Alex Wenzel
@alexwenzel.bsky.social
Postdoc studying cancer. Academic unionist and transit enthusiast. Trying to make buses less invisible. TF2 Medic main. This account does not represent the positions or opinions of my employer or of my union. he/him
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
This can’t be described as just webdev A/B testing anymore, this is unregulated human subjects research being conducted without standard oversight, participant protections, or informed consent. A future sane Congress and HHS need to develop a solution for this.
Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 19h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Is there a reason we can’t go up the stairs from the UTC bus platform to the train?
This is like putting John Yoo in charge of representing Guantanamo detainees
Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 19h agoIn addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
It’s reasonable to criticize the corporatized major festival scene, but saying this about a genre of music itself is absurd, especially in this case. Forget that EDM evolved over decades from music in Black and LGBT communities, Israelis make it too so that means it’s all a conspiracy apparently.
Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social · 2d ago
In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Politico@politico.com · 19h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
This is the **Idaho** guard randomly arresting dissenters in Washington DC. It’s dishonest for media to just keep calling it a “deployment” at this point. You can’t have-wave away the social dynamics and historical implications of Idaho violently occupying DC.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
I was banned by BlueSky (then apparently unbanned) for calling for the trial & death penalty for Ralph de la Torre, former CEO of Steward Health Care, a man directly responsible for the deaths of disabled Americans. I stand by my analysis - the full writeup is here: www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
Ralph de la Torre, Steward Health Care CEO, Is A Murderer (And I've Been Banned By BlueSky) | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
nb. I have been suspended from BlueSky. Patreon — now with new, easier URL, ShoudntNeedToBeALawyer.com or ShouldntNeed.com — is the best pla
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If a driver makes a left while I’m in the crosswalk and passes close enough that I could kick their mirror off, it should be legal for me to do that.
“Brandon,” a Bluesky commenter@bedubble.bsky.social · 2d agoCold urbanist take: ban right turns on red lights Hot urbanist take: ban left turns on unprotected greens
A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
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President Donald Trump's administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children, two people familiar with the deliberations said.
Trump's dramatic overhaul of Head Start could gut preschool standards
President Trump's administration is planning a dramatic overhaul of Head Start that would gut its quality standards, upending the hallmarks of the early education program for impoverished children.
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South Carolina is now the first state in the nation for the Democratic Primary and this just ran in The State, the newspaper of Columbia, South Carolina. Come out to the rally and lobby day next week in Sac and help get our legislators to undo the cuts! actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...
On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
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Still amazing that the official government policy is universities can't do DEI except for hiring professors whose politics better align with the regime in power.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d agoTime to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A couple times a month, ABC10 puts the wrong social media caption on a story and it’s always unintentionally extremely dystopian.
The most notable part about this is how little they’re trying to pretend that this isn’t an engineered hijacking of the league to amplify their message rather than an organic movement, and how credulous the league and media are being anyway.
W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 3d agoJesus Christ. Sophie Cunningham fully embracing the right wing grift.
The San Diego Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a 67-year-old missing man.
San Diego Police seek help finding missing 67-year-old man
The San Diego Police Department is asking for the public's help in locating a 67-year-old missing man.
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This raises the stakes of the midterms substantially for public research. Based on this article, I think we can assume they’ll allow the rule to go forward if they retain a Congressional majority.
Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d agoTHIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
I know we don’t really do seasons as much in SoCal, but I still think we should still draw the line at ice cream trucks that play Jingle Bells in August.
The politics of cars is not inevitable. The residents of Normal Heights in San Diego were once willing to literally fight an oligarch for their streetcar, and they won. www.sandiegoyesterday.com/wp-content/u...
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
I predict this will be an issue in San Diego over the next few years. A politician selling a bus-based system as a way to quickly implement usable transit but not also talking about massive expansion of bus priority along major corridors is lying to sabotage future transit efforts. (1/2)
august 🍂@auguststreet.ca · 3d agoanother factor: these network redesigns cut a lot of low-use routes that run on low-traffic streets, that tend to have favourable reliability stats. throwing more buses on high ridership corridors is good but this is also where traffic congestion is high. bus lanes/transit priority is critical here
Good. If the politicians are above accountability, then the doctors and lawyers willing to carry these plans out should be punished, especially since bars and medical boards are at the state level and have more independence.
Emily Bregel@emilybregel.bsky.social · 3d agoA detainee in ICE’s Eloy Detention Center in Arizona has been deported with a urine-collection tube and bag still in place, more than three months after her medical record says a specialist was supposed to review whether the tube could be removed. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
A detainee in ICE’s Eloy Detention Center in Arizona has been deported with a urine-collection tube and bag still in place, more than three months after her medical record says a specialist was supposed to review whether the tube could be removed. @tucson.com tucson.com/news/local/b...
Medical negligence cited in ICE deportation of Arizona detainee
A detainee in ICE’s Eloy Detention Center in Arizona has been deported with a urine-collection tube and bag still in place, more than three months after her medical record says
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This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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Evidently I am “illiterate” because I don’t believe that the most likely composition of files comprising this data is hundreds of thousands of pages of plain text. I actually appreciate Bluesky compulsive reply-writers. That’s creative, I wouldn’t expect it. On twitter it was just slurs usually.
Alex Wenzel@alexwenzel.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is very funny to me for some reason. Someone actually went to Finder/Explorer and checked the exact file size hoping it would be a compellingly enormous amount and it was only 695 megabytes but they still put it in.
This is very funny to me for some reason. Someone actually went to Finder/Explorer and checked the exact file size hoping it would be a compellingly enormous amount and it was only 695 megabytes but they still put it in.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Jeanine Pirro's motion to dismiss the Reflecting Pool case is going to have ripple effects. The decision to end the case against former Olympian David Hearn is already making a big splash — and this is likely just the beginning, not the end, of the matter. Tonight, at Law Dork:
Yes. And this too is about the political economy of DC orgs. White Coat Waste is a rightwing org founded and funded by people who want to destroy the gov’t, and they are hammering wedge issues to do that. Scientists have to pay attention to the flood of rightwing money in politics.
Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 4d agoPro tip: If you are reporting on Tony Fauci and are unaware of, (or not mentioning in your hot take) @peteraldhous.com 2022 report on the attack on the NIAID director in the first months of the pandemic: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete... then you and your editor really aren't up to the job.
