Mary Drago

Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz is getting some press after escorting one of the students out of ICE detention but remember that she proudly voted for the bill that made ICE the highest-funded “law enforcement” agency in the nation: delacruz.house.gov/news/documen...

Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Watching the documentary on Jane Goodall

Judge orders takeover of health care operations in Arizona prisons after years of poor care A federal judge has ordered a takeover of health care operations in Arizona’s prisons and will appoint an official to run the system after years of complaints about poor medical and mental health care

Yay! Hopefully an improvement! Thought of you @jimmyjenkins.bsky.social

Judge orders takeover of health care operations in Arizona prisons after years of poor care www.abc15.com/news/state/j...

Attorney General Ken Paxton backs ivermectin champion’s fight against Texas Medical Board Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Thursday announced he’s taking up the case of a Houston doctor disciplined by the state’s medical board last year for trying to treat a patient with ivermectin at ...

apnews.com/article/jaso...
Attorney General Ken Paxton backs ivermectin champion’s fight against Texas Medical Board

My first tv at age 8 had a real “clicker”

I drove my chair nuts because as i was writing I’d say, “well I’ll see where the research takes me to her question of, “where is your outline?” 😆

As an undergrad, mostly STEM
But highlights:
Badminton
Animal behavior
Evolutionary biology (although I think it was a diff name)
German 1,2,4
Psychology

Ugh. Makes me ill

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment Despite ample funding, the agency halted payments in October. They may not resume for several months.

Under the law, ICE is required to provide necessary medical care for the people it detains, often using third-party providers to do so.

But, despite ample funding, the agency has not paid any third-party providers for medical care for detainees since October 3, 2025.

Thank you for posting this. I know people whose lives and the lives of their children have been upended because of false positives.

Trump is making thousands of rule-abiding immigrants undocumented Inside the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

As Trump continues his quest for Venezuela's oil, remember that the president stripped the legal status away from 300,000 Venezuelans in the US last October, launching the largest delegalization campaign in modern US history.

*I wish it were well-known* Edit button please

I just saw this chart. Thanks for it. I wish it was well-known information in the courts.

I was at ASU and his reputation was well-known.

I was asking rhetorically as I’m well aware of his inability to speak to this topic.

University finds prominent astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss grabbed a woman's breast Finding comes day after researcher loses leadership post

Lawrence Krauss as editor? This Lawrence Krauss- www.science.org/content/arti...

Also the first panelist from Duke is a palliative care physician but slips bioethics into his intro. How is palliative care bioethics relevant to pediatric gender identity? I can’t bear to watch the whole discussion

My hubby and I have moved several times. We moved lots of boxes of books and rocks!!

SCOOP: Noem Waives Major Environmental Laws to Speed Border Wall Construction in Arizona On Wednesday, embattled DHS secretary Kristi Noem quietly suspended dozens of environmental, historic preservation, and water protections to fast-track wall building under Section 102 authority.

SCOOP: Kristi Noem Waives Major Environmental Laws to Speed Border Wall Construction in Arizona

On Wednesday, the embattled DHS secretary quietly suspended dozens of environmental, historic preservation, and water protections to fast-track wall building.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-noem...

Only in the U.S. is it possible to get a Black Friday deal for $200 off a total body MRI from an imaging center. So many things wrong with this…

If you are unaware of the absolute horrific tragedy that is happening in our first person communities please take a few minutes to become informed. If this was blond haired blue-eyed people we would have declared a national emergency and be throwing an inexhaustible amount of resources at this.

WTH

I learn so much from you even when it’s not in my realm! Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Measles is still a problem. A quick roundup of things you should know and how you can help.

Please share, especially if you live in South Carolina, Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, North Dakota, Arkansas, Montana, Arizona or Utah. #publichealthsky

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

These are just the cases ProPublica could find.

Also: “A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

And by the way, are there environmental concerns that affect puberty initiation?

Man, this freaking guy.

"I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

AZ has such a great mail-in ballot system. I had to prove my citizenship this year because of a change at DMV in my lifetime, but I got my ballot, sent it off, received notice they got it, and just now that my signature was verified and my vote counted. Very efficient!