Sean Ekins
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On May 27 2025, these 3 MAHA/MAGA dudes took to X to say they were no longer recommending COVID vaccination in pregnancy
This was terrible advice:
First, pregnancy is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 (discussed at www.acog.org/womens-healt...)
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This was terrible advice:
First, pregnancy is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 (discussed at www.acog.org/womens-healt...)
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November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
On May 27 2025, these 3 MAHA/MAGA dudes took to X to say they were no longer recommending COVID vaccination in pregnancy
This was terrible advice:
First, pregnancy is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 (discussed at www.acog.org/womens-healt...)
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This was terrible advice:
First, pregnancy is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 (discussed at www.acog.org/womens-healt...)
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Basically Dems got us:
- Reversal of (some) RIFs ALREADY known as illegal
- No new RIFs for a whopping 2 months
- Guaranteed back pay that was already in statute.
Nothing on healthcare.
Nothing on impoundments.
Nothing on the rest of the illegal firings.
This was a capitulation.
- Reversal of (some) RIFs ALREADY known as illegal
- No new RIFs for a whopping 2 months
- Guaranteed back pay that was already in statute.
Nothing on healthcare.
Nothing on impoundments.
Nothing on the rest of the illegal firings.
This was a capitulation.
It is not a victory to have our salary paid when it is already codified. Both Chucks should know better.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
Alt: This is what is happening in my mind.
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Basically Dems got us:
- Reversal of (some) RIFs ALREADY known as illegal
- No new RIFs for a whopping 2 months
- Guaranteed back pay that was already in statute.
Nothing on healthcare.
Nothing on impoundments.
Nothing on the rest of the illegal firings.
This was a capitulation.
- Reversal of (some) RIFs ALREADY known as illegal
- No new RIFs for a whopping 2 months
- Guaranteed back pay that was already in statute.
Nothing on healthcare.
Nothing on impoundments.
Nothing on the rest of the illegal firings.
This was a capitulation.
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Even as American academics look to leave the country, US academia will struggle to attract talent
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Even as American academics look to leave the country, US academia will struggle to attract talent
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Florida Universities to Stop Hiring Foreign H-1B Workers Under DeSantis Plan
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This moment says everything about why Zohran Mamdani won.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
A journalist in a wheelchair asked about accessibility and Mamdani didn’t talk down to him, didn’t deflect, didn’t politicize it. He listened.
He’s the kind of leader who respects everyone, every faith, every class, every flag.
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
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Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
November 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won?
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump.
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One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
One thing I have marveled at is the way that crowds have been disciplined in capturing immigration enforcement’s lack of discipline.
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📣 ACES! Rep. Ansari (AZ-3) is throwing it down right outside the pedophile-protecting House Speaker's office. Her sign:
"Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files.
CHANGE MY MIND."
#DirectAction
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
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"Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files.
CHANGE MY MIND."
#DirectAction
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
📣 ACES! Rep. Ansari (AZ-3) is throwing it down right outside the pedophile-protecting House Speaker's office. Her sign:
"Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files.
CHANGE MY MIND."
#DirectAction
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
🦋 bsky.app/profile/sahi...
"Mike Johnson is starving families and gutting healthcare to cover up the Epstein files.
CHANGE MY MIND."
#DirectAction
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles
🦋 bsky.app/profile/sahi...
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They went into this terrorized community to incite people. And pepper sprayed an infant. There is no level of depravity these people won’t sink to.
A crazy day in Little Village: A report of someone shooting at federal agents, fortunately no one was hit. The Feds pepper allegedly sprayed an infant. A cop was hit by a car. And Bovino threatened to tear gas angry residents. Story from @chicagotribune.com www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say
Community members once again confronted a convoy of Border Patrol agents led by Cmdr. Gregory Bovino as it moved through Chicago’s South Side neighborhoods.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
They went into this terrorized community to incite people. And pepper sprayed an infant. There is no level of depravity these people won’t sink to.
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I have added an addendum of 13 additional posts to this thread, clarifying my intent and more plainly laying out the damage done by Watson's abhorrent behavior.
Bluetorial-Jim Watson
I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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I met Jim Watson a few times but did not know him well. However, I was greatly influenced by his book “The Double Helix”. He was a complicated human being with some very, very bad features, but some good contributions.
What follows is my personal perspective.
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a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I have added an addendum of 13 additional posts to this thread, clarifying my intent and more plainly laying out the damage done by Watson's abhorrent behavior.
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This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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several months back (6 months into this godawful administration) I wrote a short editorial - it still holds www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A dystopian nightmare for science and how to survive it
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). This is a message of hope written by FD…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
several months back (6 months into this godawful administration) I wrote a short editorial - it still holds www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I’m an ER doc who has responded to hundreds of events like this in the hospital & on planes and other public spaces. The right side of this photo is like exhibit A of normal human behavior in these circumstances. People rush to help so instinctively that part of the skill of a code is crowd control.
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Somehow Schumer has managed to get the Republicans to the edge of a field of rakes, pointed out how to avoid it, and their plan is to confidently walk right into the middle of the field.
So to cap their horrible week, Senate Republicans refused a deal to reopen the government in exchange for just helping people with health insurance and now the president wants the Supreme Court to say he doesn’t have to obey the law and feed the hungry.
Amazing.
Amazing.
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Somehow Schumer has managed to get the Republicans to the edge of a field of rakes, pointed out how to avoid it, and their plan is to confidently walk right into the middle of the field.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
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HERO
Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez
November 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
HERO
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