Steve Vlad

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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

Federal judge warns Trump administration against using information from immigration lawyer’s seized phone - The Boston Globe In a civil lawsuit filed last week, Andrew G. Lattarulo alleged federal agents surrounded him at Boston Logan and unlawfully seized his cellphone on Sept. 28 after he returned from Aruba.

Feds seize an immigration lawyer's phone apparently so that they can search it to find out who his clients are. Seems like this should be getting a lot more attention.

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Read the article. It does not say these things. The 'truth' is not known, just the conflicting stories. Does ICE suck? Sure. Should they get the benefit of the doubt? No. Should we wait until we know the actual facts? Yes.

Fun coda to the story, Bari Weiss is now head of CBS news and Radley Balko was fired from the WaPo mostly because he was such a good actual journalist on his beat

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Pretty sure this is what the Confederacy said too.

That’s not what he said. He said the money for Essential Air Service routes will run out but that has absolutely nothing to do with ATC.

What will happen is after that first paycheck is missed, and this applies to ALL federal workers, the mental toll of financial uncertainty becomes a huge problem.

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all Safe gain-of-function research is necessary to identify new treatments for diseases like for tuberculosis — but the NIH has imposed unfounded stops.

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g... via @statnews.com

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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F.D.A. Approves a New Generic Abortion Pill

Big nothingburger. A generic drug was approved. Whoopy! It’s not like it was approved for OTC use. Stupid headline/story from @nytimes.com

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President Pritzker is going to get record ratings when he takes a wrecking ball to that ballroom on prime time TV.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

YES! This is the site where links still work and people read articles.

Link your thing! Read the link!

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Jumping Without a Net Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new CDC advisory board continues to try and fix things that aren’t broken. Next up: the hepatitis B vaccine birth dose.

There was a recent opinion piece in the Boston Globe arguing that some of RFK‘s vaccine policies make sense. Hepatitis B was used as an example. Needless to say, I did not find the piece to be compelling.

This article would be worth reading for its descriptions of the "heterodox shuffle" and the "follymath" (Balko's term) alone. Well done.

Good thread and if you're wondering where some of this misinformation is coming from-- guess who else is cashing in on the Tylenol/ vaccines press conference? All the grifters from the early 2000s are returning like the worst pop culture trends.

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

‘Blatant corruption’: Wu weighs in on Homan bribery allegations Wu labeled the incident a sadly familiar example of corruption within the Trump administration.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu blasted President Donald Trump’s administration and border czar Tom Homan Tuesday, over allegations that Homan accepted money from undercover agents during a covert FBI operation last year. https://bit.ly/48hpAdR

The great 'mensural transformation motet' as Planchart calls it. 'The mensural changes yield the proportion 6:4:3:2' supposedly representing the dimensions of the temple of Solomon. (Yes I had to look it up. I haven’t studied the piece for a while.) Cool piece of music.

These are pretty shitty AUCs.