Lisa Powell

Read this thread today and am pondering my life as an American who intentionally and diligently lives a life with kindness, empathy and authenticity at the core. Current conditions/actors attempt to sway us from these values. I will not concede.

18.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This one’s been on my list for while…

16.07.2025 16:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a man is standing in front of a red car with his hands in his pockets and saying `` yeah ... you '' . ALT: a man is standing in front of a red car with his hands in his pockets and saying `` yeah ... you '' .

26.04.2025 03:51 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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25.04.2025 06:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Medicaid Is a Middle-Class Benefit. Here’s What to Know. (Gift Article) If you have a parent short on savings, a disabled adult child or a minor with special needs, Medicaid may be your backstop. Plenty of people are unaware.

Millions of people who are financially comfortable now may be just one bad break away from needing Medicaid for themselves or a family member. via @ronlieber.bsky.social (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/y...

21.03.2025 18:46 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog hanging over the New York skyline

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows damaged oil drums piled high at an Exxon refinery.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows cars driving down a road as smoke spews from factories in the distance and air pollution hangs over everything.

A vintage photo from the National Archives shows smog in Los Angeles taken from a high vantage point.

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

13.03.2025 14:47 — 👍 20123    🔁 7135    💬 684    📌 537

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20.02.2025 16:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.

I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

19.02.2025 23:44 — 👍 19069    🔁 4325    💬 442    📌 138

This ⬇️

16.02.2025 22:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

13.02.2025 11:37 — 👍 10046    🔁 5804    💬 491    📌 589

Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

09.01.2025 17:33 — 👍 1657    🔁 692    💬 58    📌 163

My new Bluesky profile looks empty! As my first post, I’ll share this information about Anderson Cooper‘s podcast “All There Is,” which explores grief. There are many beautiful conversations here.

08.01.2025 22:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0