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Anika Agrawal

@aquaticanika.bsky.social

uhn-i-kah| Ph.D. Candidate UConn NRE | MS Marine Biology TAMUG| BS Marine Ecotoxicology UCDavis | She/They | πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ | 🌹

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if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare

10.11.2025 03:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2520    πŸ” 1028    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 25

Unless Democratic Senators who voted no on the #Schumersurrender today explicitly call for Schumer to resign or step aside - they all own this cave. Just pushing out performative posts and press releases don’t count for much anymore. Enough.

10.11.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 342    πŸ” 102    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Just called Senator @schumer.senate.gov and told him he is a disgrace, that I don’t care that he negotiated a public β€œno” to save his own ass, and if he can’t keep the caucus together on something as basic as healthcare for millions, he needs to immediately resign as minority leader. 202-224-6542

10.11.2025 02:53 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums

I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year.

All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.

10.11.2025 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4467    πŸ” 817    πŸ’¬ 195    πŸ“Œ 58

Republicans are losing this fight right now. Why the hell would Democrats cave with nothing for the working people? When millions are losing healthcare?

If you cave now, you don’t deserve to lead, you deserve to be replaced.

10.11.2025 01:14 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.

He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.

Literally resign tonight.

10.11.2025 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4121    πŸ” 906    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 57
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I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis.

I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this β€œdeal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO.

Full statement:

10.11.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 4542    πŸ” 794    πŸ’¬ 514    πŸ“Œ 94

Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?

09.11.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1126    πŸ” 407    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 51

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

09.11.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2656    πŸ” 2014    πŸ’¬ 182    πŸ“Œ 187

NEW HAMPSHIRE: HASSAN AND SHAHEEN ARE BOTH ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DEFECTING

CALL NOW

(202) 224-3324 (Hassan)
(202) 224-2841 (Shaheen)

LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics

09.11.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 387    πŸ” 201    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 6

This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.

10.11.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1910    πŸ” 1369    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 20
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Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.

I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible.

β€œThis is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors”

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21.10.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 4
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Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

SCOOP β€” The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

30.09.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4894    πŸ” 2212    πŸ’¬ 197    πŸ“Œ 241

i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.

11.09.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5661    πŸ” 907    πŸ’¬ 121    πŸ“Œ 32

I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today.

by most liberal pundits

11.09.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3357    πŸ” 609    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 11

The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirkβ€”when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)β€”is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.

11.09.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2456    πŸ” 550    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 25

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

11.09.2025 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 10543    πŸ” 2025    πŸ’¬ 428    πŸ“Œ 111

If Charlie Kirk had been, say, a Black Panther or member of the Nation of Islam and went around college campuses saying white people weren't qualified to fly planes or deserved to die in mass shootings, no one would eulogize him by saying he was "practicing politics the right way."

11.09.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 723    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk

Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.

Jared Polis has failed Colorado.

11.09.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 32478    πŸ” 9386    πŸ’¬ 977    πŸ“Œ 481

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

11.09.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 18641    πŸ” 5157    πŸ’¬ 263    πŸ“Œ 101

Kinda rings hollow that the same people condemning political violence because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk have been cheering on the mass starvation and slaughter of children in Gaza for years

10.09.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1355    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 7

Gavin Newsom really posted that the best way to honor Charlie Kirk's memory is by continuing his work.

Fuck you, Gavin.

10.09.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4328    πŸ” 750    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 68

The entirety of TAMU governance is literally a MAGA tantrum like what are you talking about?

10.09.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

06.09.2025 06:31 β€” πŸ‘ 11966    πŸ” 9862    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 742
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So what are we waiting for.

05.09.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1

If you’re still paying for an NYT subscription, today is a great day to cancel. And be sure to tell them why.

04.09.2025 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

Well, the hearing is over. Even Crapo noted at the end that RFK has not been responsive to committee requests. This poster need to touch grass after that clown show. RFK definitely used the Kavanaugh approach, just yell back at everyone.

TL:DR America is fucked. #SacktheQuack

04.09.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 428    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 4

RFK Jr. CAN’T read readily available data on how many Americans died during the pandemic.

He CAN read β€œdata” that supports the debunked junk claim that vaccines cause autism.

RFK Jr. is selectively illiterate when it comes to anything that isn't a clickbait conspiracy. #ImpeachRFK

04.09.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

please keep paying this company to spread misinformation about health because you like their word puzzles

04.09.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 243    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3

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