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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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I wrote about how Trump is using authoritarianism to distract from all of his losses last week www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

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Oh look, our local transphobic now-unemployed weirdo made it to r/LeopardsAteMyFace www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAt...

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

"nullification of the election results" = "winning imbued trump with sovereign authority and so all opposition to him is illegitimate and illegal"

submitted 7 hours ago • 146 comments

This. Is. Already. How. It. Works.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report

submitted 21 hours ago • 13 comments

As expected, RFK Jr. was lying during his confirmation hearing and now is ratfucking the vaccination system in the US. The vast majority of the public does not want this and yet again it’s clear that the Republican administration does not serve the electorate.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

This is an atrocity.

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New profile picture! Now with more hair!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

politics really should not be done by people with poor emotional regulation

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Darkness descends. MAHA = fear farming & the monetization, normalization, & entrenchment of unproven, exploitive, & mostly useless wellness woo. Plus, lots of conflicts of interest.👇 5 food power players have strong ties to MAHA movement www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/m... via @statnews.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

My kingdom for an appropriate policy job listing befitting my skill set and needs. I no longer know what I’m doing wrong in searching for these things.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

NIH is cutting research on mRNA vaccines. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya signed a petition calling for a halt on the vaccines & said many people view it as a "bad platform." But in 2021 he wrote a white paper praising the technology as an example of the type of breakthrough science NIH should fund.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I do wonder what it costs financially to have an army occupying Los Angeles and why I keep being told the government doesn't have enough money to pay for public schools to buy supplies for their teachers

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Oh, so they’re just locking down the fourth largest downtown in the United States now?

submitted 1 day 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 1 day ago • 55 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 1 day ago • 20 comments

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

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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 2 days ago • 121 comments

take note of which Marines comply with this

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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

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

submitted 2 days ago • 156 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 116 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 2 days ago • 362 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 2 days 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 2 days ago • 633 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 3 days ago • 67 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments