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WHAT PROFESSORS CAN SAY Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms amid statewide debates over academic freedom.

Let me fix that for you:

Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

Ok but it is very funny to run your "leftist moralism run amok" take the same week we learn the sitting Republican president's dead pedophile friend was planning to blackmail him

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

Unbreaking

You can sign up here for a brisk, rigorously cited weekly briefing on what’s happening to the basic public goods that our government is supposed to provide—plus who’s pushing back, and how.

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This week at Unbreaking, November 13 — Unbreaking Unbreaking is built to be an antidote to information overload. Since we launched, we have been meticulously documenting lawsuits, executive orders, court rulings, countermoves, and other key events.

Our weekly briefing is out, this one touching on Medicaid but mostly looking at what we’re losing in federal food safety oversight. Spoiler, it is “things that keep our food from making us sick.”

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John Morales: As hurricane season nears end, U.S. forecasting concerns persist The diminished ability to study, monitor, forecast, warn for, and recover from more intense hurricanes and other hazards like flooding, heat waves and wildfires was—and continues to be—a source of une...

“The diminished ability to study, monitor, forecast, warn for, and recover from more intense hurricanes and other hazards like flooding, heat waves and wildfires was—and continues to be—a source of unease.” www.nbcmiami.com/weather/hurr...

Again, this is an exercise in promoting and enforcing white supremacy. White supremacy thrives when we are not allowed to identify it, let alone criticize it.

U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says The Trump administration has directed visa officers to consider obesity and other chronic health conditions when deciding whether to grant visas to immigrants.

"U.S. visas can be denied for obesity, cancer and diabetes, Rubio says"

It's eugenics & ableism & even if it appears race-neutral, it will likely disprop. impact the Global South b/c of who needs a visa, who is disprop. affected by these conditions, & who has fewer resources to prove they can pay.

Texas A&M System Sharply Restricts How Faculty Can Teach About Race and Gender A new policy approved Thursday — following a viral video that led to a professor’s firing — prohibits courses from advocating for “race or gender ideology” without prior approval.

Censorship. An educational gag order.

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J63 next to mom J40 Suttles

Calf check in: here are some photos from earlier this week of the youngest members of J- and L-Pods who we were lucky enough to see while out doing field work with the @whaleresearch.bsky.social

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Florida OKs ‘evils of communism’ standards, signs Heritage Foundation pledge Some criticized both documents, calling them propaganda and indoctrination, but state leaders said they would help teach patriotism and create better American citizens.

Gift link because people should be able to read about this.

Watching it live was really difficult.

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She was 17 and a high school junior in Florida. She was working at McDonald’s. And she was living in and out of a homeless shelter. Hoping to save up to buy braces to fix her teeth, she falsely advertised herself in 2017 as 18 years old on a website that matches men looking for “companionship” with young women looking to make money. What followed would set off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of one of the men she would encounter, Representative Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican.

The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

Since June, more than 1000 immigrants like Diana whose arrests in Chicago were unlawful have already been deported, despite them being eligible for 1) bond release, and/or 2) ongoing immigration & asylum hearings.

So happy Diana is coming home, but we have to keep up the pressure. Be relentless.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

“All the evidence we have seen suggests that this had nothing to do with gang enforcement—no one was arrested on any charge remotely related to gang activity. It appears that DPS simply raided this house because the people throwing a party were Latinos from another country.”

