Allison 🧬⚾️
@petitephd.bsky.social
Science policy professional. Geneticist. I write about the Mets for @amazinavenue.bsky.social and podcast about them on @apodoftheirown.bsky.social. Women's soccer enjoyer. Opinions Mine. She/Her
Haven’t gotten to check “transphobe tries to argue about ‘science’ and ‘biology’ with me, an actual biologist” off my bingo card in awhile
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Haven’t gotten to check “transphobe tries to argue about ‘science’ and ‘biology’ with me, an actual biologist” off my bingo card in awhile
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The WV National guard troops could have spent Thanksgiving with their families.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
Trump doesn't care that his deployment of the National Guard is dangerous — but the governors deploying these Guard members should.
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
We're calling on Governors Ivey, Kemp, Landry, Reeves, DeWine, Lee, and Morrisey to recall their Guard members from DC. Email all seven: bit.ly/seven-governors
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The WV National guard troops could have spent Thanksgiving with their families.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
Downtown DC could be free of military weapons.
Please, especially if you live in one of the seven states whose troops continue to occupy our city, urge the governors to send them home.
BZZZZZZZT WRONGO
All pies are good. All of them. Every one.
All pies are good. All of them. Every one.
Apple pie is bad. This is not really debatable. So is key lime pie, while we’re on the topic. Pecan pie is the 🐐 tho.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
BZZZZZZZT WRONGO
All pies are good. All of them. Every one.
All pies are good. All of them. Every one.
oh let's GO
Quite the pre-Thanksgiving news: Mayor Muriel Bowser will not seek a fourth term in office. That's a huge opening a mayoral race that still doesn't have any major candidates in it, but with possible entries from Ward 4 Councilmember Janeese Lewis George and At-Large Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
oh let's GO
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edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
Why women’s soccer is so important to queer people | CNN
Someone dressed as Marge Simpson, complete with a gigantic blue wig and a lime green dress, belts out Hot to Go by lesbian pop icon Chappell Roan to a rapt audience gathered inside a marquee in the mi...
edition.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/25/s... A story that I’ve been working on for the past few months, about why women’s football is so important to queer people, is published! I really loved writing this and it’s a story that’s very close to my heart. I would love it if you kind folks would give it a read 🤍
It was an action packed pod with the Mets completing the biggest move of the MLB offseason so far.
Episode 258: We spend most of the show covering the Brandon Nimmo trade. But we also discuss the filling out of the coaching staff, Montas’ DFA, tender/NT decisions, McNeil’s thoracic outlet surgery, and more.
Apple🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Spotify🍏: open.spotify.com/episode/3RED...
Apple🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
Spotify🍏: open.spotify.com/episode/3RED...
Bye Bye Brandon
Podcast Episode · Home Run Applesauce: A New York Mets podcast · 11/25/2025 · 1h 21m
podcasts.apple.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It was an action packed pod with the Mets completing the biggest move of the MLB offseason so far.
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100% of his choices are domestic abusers and/or people who were caught cheating red handed
Ballot #1 in the 2026 Hall of Fame voting cycle is from Jorge Morejón. Andruw Jones receives the first net gained vote of the cycle. Jones finished last year 8.8% shy of election. Morejón's column: www.martinoticias.com/a/opini%C3%B...
In the Tracker: tracker.fyi
In the Tracker: tracker.fyi
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
100% of his choices are domestic abusers and/or people who were caught cheating red handed
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I’m still so depressed about the Spirit I can’t even feel anything about the Brandon Nimmo trade.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I’m still so depressed about the Spirit I can’t even feel anything about the Brandon Nimmo trade.
DOGE was never about saving money. It was about traumatizing civil servants and demonizing them in the eyes of the public. By that measure, it was absolutely successful.
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
DOGE was never about saving money. It was about traumatizing civil servants and demonizing them in the eyes of the public. By that measure, it was absolutely successful.
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DOGE is still around, like a cockroach infestation
"CDC’s order was communicated by a relatively unknown former DOGE employee named Sam Beyda. Beyda—who was recently named CDC’s deputy chief of staff —has a sparse online presence with no obvious evidence of a science background."
