Nancy Kanwisher

The US isn't giving Sudan+Syria weapons to commit those crimes. If Michael Oren is concerned about Sudan, he should urge Israel to impose sanctions on the UAE, which is arming genocidal militias there. But he couldn't care less about Sudan. It's a transparent effort to deflect criticism of Israel.

—through a doctrine that has come to be known, however unspecifically, as “Supremacy Clause immunity.” But the rule is not nearly as categorical as Miller suggests—nor is it a “felony” for local or state authorities to arrest someone who they have probable cause to believe committed a state crime.

even in the course of carrying out their duties."

Further, concerning "Miller’s insinuation that ICE officers would be immune from local or state prosecutions. There certainly are some contexts in which the Constitution forecloses local or state governments from prosecuting federal officers...

The claim that ICE officers have “federal immunity in the conduct of [their] duties,” and that anyone who seeks to prosecute them is committing a felony...[is] wrong...The federal government absolutely retains the ability to prosecute federal law enforcement officers who break the law,....

186. When Can States Prosecute Federal Officers? Stephen Miller claims that ICE officers have "immunity" for anything they do while enforcing immigration law. Even as an argument about *state* criminal prosecutions, that claim is overstated at best.

Important analysis from @stevevladeck.bsky.social explaining that Stephen Miller's claim that ICE officers have federal immunity is "wrong on its face":
www.stevevladeck.com/p/186-when-c...
Exerpts follow...

Unacceptable and outrageous. Do not get used to this stuff.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s behind a potential scientific brain drain.

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

Why fundamental research is fundamental to progress, seeding major breakthroughs
Editorial @nature.com this week
And 7 basic science discoveries that changed the world
nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com/articles/d41...

First Circuit Judges Strike down Israel Lobby Suit against MIT for Permitting Gaza Protests Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Erik Uebelacker at Courthouse News Service reports that a three-judge appeals panel of the US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, in Boston, struck down a lawsuit by a pro-...

An important victory:
www.juancole.com/2025/10/2276...

One year ago

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

2/3 Imagine if NFL coaches were hired because they were friends with the White House. You’d end up with bad football teams pretty fast. Same deal with NIH IC Directors and science.

The NIH institute director firing last Friday is very bad.

I made a video explainer about why.

Stay for last post, w link to @science.org story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social

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Why I hate unitary executive theory with a strength of 10,000 suns. Turns out having a President who exercises total control over hiring and firing creates perverse incentives for people to commit to one man over a democracy.

Important work using ANNs to test computational implications of modularity.

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

OK I was trying to be cautious and way underestimated the crown in Falmouth Ma yesterday. Organizers tell me that they are estimating we had 2400 people: "It was definitely way more than No Kings 1, which we counted (mostly) and was at least 1700."
@indivfalmouth.bsky.social
#NoKings

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The bell in First Congregational Church in Falmouth, MA was forged in 1796 by Paul Revere. It has been rung over 30,000,000 times. Today the congregation rang it especially for the No Kings event.

I have a million photos & videos from today’s amazing #NoKings in #Portland, but I’m pretty sure nothing will top the frogs dancing to “Peace Train” on the packed Portland waterfront #NoKingsPDX

Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

America-hating Antifa showing up for a *second* time today.

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Here's me and John in uniform, ready for our 28-person procession through town to the demo. hard to tell but i am guessing at least 1K people on the village green today.

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

#NoKings Falmouth!

The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.