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Behavioral health scientist specializing in tech & infrastructure in international dev/aid. CEO of mWater & Solstice, the world's largest platform for managing water, sanitation, & health. mwater.co solsticeinstitute.com Mom of 3, partner of @jfeighery
This has gotten very little coverage in the US, but on Monday US military contractors or troops or some other paramilitary group placed signs on a beach in Mexico, claiming it as US territory. (The contested location is close to the SpaceX base outside Brownsville)
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Read my full story here!
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is literally just because nurses are associated with women, isn't it. That's the whole line of thinking beginning to end.
20.11.2025 23:16 β π 448 π 125 π¬ 19 π 7The Department of Education is proposing a definition that could strip nurse practitioners and CRNAs of βprofessional degreeβ status.
Chiropractors keep it. Nurses risk losing it. And that change would fall hardest on women in healthcare.
This is political and it is sexist.
We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russiaβs proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
(video)
snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...
Far Rockaway - you heard the man!
17.11.2025 02:18 β π 55 π 7 π¬ 4 π 0oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs
"and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
BTW. I am struggling to find a group of creative and inspired high school English teachers who want to talk pedagogy and writing in the age of AI. Does such a thing exist online? If not, it should. I have so many thoughts about this.
15.11.2025 17:35 β π 22 π 6 π¬ 3 π 0Jesus Christ.
15.11.2025 03:44 β π 4146 π 1573 π¬ 62 π 171"Rather than democratizing scientific publishing, Open Access has helped commercial publishers generate more profits (publishers found ways to shift paywalls from readers to authors). More stringent reforms are required to tackle misaligned drivers of scientific publishing."
Fernanda Beigel et al.
Queer trans BIPOC book recs for Transgender Awareness Week:
- Dulhaniyaa by @taliabhatt.itch.io
- Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas
- Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
- The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang
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15.11.2025 16:50 β π 21 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
@governor.ca.gov
@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
Something to consider:
Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin announced that the cityβs $10 billion portfolio her office controls will no longer invest in U.S. Treasury bonds to protest what she calls the βauthoritarian regimeβ
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10.11.2025 17:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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10.11.2025 17:00 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
10.11.2025 02:31 β π 15292 π 4139 π¬ 259 π 206Thinking of this quote from Mamdaniβs victory speech.
10.11.2025 02:43 β π 919 π 210 π¬ 3 π 3in a parliament, this would be a no confidence vote
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A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
10.11.2025 02:07 β π 7971 π 3031 π¬ 210 π 170Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.
10.11.2025 01:23 β π 24166 π 6096 π¬ 519 π 373The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. Itβs about peopleβs lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Surprise no from Gary Peters
Ossoff is also a no on the funding deal
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
10.11.2025 01:38 β π 23117 π 6024 π¬ 266 π 226don't #DACO
10.11.2025 01:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
Yβall. I donβt think they have the votes yet.
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this legislation also includes backpay for federal employees, despite the saber rattling from the White House.
THAT IS ALREADY A LAW. TRUMP IS THE PRESIDENT WHO SIGNED THAT LAW. YOU ARE A FUCKING NEWS REPORTER
10.11.2025 01:17 β π 3136 π 621 π¬ 31 π 15This Steelers Chargers game starts off as an apt metaphor for the US government tonight: nobody is making any progress.
#nfl
#3andouts
