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A Potter in love with spreadsheets; a Quaker, geek & mom trying to find balance in an unbalanced world.
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All of us have a relative or friend struggling with addiction and/or mental health. Why are we now slashing funding for recovery efforts? Mental health and addiction funding on the federal chopping block www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...

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And the whitewashing continues: Trump executive order aims to remove DEI initiatives from Smithsonian and other cultural bodies www.npr.org/2025/03/27/n...

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Wow, just wow.

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I literally read this as ‘goofball tariffs,’ and was a little surprised to see it was actually ‘global.’

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BREAKING: US special envoy Steve Witkoff says Hamas is responsible for the renewed Israeli attacks on Gaza after rejecting efforts to move forward with what had been an “acceptable deal”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/di2bdm

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Gaza medics issue malnutrition alert as total Israeli blockade enters fourth week

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The study of health disparities is not DEI, it’s about understanding the role of socioeconomic and other factors play in affecting human health… and it’s essential to keeping us healthy

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A lot of parents who have special needs children but voted for Trump are about to get to the FO part.

submitted 7 days ago • 212 comments

You’re stronger than you think 🐇💗

submitted 8 days ago • 169 comments

Disgusting, even for Trump.

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Rhode Island family sues Town of Johnston for abusing eminent domain to block affordable housing open.substack.com/pub/steveahl...

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Sent today: Senator, While I do not love the idea of a government shutdown, please know that I would prefer that the Rhode Island senatorial delegation refused to cooperate with the GOP on the current budget CR. The draconian measures being used to hamstring our federal public services are

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Explain how the CDC is saving us money by repeating well-established studies in the hopes of getting different answers?

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Re: extremist social media’s effect on young minds:

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📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today. Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.

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Some good news!

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A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's firings of thousands of probationary employees, calling the actions illegal.

submitted 28 days ago • 48 comments

More tragic news about NIH and NIH science. Grant system is frozen and intramural program is being slashed. All will claw back on treatments and cures for cancer and other human diseases. This can’t be what the public wants. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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generalstrikeus.com/strikecard

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Yep, doin’ this

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USAID Pandemic response teams cut from 50 workers to 6, containment of Ebola outbreak compromised www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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Our media is under siege: Trump White House tightens grip on press access www.npr.org/2025/02/26/n...

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First US measles death since 2015, child in Gaines County TX.

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🧵 In the @housebudgetdems.bsky.social committee and on the House floor, my colleagues and I have been using this simple graphic.   Why?

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What she said.

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What even ARE indirect costs for research universities? Video provided by the American Association of Universities: youtu.be/NtqK8SyxFMc

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Hampton Dellinger, a government watchdog lawyer whose dismissal by President Trump has been stalled by the courts, announced on Monday that his office would seek to pause the mass firings of some probationary federal workers.

submitted 31 days ago • 39 comments

Remember how bad COVID hit us after President Trump dissolved the NSC pandemic unit and cut staff at the CDC? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

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An #NIH-funded research team has developed an mRNA vaccine to treat pancreatic cancer. Results from the clinical trial were published this week in Nature. #pancreas #cancer #mRNA #vaccine #medsky #science #medicine #bluesky

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Just wanted to post this, for those who think the current environment is all happy and safe. This is our car. Not sure if this happened in our driveway or in a parking lot, but somebody felt perfectly safe sitting there for a few minutes to send us this message.

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Rhode Island standing up! #50501

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mobilize.us/s/crSLRm

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. @aoc.bsky.social tells Jon Stewart that Dems need to “walk-the-walk” by ending their hypocritical insider trading practices. #TheWeeklyShow #politics

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Had enough? act.moveon.org/signup/signup

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I keep hoping to see David Tennant step out of a blue box saying something like, ‘No, this isn’t right at all!’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I experienced a secondhand gift-giving culture shock after moving to the Netherlands. It taught me a valuable lesson and changed my parenting style.

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The GOP budget fails to prevent 4 million Americans from losing health coverage by the end of the year. A 60-year-old couple in RI earning $82,000 a year would see their yearly premium rise by over $14,000. That’s not a typo! This is a betrayal to the middle class. Full stop.

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There you have it. Every Republican on the Budget Committee just exposed our middle class to higher costs, Medicaid recipients to benefit cuts, and gutted programs that feed kids. All this betrayal to cut taxes for their billionaire friends. That’s it, that’s the headline.

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youtu.be/cmIIKl93XjI?...

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