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On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

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Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

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Someone is going to write a dissertation about this half time show and I will read it.

AOC: They need 10 Democratic votes in the Senate to pass, continued unfettered ICE funding with no guardrails. Regardless of where you are in the Democratic party, this moment proves that the status quo cannot stand

I would implore my Democratic colleagues in the senate to vote no

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

2 of the 3 homicides in Minneapolis in 2026 were at the hands of ICE. They are the danger to the public. www.minneapolismn.gov/government/g...

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Every member of congress that votes for ICE funding is supporting state sponsored murder.

Concealed carry is legal in the state of Minnesota

Video before it happens is showing this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis was just standing there videoing them before and they got out to push him back and then murder him.

This one pager is critical for your senators and representatives to understand. Call and write. | Carole LaBonne This one pager is critical for your senators and representatives to understand. Call and write.

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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

YouTube video by USGS [V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)

If you want to have something fun in the background while working today, Kilauea is erupting right now and you can watch the live cam (www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...)

YouTube video by Federal Reserve Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
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ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week.

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I wish people were as horrified about immigrants being kidnapped and killed in detention centers as they are about this shooting at the same time I am very glad there is finally some larger momentum building against this and I hope it sustains.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?

Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

The English teacher in me loves this cartoon…

From Benjamin Slyngstad.

Depending on what your writing, specialized news outlets will also appreciate opinions, perspectives, and editorials. Some examples are C&E and the Scientist magazine. cen.acs.org/explore/pers... & www.the-scientist.com/type/opinion

Exclusivity for #ChemSky:🎉 New paper to start 2026!
Electrochemical conversion of alkyl halides to α-keto esters, no organometallics, no sup. electrolyte, no −78 °C, mild and scalable!

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Last Year, and the Year to Come

First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:

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Toby Morton, a 'South Park' alum, bought www.trumpkennedycenter.org months ago on a hunch that the ridiculously vain Donald Trump would rename the Center. Donald’s stupidity is only exceeded by his predictability.

Role of Surface Hydroxyls in Atomic-Scale Copper Restructuring during CO Electroreduction The nanoscale structure of electrocatalyst surfaces governs the selectivity and kinetics of reactions including CO(2) electroreduction (CO(2)R). Yet, their evolution under reaction conditions remains elusive, and the roles of surface hydroxyls (OHad) and the interfacial microenvironment in surface restructuring are poorly understood. Combining electrochemical atomic force microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and grand canonical modeling, we reveal that OHad acts synergistically with COad to restructure copper (Cu) electrocatalysts during COR. Mixed OHad/COad coverage promotes lifting of surface atoms into metastable states, generating Cu adatoms and nanoclusters at mild cathodic potentials, which aggregate or dissolve at more negative potentials. This restructuring into low-coordinated Cu sites is accompanied by disordering of the interfacial water network. Nanocluster stability depends critically on CO partial pressure, while hydroxyls remain kinetically trapped on the roughened Cu surface. These findings underscore the importance of surface kinetics and interfacial microenvironments in atomic-scale surface restructuring, urging a reassessment of catalytic surface states under realistic conditions.

How do surface hydroxyls enable Cu restructuring during CO electroreduction?
Check out this new paper in @jacs.acspublications.org!
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Selective Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Formate: Mechanistic Insights into [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Models with Tunable Bridging Ligands The selective electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate is a key challenge in developing carbon-recycling chemical processes, with potential applications in energy storage and renewable feedstock pr...

Absolutely lovely work from Duboc, Lalaoui et al. in ACS Catal.: electrochemical CO2 reduction by [FeFe]-hydrogenase models with tunable bridging ligands. The enzyme can't do this, I've tried (a lot)!
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