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Life science IP Attorney. Immunologist/microbiologist/virologist. Advocate for science and science education. Made in Detroit. No legal advice. Opinions are my own.

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Russia Attacks Kharkiv and Kyiv in Ukraine At least 10 people were killed when a Russian missile hit a five-story apartment building in the city of Kharkiv, and Kyiv and several other regions also came under attack.

Russia unleashed a deadly barrage of missiles and drones on Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least 10 people in Kharkiv.

07.03.2026 16:40 πŸ‘ 59 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
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On the advice of Klonsel: A look under the hood of an Alabama injustice Rocky Myers, a Black man, was sentenced to death after being represented at trial by John Mays, a court-appointed attorney long affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan.

Rocky Myers, a Black man accused of murdering a white woman in Alabama, was represented at trial by a Klan lawyer named John Mays. He had no idea. 30 years later, he's still behind bars. Please take a moment to read and share. www.treadbylee.com/p/klonsel

07.03.2026 12:59 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 14

On my way to the rally in Washington DCβ€”on the National Mall near the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden starting at noon. Who’s going to out-do this sign from last year? #standupforscience #science #sciencepolicy

07.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money? Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say

Anderson Cooper: β€œSo it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?”

Answer: β€œYes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing.” #HousingFirst #UrbanTruth

03.03.2026 03:01 πŸ‘ 1289 πŸ” 485 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 56
Stand Up for Science: March 7th, 2026 β€” STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

TODAY IS THE DAY.
NATIONWIDE rallies in your local city are kicking off today to SAVE SCIENCE, PROTECT HEALTH, and DEFEND DEMOCRACY.
Visit standupforscience.net/march7 to find your local rally!

GET OUT THERE SCIENCE ACTIVISTS!!!

#March7
#standupforscience
#science
#rally
#savescience

07.03.2026 12:00 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
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Trump’s War With Iran Is Also a Climate War Fossil fuels are structurally embedded in modern warfare.

"At a time when civilization is hurtling toward irreversible climate breakdown, to overlook the climate consequences of three of the deadliest militaries on earth going to war would be journalistic malpractice."

newrepublic.com/article/2073...

07.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 170 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
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Trump’s War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody The United States and Israel launched a devastating war against Iran on Saturday without approval by the U.S. Congress or support from the United Nations Security Council, making President Donald Trum...

Trump's war with Iran violates international law and the U.S. Constitution, says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody. Congress must step up and end this unauthorized aggressionβ€”lives are at stake! www.democracynow.org/2026/3/2/ira... #NoWarWithIran #Accountability #LeftistView

07.03.2026 15:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An Argument Against Voting for the β€œElectable” Guy In this week’s Elie v. US, The Nation’s justice correspondent shares his thoughts on the Texas primaries. Plus, a terrible Supreme Court decision and a bad play by Major League Baseball.

In this week’s newsletter, I look forward to β€œBeto O’Rourke 2” while also explaining why SCOTUS ruled 9-0 to send an immigrant back to a hitman.
I also complain about the modernization of baseball because I’m old.

06.03.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 361 πŸ” 63 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 5
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Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th.

We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.

07.03.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 21889 πŸ” 4338 πŸ’¬ 603 πŸ“Œ 247
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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

07.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 5359 πŸ” 3403 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 225
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CBS obtained video of the DHS killing of an unarmed man in Texas that DHS concealed for nearly a year, which clearly contradicts claims that he violently rammed anyone. He is shot with his brake lights on, car not moving or barely moving. Another DHS crime.

07.03.2026 03:03 πŸ‘ 7196 πŸ” 3793 πŸ’¬ 233 πŸ“Œ 224
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#OnThisDay: Bloody Sunday Today marks the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, which occurred #onthisday in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The march was named for the 600 marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was there that law...

Sixty-one years ago today, on Bloody Sunday, Alabama law enforcement attacked peaceful civil and voting rights marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. They broke John Lewis’s skull. πŸ—ƒοΈ #EduSky nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...

07.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 224 πŸ” 151 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

07.03.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 8991 πŸ” 1780 πŸ’¬ 85 πŸ“Œ 24

The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.

05.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 12593 πŸ” 4063 πŸ’¬ 511 πŸ“Œ 195
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Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say β€œSend me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

07.03.2026 01:20 πŸ‘ 22729 πŸ” 5557 πŸ’¬ 621 πŸ“Œ 360
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It’s not just that the Administration isn’t answering questions about Iran.

They’re lying.

05.03.2026 02:13 πŸ‘ 4901 πŸ” 1795 πŸ’¬ 184 πŸ“Œ 55
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Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

05.03.2026 02:26 πŸ‘ 20621 πŸ” 5858 πŸ’¬ 655 πŸ“Œ 280
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Trump's war on elections is hiding in plain sight False claims that foreign government interference caused him to lose in 2020 have been a staple of the diet of lies Trump feeds to his faithful.

