Marc LeVan, MBE

They’re just stating their price. We’ll have a Mar a Lago Comedy Festival and they’ll get in line

We shall see if one of the most unpopular presidents in American history who is presiding over an economy he’s trying to wreck and the poisoning of our diplomatic relations can consolidate a dictatorship. I’m pretty skeptical he has the juice, especially in his decayed state.

Don’t call the US a banana republic. Because of tarrifs banana stocks are running low.

Yes, and they pose absolutely no risk of “mitochondrial disruptions” or whatever it is that RFK thinks he can see in children passing by…

“Let’s find common ground” he says to a man using troops to pacify cities controlled by his opponents, carrying out mass deportations & extra-judicial killings, rigging elections, using the FBI to silence & intimidate critics, & sending masked men to snatch people off the streets. Out of his depth.

Yes, but in “buying” a chicken, one is maintaining that these animals are merely property, rather than possessing inherent dignity or rights.

Many vegans (myself included) maintain that if a living being is sentient, that being matters for its own sake, and it can never be commodified.

Aren't there penalties for lying to the Court?

NEW: The Texas legislature passed an anti-trans bill which restricts restroom use in public buildings across the state.

Instead of addressing residents' needs like disaster relief, Texas politicians used a special session to attack trans rights.

Our communities deserve better.

“Some nonhuman animals I love. Some I like. And some scare the hell out of me. But I would fight for the interests of them all.”
— Steven M. Wise

You don't live in a world where they are at risk, you live in a country where they are at risk. America choses to have gun violence inflicted on their children.

Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.

Someone mentioned to me the other day "that philosophy thing with the boat" and I knew exactly what she was talking about because I am a freak.

I fear he will soon call all of the “fixed star” cases we learned in Con Law II wrong as well

Light blue text: "Displacing unhoused people doesn't make anyone safer." Greyscale photo of someone holding up a sign that says, "We keep us safe. Services not sweeps." Light blue ACLU logo. Dark green background.

Sweeps exacerbate homelessness — they can be traumatic, dangerous, and leave people without belongings and vital records.

Unhoused people need housing and services, not sweeps.

Not only will Trump go down in history as a blight on America, the same will be true in geography, health science, literature, area studies ….

I’m grumpy because the Internet is making me want to defend Rawls. This is distracting me from the paper attacking Rawls I’m trying to write.

Kilmar Ábrego García released from jail and traveling back to Maryland Private security contracted by his attorneys are bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia from Tennessee to Maryland, though his future in the United States remains uncertain.

Kilmar Ábrego García released from jail and traveling back to Maryland

Neither he nor anyone else gets to decide which residents of Washington DC are or are not "part of the city."

If people did get to make this kind of judgments, I'd say that Stephen Miller is not part of my country. But unfortunately, I would be wrong.

MAGA, at its core, is a cult of abuse. The right to abuse, the justification for abuse, the dopamine rush they get from abusing others, is built into every policy, every program, every line of rhetoric. They identify with abusers because they want to abuse people.

Most animal exploitation happens in wealthy or urban areas, not remote communities. It's not "middle class sensibility" to reject needless use of animals. If you aren't in survival mode, you're responsible for your choices.

Cancelling mRNA studies is the highest irresponsibility The rest of the world is not following the US government’s dangerous path, and will stick with the technology that helped the world out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced last week that the US federal government is terminating US$500 million worth of grants for mRNA vaccine research.

We must never, ever, forget that millions are alive today, or in better health, because of this life-saving technology.

go.nature.com/4msX3WL

Exactly what is in the Ivy League deals with the Trump administration – and how they compare Harvard University is the latest school that is nearing an expensive settlement with the Trump administration. The different deals are complex, but share a few similarities.

While I understand the impulse to make the bad people go away - these 'deals' are unethical and just stupid. The extortionists will use them as a basis to take more. | Exactly what is in the Ivy League deals with the Trump administration – and how they compare
theconversation.com/exactly-what...

Was reminded of Bentham’s argument that fear of crime can be a worse harm than crime itself. Everyone can be affected by fear of crime but relatively few people experience serious crime. And fear of crime can easily be manipulated for nefarious purposes.

Baltimore: “So far gone”

Decolonize scientific institutions, don’t just diversify them Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science

go.nature.com/4mzL1KV

The "Happy Egg Co.," where the eggs have smiles while the chickens are miserable and hidden from view (then brutally killed).

Happy to announce that my MBE thesis is now publicly accessible via the Johns Hopkins library: jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/items/c1519a...

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that an Arkansas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom and library is unconstitutional.

The law is blocked for our clients’ school districts while the case continues.

It’s embarrassing and exhausting to witness

Ugly Americans.

So glad that the Internet is forever.

I pray that this behavior comes back to haunt them one day.👇