Reposted by Kenneth VaughanDavid Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 12/10/2026Wow. I mean, I know a lot of places (including where I work) are real high on AI right now, but "No more hand-written code" is a genuinely unhinged directive. 1231
Reposted by Kenneth Vaughan(🖬🖫). ₍^. .^₎⟆ @a.very.sleepy.galactic.furball.discatte.com · 12/10/2026Everyone who uses claude acts and talks like an addict. 2152
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 04/10/2026Julian Curo-Churata, 47, from Peru, died in ICE custody in Louisiana on September 29, the 37th death in ICE detention in fiscal 2026, the deadliest year on record. The records show more than the coverage so far. austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur... 13823
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026This summer, ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data say otherwise. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...austinkocher.substack.comICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal HistoryThe latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history. 59346
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. 239102243245
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanBEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Shamonda-like virus – Rapidly expanding multi-country livestock outbreak with congenital malformations in cattle and sheep, Europe beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=6… 003
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I didn’t think it was coordinated at first, given how bad WWE looked, but this is so specifically wrong, and the gutter trolls are telling the same lies. They can’t all accidentally be overlooking that Huber was ill and Williams didn’t work there. It’s like twelve students getting the same, 150
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanKiley @kileywrestling.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The phrase “pentagon influencer” should not exist. WHAT ARE WE DOING? 092
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026Since January 20, 2025, ICE has deported more than 66,000 people identified as members of a family unit, about one in ten removals. Family detention is back too, at Dilley and Karnes in Texas. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-has-de...austinkocher.substack.comICE Has Deported More Than 66,000 Family Members Under Trump Administration, Family Detention Is Back at Dilley and KarnesNew ICE data show more than 66,000 family-unit deportations since January 20, 2025, about one in ten removals, with an August spike above 20 percent, as family detention reopens at Dilley and Karnes. 0710
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026David Bixenspan, please tell him what HBK’s religion is and how iot motivate him to care about groups that experience discrimination just as Jesus Christ taught us to do, following the prophetic tradition documented in the Hebrew Bible. 000
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/10/2026ICE made a record 49,138 arrests in July, per data from the Deportation Data Project. Over half of the people arrested had no convictions or pending charges. That is not what going after the "worst of the worst" looks like. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...austinkocher.substack.comICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal HistoryThe latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history. 01613
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 01/10/2026Refugees used to be the immigrants everyone agreed on. Matthew Soerens of World Relief and I talked about how the Trump administration came to ban persecuted Christians. Listen here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-... @matthewsoerens.bsky.social 0124
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🚨 The Pentagon is "increasing [nuclear] options available to the President," per classified briefing to Congress:kenklippenstein.comTrump’s Finger Gets Closer to Nuclear ButtonNot that Congress cares 48468152
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A deep dive into one of the pieces of evidence provided in the anthropology section of the Vanderbilt report 24215
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026President Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution: Matthew Soerens on the Collapse of Refugee Resettlement and Why Churches Should Care austinkocher.substack.com/p/president-...austinkocher.substack.comPresident Trump Bans Christians Fleeing Persecution: Matthew Soerens on the Collapse of Refugee Resettlement and Why Churches Should Care2026 is the year that the United States breaks with a long history of resettling Christians and other religious minorities fleeing persecution, and many people of faith don’t even know it. 022
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanKiley @kileywrestling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are tons of things that get circulated among wrestling media and never get reported. Why? Because it’s either 1) personal, 2) dangerous/cruel, or 3) unnecessary. Reporters aren’t obligated to publish every nugget of information they receive just because you want them to. Y’all tire me out. 2457
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanAustin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 29/09/2026ICE is deporting parents without their children. The Atlantic follows a 2-year-old in Mobile, Alabama, left behind when his parents were sent to Venezuela. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...theatlantic.comThe Babies Left Behind in AmericaThe United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis. 15442
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Bummer. I hope he manages to save it, learns a lesson about elections having consequences, and that nobody is punished for being my political enemy because I meant everything I have ever said about liberal democracy.  000
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanBEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Simultaneous gastrointestinal illnesses at 20 kindergartens in Tbilisi, Georgia, with more than 100 hospitalized beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=d… 021
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics. 7440301174
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Bix, I don’t like to pretend I know any of these people and get parasocial. But I trust they really loved PAC and other people hit by these campaigns. How does it not hurt morale? If I knew my employer was screwing with the visas of good people and smearing them post mortem, I’d go nuclear.  041
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children. 3236111056
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Literally the only reason why I don’t have a pet duck 100
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Thank you! Texas and BlueSky aren’t getting along! 010
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice. 21522361
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Goodnight SOCIOLOGISTS and jabroni marks without a life who don’t know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot, marks 100
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026As a response, new immigrant candidates run with left wing parties. This process mitigates agsint the anti-immigrant effects of right-wing entry, but does not completely offset it. Full study: www.cambridge.org/core/service...cambridge.org 000
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Entry of #FarRight candidates into #Sweden's govt is associated with an overall decrease in immigrant representation. The Sweden Democrats, who are hostile to immigrants, take seats from other parties, who are more likely to run immigrant canddiates. No effect on LGBT candidates. 100
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026someone help me p-hack something #Science #Sociology 000
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Yes, you should read the sources you cite. Occasionally, you can’t, so you cite the work as existing in another work (Johnson 1918 in Brubaker 2016). No, this is not as bad as publishing plagiarized sources that were hallucinated out of whole cloth. 010
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanKevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026First real post on the new blog! If you follow human genetics, you've likely of "missing heritability". If you look at twins to estimate heritability, you get values much larger than what molecular genomic methods produce. IQ, for example, goes from 50-80% heritability to 10-15%. Which is right? 512650
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Christian nationalism divided: Exploring the transferability of an American concept to a secularized Nordic multi-party democracy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 100
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Like US researchers, Koiranen et al. find that the population "Christian nationalism" index lumps (at least) two very different ideologies into one. Those traditionally lumped into a single CN category split into two dimensions, one exclusivist, and one pluralist. 100
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Medical Examiner confirms Haitian asylum seeker died from untreated tooth infection in Az detention www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...tucsonsentinel.comMedical Examiner confirms Haitian asylum seeker died from untreated tooth infection in Az detentionA Haitian asylum seeker who spent months in detention in Arizona died from an infection in his lung caused by an untreated tooth infection, according to a preliminary report from the Maricopa County M... 000
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 18/05/2026NEW: Two years after the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group, killed and wounded hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine State and burned down their village, the survivors are still denied justice and cannot return to their homes. www.hrw.org/news/2026/05... 🧵⤵️ 14717
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18/05/2026If you are interested in the far right, and want to look beyond the well-trodden paths, read this book and follow Sofia, a great young scholar of the far right. 03311
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanCrawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 18/05/2026www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...theguardian.com‘It’s heartbreaking’: panic in eastern DRC over return of EbolaResidents of Ituri province fear spread of disease and economic impact of outbreak six years after the last 0119
Kenneth Vaughan @kennethvaughan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Foley just fills up the room with joy. If a billionaire wants to pay him to say hi every now and again, be a manager, or whatever, it would be one of the least evil things a billionaire had ever done. 040
Reposted by Kenneth VaughanChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 14/05/2026GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed an HIV vaccine candidate that achieves something never before observed in the field: inducing detectable neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) against HIV within just THREE weeks after a SINGLE immunization which was further INCREASED after an additional booster. 3833251026