we have reached 23 deaths in ICE camps this year alone wondering if there's a hard number that will finally warrant national media coverage, or if we're just gonna keep running David Ellison op-eds 🤷
Abraham Palmer
@abepalmer.bsky.social
Behavioral geneticist, dad, cyclist, formerly young, allegedly irreverent, unlike most people my age, I was raised in the Great Depression.
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Do you study the genetic basis of complex traits and disease? Join the 23rd Complex Trait Community Annual Meeting to explore what's next, including AI-driven discovery, precision medicine & computational approaches to health: www.jax.org/education-an... ⚠️ Early-bird registration ends Aug. 14
23rd Annual Meeting of the Complex Trait Community
This meeting brings together early-career researchers and senior investigators exploring the genetic basis of complex traits across model organisms.
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“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
🧊✈️ SPOTTED IN SAN DIEGO 👀 😲 A GlobalX jet (tail: N630VA) arrives to load chained humans for transport south to Mexico ⛓️🇲🇽
Would you rather fund the NIH for ~9 months, or start an unnecessary war that kills solders and school children, drives up oil and fertilizer prices, and jeopardizes the world economy? Oh, and the war isn’t over yet and these numbers are likely underestimates? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Hegseth Estimates Cost of Iran War Has Reached $37.5 Billion
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If you know anything about the FDA cyclospora false positive -- how likely this is, what factors go into these decisions -- please get in touch! I am committed to protecting the identities and details of leakers. Signal: melodyschreiber.06
82 years ago today. Imagine how many fewer people would have died if this plot had succeeded. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July...
20 July plot - Wikipedia
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Beatings, denying medical care, serving spoiled food, and refusing to provide soap are just the tip of the iceberg of the human rights abuses ICE is carrying out at Camp East Montana — where our government incarcerated people of Japanese descent during World War II. This depravity must end now.
Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten
abcnews.com
The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Just Did More Damage to Elections Than China
His speech was a mashup of charges that aren’t supported by the documents he released.
theatlantic.com
⚓ Rear Admiral Amy Bauernschmidt came up through the ranks the hard way, graduating from Annapolis, earning her wings, commanding a helo squadron, then a carrier, and now a carrier group. And because Low-T Peter just pulled her promotion, she'll never get her second star. Proud of you, Shipmate 🫡
Report: Hegseth torpedoed trailblazing San Diego admiral's promotion
Rear Adm. Amy Bauernschmidt was one of seven one-star admirals to have their promotions nixed — five of them women or people of color, the New York Times said.
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"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
Very sad to hear of Susumu’s passing. His scientific creativity and intuition were inspiring. As director of @RIKEN_CBS, he hired a remarkable group of young scientists, including me, and set us free to pursue bold ideas. news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro...
MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86
Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...
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“‘That is RIDICULOUS,’ one person with knowledge of the planned golf trip said in a message. ‘Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that.’” www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...
Gratitude and congratulations to @cdelawalla.bsky.social, @colesci.bsky.social, and the @standupforscience.net team. With 3 hours until the comment period closes, there are 341,699 public comments! Still time to submit one: www.regulations.gov/docket/OMB-2...
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w agoTODAY IS THE LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on the OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3 PM ET today at our OMB Deadline Day meeting to hear from experts and learn what comes next. Leave your comment 👉 zurl.co/oz4dV Register for the meeting 👉 zurl.co/iv9o0 Or links in bio!
"if I was trying to ruin American leadership in scientific research this is pretty much the kind of rule I would write"
Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · 4w agoGood morning. Nothing to see here, just the possible end of American scientific research as we know it. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
"Two deeper structural reforms are essential. First, strip the executive of the massive powers that have accumulated over the last century. Second, make the powers retained by the executive subject to greater oversight with real consequences for abuse."
After Trump: Proposals for a Post-Authoritarian America
How Democrats can lead the charge for a new Reconstruction—if they can avoid becoming what they defeat.
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I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...
Cities, states warn of credit impact from proposed federal grant rule
Discretionary termination of grants allowed under the rule would pose a particular risk, issuer advocates said.
bondbuyer.com
"Prosecutors said Twist approached the CBS2 crew from a white tow truck and repeatedly yelled the N-word at the photographer, who is Black, before asking if he was scared. Twist then ordered his German shepherd to attack the photographer..." Prez got racists thinking they got a blank check.
Man Charged With Hate Crime In Attack On CBS2 News Crew; 2 Others Held
Jon Twist, 37, is facing a hate crime charge in the Monday incident near the Adler Planetarium. Rafael Salinas, 29, and Wiliam Huerta, 41, were also charged, police said.
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Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president. No modern Western leader has ever publicly disclosed such big windfalls while in office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...
Trump’s Huge Windfall Has Few Known Global Precedents
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The Democrats are dumping Graham Platner. The Republicans nominated Ken Paxton.
Meet @andrewgrotzinger.bsky.social, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the @colorado.edu. Grotzinger is a 2026 Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient and works to better understand genetic overlap in psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders.
Member Spotlight: 2026 Spence Awardee Andrew Grotzinger on the Genetic Links Between Psychiatric Disorders
The University of Colorado Boulder professor writes about getting started during the “genomics revolution,” the future of psychiatric genetics research, and the importance of asking questions.
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Belgium is similar in size to the US state of Maryland (but has almost twice the population of Maryland).
NPR@npr.org · 4w agoThe team was in the eye of a storm over a controversial phone call from President Trump to FIFA's head about a red card on a U.S. striker. But even with the U.S. at full strength, Belgium easily won. n.pr/4vQPjTi
Look at the people’s reactions standing behind this obvious the deranged imbecile.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump on USA-Belgium: "If they beat us, they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us, we'll say -- I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020, but I won't get into that."
Can someone create a tool that chokes my internet connection so I can use my poor connection as an excuse to leave a zoom meeting early?