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🧪Scientist bent on civil liberty and social equality
Governed by entailment and nearly depleted optimism
Lighter side 🏀, 🎸, and 🐶

Feminist | Anti-racist | Liberal
Pinned
“I’ve got values but I don’t know how or why” — Pete Townshend, The Seeker, 1970

Heard this song today and it resonated differently. Hang in there folks.
#BetterTogether
These data speak for themselves about where our current justice department is headed.
May 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Imagine this, it actually inspired pigs with example. #collectthedata
Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...
May 25, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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POTUS released a skinny FY 2026 budget, proposing to drastically cut funding for federal R&D across several agencies.

AAAS urges Congress to reject the budget and to reaffirm their long-standing bipartisan support for S&T investments. Read the full statement: www.aaas.org/news/preside...
May 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Latest example of voters thinking their program could never be considered wasteful, just all the other ones…

A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5351...
🔊 Listen Now: A Maryland town backed Trump's cost-cutting pledge. Now it's a target
All Things Considered on NPR One | 5:33
one.npr.org
May 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Do they forget this part of the story when they glorify these authoritarians?
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker | April 30, 1945 | HISTORY
Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces
www.history.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
David Brooks calling for an uprising, Van Hollen going to El Salvador to effect release. Yet Lisa Murkowski scared in the corner and many in Congress doing effectively the same. Waste of representation!
"It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power"
From David Brooks
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...
Opinion | Time for a Civic Uprising
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
www.nytimes.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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So which is it the administration wants to punish, anti-semitism or semitism? Or everybody?
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum used the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to digitize interviews with Holocaust survivors and American veterans who helped liberate concentration camps.
Holocaust museum is latest St. Louis institution hit by Trump cuts
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum used the grant from the IMLS to digitize 300 interviews with survivors who settled in St. Louis and veterans who helped liberate concentration camps.
www.stltoday.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So which is it the administration wants to punish, anti-semitism or semitism? Or everybody?
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum used the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to digitize interviews with Holocaust survivors and American veterans who helped liberate concentration camps.
Holocaust museum is latest St. Louis institution hit by Trump cuts
St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum used the grant from the IMLS to digitize 300 interviews with survivors who settled in St. Louis and veterans who helped liberate concentration camps.
www.stltoday.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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A Senate panel Wednesday gutted Gov. Mike Kehoe’s bid to use Missouri tax dollars to fund a private school voucher program.
Senate panel rebuffs Missouri governor on $50 million school voucher expansion
A Senate panel Wednesday gutted Gov. Mike Kehoe’s bid to use Missouri tax dollars to fund a private school voucher program.
www.stltoday.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Photographing yourself in front of stacks of imprisoned humans is not just deranged, it is also sort of asking for it.
April 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
The Trump administration wants to send anyone it wants, including U.S. citizens, to foreign prisons. Keeping Abrego Garcia in El Salvador is key to that lawless plan.
open.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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(📣) PROOF UNLOCKED: The first massive report in the three-report PROOF series on The Trump-El Salvador Scandal is now free to the public.

I hope you will share it widely, and consider subscribing if you find the content useful.
BREAKING NEWS: America Is Back in the International Slave Trade
A Trump administration filing in federal court in Maryland may be the most shocking confession any presidential administration has made in generations—as it signals a reinstitution of the slave trade.
sethabramson.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
April 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Do you think that twinkle in his eye is because he knew he was going to enable the fall of democracy in 40 years? #ChiefJustice
April 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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My associated academic writings:

The Separation of Powers and the Challenge to Constitutional Democracy
www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/u...

The Separation of Powers
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
The Separation of Powers (Chapter 17) - The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory
The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory - April 2025
www.cambridge.org
April 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The president of El Salvador met with trump. Maga didn't freak because he wasn't wearing a tie. All of a sudden it doesn't matter. Buncha fake ass muthafukkas!!
April 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
So we are going to make the prison US territory but still claim interference with the conduct of foreign affairs… got it.
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Military contractors pitch unprecedented prison plan for detained immigrants
Erik Prince wants to cut a deal to transport detainees from the US to El Salvador.
www.politico.com
April 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This may be the boiling over. Ordinary MAGA somehow think of Trump and Musk as exceptionally smart, but not at the expense of their own loved ones disappearing indefinitely. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador
Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.
www.rollingstone.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This one is particularly good.
April 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Happy Appomattox Day!

www.history.com/this-day-in-...
April 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM