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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10h

The mounting deaths in Trump's concentration camps. “Contracts are being distributed to Trump’s buddies and people with no experience running detention centers, many of these contracts are no-bid. They’re incarcerating people and allowing them to die, not providing medical facilities. It’s horrific”

The “Moral Monsters” Among Us

Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?

www.thebulwark.com

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 15h

🧐🎯💯🤬

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12h

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 15h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Evangeline Warren @evangelinewarren.com · 1d

assistant professor, associate professor, grad student

the coach of the KC Chiefs, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. From left to right they are wearing (1) a very normal grey suit with red tie, (2) a newsboy cap in brown with a shirt that looks like a bad motel wallpaper, and (3) a barbie-esque italian table cloth vest

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 13h

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care? Story via @newyorker.com

Starved in Jail

Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?

www.newyorker.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 14h

Many of the president’s top officials at the USDA, EPA, HHS, and FDA have connections to chemical, agribusiness, or fossil fuel interests.

The Industry Ties Within Trump’s Food and Ag Leadership

Many of the president’s top officials at USDA, EPA, HHS, and FDA have connections to chemical, agribusiness, or fossil fuel interests.

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 18h

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 18h

"Left-leaning" is a stretch, but we're better positioned to beat the far right back because we're a federal republic of 50 wildly different states, we're geographically hard to wrangle, and we're culturally kind of ornery

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 20h

Gov Pritzker: The broader goal is the militarization of major cities before the 2026 elections. Next year, I fear that what they're gonna do is deploy these folks to polling places. Trump knows that he's gonna lose Congress. And if he loses, he's gonna use the military to confiscate the ballot boxes

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22h

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 22h

Two things of note in today's announcement of the 2025 Nobel physics prize (besides the work being honored).

1: The US institutional dominance of the prize continues.
2: 2 of the three laureates are immigrants, drawn here decades ago by the then-unmatched opportunities for science here...

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Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for Work in Quantum Mechanics

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 20h

We do have surfers, I swear, I knew several profs who occasionally went out there on a break and multiple other scientists who surfed regularly.

I went tidepooling a few times. That was it.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 20h

I spent an entire PhD at UCSB and never knew that we had *surfboard racks*.

UC Santa Barbara @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social · 18d

Tell me you go to #UCSB without telling me.

Blue on residential housing that says “Wash sand off of your feet before you enter.”

Bikes parked by residential housing at UCSB.

Surfboard racks outside of residential housing at UCSB

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 20h

We got some more Gaucho Nobels! #UCSB

UC Santa Barbara celebrates new Nobel Prize winners! UCSB professors John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20h

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

Conversion therapy is universally opposed as harmful by major medical organizations, including (but not limited to) the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, American Medical Association(AMA), American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association (APA), and the American School Health Association.
Links: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/medical-experts-lgbtq-people-agree-conversion-therapy-is-no-replacement-for-health-care

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 20h

As an American who can read subtext: are you sure?

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John Bolton's Mustache @jonboltonsmustache.bsky.social · 1d

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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possumappreciator.bsky.social @possumappreciator.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that the federal occupations of blue cities, while bad for democracy and the people they hurt, only consist of enough troops to fill one Applebees kind of underscores that this is fascism primarily for content

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t you get it, Bari Weiss is just like authoritarian men: she both wants to have sex with and has no respect for her wife.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 1d

It’s remarkable how she misses the fact that they’d all shove her in conversion therapy or worse.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 1d

It's remarkable that she said all that to a room of people who would put her in conversion therapy (or worse) if they could get away with it

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Another tragic accident.

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