Eric Alan Isaacson

Why the Green Cheese Turned White

“This is a ‘perfect example of evolution in action,’ said Sam O’Donnell, a fungal genomicist at the University of Wisconsin ….”

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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

Inspired by Donald Trump and Turning Point USA, the real domestic terrorists are threatening to kill university scholars:
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Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence,” a federal judge, William Young, wrote in a blistering 161-page First Amendment ruling handed down last week. “In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
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Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

New Yorker profile of a small group of Los Angeles activists ("Peace Patrol") who videorecord ICE vehicles entering and exiting around Terminal Island at the city's port where the agency has a complex. /1

Former Tanzanian ambassador and outspoken government critic Humphrey Polepole has been abducted by unknown individuals, his family says. https://bbc.in/4mVyQrG

Tanzania should put a stop to deepening repression of media and government critics.

Spiny lobster prices crash as China stops buying, hurting San Diego fishermen San Diego's spiny lobster fishermen are facing one of their toughest seasons in years as wholesale prices have crashed to near-record lows.

Thanks to Donald Trump's illegal tariffs: www.cbs8.com/article/news...

Trump says Chicago mayor and Illinois governor 'should be in jail' for not protecting ICE agents Members of the Texas National Guard have been seen at an Army Reserve Training Center in the southwest suburbs of Chicago, ABC News has learned.

Exactly what you'd expect a dictator to say --
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Trump calls for jailing of Illinois governor and Chicago mayor in immigration standoff The president, who sent national guard troops to the city, said local officials failed to protect immigration agents.

Talking as you’d expect a dictator to: Trump calls for jailing of Illinois governor and Chicago mayor in immigration standoff
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DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree. Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1) A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

“The rejection of charges by a grand jury, once extremely unusual, is growing more common in cities targeted by President Donald Trump with immigration raids, military deployments, and other federal resources …”
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Gov. Newsom says Trump administration has deployed California National Guard troops to Oregon The move comes one day after a federal judge blocked the president's plan to deploy Oregon National Guard troops in Portland.

Once again, Donald J. Trump plays the part of an unabashed dictator. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

My message to Kristi Noem is clear: Get out of Chicago.

Chicago alderwoman arrested by ICE agents while checking on detainee at hospital in Humboldt Park A Chicago alderwoman was arrested by ICE agents on Friday afternoon inside a hospital in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

We are living under a dictatorship.

Chicago alderwoman arrested by ICE agents while checking on detainee at hospital in Humboldt Park

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Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life' Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

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Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told

Acting like a dictator:
Trump ‘Determined’ the U.S. Is Now in a War With Drug Cartels, Congress Is Told www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration

How silly can it get?
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Two Prominent Left-Liberal Thinkers Reconsider Libertarianism Legal scholar Cass Sunstein and economic policy commentator Noah Smith haven't become libertarians - but they take a more favorable view of that ideology than before. This evolution might prefigure a ...

Prominent left-liberal thinkers @casssunstein.bsky.social and @noahsmith.bsky.social recently expressed much more favorable views of libertarianism than before. In linked post, I discuss their pieces, and potential cooperation between libertarians and "abundance" liberals: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Autism may be the price of human intelligence Researchers discovered that autism’s prevalence may be linked to human brain evolution. Specific neurons in the outer brain evolved rapidly, and autism-linked genes changed under natural selection. Th...

“the results strongly suggest natural selection for Autism Spectrum Disorder-associated genes”
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Trump Demands Microsoft Fire Its Head of Global Affairs Trump’s post marks the latest example of his administration’s effort to exercise control over corporate America.

We are living under a dictatorship.
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US military brass brace for firings as Pentagon chief orders top-level meeting Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals and admirals to Virginia to meet and receive address on ‘warrior ethos’

We are living under a dictatorship.
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FBI fires agents pictured kneeling at George Floyd protest, US media reports - BBC News The FBI Agents Association says the terminations - not yet confirmed by the bureau - violate the agents' rights.

We are living under a dictatorship.
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Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force' - BBC News The president says the latest move to send troops to a major US city is "necessary" to protect immigration detention facilities.

We are living under a dictatorship.
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Hegseth’s surprise gathering of top military brass is to deliver speech on ‘warrior ethos,’ sources say | CNN Politics Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s surprise gathering of hundreds of generals and admirals in Virginia next week is being called so he can describe the administration’s reinvention of the Department ...

I’m told Secretary Hegseth is going to explain how his “warrior ethos” applies to National Guardeners deployed to pull dandelions in DC. “The only good dandelion is a dead dandelion.”—Pete Hegseth
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“The TdA boat strike, which JAGs likely would have advised against, raises alarm bells for the military’s legitimacy.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/are-...

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

Christian Nationalist Pete Hegseth pushes a White Supremacist agenda. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hegseth dissolves women’s military committee over ‘divisive feminist agenda’ Move puts end to group started in 1951 to give the Pentagon counsel on issues related to women in armed services

Secretary Hegseth promotes male supremacy, as well as White supremacy www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

Looks like Trump's "border czar" is a crook. Surprised?
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