Eric Russ

Dr Oz wants to take away your doctor

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

So, getting from this that the next DSM will live online (behind a paywall I guess?) include more about causes (that we don't understand) and biomarkers (that we don't have) and "include more voices" somehow (generally a good idea, but does that include input from, say, RFK and friends?).

Idk man

They’re going to take all the thinking and writing about diagnosis over the past decade and make the DSM worse??

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

Wow. This is devastating.

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Today, a VA ICU nurse was killed in broad daylight while legally carrying a concealed firearm. Yesterday, the KY House passed concealed carry for 18-year-olds in the name of “safety.” There’s no direct connection between these events, but the timing is impossible to ignore.

Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.

The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.

Only a conservative Supreme Court justice could be surprised to learn that many historical laws in America were grounded in gutter racism

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

What Happened When Hitler Took On Germany’s Central Banker Hans Luther was the principled and respected president of the Reichsbank—but he wouldn’t accede to Hitler’s demands.

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Adenosine signalling drives antidepressant actions of ketamine and ECT www.nature.com/articles/s41... - amazing, important work (presuming it holds up, which I'm hoping it will!)

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Project Implicit is a research nonprofit behind tools millions use to understand bias. Like many public science orgs, sustaining this work has become increasingly difficult. We are at risk of closing without additional support.

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Interesting study!

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here-through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.

This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks continues to be an anchor on hard days.

The photos vibe are the four seasons total landscaping version of the situation room

This seems right on- definitely a great description about what I’ve been feeling today

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country.
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again

Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

The Year America Broke Open It would be silly to pretend that 2025 was not among the most challenging years this country has faced in modern times.

My latest is up!

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Glad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more.

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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Mental health conditions 'run in families', but what does this actually mean for your risk? 🧬

New Danish study of 3m people quantified risks.

Having a 1st-degree relative with depression meant 15% lifetime risk vs 7.8% general population risk.

#MentalHealth #FamilyHistory

🧵 THREAD

The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court One day last month, a Peruvian mother and her daughter went into...

There is a network of court watchers who support immigrants at the ICE courts in Manhattan.

They have learned the movements and "personas" of the masked agents.

One told me: "Some of them are very sadistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

Can Your Face Predict Your Salary? Using AI Personality Assessments in Hiring A new study from Wharton faculty explores how AI can extract personality traits from facial images — and what that means for your career.

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?"

Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

Abortion rights returned to Missouri one year ago. Access never did One year ago, abortion became legal in Missouri. But since then, only 80 elective abortions have been performed in the state. Thousands of Missourians had to seek care out of state.

“They spent $30 million for 80 abortions.”

That amount of money could fund at least 25 clinics for a year, providing the infrastructure needed to add abortion into a place of full spectrum reproductive services. We lost the infrastructure BECAUSE all we will fund is “the fight.”

Autism’s Confusing Cousins A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward

Autism’s Confusing Cousins

A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/autisms-co...