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Scientist, anatomist, designer, & lifelong learner. Proudly opposed to fascism ✊🏻. Gay 🏳️‍🌈. Plant-based for my health, the animals, and the planet 🌱. 🏡 Rhode Island, USA.
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As someone in their late 30s and who really would like to continue getting my annual COVID vaccine, what options do I have? Can I take a trip to Canada to get my vaccine?

Jk deporting you

So true. Trump is hitting universities hard because knowledge is power and Trump wants everyone except him to be powerless.

So glad to see the courts (mostly) holding the line against Trump's authoritarian takeover of the federal government. Please keep fighting Harvard and AAUP!

This is awful. I've been getting my covid (and flu) vaccines every fall since the pandemic and I have yet to get seriously ill from either*. Thanks to the Trump administration and RFK Jr we're all about to get sicker... *ofc, vaccines don't prevent serious illness, just lower the chances

As Trump defies courts, ignores the Constitution and punishes dissenters, all while he and his friends get even richer, June 14 needs to be our biggest and most widespread day of protest yet. There are over 700 events planned for No Kings Day. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

BREAKING NEWS: Water sausage shows off his impressive skills.

Tay Tay drove ‘im cray cray.

Pres, Gagliardi, of the 🇺🇸 Federation of Musicians: “We will not remain silent as 2 of our members Bruce Springsteen & Taylor Swift r singled out & personally attacked by the POTUS. S&S r not just brilliant musicians, they r role models & inspirations 2 millions of ppl in the US & across the🌍” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

REMINDER: Trump is ignoring a Supreme Court order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home. The leader of the GOP even admitted that he could do it with one call and still hasn’t. Make sure your Members of Congress hear from you about this attack on our Constitutional rights: act.indivisible.org/...

@propublica.org win another Pulitzer. Because abortion bans kill. Let that sink in. These, today's and tomorrow's deaths will not deter the banners. That minority cannot change. It is the indifferent & the unaware who can be moved to caring. That is the way to reclaim our rights.

Warnock: Georgia officials said they were sorry but their hands were tied, you can’t vote the first weekend of the runoff after the holiday so I decided to untie them, I sued them. And I won… They appealed asking for emergency relief. Emergency relief from what? People voting?

🧵RFKJ insists HHS cuts “won’t affect the science”. So let’s talk employee numbers. In January 2025, CDC had ~13,000 employees. On Feb 17, ~700 were fired (150 rehired). On Apr 1, 2700 were fired. Several hundred more will take early retirement. We have already lost over 1 in 4 workers.

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

With the Lib Dems pledging fines for playing music on phones out loud in public, what public behaviours most bother Britons? Not picking up dog poo: 97% bothers a great deal/fair amount Littering: 96% Coughing/sneezing without covering: 88% Full list in the chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

In a world of too many Pete Hegseth’s, be a Pete #Buttigieg.

And so it begins?

Private detention centers are profiting off mass deportation just like private prisons profit off mass incarceration. Our humanity is at stake and our destinies are tied.

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

There are businesses in Providence that have listed themselves on a website self-described as an “anti-woke online marketplace” and aligned with Trump. If you don't want to support these businesses, look them up at www.publicsquare.com/marketplace. For more info www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Trump on the huge drop in international tourism: "It's not a big deal." Are you in the tourism industry? Do you agree?

New graphic for "Dont Tread On Me"?

I want politics to be about a better everyday life. Here's what that can look like:

Newsom: In 2023, Californians contributed $83.1 billion more to the federal government than we received back. And for your viewers: that other state—Texas—took $71.1 billion more than it contributed to the federal government. California: $83 billion, contributor. Texas: taker.

See the problem here?

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

Protesters gathered outside RI Hospital in support of a Providence man tasered and detained by ICE "We asked to speak with him," said the man's lawyer. "That was denied, apparently by ICE. My only concern is that he be granted his right to due process." steveahlquist.substack.com/p/protesters...

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

This regime brags that they are seizing drugs and detaining criminals. In reality they are seizing "smuggled" frog embryos, detaining biologists, and scaring away the talent that has made our country the world leader in scientific breakthroughs. www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n...

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I’m at the Leon County Jail with the mom of the 20 year old U.S. citizens arrested for illegally entering Florida after a traffic stop. She showed his birth certificate in court. He’s still in jail waiting for ICE officials to pick him up.

Slow speed cities are quieter cleaner safer healthier and more age friendly.

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

5 things I love about my autism... #AutismAwarenessMonth

A man is being deported for using his voice. If free speech leads to detention and deportation, this is only the beginning. If Khalil isn't safe, none of us are safe. #FreeMahmoud #FreeKhalil #DefendDissent #BringThemBack

Talked to someone who lives in Texas - 5 figure donor to DNC. Said they hadn’t heard about the doctor from Brown being disappeared. Talk to your friends in other states. Not everyone is as plugged in as you reading this right now. Spread the word. Spread reputable news. Connect the dots.

Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2

Trump caved. Carry on with your day.

In Wyoming, where Trump received 72% of the vote in November, thousands turned out on Saturday (and some even on horseback). If you ever feel like a blue dot in a red state, you’re not alone. Our Rural Caucus is here for you: secure.everyaction.c...

#GVerse 😑

In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.

Two federal courts have now ordered the Trump admin to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to his US citizen wife and child in Maryland. The admin already admitted they wrongly deported him. They cannot continue defying judicial rulings. Bring Kilmar back NOW. www.cnn.com/2025/04/07/p...