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andyaf.bsky.social
Progressive musician & writer living on Cowlitz, Multnomah & Wasco land. Staying informed on climate, covid, novel viruses & their links to US genocidal activities
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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.

JUST NOW: ICE denied at Dodgers stadium

How Ivermectin became Right Wing aspirin www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

it is hard to convey in words how bad the bloodbath has been for professionals working in the "not evil" sectors

Firing food inspectors makes eating food in America a sort of dark odyssey. A journey into the unknown.

It is time for state and local governments to arrest masked officers who won’t produce warrants and who have no proof someone is undocumented. Kidnappers should be arrested and indicted and tried for kidnapping and serve the many years such sentences carry.

Sophie Cunningham!!!💥 Gonna watch that revenge takedown for Caitlin Clark anytime I need a pick-me-up. Ben Daniels breaks it down. Need to do something abt those shit refs who let the game get that out of control. youtu.be/5VEWZ7O6oRQ?...

As Long Covid surpasses asthma as a leading chronic pediatric illness, multiple countries decided it's still a great time to severely restrict access to covid-19 vaccines.

Trump says mass deportations are urgent—but not if they mess with his donors’ pockets. ICE was told to back off farms & hotels 'cause it was bad for business. But LA and Chicago? Open season. Please be for real—this is the weaponization of government against cities that refuse to bow down to him.

Protecting one of their own

Noticed this in Portland yesterday. Yes the overall theme is No Kings but what's rallying ppl the most in this moment is ICE. Every community large and small should be organizing direct action response infrastructure right now.

Love how the media says "10s of thousands" turned out for the No Kings protest. Girl try 10s of MILLIONS. Including Minnesota. Decorah, IA, population just under 8k, had an 8k person turnout! Here's Portland, OR.

Loved @asharangappa.bsky.social talking about Trump provoking violence to justify military response. John Lennon said something like this 50 years ago

Hmmmm . . . I wonder how the Minnesota assassin might have had access to a police uniform, a police badge, and a police cruiser. Are we *sure* he was "impersonating" a police officer?

More than 6000 scientists have signed a declaration condemning "Administration policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe" www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

ICE raided Los Angeles elementary schools in an attempt to kidnap small children. They hid their identities, claimed they weren't ICE, and lied to school authorities that they had "permission" from the parents to take the children out. School officials luckily didn't fall for it.

BREAKING: LA solidarity protesters in Austin are occupying JJ Pickle Federal Building, which houses local ICE processing center

Trump and his fascist friends are using every tool at their disposal to cast these protests as violent so they can declare martial law. The heavier the response, the more "violent" the protests seem to the public, even if they're not violent. www.the-sentinel-intelligence.net/donald-trump...

If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

Downtown Los Angeles Free David Huerta rally just starting. Do not fuck with the unions, folks.

"I was pretty surprised how efficient the government is." DOGE employee on their "fraud + waste" bs. Shortly after the interview, his DOGE access was revoked. www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.

Oh.

Accurate

“it feels like things are getting really bad for adults which means it’s only going to get worse for us” - 9th grader yes, young padwan, that is why we fight, and will continue to fight, so hard for u 😭😭

once again I must tap my own sign