Cat Corrigan

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

I reported on economics full-time in 2020. It taught me there are no incentives to have a baby in the US. Women in the US have to pay for pre-natal, medical and child care, earn less, do most of the parenting and chores, get promoted less, and are now at 27% higher risk of maternal mortality.

Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.

It is blatantly unconstitutional.

My mom just lost the right to vote. I feel sick to my stomach.

You're absolutely right. I think I need to include more intentional actions that express joy as a big middle finger to this regime.

I needed to read this tonight. Graduating during all of this has felt like taking the training wheels off and immediately riding into a busy intersection. My field is basically dead in the water amid the NIH cuts and talks of reducing federal nutrition program funding but I'm going to stay positive.

Trump is now saying certain favored companies will be exempt from tariffs.

Oh really?

In 1773, Britain exempted the East India Trading Company from tariffs on tea.

It led to the Boston Tea Party.

GHOSTBUSTERS! HA HA HA HA HAAA! #C64 🔊🎶👻

Never fails

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens.

The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago.

Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

Without Baja Blast zero, there is nothing but darkness and chaos.

Where is our humanity?

As long as I live, I will never understand why they would rather elect a singularly worthless white rapist as president than an exceptionally impressive black woman.

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.

He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.

The job was helping people with disabilities.

You made this Jersey girl turned Virginian proud of my home state. Thank you for all that you've done to stand up for our country.

Fmr. HHS employee confronts senator Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

Today, US Senator Jim Banks (R) was approached by a fired HHS employee. He told the employee that he “probably deserved to be fired” and that the employee “looks like a clown”. This is what the entire Republican party thinks of HHS workers. Video in article. www.nbcnews.com/video/fmr-hh...

Fine. If it's about jobs and the economy...

69% of the US GDP is from STEM and 24% of the US workforce works in STEM.

#standupforscience
#scienceforall
#handsoffourscience

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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

Yep

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

“We lean left because we tend to be better informed”.

Currently researching old American Girl doll dress patterns because the life of a cosplayer is an odd one. This What We Do in the Shadows cosplay is about to be lit, though.