Megan Saucke
@megansaucke.bsky.social
Human living in Madison WI. Views are my own. I'm rarely on here.
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Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher.
Regulate vehicle size now.
Regulate vehicle size now.
'Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians'
Sports utility vehicles account for more than half of new cars bought in UK
www.standard.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Pedestrians who are hit by SUVs are 44% more likely to be killed than if they were hit by a conventional car, new study finds. Children are 82% more likely to die when hit by an SUV than by a car. In children under 10, the risk of death was 130% higher.
Regulate vehicle size now.
Regulate vehicle size now.
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It's not relevant whether Abrego Garcia has committed thousands of crimes. Disappearing him off to an El Salvadorean maximum security prison *without due process* is wholly illegal totalitarian bullshit. Everyone who has been sent there by this administration should be brought back, not just him.
April 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It's not relevant whether Abrego Garcia has committed thousands of crimes. Disappearing him off to an El Salvadorean maximum security prison *without due process* is wholly illegal totalitarian bullshit. Everyone who has been sent there by this administration should be brought back, not just him.
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"We are all just temporarily abled" (-unknown) and
"We are all just one test result away from our lives changing forever" (-my Physician's Assistant former roommate)
are two quotes I share a lot, relevant to literally every class I teach on transportation, cities, health, and urban theory.
"We are all just one test result away from our lives changing forever" (-my Physician's Assistant former roommate)
are two quotes I share a lot, relevant to literally every class I teach on transportation, cities, health, and urban theory.
Disability is one of the few minority groups you can join at any time.
People believe they will be the exception & have trouble accepting they’re likely to become disabled at some point in their lives.
Work on internalized ableism. Engage in disability justice. It will benefit you in the long run
People believe they will be the exception & have trouble accepting they’re likely to become disabled at some point in their lives.
Work on internalized ableism. Engage in disability justice. It will benefit you in the long run
April 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"We are all just temporarily abled" (-unknown) and
"We are all just one test result away from our lives changing forever" (-my Physician's Assistant former roommate)
are two quotes I share a lot, relevant to literally every class I teach on transportation, cities, health, and urban theory.
"We are all just one test result away from our lives changing forever" (-my Physician's Assistant former roommate)
are two quotes I share a lot, relevant to literally every class I teach on transportation, cities, health, and urban theory.
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Your worth is not defined by your productivity.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but:
AUTISTIC PEOPLE DESERVE TO EXIST. And live good lives.
So let’s call it what it really is, RFK Jr:
Eugenics, dehumanisation, and ableism. Reinforced by capitalism
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but:
AUTISTIC PEOPLE DESERVE TO EXIST. And live good lives.
So let’s call it what it really is, RFK Jr:
Eugenics, dehumanisation, and ableism. Reinforced by capitalism
And even those on the spectrum who won’t ever work or pay taxes or may always need assistance in the bathroom are still people who are loved, and they can still thrive and live happy and fulfilling lives!
April 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Your worth is not defined by your productivity.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but:
AUTISTIC PEOPLE DESERVE TO EXIST. And live good lives.
So let’s call it what it really is, RFK Jr:
Eugenics, dehumanisation, and ableism. Reinforced by capitalism
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but:
AUTISTIC PEOPLE DESERVE TO EXIST. And live good lives.
So let’s call it what it really is, RFK Jr:
Eugenics, dehumanisation, and ableism. Reinforced by capitalism
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“Department of Government Efficiency.”
April 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“Department of Government Efficiency.”
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Not sure if it's part of this proposed ban on gender-affirming care coverage but either here or a future similar bill, they're going to end up banning all the "gender affirming care" women get post breast cancer, like reconstruction or prosthetics. Going to be a rude awakening for transphobic women.
Public comment closes Friday on a proposed rule that would ban states from requiring coverage for gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit under the ACA... meaning necessary care is going to be much harder for trans people to access.
@transequality.bsky.social is asking us to weigh in:
@transequality.bsky.social is asking us to weigh in:
April 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Not sure if it's part of this proposed ban on gender-affirming care coverage but either here or a future similar bill, they're going to end up banning all the "gender affirming care" women get post breast cancer, like reconstruction or prosthetics. Going to be a rude awakening for transphobic women.
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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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Here’s how to stay in the fight:
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
April 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Here’s how to stay in the fight:
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
📱 Use the 5 Calls app or Resist Bot to contact your elected officials daily.
🎤 Demand town halls. Show up at their public appearances.
🚫 Boycott evil corporations.
🗣️ Talk to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.
🌳 Build community power.
#FiftyFiftyOne
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I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours
April 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours
Lolllll what an unprofessional asshole! I can't wait to canvas for her opponent in 2026.
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley on Crawford: "I think the way Judge Crawford ran her race was disgusting...I'm not looking forward to working with her. She's bought and paid for by the Democratic Party."
Via Vanessa Kjeldsen
Via Vanessa Kjeldsen
April 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Lolllll what an unprofessional asshole! I can't wait to canvas for her opponent in 2026.
