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Every policy we navigate today is built on the foundation of what came before — hidden provisions, quiet compromises, and power plays etched into law. 📜🔍 trackthebills.com Understanding the past actions of the U.S. government isn’t just for awareness. I’s foresight. Coming March 2025.

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Please join me in giving a warm welcome to the 35 incredible undergraduate students who have earned a Patti Grace Smith Fellowship!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

And now is the time when we see what companies REALLY gots women’s backs,,, the world is watching 👀

submitted 10 days ago • 404 comments

and transparency for all. trackthebills.com

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OoO00ops I am doing a thing ✨📜✨ While I am very open about my personal political views, I have a strong stance that EVERYONE should be able to easily understand what each piece of US legislature says and actually means if it passes. Enter your email at trackthebills.com for launch updates!

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Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.

submitted 11 days ago • 2428 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 13 days ago • 530 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 14 days ago • 358 comments

The biggest adult unlock I have discovered is that it's FINE to - buy a physical book at my fave local bookstore - buy the SAME book again on my Kindle so I can read while I travel Current read: Unreasonable Hospitality ✨

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

submitted 18 days ago • 507 comments

Looks like we can now also use the Waffle House Index to monitor bird flu. A little twist on using them to assess the severity of disaster impacts!

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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 2838 comments

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 19 days ago • 620 comments

This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!

submitted 18 days ago • 390 comments

Check the Mississippi State stats -- we need accessible education, support, and resources now more than ever.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve quit telling people that I disagree with them. Instead, I now say, “I’m gonna have to agree with myself on this one.” It’s self-positive, non-confrontational, and just weird enough to end the conversation.

submitted 22 days ago • 162 comments

while The Horrors persist, let us celebrate less horrors overall…. because all three mega fires in Los Angeles are finally 100% contained!!

submitted 21 days ago • 133 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 22 days ago • 503 comments

From conception to delivery! How stellar to be able to present our work on IUD insertion in microgravity at the NASA Investigators Workshop this week! 🚀👩🏽‍🚀🔴✨️

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Next Thursday, my flight to space with Blue Origin will be posted here: youtube.com/spacegal I can't wait to share the best week of my life with you all.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

SkyFi is looking for a UX Designer! 🎨 🌍 skyfi.com/en/careers/u... Come work with our international, remote team as we work hard to ensure that allllll this Earth data is easy to understand and use! Have any questions? Just lmk!!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of my favorite photographs ever (credit: Todd Heisler/The New York Times). I can't stop looking at it and thinking about everything that could have been instead.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

submitted 23 days ago • 322 comments

When I see a new job update from friends on LinkedIn, instead of congratulating the post author, I congratulate their new employer on being so lucky to get such a rockstar

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BERNIE SANDERS: Vaccines do not cause autism. Do you agree? RFK Jr: As I said, I'm not going into HHS with any preordained-- SANDERS: I asked you a simple question, Bobby RFK Jr: If you show me those studies ... SANDERS: That is a very troubling response

submitted 23 days ago • 412 comments

neither spiraling nor spinning out but a secret third thing

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You can download FREE aerial imagery taken just 10 days ago to help assess the impact of the LA fires on the greater community✈️ 🌏 Available on SkyFi: t.co/SFxO4nKw9I GIS friends, map friends, science friends, and those directly affected... check this out!

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10 cm aerial imagery over Los Angeles is available for FREE via Urban Sky + SkyFi. This link will open the app I work on and take you right to the $0.00 394 square kilometer image taken just 10 days ago! Tell your analyst friends, tell those affected 💙 app.skyfi.com/explore/open...

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These anti-free lunch politicians clearly didn't have to work through college and it shows

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Over the past 30 years, approximately 55,000 Mississippians have lost their rights to vote due to felony disenfranchisement. About six out of 10 are Black, according to state conviction records. https://buff.ly/4hzN1Ah

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

You cannot convince me that die-hard swifties would not make perfect UX researchers

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It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

submitted 25 days ago • 124 comments

Pretty telling that the anti-DEI whiners know that can't succeed when other groups are even invited to the table Be better???

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Mojo Dojo Casa White House

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Really feel like rage screaming today (assuming you haven't already)? Check out Bill 3537 from South Carolina... www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025...

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The last 5 days have been the longest year ever

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As climate change increases the risk of dry conditions and fire weather, fires across western NAm are bigger, more dangerous, and burning greater area. It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.

submitted 46 days ago • 28 comments

Sitting here completely sick at the situation in California. We need better ways to assess damage quickly -- the tech is there! We have to be faster and as preventative as possible. This isn't getting any better.

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Hi friends! I thought I’d try posting here as well! My name is Emily Calandrelli, and I just became the 100th woman in space! Wahoo!

submitted 88 days ago • 92 comments

Defying Gravity continues to be that girl

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Calmly narrating key flight milestones while pulling three g’s, then likening her astronaut Overview Effect to seeing her children right seconds after giving birth. Name a more iconic Emily Calandrelli moment. So happy for my friend and Brooke Owens Fellowship colleague! 👩‍🚀👸🏻

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

What a beautiful day to appreciate that ✨100✨ women have now been to space!

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