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Shamelessness is the MAGA/Trump superpower. You just can't embarrass these people!

Rev. Abby Holcombe, speaking in the press area of Chicago's Dirksen Federal Courthouse

Rev. Abby Holcombe of the River Forest Methodist Church, another plaintiff shot with pepper balls: "I have one more message for Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, the ICE agents who shot at me and all other ICE agents and president Trump: God is always on the side of the oppressed. So which side are you on?"

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Agree. But many students have been told (and therefore, believe) that the point of college is to get a degree. Like a passport stamp. The idea of learning for skills or even just for the joy of it is limited to a small number of students now.

"Trending towards significance". In other words, "not significant". Sigh.

DC J6: 1.500 arrests
DC No Kings: zero

Tell me again which side is violent?

The 2nd #NoKings event today was next to an assisted living facility. A number of the residents came out in wheelchairs and walkers and holding the signs that they’d made themselves. One man, easily in his 80s, wore a suit and tie. Tell me again about how much these violent criminals hate America

I’m naming this a Type 3 error.

As someone who practiced Emergency Medicine for 20 years, it is clear this guy knows nothing about hospitals. The point of the ER is to decide whether someone needs inpatient care or can safely go home. People don't stay in the ER for days (and if they do, it is a major safety hazard).

Because they believe he's god, or at minimum, god's messenger. Sadly, I am not kidding about this at all.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Done- thank you. They have used 2 books and at least 15 articles from me!

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in 1651 as “nasty, brutish, and short.” He was undeniably correct, with estimates of average life expectancy in the UK at the time ranging from 37...

"This is not the future the American public desires or deserves."—Seth Berkley @science.org
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.

If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is

(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)

His Name Is Jesus. He’s a Carpenter. ICE Arrested Him. Seriously.

"We're going to go after the welfare loafers and the criminal aliens" turned into "We're literally arresting a hardworking carpenter named Jesus"

The cover of this week's @science.org
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That's a gorgeous male cardinal. The females are brownish with red highlights.

Translation: Targetting actual foreign criminals is hard work, so Trump's troops have detainee working immigrants. They do tough, low paid jobs that US citizens refuse. Rich people soon notice when these roles aren't being done and the very richest of them have text Trump to say they're angry.

They will say it is due to chemicals in the child's clothing or really anything else to prove that it was "not genetic", LOL

Opinion | RFK Jr. Conducts His Vaccine Purge His claims about conflicts of interest proved to be nothing.

“His goal is to eliminate incentives to develop vaccines.”

www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-...

Yup - and a LOT of them have family members who voted for Trump because Harris was a "socialist"

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution?

How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ?

20 minutes at the most

In 2024, "NIH research funding supported 407,782 jobs and produced $94.58 billion in economic activity in FY2024 — or $2.56 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding."
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/u...

To be clear, this is almost 18,000,000,000 in funding cuts to the National Institute of Health.

Notice how this works. A year ago, the subhead here would have said “which is expressly forbidden by the constitution.”

But Trump floats a crazy assertion and then WaPo retreats to saying “which most legal scholars say..”

Stop he said/she saiding truth. It is expressly forbidden. Period.

Would he like to take my intro Epi course? Sounds like he needs it.

Yeah - and remind who Alabama voted for again? SMH