Kate von Goeler
@katevongoeler.bsky.social
Bird Lover. Fascism Hater. Massachusetts native. Also interested in data analysis and health politics.
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There’s a heartbreaking #ParrotCrisis with 1000s of unwanted parrots needing homes. If you’d like to care for one of these amazing beings, DONT buy from breeders or pet stores. Instead rescue a bird needing a home…and learn all you can beforehand so you understand their many needs and problems.
If you care about parrots join the Parrot Crisis Action Summit this Friday 9/19 11:30 am. Zoom. Parrotalliance.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
If you care about parrots join the Parrot Crisis Action Summit this Friday 9/19 11:30 am. Zoom. Parrotalliance.org
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Catherine Offord's powerful, must-read cover story about the impact of Trump cuts on nutrition programs for children in Nepal. Part 2 in series we're doing with support from the wonderful @pulitzercenter.bsky.social.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
June 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Catherine Offord's powerful, must-read cover story about the impact of Trump cuts on nutrition programs for children in Nepal. Part 2 in series we're doing with support from the wonderful @pulitzercenter.bsky.social.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Here’s RFK Jr in June 2023 saying he’s going to blackball any scientist who is on ACIP and block them from ever sitting on a committee again, and from receiving federal funding for 8 years.
Today, he fired all 17 experts on that committee, which advises the nation on vaccines.
Today, he fired all 17 experts on that committee, which advises the nation on vaccines.
June 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Here’s RFK Jr in June 2023 saying he’s going to blackball any scientist who is on ACIP and block them from ever sitting on a committee again, and from receiving federal funding for 8 years.
Today, he fired all 17 experts on that committee, which advises the nation on vaccines.
Today, he fired all 17 experts on that committee, which advises the nation on vaccines.
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Injured owlet giving me a skeptical look… before deciding maybe I wasn’t so bad.
May 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Injured owlet giving me a skeptical look… before deciding maybe I wasn’t so bad.
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These birds form life-long friendships just like humans, study finds
These birds form life-long friendships just like humans
Findings challenge prevalent view of animals only helping direct blood relatives
www.independent.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
These birds form life-long friendships just like humans, study finds
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Now the DOGE scumbags are coming for the Bird Banding Laboratory (part of USGS). They just lost two senior staff members and are going to be stretched extremely thin. Without their office, bird research does not happen.
May 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Now the DOGE scumbags are coming for the Bird Banding Laboratory (part of USGS). They just lost two senior staff members and are going to be stretched extremely thin. Without their office, bird research does not happen.
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Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
May 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...
The average American has three friends.
May 3, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The average American has three friends.
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Anyway re this whole apparent shift in HHS's vaccine priorities to try to make universal vaccines using beta-propiolactone (BPL)... some wonky thoughts 🧵
May 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Anyway re this whole apparent shift in HHS's vaccine priorities to try to make universal vaccines using beta-propiolactone (BPL)... some wonky thoughts 🧵
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Politicians who have physically gone to visit and advocate for people kidnapped by the Trump-Vance administration:
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Politicians who have physically gone to visit and advocate for people kidnapped by the Trump-Vance administration:
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These images and stories from yesterday's mobilizations across the US are inspiring, but one thing that is visibly absent from Resistance2.0 so far is young people. Based on conversations with youth and campus organizers I know and data I've collected, here are some likely reasons (short 🧵)
April 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
These images and stories from yesterday's mobilizations across the US are inspiring, but one thing that is visibly absent from Resistance2.0 so far is young people. Based on conversations with youth and campus organizers I know and data I've collected, here are some likely reasons (short 🧵)
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Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion
April 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion
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Facebook’s still fun sometimes.
April 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Facebook’s still fun sometimes.
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Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
April 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Leavitt confirmed that the WH is working on deporting US citizens to El Salvador
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Gonna be a wild time when other countries start reciprocating by revoking American visas and deporting Americans because of the policies of this administration.
April 6, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Gonna be a wild time when other countries start reciprocating by revoking American visas and deporting Americans because of the policies of this administration.
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Epidemiology, the RFK Jr. way.
Step 1: Observe outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease
Step 2: Cut funding and staff for wildly successful Vaccines for Children program
Step 3: Observe massive outbreaks of VPDs among the most vulnerable
Step 4: Blame the vulnerable for having a “poor diet”
Step 1: Observe outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease
Step 2: Cut funding and staff for wildly successful Vaccines for Children program
Step 3: Observe massive outbreaks of VPDs among the most vulnerable
Step 4: Blame the vulnerable for having a “poor diet”
April 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Epidemiology, the RFK Jr. way.
Step 1: Observe outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease
Step 2: Cut funding and staff for wildly successful Vaccines for Children program
Step 3: Observe massive outbreaks of VPDs among the most vulnerable
Step 4: Blame the vulnerable for having a “poor diet”
Step 1: Observe outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease
Step 2: Cut funding and staff for wildly successful Vaccines for Children program
Step 3: Observe massive outbreaks of VPDs among the most vulnerable
Step 4: Blame the vulnerable for having a “poor diet”
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I have a huge trade deficit with several local pubs. I'm going to impose tariffs on all of them to incentivize myself to brew largely undrinkable beer at home
April 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I have a huge trade deficit with several local pubs. I'm going to impose tariffs on all of them to incentivize myself to brew largely undrinkable beer at home
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This is from last fall and it’s still up.
This is what our NIH director feels and communicates regarding doctors here, who unlike him, treated Covid patients.
He is telling the public not to trust us. That we are to blame for everything they didn’t like about the pandemic.
It’s our fault.
This is what our NIH director feels and communicates regarding doctors here, who unlike him, treated Covid patients.
He is telling the public not to trust us. That we are to blame for everything they didn’t like about the pandemic.
It’s our fault.
April 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This is from last fall and it’s still up.
This is what our NIH director feels and communicates regarding doctors here, who unlike him, treated Covid patients.
He is telling the public not to trust us. That we are to blame for everything they didn’t like about the pandemic.
It’s our fault.
This is what our NIH director feels and communicates regarding doctors here, who unlike him, treated Covid patients.
He is telling the public not to trust us. That we are to blame for everything they didn’t like about the pandemic.
It’s our fault.
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This is an actual billboard in SF. How long until it’s too late to fight against big tech?
How long until you are obsolete?
How long until you are obsolete?
March 31, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is an actual billboard in SF. How long until it’s too late to fight against big tech?
How long until you are obsolete?
How long until you are obsolete?
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This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.
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"A 65 year old calls the helpline to apply for Social Security, but he's told about the new DOGE rule. So he has to go online or in person.
It takes 3 months, and he misses $5000 in benefits checks, which by law he will never get back. Mr. Bisignano, is that a benefit cut?" - @warren.senate.gov
It takes 3 months, and he misses $5000 in benefits checks, which by law he will never get back. Mr. Bisignano, is that a benefit cut?" - @warren.senate.gov
March 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"A 65 year old calls the helpline to apply for Social Security, but he's told about the new DOGE rule. So he has to go online or in person.
It takes 3 months, and he misses $5000 in benefits checks, which by law he will never get back. Mr. Bisignano, is that a benefit cut?" - @warren.senate.gov
It takes 3 months, and he misses $5000 in benefits checks, which by law he will never get back. Mr. Bisignano, is that a benefit cut?" - @warren.senate.gov