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...

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

@mollyschumer.bsky.social if the data is pre SPQR chemistry I would recommend fibertools. If it’s new data then you can use Jasmine from Pacbio, Andrew and I spent a fair amount of time looking at the Jasmine results and they look good. And it will all still work with downstream fibertools commands

Did you know? Revio & Vega include on-instrument 6mA calling for the Fiber-seq chromatin accessibility assay. Thanks to Fiber-seq expert @mrvollger.bsky.social for the thoughtful evaluation and recommendation.

Reagents for the assay are also available from our friends at EpiCypher: bit.ly/42YwGQE

Recent app note published www.pacb.com/wp-content/u...

I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein. Andrea Pitzer says “lost” folks like Klein “don’t have a clear idea how this moment fits into history and what it is exactly that they’re doing”. [degenerateart.beehiiv.com]

We are enabling custom panels. PureTarget delivers high depth native DNA and is suited for challenging genes if you want to avoid PCR or where methylation matters. We have enabled high throughput processing with an automation kit and scripts on Hamilton. Learn more - www.pacb.com/technology/p...

I'm super excited to announce the new PureTarget kits from @pacbio.bsky.social are out! We have a new carrier screening panel and updated repeat expansion panels plus variant calling software to support both.

Press release - www.pacb.com/press_releas...

Doooooom is back! I’m going to be a panelist for Oral History Live! Roundtable with Boston Roller Derby. It’s the 20th anniversary of the league I helped found. It’s a virtual event, you can sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/oral-histo...

Breaking News: A federal appeals court upheld a decision that temporarily halted agents from arresting and detaining L.A. immigrants without probable cause.

Quest Diagnostics launched a new test for ataxia using long-read sequencing based on the PacBio #PureTarget method. It can uncover hidden genetic causes of disease, including repeat expansions often missed by other tools.

Details here: bit.ly/4fcu4DV

#PacBio

This announcement is huge. If you live in the US, chances are you have used Quest Diagnostics for some medical test, they serve 1 in 3 American adults every year. It’s incredibly gratifying to work on products with this kind of impact.

Some exciting professional news: Athena Diagnostics, Inc. developed an LDT using PacBio's PureTarget technology (my product!!) and HiFi sequencing on the Revio, which improves Ataxia Diagnostics for some of the most challenging genes in the human genome. Read the press release here: lnkd.in/g-ec-ECq

🚨Federal judge orders DHS to limit “roving patrols” in Los Angeles.

The judge finds that the evidence shows that DHS officers are racially profiling people to demand their papers, which all sides agree is illegal, and orders DHS to stop those unlawful practices.

10 days relief from indiscriminate terror www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/u...

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.

The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

Ahead of tonight’s Angel City match, the club stands with the city of LA. Fans found these shirts at their seats and together with the players are showing that Los Angeles is for everyone ❤️

📷: @angelcity.com

My favorite #Wisconsin #NoKings sign/flag from today.

#wipolitics

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco
#nokings

Big turnout at #nokings in #sanmateoCA #nokingsprotest @50501movement.bsky.social @joshtpm.bsky.social @indivisible.org

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

Breaking: A federal judge halted President Trump’s deployment of California National Guard soldiers in Los Angeles, finding that he broke the law in ordering them to put down urban unrest without consulting Gov. Gavin Newsom. cal.news/4l4l7y9

📸 Ted Soqui

this should be unlocked www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...