Kendra
@kendra-nags.bsky.social
I'm a mom of three in Virginia just out here doing what I can to save democracy.
In the immortal words of Jimmy Buffett 🎵 "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
In the immortal words of Jimmy Buffett 🎵 "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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100 days in.
Things are hard, and they might get worse. But there is a path forward.
We can rebuild. We will rebuild.
I wrote this to remind myself, and you, why it’s still worth it: 👇
Things are hard, and they might get worse. But there is a path forward.
We can rebuild. We will rebuild.
I wrote this to remind myself, and you, why it’s still worth it: 👇
Political Kintsugi: Picking Up the Pieces and Starting Again
This isn’t about pretending everything is fine. It’s about choosing to rebuild with clarity, courage, and purpose.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
100 days in.
Things are hard, and they might get worse. But there is a path forward.
We can rebuild. We will rebuild.
I wrote this to remind myself, and you, why it’s still worth it: 👇
Things are hard, and they might get worse. But there is a path forward.
We can rebuild. We will rebuild.
I wrote this to remind myself, and you, why it’s still worth it: 👇
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NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths. Exclusive via Ismael M. Belkoura for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep
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April 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths. Exclusive via Ismael M. Belkoura for @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...
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It’s hard for me to believe this is a “radical, leftist, socialist, commie” way to think.
April 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It’s hard for me to believe this is a “radical, leftist, socialist, commie” way to think.
Devastating.
A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies.
@altusaid.altgov.info
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@altusaid.altgov.info
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April 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Devastating.
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Which is precisely why millions of people are protesting against you.
April 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Which is precisely why millions of people are protesting against you.
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April 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
But I thought Trump was all about fighting antisemitism now?? 🙄😡
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson incident at the governor's mansion.
April 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
But I thought Trump was all about fighting antisemitism now?? 🙄😡
No f*cking way I'm listening to this @nytimes.com. How can you give this guy a platform?
April 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
No f*cking way I'm listening to this @nytimes.com. How can you give this guy a platform?
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No DOGE savings at all. It's all a complete lie. All they've done is fire qualified workers while not actually cutting spending at all.
April 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
No DOGE savings at all. It's all a complete lie. All they've done is fire qualified workers while not actually cutting spending at all.
Unreal.
April 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Unreal.
This is a step in the right direction but my friend at the FDA is still having to commute from Richmond to DC 3 days a week, which is unsustainable.
Weeks after ordering all FDA employees back into the office, the agency is reversing course, allowing some of its most prized staffers to work remotely amid worries that recent layoffs and resignations could jeopardize basic functions, like approving new medicines.
apnews.com/article/fda-...
apnews.com/article/fda-...
FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations
The Food and Drug Administration is reversing course on its requirement for all staffers to report to the office.
apnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is a step in the right direction but my friend at the FDA is still having to commute from Richmond to DC 3 days a week, which is unsustainable.
It's amazing to me that the party of "Jewish space lasers" and LITERAL Nazis keeps on trying to claim that they give a shit about antisemitism.
April 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It's amazing to me that the party of "Jewish space lasers" and LITERAL Nazis keeps on trying to claim that they give a shit about antisemitism.
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“Is he just dumb or is he owned by someone who wants to destroy America?” is a less-than-ideal binary question to have to ask of the person leading your country.
April 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Is he just dumb or is he owned by someone who wants to destroy America?” is a less-than-ideal binary question to have to ask of the person leading your country.
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Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
April 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.
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Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Worth watching
March 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Worth watching
Gov. Youngkin is so weak that he just smiles and nods as DOGE defunds one of his signature education achievements. What a coward! I can't wait to vote for @abigailspanberger.com
Trump DOGE cuts threaten VCU teacher residency program and Youngkin's signature lab school | Neighbors For Change
In cuts to DEI-related programs announced recently, the Trump administration canceled a five-year, ~$9 million federal grant for a teacher residency program at Virginia Commonwealth University, which ...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Gov. Youngkin is so weak that he just smiles and nods as DOGE defunds one of his signature education achievements. What a coward! I can't wait to vote for @abigailspanberger.com
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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
My daughter is a student at UVA and I'm in the parents' group... graduating seniors in STEM are unable to find internships or jobs, and very few places are taking new graduate or PhD students. Trump/Musk is taking the futures away from the next generation of brilliant thinkers with their cuts to NIH
March 18, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My daughter is a student at UVA and I'm in the parents' group... graduating seniors in STEM are unable to find internships or jobs, and very few places are taking new graduate or PhD students. Trump/Musk is taking the futures away from the next generation of brilliant thinkers with their cuts to NIH