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She/her/hers Higher Ed policy team at New America. Opinions = own. Working on fed policy re: parenting students and child care access. Opinions on lots of things. Parent/worker/baker/learner/gardener who believes in the power of the people.
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Community care is self care
Ohio State deepens its commitment to censorship. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Agreed. I cannot really fathom the level of bravery of these women, speaking up against an autocratic government that is enormously invested in covering up for the perpetrators who assaulted them.
Wait not only does he think sprinklers would’ve worked, he also thinks that regular houses HAVE sprinkler systems
Getting rid of vaccine mandates for kids while cutting Medicaid and also going after the federal Department of Education means there will be more disabled kids with less structure to help them with infection-triggered disabilities.
Harvard secures a win in the fight with Trump over federal research funding. A federal judge said the Trump admin "used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."
Oh I guess Trump is campaigning for Mamdani now
Oh go figure the guy who continually works to impound funds and undermine Congress’ authority also thinks there shouldn’t be an entity to hold government accountable
“It looks like they’ve done it intentionally. I think they are trying to be too cute by half by doing it this late. It’s also a risky move. The courts could tie it up. If it’s such a good idea, we have a majority in the House and Senate, why not let us vote on it?” Bc they can’t win with votes
This is still a coup even though no one is calling it that
And republicans are out here angling to make infectious diseases, via restricted vaccine access and repealing school vaccine requirements, compete with guns and cars for most likely to kill kids
Florida leaders are out there making policy designed to kill and disable children in schools www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
You can also talk about the worst of it more precisely, like “before we had vaccines,” “when COVID first hit, “when schools were remote,” etc. without implying you think COVID and its associated problems are a thing of the past
The upside of making a mermaid themed cake for my child’s birthday is I now have all the supplies to make glittery mermaid tails for any occasion at the drop of a hat. And all the kid’s friends know that I can make mermaid tails and ask me to make them for their cakes so I’m the fun parent
Today from my hellhole in Baltimore I took a little evening walk around the neighborhood and chatted with two neighbors and waved at a smiling baby.
You don’t find “common ground” with fascists. You build power to defeat them. This is the main reason why I believe fascism at the Federal level in the US will last generations.
On this Labor Day, let's remember that today isn't likely to offer a respite for those--disproportionately women, and especially women of color, immigrant women, and low-income women--who do the unpaid and underpaid labor of care. In fact, that labor may even be greater on days "off" like today. 1/🧵
We are watching resegregation happen in real time. It's neo Jim Crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Sometimes I feel like I lived the micro version of bad leadership collapsing a company bc of hyperfocus on AI, and now I have to live the macro version of bad leadership collapsing society with a hyperfocus on AI. all I really wanna live is the version of ppl talking to each other + rejecting AI
I really hope states exploring this and other solutions for COVID vaccines access include children in their plans. I’m old enough to remember when even Dems told us everything was back to “normal” long before I could get my child vaccinated. Plz don’t leave kids at risk.
Yummmmm woke bread
I’m glad for you you haven’t been reinfected. Trying to avoid Covid with virtually no societal precaution + while parenting young kids is incredibly hard. appreciate you talking about it. often even the Covid conscious don’t understand the added challenges of parenting + trying to keep everyone safe
Also in the U.S., the push to return to office came with promises of, you are safe now, we have vaccines. And now fewer and fewer will have Covid vaccine access, yet we aren’t reevaluating the safety of our workplaces
These people in 1933: "don't be so single issue about Jewish rights"
He’s following the science of what you would do if you want to kill a lot of people
Huh. I wonder to what extent this will help with all ages, I.e. remove barriers for people wanting to vaccinate their children without high risk conditions
And Wes Moore
This is why he appointed RFK, Jr. - he actively wants eugenicist policies. He actively wants vulnerable people dead.
Oh finally an AI use case that doesn’t immediately make me wanna throw things
Frustrated about the difficulty in getting a COVID19 shot and wondering who to blame? It’s not healthcare workers, pharmacies, public health or Big Pharma. It is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. and every Republican Senator who voted to confirm him, especially Bill Cassidy.
Not just to give tax cuts to billionaires- to divert money to kidnapping people off the streets and putting them in concentration camps.
