HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

If there is one thing you hear today, let it be Beth’s story.

President Trump and Elon Musk are delaying life-saving cancer treatments by laying off scientists doing cutting edge research.
 
We should be doing all we can to spur more innovation, not turning our backs on progress.

Oronoco business owner says tariffs are 'devastating' for her Busy Baby company Monday was a tough day for local entrepreneur and Minnesota’s Small Business Person of the Year Beth (Fynbo) Benike. The new U.S. tariffs on China doubled the costs of her Busy Baby products and effectively killed a new contract with Walmart.

Monday was a tough day for local entrepreneur and Minnesota’s Small Business Person of the Year Beth (Fynbo) Benike. The new U.S. tariffs on China doubled the costs of her Busy Baby products and effectively killed a new contract with Walmart.

History speaks. Europe’s lessons from a century ago can wake up and inspire our democracy…in 2025 America.

Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.

The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.

End a clinical trial early, and researchers might not be able to tell if it worked, leaving participants worse off than when they started. But that is what the Trump administration is asking scientists to do, @katherinejwu.com reports.

Records are meant to be broken. Congrats @booker.senate.gov for stepping up and standing up for the American people.

Blazing your own path for the W

👏👏👏👏👏

A portion of John Quincy Adams' Amistad argument before SCOTUS: "I will not recur to the Declaration of Independence--your Honors have it implanted in your hearts--but one of the grievous charges brought against George III. was, that he had made laws for sending men beyond seas for trial. That was one of the most odious of those acts of tyranny which occasioned the American revolution. The whole of the reasoning is not applicable to this case, but I submit to your Honors that, if the President has the power to do it in the case of Africans, and send them beyond seas for trial, he could do it by the same authority in the case of American citizens. By a simple order to the marshal of the district, he could just as well seize forty citizens of the United States, on the demand of a foreign minister, and send them beyond seas for trial before a foreign court."

Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant

A Vaccine For Pancreatic Cancer Continues To Show Promise In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

90% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer die from the disease. That's why the medical community is excited about the results of a small trial in which nearly half of the pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease remained relapse-free three years later.

Protestors speak out against Trump administration’s actions during ‘Stand Up for Science’ Across the country on Friday, thousands came out for ‘Stand Up for Science" protests to speak out against some of the Trump administration’s actions that they say are a threat to science.

proud of my mom. she's a neuroscientist whose university funding was just cut by the assholes in charge. this affects not only her lab and research, but her salary — and her pension when she retires. she + my dad are the featured image and first interview in this video: www.kbtx.com/2025/03/07/p...

Sen. Klobuchar is a NO

A noticeable loss for downtown St. Paul

an old co-author emailed me looking for a confirmation a non-existent paper supposedly authored by me that one of her students has cited in an essay... so i got curious and prompted gpt-4o “papers by abeba birhane”. it listed 9 papers none of which I authored

Dems need to be in every town holding town halls -- give the people someone to talk to when the R's refuse to appear. Listen. Support. ACT.

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

Some DOGE staffers are getting paid six-figure salaries from the very agencies they're slashing and burning

killer scoop from @knibbs.bsky.social !!!!
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

This is what all Democrats should be doing. Show up where Republicans are afraid to be. Listen. Engage.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

Francis Collins: On Truth, Science, Faith and Trust Listen now (40 mins) | A very personal story—his inspiring new book THE ROAD TO WISDOM—and other closely related matters

My recent podcast with Francis. What he has done to advance biomedicine in the US and globally is immeasurable.
erictopol.substack.com/p/francis-co...

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Made my calls today. #SlavaUkraini

Some PhD programs have frozen or reduced admissions, and offer letters have been yanked back. A 15% cap on NIH (National Institutes of Health) grants covering lab overhead/indirect costs could take $100 million to $130 million out of University of Minnesota science/medical research annually.

Dozens worked WashU event to save federal data at risk of disappearing The event was in conjunction with the Data Rescue Project, an effort that has identified data at high risk of loss, and tapped volunteers to find, curate and save it.

The event was in conjunction with the Data Rescue Project, an effort that has identified data at high risk of loss, and tapped volunteers to find, curate and save it.

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

U.S. Terminates Fundind Around the World www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... "People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

Unbelievable news.

Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.

New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

100000000% THIS

Remember Mitch McConnell's strategy was to use unchallenged seats on school boards, city councils, etc to build a foundation of extreme right-wing power. Progressives need to do the same.

This is why I donate to @runforsomething.net monthly. If you're willing, they'll help you run.

The problem with America’s legal system

To practice law:
—4 year degree, take LSAT, 3 year JD, pass BAR, buy malpractice insurance, total cost ~$300K

To enforce the law:
—Here’s paid 13-week training & a gun

To write the law:
—0 qualifications needed, a billionaire can buy your seat

Smh