“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.” Sir Tom Stoppard in *Jumpers*

ICE knock down 84 year old married couple—send wife to hospital bloodied with concussion. "With no warning the feds charged us, knocked us down and sprayed us. I was hit in the head with a projectile." Husband was shocked by agents' behavior—and he served 10 years in Vietnam.

My new class on architecture *From Bauhaus to Brutalism* begins tonight. Excited. Maybe tomorrow I’ll take a little trip around CT to see some of his work.

T-regs for the win! Love to see immunologists win the Nobel prize. The discovery of Foxp3 expressing T-regulatory cells has transformed our understanding of how the immune system does not attack itself. It used to be thought that the thymus was the gate keeper. in the late

Virginia Giuffre's family reacts to SCOTUS denying Ghislaine Maxwell's petition: "We are committed to ensuring that convicted child sex trafficker Maxwell serves out the entirety of her 20-year sentence in prison, where she belongs." Full statement below

To see that there is movement in studying autoimmune diseases—it’s amazing. When my sister was first diagnosed with MS, there were no medications yet. Thank you to the Nobel committee for recognizing this area of research.

Getting vaccinated for influenza, shingles (varicella-zoster), and pneumonia may protect you from getting dementia. https://t.co/ZwBpWANSDC

You worked hard. You played by the rules. Now, Trump is breaking the promise of Social Security when you need it most. In Trump’s America, if you’re not young and healthy, you don’t matter.

A tiny bit of decent news:

If you don't get that mainstream media is lying to you about covid, consider this. PBS News @NewsHour says "It's been more than two years since the pandemic ended." Just a few weeks ago, during the latest (and ongoing) US wave, there were 1 MILLION NEW COVID INFECTIONS PER DAY

In an unusual Sunday night hearing, the Judge rules that the administration’s attempt to bring Nat’l Guard troops from CA & TX to Oregon directly violates her decision last night.

Don't let major news agencies sweep this aside like it wasn't politically motivated.

Someone mentioned Tom Bombadil here + I immediately burst into song: “Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow…” decades + decades after last reading LotR. My sister Moira could have recited it w me; we studied Elvish together, owned the record.

Rival gunmen started shooting at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others, police said. https://t.co/40wIhtp4Cb

Anisimova beats Noskova to win China Open

Hospital today. I shouldn’t have to feel worried about getting Covid from a bladder scan appointment should I. Why do I have to be the one setting an example for infection control in a hospital.

During the ICE car wash raids in LA, a man named Bayron Rovidio Marin broke his leg. He was taken to hospital where he was handcuffed to the bed and held for 37 days under a pseudonym. 37 days without being told WHY he was being detained. 🧵

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." https://t.co/Oe3y7MWzuz

An scéal céanna i gcónaí: “UVF and UDA make sinister threat to burn Belfast council facilities over Irish language proposals | https://t.co/Nlh4clPw8O”

Long COVID brain fog is real — and now, we know what’s causing it. A breakthrough brain scan reveals the science behind the symptoms. Scientists in Japan have identified a biological cause behind the cognitive “brain fog” experienced by many Long COVID patients—a breakthrough

Good morning, anti vaxxers