E.A.R.
@primateyell.bsky.social
Recovering journalist, future lawyer, resident of Los Animals.
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Interesting research on laws targeting people with mental illness
Alex Barnard@avbsoc.bsky.social · 2d agoFirst, the headline: there have been a lot of claims that there's a "pendulum swing" towards limiting the civil rights of this population. We provide the data: a doubling of legislative activity over the time period. But also the nuance: bills to *reduce* such involuntary interventions rose more.
Maggie Foxx drives in two runs on the first hit in LA Queens and WPBL history
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities. www.wired.com/story/ices-n...
ICE’s New Detention Center Contracts Declare State Laws ‘Shall Not Apply’
One day after a federal judge ordered an ICE detention center opened to state health inspectors, the agency posted new contract terms that would void state oversight at four facilities.
wired.com
Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Body camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminary injunction filed on Monday.
latimes.com
>>Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz were killed just weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to be with her husband, who was deported by [ICE] last year. Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala.<<
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
The Trump admin is in court *today* defending its new rule requiring Medicaid patients with cancer and other chronic illnesses to prove they're too sick to work to maintain their insurance. 25 states and DC are asking a judge to block the rule. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
Trump and Democratic states clash in court over who’s too sick to work
Medicaid eligibility will soon hinge on how the government defines “medical frailty.”
politico.com
the 5-year-old, 15 minutes into Jurassic Park: uh, I think making dinosaurs is a BAD idea
that's funny, I seem to also recall them telling us we weren't really German
+972 Magazine@972mag.com · 2w ago‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’ For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible. www.972mag.com/michael-bare...
“I just wanted to give up”: People with disabilities have been denied Medicaid benefits due to IT problems. The problems foreshadow trouble as states ready major changes to their Medicaid programs under Trump's signature One Big Beautiful Bill. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus... @kffhealthnews.org
A Deloitte-Run System Denied Medicaid Benefits for Michigan’s Disabled. Now Trump’s Law Piles On. - KFF Health News
Complex computer systems that decide whether people, including the disabled, get Medicaid benefits have a history of errors. Now changes to comply with Trump’s signature tax and domestic policy law ar...
kffhealthnews.org
In Texas, a Border Patrol agent was just indicted by a local grand jury for aggravated assault for running down a migrant with his car on January 31, 2025. Video from a homeowner showed the agent driving straight into a man who was calmly walking on the side of the road. myrgv.com/local-news/2...
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You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
I'm so glad that Melody Petersen is covering this! It's remarkable that a health care giant like Kaiser is able to shunt so many matters to arbitration instead of public courts: thttps://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-20/kaisers-mandatory-arbitration-said-to-be-unfair
Unhappy with Kaiser’s medical dispute process, some patients push for state reform
Plaintiffs attorneys, legislators and patients say that Kaiser's private and confidential process for arbitrating legal disputes over medical care still has key flaws that favor Kaiser over patients b...
latimes.com
it may have been too soon to show my youngest the T-Rex scene from Jurassic Park because he is peppering me with practical questions about dinosaur avoidance
is this how ice cream scoopers flirt with you
Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 3w agoI ordered a “single” cone.
why am I not surprised that the school leader purported to be an expert in educating autistic children?
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3w agoTHREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵
“If students are using it to compose, which is the biggest tragedy of all, they’ll never learn to write. And their voice is stolen from them.”
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
He called AI writing “pastiche nonsense.”
theverge.com
this dude is gonna turn me into the Joker
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3w agoRFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."
NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
ctinsider.com
Nothing like an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite to remind us of the importance of a functional public health apparatus--and of course, the value of a robust surveillance network for pathogens. My latest for @opinion.bloomberg.com (🎁):
Why Do We Need Explosive Diarrhea to Remind Us Public Health Matters?
This week, public health detectives in Michigan got their first big lead in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the state amid a broader national surge. Initial eviden...
bloomberg.com
The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/lapd-regular...
NPR reports that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing a proposed rule that would have blocked all Medicaid and Medicare funding for hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.
npr.org
Methadone maintenance therapy for opioid use disorder is one of the single most effective medical interventions that exists for almost every metric: preventing death, preventing disease, improving quality of life, reducing spread of disease, improving societal functioning and reducing medical costs…
Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P@clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3w agoMethadone is for the hotties and the cool kids, and that means you 🥹💕
what they learned from minneapolis was not “don’t do this again” but “keep it quiet next time”
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4w agoReminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.
RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
