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Working on making it through the dark times. Evidenced-based decision making, all the time. Veterinarian, writer and public school and disability advocate. Existing in PA, the place it all went to shit. she/her
My inbox only has 2 so I thought I’d check my spam folder. Irony of ironies — the official notice from the university was in spam! 🤪
Yup, Sylvia was busy. I am a graduate of one of the professional schools but that isn’t considered part of GSE.
Either all the heroes are running for the hills or they were never heroes to begin with. Young men have the most to lose? No one wants to live looking over their shoulder? Every woman lives looking over her shoulder WITH FEAR for centuries.
May we never forget. May our country (and world) learn to come together, to care for the most vulnerable, to have the bravery to do what is right and to build a better world for our children. May we learn to care more for others than for ourselves.
My brain needs some clearing out. I thought maybe my feed might too. I’m proud of this little garden I’ve created.
Why is there not a bigger outcry over this coverage of #HandsOff? @washingtonpost.com had a thumbnail at the VERY BOTTOM of the page when thousands turned out in their own city and @nytimes.com was below the fold. Today there are no follow up stories.
Incredibly terrifying. A fake, clone website of the CDC spreading FALSE health information in the midst of a growing measles outbreak. Story broken by @erosalie.infoepi.com and follow up report in www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/h...
EO from March 14, 2025. Media, Scholars and Libraries — what don’t they want you to know? Oh, and why address homelessness because the plan is to make it worse?
Note the word choices. "History" not SOCIAL STUDIES. Because social sciences looks at inequality, policy, justice. Also "aligned well with workforce needs" really means no humanities, no art. It's churning out cogs and gears for capitalism so the wealthy can extract from and exploit the worker.
Let's take a commonsense approach to talking about the birthrate instead of the Heritage Foundation's plan of blocking higher education and fostering more religious schools. Jessica Grose takes a good look at the nuts and bolts of encouraging family building. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/o...
@tpm.bsky.social article "JD Vance’s ‘Neofascist’ Reading List" show just how extreme he is -- even with only a small window into his Twitter follows they are incredibly disturbing.
As a mom, as a trained medical professional, and as a scientist I am offended that the President disingenuously used this young boy's love of police while simultaneously ignoring the scientific and medical research critical to his survival which his administration has obliterated in recent weeks.
Listening to him is incredibly difficult, but looking at VP Vance smirk is excruciating.
America is a meritocracy AGAIN -- and that means you don't have to earn you way to citizenship or be fleeing persecution, you can just BUY it for the low, low price of $5 Million. Someone should call Merriam-Webster so they can adjust their definition of "meritocracy."
When in a funk, listen to the entire Hozier catalog on shuffle and close your eyes and pretend you are back in Bethel Woods in July. Oh sorry, is that just me?
There are tons of clever or snarky things I could quip -- but really what this demonstrates is abject weakness. Whether it is young men puffing out their chests doing Elon's bidding, or old men trying to be relevant, or white women desperately trying to be next to power -- they really are just WEAK.
As Heather McGhee posted today, pulling NIH overhead costs is penalizing us all. Learn more about what overhead really means for scientific research -- it is more than just electricity and someone to track forms. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...