Jung Choi "not going back!"

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

It's almost as if originalism in practice doesn't constrain judges... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king:
“He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

Remnants of Typhoon Halong bring widespread damage to Western Alaska Dozens of residents were rescued after floodwaters in multiple communities swept homes off their foundations.

GOP senators Murkowski & Sullivan.
Who are they gonna call? #Alaska

alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

Finally posted blog posts on our latest phylogenetics readings in our modern phylo class:

Phylogeography

Simulation

Behavior & Genomics

Reticulate evolution

All in series: brianomeara.info/blog.html#ca...

#Evolution 🧪

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.” Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Trump administration is bringing back scores of CDC experts fired in error The Trump administration Saturday raced to rescind layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired Friday night in what appeared to be a s...

Paywalled, but can read 1st 2 paragraphs that contain the essential info:
www.ajc.com/news/2025/10...

A Long-Awaited Longevity Mystery Solved Spotlighting an essential human biologic pathway targeted by drugs in clinical trials

When 2 life science discoveries converge: solving a ~3 decade mystery of extraordinary longevity and healthspan + an essential cell danger sensor
And related ongoing clinical trials!
erictopol.substack.com/p/a-long-awa...

i made a model to assign scores for how robustly US politicians oppose fascism & graded 13 leading dems

criteria & method QTed, individual results in 🧵 below:

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

So much lying about American cities (Portland, OR) burning, and so little acknowledgement of actual destruction of Gaza cities by Trump and the GOP.

Expecting a big surge in need at the food pantry next week, even while federal food assistance to food banks has been slashed.

Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

No. It’s about how people don’t vote for finely crafted policy attuned to the latest issue polling, they vote for the charismatic leader whom they trust who speaks to their gut feelings about the world.

This used to be totally obvious but the “popularist” Democratic elite has tried to crush it.

Armed Florida agents visited Largo man over postcard critical of CFO Ingoglia The situation raises questions about how Ingoglia's office is utilizing law enforcement.

Armed agents in Florida showed up at the door of a 77-year-old anti-Trump protester who wrote a postcard to the state's finance chief that said only "You lack values" www.axios.com/local/tampa-...

CDC has been a global leader in public health & played a key role in smallpox eradication. Health depts in red states & blue states rely on CDC expertise & support. The CDC EIS program trains the next generation of public health leaders & disease detectives.

They are burning it to the ground.

It is a criminally absurd assertion for anyone to make the claim that corn ethanol is even remotely energy efficient, environmentally sound, or sustainable

It is a scam perpetrated by corporate lobbying firms to capture tax dollars as corporate profits

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

This is a really really big deal. This weekly report listed all the outbreaks amd incidences of notifiable diseases, like measles. Anyone could read it. Health professionals often keep tabs on it. They don't care if we get sick.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

I have to say it was a huge disappointment to see HHMI dismantle DEI initiatives early this year in advance of any pressure from the Trump administration. A depressing example of the state of leadership of our scientific establishments.

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

Chicago pastor sues Trump after ICE assaults him while praying – Baptist News Global A Presbyterian minister has joined a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s violence against demonstrators and media.

Chicago pastor sues Trump after ICE assaults him while praying
baptistnews.com/article/chic...

Argentina gets $20 billion. Qatar gets an air base on US soil. Dipshit gets nearly $1 billion to retrofit his flying bribe. ICE gets $11.25 billion added to their annual detention budget.

But our enlisted personnel are currently hitting up food banks to fucking eat because they aren't getting paid.

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

Interesting question to ponder now: who can I trust to hide me from ICE if it comes to that? Who would stand and refuse ICE entry if ICE came looking for me?

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat obituary: mathematician who established that Einstein’s equations mirror the real world Pioneer of general relativity and gravitational-wave theories saw her work confirmed by observations 65 years later.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...