Come visit MD for a vax. We welcome you (maybe/hopefully/who knows, haven’t tried to get mine yet).
“We have to do our own research about things” that’s why I’m taking away people’s vaccine access and it won’t matter if they conclude from their research that they do want vaccines, they cant have them. Ludicrous.
Also has anyone compiled a super accessible (to not AI/tech savvy folks) list + explanation of ethical concerns about GenAI products? I’m ready to start annoying the crap out of everyone I know who uses them, but I need help with talking points.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
one of the ways these GenAI products make our lives worse is pushing people to attempt or complete suicide. Another is rapidly accelerating the destruction of our environment. This shit isn’t worth it, stop embracing it and looking for new use cases and having it (badly) put together docs for you
RFK Jr. lackey Vinay Prasad single-handedly decided to restrict access to the COVID19 vaccine. In part, he used the more restrictive European vaccine guidelines as justification. But those countries also have nationalized healthcare. Their citizens won’t go broke for a hospital stay.
a really useful thing that everyone with nimby inclinations in their souls could do right now is go ham on local land use/permitting issues against ice facilities and data centers
you mean "we're all going to die" wasn't polling well?
Sacrificing whole groups of people is the path to fascism, not the path away from it
NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is asking a federal judge for a gag order against Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi and their subordinates. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
We really have not processed our collective grief. And it makes us ill prepared to handle what’s to come
Same and i don’t really know how to keep working through crisis after crisis, but especially the kind that are blatantly eugenics and aiming to kill us
The only way out of this is out of it together. Sacrifice one group, they will take that as a signal that they can pick us off group by group until there is no one less. We hang together, or we all hang separately.
The incredible thing about the Pod Save America guys is their utter inability to read the room The transphobia bit is going to completely alienate the people most likely to listen to their shows and buy their merch and they will never quite be dick enough to win the other folks over
Besides all the creative solutions people are discussing, there’s one thing everyone can do: M A S K
This, but also goes to show how much they actively want to cull the sick and vulnerable
mainstream coverage of the FDAs new COVID vax restrictions to 65+ and those with preexisting conditions is so alarming because folks are just quoting RFK saying anyone who wants the vax can get it, when it’s blatantly a lie + not the policy set out by his FDA
someone told me she thought this administration was evil except for “health” where they’re doing some good things, like getting dyes out of food. I said I’d rather leave food dyes alone and not have kids die of measles. People indeed have been brainwashed to think he “makes some good points”
Call me pessimistic, but I don’t think it’s a good sign when the liberal party wants to debate if everyone should have civil rights
Bill Cassidy thought we should see how it plays out if we let RFK Jr sow vaccine skepticism and restrict access, ultimately killing people. His colleagues thought that plan was fine.
I would add not just robbing your children, disabling and killing more of them (+ adults) by restricting vaccines too.
Bill Cassidy, you could stopped this months ago if you had a shred of integrity.
🚨It's almost 2am eastern, but the CDC debacle is still unfolding. Very important message from the American Public Health Association: "We urge people across the nation to contact their representative and call for change to protect our health." "RFK Jr. must be... 1/3 www.apha.org/news-and-med...
I am really not prepared to watch more people die from Covid. I also really do not want to die from Covid and leave my child without me.
It cannot be said enough that this regime is segregationist and we absolutely cannot beat them without calling out their racism and being consistently, loudly anti racist
You can freeze it for your minor child, too
Oh shit I had totally blocked this out
Empathy is punk as hell. Especially right now.
This is worth a read.
I feel so grateful for your reporting and not both sides-ing Medicaid or any other important thing for disabled folx
how would it look different if they were openly segregationist?
Also he’s not willing to throw trans people under the bus, so just so much more preferable to Newsom. Because ya can’t fight fascism while treating any one population as disposable.
Yep
Looking forward to getting paid each month to pick up my prescription.
The framing on summer jobs is so bizarre, and I assume a lie. Since when does the government not allow children 14+ to have a summer job? Or I guess he’s advocating we should have 4 year olds out working the fields
100% to Mayor Scott
it is really crucial to understand that long COVID can disable anyone. Our govt is stripping away already limited support for disabled folx while ignoring reality of this continued mass disabling event. The support you could need one day won’t be there if we don’t keep fighting for it
Lawyer says the ICE officer who took him did not answer when asked why he was being taken into custody. A new lawsuit has been filed challenging his current confinement and potential deportation. Crowd shouts “Shame! Shame!”
