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When he showed up to an immigration meeting in Memphis, Kasper Eriksen thought he was on the verge of becoming a citizen. Then ICE arrested the Mississippi father of four, not even giving him a chance to say goodbye to his wife, whisking him away to a prison. @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

submitted 18 hours ago • 824 comments

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

submitted 1 day ago • 367 comments

It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

submitted 10 days ago • 947 comments

These people really want kids sick. Hepatitis B is not just a “sexually transmitted and IV drug user disease” like Means claims here. If she had ever completed medical training she might know that up to 40% of HepB infections are actually acquired in childhood & kill thousands of Americans per year.

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

submitted 21 days ago • 604 comments

What everyone has been warning about. It doesn’t stop at immigrants. It will spill over and if you expect outrage when it happens to you or someone you love, you must be outraged now

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

“direction to ignore the concern came from Mark Paoletta, who said that the numbers-based RIF should move forward, and that leadership would assume the risk.” He’ll assume the risk because he doesn’t think there’s a court who would prosecute him. Corruption defined.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Made cuts to park rangers and NIH scientists and USDA inspectors (et al) to pay for this?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

submitted 35 days ago • 664 comments

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."

submitted 36 days ago • 1100 comments

He committed no crime and was imprisoned in a country he has never lived in. This is lawlessness.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

submitted 36 days ago • 516 comments

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4

submitted 37 days ago • 258 comments

I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.

submitted 37 days ago • 221 comments

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

submitted 39 days ago • 164 comments

In addition to the horror here ... "... an associate of ..." Watch how they're moving the circle out.

submitted 42 days ago • 47 comments

100% and also need to accept that everyone in his administration will lie about what they’re doing and we can’t take them seriously either

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Words matter. They’re purposefully using this word so US citizens won’t think it will apply to them.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 22 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 44 days ago • 285 comments

Markets are tumbling, but listen to this entire thing. He is going to do this unless we mobilize. Trump plans to disappear American prisoners into that hellhole in El Salvador. Believe him when he says this.

submitted 45 days ago • 116 comments

From Nov 7:

submitted 45 days ago • 188 comments

#handsoff #handsoffdenver

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

They kill indiscriminately and we have known this. Another example. When will anyone make it end.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

submitted 49 days ago • 428 comments

🧪 #ScienceSky and #AcademicSky: We’re trying to learn more about the real-life scope and impact of the Trump administration terminating NIH grants. Here's how you can help our reporting 👇

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

This is a travesty. This will only make America sicker and less prepared. I’m devastated

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

We will have to claw back these protective agencies inch by inch and that will take years. And maybe we can never get it back. I don’t think people grasp how much the next administration can’t just re-enact these things. They will be essentially building from scratch.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

submitted 50 days ago • 529 comments

Very cool that America's executives and financiers will spare no effort or expense to prevent us from enacting even mild social democratic policies and then do this smol bean routine when it comes to a madman toying around with the liquidation of the economy

submitted 50 days ago • 50 comments

Some 1,900 leading researchers accused the Trump administration in an open letter on Monday of conducting a “wholesale assault on U.S. science” that could set back research by decades and that threatens the health and safety of Americans.

submitted 51 days ago • 61 comments

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

submitted 53 days ago • 185 comments

The effing entitlement on this guy

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

We are witnessing the greatest attack on free speech and our first amendment rights since the McCarthy era “Something as innocuous as sharing a social media post”

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

my lukewarm take on making a doc of the making of your movie is that you should tell your cast & crew before they arrive on set, so that you don't have to talk one of your principle actors into being ok w/it while recording him w/o his knowledge or consent bc that's a shitty thing to do to anyone

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

Science needs our protection now more than ever! Important commentary by my department chair. @standupforscience.bsky.social @academicsky.org www.baltimoresun.com/2025/03/23/d...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and that is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

submitted 57 days ago • 1704 comments

Consider this. 6 people in plainclothes approach you, and begin to cover their faces. At least one appears armed. As they grab your phone and backpack, they do not prove who they are. They say they're going to take you, but they're not saying why. What would you call that?

submitted 56 days ago • 179 comments

This is pure evil. Plain and simple. These men were not deported. This is rendition. And the Trump administration is celebrating that publicly because they do not fear consequences. I don’t know how else to say this. They are coming for anyone who disagrees with them.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Incredibly scary

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments