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Professor, UC Irvine. Nutritional physiologist, anything having to do with guts, including the microbiome. Mostly in marine systems. Bassist. Rock+Funk. Gators fan He/Him
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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Correct from the president of Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

A graduate student who worked on a project with me created a sea turtle mug with clever details, including the carapace, plastron, flipper, and marginal scutes. I am delighted to start drinking my tea from such a thoughtful and original gift.

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

Call it an act of right wing terrorism. Straight up. No need to beat around the bush here. He is a fascist, white supremacist. He would 100% be dead if he wasn't white. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2...

I did not have Gustavo Dudamel/LA Philharmonic/Cynthia Erivo/Purple Rain on my Coachella 2025 Bingo card But thankful it happened

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV

😳 what's going on here 🤷‍♂️

Happy #Easter

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

One point that's going to get lost in the discussion of #SCOTUS's intervention in the Alien Enemy Act case: This is the *value* of nationwide injunctions. Without them, you have to go district by district, and the government can try to play games by moving people to districts without relief (yet).

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

Pretty clear that the two parties aren’t the same…. At all

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

With these posts, they’ve made it essentially inarguable that they’re deliberately defying the Supreme Court.

I found some new decoration for my office door

The Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to Dr. Lisa Anderson, who was born in Connecticut, which stated: “It is time for you to leave the United States." Anderson has been carrying her U.S. passport on her at all times since receiving the email and is seeking an immigration attorney.

You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything, Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT. ~ All of Us

"Trump, in his second term, doesn’t want an attorney general with limits. He wants one who is wholly loyal to him and him alone — not to any personal sense of duty, not to federal law, not to the Constitution, not to the United States." Read more from @ryanbort.bsky.social ⤵️

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

#econsky www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/u...

They will not stop trying to do this. We have to continue to stand in the breach. We have no choice.

Yes It Is! We Need Everyone To Wake Up Now!

Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither do random “toxic chemicals” that RFK Jr, David Geier, and others claim. The biggest predictor of autism? GENETICS. We have millions of data points across decades that show this. 1/

Always the same with these charlatans. As soon as they have to pay, they are "in ruins", and can't do it. They claim they will never be in the spotlight again. They get let off easy. Then, they get some money and are right back in the game. Leave him destitute. abcnews.go.com/Politics/im-...

Poor science journalism (😱I know). The picture is of a suckermouth armored catfish (native to South America, but indeed invasive in the US, just not in the Grand Teton), yet the article is talking about a new sucker (Catostomid native to the US). They look nothing alike.🧪 www.msn.com/en-us/travel...

me just minding my own own business and reading Magic Tree House to the 5yo tonight and getting hit with these pages 😶

Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

They should be more concerned

SCOTUS, in a 9-0 vote ruled to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. He refused. Judge Xinis ordered him to report back to her on his status. He refused. Only dictators ignore the judiciary and rule of law. Who's next? It could be anyone, if we don't continue to speak out and take to the streets.

NEW: Today, NSF "disestablished" most of its scientific advisory committees. These are committees of outside experts convened to help shape NSF programs. Only five statutorily required committees remain, the rest are gone. www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

Every tyrant in history has sought to stifle criticism of himself and his regime. But America was founded on criticism. American democracy was built on dissent. Every institution, group, firm, or individual that surrenders to Trump’s wanton tyranny invites more of it.

Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump issued a sharp rebuke tonight of his administration’s sweeping spending cuts — and a defense of the judiciary’s obligation to ensure the executive branch follows the law. “Here, the government failed to do so.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States