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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We voted. Now let's continue to do the work.
WI residents, call Sen. Johnson's office to demand that Congress reclaim their authority and block Trump's use of emergency powers to enforce damaging tarrifs that will only make goods more expensive.
The only emergency is Trump, himself.
202.224.5323
WI residents, call Sen. Johnson's office to demand that Congress reclaim their authority and block Trump's use of emergency powers to enforce damaging tarrifs that will only make goods more expensive.
The only emergency is Trump, himself.
202.224.5323
If you have a Republican representing you in the House or Senate, call them to demand they undo Trump's tariffs.
They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.
They're already shaken by the 20 point shift in Florida and the Wisconsin loss. You can fuel that feeling.
April 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We voted. Now let's continue to do the work.
WI residents, call Sen. Johnson's office to demand that Congress reclaim their authority and block Trump's use of emergency powers to enforce damaging tarrifs that will only make goods more expensive.
The only emergency is Trump, himself.
202.224.5323
WI residents, call Sen. Johnson's office to demand that Congress reclaim their authority and block Trump's use of emergency powers to enforce damaging tarrifs that will only make goods more expensive.
The only emergency is Trump, himself.
202.224.5323
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This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.
A stunning number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
Billions of dollars in clean energy projects have been canceled since Donald Trump took office again.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is part of what’s so insane. As they talk about re-shoring and manufacturing they are actively trying to destroy an entire us manufacturing industry that already exists.
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This Viewpoint explores concerns surrounding possible US withdrawal from the WHO and the effect this would have on US global health leadership and health security.
https://ja.ma/3Rq2Nma
https://ja.ma/3Rq2Nma
March 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This Viewpoint explores concerns surrounding possible US withdrawal from the WHO and the effect this would have on US global health leadership and health security.
https://ja.ma/3Rq2Nma
https://ja.ma/3Rq2Nma
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"For generations, the NIH has been a beacon for truth through scientific discovery. We want it to retain that status." This Viewpoint discusses the NIH's termination of its grant portfolio on vaccine hesitancy and uptake. https://ja.ma/4hS20oX
March 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"For generations, the NIH has been a beacon for truth through scientific discovery. We want it to retain that status." This Viewpoint discusses the NIH's termination of its grant portfolio on vaccine hesitancy and uptake. https://ja.ma/4hS20oX
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I am begging journalists to write that protestors are being hit by drivers and not trucks or cars. It's something I yell about all the time, but now, more than ever, we need media outlets to assign agency to the drivers attacking protestors. These are right-wing terrorists trying to silence dissent.
March 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I am begging journalists to write that protestors are being hit by drivers and not trucks or cars. It's something I yell about all the time, but now, more than ever, we need media outlets to assign agency to the drivers attacking protestors. These are right-wing terrorists trying to silence dissent.
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Let's send a message: not everything can be bought.
Not even if you are the richest person on earth.
Vote Crawford, Underly, and NO on the referendum tomorrow.
Not even if you are the richest person on earth.
Vote Crawford, Underly, and NO on the referendum tomorrow.
For sale: Brad Schimel.
Interested buyer? Elon Musk. Let’s stop this sale.
Interested buyer? Elon Musk. Let’s stop this sale.
March 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Let's send a message: not everything can be bought.
Not even if you are the richest person on earth.
Vote Crawford, Underly, and NO on the referendum tomorrow.
Not even if you are the richest person on earth.
Vote Crawford, Underly, and NO on the referendum tomorrow.
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FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
March 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.
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My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My grandparents were natural born German citizens. Until they weren't. I have copies of their documents, stamped "cancelled" by the government.
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"But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, who both remain in their jobs, the career DHS employee was put on administrative leave and told late last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email
The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration.
www.nbcnews.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"But unlike Waltz and Hegseth, who both remain in their jobs, the career DHS employee was put on administrative leave and told late last week that the agency intends to revoke her security clearance..."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Before I joined @propublica.org, I spent five years working in population research. Many of my former colleagues were funded through NIH grants. Some of those grants have been terminated.
Would appreciate you sharing this with your colleagues and groups.
Would appreciate you sharing this with your colleagues and groups.
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
www.propublica.org
March 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Before I joined @propublica.org, I spent five years working in population research. Many of my former colleagues were funded through NIH grants. Some of those grants have been terminated.
Would appreciate you sharing this with your colleagues and groups.
Would appreciate you sharing this with your colleagues and groups.
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Musk's entities have now pushed more than $13 million into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race to buy a seat for Brad Schimel so that, in the words of Musk's flyers, he can "keep President Trump's agenda moving forward."
Track spending here:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Track spending here:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
March 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Musk's entities have now pushed more than $13 million into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race to buy a seat for Brad Schimel so that, in the words of Musk's flyers, he can "keep President Trump's agenda moving forward."
Track spending here:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Track spending here:
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.