Kristen Sager Cincotta
@kscincotta.bsky.social
👩🏻🔬Science nerd in public health (American Cancer Society now, ICF and CDC previously)
🔬 Research advocate
📷 Loves photography, #Yankees, coffee, hiking
👨👩👦 #KidMom
Opinions my own, not my employer.
🔬 Research advocate
📷 Loves photography, #Yankees, coffee, hiking
👨👩👦 #KidMom
Opinions my own, not my employer.
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This is great but means nothing long-term if he isn’t prosecuted. He oversaw public executions, engaged in domestic terrorism and lied about it under oath, etc etc.
If he gets away with it there will be no deterrent for the next guy who tries to do a white nationalist purge.
If he gets away with it there will be no deterrent for the next guy who tries to do a white nationalist purge.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
This is great but means nothing long-term if he isn’t prosecuted. He oversaw public executions, engaged in domestic terrorism and lied about it under oath, etc etc.
If he gets away with it there will be no deterrent for the next guy who tries to do a white nationalist purge.
If he gets away with it there will be no deterrent for the next guy who tries to do a white nationalist purge.
Holy moly
Also, uh, we have more than 100,000 people registered for this ICE watch training tonight. Largest training of it type in history by a long shot. Please join if you've not be trained yet, and share to friends/fam/neighbors!
I recorded this week's newsletter in case you want to watch instead of read. Are we pro or anti Gadsden flag hat? On the one hand, I like reclaiming it. On the other hand, it's hard for me to shake my visceral response to it from the Tea Party days. ezralevin.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...
January 26, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Holy moly
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“Are we gassing our people with a cancerous smoke or something else?” is an insane place to be at.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 10:48 PM
“Are we gassing our people with a cancerous smoke or something else?” is an insane place to be at.
Contractor compliance training on data security and confidentiality just got a new example case.
A Booz Allen contractor had leaked confidential tax information that showed how wealthy people like Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos manage to minimize their tax obligations. n.pr/3NHgQVZ
Treasury cancels Booz Allen contracts over leaks about wealthy taxpayers
A Booz Allen contractor had leaked confidential tax information that showed how wealthy people like Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos manage to minimize their tax obligations.
n.pr
January 26, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Contractor compliance training on data security and confidentiality just got a new example case.
You just know this man smells like stale coffee breath and cigarettes.
Breaking WSJ:
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino will imminently leave Minnesota along with some of his agents, according to administration officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino will imminently leave Minnesota along with some of his agents, according to administration officials familiar with the matter. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Gregory Bovino to Leave Minnesota Imminently, Administration Officials Say
Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino will imminently leave Minnesota along with some of his agents, according to administration officials familiar with the matter.
Bovino had emerged as the public f...
www.wsj.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:58 PM
You just know this man smells like stale coffee breath and cigarettes.
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Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
January 26, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Looking for sources for a @nature.com story about how researchers are coping in the midst of current events: If you're a PhD or other academic who's struggling to focus with everything that's happening in the world and would like to be interviewed for this story, please get in touch ASAP!
I have an IG account just for following random influencer people on a range of “fluffy” topics like fashion & home decor. It’s a nice distraction some days, like a glossy magazine.
Anyways, almost every single one of them posted something about ICE yesterday. I’ve never seen that before.
Anyways, almost every single one of them posted something about ICE yesterday. I’ve never seen that before.
The White House is failing to control the narrative. People who barely talk about politics are pissed
January 25, 2026 at 4:58 PM
I have an IG account just for following random influencer people on a range of “fluffy” topics like fashion & home decor. It’s a nice distraction some days, like a glossy magazine.
Anyways, almost every single one of them posted something about ICE yesterday. I’ve never seen that before.
Anyways, almost every single one of them posted something about ICE yesterday. I’ve never seen that before.
Oh!!
A public health legend. Damn.
A public health legend. Damn.
William Foege has died. He was a central architect of smallpox eradication, pioneering surveillance-driven ring vaccination when vaccine supply was limited. That strategy helped eliminate the deadliest human pathogen we’ve ever known.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...
William H. Foege, Key Figure in the Eradication of Smallpox, Dies at 89
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Oh!!
A public health legend. Damn.
A public health legend. Damn.
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Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.
THANK YOU SENATOR!!!
I will vote NO on the funding bill for Trump’s ICE.
They are killing Americans.
Detaining children.
Trampling our freedoms.
We are losing our humanity.
This is a defining moment for our nation. A moment for moral courage. We must stand together and say no.
They are killing Americans.
Detaining children.
Trampling our freedoms.
We are losing our humanity.
This is a defining moment for our nation. A moment for moral courage. We must stand together and say no.
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 AM
THANK YOU SENATOR!!!
I’m sorry, what?!
Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.
January 25, 2026 at 12:42 AM
I’m sorry, what?!
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The most disturbing thing about this - whether it's murders, kidnappings, abductions, terror - all of it - everything that's happening - is exactly what they campaigned on.
They didn't tell any lies about what they'd do and this is exactly the America so many people have prayed for.
They didn't tell any lies about what they'd do and this is exactly the America so many people have prayed for.
