Alex Lowell
@alexlowell.bsky.social
Fine artist, retired media relations officer for a Fortune 500 firm.
Just use cod liver oil!
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CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration — STAT
At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. government has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, leaving experts ag...
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April 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Just use cod liver oil!
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This where we are. The United States is no longer trusted, and in my mind….it can’t be.
As an American and veteran, I am embarrassed; I am angry; and I am disgusted.
To the young men and women who died defending this country, I am sorry.
As an American and veteran, I am embarrassed; I am angry; and I am disgusted.
To the young men and women who died defending this country, I am sorry.
March 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This where we are. The United States is no longer trusted, and in my mind….it can’t be.
As an American and veteran, I am embarrassed; I am angry; and I am disgusted.
To the young men and women who died defending this country, I am sorry.
As an American and veteran, I am embarrassed; I am angry; and I am disgusted.
To the young men and women who died defending this country, I am sorry.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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“By targeting prominent voting rights attorney Marc Elias, along with unnamed lawyers who have worked on immigration cases, and threatening them with sanctions, President Trump is attempting to silence those who embody the mission and ideals of the legal profession.” www.aclu.org/press-releas...
ACLU Reacts to President Trump’s Latest Directive Threatening Lawyers and Law Firms | American Civil Liberties Union
WASHINGTON — In response to President Trump issuing a presidential memorandum on “Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court”...
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March 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“By targeting prominent voting rights attorney Marc Elias, along with unnamed lawyers who have worked on immigration cases, and threatening them with sanctions, President Trump is attempting to silence those who embody the mission and ideals of the legal profession.” www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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Fill out an immigration paper wrong? Handcuffs! Assault a cop and break into the Capitol on a mission to murder the vice president? Presidential pardon! Does "the law" still meaningfully exist?
The Faces of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade
The government deported a 10-year-old American citizen with brain cancer.
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March 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Fill out an immigration paper wrong? Handcuffs! Assault a cop and break into the Capitol on a mission to murder the vice president? Presidential pardon! Does "the law" still meaningfully exist?
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When you really distill down what's going on here, the president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. The constitutional crisis is here. ICYMI @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social:
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
By shipping men to a Salvadoran prison without due process, the Trump administration has begun defying court orders in earnest.
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March 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
When you really distill down what's going on here, the president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. The constitutional crisis is here. ICYMI @corbinkbarthold.bsky.social:
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Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers.
First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.
Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…
First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.
Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…
March 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers.
First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.
Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…
First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts.
Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
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This Friday, where will you be?
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March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
More accurate, fewer words;
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
March 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
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The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
Firing workers from US weather and oceans agency risks lives and the economy, former agency heads warn
NOAA's 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.
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March 1, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are “going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,” Admiral Tim Gallaudet, who was acting NOAA chief during the first Trump term, told the AP. “Lives are at risk for sure.”
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Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit
February 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit
A five-alarm fire!
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Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations
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February 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A five-alarm fire!
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"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.
February 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Law and order" in the Trump era: if you bow down to the head of the U.S. government, he may help you - whether you're awaiting trial for sex crimes in Europe or doing time in the USA for physically assaulting police.
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@normeisen.bsky.social Excellent discussion this evening with @jenpsaki.msnbc.com !
February 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
@normeisen.bsky.social Excellent discussion this evening with @jenpsaki.msnbc.com !
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"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..."
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USAID staffers describe colleagues abandoned in violence in Congo as DOGE ends assistance programs
Newly filed affidavits of U.S. Agency for International Development workers describe a lieutenant of Trump ally Elon Musk and other outsiders directing the immediate termination of hundreds of U.S. ai...
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February 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
"USAID workers and their families abroad had no agency help in fleeing after looters overran their homes in Kinshasa..."
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What lower prices? Just waiting for the cost of my morning coffee to double!
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Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights
Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees.
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January 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
What lower prices? Just waiting for the cost of my morning coffee to double!
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