Kendra Maas, PhD
@dnakendra.bsky.social
Queer scientist mom r nerd gardner she/her
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
Rand Paul, have I ever got an idea for you. We all could collectively create our own insurance. Let's call it something like medicare for all.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Rand Paul, have I ever got an idea for you. We all could collectively create our own insurance. Let's call it something like medicare for all.
My "smart" induction cooktop won't turn on (tried unlocking the childlock, that doesn't seem to work). Reinstalled the app to see if that is at all helpful. It is not. It literally just shows that the cooktop is connected to wifi, i can't do anyting with it. How is this "smart"?
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My "smart" induction cooktop won't turn on (tried unlocking the childlock, that doesn't seem to work). Reinstalled the app to see if that is at all helpful. It is not. It literally just shows that the cooktop is connected to wifi, i can't do anyting with it. How is this "smart"?
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This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.
BREAKING: Senators have reached a deal to end the government shutdown.
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.
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Everybody has to make a call to their senators. let’s make believe this is last Tuesday again where everybody did their part and voted
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Everybody has to make a call to their senators. let’s make believe this is last Tuesday again where everybody did their part and voted
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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The UN estimates that hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scam centres worldwide
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The UN estimates that hundreds of thousands of people are trapped in scam centres worldwide
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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- Voting as a privilege instead of an inherent right
- The undersized House and the systemic silencing of cities
- Congress willingly handing power over to the presidency and judiciary/not governing
- A Congress full of insurrectionists having to enact the penalty for insurrection
- The undersized House and the systemic silencing of cities
- Congress willingly handing power over to the presidency and judiciary/not governing
- A Congress full of insurrectionists having to enact the penalty for insurrection
Aspects of our political system which are currently failing and long overdue for reform:
- The two-party system
- The US Senate
- An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency
- A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive
- The two-party system
- The US Senate
- An all-powerful, stand-alone presidency
- A politicized Supreme Court with full veto power over Congress and the executive
Take stock of everything that is failing us right now.
When the moment comes, don’t seek to restore + improve those institutions.
We should replace them.
When the moment comes, don’t seek to restore + improve those institutions.
We should replace them.
November 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
- Voting as a privilege instead of an inherent right
- The undersized House and the systemic silencing of cities
- Congress willingly handing power over to the presidency and judiciary/not governing
- A Congress full of insurrectionists having to enact the penalty for insurrection
- The undersized House and the systemic silencing of cities
- Congress willingly handing power over to the presidency and judiciary/not governing
- A Congress full of insurrectionists having to enact the penalty for insurrection
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7. Residential customers - aka you and me, aka voters - pay 28% more (16.5 c/kWh, 2024 average) than commercial customers (12.9 c/kWh) and 201% more than industrial (8.2 c/kWh). This trend is accelerating: Residential prices rose 27% from 2019-2023, vs. 21% for commercial and 19% for industrial.
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Gender markers on passports only became a thing in the US in the 1970s. What good have they done us?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US supreme court lets Trump block passport sex markers for trans and non-binary people
Decision by high court’s conservative majority is Trump administration’s latest win on emergency docket
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Gender markers on passports only became a thing in the US in the 1970s. What good have they done us?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Woke up at 5 and couldn't get back to sleep. My brain decided that today I must figure out a better camping storage system for our minivan. Leaning towards electrical conduit shelves. Pics if i get it built.
Also would love for the brain to allow for a nap.
Also would love for the brain to allow for a nap.
November 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Woke up at 5 and couldn't get back to sleep. My brain decided that today I must figure out a better camping storage system for our minivan. Leaning towards electrical conduit shelves. Pics if i get it built.
Also would love for the brain to allow for a nap.
Also would love for the brain to allow for a nap.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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72-year-old cancer patient Phillip Lewis said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.
Surprise surprise (not surprised), it turns out, he wasn't the guy they were looking for.
If only his story were unique.
Surprise surprise (not surprised), it turns out, he wasn't the guy they were looking for.
If only his story were unique.
“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force
A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...
www.propublica.org
November 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
72-year-old cancer patient Phillip Lewis said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.
Surprise surprise (not surprised), it turns out, he wasn't the guy they were looking for.
If only his story were unique.
Surprise surprise (not surprised), it turns out, he wasn't the guy they were looking for.
If only his story were unique.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.
November 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Trump administration tells the Supreme Court it can’t be compelled to fully fund SNAP because paying out the money would “irreparably harm” the government, while SNAP beneficiaries … *won’t* be irreparably harmed by going hungry? The balance of equities here is completely upside down.
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"As they scoured well records & years of data, they zeroed in on a significant clue: The purges were occurring near wells where companies were injecting oil field wastewater at excessively high pressure, high enough to crack rock deep underground & allow the waste to travel uncontrolled for miles."
Oil regulators claim Oklahoma's wastewater incidents are under control.
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
But our reporting with @readfrontier.bsky.social shows the state is still dealing with dozens of instances of toxic waste spewing out of the ground, one of which killed about two dozen cows in Sept.
🔗 https://propub.li/4oWsppu
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"As they scoured well records & years of data, they zeroed in on a significant clue: The purges were occurring near wells where companies were injecting oil field wastewater at excessively high pressure, high enough to crack rock deep underground & allow the waste to travel uncontrolled for miles."
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im a single issue voter and its exorcising from politics all of the participants involved in this absolute moral stain of a policy
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
im a single issue voter and its exorcising from politics all of the participants involved in this absolute moral stain of a policy
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We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
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If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.
This is a very important point. I think @aaup needs to include students' mental health and physical safety along with pedagogy and IP theft when discussing the proper role of LLM/"genAI" on campus.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is a very important point. I think @aaup needs to include students' mental health and physical safety along with pedagogy and IP theft when discussing the proper role of LLM/"genAI" on campus.