@tashaarchuleta.bsky.social
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Students in schools operated by the Department of Defense, like students in every other public school, have a right to an inclusive education free from censorship.
13 “Woke” Books Banned in DOD Schools | ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/13-woke-books-banned-in-dod-schools?initms_af[…]=soc&ms=awr-na-bsky-na-nat-na-freespeech-bookbans-righttolearn
June 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Students in schools operated by the Department of Defense, like students in every other public school, have a right to an inclusive education free from censorship.
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🧪Yes! We need this! We can’t rely on misinterpreted data to make important decisions that affect people’s lives. RFK Jr. pushes junk science. We can’t let this go on.
Staying tuned for new developments.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Staying tuned for new developments.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Independent US vaccine body is planned after RFK Jr’s mass firing of CDC advisory panel
“High level” discussions are underway to establish an independent US vaccine committee following the dismissal of 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s advisory committee on i...
www.bmj.com
June 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
🧪Yes! We need this! We can’t rely on misinterpreted data to make important decisions that affect people’s lives. RFK Jr. pushes junk science. We can’t let this go on.
Staying tuned for new developments.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Staying tuned for new developments.
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.
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Skateboarding dude.
Hero of the day. It has to be this kid! He stood all alone while LAPD took shots at him. Kid stood his ground and danced a bit, which pissed off the Nazis more! They tear gassed him. Finally the kid walked slowly away, turning just once to give them the finger! Respect. ✊
Hero of the day. It has to be this kid! He stood all alone while LAPD took shots at him. Kid stood his ground and danced a bit, which pissed off the Nazis more! They tear gassed him. Finally the kid walked slowly away, turning just once to give them the finger! Respect. ✊
June 9, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Skateboarding dude.
Hero of the day. It has to be this kid! He stood all alone while LAPD took shots at him. Kid stood his ground and danced a bit, which pissed off the Nazis more! They tear gassed him. Finally the kid walked slowly away, turning just once to give them the finger! Respect. ✊
Hero of the day. It has to be this kid! He stood all alone while LAPD took shots at him. Kid stood his ground and danced a bit, which pissed off the Nazis more! They tear gassed him. Finally the kid walked slowly away, turning just once to give them the finger! Respect. ✊
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Since 1975 (the past fifty years) global vaccination efforts have saved the lives of 154 million people, especially reducing infant deaths — by 40%.
That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany.
#ScienceMatters
That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany.
#ScienceMatters
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
A major landmark study reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years. The vast m...
www.who.int
May 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Since 1975 (the past fifty years) global vaccination efforts have saved the lives of 154 million people, especially reducing infant deaths — by 40%.
That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany.
#ScienceMatters
That’s greater than the total population of France + Germany.
#ScienceMatters
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The congressional Republican tax and budget plan would slash programs that provide food, health care, and other supports to America’s children.
Congressional Republicans Are Planning One of the Largest-Ever Cuts to Basic Supports for Children
The congressional Republican tax and budget plan would slash programs that provide food, health care, and other supports to America’s children.
www.americanprogress.org
May 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The congressional Republican tax and budget plan would slash programs that provide food, health care, and other supports to America’s children.
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Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Do public libraries help mitigate crime? Evidence from Kansas City, MO - Journal of Cultural Economics
We examine the relationship between public libraries and local crime rates. Previous studies have looked at different factors that could account for changes in crime, but few have focused on cultural ...
link.springer.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Wanna reduce crime?
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open more libraries.
"we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful
Bessent says that little girls who are sad about having fewer dolls should just have it explained to them that they will have a better life for it
May 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful
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Excellent thread! Please take the time to read it, share it and ponder their question. WE, as in you and I and the #altgov, #altfam and #AltCitizen are going to be the ones to save democracy and our country. No one is coming to save us. Do what you can but please don’t do nothing! 💗
Over the next several weeks, @rebelfema.altgov.info & I invite you do join us as we go through and discuss Timothy Snyder’s 20 Lessons on Tyranny. We’ll look at examples throughout history, as well as some different ways we can all be implementing these lessons here and now to make a difference. 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Excellent thread! Please take the time to read it, share it and ponder their question. WE, as in you and I and the #altgov, #altfam and #AltCitizen are going to be the ones to save democracy and our country. No one is coming to save us. Do what you can but please don’t do nothing! 💗
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Remember the awesome COVID-19 dashboard Hopkins created and populated during the pandemic? They are back but this time tracking measles
Measles Outbreak Response | Center for Outbreak Response Innovation
cori.centerforhealthsecurity.org
May 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Remember the awesome COVID-19 dashboard Hopkins created and populated during the pandemic? They are back but this time tracking measles
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In my now daily quest to combat vaccine misinformation and disinformation, I give you this great article from @HealthyChildren. Data matters. Science matters. Disinformation harms children.
