MarieintheMiddle
@gyllohs.bsky.social
Anthropologist in biologist clothing. Mom, wife, professor, malcontent.
I just ate an old piece of chicken and now I get to live in fear for the next 24 hours.
“The cause of death has not been determined but authorities say they found him unresponsive in his cell. This follows the death of Cambodian national Lorth Sim while in custody at the same facility on February 16.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4mo ago“Second Southeast Asian detainee dies at Indiana ICE facility.” 55-year-old Tuan Van Bui, originally from Vietnam, “is the 46th person to die in federal custody during the second Trump administration.” asamnews.com/2026/04/08/c...
China is on the cusp of becoming the world’s biggest public funder of research, according to a forecast by US academics, as stalled growth in government investment in the United States coincides with consistent rises in spending by the Chinese authorities.
China could be the world’s biggest public funder of science within two years
Forecast by science-policy researchers raises questions about where the epicentre of global research will shift to in the coming decade.
nature.com
What if in 20 years an actor named LeBron B. James comes along and people spend weeks arguing about whether him or Michael B. Jordan made better films
This means that 9-year-old Lucy can deadlift me.
Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...
In Nov ‘25, the GOP fought to cut ACA subsidies because $23B was “too expensive.” PWMB estimates $65B has been spent on cruise missiles since Sat. Add in oil spikes, supply chain disruptions, and trade losses the total could reach $210B. Don’t tell me healthcare is too expensive.
I'm from Texas and I love Jasmine Crockett. I voted for Talarico because he's been around, coming to events in our area, meeting people, etc. for over a year. That's why I voted for him.
It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East. It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East. It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.
Oxnard is a terrible name. Imagine telling somebody you live in "Oxnard" That is like saying "I live in Yak Testicle" Stupid fucking name.
When Ds are back in charge, they have to change everything. No moderate half-measures. Just relentless razing of the corrupt institutions that enriched the worst people in the world and propped up fascism. A few suggestions...
NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.
With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
404media.co
Meet Haolong! A complete, Early Cretaceous Chinese iguanodont with a covering of hedgehog-like spikes (that seem to have a different origin from proto-feathers!?) This one's a pretty jaw dropping find. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it. Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain. A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend. 🧵
ICE kidnapped a 5-year-old and sent him alone to a facility in Texas. Hell isn't hot enough.
Joe@joealv.bsky.social · 7mo agoHere’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.
The worst politicians in America are about to quote Martin Luther King Jr. You can’t quote “I have a dream” on MLK Day then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
Better yet, disestablish all of DHS, and undo the nightmarish idiocies that we created in a panic 25 years ago. Reestablish the INS, get rid of ODNI, fix the damage from the Patriot Act, etc.
Gail Helt@gailhelt.bsky.social · 7mo agoFor the love of all that is decent and holy: abolish ICE
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.