Erick Masias (he/him)
@emasias.bsky.social
birder, musician, family medicine doctor. chicago over everything. #fmrevolution
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This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.
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During the Q/A at Call & Response Books, someone asked me about a funny bird story… and let’s just say my daughter will never forget the day a juvenile Cedar Waxwing chose her as the perfect landing spot 💩😂 #WiscoBirder 🪶
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
During the Q/A at Call & Response Books, someone asked me about a funny bird story… and let’s just say my daughter will never forget the day a juvenile Cedar Waxwing chose her as the perfect landing spot 💩😂 #WiscoBirder 🪶
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A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
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Too many of yall follow this man.
Brian Kilmeade deserves praise for his apology.
Brian Kilmeade apologized for his comments about homeless people getting lethal injections this morning on Fox & Friends, saying "so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."
Here's the clip of his apology 👇
Here's the clip of his apology 👇
September 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Too many of yall follow this man.
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An airplane flying around Soldier Field ahead of the Chicago Bears home opener, is dragging a banner that reads “HEY ICE MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS”
September 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
An airplane flying around Soldier Field ahead of the Chicago Bears home opener, is dragging a banner that reads “HEY ICE MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS”
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yea i’m surprised to see nazis marching down an american street with nazi flags shouting nazi things and if that doesn’t surprise and scare the shit out of you then lmk which meds you’re on
This is what MAGA voted for, are we surprised?
August 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
yea i’m surprised to see nazis marching down an american street with nazi flags shouting nazi things and if that doesn’t surprise and scare the shit out of you then lmk which meds you’re on
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Anyway the photos are precious, blended bird families are the best, this is surprisingly great scicomm from People magazine, and this is the kind of story I needed today: people.com/crane-family...
Baby Goose Abandoned by Its Parents Learns to Be a Tall Bird After Finding an 'Unexpected Family' with 3 Cranes
A baby Canada goose abandoned as an egg found an 'unexpected family' with a pair of Sandhill cranes, and their colt, in Madison, Wis., in the spring of 2025. Madison-based photographer Alan Ginsberg h...
people.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Anyway the photos are precious, blended bird families are the best, this is surprisingly great scicomm from People magazine, and this is the kind of story I needed today: people.com/crane-family...
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chicago flags at half mast for the little piping plover that got killed by a hawk
August 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
chicago flags at half mast for the little piping plover that got killed by a hawk
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July 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Like me, you will think this is a parody video, but she is actually embarrassingly serious about this lmfao
thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires
July 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Like me, you will think this is a parody video, but she is actually embarrassingly serious about this lmfao
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We need a leftist Dave Matthews Band bus incident
bot that just posts "we need a leftist ______" where the blank is filled in by random wikipedia entry titles
July 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
We need a leftist Dave Matthews Band bus incident
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white women need to keep doing this shit.
July 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
white women need to keep doing this shit.
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Yep, that's Bean *laugh track plays*
July 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Yep, that's Bean *laugh track plays*
Last spring this park was getting some serious attention from the birding community. It’s a truly magical place
Marian R. Byrnes Nature Area is a top-tier spot to bike or walk amid nature. Indulged myself with a quick visit there after work today as the sun was going down and it was stunning!
July 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Last spring this park was getting some serious attention from the birding community. It’s a truly magical place
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a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that
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my experience with Herbalife was taking care of a handful of patients in residency who were critically ill after ingesting Herbalife
of course it’s all horrible and lots of things @yrfatfriend.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social say here resonate with my experience and what I’ve found.
of course it’s all horrible and lots of things @yrfatfriend.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social say here resonate with my experience and what I’ve found.
Herbalife
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 07/10/2025 · 57m
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July 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
my experience with Herbalife was taking care of a handful of patients in residency who were critically ill after ingesting Herbalife
of course it’s all horrible and lots of things @yrfatfriend.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social say here resonate with my experience and what I’ve found.
of course it’s all horrible and lots of things @yrfatfriend.bsky.social and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social say here resonate with my experience and what I’ve found.
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How to spot if it’s AI or not:
- is the anatomy of the animal accurate?
- do feathers seem to have fur-like rendering?