Donald Trump is seeking to collect massive amounts of information β€” including personal and partisan voter data β€” at an unprecedented scale. He is trying to pressure AI companies into allowing unrestricted use of their powerful tools against American citizens. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

05.03.2026 03:40 πŸ‘ 1687 πŸ” 803 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 29
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custodyβ€”the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Centerβ€”he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 04:01 πŸ‘ 2418 πŸ” 1534 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 159

This is how they do it

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28.02.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 10224 πŸ” 3358 πŸ’¬ 632 πŸ“Œ 168

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

28.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 8318 πŸ” 1326 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 22
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πŸ§ͺ February is #BlackHistoryMonth

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks's cervical cancer cells were taken w/o her consent & used for research.

Her cells, coined HeLa, became the first immortal human cell line. They engendered advances in medicine such as cancer/HIV research, vaccine dev & genome sequencing.

28.02.2026 20:52 πŸ‘ 208 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 7
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Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

28.02.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 1314 πŸ” 908 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 261

When you think about it for more than 5 seconds, it really is both insane and outrageous that *HILLARY CLINTON* - a woman who apparently has never met with nor corresponded with Jeffrey Epstein was one of the first people deposed.

28.02.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 23759 πŸ” 4305 πŸ’¬ 1326 πŸ“Œ 321
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Trump Iranian missile claim unsupported by U.S. intelligence, say sources Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile that can hit the U.S. is not backed by intelligence reports, and appears to be exaggerated, sources say.

🚨 "Trump’s claim that Iran will soon have a missile that can hit the United States is not backed by U.S. intelligence reports, and appears to be exaggerated, according to three sources familiar with the reports, casting doubt on part of his case" for attacking Iran.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

28.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 231 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 14
As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that "[t]he lawyers in my civil division
didn't deserve" the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that
the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the
following in the show-cause order that preceded the January 28 order:
The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to provide them with adequate resources.
ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1.
The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government
attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and
his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneys- including, unfortunately, Ana Voss- to resign). What those attorneys "didn't deserve" was the
Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making
any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow.

As noted, Rosen asserted in his email that "[t]he lawyers in my civil division didn't deserve" the supposedly inaccurate January 28 order. Putting aside the fact that the January 28 order was not inaccurate, Rosen failed to mention that this Court said the following in the show-cause order that preceded the January 28 order: The Court expresses its appreciation to attorney Ana Voss and her colleagues [in the civil division], who have struggled mightily to ensure that respondents comply with court orders despite the fact that respondents have failed to provide them with adequate resources. ECF No. 7 at 2 n.1. The judges of this District have been extraordinarily patient with the government attorneys, recognizing that they have been put in an impossible position by Rosen and his superiors in the Department of Justice (leading many of those attorneys- including, unfortunately, Ana Voss- to resign). What those attorneys "didn't deserve" was the Administration sending 3000 ICE agents to Minnesota to detain people without making any provision for handling the hundreds of lawsuits that were sure to follow.

If anything is "beyond the pale," it is ICE's continued violation of the orders of
this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil
contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another
occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten
contempt -again and again and again - to force the United States government to comply
with court orders.
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CASE 0:26-cv-00107-PJS-DLM Doc. 12
Filed 02/26/26 Page 6 of 6
This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law,
including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another,
ICE will comply with this Court's orders.
Dated: February 26, 2026
(s/ Patrick J. Schiltz
Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge
United States District Court

If anything is "beyond the pale," it is ICE's continued violation of the orders of this Court. Increasingly, this Court has had to resort to using the threat of civil contempt to force ICE to comply with orders. The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt -again and again and again - to force the United States government to comply with court orders. -5- CASE 0:26-cv-00107-PJS-DLM Doc. 12 Filed 02/26/26 Page 6 of 6 This Court will continue to do whatever is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary, moving to the use of criminal contempt. One way or another, ICE will comply with this Court's orders. Dated: February 26, 2026 (s/ Patrick J. Schiltz Patrick J. Schiltz, Chief Judge United States District Court

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz in Minnesota threatens criminal contempt, if necessary, to address ICE noncompliance in an order calling out U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen's response to Schiltz's earlier questions about noncompliance with court orders.

"ICE will comply with this Court's orders."

26.02.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 2277 πŸ” 732 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 64
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NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt if they continue defying court orders in immigration cases.

"One way or another, ICE will comply." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

27.02.2026 04:15 πŸ‘ 2973 πŸ” 806 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 70
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Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision The depth of the Supreme Court’s corruption has forced us to find...

Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...

20.02.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 472 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 45

This is the headline

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