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writer, teacher, data nerd, climate activist, mama ~ repped by @danyakukafka ~ she/her
Grey graphic with bold black borders with red text that reads 'urgent action needed' with text underneath that says stop HR 9495 : NONPROFIT KILLER BILL UP FOR A VOTE TUESDAY 5/13 AT 2 PM ET!!!!
WE NEED CALLS NOW! HR 9495, now known as Section 112209, if passed, would give the Trump administration unprecedented power in suppressing nonprofits, by allowing the administration the power to strip organizations of their tax exempt status!
Call 319-313-7674
May the 4th be with you! Happy #StarWarsDay !
04.05.2025 05:43 — 👍 92 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 3RESULT: Voters in Mansfield, Texas, have ousted three conservative members of their local school board tonight.
This is a school board that has been at the frontlines of book-banning in Texas, as you can see here: fortworthreport.org/2025/03/19/m...
Did you read about this? www.wired.com/story/slate-...
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They’re coming for #HeadStart next, but they should expect a fight: www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
12.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trump administration opens half of National Forests to logging. An emergency order lifts protections on over half of U.S. Forest Service lands as the Trump pushes to increase timber production.
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A compelling collection of stories from XR scientists detailing their personal responses to the climate and ecological crisis and their motivations that led them to work with XR 🧑🔬
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Toddler holds a sign that reads 1+1=2 even I know that
Amherst, MA #nokings
05.04.2025 16:44 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
26.03.2025 23:10 — 👍 3608 🔁 1207 💬 3434 📌 3546Whoever is doing this in the UK deserves an award.
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Toddler proudly touches her purple mask with unicorns on it
My daughter just turned 2 so we got her first mask!
15.03.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Climate United out here pointedly demonstrating that the government is operating in such profound bad faith that it may no longer be reasonable to extend them professional courtesy storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
12.03.2025 17:27 — 👍 2829 🔁 676 💬 24 📌 45
Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"
12.03.2025 13:35 — 👍 9332 🔁 3104 💬 70 📌 180Cannot stress Amy's second point enough. It's both morally wrong and unbelievably dangerous for Jews to allow ourselves to be used as the wedge to overturn basic civil liberties in this country.
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A palate cleanser if you just need a reminder about what humans can do for each other out of gratitude and generosity: www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...
05.03.2025 00:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fun Fact! Tonight’s designated survivor is Vladimir Putin
05.03.2025 00:49 — 👍 3271 🔁 474 💬 39 📌 14For journalists, writers, artists, historians, photographers and cultural workers -- it's going to be so, so important that we document and bear witness to this moment in history.
It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.
Today I summarized Beauty and the Beast for my 2 year old as “a show about a girl who’s different than the people around her. She loves books, and that makes her special.”
That should do for a couple years? Also at bedtime she started saying, “I love books, too!” Though only maybe related…
Sampling of fungi collected from summer, 2008 foray in Northern Saskatchewan mixed woods, near LaRonge. Image courtesy of Wikipedia
Good News: A financial deal to protect nature was agreed by nearly 200 countries.
❌ Bad News: A million species are heading to extinction, not enough action is being taken to stop this #NatureCrisis and humans depend on the diversity of nature to survive…
#Biodiversity #EcologicalEmergency
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Rep. Warren Davidson of Ohio
Rep Victoria Spartz of Indiana
just became the deciding votes to gut Medicaid.
House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care.
They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely.
This won’t just harm people. This will kill people.
They own this.
House Republicans just took the first step towards passing their plans to cut health care and hike the cost of groceries for millions of people.
Why? To pay for tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
Working people won't forget this. We need to fight back.
A screenshot of an email notifying Spotsylvania parents that funding for a program for youth with disabilities has been canceled
the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs
16.02.2025 18:14 — 👍 10693 🔁 4692 💬 351 📌 628What is inherent to our species is a drive for cooperation and altruism. But its been hacked by the hero narrative. Kind of like how high salt/fat/MSG foods hack our hunger so we keep eating the Doritos. The hero narrative uses the best of us against ourselves and leads to the notion of supremacy.
16.02.2025 19:30 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Project 2025 as planned
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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...
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Read the letter of resignation from SDNY AUSA Hagan Scotten, Bronze Star recipient, former clerk to Chief Justice Roberts. Bravo!
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🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings.
But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.
