Oona Palumbo
@oonapalumbo.bsky.social
Former hula hoop champion
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Y’all remember all the COVID funding that was funneled into police budgets? I do.
August 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Y’all remember all the COVID funding that was funneled into police budgets? I do.
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I have a friend who is an exvangelical and she put it very succinctly: “We don’t believe anyone else is human. You are not people to us.”
Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.
Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.
This is expected from apocalypse cult Christians. Non-evangelicals are non-human and they exist only to die. Everyone “perishing from the earth” is the goal! “People are gonna die” is a success for them!
“I thought people understood” is the big giveaway. “You didn’t know your death is the plan??”
“I thought people understood” is the big giveaway. “You didn’t know your death is the plan??”
Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse
May 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I have a friend who is an exvangelical and she put it very succinctly: “We don’t believe anyone else is human. You are not people to us.”
Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.
Once you understand this CORE BELIEF and put it into context with the fact that these folks are running our country you can understand clearly their motivations.
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This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today
The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
mississippitoday.org
April 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is literally how the Holocaust started, and honestly I'm tired of saying so
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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It is genuinely your moral duty, if you’re in the sciences, to violate the terms of your contact and take as much of the research home with you as you can. Today, tomorrow, every day your lab’s still open.
this is a golden age for walking out of your lab with a USB key in your pocket getting on a plane and going to Luxembourg
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
March 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It is genuinely your moral duty, if you’re in the sciences, to violate the terms of your contact and take as much of the research home with you as you can. Today, tomorrow, every day your lab’s still open.
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
Long Island man is first in New York history to be cured of sickle cell anemia
A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.
www.cbsnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
Uh oh!
ELECTREK: “.. I won’t share the link to the article since it gives step-by-step instructions on how to burn down Tesla stores without getting caught, but the manifesto explains .. it’s ‘doable and cheap.’”
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/03/03/a...
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/03/03/a...
A dozen Tesla cars burned at store, arson is suspected amid global protests
A dozen Tesla vehicles burned at a store in Toulouse, France. Arson is suspected amid global protests and vandalism attacks...
electrek.co
March 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Uh oh!
Wait till they find out about Mercedes during WW2
"Two weeks ago, I was called a Nazi.”
March 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Wait till they find out about Mercedes during WW2
It’s 2025 and I’m starting to think everyone has a very strange understanding of how bingo cards work
March 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s 2025 and I’m starting to think everyone has a very strange understanding of how bingo cards work
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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I feel like someone who is not me needs to educate social media gays as to what “gay panic” actually is.
February 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I feel like someone who is not me needs to educate social media gays as to what “gay panic” actually is.
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'I was sent links to suicide hotlines instead of a prescription'
Transition care is not illegal. Health care facilities ending their affirming gender care programs in an act of cowardice absolutely have blood on their hands.
Transition care is not illegal. Health care facilities ending their affirming gender care programs in an act of cowardice absolutely have blood on their hands.
“We’re Living Through Hell”: What Trump’s Anti-Trans War Really Means
When hospitals suddenly stop treatment for trans patients, real people are harmed immediately. “I was sent links to suicide hotlines instead of a prescription,” one person told us.
www.thenation.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
'I was sent links to suicide hotlines instead of a prescription'
Transition care is not illegal. Health care facilities ending their affirming gender care programs in an act of cowardice absolutely have blood on their hands.
Transition care is not illegal. Health care facilities ending their affirming gender care programs in an act of cowardice absolutely have blood on their hands.
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James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
James Webb Satellite took a fantastic shot of the Planet Saturn with it's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). This is just an Amazing shot that shows the planet and the rings in brilliant detail.
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New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it:
www.404media.co/all-50-state...
www.404media.co/all-50-state...
All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation
The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.
www.404media.co
February 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
New: All 50 states have now introduced right to repair legislation. A really amazing milestone for a grassroots movement. Wisconsin just became the last state to do it:
www.404media.co/all-50-state...
www.404media.co/all-50-state...
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A second North Carolina county has decided to abandon public water fluoridation.
Lincoln county commissioners decided that they'd just abandon fluoridation altogether, despite strong opposition from the county health department.
www.wunc.org/health/2025-...
Lincoln county commissioners decided that they'd just abandon fluoridation altogether, despite strong opposition from the county health department.
www.wunc.org/health/2025-...
February 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A second North Carolina county has decided to abandon public water fluoridation.
Lincoln county commissioners decided that they'd just abandon fluoridation altogether, despite strong opposition from the county health department.
www.wunc.org/health/2025-...
Lincoln county commissioners decided that they'd just abandon fluoridation altogether, despite strong opposition from the county health department.
www.wunc.org/health/2025-...
Y’all map quest has an app 👀
February 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Y’all map quest has an app 👀
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The gender affirming care ban executive order has been blocked in court!
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Federal judge blocks Trump order on health care for transgender youth
A federal judge in Baltimore blocked executive orders signed by President Donald Trump that targeted transgender people and their health care, giving temporary relief to LGBTQ individuals and their fa...
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The gender affirming care ban executive order has been blocked in court!
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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I want to be cautious generalizing my experience, but a lot of elder millennial uterus-havers started coming up against bio clock stuff and started making our decisions about having kids right around the time COVID hit.
Which meant...
Which meant...
I know about the Bidenomics charts, I remember the debates about the "vibecession", and the discourse about food prices.
But SOMETHING bad is going on, whether it's reflected in the economists' numbers or not.
It can't just be my friends. And it feels like things never recovered post 2020.
But SOMETHING bad is going on, whether it's reflected in the economists' numbers or not.
It can't just be my friends. And it feels like things never recovered post 2020.
February 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I want to be cautious generalizing my experience, but a lot of elder millennial uterus-havers started coming up against bio clock stuff and started making our decisions about having kids right around the time COVID hit.
Which meant...
Which meant...
Hey. We’ve been Lemkin-ed fyi
January 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hey. We’ve been Lemkin-ed fyi
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Can’t stop reading this paragraph over and over.
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...
January 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Can’t stop reading this paragraph over and over.
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...
open.substack.com/pub/newmeans...
Where is Jared Kushner? I haven’t heard his name lately.
January 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Where is Jared Kushner? I haven’t heard his name lately.
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Please pay attention to this case being argued in the 4th Circuit tomorrow. It could determine whether the GOP succeeds in stealing a NC Supreme Court seat by disenfranchising 60,000 voters.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full coverage of this critical case.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Follow @democracydocket.com for full coverage of this critical case.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
4th Circuit To Weigh Whether NC Supreme Court Election Challenge Should Proceed in State or Federal Court
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Please pay attention to this case being argued in the 4th Circuit tomorrow. It could determine whether the GOP succeeds in stealing a NC Supreme Court seat by disenfranchising 60,000 voters.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full coverage of this critical case.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Follow @democracydocket.com for full coverage of this critical case.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...