not hopeful. I made an account @zzkmzzkm just to read, but no followers so not posting.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 25
By the way, for anyone still on xitter: I stayed on it to read and post about Palestine/Israel/Gaza. It's still where most people living there post, so it's news you can't get anywhere else. But I've been kicked off X since June 12. It looks like someone hacked to change associated email; I got 1/
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 25
link 1: on.ft.com/46iUoK6
link 2: www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza
Health ministry says dozens have died this month as aid agencies warn that even their workers are suffering from malnutrition
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 25
Invaluable xitter thread on famine momentum, famine response and the current disastrous state of Gaza from Jeremy Konyndyk, President of Refugees Intl and former lead for COVID (46) & disaster relief (44) @USAID: x.com/JeremyKonynd.... Note the alarming increase in starvation deaths; links in reply.
Twitter thread described in main post. Graphic showing that there were 68 recorded starvation deaths in Gaza from Oct 7 2023 to July 20 2025, and 43 starvation deaths reported on July 21-23 2025, an enormous acceleration.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 23
This was posted on xitter, x.com/malonebarry/..., with the comment "This 18-month-old child is Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq. Photograph by Anadolu's Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim Al-arini."
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 23
Photograph of a sad and possibly emaciated-from-hunger (very thin face) Gazan woman holding her 18-month-old child inside a tent in a madonna-and-child kind of pose. The child, seen from the back, is skin-and-bones from starvation, his spine and ribs sticking out, his arm thin as a twig
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 20
Abundant aid is sitting on the border, if IL would let it in. After complete blockade for months they now are allowing in only a trickle. That combination is creating the current, rapidly worsening situation. How many people must die of starvation before the world will pressure IL to open the gates?
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 20
In the past when the situation was not yet this desperate people were saying mass death would soon begin, & it didn't. I'm not sure if that's because IL let in more aid then or if people just overestimated how dire the situation was. But this time is much worse than anytime in the past. 2/
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 20
Posts from Palestine on xitter are all reporting a level of hunger & desperation they've never reported before - people collapsing on the street, no food anywhere, maybe 1 inadequate meal in 2 days or 5 days. Mass death will likely soon begin. Here is a set of posts to give an idea. 1/
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 20
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 17
TX Dems are afraid to leave state for 30 days to break quorum so gerrymandering can't be enacted, because they'd be fined $15K each. About 50 need to leave, say they need gifts of $22K to end up with $15K after taxes. That's $1.1M. GET SOME RICH PERSON to offer gifts of $22K to all who are fined.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 14
It's not entirely clear that this policy is meant to apply to basic research as well as to studies of disease treatments, they motivate it in part by failures of disease treatments successful in animals to transfer to humans, but the way it is written it would apply to all proposals.
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 14
NIH proposing a crazy new policy: they will not fund proposals involving only animal research, proposals must include alternative approaches such as non-invasive human, computational, or cell culture studies. They are accepting comments at link, deadline is 5pm EST TODAY! www.fda.gov/news-events/...
FDA-NIH Workshop: Reducing Animal Testing
The FDA is hosting a workshop on reducing animal testing. The workshop is open to current FDA and NIH employees.
www.fda.gov
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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · Jul 12
Apparently a separate committee that hasn't met yet deals with NIH appropriations. Excellent write-up of the whole process and actions that can be taken here: bsky.app/profile/neur...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jul 11
Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.
Science Funding Process
=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...
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