Becca Baskin
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Becca Baskin
@beccakbaskin.bsky.social
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The government cannot stop you from informing others about their legal rights.

Know your rights when educating your community.
Know Your Rights | Talking to People About Their Rights | ACLU
You have the right to share truthful, lawfully obtained information about law enforcement and tell people about their legal rights—even if they’re in trouble. You can also advocate for changes to laws...
www.aclu.org
February 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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all in one place
February 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
First photos of Senator Mitch McConnell after his fall have been released
February 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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This was posted yesterday morning before the DCA crash. Prescient.
January 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI
Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)
January 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊
January 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This is why they want to stop research and health policy
January 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
!!!!!
January 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Circle up, science friends. I’ve heard from NIH PIs that they are being told by their POs to cease all comms. What else are you hearing out there? 🧪
January 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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These emails, sent across agencies, compel all federal employees to snitch on any colleague whose work might have some vague DEIA inflection. Those who refuse to snitch will be disciplined.

Seems designed to put all workers who aren’t white men under a cloud of suspicion. Truly vile stuff.
The acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (the feds' H.R. department) is telling federal employees to rat out their DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility) colleagues by emailing "DEIAtruth@opm.gov."

chcoc.gov/sites/defaul...
January 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
As a pediatric nurse, I’m already seeing the drop in vaccination rates, and devastating effects, in children. So many children will die under this psycho.
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is currently stacked with academic experts well versed in the science of vaccines. A new secretary of Health and Human Services could rapidly change that, Katherine J. Wu writes: theatln.tc/Y9p27ghh
The Quiet Way RFK Jr. Could Curtail Vaccinations
Changing the membership of an obscure advisory committee could have an outsize effect on Americans’ protection against disease.  
theatln.tc
January 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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BREAKING: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, visited Capitol Hill on Wednesday after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes visits Capitol Hill after Trump clemency
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted ...
apnews.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Not too late to get vaccinated!!
According to the CDC, the number of people going to doctors with illnesses like the flu, RSV and COVID is surging.

Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina joined John Yang to discuss why this year’s sick season is hitting Americans hard and what to know about other viruses.
What to know about this winter’s surge of viral illnesses across the country
According to the CDC, the number of people going to doctors with illnesses the flu, RSV and COVID is surging. Epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina joins John Yang to discuss why this year’s sick season is…
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This shouldn’t be normal. No one is even discussing this because it happens so often. Fuck this place.
BREAKING: A female student was killed in a shooting at a Nashville high school, and the 17-year-old shooter killed himself, police said. apnews.com/article/nash...
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Would be funny if it wasn’t true
Trump Claims He Can Overrule Constitution With Executive Order Because Of Little-Known ‘No One Will Stop Me’ Loophole
theonion.com/trump-c...
January 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde was nearing the end of her sermon for the inaugural prayer service on Tuesday when she took a breath and looked directly at President Trump.

"I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now," she said. Read more: nyti.ms/40slABn
January 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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as LA is burning, a swath of the country is recovering from an ice storm, Alabama is preparing for up to 6” of snow and I’m praying for the TX power grid, a reminder:

we don’t need climate action just for future generations, we need it now.

the climate crisis is here, all around us
January 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM