Dr Syd
@sydmj.bsky.social
Philosopher, bioethicist, med professor, vegan baker, k-drama enthusiast. I like books, baby animals, food. I think and write about brain death, death, brain injuries, xenotransplantation, and animal research ethics. Author of books n stuff.
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my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026
February 13, 2026 at 11:08 PM
my fave part of the event: misha's coach whispering in his ear that he just made the olympic podium and his full 10 seconds of buffering #MilanoCortina2026
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“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
February 13, 2026 at 9:13 PM
“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing
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This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”
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Donate to a GoFundMe to help Alex and Yan post bail, pay legal expenses and rebuild their lives after months of detainment: www.gofundme.com/f/welcome-ho...
Donate to Welcome Home, Alex and Yan! , organized by Ashley Clark
To the friends and family of Alex Ramirez Gonzalez and Yannier Vazquez,
Thank you for th… Ashley Clark needs your support for Welcome Home, Alex and Yan!
www.gofundme.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Donate to a GoFundMe to help Alex and Yan post bail, pay legal expenses and rebuild their lives after months of detainment: www.gofundme.com/f/welcome-ho...
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The administration is relocating ICE agents to other parts of the country to see if they can achieve better results with the same tactics there.
If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.
If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤
If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.
If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤
February 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
The administration is relocating ICE agents to other parts of the country to see if they can achieve better results with the same tactics there.
If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.
If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤
If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.
If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
Come join us as we discuss the future of nonhuman and more-than-human research next week, Feb 18!
#animalethics
#animalethics
February 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Come join us as we discuss the future of nonhuman and more-than-human research next week, Feb 18!
#animalethics
#animalethics
Run your business so the WeRateDogs guy doesn't come at you
February 10, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Run your business so the WeRateDogs guy doesn't come at you
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Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf
February 3, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214/gov.uscourts.dcd.283214.124.0_1.pdf
Have they considered getting a real job that doesn’t involve being a sadistic brownshirt bootlicker? Maybe try not working for a grifter who never pays anyone?
they don't make tiny violins tiny enough
ICE employees on Reddit complain about late salaries and missing insurance, despite promises made upon hiring
ICE employees have reported delayed pay and missing health insurance on Reddit, while critics question how staff tolerate dangerous duties for little or no compensation.
www.ibtimes.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Have they considered getting a real job that doesn’t involve being a sadistic brownshirt bootlicker? Maybe try not working for a grifter who never pays anyone?
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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February 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM
This judicial order re: Liam is just a thing to behold.
storage.courtlistener.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
This judicial order re: Liam is just a thing to behold.
In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.”
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 9:19 PM
In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.”
In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.”
Judge Orders Release of 5-Year-Old Whose Detention Drew Outrage
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:18 PM
In a blistering opinion, Judge Fred Biery of Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas condemned “the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.”
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Laundry tips you never knew you needed.
Also, if you ask your mom for laundry advice and she comes out with this, your mom is a badass
Also, if you ask your mom for laundry advice and she comes out with this, your mom is a badass
This is my regular reminded that if your clothes are full of tear gas and/or pepper spray, air them for a day if at all possible and then wash them twice ON COLD.
If you come home and throw them in on hot right away you will kinda gas your laundry room. <3
#Minneapolis #StPaul #FuckICE
If you come home and throw them in on hot right away you will kinda gas your laundry room. <3
#Minneapolis #StPaul #FuckICE
January 18, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Laundry tips you never knew you needed.
Also, if you ask your mom for laundry advice and she comes out with this, your mom is a badass
Also, if you ask your mom for laundry advice and she comes out with this, your mom is a badass
So far, this year really sucks.
Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71
Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.
www.tmz.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
So far, this year really sucks.
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
It's the least they can do, and it's a start.
Keep up the pressure. Don't let them wimp out.
#AbolishICE
Keep up the pressure. Don't let them wimp out.
#AbolishICE
Democrats Vow Not to Fund ICE After Shooting, Imperiling Spending Deal
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:48 AM
It's the least they can do, and it's a start.
Keep up the pressure. Don't let them wimp out.
#AbolishICE
Keep up the pressure. Don't let them wimp out.
#AbolishICE
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The whole shot is a thing of beauty.
January 25, 2026 at 1:16 AM
The whole shot is a thing of beauty.
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Photograph by Jeff Wheeler/@startribune.com
(pls credit in the post, not only alt text. so most will see it. 🙏🏼)
(pls credit in the post, not only alt text. so most will see it. 🙏🏼)
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Photograph by Jeff Wheeler/@startribune.com
(pls credit in the post, not only alt text. so most will see it. 🙏🏼)
(pls credit in the post, not only alt text. so most will see it. 🙏🏼)
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."