Brit Williams, Ph.D.

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Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Foreign Aid, Appeals Court Rules In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups who sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.

Breaking News: The Trump administration can withhold billions in foreign aid, a court ruled, finding that aid groups who sued lacked the legal right to do so.

Remember the time Matt Yglesias tweeted that K-12 could avoid the culture wars if they only taught math and reading? Here’s another version of that well thought out blurt.

Officer David Rose was 33 yo and had served in the Marines prior to joining the police force last September. He was killed by the shooter at the CDC last week, and if not for years of hateful rhetoric from RFK Jr about the CDC and vaccines, he would still be here with his pregnant wife and kids.

Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.

Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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ICE arrested the father of one of the volunteers at the food bank our podcast network partners with. The volunteer has worked over 400 hours helping distribute food to those in need. The food bank is raising money to help his family. You can give here: www.gofundme.com/f/ice-arrest...

Fact checking is only considered censorship to people who don’t care for the truth.

Child with stage 4 cancer deported by ICE despite being US citizen, lawsuit says Before his deportation, the 4-year-old was receiving “life-saving” treatment in Louisiana, the lawsuit says.

A 4-year-old boy’s ongoing care for stage 4 kidney cancer was interrupted when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers illegally deported him, his sister and mother “without even a semblance of due process.”

My fever is downnnn. I am about to get in a bed of freshly washed linen (I was too sick to iron them this time), and I’m about to drink mucinex like it’s a shot at the club.

Yeet yeet!

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I cannot believe I am sick again this week right before return to work for the fifth year in a row. I think my body hates my life?

I can attest that you’re only getting advice from TMC if you directly ask. For real.

CDC’s current headquarters was designed to be more open to the public and as built into the neighborhood as possible within baseline federal security reqs.

it is a civil, not military, agency staffed by people proud to work and live with the public they serve.

it makes this all the more sad

I’m so tired of being sick.

Screenshot from nola.com with one sentence highlighted in blue: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has said she will not allow the doctor to be extradited or turned over to Louisiana for prosecution, "not now, not ever." But Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said the case "is far from over." "We are continuing to evaluate our options to ensure that Dr. Carpenter faces justice in Louisiana," she said. Tony Clayton, the local district attorney prosecuting the case, echoed that sentiment. **We will take all legal measures afforded to us to extradite Dr. Carpenter back here, and you will see something along those lines in the not-so-distant future," he said.**

Well, this is certainly a menacing statement from a Louisiana prosecutor who criminally charged a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills across state lines
www.nola.com/news/politic...

This is just proof that streams mean nothing because this is deeply undeserved no matter how much Nicki is a mess today.

Her early work is iconic.

Republicans literally doing everything they can to create the conditions of the super scary world they talk about endlessly on social media and Fox

Yet again conservatives are melting down about the foreseeable consequences of conservative policies. We’re in a death spiral now where they tank the economy and cut welfare, then fearmonger about the resulting increase in visible poverty and addiction.

Huge! Beyonce Wins FIRST Emmy for ‘Beyonce Bowl’ Netflix Special In news just in, Beyonce has won her first-ever Emmy Award for her blockbuster Netflix special, 'Beyonce Bowl.' Full story below...

Huge! Beyonce Wins FIRST Emmy for ‘Beyonce Bowl’ Netflix Special

In news just in, Beyonce has won her first-ever Emmy Award for her blockbuster Netflix special, 'Beyonce Bowl.' Full story below...

OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

1/ I've been trying to think through why the brag of "PhD-level expert in your pocket" bothers me as a frame, and here are two:

1. A PhD is about how to rigorously examine and interrogate information, not transmit it. To reduce a PhD to a mere disseminator of information misunderstands what we are.

Experts Say Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors - KFF Health News Some doctors and the groups that represent them say physicians’ extensive training leads to better emergency care, and that some hospitals are trying to save money by not hiring them. They support new...

More than 7% of emergency departments across the U.S. don’t have an attending physician on-site 24/7, a recent study found. About 90% of those departments were in small or rural hospitals.

@ajzionts.bsky.social reports on what you need to know:
bit.ly/3HrnEnV

Just heard on the Thom Hartmann show yesterday from a caller that, even in deep blue states, Vermont was the only state in which more than half of straight white cis men voted against the felon.

Tell me what sense does that make???

DC is a rec weed area, but you can't smoke outside.

Most places have a ban on smoking indoors, rentals will not allow you to smoke in their property, smoking in a car give reason for police to issue DUIs.

So, WHERE CAN YOU SMOKE????

Power is power.

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Opinion | A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

"AI is not that novel. It is not that potentially revolutionary. It is in a long continuum of technologies that promise to transform education, starting with the TV, the typewriter, VCRs, tablets [and] Chromebooks."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Hmmmm….. well that’s suspicious…..

even before i started studying security i knew it was stupid to post on IG in real time cuz that's how Kim Kardashian got robbed.

Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.

Multiple men have impersonated ICE agents to assault women & @demwomencaucus.bsky.social is demanding action.

“People cannot tell the difference between a real agent & a criminal & that makes everyone less safe – especially immigrant women who are the most vulnerable," @velazquez.house.gov told me.

Trump’s D.C. Police Takeover Is His Latest Made-Up ‘Emergency’ Power Grab The president offered misleading statements about crime trends in the nation’s capital.

Trump's takeover of DC police is his latest made-up "emergency" power grab www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...