Oleg Urminsky

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
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We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Italy is doing something interesting with it's admission to medical school. Anybody with a high school diploma can enrol for the first semester (actually two months of intensive all day coursework). They take three course: Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. Mostly taught remotely.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC:

“We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."

🧠📝 New research from PBS Professor Tim Pleskac explores the pros and cons of author anonymity in peer review.

🔗 Learn more at the link in our bio.

#psychology #iub #iubloomington #research

Ruby Sales, who Daniels saved, went on to get degrees at Tuskegee Institute, Manhattanville College, and Princeton University. She's still alive

Daniels' murderer, who killed Daniels and wounded another activist (a Catholic priest), was never convicted and died peacefully in his late 80s

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So it goes.

But also today, next door, Russian tanks & bombs kill Ukrainians under the cynical guise of "de-nazification" to stop them turning West. Slovakia's government is again a pawn of Russian totalitarianism, cloaked in new ideology, but playing the same game of controlling & destroying people's lives.

It's a meaningful vindication: nearly a lifetime later, art, individual freedom and democracy are triumphant over totalitarianism.

That movie, which my father acted in and helped write, was chosen as the best Slovak film of the century three years ago, and today was shown in the central plaza in Bratislava to commemorate the anniversary of the invasion.

A movie, called 322, was being filmed at the time in Bratislava, about the absurdity of the lives everyday people were subjected to at the time. It wasn't about Communism, but just the fact that it held up a mirror to an unfree society was enough for it to be banned.

A story: 57 years ago, the Soviet Union invaded then Czechoslovakia, to stop the modest liberalization and increased tolerance for western perspectives that had been occuring. The invading soldiers were told that the country needed to be saved from Nazis who had taken over.

Now THIS is field work

Along with his text he sent me this. Ps: Dems, he’s a 21 yr old white male attending college in South Carolina. Get on this. Stat.

161. The Court's Disastrous Ruling in the Third-Country Removal Case The majority did not just greenlight an especially odious immigration policy without any explanation; it did so in a case in which the government defied the district court—twice—with no consequence.

Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.

Me, via “One First”:

The thing about the Khalil case is that it's very very good that he's free now but you can't have it take three months between "the government kidnaps you off the street for no basis reason whatsoever" and "a judge makes them let you go." You just can't.

Sorting matters! @ericjjohnson.bsky.social @olegurminsky.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @angeladuckworth.bsky.social

The ousted members of the ACIP are reeling from their unexpected dismissals, and many are laying low at the request of academic institutions that fear reprisals from the Trump administration.

If you are an academic institution that has a dismissed ACIP member- it is time to grow a spine. Not speaking out will not spare you from this administration, but speaking out will at least shed light on what is happening to people who are not aware.

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy.

The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

The June issue of JCR is now up on consumerresearcher.com, with a special section on "Gen AI and Consumer Research".

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

Deporting a gay man to Russia is beyond horrific, and yet this admin is happy to do it.

And the verbal abuse he describes is abhorrent; and not new. Guards at detention centers, jails, and prisons get away with crap like this all the time. It’s appalling, it’s not new under Trump, just worse now.

Trump administration: We’ll beat China by destroying everything that makes us competitive with China.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

YouTube video by KOMO News Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano spews molten lava more than 1,000 feet in the air

Amazing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUw...

now is the time for universities to announce that they collectively will not disenroll any international student who has their visa revoked, and that they will ensure remote degree completion is possible

How I Survived White Genocide in South Africa To be safe: Live openly among Black folks, wander around by yourself, and take public transport everywhere.

“This cunning strategy of hiding in plain sight and constantly wandering around in remote locations by myself where I could have been easily dispatched and left for the vultures worked brilliantly.” prospect.org/world/2025-0...

Same as it ever was: "In 1927, Albert Johnson said of the act he sponsored that it protected America from 'a stream of alien blood, with all its inherent misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed.'"