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Former science journalist. MFA, BSJ, no $$. She/they.
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One piece of advice to the youth: stop wearing plastic shoes. You might not be killing a cow, but you definitely have 10-12 dinosaurs on your feet.

Does RFK have giardia yet?

"If the United States saw what the United States was doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the United States." #evergreen

I’m 10 days from graduation but I can’t access my transcripts until I pay $2,200. Without them, I can’t transfer & finish my PoliSci degree. I’ve raised $1,276. Im asking for help to cross the finish line. Even $5 helps me keep chasing my dream of public service. Donate or Share gofund.me/614f0a60

You should be able to bet on salmonella futures

No problems here. Not a time has gone by that I didn’t fill that bish to the top in under 60 sec.

My two favorite characters in Arcane are Mel and Viktor, so the fandom is unbearable for me and I have to avoid... Which is a shame, because there's so much I'd like to discuss.

I told my doctor that I wouldn't get rid of my leftover pain pills because I might have to barter them for batteries and tomato seeds in the future. I suppose this was a not normal thing to say.

I see the Great Depression recipe of deportation, tariffs, and funneling money to the wealthy still cooks as well as it did a century ago

Reading the news feels like taking a pan out of a 400 degree oven with my bare hands.

Reinventing myself as a supervillain named the Fitness Instructor to vaccinate the unwilling with blow darts.

After many years of reporting and writing, the day is finally here: THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out today. I poured everything into this book, and I hope it ignites outrage at the fact that so many people in the richest nation on earth have been deprived of one of the most basic human necessities.

Make Elon Musk stateless 2025.

My name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani and I approve this message.

I say he lies, And lies, and lies.

congrats democrats, you got played like chumps. but at least you're respecting the office or some bullshit

People really need to be disabused of the notion that we’ll be able to flip the lights back on with the speed at which the Trump Administration has flipped them off. As it stands, it will take years to rebuild. If Trump is allowed to continue rebuilding will be a generational project.

"Education, because it involves children, because it’s largely women who are in the labor force, and because it’s something that people think they know...for all those reasons, its interrelatedness to other social issues is ignored."

In authoritarianism, the legislative body becomes irrelevant. Democrats have chosen not to wait.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Racial bias in healthcare tends to present with a prosecutorial nature. You will be called upon to justify yourself. Going to the hospital is like an episode of Law & Order. “Yesterday, you had this symptoms but today it’s gone. Explain that!” Meanwhile you’re just sick and trying to get help.

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

The French have a healthy disrespect for their government that Americans need to adopt, immediately.

Honestly, power in the US understands two things as behavior modifiers: overwhelming violence and having their money fucked with. Fuck with their money.

Happy Black History Month

Petition for the Western Reserve to secede from the rest of Ohio.

"The most salient lesson from “Sower,” for me—and one that runs throughout Butler’s work—is about the innovation and adaptation required to survive the unsurvivable." Lessons for the End of the World | Hanif Abdurraqib www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

Hey, we identitified a few of the researchers responsible for creating this DEI Watch List thing. This website still doesnt allow images to be uploaded through Tor tho, so here's the link to a consolidated version of our ID thread on Twitter: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18873...

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

Guaranteed that by now the G20 has branched off a separate group chat without him in it

support trans artists ✨ buy some of vee's *fabulous* art, or donate directly so she can keep bills from being overdue! :D she really needs the money right now

In the future I fully expect to be bartering expired penicillin for tomato seeds with someone who used to be a millionaire but didn't have a chair when the music stopped.

“we must substantively engage with obviously specious and disingenuous claims as long as there is a veneer academic inquiry” is why we’re in a place where scientific racism can circulate in the mainstream

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears. ——— 1 Chronicles 29:15

We're living in an age of darkness, and I don't just mean January. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

People need to be more receptive to my A Song of Fire and Ice theories. I'm right. #asoiaf #got #whyareyoubooing #theories

So true.

There is no more important story that needs your attention than the fact that the GOP is trying to steal a North Carolina Supreme Court seat. Please watch, share, and take action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzh1...

There are 395 incarcerated firefighters helping combat the wildfires in LA right now. They earn up to $26.90 over a 24-hour shift.

Calling the fire department woke in the middle of a massive wildfire is I guess the logical endpoint of gamergate