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@primateyell.bsky.social
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Recovering journalist, future lawyer, resident of Los Animals.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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California Prepares to Ban Quartz Countertop Production
The state would be the first to block an industry that has been connected to a deadly lung disease in workers.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
The White House’s proposal to penalize nonprofits that help disabled people vote is just part of the Trump administration’s broader attempts to restrict voting access, especially among groups that have historically faced disenfranchisement.
propublica.org
This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please read this thread (and this important story) about the attempted rollback of disability rights
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
VERY important thread on how the Trump administration is attacking the right to integration for disabled people -- please read!
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 02/10/2026
We’ve got the inside story of how Trump’s displeasure with seeing homeless people in D.C. became the first domino in a series of actions that culminated in the administration’s stunning decision to weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans to live in their homes and communities.
nbcnews.com
How Trump’s homelessness crackdown became a sweeping retreat from disability rights
After issuing a memo making it easier to institutionalize homeless people, the Justice Department began abandoning cases protecting disabled people’s right to live in the community.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS’s shadow docket strikes again. Third-country removals are back on, using a policy that two federal courts have now ruled is unlawful.
CORDER LIST: 609 U.S.)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2026
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CERTIORARI GRANTED
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SEC., ET AL. V. D.V.D., ET AL.
The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and
by her referred to the Court is granted. The February 25, 2026 order and judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 1:25-cv-10676, are stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following questions: (1) Whether the district court had jurisdiction over Respondents' claims.
(2) Whether the
district court had
authority to enter classwide
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and APA vacatur under 8 U. S. C. §1252 (f) (1).
(3) Whether the Government's Guidance on third-country removals
is unlawful under 8 U. S. C. §1231(b), the Due Process Clause, or
FARRA/CAT and its
implementing regulations. (4) Such other
questions that the Government determines are appropriate for the
proper disposition of the case. The Clerk is directed to
establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be
argued in the December 2026 argument session. The stay shall
terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would
deny the application for stay.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Corinne Purtill is doing such important reporting on autistic youth and suicide: Autistic youth are more likely to think about and die from suicide. What parents need to know www.latimes.com/science/stor...
latimes.com
Autistic youth are more likely to think about and die from suicide. What parents need to know
Autistic youth experience depression and suicidal thoughts at higher rates than non-autistic peers. What parents and healthcare providers should know about the challenges they face and how to help.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
but don't worry, it also guzzles water, steals from artists, and encourages teens to harm themselves www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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AI tools generated nearly $1 billion in extra costs, Blue Cross insurers say
AI tools are raising health spending for insurers by nearly $1 billion over two years, as providers bill for more severe patient care, according ​to a Blue Cross Blue Shield Association study released...
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"a brief investigative stop" Thanks, Brett Kavanaugh
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tesla faces trial in lawsuit brought by California Civil Rights Department (formerly DFEH) alleging bias against Black workers after years of lawsuits. Complaint was filed in 2022... www.cnbc.com/2026/09/21/t...
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this hit me deeply
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
after the L.A. Queens lost Game Three, I told my youngest "OK, but tomorrow, WE'RE GONNA WIN!!" and he replied, just as pumped, "WE'RE GONNA DO OUR BEST!!" #wpbl
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
JUST IN: The 1st Circuit rejects the Trump administration's 3rd-country deportation policy, finding blanket assurances from countries who say they won't torture U.S. deportees is not good enough. And the judges raise this point: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/09/2026
A Punjabi Sikh truck driver in Wyoming said he was followed into a bathroom and stabbed repeatedly in an attack that has stoked fear across the greater South Asian community.
npr.org
A Sikh truck driver is stabbed amid a rise in anti-South Asian rhetoric
The driver said he was shaken by a violent encounter at a rest stop, which he described as unprovoked.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 18/09/2026
Reposting statements made on X by colleague LaToya Baldwin Clark, UCLA Professor of Law and one the group of almost all women targeted the chancellor’s specious, reckless comments.
LaToya Baldwin Clark
@DrMamaEsq
One thing that has been overshadowed about the @UCLA Chancellor's remarks:
Frenk had no basis upon which to associate our event with terrorism or antisemitism.
Indeed, he did not attend, nor has he admitted to speaking with any attendee.
Note this line in his statement:
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UCLA chancellor faces faculty outcry over 9/11 statement, a test of academic freedom
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"We reject antisemitism and terrorism in all their forms, & we believe our campus must be a place where the dignity of every member of our community is respected. Nothing about this event at the UCLA School of Law, which we do not endorse, changes or qualifies those commitments"
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The Chancellor has still not explained why he even associated terrorism or antisemitism with our event. On what basis did he even believe that anything about our event endorsed terrorism or antisemitism? What is the evidence for making that linkage?
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Why did he think it made any sense for him to disavow terrorism and antisemitism in a reaction to our event? Why even imply that there was something about our event that *would* undermine the University's commitment to reject terrorism and antisemitism?LaToya Baldwin Clark @DrMamaEsq • 22m
Why did he think it made any sense for him to disavow terrorism and antisemitism in a reaction to our event? Why even imply that there was something about our event that *would* undermine the University's commitment to reject terrorism and antisemitism?
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In reality, the Chancellor of the top research university in the country issued a statement reacting to tabloid media, outlets that no one considers to be serious publications. But the Chancellor took time to respond to them and their ridiculous mischaracterizations
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without consulting faculty that organized the event. There has not been even one attendee -- if they existed, we'd know about it -- who will say there was anything pro-terrorist or antisemitic about the event. The Chancellor has rejected our call to even talk to the organizers.
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The Chancellor's most recent statement emphasizes "mutual respect, empathy and recognition of one another's humanity." It is incredibly disrespectful to his own faculty doing the work of the university in convening academic programming to malign us in this way. Empathy clearly
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LaToya Baldwin Clark @DrMamaEsq • 21m only applies to some of us, not all of us.