An image of Tasneem, her children and the ruins of her home. With the message "I'm Tasneem, a mother of three children. I used to live a simple life, full of love despite its simplicity - but everything changed on October 7. Our home was completely destroyed, we've been displaced more than 15 times, and now we live in daily hell. My only dream is to secure a safe life for my children outside of Gaza. Any support - even just €5 - could change their future and give them a sense of safety. Help us build a new hope for them. ❤️"

The civilians in Gaza are homeless, hungry and without resources. We're their only voice and means of survival. Most of them rely entirely on direct donations.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children and raise funds to flee. And to others. ❤️🙏

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Donate to Save a LGBT, care experienced family from homelessness, organized by Jack Smith I’ve set this go fund me up to support a friend who is care experien… Jack Smith needs your support for Save a LGBT, care experienced family from homelessness

I can vouch for this family. Please donate if you can. gofund.me/b4655d2b7

Let us be clear: We support the lawful apprehension and deportation of undocumented immigrants with criminal records. The president says he’s after the worst of the worst, but that’s not what’s happening. It’s gone way beyond that. People are presumed guilty until proven innocent. It is not law enforcement; it is terror. This dragnet seems to be based on racism and is snaring citizens of color, documented immigrants and people who have committed no serious crimes — your neighbor, friend, co-worker, babysitter and landscaper. People whose work ethic and honesty have contributed to the city for years.

"It is not law enforcement; it is terror."

You know us. For years, you watched and listened to our coverage of the Chicago area. As journalists, we did our best to bring you accurate, objective information about the people, events and issues that mattered. We hope we gained your trust. So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong. The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done and what they may do in other cities. We are retired, but our colleagues who are still on the job have shown you a brutal and illegal campaign against fellow Chicagoans, mainly Latinos: violent abductions, gutting families, using tear gas around children, roughing up witnesses, ramming cars and even taking a day care teacher from her school.

"You know us...So please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong."

Powerful letter from retired Chicago broadcast journalists about what ICE/CBP is doing to our city: "it is terror"

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ICE, Florida deport over 200 in 10-day operation targeting sex offenders, other criminals ICE and Florida law enforcement officials announced Thursday the deportations of about 230 sex offenders and other convicted criminals.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Florida law enforcement officials announced Thursday the deportations of more than 200 criminals, many of whom are sex offenders, as part of a 10-day operation across the state, touting Florida as the “model” for immigration enforcement across the country.

Florida OKs ‘evils of communism’ standards, signs Heritage Foundation pledge Some criticized both documents, calling them propaganda and indoctrination, but state leaders said they would help teach patriotism and create better American citizens.

Florida approved a new curriculum on Thursday to teach public school students about the “dangers and evils of communism,” academic standards that some historians have criticized as propaganda.

New Jersey man's death first one to be tied to tick-related meat allergy

Though deadly anaphylaxis had been considered a theoretical outcome of the allergy, it had not yet been seen until this case.

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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...

A Black Hawk helicopter. SWAT teams repelling to the roof. 300 agents. Flash-bang grenades. A TV crew.

“It’s 20,000 of them running through my house like we got Saddam Hussein in the closet."

For all that, fed prosecutors filed no criminal charges against anyone who was arrested.

Stunning report.

a man is standing in a kitchen drinking from a cup and talking about flu season . ALT: a man is standing in a kitchen drinking from a cup and talking about flu season .

It's that time again.
For the next 24 hours, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions below in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Responses are for information only and are NOT medical advice.
#AskAnIDDoc November 2025 edition.

With 42 news measles cases, US total tops 1,700

Last year the United States had 285 measles cases.

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Teen Vogue changed how a generation saw politics and inclusion. That era could be over. Journalists who cover race, gender and inequality are often the first to go, raising deeper questions about who gets to tell the news.

For a decade, Teen Vogue has been a source of some of the most searing progressive political analysis in American media. It changed how a generation saw politics and inclusion.

Now, that era could be over. @candicenorwood.bsky.social spoke with former Teen Vogue journalists about what that means.

SNAP benefits are a ‘lifeline’ — especially for people with disabilities For those with disabilities who rely on the aid, its uncertainty threatens not just nutrition, but independence.

Kajeana Tillman spent the last few weeks not knowing if she would have money to buy her own groceries. She is one of millions of Americans with disabilities who rely on SNAP.

@slooterman.bsky.social captured the current reality for SNAP recipients with disabilities, and it is stark.

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