Rebecca Sullivan

Rebecca Sullivan

@rebeccainca.bsky.social

My country is California. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻✊

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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Republicans politicize crime against white women to promote their own racist agenda. Not the first time that's happened in this country. Never forget Emmett Till who was viciously lynched by vigilantes in 1955. It's happening again.

True Booooo Majority 🎃🎃🎃@truebluemajority.bsky.social

Better question: How come the death of one Laken Riley makes Republicons feel justified in rounding up all migrant workers & immigrants and sending them to concentration camps... But the deaths of hundreds of children in school shootings doesn't result in any congressional action by Rcons at all?

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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

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1/4 Trump’s Assault on Science & Academia Is a National Crisis The Trump regime slashed federal research funding in a sweeping ideological purge, gutting the NIH, canceling almost 2500 lifesaving projects, and punishing universities. This is sabotage. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

nytimes.comHere Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

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How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

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"7 of the cited sources don’t appear to exist at all." NOTUS: Epidemiologist Katherine Keyes is listed in the MAHA report as author of a study on anxiety in adolescents (and) was surprised to hear of the citation. “The paper cited isn't a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with."

Sarah Todd@sarah-todd.bsky.social

Seven of the sources cited in MAHA commission's report do not exist: “The paper cited is not a real paper that I or my colleagues were involved with," says one researcher. www.notus.org/health-scien...

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Replying to @atrupar.com

Electricians and plumbers were precisely the people her boss routinely refused to pay back when he was a shady, failed real estate guy. And f--k her for her her gratuitous homophobia.

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‘They say, We leave you our deaths. Give them their meaning.’ —Archibald MacLeish Remembering the fallen this Memorial Day, we can consider our own duty to strive so that our lives and our country are worthy of the price they paid.

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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

I guess some Americans need a white man to tell them how to eat healthy. I remember when that was decried as socialism and overreach.Good for you for deciding that eating healthier is a fine idea now, but I see you.I see who is taking meals for children out of schools,funding away from food banks…

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In addition to gutting Medicaid and SNAP, the House Reconciliation bill takes aim at the clean energy boom 🔋🌱 Slashing clean energy tax credits = slashing jobs in your own district 💼⚡️ Let’s see how that plays out 👀

Seems like it is necessary to state something on which we all should easily agree. I am against killing people and the things that make that killing easier- unregulated guns, starvation, prejudice, bigotry, weapons of mass destruction, poverty, dehumanizing others …add your own in comments

Data driven science should be centered in every conversation about safety and fairness in sports, not bias. The most valuable thing about participating in sports will never be the trophies and medals. Teamwork, belonging, discipline, appreciation of small improvements…that’s where the real value is!

Again, the term “groceries” is not an old fashioned word! What an idiotic lunatic!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

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AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

reuters.comRobert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reportsU.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.