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This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

When I was a kid getting cancer was nearly guaranteed to be lethal. I knew one cancer survivor, and it was a very close call. Now every single one of us knows multiple people who have survived very serious cancers. Thank the NIH for funding basic science and clinical studies.

Best way to fight back? Vote. Minnesota: You can vote now or cast your ballot by November 3.

Voter ID requirements remain controversial. Election policies should protect security without creating unnecessary barriers for eligible Americans. apnews.com/article/afed...

ICYMI: Democrats want to block the Trump administration from pressuring states to purge voters, citing how wrong they’ve been in the past. The suit calls out DHS’s claim that 16,000 Nevada voters were noncitizens, then just 185 – all of whom turned out to be citizens: https://demdock.com/4z27l6t

ICE arrested a 56-year old green card holder, i.e. a lawful permanent resident, and detained him in the Rio Grande Processing Center, where he died. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/19/t...

Don’t trust any polling. Go out and vote.

Good moral to the story. In addition to not dehumanizing immigrants or being against other peoples religions.

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I got to give a live interview on the local news yesterday about Docktober, a community science initiative started by my friend Luan Roberts to document urban marine biodiversity on docks We’ve taken over 400 people dockfouling this month. 🐙🦑🧪 #scicomm www.kptv.com/video/2026/1...

Women exhibiting inflammatory proteins during perimenopause that indicate higher risk of #Alzheimer's and #dementia. 🧪👩‍🔬 Women with night sweats were even more at risk. If you're experiencing symptoms, please address them (HRT, CBT, whatever works) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trump’s war with Iran has cost American families nearly $2,000 each - and the bill for his broken promise continues to rise.

Reminder: down from 125,000: In September, the government announced plans to limit the total number of refugees admitted to the country in 2027 to 17,500, the majority of whom are white South Africans.-AP sick 🤢

Perfectly happy to see Zacharia go. But it might be pointed out that if she had stayed, she would have done infinitely less damage to the nation than Hegseth, Kennedy, Blanche, Patel, Vought, et al. They should be as unacceptable as—more unacceptable than—Zacharia.

Immediately after ICE open fired at Bronx resident Oscar Belgal and his 5-year-old son, Chivona Newsome took to the street alongside hundreds of her neighbors to ensure Belgal wouldn't get taken from the hospital into ICE custody. Hear her message as NYPD block public streets to make way for ICE.

Ossoff: "In my view, based upon the evidence I've seen thus far, the president's misconduct, abuse of power, and corruption, already exceed any prior standard for impeachment."

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On my morning walk yesterday I saw such an unusual sight, I had to stop for a picture! On a field trip later the same day, I heard the full story – this is the culmination of a 20 year collaborarive philanthropic effort to remove the old industrial dams and restore the rapids to the Grand River 👏👏👏

Disappearing people is a strategy. I saw Philando Castile publicly executed with a child in the backseat. Korryn Gaines live streamed the standoff that ended in her state-sanctioned murder. Elijah McClain’s dying cries still haunt my passing thoughts.

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

Neutrality in the face of human rights abuses isn’t neutrality. It is siding with the oppressor and if our jobs, salaries, organizations, or institutions pressure us to be quiet—that’s on them and it is our job to deconstruct systems that force us to “be neutral” in the face of human rights abuses.

It is SO IMPORTANT that scientists, doctors, and folks in STEM speak out against human rights abuses for several reasons: 1. We cannot allow our tech and research to be used to harm people. 2. We are the seat of evidence when the case is made that harm was caused. 3. We are “experts”! Thread 🧵

Because they’re corrupt. Most GOP Supreme Court members perjured themselves in their confirmation hearings and should be impeached and tossed out of the court

“I have over 500 law policing agencies in the state of New York," Hochul said. "hundreds of thousands of arrests every year, but they don't shoot into vehicles not knowing what's inside. They don't shoot into vehicles at all. ..There are restraints on everybody else except for ICE."

"Regardless of whether or not someone has a criminal history, it is not lawful, it is not okay, to shoot a father in the afternoon with his son in the backseat. That is not how we resolve legal disputes in this country…courtrooms," -Harold Solis, a lawyer representing Belgal.

This is located Right outside of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building 26 Federal Plaza.

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Pretty sure the worst domestic terrorist attack conducted on American soil, including 9/11, is the Reconstruction Terror, also known as the White Terror that took place during and after the reconstruction era where the overall death toll is estimated in the tens of thousands.

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This censorship is not leadership. It’s compliance in advance. I’m looking at you all the institutions that “just” deleted the word diversity on their web pages…

The CDC just re-opened a previously shelved study that would withhold the hepatitis B vaccine from children in Guinea-Bissau, despite decades of evidence showing it is safe and effective. This is a violation of human rights, using “science” to harm some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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I am not sure any lawyer involved with this can safely fulfill their ethical requirements of zealous representation? What happens when Stephen Miller calls the office every day? You know what Congress write a rider specifically designated the pre-existing counsel network.

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

Bwahaha www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/b...

This language will be crucial to protect NIH science from being politicized. Thanks to @murray.senate.gov and Sen Collins for leading this. Kennedy is opposed, so especially if you are in Louisiana, time to flood phone lines. rollcall.com/2026/10/01/l...

Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.

This is just a terrible take. Large chunks of the US government have been destroyed and rebuilding is the first order priority to ensure people get the services they need. The second to make sure it never happens again. Efficiency? Nope. We need a Marshall Plan for the US.