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New article based on data from my organization Mapping Police Violence shows police killings have surged in Red states. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

Three years ago today, a teenager with a legally purchased AR-15 and high-capacity magazines opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Nineteen fourth-graders and two teachers were shot and killed, and 17 others were wounded.

Three years ago, 21 students and staff were senselessly killed in a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. Gun violence remains the leading cause of death among American kids.

We must fight in their honor and end this country's gun violence epidemic.

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Please help this wonderful dedicated organization rebuild after the #STLTornado. #UrbanBornSTL

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A little reminder that the president who is defying orders of the Supreme Court for more than a month is a convicted criminal currently out on bail.

2024 Was Pedestrians' Deadliest Year In St. Louis City And County | St. Louis Magazine There’s no sugarcoating the facts: 2024 was the deadliest year on record for pedestrians in both St. Louis city and county. Both jurisdictions saw a big

St. Louis saw a dramatic spike in pedestrian deaths last year, @trailnetstl.bsky.social says.

Consider the story of Kseniia Petrova, the Russian anti-aging scientist who had her visa revoked for not declaring medical samples that her Harvard lab director had asked her to bring into the United States. America used to recruit such brilliant and dedicated scientists. Now, we give them away at the behest of men like Marco Rubio. She is in a jail cell in Louisiana, worried she will be deported back to Russia, where she had protested its authoritarian leader. Harvard has done little to object. She said: Even immigrants here, they have to have some rights. But it seems that nobody really cares about our rights here…This is not the kind of America I used to know

US higher ed is:
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
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‘People would die’: As summer approaches, Trump is jeopardizing funding for AC Some $380 million is now in limbo after Trump laid off staff that run a program helping low-income people pay their energy bills.

Cutting federal funding for air conditioning is a life and death issue in some parts of the country. Yet another way the Trump administration is killing us.

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act.

Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes?
Staffer: a DL and birth certificate.
Me: The documents don’t match
Staffer: Then a marriage certificate.
Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too?
Staffer: No
Me: See the problem?

Please help if you can!

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change It’s unclear whether the guidance will impact active grants, but it appears to halt opportunities for future studies. One climate health expert said the directive would have a “devastating” impact on ...

“If NIH doesn’t study the health impacts of climate, we are not going to be able to prevent some of those health impacts, and we aren’t going to be able to find ways to deal with them.”

NIH Ends Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

The more coverage a story gets, the more important readers think it is.

So it matters when the NYT inflates flimsy Dem ‘scandals’ while downplaying real, criminal ones from Trump and Republicans. It’s not just bad judgment — it shapes public perception.

Columbia student protester who's lived in the US since age 7 sues to stop deportation order Another Columbia University student says that the Trump administration has targeted her for deportation over her pro-Palestinian views, accusing immigration officials of employing the same tactics use...

“ICE’s shocking actions against Ms. Chung form part of a larger pattern of attempted U.S. government repression of constitutionally protected protest activity and other forms of speech,” said Chung’s lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan.

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%
www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense.

I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense

I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

We have until March 7 to fight back against President Trump’s executive order to “dismantle” gun violence prevention measures. Americans want gun safety, not Trump's guns everywhere agenda.

Sign the petition. Act now to stop Trump’s rollback and save lives. www.bradyunited.org/take-action/...

An Earn-A-Bike graduate's snow-plow bike concept

we're all dreaming of the real-life version of this participant's submission: a snow-plow bicycle, complete with everything from a heater to melt the icepocalypse to a hot-cocoa dispenser and marshmallow container. ❄🚲

So excited our faculty are partnering with St. Louis BWorks! Can't wait to see what comes this spring.

Billionaires Should Not Exist Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Our @stlbworks.bsky.social trivia night is back & I'd love to see you there (7 p.m. Friday March 7)! Buying a table & inviting some pals for an evening of fun for a good cause is a great way to support our efforts across the #STL region. Learn more & buy a table at www.bworks.org/blog/2025/01... 💙

Trump gives ATF, DEA and Marshals new powers to arrest and deport illegal migrants President Trump is calling in the cavalry to help ICE catch and deport illegal migrants in the US.

🧵Gun violence is the leading cause of death for American children & teens. Instead of saving children lives & making our nation safer by ⬆️ resources for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to #EndGunViolence, Trump is using the ATF for his fascist deportation agenda.

"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."

If you want to put in a bit of effort to be a better person to those with different accessibility needs, just toggle the 'require alt texting before posting' setting

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What Happens When a Plastic City Burns Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.

Our modern houses full of plastic burn faster, hotter, and release more toxic smoke. Your couch is like a block of gasoline. The gases from these can be toxic, and can't be filtered by an N95 like particulate matter can. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I think we can change the world by having protected bike lanes and secure bike parking everywhere.

Clean indoor air through improved filtration and ventilation is the only viable way forward.

Flu, covid, RSV, pollen, wildfire smoke – we must take a systemic approach to these health threats

Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚

Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