santiago, phd 🐈⬛
Vnzln 🇻🇪 MD/PhD candidate @ Stanford 🌲
I study telomere biology in health and disease; I write about science and politics
blogs @ primafacie.substack.com
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- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛dril banned it's over bro
- new dystopian idea: reverse tipping. 30% tip is automatically applied and the screen asks you how much less you would like to tip
- the government is simultaneously telling us there is no point in prosecuting the most obvious criminals of all time from the biggest scandal in the country’s history and that it is too onerous to give due process to innocent people kidnapped off the street by armed thugs
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- Isaac Chotiner pls interview the NIH director
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛What a nightmare. “After a week of public outcry over the South Texas Family Residential Center’s treatment of young children behind its walls, the Dilley facility is experiencing a measles outbreak, according to immigration attorney Eric Lee.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
- RFK jr went on a fossil hunting trip with JE, Maxwell in ND (corroborated by Maxwell interview with Todd Blanche). Also mentioned by Peggy Siegal in 2010 as hosting a party for James Cameron. She wanted to go to Haiti to "see the destruction" (presumably of the 2010 earthquake that killed 300k)
- isaac chotiner is a national treasure
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- this is probably the writer Linda Stone writing this email as there's an excerpt of her writing she shares with JE in this email that can be found almost verbatim on her personal site.
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛I adore the abrupt tonal shift in this from idealistic desires to the difficult path to get there...
- lol sf
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- Christakis is an example of the rot eating elite society. Even if he didn’t “partake”, the willingness to ingratiate a man for the sake of access to power, influence, and capital despite knowing he is a criminal predator creates the conditions for a society where those men can act with impunity
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛I promise you, even if someone is your mentor and friend, you should have the ability to say they made a mistake in FUCKING COMMUNICATING CASUALLY AND ALL FRIENDLY WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN NOT WRITE AN EIGHT POST THREAD ON HOW WE SHOULDNT JUDGE
- Eugenics and race science are reinvented every generation by elites attempting to justify their own social position, and science often cooperates. Many of the basic tools of statistics we use every day were created expressly for that purpose. open.substack.com/pub/primafac...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Marc Andreessen share an enduring fascination with eugenics, race science, and transhumanism and there is an entire generation of public intellectuals who benefited and continue to benefit from their patronage. Pinker, Huberman, Attia, Weinstein, etc.
- The key in this story is that the husband of the observer knew the chief personally and called him, chief then tracked her down and intervened with the ICE superiors. This means police have this ability and are underutilizing it and local authorities should be pressured to demand they do
- "MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛More of the radical transparency & embrace of academic dissent that Podcast Jay is famous for—banning journalists from Nature & Science from covering the NIH Director’s public remarks on science. At least Max and Jocelyn weren’t arrested like other journalists reporting on this regime’s atrocities.
- I'm at the Willard Hotel where I've been denied entry and kicked out of the Reclaiming Science event with NIH director Bhattacharya & other top agency leaders. @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social and I registered for the event months ago yet were told capacity was full, even as they let in dozens of others.
- To think we are only seeing everyone in the Epstein files be exposed because all the people involved were adults during the brief period of time email was used for casual communication over text messaging.
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- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛new CBS contributor Peter Attia
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Here is Peter Attia MD emailing Epstein’s assistant claiming he goes into “JE withdrawal” when he doesn’t see him.
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.
- What is anything even for anymore
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛I wrote about how in a December email to me, RFK Jr.'s HHS insisted the current South Carolina measles outbreak wouldn't get that bad—and how it has since snowballed into the biggest US outbreak since measles was eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛"doctor who has claimed that he has reduced his biological age by 20 years with therapies including cold plunges; that cod liver oil can treat autism and that conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with the kind of nutritional supplements he also sells on his online store."
- tech’s new performative self-aggrandizement routine is just an average medical resident’s schedule and a pretty nice one at that. Imagine starting your work at 9 am.
- www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.
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- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
- Kash Patel is insisting it’s illegal to carry a weapon at a protest, but I’m old enough to remember when every other state had mobs of heavily armed conservatives protesting in favor of open carry laws.
- they surrounded him, beat him, disarmed him of the weapon he never reached for while he was kneeling, and then shot him in the back. They didn’t stop the bleeding or get him help. Then they shot him 3 more times in the back and then watched him die
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛“As of Saturday evening, the family said they had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death.”
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛"I insisted that the agents let me assess him. Normally, I would not have been so persistent, but as a physician, I felt a professional and moral obligation to help this man, especially since none of the agents were helping him."
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
- aches to see my alma mater shutter many of the programs and offices that made an undergraduate education there special www.chronicle.com/article/ut-a...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition
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- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
- It’s not lost on me that the only time this concern has been raised is when a U.S. military action could be taken against a white country
- what did code geass know
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.
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- This is psychotic. The BBB is already putting 170 billion over four years into the deportation enforcement machine. This political party is bankrupt and unviable. You can’t regulate your way out of a secret police on a racial purification crusade.
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- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛According to Podcast Jay, he can silence anyone or anything as long as he calls it “DEI.” It’s his magic censorship phrase.
- NIH is losing so may good people. First they were fired or RIFd or pressured to retire early. Now they are leaving because “no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity.” Proud to know these brave scientists! www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
- Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛The CDC changed the universal vaccine schedule & no longer recommends Rotavirus Hepatitis A & B Meningitis Influenza RSV I’ve cared for previously healthy kids who died from RSV, influenza and meningitis. We all are going to be caring for a lot more now. In our already overflowing hospitals
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- Vnzla is now a place of incredible contradiction. The personnel in charge have largely not changed. Internal repression of opposition has increased. Verbally the govt denounces imperialism while taking actions consistent with the U.S. stated plans for the country
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- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.
- MPR News is live right now bringing you updates on this. mprnews.org/listen
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead
- I will be depositing 50 million barrels of oil into my bank account and directly Venmoing the citizens of a foreign country I’ve been deporting to torture gulags in El Salvador and Libya shares in profits from their Sale.
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- You should be put in jail immediately if you suggest that any city on earth be even one tiny, imperceptible bit more like Dallas
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- Incredible stuff
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- It is isolating and insanity inducing to be a Venezuelan in the exterior opposed to US intervention in Venezuela. To be accused of being unable to celebrate a victory, effectively of being a traitor, or collaborator, too ensconced in ideology to feel anything but misery at imperial misadventure
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- going shopping
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛VP Delcy Rodriguez, whom Trump indicated earlier today was collaborating with the US government, is live on television right now. Earlier reports that she's in Russia are false. She's in Caracas with the rest of the cabinet. Rodriguez: "We will never again be a colony for any empire"
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
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- Essential reading: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...
- Reposted by santiago, phd 🐈⬛A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.