“The reality is that more and more people are becoming chronically ill through Long Covid and other health conditions that Covid can trigger, many of whom can’t work the required half-time—80 hours per month—and some of whom can’t work at all.” All while RFK works to strip access to Covid vaccines
www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Not that most elected dems are using this language, but if they did, god forbid they learn from academic experts with deep expertise on these subjects and let that inform their policy making
If I never hear the word “innovation” again, it’ll be too soon
If he wants to feel safe with his daughter on the subway, maybe he could just make sure sexual harassers and abusers are held accountable and aren’t out on the streets. Oh wait…
The whole “Ivermectin is a cure all and BiG PhArMA doesn’t want you to know” thing is hilarious to me because if it did half of what people claimed it does that molecular would have been bought for 500 million dollars in the 1990s by J&J or Merck or Pfizer because pharma is a business guys
Who needs friends when you have a robot that can have friends for you
“Imagine a weather report where one source says, “It’s raining,” and another insists, “No, it’s sunny,” while everyone stands outside, soaked from the downpour. Gaza is that drenched truth...” Great analysis of the truly Orwellian news coverage of Gaza in the West. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
It makes no sense at all to do these two things simultaneously, unless you understand that their goal is to weaponize data - including disappearing it when needed- in service of re-segregation.
"Dems need to stop policing language... and we should start by banning these 47 words."
Yeah, folks who are opposed to everyone having civil rights aren’t gonna be persuaded by a language shift that everyone should have civil rights.
Seattle is looking more appealing as a home city
Yikes.
“The May report.. was laced with accusations that doctors are influenced by the pharmaceutical industry to overprescribe certain medications and fail to treat the root causes of disease.” Covid causes chronic disease. Long covid is chronic disease. The root cause of long covid is in fact, covid
All while paying poverty wages to early ed workers 🫠
If you refuse to continue to do the difficult work of staying present with the reality of power dynamics between you and other people — racism, transphobia, ableism, and so on — you are actually committing to the spirit of these awful executive orders and helping to execute them
There is no fighting fascism without fighting white supremacy
I’ll tell you this. A favorite campus dining spot closed last semester, with almost no notice. It’s been replaced by a fully automated kiosk. The kids are pissed. Asking all the right questions about labor and human contact and sociality. Some of the kids are alright.
I don’t want GenAI but you know what I do want? The ability to schedule Happy Birthday and “Good luck in your job interview” texts to friends in advance so I don’t forget.
It’s a pretty bad time when living in reality and acknowledging basic truths are actually partisan activities
Because banning social media for kids is not about protecting kids or making their lives better. It flies in the face of research, data, and what kids are telling us. It’s about controlling them, isolating them, and keeping them uninformed. It’s part of the fascist playbook.
They forgot what tyrant actually mobilized resources (rightfully) toward developing a covid mRNA vaccine, too
Antisemitism is real and must be addressed, and we must also push back against it being used as a pretext to squash dissent, free speech, or criticism of a state.
“Dozens of Jewish parents, students and teachers in Baltimore City Public Schools are pushing back against allegations of pervasive antisemitism in city schools that they say could have a chilling effect on free speech” www.thebanner.com/education/k-...
Cancelled plans to get a drink outside on a beautiful day in DC myself yesterday because actually it’s not that relaxing to constantly wonder if a tank will come driving by
The worst part of this is obviously having a President who thinks slavery wasn’t so bad, but can we also talk about how he’s mad Museums don’t show people the future?
The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
Good luck!
“They did not die from COVID , they had preexisting conditions.” “They did not die from starvation, they had other health problems.” This is what eugenics sounds like.
Parenting students navigate a precarious balance of caregiving, work, + school. Uncertainty in what aid is available means tough decisions about staying enrolled. Grateful for coverage of ED delays in posting CCAMPIS grants, which are critical for parenting students to plan for their next semester
My goal was to read one book for pleasure, not learning, this summer and I read three so now my reward is I can delve back into heavy and traumatic stuff.
