New paper! We tested #eDNA primers for detecting #fishes in Hawai‘i. 12S (MiFish, Riaz) performed best w/r/t fish sequence proportion. However, our major conclusion is that mock communities can lead you astray, since they don't accurately predict how primers will perform in a natural environment.

Metabarcoding Primers for Indo‐Pacific Fishes

We compared the relative performance of five metabarcoding primers (Berry 16S, Riaz 12S, MiFish E 12S, MiFish U 12S, and Leray CO1) to recover Indo-Pacific fish taxa. We tested the primers using temp...

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And we wouldn’t have known, except for the work of hackers and journalists.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · last yr.

"flight manifests for 3 legally contested deportation flights from Texas to El Salvador contain dozens of additional, unaccounted for passengers than a previously published Department of Homeland Security (DHS) list of people deported from the United States on those flights, 404 Media has learned."

Watson Coleman: "If they can do this to three federally elected officials with the authority to come and do their job, and they can then also lock up the mayor of the largest city in New Jersey who was on public property ... people just are afraid of this weaponization of law enforcement."

Great news: NY State will provide free meals to ALL public school students. www.nycfoodpolicy.org/governor-hoc...

Governor Hochul Announces Free, Healthy School Meals for All Students in New York - NYC Food Policy Center (Hunter College)

In her recent State of the State address, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that, in…

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In Worcester, Massachusetts, the Trump regime's ICE troops violently attacked a mother and her two children – including a newborn baby. Brave neighbours attempted to intervene to protect the family from being kidnapped by the regime troops and collaborator police forces. #3E #endimpunity

Regime troops and collaborator police forces slammed one of the victims to the ground and attacked US citizens attempting to intervene or who asked them to identify themselves. The family was eventually disappeared. #3E #endimpunity

This phrasing of the ICE action in Worcester, MA as a kidnapping is horrifically accurate You cannot deprive a person of their liberty without either probable cause that the person committed a crime or a warrant to arrest that person That’s directly stated in the 4th Amendment of the Constitution

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last yr.

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Well this is getting interesting. The big question is at what point will the judges begin ordering the arrest of the politicians behind the illegal deportations? www.yahoo.com/news/judge-h...

Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by FBI for allegedly helping undocumented immigrant 'evade arrest'

A Milwaukee County circuit judge has been arrested by the FBI over allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant "evade arrest," FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media post, which was then delet...

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Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.

"I only use AI to brainstorm ideas" Oh, so you're only using it for the part where you have to use your brain. Lobotomy would be faster

Breaking News: Senator Chris Van Hollen met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador.

Chris Van Hollen Meets With Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

Earlier in the day, armed military officials stopped Senator Chris Van Hollen from trying to visit the prison where Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia has been held for over a month.

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so by this logic, if someone stole all of mark zuckerberg's 180.6 billion US dollars and used it to make their own company, it ought to be fine, because each stolen dollar, when tallied individually, is only a tiny fraction of the whole and therefore basically worthless

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

"Prison abolition does not mean (as it has been intentionally mischaracterised) that all crime suddenly becomes legal and permitted, that police and prisons disappear overnight, or that we abandon any kind of response or consequence for people who cause harm." www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

OPINION: Here's what the anti-prison group Tamatha Paul fundraised for believes, and why she's been unfairly smeared

Prison abolition does not mean that all crime suddenly becomes legal and permitted, writes Tom Pearce.

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"Israeli media have reported a marked increase in the number of reservists refusing to show up for army duty, pointing to rapidly declining support for a war that critics – including within the military – say is no longer motivated by Israel’s security interests..." www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Israeli army faces growing dissent: ‘I will never again serve under this government’

Israeli media have reported a marked increase in the number of reservists refusing to show up for army duty, pointing to rapidly declining support for a war that critics – including within the militar...

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So essentially the president can do anything he wants, regardless of whether or not that’s his constitutional power, say no when told otherwise, and there’s really no mechanisms in this country to stop him? The branches of government and checks and balances were all just suggestions?

Senator Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) is requesting a meeting with Bukele to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,” I'd like to see a full delegation of US senators.

Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands

Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

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This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it. More of this!!!!

Mona Burns@monaburns.bsky.social · last yr.

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

If Stephen Miller can lie about Abrego Garcia and his case on national TV, he can do it in federal court under oath. Judge Xinis should demand his appearance, question him under oath, then jail him for Contempt when he commits Perjury. This lawless administration has to be subjected to rule of law.

Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release."

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.