Kels Akiko
@enniskelli.bsky.social
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💪🏼 Powerlifter
🇯🇵 Japanese American
🧬 Biologist
✏️ Educator
📖 Games, Books, & Films
🐶 Finn the Corgi
🌸 Lana Kuwana
PDX ➡️ NOLA ➡️ CINCY ➡️ OR Coast
In school we were taught that Americans overthrow monarchies; from 1775 to 2025, who doesn't love a legacy sequel?
February 19, 2025 at 11:53 PM
In school we were taught that Americans overthrow monarchies; from 1775 to 2025, who doesn't love a legacy sequel?
It's hard to focus at work when Kendrick Lamar's incredible halftime show is still hanging out in my head.
February 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It's hard to focus at work when Kendrick Lamar's incredible halftime show is still hanging out in my head.
I liked the part of history when Americans killed Nazis and fascists.
February 5, 2025 at 4:28 AM
I liked the part of history when Americans killed Nazis and fascists.
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Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”
CDC Scientists Ordered to Withdraw Studies That Say ‘LGBT’ or ‘Pregnant People’
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “LGBT” or “pregnant people.”
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What the US is experiencing right now is fascism. There's no other word for it and pretending that it's verboten to say so diminishes the truth as much as they are diminishing the truth. It's fascism. It's arrived.
February 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
What the US is experiencing right now is fascism. There's no other word for it and pretending that it's verboten to say so diminishes the truth as much as they are diminishing the truth. It's fascism. It's arrived.
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The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
We hammered this time and time again and yet.
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Dear Canada and Mexico,
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
February 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Dear Canada and Mexico,
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
We’re so, so sorry.
— Sane America
"No new wars" ...except economic ones with our allies!
February 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
"No new wars" ...except economic ones with our allies!
Crying in Wherever I Currently Am While Reading This Book.
A raw and familiar recounting of grief. Another perfect capturing of the in between cultural and identity world of Hapa Americans; one we often grew up feeling alone in, to then hear these same internal dialogues from another is powerful.
A raw and familiar recounting of grief. Another perfect capturing of the in between cultural and identity world of Hapa Americans; one we often grew up feeling alone in, to then hear these same internal dialogues from another is powerful.
February 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Crying in Wherever I Currently Am While Reading This Book.
A raw and familiar recounting of grief. Another perfect capturing of the in between cultural and identity world of Hapa Americans; one we often grew up feeling alone in, to then hear these same internal dialogues from another is powerful.
A raw and familiar recounting of grief. Another perfect capturing of the in between cultural and identity world of Hapa Americans; one we often grew up feeling alone in, to then hear these same internal dialogues from another is powerful.
FBI Academy January 31, 2025. We readers do always love a good metaphor even when a bit on the nose.
February 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
FBI Academy January 31, 2025. We readers do always love a good metaphor even when a bit on the nose.
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Yes, the HPV vaccine is safe, despite R.F.K. Jr.'s claims. It's remarkably effective at preventing cancer — roughly 97% effective in preventing cervical cancer, and nearly 100% effective in preventing external genital warts.
Is the HPV Vaccine Safe? Yes, Despite What R.F.K. Jr. Has Said.
During his second day of confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declined to disavow comments he had made disparaging the vaccine as unsafe.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Yes, the HPV vaccine is safe, despite R.F.K. Jr.'s claims. It's remarkably effective at preventing cancer — roughly 97% effective in preventing cervical cancer, and nearly 100% effective in preventing external genital warts.
When they say "DEI" we all know they mean women and non-whites, it's the same as when they said and blamed "woke", the same as when they said "socialists", same as when they said "non-Patriots", same as it always was but these days they just code their slurs.
January 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
When they say "DEI" we all know they mean women and non-whites, it's the same as when they said and blamed "woke", the same as when they said "socialists", same as when they said "non-Patriots", same as it always was but these days they just code their slurs.
There is just too much to say about the RFK Jr hearing. We can just go stand silently with all the MDs, PhDs, researchers, and scientists who can't unpack all the unhinged pseudoscience and poor medical understandings and can only quietly ask "WTF?!"
January 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
There is just too much to say about the RFK Jr hearing. We can just go stand silently with all the MDs, PhDs, researchers, and scientists who can't unpack all the unhinged pseudoscience and poor medical understandings and can only quietly ask "WTF?!"
An Aggregating Anemone. The color comes from species of algae that live endosymbiotically within the anemone and act as significant primary producers (photosynthesize to create oxygen from carbon dioxide) of the intertidal zone.
January 29, 2025 at 6:40 AM
An Aggregating Anemone. The color comes from species of algae that live endosymbiotically within the anemone and act as significant primary producers (photosynthesize to create oxygen from carbon dioxide) of the intertidal zone.
Yikes...oh Federalist Society guy...if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it might be yet another right wing Christian-fascist MAGA cultist doing their part to dismantle our federal government and replace it with an oligarchy and theocracy for personal gain, pretending to be a duck.
BREAKING: Andrew Kloster, a self-described "raging misogynist" has been installed at the Office of Personnel Management, the fed. government's human resources agency. At OPM, Kloster could be involved in efforts to politicize the federal workforce. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Yikes...oh Federalist Society guy...if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it might be yet another right wing Christian-fascist MAGA cultist doing their part to dismantle our federal government and replace it with an oligarchy and theocracy for personal gain, pretending to be a duck.
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Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management
Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
www.wired.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Scoop: Elon Musk’s lackeys have taken over the Office of Personnel Management—essentially the human resources function for the entire federal government. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Caroline Kennedy wrote a scathing letter to senators, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” addicted to attention from airing dangerous views on vaccinations and someone who is unfit to be the U.S. health secretary. nyti.ms/40Oyb3o
January 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Caroline Kennedy wrote a scathing letter to senators, calling her cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a “predator” addicted to attention from airing dangerous views on vaccinations and someone who is unfit to be the U.S. health secretary. nyti.ms/40Oyb3o
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NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans
The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB. Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
Project 2025 happening before our eyes, next comes the MAGA loyalist yes-men, or as they like to call it "the merit based hires"
The Trump administration is offering millions of federal workers the option to accept buyouts through a government-wide “deferred resignation” program if they resign by Feb. 6.
Read more here:
Read more here:
Trump administration offering buyouts to nearly all federal workers
The Trump administration is offering millions of federal workers the option to accept buyouts through a government-wide "deferred resignation" program.
www.cnbc.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Project 2025 happening before our eyes, next comes the MAGA loyalist yes-men, or as they like to call it "the merit based hires"
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NEW: A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiu-jitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.
DOGE Will Allow Elon Musk to Surveil the US Government From the Inside
A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiu-jitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government...
www.wired.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
NEW: A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiu-jitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.
Prohibiting discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin apparently "undermines our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermines the traditional American values."
Hold on to your loved ones during the darkness.
Hold on to your loved ones during the darkness.
President Trump on Wednesday revoked a 60-year-old executive order banning discrimination in hiring practices in the federal government, his latest action aimed at gutting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. nyti.ms/4hrnXeJ
January 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Prohibiting discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin apparently "undermines our national unity, as they deny, discredit, and undermines the traditional American values."
Hold on to your loved ones during the darkness.
Hold on to your loved ones during the darkness.
Beginning year 35 in one of my favorite cities with one of my favorite humans.
January 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Beginning year 35 in one of my favorite cities with one of my favorite humans.
There are 77 million Americans whose judgement no one should ever trust.
“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
scim.ag
January 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
There are 77 million Americans whose judgement no one should ever trust.
Hello year 35, some things have changed since 1990.
January 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Hello year 35, some things have changed since 1990.