Abigail Iturra
@abigailiturra.bsky.social
Wandering in the weeds, perpetually on the lookout for the clearing of being.
Doctoral student in philosophy at NU, artist, cat mom
She/her
https://linktr.ee/aiturra
Doctoral student in philosophy at NU, artist, cat mom
She/her
https://linktr.ee/aiturra
Hi guys, I am trying to crowd source funds to pay for my cat's urgent hospitalization bill. The bill is currently at $5400 but is to increase by another 2-4K since he needs to spend another 24-48hours. I would really appreciate any help you could offer <3
gofund.me/f500a349d
gofund.me/f500a349d
Donate to Support Scottie's Recovery and Medical Care, organized by Abigail Iturra
My best friend Scottie has not been feeling well the past week. It is still… Abigail Iturra needs your support for Support Scottie's Recovery and Medical Care
gofund.me
September 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Hi guys, I am trying to crowd source funds to pay for my cat's urgent hospitalization bill. The bill is currently at $5400 but is to increase by another 2-4K since he needs to spend another 24-48hours. I would really appreciate any help you could offer <3
gofund.me/f500a349d
gofund.me/f500a349d
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Digital Tar Pits - How to Fight Back Against A.I.
YouTube video by Kyle Hill
youtu.be
April 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NEW: Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
Reposting bc x is trending his work with AI generated crap 😭
With the increase in AI art, I really think Miyazaki's critique is on point and very concerning for the directions we are heading.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngZ0...
Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence
www.youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Reposting bc x is trending his work with AI generated crap 😭
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This executive order requires RealID to vote, specifically. Regular licenses won't work
Only 61.2% of license holders currently have RealID
If you're not one of them, get your ID NOW. NOW. TODAY. Because this will likely not be the last thing you'll need one for
abcnews.go.com/US/real-id-w...
Only 61.2% of license holders currently have RealID
If you're not one of them, get your ID NOW. NOW. TODAY. Because this will likely not be the last thing you'll need one for
abcnews.go.com/US/real-id-w...
March 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This executive order requires RealID to vote, specifically. Regular licenses won't work
Only 61.2% of license holders currently have RealID
If you're not one of them, get your ID NOW. NOW. TODAY. Because this will likely not be the last thing you'll need one for
abcnews.go.com/US/real-id-w...
Only 61.2% of license holders currently have RealID
If you're not one of them, get your ID NOW. NOW. TODAY. Because this will likely not be the last thing you'll need one for
abcnews.go.com/US/real-id-w...
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The thing about abortion and gender affirming care is that they're both issues of bodily autonomy, entirely up to the person who's getting them. They're objectively good. There should be no stigma with controlling your own body. Controlling your body is awesome!
March 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The thing about abortion and gender affirming care is that they're both issues of bodily autonomy, entirely up to the person who's getting them. They're objectively good. There should be no stigma with controlling your own body. Controlling your body is awesome!
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🚨 Holy crap. Marco Rubio is seemingly purporting to exempt nearly all immigration regulations and policy, along with things like export controls, trade rules, and more, from notice and comment rulemaking requirements.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04116.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04116.pdf
![5. For these reasons, I hereby determine that all efforts, conducted by any agency of the federal government, to control the status, entry, and exit of people, and the transfer of goods, services, data, technology, and other items across the borders of the United States, constitute a foreign affairs function of the United States under the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 553, 554.
Dated: February 21, 2025.
Marco Rubio, Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2025-04116 Filed: 3/13/2025 8:45 am; Publication Date: 3/14/2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiavaiwveosvflap6cyxaeqs5xm3au23malhmxi67pzmmslkhdjfvm@jpeg)
March 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🚨 Holy crap. Marco Rubio is seemingly purporting to exempt nearly all immigration regulations and policy, along with things like export controls, trade rules, and more, from notice and comment rulemaking requirements.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04116.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04116.pdf
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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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Columbia’s overblown response & decision to launch a PR campaign against activists is what landed it in the spotlight in the first place as protests were breaking out nationally. Ya played yourself.
You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time
March 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Columbia’s overblown response & decision to launch a PR campaign against activists is what landed it in the spotlight in the first place as protests were breaking out nationally. Ya played yourself.
The way Nietzsche's thought has been utterly abused for the sake of Nazi propaganda always boils my blood. It really is a shame. Nietzsche was a deep and contradictory thinker, with limits of application, but nevertheless a hopeful philosopher-artist that hated all forms of nationalism.
This is just Nazism, I'm sorry to be so tedious and repetitive, but this kind of bowdlerized Nietzscheanism for popular audience can really have no other name
“The fundamental weakness of Weatern civilization is empathy.”
—Elon Musk
—Elon Musk
March 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
The way Nietzsche's thought has been utterly abused for the sake of Nazi propaganda always boils my blood. It really is a shame. Nietzsche was a deep and contradictory thinker, with limits of application, but nevertheless a hopeful philosopher-artist that hated all forms of nationalism.
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The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
March 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.
Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.
MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.
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Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
www.wired.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Okay... we feel like we say this every week but *a lot* of stuff happened. Let's break it down, starting with @brbarrett.bsky.social on why the DOGE takeover is worse than you think... (sorry, but you gotta read this one.)
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1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired.
This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
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This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
The New McCarthyism: LGBTQ+ Purges In Government Begin
After Chris Rufo leaked LGBTQ+ chatlogs from the intelligence community, Gabbard has announced that all those who participated in the chats will be fired.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1. Today, the NYT has reported that 100 members of an ERG-adjacent LGBTQ+ chat in the intelligence community have been fired.
This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
This is a new McCarthyism, a new lavender scare meant to remove LGBTQ+ in government, and the way this was done should shake us all.
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
February 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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Remembering Sam Nordquist this morning. All of our love to Sam and his family and community today.
Rest in Peace.
Rest in Peace.
February 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Remembering Sam Nordquist this morning. All of our love to Sam and his family and community today.
Rest in Peace.
Rest in Peace.
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As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
"activist leaders have told him and colleagues that they fear protests against Trump might eventually be used as a predicate for declaring martial law. Other House Democrats echoed this privately"
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Something something in advance
www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...
Democrats confront their powerlessness as Trump flexes authority | CNN Politics
Amid Democrats’ shock and bickering over how much to respond to President Donald Trump is a deeper question rippling through leaders across the Capitol and across the country: How much should they rel...
www.cnn.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.
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1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
1. Breaking News: Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting trans youth and teachers in schools who teach for them.
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
It goes after "social transition" and threatens arrests.
I will go through line by line, as I have the last 3 nights.
Find the EO here:
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
January 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I know there’s a lot right now. But folks need to understand what this means.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
A suspension this long would mean people living with HIV lose their medicine for months. People around the world lose their PrEP for months, putting millions at risk of getting HIV. Drug-resistant strains could emerge.
Follow me if you’re gayyy 🏳️🌈❤️
January 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Follow me if you’re gayyy 🏳️🌈❤️
I've become very obsessed with sculpting clay. someone please fund my sculpting career 🗿
January 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I've become very obsessed with sculpting clay. someone please fund my sculpting career 🗿
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Babe wake up Melissa Etheridge is singing Lover on TikTok.
November 16, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Babe wake up Melissa Etheridge is singing Lover on TikTok.
First time writing a letter of recommendation for a student who was trying to transfer from Loyola to UMich. Heard back today that she got in! Feeling so proud of her 😄
February 28, 2024 at 1:05 AM
First time writing a letter of recommendation for a student who was trying to transfer from Loyola to UMich. Heard back today that she got in! Feeling so proud of her 😄
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February 28, 2024 at 1:01 AM
if the infinite library is infinite and there are finite amount of letters, then clearly the same words, sentences, and even entire works will repeat in multiple places; probably infinitely repeat inside the bigger infinity of the library. but doesn't this also mean that entire sections of the (1/2)
January 28, 2024 at 4:43 AM
if the infinite library is infinite and there are finite amount of letters, then clearly the same words, sentences, and even entire works will repeat in multiple places; probably infinitely repeat inside the bigger infinity of the library. but doesn't this also mean that entire sections of the (1/2)