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Heading back to this on Sunday. Life is so tough in #California.

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NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo. https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1

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Another good overview of the destructive and murderous legacy of this awful human being.

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Fuck Elon Musk.

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🧵The MSM will not tell you or explain how Trump is used his bad policies like Title 42 that created the “invasion,” aka created a backlog, to justify this state sponsored violence & erase civil rights. But here are some great people who write, speak the truth about our borders & crimmigration:

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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

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"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

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"The plan, Sellner claims, will allow 'the wounds of multiculturalism to heal.'” "Wounds of multiculturalism." Wow. What a phrase.

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Brown University has finalized adoption of what might be the best, most thoughtful institutional statement (including an excellent explanatory report) on university public voice that has yet been written. www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...

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Great to see these @standupforscience.bsky.social "Teach Ins" happening across the country. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

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Otters! We saw them just before we left Victoria tonight.

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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

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To honor the memory of all veterans, we on E Street remember this live performance of "The Wall" — filmed in 2014 and dedicated to veterans, friends, inspirations and a bandmate lost too soon: Ray and Walter Cichon as well as The Castiles' drummer, Bart Haynes.

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A real presidential post

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Last stop before heading back to Vancouver, Butchart Gardens.

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A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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So many seashells, crabs and eagles in Parksville, Vancouver Island, BC

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papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

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Time for a break - spending the weekend on beautiful Vancouver island

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ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806

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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

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Save the date! October 21st! An earlier than expected publication date for my next book! I’ll be setting up an in-person and virtual book launch, in-person will probably be in Montreal.

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This is your daily reminder that Republicans are planning to cut Medicaid to hand tax breaks to people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

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Here you can learn more about Tapper. Source: Breaker Media via Chris D Jackson

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Republicans in Congress are trying to push their budget plan through. This is life or death.

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I’m sure there will be many dissertations and theses written about “Sinners” - it’s already impacting my work. The soundtrack alone is worth study, I have been listening to it on repeat. There’s such a resonance to this music, hard to pin down but it touched my soul. youtu.be/3eL-XNmcuLQ?...

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A good article on how RFK Jr. and his team of fools continue to undermine vaccines. TL;DR: Every aspect of vaccine approval has been hijacked by people with little to no knowledge of vaccine science, but with titanic egos. apnews.com/article/vacc...

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An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Thinking about Sinners, cultural appropriation and the idea of decolonization in North America as I read this book… @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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I often think of this quote when I’m feeling frustrated with this world… But I’m here, as our most of us, because of those who suffered through that bondage and I’m going to try to summon up that kind of courage in the face of relentless oppression. Mutual aid and collaboration is key. #Wakanda

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With the dust settled, a couple of points about yesterday’s pivotal elections in Romania & round #1 in Poland. A huge sigh of relief for the EU in Bucharest and some worrying news from Warsaw. 🧵

Heading back to this on Sunday. Life is so tough in #California.

NIH funding will abruptly cease for dozens, if not hundreds, of ongoing overseas trials of drugs and treatments. Its policy change puts thousands of trial participants in limbo. https://go.nature.com/3Z8xNM1

Another good overview of the destructive and murderous legacy of this awful human being.

Fuck Elon Musk.

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

"The plan, Sellner claims, will allow 'the wounds of multiculturalism to heal.'” "Wounds of multiculturalism." Wow. What a phrase.

Brown University has finalized adoption of what might be the best, most thoughtful institutional statement (including an excellent explanatory report) on university public voice that has yet been written. www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...

Great to see these @standupforscience.bsky.social "Teach Ins" happening across the country. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

Otters! We saw them just before we left Victoria tonight.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

To honor the memory of all veterans, we on E Street remember this live performance of "The Wall" — filmed in 2014 and dedicated to veterans, friends, inspirations and a bandmate lost too soon: Ray and Walter Cichon as well as The Castiles' drummer, Bart Haynes.

A real presidential post

Last stop before heading back to Vancouver, Butchart Gardens.

A new report shows how little has changed for Black victims of police killings five years after George Floyd's murder www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So many seashells, crabs and eagles in Parksville, Vancouver Island, BC

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Of 14,777 unique articles on the NYT's homepage over the 310 days from 1/1/24 to Election Day, 293 articles–almost one a day–focused on Biden’s age compared with just 27 articles focused on Project 2025, a ratio of 10.9 to one mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/blog/new-yor...

Time for a break - spending the weekend on beautiful Vancouver island

ICYMI: The first issue of Global Black Thought, a new journal from the African American Intellectual History Society and Penn Press, is now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54806

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

Save the date! October 21st! An earlier than expected publication date for my next book! I’ll be setting up an in-person and virtual book launch, in-person will probably be in Montreal.

This is your daily reminder that Republicans are planning to cut Medicaid to hand tax breaks to people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

Here you can learn more about Tapper. Source: Breaker Media via Chris D Jackson

Republicans in Congress are trying to push their budget plan through. This is life or death.

A good article on how RFK Jr. and his team of fools continue to undermine vaccines. TL;DR: Every aspect of vaccine approval has been hijacked by people with little to no knowledge of vaccine science, but with titanic egos. apnews.com/article/vacc...

An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Thinking about Sinners, cultural appropriation and the idea of decolonization in North America as I read this book… @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

With the dust settled, a couple of points about yesterday’s pivotal elections in Romania & round #1 in Poland. A huge sigh of relief for the EU in Bucharest and some worrying news from Warsaw. 🧵

Easy like Sunday morning…in my #vogs @fluevog.bsky.social

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

In the garden.