The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.
Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
I just hope this doesn't turn into a Hearing as a Service business model.
Even Dolores Umbridge had more coherence in her arguments than the current head of the NIH.
Shoveling snow in NYC is one of the surprisingly pleasant parts of living here. All the neighbors are out and everyone is way more cheerful than you'd expect given the manual labor we're all forced into by nature.
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders.
Aluminum is an ADJUVANT.
It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine.
That’s it.
Me: I should download this app so I can borrow audiobooks from the library
Google Play: YOUR E-STORE ACCOUNT IS NOW YOUR GAMER PROFILE! HERE'S YOUR GAMER TAG!
Me: Where's the skip button
Google: SCROLL THROUGH ALL OF THIS NEWS ABOUT FUTURE TRACKING OF YOUR GAMING ACHIEVEMENTS
Me: just why
2006
ACROBAT READER: Here's your PDF to view!
Me: Great!
2016
ADOBE READER: I'll help you sign those documents!
Me: That's helpful.
2026
READER DC: WE HAVE CLOUD STORAGE
Me:
DC: LOOK AT MY AI TOOLS
DC: RESTART YOUR COMPUTER AGAIN
DC: SIGN UP FOR A FREE TRIAL
Me: i just want to read a paper
Bless her heart. She's never checked out a book from a library, has she?
A Trump administration official said Moderna might have more luck with its vaccine application if it resubmitted with a little “humility”
Does that sound like the “gold-standard science” RFK Jr. promised?
Or a mob boss threat?
www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...
BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.
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Putting students on a preordained academic/professional track before they are ten years old reads more like a YA dystopian novel than any serious policy for a free society.
I didn't even pick my current professional path until graduate school.
Growing up in Texas, I've seen the "left" label stuck on science since at least the 90s. I remember HS classmates wanting to go into "molecular biology but not evolutionary" for their college majors.
Chemical engineering seniors denied CO2 as a greenhouse gas even though they knew its IR spectrum.
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
After all his writing on "Manufacturing Consent," there's something darkly ironic about Chomsky glomming onto a propaganda fairy tale like this
It really was a wildly successful political project to re-define “elitism” as “listening to professors and researchers” and not “agreeing with whatever drug addled wealthy lunatic perverts say”
Abolish. ice. 💔
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
There is video circulating on social media of a group of ICE agents beating a man near 26th and Nicollet in south Minneapolis, then one of the ICE agents shoots the man while he's on the ground numerous times. A witness can be heard yelling that the victim is dead.
If this is a comment addressed to the public from our government officials, why did Nature Medicine elect to eschew open access and keep this commentary behind its paywall?
If this is not an article whose distribution is in the public interest, then why did Nature Medicine publish it at all?
Jay is very comfortable with lying.
It's not "merit" to cut fellows on a diversity grant when they were scored against the same payline as the parent grant. It's discrimination.
DEI was an answer to popular protests, coming from the people. Today's anti-DEI is top-down from the rich and powerful.
Excellent story from @aniloza.bsky.social and colleague at STAT on the MOSAIC program.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...
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A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth.
Checks out.
Friends, it’s time to let that imposter syndrome go. Former Harvard president and former secretary of the treasury Larry Summers can’t even write a coherent email. Plus, his bestie was a pedophile sex trafficker. And the sex trafficker’s other bestie is president.
You deserve that promotion!
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
So CO₂ is not plant food after all? Sad.
I always hate to see research on the systems of the inner ear (and how they work with the brain) get needlessly axed for reasons unrelated to their merits. I'm glad to see these stories continue to get told.
One of the great advantages of biology is that you can write HELLO WORLD in amino acids since PROTEINS ARE AMAZING
