It's an outdated idea, like arguments about taxonomy while we've advanced to have a much better understanding through genetics. It's an arbitrary societal construct. Meanwhile genetics tells us the real story - that there is no difference

Race Isn’t Biological — So Why Do So Many Still Think It Is? « Life Sciences# « Cambridge Core Blog

Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public. Why can’t scientists co...

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Happy Tan Suit Day to all who celebrate. (Originally August 28, 2014)

Any recent polling on how many Americans think structural racism exists? Would love to see the numbers, especially before and after informing them about this story. #CriticalRaceTheory #JustAsking

Doobs@goobydoobs.bsky.social · 19h ago

And who gets asylum preference? White South Africans. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

White South Africans who come to the United States as refugees could get up to $4,500 per person in initial federal support beginning Oct. 1, nearly double the current amount, four people familiar with the change in policy said www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

White South Africans could get $4,500 in aid if they come to U.S. as refugees

The assistance, which helps pay for basic needs such as housing and food, would nearly double under a new policy.

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Texas cannot enforce restrictions on some public drag shows after a federal judge again declared a 2023 law unconstitutional. “For those who find such activities offensive, the solution is relatively simple... just don’t go,” Judge David Hittner wrote.

Texas’ limits on some drag shows found unconstitutional again

A federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.

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Venkata Vasamsetty is a special education teacher who entered the U.S. legally in 1999 and obtained her green card in 2013. She is detained by ICE and faces deportation for "violating residency conditions" because she caught COVID during a trip to India and couldn't return within a six-month period

‘Nightmare doesn’t end’: Indian grandmother faces deportation despite green card

Venkata Vasamsetty’s case shows how immigrants with years of lawful status can become subject to detention and deportation.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has paused a lower court’s ruling that blocked key parts of President Trump’s order to restrict mail-in voting for this fall’s midterms in 23 states and Washington, D.C. U.S. Postal Service work on Trump’s order remains blocked nationwide

26A124, 26A139 Order

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We are calling on Target to stands with the Twin Cities. And until it does, we’re standing together, shopping smart and shopping local. We are joined by groups nationwide telling Target: your silence on ICE is a choice and we’re responding with ours. Shop smart, not Target. www.aft.org/shopsmart

The fact is that Trump added more debt than Biden, and Republican presidents have added more debt than Democrats. By lots.

JD Vance Says $40 Trillion U.S. 'Debt Bomb' Is Biden’s Fault, And Critics Are Tired Of The Blame Game

“Blaming Biden for everything that Trump does is getting really tired,” one X user wrote.

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Ossoff: “Never let them forget. They hunted the Vice President to kill him.” Every day, we must remember the people leading us hate the Constitution. In modern history, no administration has been more hostile to our founding ideals than the one currently in the White House.

A 1-year-old baby appeared in immigration court without legal representation this week in Arizona and received an instruction: File an asylum application before the next hearing or face deportation. https://www.notus.org/immigration/baby-asylum-hearing

Judge to Baby: File an Asylum Application

The 1-year-old is one of the migrant children who advocates say appeared in immigration court without legal representation.

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North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump

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The new column by @jilldlawrence.bsky.social. There is a spectrum of Democrats. Vote for them all. Anyone on the spectrum of the Democratic Party is going to help stop Trumpism. At this stage, that is the point and the only thing that matters. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: This year, the keyword for Democrats is 'competence'

In a post-truth era, look for the candidates driven by facts and science.

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“Major Tennis star”??? LOL

Autistic Tennis Fan 🎾 🏳️‍🌈@autistictennisfan.bsky.social · last wk.

wtf? Cocaine?! Absolute joke of a man.

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects

A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it

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The opposite of DEI is uniformity, inequity, and exclusion. If the federal government is officially anti-DEI then they are pro-uniformity, pro-inequity, and pro-exclusion. #JustSaying AGEP, LSAMP, and IUSE:HSI are all excellent effective programs that have broadened participation in STEM. #VoteBlue

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2w ago

DOJ Declares 3 Race-Based STEM Programs Unconstitutional The programs received about $104 million in federal funds this past year. https://bit.ly/4gt6kxr #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

This is crazy. Alex is from Brazil, why would they deport him to Guyana? He’s a longtime West Hollywood resident who has been following his immigration requirements. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t on the run. He showed up for his required ICE check-in. And that’s where they detained him.

NEW AD: 14 years ago today, Ken Paxton stole someone's $1,000 pen. Today, Ken Paxton’s pen victim is endorsing James Talarico.

NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/

Meet the attorneys Harmeet Dhillon installed to turn the Civil Rights Division against its mission - Public Citizen

Introduction  On July 8, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon tweeted that she had sworn in more than 100 new…

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This is insane: Trump's rage and humiliation over the Reflecting Pool now has the White House urging DOJ to undertake new prosecutions *even though the government itself has already determined the person in question is innocent.*

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

In interviews with The New York Times, more than 20 activists described beatings, electric shocks and other abuse after being captured by Israel for trying to break its blockade of Gaza to bring food and aid into the territory. Israel denied the accusations.

Seized on Their Way to Gaza, Activists Tell of Abuse in Israeli Custody

In interviews, more than 20 people who tried to break an Israeli blockade described beatings, electric shocks and other abuse after being captured. Israel denied the accusations.

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The Supreme Court already decided this issue: Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Constitution. Any executive order that tries to attack birthright citizenship will meet the same fate as President Trump's last one.

Trump orders limits on birthright citizenship, targets ‘birth tourism’

President Trump signed two new executive orders Thursday targeting birthright citizenship, aiming to bypass a recent Supreme Court ruling.

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“Let’s make sure that in every [mathematics] class there’s something relevant and something elegant.” Art Benjamin, Smallwood Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College #Mathfest2026