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Postdoc @ Hess Lab @ UC Davis (PhD @ UCSB). Cow gut microbe engineering at the bench, science policy and politics away from it. Opinions my own. Bluesky’s first Anaerobic Fungi Guru. She/her. ☸️ (Jōdo Shinshū) Hold the line.
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Oh, so they’re just locking down the fourth largest downtown in the United States now?

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

NBC Interview with Gavin Newsom. He lays it on the line and slams Trump on everything from the illegal take over of the national guard to tariffs and is not holding back. This is how Dems need to handle Trump.

submitted 6 hours ago • 33 comments

If your news channel includes commentators who — citing no sources — talk about other people’s state of mind is if it was knowable fact, then you’re not watching the news. You’re watching fascist propaganda.

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

I have a lot of reasons I don’t like Governor Newsom, but uh GO GOVERNOR NEWSOM

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Governor Newsom: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops ... and return them to my command. ... This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed." The letter:

submitted 11 hours ago • 115 comments

take note of which Marines comply with this

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

I am genuinely worried about how much time we have before Trump decides he wants to send troops into Sacramento

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

submitted 10 hours ago • 132 comments

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

submitted 10 hours ago • 95 comments

Yes. I have heard this from both liberal and conservative people with sources inside the agency. It’s not just the pushback, it’s also that many officers want to believe they’re targeting the “bad guys” and this admin is telling them “screw you, grab families.” Genuinely, morale is way down.

submitted 15 hours ago • 346 comments

defenders of women’s sport thinking that *Simone Biles* is an inferior athlete compared to all male gymnasts is so incredibly telling

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This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

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This is correct

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

1/ If accurate, this is almost certainly a conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement, including the National Guard if they are federalized.

submitted 1 day ago • 630 comments

The Insurrection Act is sweeping. It’s a huge grant of power to the President. It is also very expressly for conditions that do not exist in California. And if you’re hypothetically the governor, you should be saying so.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

The word you’re looking for is “illegal.”

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

My hunch is that, as we saw with Lafayette Park, National Guard troops are not going to be as compliant as this administration thinks. It’s one thing to unleash cops consumed by warrior cop culture on neighborhoods. Quite another to send reservists who are also accountants, barbers, and teachers.

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

submitted 1 day ago • 1021 comments

power doesn’t panic

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I don’t drop f bombs much on this account but oh fuck Trump federalized the CA National Guard

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There was an akabeko on sale at my temple’s rummage sale and I am very sad I did not get it

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"they're just gonna use this as an excuse to crack down harder" yeah just like when you finally stood up to your childhood bully and got in trouble for it because he cried. you kinda had to do it anyway though. not just to prove to everyone else that you could fight back, but to prove it to yourself

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

submitted 1 day ago • 203 comments

One of the wildest things about reactionary psychology is that they seem *genuinely hurt & dismayed* when people react badly to their violent, stupid behavior.

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If California gets funding pulled, the line we absolutely must maintain is that it’s not about trans kids. The far right has been talking about destroying academia for decades. We must refuse to accept “Trump ends all medical research because a trans girl ran a track meet” as reality.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Somewhere out there, all the comms people in Schiff and Padilla's office are frantically deciding how to phrase their statement about LA. On the one hand, we are in the midst of a takeover by fascist insurrectionists. On the other hand, some consultants are saying it is bad to support immigrants.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This is the first case of measles across Yolo and Sacramento counties in 2025.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The Supreme Court says Big Balls can have access to everyone's Social Security records (and remember that they have been using that unlawful access to falsely declare living people to be dead so they can't hold a job or a bank account). 1/3

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

For some perspective, the federal government funds *over half* of all scientific research and development conducted by the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social -- and UC is collectively responsible, in turn, for over 8% of all academic research conducted in the United States.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

shots fired

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Apparently UC Davis got rid of Beth Bourne, so, yay She apparently harassed kids outside the middle school near me today though

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments