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Childless cat lady | Higher Education - students are my energy source | Colorado | Running is peace | Animal pictures, please | There is beauty everywhere (she/her/hers)

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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.

All eyes needed on the Krome Detention Facility in Miami FL. People with no criminal history held in crowded rooms like sardines, denied water, food, sanitary products, healthcare, toilets. At least 4 men have died since January #ConcentrationCamps

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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.

trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

21.02.2025 02:47 πŸ‘ 11279 πŸ” 3610 πŸ’¬ 407 πŸ“Œ 282
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Tons of people turned out today in Denver!

17.02.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dear Colleagues,
With gratitude for his strong leadership and commitment, I announce National Institutes of Health (NIH) Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., retired from federal service effective Feb. 11, 2025, after 25 years of service. Dr. Tabak has held critical NIH leadership roles since 2000, most notably in his current role as the second in command since August 2010, and two years as the Acting NIH Director from December 2021-November 2023. He has helped shape important policy decisions at NIH over four administrations. He has guided NIH through complex issues and will be sorely missed.

Dear Colleagues, With gratitude for his strong leadership and commitment, I announce National Institutes of Health (NIH) Principal Deputy Director Lawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., retired from federal service effective Feb. 11, 2025, after 25 years of service. Dr. Tabak has held critical NIH leadership roles since 2000, most notably in his current role as the second in command since August 2010, and two years as the Acting NIH Director from December 2021-November 2023. He has helped shape important policy decisions at NIH over four administrations. He has guided NIH through complex issues and will be sorely missed.

UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring."

Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.

12.02.2025 18:34 πŸ‘ 3864 πŸ” 1653 πŸ’¬ 126 πŸ“Œ 86

I still have my Harris Walz sign in my yard.

10.02.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

INBOX: Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) is joining a 22-state lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from cutting NIH funding that supports medical research on cancer, flu, etc. Weiser says it would cost CSU, CU-Boulder, and CU Anschutz a combined $90M. #copolitics

10.02.2025 17:20 πŸ‘ 483 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3
sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed β€” the people think β€œstanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed β€” the people think β€œstanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

09.02.2025 22:00 πŸ‘ 10535 πŸ” 2781 πŸ’¬ 137 πŸ“Œ 124

I mean, he had to agree to that, right?

10.02.2025 00:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.

03.02.2025 01:33 πŸ‘ 2497 πŸ” 1112 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 38
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We Choose To Fight: Action Call Β· Indivisible This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...

I just signed up for this @indivisible.org call. They're literally our best bet right now for traditional political/electoral action, imo. Please consider joining me. mobilize.us/s/0x5dTb

01.02.2025 01:43 πŸ‘ 455 πŸ” 246 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 44

I just don't want to think about it.

26.01.2025 04:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Less than a year is a clear victory IMO.

25.01.2025 22:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, it's amazing something that beautiful exists.

20.01.2025 20:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I LOVE that moose are deer - how dare you call that trivial!

Does sarcasm come through on this app <taps screen>

18.01.2025 23:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing photos! I've never seen a shoveler out of water - they are stunning and hilarious at the same time.

16.01.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you and please never leave Denver.

15.01.2025 04:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm a Gillespie and a Democrat - I'm in!

15.01.2025 03:36 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What kind of witchcraft is that ?

13.01.2025 02:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sooooo much chonk!

13.01.2025 00:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They've lost their community, which is so difficult.

09.01.2025 03:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The local journalists and meteorologists on the LA stations are heroes. And their graphics teams are amazing.

09.01.2025 03:31 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How horrifying.

07.01.2025 23:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

More of this, please. It's wild that every event - weddings, sports, retirement, hell even baby showers, use alcohol as a centerpiece.

30.12.2024 22:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

<spits out my water> Did you say femur with teeth?

27.12.2024 01:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Southern xmas brunch at ye Ole house of waffles

25.12.2024 18:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And the shoes!

20.12.2024 04:06 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We Denverites get hit with it whenever a north wind arrives.

20.12.2024 04:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No amount of air freshener could have cured it.

20.12.2024 03:09 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You smell it, too.

20.12.2024 02:54 πŸ‘ 98 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Rhetorical question, correct?

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