Dr. Sarah Williams

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

My colleagues and I have been using this one a lot lately to describe our writing projects.

oh, come on. has any person ever vindicated gender studies this hard.

Oh no will they have to get jobs

Anne Frank died of typhus.

The killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti were not new recruits but seasoned agents of Border Patrol. Thousands of migrants die every year due to official policies like Prevention through Deterrence. How many more are murdered by BP directly, unwitnessed and without video footage? Abolish it all.

The most important public health story right now in America is that the Trump administration is executing people in the streets, it is kidnapping people of all ages, including 2-year-olds, it is torturing them, & it is putting them in concentration camps where many have been killed or “disappeared”

Well, the IDF for one

I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

I’m pretty partial to Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. No idea the accuracy, but it’s hilarious.

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

My grad students who are invested in social media/public outreach do Tiktoks. They’re more interested in influencer-type stuff than twitter-esque forms of community, from what I can tell.

The only silver lining is that American folk music is getting real good again.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

A picture of an electrical box with an extremely rad skateboarding frog with curved letters on top that say willimantic. It is... extremely rad. The words superimposed over the image say "Calling all Eastern CT artists" We're making a biodiversity mural in willimantic

Artists of bluesky!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social & Willimantic Public Art are collabing on a community mural in Willimantic, CT in spring.

We're looking for Eastern CT artists who'd like to work on the project! The artist will be selected *by the community*.

Apply here: forms.gle/2tjJmdXcF6wy...

Cheney invading hell, Mamdani sweeping in NYC. My cynical, cortisol-drenched heart has grown two sizes today.

#hartfordnokings

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.”
-Anne Frank, 01/13/1943

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

I am an anthropologist and maternal health scholar today because of an NSF REU ethnographic fieldschool focused on 1st gen students.

#withoutNSF

Global North is becoming unsafe for #globalhealth meetings! @madhupai.bsky.social Nhial Deng &I highlight how on top of visa inequity, lack of safety is a concern for GH meetings in the GN. Action should include shifting meetings to the Global South! Share&Advocate!
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BREAKING: An Alabama court permanently blocked efforts to subject midwife-led care in birth centers to onerous, hospital-like regulations.

This is a victory for Alabama birth centers, midwives, and their patients.

every day I log on and people try their best to get me to lose my faith in humanity. but I am resilient and have a bad memory

ICE has only existed since 2003. It’s younger than most of the people it terrorizes. We can admit it was a mistake and kill it so that our democracy and communities can live.

There’s something sick and broken about USians’ constant recourse to “X group of people aren’t bad/are deserving of rights, they’re TAXPAYERS.” Earning enough money to owe a share to the gov has nothing to do with a human being’s value.

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..