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She/her. Classical singer, science geek, cat lover, vegetarian, mom. Terminally socially awkward and becoming ok with that.
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The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans. You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.

Chicago is on to something.

🧵Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor write: "To [bet on the destruction of civilization] on this scale – to bank on your bunker – is to betray, on the most basic level, our duties to one another, to the children we love, and to every other life form with whom we share a planetary home...

Jagmeet Singh fought tooth and nail for $10/day daycare, universal dental care, and universal pharmacare. His work is not finished and I hope others will carry on with it...

It’s important to understand: the justification for this upward income redistribution — faster economic growth — is unlikely to materialize. The sweeping tariffs that Trump imposed have heightened the risks of a recession — & low-paid workers will bear the brunt. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

"It's astonishing to me that the very people who not a handful of years ago were screaming about the government tracking us with vaccines now cheer for feeding every piece of information about themselves into Elon Musk's stupid Skynet." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

[Alt text:"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average leisure, brutality, & stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools & muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement and terrorism." Bertrand Russell]

The more I learn about what's happening/happened on the ground of the measles outbreaks the more insane it gets. - One of the doctors RFK Jr. praised (Ben Edwards) was seeing patients in clinic WHILE HE ACTIVELY HAD MEASLES.

Diagnosis: narcissism and full of revenge

This seems right, and all of this is WRONG.

NEW: Trump’s attacking his perceived political enemies again — but this time, he’s doing it via executive order. Weaponizing the DOJ. Trump’s targeting “opponents” by launching investigations into Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor — a cybersecurity director and a whistleblower who defied Trump..

"Sycophant" is a word I've been thinking of a whole lot lately. #Fartofthedeal #artofthedeal #coupkluxklan #wealthinequity #runawayneoliberalism

#redinstead #neuroduversitty #autismacceptance #autismacceptancemonth #listentoautistics #actuallyautistic #aa

"The goal should be a day [sometime in summer 2026] when 2 million people show up in either New York or Washington and demonstrate that there is an unprecedented mass movement opposing the authoritarians running the federal government." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

🧪⚒️ Oh no, this is bad. Really really bad. M7.7 earthquake in Mynamar. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

BREAKING: Newly obtained footage of the abduction of Tufts student Runeysa Ozturk which includes audio of her kidnappers.

Statement by U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL)—a member of both the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC).