Sean Ekins

Basically Dems got us:
- Reversal of (some) RIFs ALREADY known as illegal
- No new RIFs for a whopping 2 months
- Guaranteed back pay that was already in statute.

Nothing on healthcare.

Nothing on impoundments.

Nothing on the rest of the illegal firings.

This was a capitulation.

Flying at 8000 feet today News Captain says flying at 8000 feet (!) Newark to Savannah today instead of 34000 because of air traffic control restrictions. Everyone has to say seated including flight attendants. Never in my 40 years in flying has this happened … wondering what the view will be 😀

Things are fine.

Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan

Even as American academics look to leave the country, US academia will struggle to attract talent

Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

omg

Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.

A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.

He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.

ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”

He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care

This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person

They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota

Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?

People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.

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One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.

📣 ACES! Rep. Ansari (AZ-3) is throwing it down right outside the pedophile-protecting House Speaker's office. Her sign:

"Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files.

CHANGE MY MIND."

#DirectAction
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles

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They went into this terrorized community to incite people. And pepper sprayed an infant. There is no level of depravity these people won’t sink to.

I have added an addendum of 13 additional posts to this thread, clarifying my intent and more plainly laying out the damage done by Watson's abhorrent behavior.

This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.

The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

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.
🧪🧬🧫

Thank you - I saw JW give a book lecture at Harvard > 20 years ago in which he disparaged Bernadine Healy. He was overwhelming nasty IMHO. He was also not happy signing my dog-eared copy of Molecular Biology of the Cell (2nd edition) from my undergraduate days which I had lugged along.

FDA Chaos Threatens Medical Innovation — and Patients’ Health The US Food and Drug Administration under a second Trump administration is mired in discord, acrimony and chaos —a state of dysfunction that threatens the nation’s standing as a global leader in biome...

What the heck is going on at FDA?

My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):

A dystopian nightmare for science and how to survive it Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). This is a message of hope written by FD…

several months back (6 months into this godawful administration) I wrote a short editorial - it still holds www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An elderly man has had a syncope event and everyone else in the room rushed over to help. The president stands facing the camera without apparent curiosity or empathy about the event.

I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.

Somehow Schumer has managed to get the Republicans to the edge of a field of rakes, pointed out how to avoid it, and their plan is to confidently walk right into the middle of the field.

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

HERO

The Nodfather 😴

So the one to 25,000 bad apples in the NYPD are "self-deporting?" What a great way to weed out the most prejudiced assholes. Congratulations, New York City!

"Sleepy Joe"

Everyone calling me out on a mahogany box lined in ruffled cream satin being too tasteful for Donald is absolutely correct.

It will most likely be a Lucite box adorned with gold plastic appliques and his name in a bridal invite font, and the fabric will be a yellow-gold polyester lamé.

This has me thinking about a mahogany box lined in ruffled cream satin.

Keep track of the victories when they come