#PedSky #MedSky
#PedSky #MedSky
Vaccine Ingredients: Frequently Asked Questions
All vaccines contain antigens. Antigens make vaccines work. They prompt the body to create the immune response needed to protect against infection. Antigens come in several forms. The form used in a v...
www.healthychildren.org
May 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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As a doc who has practiced in mental health for decades, I know this is profoundly true:
Children need to be loved deeply and know they can safely express all their feelings.
If those two things could be prescribed at birth, we would see a massive decline in mental illness.
#medsky
#psychsky
Children need to be loved deeply and know they can safely express all their feelings.
If those two things could be prescribed at birth, we would see a massive decline in mental illness.
#medsky
#psychsky
As Donny 2 Dolls tries to cut federal funding for PBS, Mr. Rogers' words still ring true.
He will never succeed in taking Mr. Rogers away from us.
He will never succeed in taking Mr. Rogers away from us.
May 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Good list for anyone seeking reliable guidance to counter the steady stream of health disinformation from this administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...
5 Places to Turn for Accurate Health Information (Gift Article)
Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative.
www.nytimes.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Good list for anyone seeking reliable guidance to counter the steady stream of health disinformation from this administration.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/w...
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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
May 1, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Votes are in, from a 48-hour “X” poll.
While we can surely agree we want to Make America Great Again. To achieve that goal, looks like we need to Make America Smart. But first, we need to Make Lying Wrong Again.
While we can surely agree we want to Make America Great Again. To achieve that goal, looks like we need to Make America Smart. But first, we need to Make Lying Wrong Again.
May 1, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Votes are in, from a 48-hour “X” poll.
While we can surely agree we want to Make America Great Again. To achieve that goal, looks like we need to Make America Smart. But first, we need to Make Lying Wrong Again.
While we can surely agree we want to Make America Great Again. To achieve that goal, looks like we need to Make America Smart. But first, we need to Make Lying Wrong Again.
“…ICE had known prior to the check-in that the four-year-old was in active treatment for cancer. They removed him from the country without his medication and without consulting with his doctors.”
Horrendous cruelty💔
Horrendous cruelty💔
Confirmation that parents did not consent to deportation of their U.S. citizen children (they had other parents/caretakers in the U.S.) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Lawyers for Deported U.S. Citizen Kids Say Moms Were 'Coerced' Into Taking Them
Marco Rubio claimed two deported Louisiana mothers voluntarily brought their children with them. Attorneys for the families say that’s a lie.
www.rollingstone.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:46 AM
“…ICE had known prior to the check-in that the four-year-old was in active treatment for cancer. They removed him from the country without his medication and without consulting with his doctors.”
Horrendous cruelty💔
Horrendous cruelty💔
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This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.
(1/5)
📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers.
🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
📝 Today’s Letter from an American reminds us: democracy isn’t lost in a grand coup. It’s bartered away in glittering rooms. If we don’t defend it—locally, nationally, globally—it will vanish like smoke through careless fingers.
🏛️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
April 27, 2025
Last night a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
This brief summary of yesterday’s letter is really good.
“…And funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children; responding to reports of missing children; and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely.”
Horrendous 😭💔
Horrendous 😭💔
The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
www.propublica.org
April 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“…And funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children; responding to reports of missing children; and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely.”
Horrendous 😭💔
Horrendous 😭💔
“Trust doesn’t just come from one signal- it’s built up from many overlapping ones.”
Jay the great makes building a functional, decentralized, democratic platform sound like philosophical poetry 👏🏻🤌🏼
Jay the great makes building a functional, decentralized, democratic platform sound like philosophical poetry 👏🏻🤌🏼
We explored a lot of more experimental approaches when we designed this, such as a “Web of Trust” where users can directly vouch for each other.
We’re still testing ideas in this area. Trust doesn’t just come from one signal — it’s built up from many overlapping ones.
We’re still testing ideas in this area. Trust doesn’t just come from one signal — it’s built up from many overlapping ones.
April 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“Trust doesn’t just come from one signal- it’s built up from many overlapping ones.”
Jay the great makes building a functional, decentralized, democratic platform sound like philosophical poetry 👏🏻🤌🏼
Jay the great makes building a functional, decentralized, democratic platform sound like philosophical poetry 👏🏻🤌🏼
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.
Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
April 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.
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In a time of militant Christian nationalism it can be hard for good people of faith to feel justified discussing their beliefs. But we need those voices more than ever.
Do not let the most hateful versions of faith flourish. #belovedcommunity #goodfriday
Do not let the most hateful versions of faith flourish. #belovedcommunity #goodfriday
On Good Friday, Jesus was disappeared to silence his message
(RNS) — The solidarity that Jesus offered the vulnerable on the cross long ago calls Christians to stand up to oppression today.
religionnews.com
April 19, 2025 at 4:09 AM
In a time of militant Christian nationalism it can be hard for good people of faith to feel justified discussing their beliefs. But we need those voices more than ever.
Do not let the most hateful versions of faith flourish. #belovedcommunity #goodfriday
Do not let the most hateful versions of faith flourish. #belovedcommunity #goodfriday