- does the video look almost TOO cinematographic?
- does the plumage match the actual species?
- are the proportions of the eyes/body designed to be cute/marketable?
This is AI.
- is the anatomy of the animal accurate?
- do feathers seem to have fur-like rendering?
- does the video look almost TOO cinematographic?
- does the plumage match the actual species?
- are the proportions of the eyes/body designed to be cute/marketable?
This is AI.
July 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
How to spot if it’s AI or not:
- is the anatomy of the animal accurate?
- do feathers seem to have fur-like rendering?
- does the video look almost TOO cinematographic?
- does the plumage match the actual species?
- are the proportions of the eyes/body designed to be cute/marketable?
This is AI.
- is the anatomy of the animal accurate?
- do feathers seem to have fur-like rendering?
- does the video look almost TOO cinematographic?
- does the plumage match the actual species?
- are the proportions of the eyes/body designed to be cute/marketable?
This is AI.
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i'm just as frustrated as anyone at how the NYT does news, but maybe it's simply time to accept that their front page is no longer the yardstick for what's actually important and relevant.
this is potentially the biggest scandal in presidential history and today's NYT didn't put it on the front page. today it's not above-the-fold on the website either (they do have a "grocery prices are falling!" story though lol)
July 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
i'm just as frustrated as anyone at how the NYT does news, but maybe it's simply time to accept that their front page is no longer the yardstick for what's actually important and relevant.
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Type 1 Diabetes is not reversible but acknowledging that would get in the way of the ableism that allows the organization our Health Secretary founded to grift off parents of sick kids
July 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Type 1 Diabetes is not reversible but acknowledging that would get in the way of the ableism that allows the organization our Health Secretary founded to grift off parents of sick kids
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hold the line folks you're doing important work. live every day with the goal of making these chuds miserable
“The frustration isn’t yet producing mass resignations or major internal protests, but the officers and agents described a workforce on edge, vilified by broad swaths of the public and bullied by Trump officials demanding more and more,” Nick Miroff writes.
Trump loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable.
A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
hold the line folks you're doing important work. live every day with the goal of making these chuds miserable
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A liberal Minnesota politician was murdered along with her husband and another was shot along with his wife by a right wing anti-abortion psycho and I haven’t seen 1/100th the coverage that Luigi, a man with severely muddled politics, received for shooting a healthcare executive
July 3, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A liberal Minnesota politician was murdered along with her husband and another was shot along with his wife by a right wing anti-abortion psycho and I haven’t seen 1/100th the coverage that Luigi, a man with severely muddled politics, received for shooting a healthcare executive
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The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
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The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
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June 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🐣🐣🐣🐣
The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
1/2
The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (Imani removing an eggshell from the nest, June 20, 2025)
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My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
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“Why Are We Funding This?”
Long-standing myths about “silly science” have contributed to the reckless slashing of government-supported research.
www.americanscientist.org
June 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
My latest for American Scientist Magazine helps give scientists the tools to fight back against politicized charges that our research is silly or pointless- tools that will work whether you’re asked “why are we funding this” from your asshole uncle at Thanksgiving or an asshole US Senator.
🧪🌎
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Just for context, London, a city over three times larger than Chicago, had 95 car crash deaths last year
In 2019, the year before the pandemic, Chicago recorded 115 traffic fatalities, according to medical examiner’s office data. Five years later, in 2024, the city saw 175 traffic-related deaths — a 52% increase. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/28/c...
Chicago fatal car crash totals remain stubbornly high in pandemic’s wake
Elected officials and activists blame everything from too few police to street design for stubbornly high totals of fatal car crashes.
www.chicagotribune.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Just for context, London, a city over three times larger than Chicago, had 95 car crash deaths last year
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A woman at Biggest Week told me that the Eastern Foxsnake is the Blackburnian Warbler of the snakes and it was the kind of sentence that I both completely understood and realized would only make sense to a microscopic group of people of whom I'm a proud member
May 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A woman at Biggest Week told me that the Eastern Foxsnake is the Blackburnian Warbler of the snakes and it was the kind of sentence that I both completely understood and realized would only make sense to a microscopic group of people of whom I'm a proud member