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Researcher and Health Technician currently working at the Oregon National Primate Research Center. I'm also a huge fan of everything Steven Erikson and an advocate for labor rights.
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James Eagan sounds like Donald Glover when he played a white dude in Atlanta. #severance #lumon

#PhilSci #PhilTech #PhilHist #PhilMind #PhilSky

For the fifth time, I'm finishing The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. And I'm probably going to immediately start it again. It's like a disease.

Funny....All of a sudden, no one's performing arbitrary sex-change operations on unexpecting grade-schoolers anymore.

I've always assumed that Musk's support for Trump was, in part, an attempt to get conservative voters to buy his cars: www.wired.com/story/donald...

The bear literally just fixes the cone and then keeps walking. wtf?

A WORLD WITHOUT KINGS

RFK Jr. has no idea how viruses, or germs in general, work.

It's always important to remember that we live in a global economy. A win for the rights of workers anywhere is a win for the rights of workers everywhere.

The Post Millennial published a letter that Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney in DC, sent to the dean of Georgetown Law. “It has come to my attention reliably that Georgetown Law School continues to teach and promote DEI. This is unacceptable. I have begun an inquiry into this…” 1/

A handful of people with more money than the entire middle class combined want you to blame anyone and anything but their own greed for why everything is so expensive. Don’t fall for it.

"Union members need to be able to talk sense to their co-workers about immigration—why people come to the U.S., what they contribute here, and why everyone having the same labor rights protects all workers from abuse." labornotes.org/2025/02/immi...

NEW: A D.C. federal judge rules that Trump’s firing of Cathy Harris, the chair of an agency that protects federal workers’ rights, was illegal and exceeded his authority. The court orders for Harris to be reinstated as chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board.

Coming from someone who has used mRNA vectors while performing biomedical research, this makes absolutely no sense: www.radioiowa.com/2025/03/04/b...

After 46 days on the picket line, nurses walked back into eight Providence hospitals across Oregon in good spirits after ratifying a new contract with their employer. Labor Notes Organizer Kari Thompson reports: labornotes.org/2025/03/oreg...

have said for a month that Ukraine must look to Europe and elsewhere for support. This proves it. It is time for Ukraine to do this without the US. We are no longer a country that stands by our stated values and ideals - we are now morally small, vicious, and petty.

SpaceX is located in the poorest county in America: youtube.com/shorts/W4rch...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Elon’s mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.

AFSCME. I'm a proud member, even though no one knows what it stands for. youtube.com/shorts/l9iXO...

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

BREAKING: Utah BANNING firefighters, police, teachers, and other govt workers from negotiating for better pay and benefits for them and their families This is MAGA: 1) False promises to help people against elites 2) Destroy middle class workers and families -- to benefit elites

Hey @JDVance, and @elonmusk, and @realDonaldTrump it looks like the Auschwitz Memorial wants to educate you. STOP LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

The first month of Trump's second turn has been a relentless assault on worker rights. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Yet another reason to never go to Utah. Utah Bans Collective Bargaining for Public Workers www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

The CFPB put $19.7B back into the pockets of families who were cheated by financial predators. Let’s be honest: the only reason Trump and Musk would shut down America’s consumer watchdog is because they are corrupt—and they don’t like when anybody stops them from being corrupt.

Utah's legislature just approve a bill that would ban collective bargaining for public-sector employees. If signed into law, the bill would prevent unions from performing their core function: negotiating compensation and benefits for their members. ksltv.com/politics-ele...

Whole Foods, which is owned by notorious union-buster Amazon, is arguing that Trump's dismantling of the NLRB means the company doesn't have to recognize a newly unionized store in Philadelphia. Looks like Jeff Bezos's investment in Trump is paying off.

His troll level is over 9000.

This is like announcing that you won't voluntarily give your loved ones ebola. Like, "Good, but duh!"

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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I just met with Community Health Centers from Oregon that told me providers across our state are starting layoffs because of Trump's funding freeze. Donald Trump is already forcing kids and families to go without the health care they need.