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Retired RN JD, mom to adults. Interests include fiber arts, health care, epidemiology, law, politics and biomedical ethics.
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Jay, please stop gaslighting early career researchers.

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

submitted 10 minutes ago • 5 comments

Remember his name. Matthew Memoli should go down in history as the key accomplice in the destruction of the NIH.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

I saw Al Franken take a small child (probably his daughter, Thomasin) out of a restaurant on Broadway near Columbia University. As I walked by, Franken stooped down to gently and earnestly talk to her, possibly about behavioral expectations.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I saw a "why should Black people care about ICE?" post on IG and I'm just floored just how much Black immigrants are rendered invisible while facing higher detention and deportation rates.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Counterpoint: foam core whiteboard protest signs (about $9 each at Michaels) decorated with Expo dry-erase markers can be used again and again. I've been using the same two foam core whiteboards since April! Any residue left from dry erasing wipes clean with rubbing alcohol and a rag.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Law enforcement injure at least 4 journalists covering protests in California amid federal crackdown cpj.org/2025/06/law-...

submitted 11 days ago • 78 comments

Project 2025 playbook—Trump wants to enact martial law. It’s a set up. If you protest, keep that in mind. DO NOT GIVE HIM AN EXCUSE! Share widely...

submitted 11 days ago • 82 comments

Just a reminder that "non-lethal" projectiles of any kind can cause life-altering injuries that lead to death. www.npr.org/2024/06/21/n...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This week's sign. For those who don't speak Spanish, mierda is shit; mierdas is the plural form. #TeslaTakedown #SignsOfProtest

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

He wanted to be a “somebody.” That’s it! When people don’t do things for money it’s pretty simple to figure out why they then do them. People either want to help people or they want attention and adulation. I think this guy wanted the latter!

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments