Patrick Habecker

How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” one advocate said.

Being stripped of parental rights while in prison, even for minor crimes, is “the family separation crisis that no one knows about,” an advocate says.

Good read on parallel powers.

Sadly didn't get to all 8 of these before the winner (Rakesfall) was selected. It was a great reading list though and I really enjoyed the range of styles.

Judge: “The troubling thing about this prosecution is that everyone knew what was happening… It seems like these two [gestures to defendants Nyx and Kalicum] are being hung out to dry. As soon as politicians started complaining, all of a sudden VPD—which before was fine—suddenly is not fine.”

Their Dads Faced Execution in Missouri. Their Grief Lives on. One woman copes with her father’s impending execution in Missouri, while two others share their experiences of losing a parent to capital punishment.

The experiences of children with parents on death row are often forgotten when it comes to capital punishment. No organization tracks information on this particular group.

Of the past 10 people who have faced execution in Missouri, at least six had children.

MMWR stole the show in the first round of headlines about CDC cuts but in the chaos, many missed that the NHANES mobile team remains RIF'd. This is the backbone of this key survey that contains some of the only representative anthropometric, biochemical, clinical and dietary data on the country.

Just FYI, here are my personal beliefs on the use of large scale violence.

1. Violence tends to be self-replicating, and so should be avoided as much as possible.

All violence has the potential to entrench itself.

This would be an excellent addition!

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

Great MacArthur award pick. www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Photo of the cover of the book titled Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen

This books was absolutely fantastic. Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen. Loved all the suggested next reads at the end too.

Yeah the other characters kept me along more than MC

Quite useful

Here is NIDA

They were relatively effective in maintaining R01 numbers with little or no multi-year funding, but substantially increased UG1, UG3, and U24 cooperative agreements.

11/n

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

An HIV Outbreak in Maine Shows the Risk of Trump’s Crackdown on Homelessness and Drug Use - KFF Health News Public health experts and advocates say the outbreak has been fueled by a confluence of local factors, including the sweeping of a homeless encampment and shuttering of a sterile-syringe program. But ...

An HIV outbreak in Maine points to a series of poor policy decisions, including ending needle-exchange programs and clearing a homeless encampment. As those policies go national, there is a risk the disease will spread, too: kffhealthnews.org/news/article... @brian-goldstone.bsky.social

Great piece on underreporting of overdose deaths in Nebraska.

This Day in Labor History: September 10, 1897. Luzerne County sheriff deputies slaughtered 19 unarmed immigrant coal miners striking outside of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Let's talk about the Lattimer Massacre, one of the many uses of state violence against striking workers!

“The rejection is at least the eighth time in the last month a grand jury has declined to charge felonies sought by US Attorney Jeannine Pirro’s office.“

Don’t try to shirk jury duty. We need you now more than ever!

The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations, updated An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond

Took advantage of the summer lull to run the final, official tallies of the 2024 US prez election -- including Alaska this time -- through the #AmericanNations model. Bottom line: despite the astronomical stakes, it was very much like two elections before it.

www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2024-pre...

Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction

Local library had 6/8 of the Le Guin prize nominees for 2025 (they were all excellent), but now I need to figure out where to get the last two.

www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion…

… and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines.

Infuriating.

The argument here is that, unlike Right-leaning institutions, Left-leaning institutions have put professional identity and status ahead of values and ideology, and thus failed to socialize and cultivate the next generation of Left-wing political leaders.

I see a lot of truth in this, but I'd add...

Firefox on mobile supports ad and tracker plug-ins.

I spent last week in Sydney, giving a keynote on how to reduce recidivism (that should be online soon!) and then talking with a variety of researchers, practitioners, and lawmakers about what works to improve public safety. I learned a ton and am grateful to everyone who spent time chatting with me!

We just published an excellent commentary in Vaccine by @gavinyamey.bsky.social & Chris Beyrer breaking down how the current regime is laying waste to US vaccination programs & what we can do about it:
✅Congress must withdraw support for RFK Jr
✅Speak up...loudly
✅Study anti-vax movements
✅VOTE

That is a great graph.

A comparison of intramuscular (Zimhi) and intranasal naloxone (Narcan) in reversal of fentanyl-induced apnea: a randomized, crossover, open-label trial - Nature Communications Opioid-induced respiratory depression can be treated with intranasal (IN) or intramuscular (IM) naloxone. Here the authors report a randomized, crossover, open-label trial showing that lower number of...

Recent paper basically says intramuscular naloxone is far superior to intranasal (Narcan) by reducing withdrawal symptoms with a lower dose that works faster. Sample size was small but it's in line with previous results.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas

0/n 🧵

Very good essay

"Encountering a cop on the street might mean you are encountering a criminal and encountering an armed, masked man might mean you are encountering a cop. The line is blurry.

This blurriness between real and fake is the defining characteristic of the moment."