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Tammie Visintainer
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Associate Prof Science Education | Fighting for my NSF CAREER Climate Justice grant |Transform school science! | Urban heat & community health | Former marine ecologist | Twin mom, surfer, solo backpacker | Pro Humanity | *All views my own
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I’m so angry & heart broken. My NSF CAREER grant was stolen today; dream project supporting science teachers/students as climate justice action researchers, tackling urban heat. Truly transformative, the culmination of my life’s work, we won’t stop, not in this climate crisis. Gonna fight like hell!
“Summers began his lecture with an apology for fraternizing with Epstein before proceeding with his students’ “permission” — which he seemingly never actually stopped to receive.” Same tired misogynistic game, remove him!

Great work by The Harvard Crimson editorial team…young ppl give me hope! 🔥
The Professor and the Pedophile | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Summers should choose the most straightforward path and resign. Should he refuse to, though, the University must cut ties with its former president to the greatest extent possible.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Haven’t we all been in that position where we’ve accidentally MURDERED THEN DISMEMBERED a human being?!!! Such vulgar disrespect for Jamal Khashoggi’s life, legacy, and family 🤬🤬🤬
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ask any woman in STEM if they, along with Sen Warren, knew Larry Summers was a misogynistic prick 20 years ago when he was president of Harvard, and let’s be clear, this institution enables and empowers these gross men and always has….from 2005:
November 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Alongside Dr. Jill Hermann-Wilmarth, I am co-editing a special issue of The Reading Teacher. Our topic, LGBTQ+ Literacies: Affirming Identities, Advancing Justice w/ Pre-K-6 Learners, is sure to be of interest to many & is SO NEEDED in these times! Manuscripts are due January 15, 2026! #literacies
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is what 50 looks like! Grateful for lifelong dear friends, my family, and decades of doing very cool shit with (and without) amazing people. Determined and inspired as ever to make the world a better place. Here’s to humanity and dignity for all. LFG!! 🫶🏼💪🏼🙌🏼
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Ahead of Veterans Day, I was honored to welcome a flight of veterans and their families as they arrived in DC.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."

For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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My god, this is so complex and like dominos with so many decisions depending on others and yet the basic human right that hungry children and elderly and disabled people among others should have access to food in the richest country in the world is so, so simple 😤🥺
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
It just occurred to me that while future focused Democrats see Mamdani’s victory for what it is, a much needed shift towards diverse party leadership the old school Dems see this historic and energizing win as a major threat, and they are clapping back, cowards with no values, vote them out!
It was harder getting endorsements for Zohran Mamdani from Democrats than them caving to Republicans to mutually strip us of healthcare
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Just 5 days ago Americans turned out in historic numbers to vote our values after protesting trumpism in historic numbers weeks earlier. We were loud and clear. It’s not that 8 Democrats (+ Schumer) didn’t hear us, they simply don’t care. Keep fighting, protesting, voting! Together we will RISE! 🫶🏼💪🏼
Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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I can’t wait until women ruin the presidency!
November 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It’s interesting that in this progressive win for democracy (against Cuomo, the abuser), the narratives about Mamdani’s “aloof wife” are old, tired misogyny. As if Rama Duwaji, couldn’t possibly have her own dreams/badass career as an artist and designer but is just there to serve men’s fantasies 😵‍💫😡
Mamdani’s Aloof Wife reveals her role in the new administration and I’m here for it
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight
November 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance.

Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
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November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM