Kat Moon
@katmoonepi.bsky.social
she/her | environmental epidemiologist & assistant professor @ BUSPH Dept of Environmental Health
Reposted by Kat Moon
The chemistry of candy corn: This edition of #PeriodicGraphics explores the colorful chemistry behind this classic #Halloween candy. cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The chemistry of candy corn: This edition of #PeriodicGraphics explores the colorful chemistry behind this classic #Halloween candy. cen.acs.org/food/food-in... #chemsky 🧪
Reposted by Kat Moon
I am asking people to get activated re: your local public libraries. There are sooooo many ways for you to take action: www.librariesforthepeople.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am asking people to get activated re: your local public libraries. There are sooooo many ways for you to take action: www.librariesforthepeople.org
Reposted by Kat Moon
Wells Fargo Agrees To Pay $85M Settlement Over Claims It Hosted Fake Job Interviews To Hit Diversity Goals
@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social #LDFShow
finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-f...
@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social #LDFShow
finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-f...
Wells Fargo Agrees To Pay $85M Settlement Over Claims It Hosted Fake Job Interviews To Hit Diversity Goals
Wells Fargo has agreed to resolve a settlement regarding claims around its interview processes.
finance.yahoo.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Wells Fargo Agrees To Pay $85M Settlement Over Claims It Hosted Fake Job Interviews To Hit Diversity Goals
@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social #LDFShow
finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-f...
@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social #LDFShow
finance.yahoo.com/news/wells-f...
Reposted by Kat Moon
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
Reposted by Kat Moon
Baltimore’s guaranteed income pilot gave young parents $1,000 a month for two years, leading to reduced food insecurity, lower stress, more stable housing, and better access to child care. Positive impacts persisted beyond the payments.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
Baltimore's guaranteed income pilot helped young, low-income families
Young parents who received $1,000 monthly cash payments through Baltimore City’s guaranteed income pilot reported lower rates of food insecurity, household chaos, missed work, and stress during the…
baltimorefishbowl.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Baltimore’s guaranteed income pilot gave young parents $1,000 a month for two years, leading to reduced food insecurity, lower stress, more stable housing, and better access to child care. Positive impacts persisted beyond the payments.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/balt...
Reposted by Kat Moon
If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
October 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history.
Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.
Reposted by Kat Moon
ICE now has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world and has increased spending on weapons.
It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.
Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?
It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.
Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?
October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
ICE now has a budget bigger than most militaries around the world and has increased spending on weapons.
It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.
Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?
It's also engaging in a race to recruit 10,000 new agents who will eventually be out in American streets.
Some will be vetted, but how many unqualified recruits will fall through the cracks?
Reposted by Kat Moon
NYT Confirms: Trump will DEMOLISH the ENTIRE East Wing of the White House.
The Times says the East Wing is expected to be fully torn down by the weekend to make room for Trump's ballroom for billionaires — despite the fact that Trump pledged the White House would not be touched.
The Times says the East Wing is expected to be fully torn down by the weekend to make room for Trump's ballroom for billionaires — despite the fact that Trump pledged the White House would not be touched.
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NYT Confirms: Trump will DEMOLISH the ENTIRE East Wing of the White House.
The Times says the East Wing is expected to be fully torn down by the weekend to make room for Trump's ballroom for billionaires — despite the fact that Trump pledged the White House would not be touched.
The Times says the East Wing is expected to be fully torn down by the weekend to make room for Trump's ballroom for billionaires — despite the fact that Trump pledged the White House would not be touched.
Reposted by Kat Moon
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
Reposted by Kat Moon
just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"
October 21, 2025 at 1:47 AM
just a reminder that there were people of the time — and of the same class and station — who saw this stuff and thought, "yeah this is bullshit"
Reposted by Kat Moon
In the last nine months, ICE has spent a whopping $71,515,762 on purchases of “small arms, ordnance and ordnance accessories manufacturing.”
Now, the president's masked militia will have access to “guided missile warheads.” trib.al/HE4yiXN
Now, the president's masked militia will have access to “guided missile warheads.” trib.al/HE4yiXN
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In the last nine months, ICE has spent a whopping $71,515,762 on purchases of “small arms, ordnance and ordnance accessories manufacturing.”
Now, the president's masked militia will have access to “guided missile warheads.” trib.al/HE4yiXN
Now, the president's masked militia will have access to “guided missile warheads.” trib.al/HE4yiXN
Reposted by Kat Moon
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
Reposted by Kat Moon
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Reposted by Kat Moon
my god there has never been a more accurate use of this
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
my god there has never been a more accurate use of this
Reposted by Kat Moon
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
October 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”
Reposted by Kat Moon
Newsom signed SB79! So, so huge. Enormous props to all the people who worked so hard, for so long, to make this happen, above all @scottwiener.bsky.social. It's going to change California, and the country.
Governor Newsom Signs Senator Wiener’s Landmark Law To Build More Homes Near Public Transit
Official website of Senator Scott Wiener, representing California Senate District 11.
sd11.senate.ca.gov
October 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Newsom signed SB79! So, so huge. Enormous props to all the people who worked so hard, for so long, to make this happen, above all @scottwiener.bsky.social. It's going to change California, and the country.
Reposted by Kat Moon
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Kat Moon
I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Letter Regarding Compact
MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...
docs.google.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Reposted by Kat Moon
ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....
October 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....
Reposted by Kat Moon
the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons
The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities
www.nytimes.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons
Reposted by Kat Moon
Fucking finally yes exactly this. And of course it would be the most delightful Ed Yong, one of the best sci comm folks on the planet to say it just right.
It's not about more/better science-comm or trying harder to get Pam or Dennis in outstate MN to care about science/research.
It's not about more/better science-comm or trying harder to get Pam or Dennis in outstate MN to care about science/research.
This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪
Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇
open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...
October 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Fucking finally yes exactly this. And of course it would be the most delightful Ed Yong, one of the best sci comm folks on the planet to say it just right.
It's not about more/better science-comm or trying harder to get Pam or Dennis in outstate MN to care about science/research.
It's not about more/better science-comm or trying harder to get Pam or Dennis in outstate MN to care about science/research.
Reposted by Kat Moon
Actual HUD website right now: 🔗 hud.gov
⁉️😵💫
AND here’s the Hatch Act 👇
"The Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees
from engaging in partisan political activity while on
duty, in a federal facility, or using federal property."
🚨 For those in power: yes, it applies to you. 🚨
⁉️😵💫
AND here’s the Hatch Act 👇
"The Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees
from engaging in partisan political activity while on
duty, in a federal facility, or using federal property."
🚨 For those in power: yes, it applies to you. 🚨
www.justice.gov
September 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Actual HUD website right now: 🔗 hud.gov
⁉️😵💫
AND here’s the Hatch Act 👇
"The Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees
from engaging in partisan political activity while on
duty, in a federal facility, or using federal property."
🚨 For those in power: yes, it applies to you. 🚨
⁉️😵💫
AND here’s the Hatch Act 👇
"The Hatch Act generally prohibits federal employees
from engaging in partisan political activity while on
duty, in a federal facility, or using federal property."
🚨 For those in power: yes, it applies to you. 🚨
Reposted by Kat Moon
I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:
Reposted by Kat Moon
Jeffries: "The next time you have something to say about me, don't cop out through a racist and fake AI video. When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face."
September 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Jeffries: "The next time you have something to say about me, don't cop out through a racist and fake AI video. When I'm back in the Oval Office, say it to my face."