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Speaking for only myself, let me end with this. I've never felt more uncared for by my employer than I do in this moment. The leader of my university has made it very clear that some people matter and others do not.
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My friend often says that these universities, no matter how much we love them, will never love us back. I love being an academic, and being a member of the university community. But it's not love I'm seeking. I am seeking respect, communication, and equality.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 18/09/2026
UCLA chancellor faces faculty outcry over 9/11 statement, a test of academic freedom
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UCLA chancellor faces faculty outcry over 9/11 statement, a test of academic freedom
Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 200 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am not going to repost what RFK Jr. said today about autistic people, but I just want to remind everyone that the reason you may not have seen autistic people with high support needs in the past is because the Supreme Court did not ban unnecessary institutionalization until *1999*
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Tim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It!
Alt: Older man in a suit sitting at a table says "Oh My God, He Admit It!"
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I join over 50 my of UCLA Law colleagues in expressing our dismay at Chancellor Frenk’s public response to a disinformation campaign against a Law School symposium on the legacy of 9/11. We call for a retraction and the opportunity to meet with the Chancellor. sites.google.com/view/ucla-la...
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We write to express our grave disappointment at Chancellor Frenk’s September 11, 2026 statement, which he has reaffirmed, that appears to condemn a symposium hosted by several law school centers on th...
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When future President John Adams walked into court to defend the British soldiers who committed the Boston Massacre, he knew he was laying down a marker for future generations about what the rule of law is. Julio Frenk, chancellor of my university, unfortunately missed that lesson and a few more.
latimes.com
UCLA chancellor rebukes law school event with 9/11 'mastermind' attorney; organizers push back
After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A tempest in a teapot in California, where the UCLA chancellor attacked professors for holding a symposium on 25 years after 9/11 and inviting a federal lawyer who represents Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Here's a good statement from the organizers.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
me to that WaPo column
Tanehisi Coates wearing headphones and a suit jacket and saying into a microphone "understandable, but I guess was silence not an option"
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
really trying to sell my youngest on the Jewish holidays and it's a struggle "it's Jewish New Year -- you remember Lunar New Year? Jewish people also have their own new year" "do we have a dragon??" "uh ... we have apples!"
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
it's almost like we all have fallible bodies and we all age and that interdependence is inherent to the human condition or something
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I sometimes joke that we need billboards about how boring most trans people are. My closest trans friends are (checks notes) a computer engineer who loves cats; a retired Highway Patrol officer who is a serious wife guy; and a nature journalist. Hardly the stuff of a cultural panic
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am genuinely asking, because I can't remember: Did the chancellor say anything when a student group invited the top lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security to the law school in the spring?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/09/2026
For likely the first time in modern history, the Supreme Court decided more cases in fast-tracked, secretive proceedings than in open court. These “shadow docket” decisions have let the Trump admin. bypass lower courts on deportations, ICE stops and more — often with little to no explanation.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 12/09/2026
Law, through an Autistic perspective: An informal survey for people who (1) identify as Autistic & (2) interact with the legal system. Anyone with thoughts/feelings/experiences regarding the legal system is encouraged to respond. DEADLINE: Oct 11, 2026, 11:59pm EST docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Law, through an Autistic perspective
DEADLINE FOR RESPONSES: Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 11:59pm EST This an informal survey intended for people who (1) identify as Autistic and (2) interact with the legal system. Autistic law students,...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
nytimes.com
Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ted Kaczynski
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Law school 😆
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Over 170,00 Salvadorans were set to lose TPS today, a status they've had for 25 years. But DHS hasn't made any announcement about termination or extension. Now this vague comment was given to reporters, the only public info. A shocking level of callousness over a decision which affects so many.

Angi Gonzalez
@AnchorAngi
#BREAKING Overnight : 
@DHSgov
 tells me that #TPS recipients from El Salvador will continue to have protections until a decision is made about the program. Those protections were set to expire today. This will likely be a small relief to about 200,000 in the U.S.  
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
propublica.org
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Geraldo Rivera Minority Report
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Jack Kevorkian Henry Kissinger
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Things that the Youths in Law School Do Not Know About (A Sporadically Updated Series):
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
they're all perfect for the roles AND they make sense as mother and daughters
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
what's an example of perfect casting?
Winona Ryder, Cher and Christina Ricci in the film "Mermaids"
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The LATimes -- and Los Angeles -- deserves so much better than this.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
they're calling it the greatest and gayest league of all time, folks
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
someone has been sitting directly behind home plate at the Women's Professional Baseball League games so that this (fantastic) sign is prominently visible in the ESPN telecast we did it, folks we got "LET'S GO LESBIANS" onto ESPN
Bright yellow poster that says "Let's Go Lesbians" and "WPBL". The poster has been signed by many baseball players.
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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I needed this
The scoreboard for the Women's Professional Baseball League game: Six runs for the Los Angeles Queens, none for the Boston Hunters, bases are loaded, and no outs in the top of the first inning.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 05/09/2026
Two presidential directives are being used to prosecute people and groups the Trump administration views as political opponents — including anti-ICE protesters and the Southern Poverty Law Center. bit.ly/4h4cm7Y
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How the Administration Picks Its Targets, Then Picks the Crime
The administration is using the Antifa label and other means to prosecute its opponents.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We are allowing 5 year old children to be enrolled in football even though we *know* that every 2.6 years of participation doubles the chances of contracting CTE. This is tantamount to child abuse. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
theguardian.com
CTE in football players is a health crisis. It’s time for us to stop watching
A new study offers more evidence that America’s biggest sport produces life-altering head trauma. The NFL will never turn itself off, so it’s on fans to do so
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