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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛

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Vnzln 🇻🇪MD/PhD candidate @ Stanford 🌲 I study telomere biology in health and disease; I write about science and politics blogs @ primafacie.substack.com

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · Oct 30

My most recent non-blog piece: a conversation with “Death-y” scholar Tamara Kneese on biotechnosolutionism and Silicon Valley’s longevity obsession

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Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

“The entire fantasy of living for much longer only makes sense if you have that kind of extreme wealth or if you believe that you have the capacity...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 1h

Even if AI does deliver the productivity boom investors are hoping it does (it won’t), the thought that it could raise wages without raising prices is PURE FANTASY. Productivity has been divorced from wages in the US for nearly half a century now.

🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 1h

When the AI bubble pops no one will be able to say we couldn’t see it coming.

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America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 1d

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In the midst of a measles epidemic that killed 3 people, RFK Jr. reminds us that vaccines don't save lives.

RFK Jr.: “Vaccines Don’t Save Lives”

In a recent post on X, RFK Jr. said that vaccines are overrated.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 1d

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 2d

Some more random Weiss lore since she’s an official government propagandist now: we probably have her to thank for the mainstreaming of Vinay Prasad, and he probably owes her for his current job bc she facilitated his official transition to the Right mediasphere.

🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · Oct 3

Is it a coincidence that V*nay Pr*sad was completely inactive on the substack he created in 12/2020 until 9/2021 -- just one month after the viral article discussing B*ri Weiss' 800k a year substack revenue came out, and his first post was about appearing on her pdocast?

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

1. Federal agents from ICE and other agencies are wrongly detaining U.S. citizens, sometimes detaining them for days, on suspicion that they are undocumented immigrants.

The raids are done without search warrants or other procedures designed to protect civil liberties.

How federal agents are terrorizing American citizens

Last week, hundreds of heavily armed federal agents descended on an apartment complex in Chicago, arriving in Black Hawk helicopters and moving trucks.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 2d

Every TRO against this admin comes from a hearing where the judge says “what the fuck are you people doing” and the DOJ just kind of shrugs, get ruled against, and then the admin regroups to find some other way to ignore or get around the order and then Congress does exactly nothing

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

NEW: Judge Immergut schedules a hearing TONIGHT, in 45 min, to hear arguments on SECOND TRO to block federalized California National Guard from deploying in Portland, Oregon. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 2d

I think “the White House is directing the military to treat broad swaths of the public as terrorist threats and inciting terroristic political violence against branches of govt that would defy it” would be a good time to have a serious conversation about whether or not this is a Country

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this will only continue to escalate, they want a civil war

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3d

Time to repost a classic.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 3d

These changes + the new loyalty compact + university-directed extortion that has been going on and off for the better part of 6 months now all paint a pretty clear picture that the industry of knowledge production is genuinely under a new Lysenkoism, except there isn't any scientific content to it.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 3d

Like...this is the biggest corruption scandal the NIH has experienced in its entire history and its not even close. Half of a BILLION dollars to a single project as a result of political spoils. That's the equivalent of several hundred R01s.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 3d

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
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Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 3d

"Not surprising but devastating" seems to be the general sentiment from 4 former NIH IC directors formally fired this week, 2 who were tenured senior investigators with active labs.

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After months in limbo, four NIH institute directors fired

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 3d

Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4d

I only ever heard second-hand from my German relatives what the 1930s were like but it sounded like this. You see the story, it feels wrong, but everyone else around you is just carrying on, shopping, working, going to the cinema. So you do the same. Keep your head down, maybe this is fine? Normal?

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 4d

Getting played by Milei is literally losing checkers to a dog

purrfectlyfrank.bsky.social @purrfectlyfrank.bsky.social · 4d

According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans & striking a huge new deal with China. China then immediately pulled out of its...

Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties

“This is highly unfortunate,” the text said. “Soy prices are dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.”

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taber @kvetch.gay · 4d

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

"This is extortion, plain and simple.... The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education."

A sobering analysis of the illegality of the administration's "compact" and its stakes for higher ed. 🎁🔗

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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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