Maren Fuller

"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

Because I live in Texas my go to bagel is jalapeño

Personally it’s getting hard to keep track of what’s real vs what’s satire vs what’s a conspiracy theory…

SMH. Not to mention they have to pay more money to undo the rainbows. So much for “Fiscal conservative” 🙄

Harris County Statehood now!

Brian Harrison and Libs of TikTok have overruled the residents of Harris County, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the nation.

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Someone came and rescued my parents as their neighborhood was flooding during Hurricane Harvey.

Fluffy white dog with My Little pony ears and rainbow bangs

🎃 October 8 🎃
My little brony

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

fellas, it is "woke" to point out when the administration is violating most of the Bill of Rights

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

It's like a Choose Your Own Hatch Act Violation.

Oh this makes me so sad. I met Jane once, she was incredible-my photo was right next to hers at National Geographic (2 blondes with their hair pulled back). What a legend. What an example for all of humanity. Thank you for showing us how to be better Earth citizens. Rest in peace and rise in power.

I've been thinking about that Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates convo. Specifically, how Klein kept saying that Coate's pragmatism in positioning his work in line with those who came before him fighting for rights they knew were unlikely to come to fruition in their lifetimes was depressing /1

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

I’m Ta-Nehisi Coates, I’m the writer, I’m the individual, right? But I am part of something larger, and I’ve always felt myself as part of something larger. I have a tradition, I have ancestry, I have heritage. What that means is that I do whatever I do within the time that I have in my life, whatever time I’m gifted with, and much of what I do is built on what other people did before them. Then, after that, I leave the struggle where I leave it, and hopefully, it’s in a better place. Oftentimes it’s not. That’s the history in fact. And then my progeny, they pick it up, and they keep it going. I am descended from people who, in their lifetime, fought with all their might for the destruction of chattel slavery in this country. And they never saw it. They never saw it. In my personal belief system, they died in defeat, in darkness. So I guess the privilege that I draw out of this, the honor that I draw out of this, is not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.

Ta-Nehisi Coates dropping such a beautiful articulation of a sense of #history and struggle that, I think, minority communities understand way more than, say, your average white American.

"I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make."

Write that on my classroom wall. 🗺️

TIL all the sweaters Mister Rogers wore on his show were knitted for him by his mother.

I would feel very well guarded by this sweet baby 🥺

Also came here to say that! 😅

We talk about what gets funding and what doesn’t as a form of bias that contributes to systemic racism in my SciComm class

Did we all take organic chemistry & the MCAT & miss the social part of our early 20’s and work 80 hours a week for 3+ years for the brain worm guy who doesn’t know what a p-value is to destroy our nation’s public health system? No.

Time to lean into our expertise and speak up.

Graphic from an Instagram account showing that Harris County (Houston) has more people than 27 different US states

Harris County statehood now!

Two solutions that would bring back #MedPeds trained #doctors as well as increase #Pediatrics workforce:
1) pay #Pediatricians exactly same as adult medicine doctors for identical work (eg pediatric vs adult hospitalists)
2) provide same respect as IM doctors (which isn’t much, but more than Peds)

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER.

And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin.

Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

It’s not a question of whether you agree with Jimmy Kimmel.

When someone uses their government position to threaten speech they don't like, that undermines the First Amendment and our entire democracy.

Everyone should care about this—no matter what your political view is.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.

His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.

Now he is tweeting in support of me.

This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.

Or used to work.