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Biological anthropologist teaching and researching at an Arizona university (posts are mine alone). Love science, evolution, and isotopic analysis! Balloon Juice Jackal, Democrat, Liberal. Baseball, cats, TV, and movies, esp. classics and horror.
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In 1885, white rioters murdered dozens of Chinese residents of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The story of the atrocity is still being unearthed 140 years later.

Frank Zappa tried to warn us in 1986

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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We rode at dawn with a Thomas Guide. We were unstoppable.

“Study from Johns Hopkins finds that neutrophils—white blood cells in humans—may be altered by SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to cease their normal function of destroying pathogens in the body and, instead, significantly inhibit other immune cells critical for fighting the virus” 😬

Still pissed that I got sick the day of a Cake show in a small intimate bar in San Diego about 20 years ago. They rock.

A hero for our times. Morales shows in real time how devastating these cuts to the national weather service are. We cannot predict weather events with accuracy anymore.

FYI vaccines are critical but they don’t prevent the spread of COVID. Getting vaccinated helps prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death but in order to prevent the SPREAD of COVID you need to wear a mask, test, improve ventilation, and stay home when sick

A student in the first iteration of my Plagues, Bones, and History class mentioned Hart and since then, I've incorporated a lesson about him! 😍 HAPPY PRIDE

They would have come for my mother, who was a *legal* resident for 55 years. Who worked for 25 years with children as a bilingual special education teacher's aide. And she likely might have died in their custody, as her health was not great. Only reason they have not? She died in 2019.

Fascinating but horrific history of the daily life of slavery, with names and dates from a slaver’s own diary TW for sexual abuse 😳

Remember: "measles infection can cause immune amnesia" by wiping part of the immune system's memory clean and leaving the infected person unable to fight off infections that they previously beat in the past. This can last for up to two years after having measles! www.uclahealth.org/news/article...

In the most recent COVID wave, white people had more than twice the death rate of black people covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...

We are going to see growing inequalities between social classes amplified even more by disease. Very much like Victorian times. The cost of private vaccines is often too high for many to now afford. In the UK a covid vaccine can vary between £85-120. If you multiple for an average family of four 🧵

Gilead doesn’t need to be beaten, it need to be broken

The RECOVER team has just published a paper showing that 14% of infants and toddlers and 15% of preschoolers have symptoms of LongCOVID compared to uninfected kids. COVID19 vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of LongCOVID, but RFK Jr. has decided this isn’t important. Link ⬇️

What segregationist BS is this, @gallego.senate.gov ? I voted for you. STOP THIS Trans people exist and they deserve to live a full life.

HHS is shooting itself and us in the foot

I want to scream and break things

Free expression is a hallmark of the First Amendment. All our rights are in jeopardy when trans peoples’ freedom to exist is undermined.

WTAF, California?

The Oak Flat land deal will irreparably and detrimentally affect Apache religious exercise, which should be out of bounds in terms of the 1st Am and RFRA. However... 1/2

Yep, this is true: all PERSONS have due process under our Constitution, not just citizens.

This classic shallow argument runs cover for real ways that the response to the Covid pandemic has been all out class warfare, and is the perfect example of lazy, superficial “class analysis” that ignores the basic material conditions which actually define class under capitalism.