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Science + public good. Fam: 🇺🇸 + 🇨🇦+ 🌎🌍🌏 For an ATX where y’all means all, we 🗳+ 💉+🚴🏻‍♀️ Freedom of speech (while supplies last!) 👩🏻‍🎓 eng@Rice + datascience@Berkeley 👩🏻‍💻

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Jun 19

Because it needs to be said out loud more often, to “bomb Iran” is to kill families living under one of the world’s most oppressive regimes. Mothers and fathers and children. Violence is the opposite of what is needed here.

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 1d

Shit Storm One

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

OPERATION INFLATION

www.operationinflation.com

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 2d

Our “system of checks and balances” has absolutely collapsed in the US. So while I don’t envy your monarchy, I do envy much about how Canadians organize your society. Much respect!

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian protestor holds sign saying ”Power to the Peaceful”

jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 2d

And the creativity inspires so many versions!

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 2d

In the pouring rain, Vancouver, BC 🇨🇦 has hundreds show up to protest the spread of fascism/racism/christian-nationalism. Technically the protest here is named “No Tyrants” because - as anachronistic as it seems to this American - they do still recognize a king 🤷🏻‍♀️ #NoKings

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 3d

This made me laugh because the event in Vancouver tomorrow is called “No Tyrants”…because they (and this is true) actually have a 🤴

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 6d

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 6d

The families of Central Texas paid for the books & paid for the school buildings in which the books are stewarded by the librarians whose salaries we pay. Cutting off our library access is like shutting down all the roads because a store downtown offers objectionable 🌈 stickers. Make it make sense?

jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · 13d

“border agents segregated arrested residents by race” 👀
This policy is despicable.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 13d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 14d

Female journalists interested in health reporting: the fellowship I did at @womenjournos.bsky.social last year is open again for next year! Deadline to apply is December 5. www.jaws.org/apply-here

2026 Application & Overview — JAWS

www.jaws.org

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20d

"no more superficial individual expression"

Pete Hegseth wearing USA flag pocket square, USA lining, contrast stitching, and "America First" embroidery.

Pete Hegseth wearing a USA belt buckle. monogrammed shirt cuff, contrast buttonhole, contrast buttons, and USA flag lining.

Pete Hegseth in tailored clothing. They are full of cheap "personalization" options common in low-end made-to-measure tailoring.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 20d

#TEXAS (continued):

Avg gross rate change: +32.5% (preliminary)

Avg gross 2026 premium: $759/mo

NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +406%

TEXAS already has premium alignment in place, but that only helps so much.

Texas: Impact on net benchmark Silver ACA plan premiums if enhanced tax credits expire

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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 28d

If #tylenol is so bad for children's health then why aren't we worried about #guns

I bet more children have died or been adversely affected due to gun violence than tylenol.

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Sep 20

TIL that authorities’ use of tear gas impacts the human reproductive system. I feel like this kind of thing should be printed on the front of my @aclu.org membership card. (TBF maybe it is, in some drawer somewhere)

Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · Sep 20

It's already been studied, and this is known science. Of course, that doesn't stop these fuckers from using chemical warfare on people.

Some results from searching "tear gas abortifacient"

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

www.cdc.gov/breastfeedin...

www.sph.umn.edu/news/new-stu...

More than tears: associations between exposure to chemical agents used by law enforcement and adverse reproductive health outcomes

Despite routine law enforcement use of chemical agents for crowd control, the reproductive health safety profiles of these products are unknown. Moreover, limited evidence has documented a link betwee...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · Sep 19

Top 1% of Americans have more wealth than the entire middle class now, in case you were wondering how cooked the country is

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Sep 19

Heal well; we need your voice

jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Sep 19

This is what I immediately thought

a woman is laughing with the words `` aint nobody got time for that '' written on her face .

ALT: a woman is laughing with the words `` aint nobody got time for that '' written on her face .

media.tenor.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 19

SERIOUSLY. WATCH THIS! Especially around 10 minutes in. FROM 2022! “When society is under threat, comedians are the ones who are sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat…It’s not the fragility of audiences, it’s the fragility of leaders. It ain’t the pronoun police, it’s the Secret Police.”

Jon Stewart Acceptance Speech | 2022 Mark Twain Prize

YouTube video by The Kennedy Center

youtube.com

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Sep 19

a woman with a bandana on her head is laughing with the caption aint nobody got time for that

ALT: a woman with a bandana on her head is laughing with the caption aint nobody got time for that

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Sep 19

⚠️ I just made my comment on the last day comments can be submitted. I urge everyone who values pristine 🌲natural places to comment before this administration opens up all our wild lands to become pavement.🛣️

Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · Sep 19

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY of the public comment period on Trump’s attempt to remove the Roadless Rule. I urge all of you to make sure that your voices are heard. youtube.com/shorts/7Ncft...

LAST DAY

YouTube video by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Sep 19

The corruption is off-the-charts with this one

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 19

It's a cliche to say it at this point, but breaking the law for over a year while negotiating a deal that gives two of his biggest campaign donors part ownership over the most influential social media platform in the world would have been the defining scandal for any other president.

Don’t Be Fooled by a Trump-Xi Deal on TikTok

Regardless of any agreement, Trump has been breaking the law all year.

www.politico.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Sep 19

Colbert spent the entire monolog on Kimmel and the FCC.

We Are All Jimmy Kimmel | The Easy Way Or The Hard Way | Trump Urges NBC To Cancel Fallon And Mey…

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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jendarra @jendarra.bsky.social · Sep 19

Such a perfect time to sit on our hands and hold our tongues. Look away, at the leaf 🍁 pile, and shudder ever so slightly at the minor chill in the air.

<was that the wind whispering: “winter is coming”?>