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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14m

From Trump, RFK Jr., Vought, Miller, and their republican enablers.

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine choosing *PORTLAND OREGON*--home of "Keep Portland Weird"--to fuck around and find out about.

The footage from the "Emergency Naked Bike Ride" (which, by the way, will go down in American history as a brilliant protest strategy) is cracking me up.

Act like clowns expect a circus, baby!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 12h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 9h

Lol wait, I have one more:

3. If you get into office on a platform of The Gays ™️ shouldn’t exist, don’t be surprised when you hobble through the rest of your life looking like a tragic mess of poorly done filler, awful extensions, and a bonk ass wardrobe.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 9h

Linda and JD clearly have the same makeup “artist”. And whoever it is, s/he hates them both 🤣

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 9h

Lol wait, I have one more:

3. If you get into office on a platform of The Gays ™️ shouldn’t exist, don’t be surprised when you hobble through the rest of your life looking like a tragic mess of poorly done filler, awful extensions, and a bonk ass wardrobe.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 9h

There are many lessons to be learned from this moment in history but two stand out:

1. The genre of “cartoon villains” is way WAY less satirical than I ever realized.

2. Fascism makes more than just one’s soul ugly; that shit ages you like milk in a hot car.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 13h

There’s more Botox in the Trump cabinet than in a dented can of beans.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11h

lol I will be *with* a large duck, but I will not be the duck, and I will be fully clothed

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile in glorious Portland, OR.

This feels like when your younger, blue haired, emo cousin absolutely owns your weird MAGA uncle at Thanksgiving dinner for being weird and MAGA.

I’m living for it.

MOCKERY WORKS.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

As the founder and executive director of an organization @standupforscience.bsky.social who is saying *AND DOING* exactly this:

You can support our fresh, edgy, nimble, grassroots efforts by donating TODAY. act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 17h

Unfortunate. But, I imagine you’ll come out of this game 5-1

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 18h

More CDC Cuts :: NCHS Edition 📊🔫

At least 1/3 of the staff at the National Center for Health Statistics has been cut (and remain cut). This is catastrophic for our nation’s health data.

Say goodbye to national health statistics that you can trust, healthcare surveys, NHANES and data systems.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19h

I mean, at minimum you aren’t going to risk getting some insane disease from my roadkill dining experience!

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19h

Both things are true, but they are not weighted equally.

There is a plumbing issue in the house and the house is on fire. We can deal with the plumbing issue at a later point.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 20h

Get to know us!: Colette Delawalla is the founder and executive director of Stand Up for Science. She is a Clinical Psychology PhD candidate at Emory University's Behavior Genetics of Addiction Lab, and a fighter for science!

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Graphic that reads: Colette, Founder and Executive Director. A photo of a woman in a black blazer and black frame glasses looking resolutely into the distance. Arrows around her figure read: HBIC, "as seen on C-SPAN", and "rallier of the troops." Second image is a graphic quote: I fight because science is the DNA of America and the same freedom that underlies a thriving scientific ecosystem underlies a thriving democracy. - Colette Delawalla, Founder and Executive Director.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19h

- 3/7 was the *second* protest I had ever attended in my life
- I have two shots of espresso every morning
- I love football! (Go Browns! Go Dawgs!)
- I run a no shoes household and I’ll die on that hill, ya nasties!
- I love Swiss cake rolls.
- anything from Mamma Mia is my karaoke go to

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 19h

Several other fun facts about me:

- I’m a mom!
- My science involves understanding compulsive alcohol use in humans
- I have a little lavender farm
- I’m a painter (in my non-existent free time 😅)
- I went to community college!
- I used to be a fashion stylist
- I also used to sell diamonds

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 22h

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 22h

🎃 This Halloween, the real horror? A future without trusted public health agencies. When the CDC and science are under attack, even the skeletons start protesting.

Trust science 🔬,
not scare ☠️ tactics.

Share your Halloween decorations with us.

halloween decoration skeleton holding a sign that states "save the CDC"

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Vaccination Nation🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🔬🗽 @vaccinenation.bsky.social · 23h

RFK want people tired disheartened with no insurance or medical coverage. It leaves him and fellow quacks room to take advantage of the public. When antiscience antivax anti education control the narrative everyone suffers. Thank you Colette Delawalla for speaking truth to power.

Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

Russ Vought wasn't lying when he said he wanted to inflict "trauma" on our public servants.

This is what he is doing...with RFK Jr.'s permission at HHS. Last night, they destroyed our nation's ability to track and report emerging diseases/potential pandemics, among other things.

This cannot stand.

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 4d

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23h

Sure

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Vaccination Nation🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🔬🗽 @vaccinenation.bsky.social · 23h

Science and health are connected to an education. With the special education office destroyed at the dept of education kids with complex needs will likely never get to learn about science or health. Unless it’s from an antivaxer because they will still be out educating with lies.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 23h

Yes 100000%

Also, there’s a whole field of science on learning and social science! (I’m doing a PhD in clinical psych, so I’m on team special ed.)

Not to mention the whole push is rooted in eugenics which is something ALL SCIENTISTS should strongly push back against.

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