January 25, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The most disturbing thing about this - whether it's murders, kidnappings, abductions, terror - all of it - everything that's happening - is exactly what they campaigned on.
They didn't tell any lies about what they'd do and this is exactly the America so many people have prayed for.
They didn't tell any lies about what they'd do and this is exactly the America so many people have prayed for.
This news push notification was up there with the early COVID shut down notifications as feeling absolutely surreal.
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
January 24, 2026 at 8:58 PM
This news push notification was up there with the early COVID shut down notifications as feeling absolutely surreal.
If you watch this guy throughout, it seems very clear that he took the gun off the victim BEFORE the first shots were fired.
Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
If you watch this guy throughout, it seems very clear that he took the gun off the victim BEFORE the first shots were fired.
Again, these are NOT untrained n00bs. It’s institutional rot all the way through.
The officer who fatally shot a Minneapolis man during a protest is an 8-year Border Patrol veteran, federal officials say.
Police chief calls for calm after a man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown
Federal immigration officers have shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks earlier.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Again, these are NOT untrained n00bs. It’s institutional rot all the way through.
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Dems have to vote this down
this might not be the fight you want but this is the fight you have, they’re killing people in the streets and smearing the victims, they are totally out of control
meet the moment because it is coming to meet you whether you like it or not
this might not be the fight you want but this is the fight you have, they’re killing people in the streets and smearing the victims, they are totally out of control
meet the moment because it is coming to meet you whether you like it or not
Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Dems have to vote this down
this might not be the fight you want but this is the fight you have, they’re killing people in the streets and smearing the victims, they are totally out of control
meet the moment because it is coming to meet you whether you like it or not
this might not be the fight you want but this is the fight you have, they’re killing people in the streets and smearing the victims, they are totally out of control
meet the moment because it is coming to meet you whether you like it or not
I'd only add, if you vote to fund ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You're also complicit
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
January 24, 2026 at 4:33 PM
The thing is, this isn’t new for Trump & Miller. Taking kids and using them to punish their parents for trying to live here is entirely the same underlying principle as their horrific family separation policy in their first term.
Something is deeply wrong if we, as a society, cannot agree that an administration that snatches up children, uses them as bait to hunt down others, is morally repulsive.
They want to tell you a kid with a Spider-Man backpack is evil
Liam Ramos' innocence, like the innocence of all kids, is unimpeachable. The visuals of his arrest are excruciating.
www.motherjones.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:47 AM
The thing is, this isn’t new for Trump & Miller. Taking kids and using them to punish their parents for trying to live here is entirely the same underlying principle as their horrific family separation policy in their first term.
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We should also talk more about how too many Republicans do not see entire swaths of people as actual people. You don’t casually muse about starting a war if you see troops as humans with lives and families. Normal people don’t fantasize about those from other countries dying for their own amusement.
Rep. Greg Steube: "You see Macron and the French sending troops to Greenland. I would love to see the US military up against French troops in Greenland, because it would not last very long. It would be a very small skirmish ... we don't care about what Macron and the French want."
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
We should also talk more about how too many Republicans do not see entire swaths of people as actual people. You don’t casually muse about starting a war if you see troops as humans with lives and families. Normal people don’t fantasize about those from other countries dying for their own amusement.
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the costs to society of this derangement are going to be enormous and every one of these people should face judgment for it
Breaking News: Rejecting decades of science, the chair of the federal panel that recommends vaccines for Americans said that shots against polio and measles — and perhaps all diseases — should be optional. The vaccines are credited with preventing disability and millions of deaths worldwide.
Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional, Rejecting Decades of Science
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who leads the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said a person’s right to refuse a vaccine outweighed concerns about illness or death from infectious diseases.
nyti.ms
January 23, 2026 at 6:26 PM
the costs to society of this derangement are going to be enormous and every one of these people should face judgment for it
This is child abuse.
ICE detain yet another minor child—chase him down his own street and tackle him to pavement.
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
"I am legal! I am legal!" he cries over and over in Spanish.
Agent pins the boy down in snow—he desperately tries to keep his exposed hands from freezing at -25°F wind chill temperature.
Minneapolis, MN
January 23, 2026 at 6:22 PM
This is child abuse.
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Calls made! ✅✅
Yesterday, Indivisible ATL visited @ossoff.senate.gov and @warnock.senate.gov
We shared how ICE impacts our families + communities.
We told them why the “compromise” DHS bill week isn’t a compromise at all.
It still wasn’t enough for the senators to commit to doing the right thing. Yet.
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We shared how ICE impacts our families + communities.
We told them why the “compromise” DHS bill week isn’t a compromise at all.
It still wasn’t enough for the senators to commit to doing the right thing. Yet.
1/2
January 23, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Calls made! ✅✅
Exactly what @6puma.bsky.social said! The people of Minnesota are giving all of us so much hope right now!
All the solidarity with Minneapolis and all our immigrant communities today and always! #MeltICE #DefundDHS #GeneralStrike
January 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Exactly what @6puma.bsky.social said! The people of Minnesota are giving all of us so much hope right now!
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You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.
In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.