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@barbmcquade.bsky.social Please explain the phrase "as next friend on behalf of" in the title of some immigration cases. Thanks! #sistersinlaw

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Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

submitted 4 days ago • 1286 comments

If I ever called an explosion a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" in my work, all of my amazing editors, colleagues, and managers -- and the tech community -- would have disabled my login and withdrawn all permissions until I recovered my sanity. Who do they think they're fooling?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best things about working in industry is sometimes you wind up *way* outside your comfort zone. This (out today in B&B) was definitely that kind of project for me. 🧵 analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This tactile model of the Gateway Arch is augmented with Braille descriptions. I wouldn't have noticed it were it not for the great explanations from @blindish.bsky.social

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

submitted 45 days ago • 45 comments

Good way to see the current tariffs, as of literally today, is no tariffs on high value add manufactured goods marketed to middle and upper middle classes. Massive tariffs for cheap consumer items which amount to the biggest economic privilege of working class/middle class life in US.

submitted 54 days ago • 122 comments

What are the rules for transporting presumably innocent people in custody to another state or another country? #sistersinlawpodcast @joycewhitevance.bsky.social @barbmcquade.bsky.social @jillwine-banks.bsky.social @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Serious question about #tariffs: If I buy a product🧶online from a European company (no importer other than me), do I get a bill from the U.S. government for the #tariff?

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 77 days ago • 1654 comments

For decades, liberal CA has criminalized "gang-style appearances" and being at "gang hangouts" (eg public BBQs), which results in Black and Brown young men being placed into gang database, receiving "gang tickets," and resulting in onerous prison sentences.

submitted 79 days ago • 20 comments

THIS book review -- in @roncharles.bsky.social 's FREE newsletter (no WaPo sub nec'y!) -- about a new expose of Meta by a former FB exec as well as Meta's behavior toward RC (harassment, IMO)...The link takes you to the newsletter and the subscribing link. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

submitted 83 days ago • 7 comments

Trying a stranded colorwork crochet pattern with loose (10 DK/light slsts/7 cm) slip stitches. I'm struggling with gauge. Better to increase hook size beyond recommended or increase yarn weight (DK -> Light worsted)? 🧶 #crochet

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

The free speech administration. If they like what you say.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Please. Take a few minutes and watch Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) describe the brazen corruption in just the first six weeks of Trump 2.0. youtu.be/hycoCYenXls This is not normal. If you think Biden or Obama or Bush, or any modern president did anything like this, you're mistaken.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Utah sitting judge in the Box Elder County Justice Court, Kevin Christensen, has been arrested for child sex crimes. ksltv.com/crime-public...

submitted 90 days ago • 942 comments

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

submitted 90 days ago • 215 comments

if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

Goldsmith on Trump v. United States, buff.ly/aTgChP4 - Jack Landman Goldsmith (Harvard Law School) has posted The Presidency After Trump v. United States on SSRN.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

A birthday 🎂 🥯 bagel with colored sprinkles! Congratulations on your 2-year anniversary, B's Bagels!

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine being the governor of California, with the opportunity to platform a fire survivor, an entertainment industry worker struggling for gigs, a teacher who just got laid off, or someone else with an empathetic story to share - and you interview Charlie Kirk. Disqualifying for 2028.

submitted 91 days ago • 17 comments