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*Cat… on Twitter, migrating over here* Bilingual & child spoken word recognition & L1/L2 acquisition. Warren Dem, First Gen, grandchild of immigrants, Made in Detroit. EDS, lupus & more. Ελληνοαμερικανίδα🇺🇸🇬🇷, 三日坊主
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The original video on Twitter and the hundreds of approving comments there are sickening. This administration needs to be brought down, and the sooner the better before they can do even more harm. Other sources saying some migrants have made suicide or escape attempts.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

#SaveOurServices Nationwide protests all day tomorrow 2/19/2025 Detroit event 5:30 pm Social Security Admin 477 Michigan Ave Detroit, MI 48226 Wear red, white and/or blue Post photos #SaveOurServices actionnetwork.org/events/save-...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Autocracies or democracies, how has the world evolved over time. ⚖️🌍⏳ (Source: V-Dem / Human Progress) #HumanRights #Governance #History

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Old friend just laid off by USDA, 1 mos short of his probationary period as senior researcher. Brilliant person who left a tenured faculty position several yrs ago to join USDA. Bright early-career researchers also being laid off. USDA is terminating a generation of highly-qualified scientists.

submitted 5 days ago • 827 comments

I keep asking myself why we can’t have something like this here youtu.be/PSPhqe0Avuo

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My dual-citizen teenager came to me when this started worried for herself & her friends (some born here of immigrants, some naturalized citizens themselves). I told not to worry….the world is upside down. Frankly, I’m glad she has the choice of moving to Japan now.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Your anger is legitimate. This is the most important thing I’ve read today.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

True.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders rolling back abortion protections in the middle of the night, hoping that no one would notice. This is — and always has been — about controlling women’s bodies. I’m fighting back.

submitted 6 days ago • 289 comments

An attack on women’s access to paid work.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 6 days ago • 190 comments

Sad but true. It's Putin and Musk versus the world.

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

I think about this *all* the time. What if we just encouraged *everyone* to be kind, gentle, and caring *as well as* strong, ambitious, and fierce? Why are the latter valued and the former denigrated, again and again?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It’s remarkable how quickly the Trump team has sabotaged all the things that actually made the U.S. influential on the global stage. Free trade economics, strong diplomatic networks and alliances, the soft power of democratic culture and values, the hard power of a competent military …

submitted 6 days ago • 246 comments

I know Stathis. He was a colleague of mine at the University of Chicago. He is a pretty buttoned-down scholar. For him to tweet this out is… something.

submitted 6 days ago • 86 comments

If you oppose the muzzling of CDC & public health info, mask bans, and censorship of words in scientific research & grants meant to silence & defund, MASKING IS A GREAT WAY TO SHOW YOUR RESISTANCE to all this backsliding of Public Health & science progress ✊😷 + masks work to keep you in the fight!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 6 days ago • 481 comments

I'm in. February 28, 2025!

submitted 6 days ago • 342 comments

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

NIH funding at @UMich supports important medical research, such as extending the life of organs waiting for transplant, advancing treatments for cerebral palsy, and sustaining experimental genetic trials for children with brain cancer.

submitted 8 days ago • 221 comments

So much chaos I’m not sure if this is a positive sign or just Russia saying keep them on to train our guys when we take over. I’m joking…but I can’t stop my mind from going there when everything seems calculated to gut American democracy & power and further Putin’s geopolitical goals.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I hope that when one mainstream media outlet is finally brave enough to call it a coup, the logjam will be broken and other media will be empowered to speak the truth. Because if they don’t speak with one voice, the chaos may only intensify.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

submitted 8 days ago • 781 comments

At the direction of RFK Jr., America’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, the CDC has suddenly fired nearly 1,300 employees in a single day. 10% of America’s vital team of health experts — considered global leaders in disease control — have been axed. Although HHS…

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments