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NYU Film alum. Adventures with my chonky chihuahua. Cystic fibrosis, double lung transplant (2020), cancer and ostomy (2024). Mask advocate. Artist. #ncpol
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If you’ve already started calling it the Gulf of America instead of the Gulf of Mexico, you should have no trouble with someone’s preferred name and pronouns.

As an anti-vaxxer & anti-vaccine RFK Jr. is about to be INSTALLED by the spineless GOP Senate in Congress, TODAY would be a good day to get YOUR Covid and Flu vaccines, while you STILL can.

Never really wanted to use Apple Maps but turns out it would be the dumbest name change ever that made me leave Google.

What are good alternatives to Google Mail? For Mac users. And if everyone has your Gmail, how do you change all of that? One by one?

@andria.bsky.social good to see you here!

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

The rush to destroy things like USAID and other agencies before lawsuits can stop them is to make it moot. When our stupidly slow judicial system finally moves to stop them it will be far too late. If all 10,000 USAID employees are home and projects abandoned it’s done. It’s evil.

They’ll FIND OUT at the gas pump, at the grocery store, at the mechanic shop, at the construction site, at the computer store, at the phone store… #tariffs

If you work in healthcare and can’t (or won’t) wear a mask for your patient… you need to find another job. Wearing a mask should not be optional. If a patient makes arrangements in advance, has their chart noted as “masks required” and you still say “No”? You don’t belong in patient care

I dragged my ass into Meals on Wheels for my kitchen shift today. Lunch was roasted chicken with apples and herb gravy, roasted potatoes, and mixed vegetables. We sent out 737 meals, 169 special meals, and 574 frozen meals today. I am a wreck, but our volunteers were kind enough not to comment.

Trans Travel Ban??? Is Trump’s executive order a travel ban for trans people, in effect if not in name? This trans woman says it is. www.instagram.com/share/BAKLoX...

It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes.

‼️ The State Department has REMOVED TQIA+ on their page of recommendations for queer travelers. This page yesterday said "LGBTQIA+" and now just says "LGB". The federal government is trying to erase trans people from existence.

my little brother was one of the fatal fentanyl overdoses that is being used to justify tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and I can't think of a more cynical and disrespectful exploitation of a tragedy that has touched almost every family in this country

The Trump Regime scrubbing health care data from federal websites is going to directly kill seriously chronically ill and acutely ill children and adults across the United States. Doctors rely on this information to make life and death treatment decisions. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

I needed to go to ER tonight, but I was totally incapacitated from stomach pain and vomiting. My caregiver is too elderly to drive at night + lives an hour away. An ambulance terrifies my rescue pup and she has seizures despite 3 meds for them. I was too sick to drive. #transplant

When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.

🛬UPDATE—Airport control tower was understaffed at time of DCA airport crash—one controller was working 2 different tower positions, normally done by 2 people—which FAA memo says was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic”. ➡️We should not downsize the FAA

seeing just how much evangelical christianity is soaked into every pore of all this horseshit....... all the initatives to drive women and minorities from public life in particular..... their Obsession with hierarchy and obedience and submission -- it's everywhere, like the foulest smell

Here's a clip from 2009, when President Obama spoke about the Continental Airlines crash -- the LAST time we had an airline crash with fatalities in America. He didn't blame Bush. He didn't blame Reagan. He just consoled America. A REAL Commander in Chief.

You can't beat a kid into not being neurodivergent

My dad was an Air Force pilot, then a captain for TWA and also did #planecrash investigations. I asked him if it’s hard to land at that airport. His reply: Yes, for lots of reasons Washington National is tough. It was a good 1936 DC-3 airport. I think the helicopter pilot & ATC are at fault.

Former Secretary of Transportation--who was not on The Real World or Road Rules--weighs in on the President's efforts to blame the fatal air traffic accident on DEI.