"CDC’s order was communicated by a relatively unknown former DOGE employee named Sam Beyda. Beyda—who was recently named CDC’s deputy chief of staff —has a sparse online presence with no obvious evidence of a science background."
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
DOGE is still around, like a cockroach infestation
"CDC’s order was communicated by a relatively unknown former DOGE employee named Sam Beyda. Beyda—who was recently named CDC’s deputy chief of staff —has a sparse online presence with no obvious evidence of a science background."
"CDC’s order was communicated by a relatively unknown former DOGE employee named Sam Beyda. Beyda—who was recently named CDC’s deputy chief of staff —has a sparse online presence with no obvious evidence of a science background."
No shame in losing to a team that played better. I am gutted because that was probably Trin’s last game in a Spirit uniform and also the city of DC has been through a lot of shit in the last year and this win would have been really nice. But it is what it is. Congrats to Gotham, well deserved.
November 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
No shame in losing to a team that played better. I am gutted because that was probably Trin’s last game in a Spirit uniform and also the city of DC has been through a lot of shit in the last year and this win would have been really nice. But it is what it is. Congrats to Gotham, well deserved.
This is the type of stuff that makes people not want to post on Bluesky btw
November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is the type of stuff that makes people not want to post on Bluesky btw
HAPPY CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH DAY GO SPIRIT!!!!
IT'S CHAMPIONSHIP TIME 😤
🆚 Gotham FC
⏰ 8PM ET
🏟️ PayPal Park
📺 CBS
🆚 Gotham FC
⏰ 8PM ET
🏟️ PayPal Park
📺 CBS
November 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
HAPPY CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH DAY GO SPIRIT!!!!
As a person who both hosts a podcast and is an avid listener of podcasts, I have no desire for video podcasts whatsoever.
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
As a person who both hosts a podcast and is an avid listener of podcasts, I have no desire for video podcasts whatsoever.
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trump (after zohran mamdani charms him for 5 minutes): “we’re looking very strongly at implementing socialism, many people are saying it. they love redistribution of wealth and you’re hearing it more and more. there’s a term, they call it, a centrally planned economy. it’s an old fashioned term”
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
trump (after zohran mamdani charms him for 5 minutes): “we’re looking very strongly at implementing socialism, many people are saying it. they love redistribution of wealth and you’re hearing it more and more. there’s a term, they call it, a centrally planned economy. it’s an old fashioned term”
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Amazing reporting.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Amazing reporting.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
Young women in sports do need protecting -- from predatory coaches and other authority figures, particularly cis men (but women too), who groom, abuse, humiliate, and harm vulnerable athletes. The threat to women's sports is not and has never been trans women.
Tonight there is a draft for a women’s pro baseball league and on Saturday I will watch the women’s soccer team I support play for a championship after their most successful season yet, surrounded by other diehard fans at a bar. I am living in a world 8-year-old me could have never imagined.
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Tonight there is a draft for a women’s pro baseball league and on Saturday I will watch the women’s soccer team I support play for a championship after their most successful season yet, surrounded by other diehard fans at a bar. I am living in a world 8-year-old me could have never imagined.
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BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: Judge Cobb rules that the Pentagon's National Guard deployment into D.C. was illegal.
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
However, she has stayed the effect of her order until Dec. 11 to prevent disorder while the matter is under appeal.
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
God I love Baltimore and I miss it so much.
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
God I love Baltimore and I miss it so much.
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If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
If there was any doubt at all that the CDC is fully destroyed, this page on autism and vaccines on its website confirms it. It's now just another vessel of dangerous health misinformation. I have no words. This is beyond sad.
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Live look at the Sky Sports Halo admin debrief meeting
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Live look at the Sky Sports Halo admin debrief meeting
YES QUEEN T 👑
Held the back line down 🧱
Tara McKeown is the 2025 NWSL Defender of the Year!
Tara McKeown is the 2025 NWSL Defender of the Year!
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
YES QUEEN T 👑
