Luisa Appleman
@mlappleman.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, cat lover, nature lover, liberal, Beatles fan 🐱🌻🐝🐞🤓🧠🔬
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You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.
December 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
You don’t need to be a Democrat to know this is wrong — you just need a conscience. If you can hear what these people survived in ICE custody and feel no outrage, then we are not standing on the same side of right and wrong.
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Congratulations to Eileen Higgins on being elected Mayor of Miami! The first Democrat elected to this position in decades, she understands what politics is about: building a safer, more affordable, and better everyday life.
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Congratulations to Eileen Higgins on being elected Mayor of Miami! The first Democrat elected to this position in decades, she understands what politics is about: building a safer, more affordable, and better everyday life.
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This is huge: Democrats in Georgia just FLIPPED House District 121 blue, electing Democrat Eric Gisler. This is a district Trump won by 13 points in 2024.
Congrats, Rep-elect Gisler!
Congrats, Rep-elect Gisler!
December 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is huge: Democrats in Georgia just FLIPPED House District 121 blue, electing Democrat Eric Gisler. This is a district Trump won by 13 points in 2024.
Congrats, Rep-elect Gisler!
Congrats, Rep-elect Gisler!
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
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Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.
October 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.
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September 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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The hummingbirds are readying for their trip south from Colorado, with a few species passing through from higher elevations or northern climates. This one was at the Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farm this morning. #birds #birdsoftheworld www.felzfotoz.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The hummingbirds are readying for their trip south from Colorado, with a few species passing through from higher elevations or northern climates. This one was at the Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farm this morning. #birds #birdsoftheworld www.felzfotoz.com
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#NatMetabPicks | In @nataging.nature.com led by VD Dixit ( @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social )
A subpopulation of nerve-associated macrophages that regulates inflammation and lipolysis declines in the adipose tissue with age.
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A subpopulation of nerve-associated macrophages that regulates inflammation and lipolysis declines in the adipose tissue with age.
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Nerve-associated macrophages control adipose homeostasis across lifespan and restrain age-related inflammation - Nature Aging
Gonzalez-Hurtado, Leveau and colleagues characterize adipose resident tissue macrophages across lifespan in mice, finding that nerve-associated macrophages, which mitigate inflammation and control lip...
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September 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
#NatMetabPicks | In @nataging.nature.com led by VD Dixit ( @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social )
A subpopulation of nerve-associated macrophages that regulates inflammation and lipolysis declines in the adipose tissue with age.
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...
A subpopulation of nerve-associated macrophages that regulates inflammation and lipolysis declines in the adipose tissue with age.
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www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is a 🔬 image of epithelial cells of the embryonic 🐭 lung expressing a membrane-GFP reporter for my favorite signaling protein, Sonic Hedgehog (SHH). Non-SHH expressing cells are shown with magenta membrane stain. 🔬 by @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio
September 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Happy #MicroscopyMonday! Here is a 🔬 image of epithelial cells of the embryonic 🐭 lung expressing a membrane-GFP reporter for my favorite signaling protein, Sonic Hedgehog (SHH). Non-SHH expressing cells are shown with magenta membrane stain. 🔬 by @christinaadaly.bsky.social 🧪 #DevBio
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If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.
September 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If we are to deprive political violence of its power, we must reject anyone who commits or promotes it - and also reject any move to exploit it.
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Donald Trump's immigration agents are parading around masked, in unmarked cars, and snatching hardworking people off the streets — ripping them away from their families and disappearing them into federal detention labyrinths just to meet indiscriminate arrest quotas.
July 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Donald Trump's immigration agents are parading around masked, in unmarked cars, and snatching hardworking people off the streets — ripping them away from their families and disappearing them into federal detention labyrinths just to meet indiscriminate arrest quotas.
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This video was cut short. For the next fifteen minutes, she kept pounding herself in the head with the gavel.
June 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This video was cut short. For the next fifteen minutes, she kept pounding herself in the head with the gavel.
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As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention.
22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk.
Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.
22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk.
Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.
June 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention.
22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk.
Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.
22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk.
Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.
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✅Illegal & expensive Tariff War
✅Illegal & callous decimation of the federal workforce.
✅Illegal invasion of Iran.
REMIND ME, again… who are the “ILLEGALS?”
✅Illegal & callous decimation of the federal workforce.
✅Illegal invasion of Iran.
REMIND ME, again… who are the “ILLEGALS?”
June 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
✅Illegal & expensive Tariff War
✅Illegal & callous decimation of the federal workforce.
✅Illegal invasion of Iran.
REMIND ME, again… who are the “ILLEGALS?”
✅Illegal & callous decimation of the federal workforce.
✅Illegal invasion of Iran.
REMIND ME, again… who are the “ILLEGALS?”
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Republicans passed a package that guts $9.4 BILLION in critical funding.
They’re coming for global health, humanitarian aid, national security—& even PBS & NPR.
Let me be real clear:
What they’re cutting saves lives, keeps the world stable, and tells the truth.
They’re coming for global health, humanitarian aid, national security—& even PBS & NPR.
Let me be real clear:
What they’re cutting saves lives, keeps the world stable, and tells the truth.
June 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Republicans passed a package that guts $9.4 BILLION in critical funding.
They’re coming for global health, humanitarian aid, national security—& even PBS & NPR.
Let me be real clear:
What they’re cutting saves lives, keeps the world stable, and tells the truth.
They’re coming for global health, humanitarian aid, national security—& even PBS & NPR.
Let me be real clear:
What they’re cutting saves lives, keeps the world stable, and tells the truth.
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The most inspiring chapters in our nation's history came when Americans faced down some of our country's darkest demons.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
June 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The most inspiring chapters in our nation's history came when Americans faced down some of our country's darkest demons.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.
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Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
June 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today they have crossed a deep red line.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.
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I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla.
This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
June 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla.
This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.
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Enough of the ICE raids that sweep up immigrants of every legal status. Enough of ignoring due process and the Constitution. Enough of tearing apart our families and communities.
Trump’s lawlessness hurts all of us.
Trump’s lawlessness hurts all of us.
June 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Enough of the ICE raids that sweep up immigrants of every legal status. Enough of ignoring due process and the Constitution. Enough of tearing apart our families and communities.
Trump’s lawlessness hurts all of us.
Trump’s lawlessness hurts all of us.
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The president must send the Marines back to their barracks, and Congress must reform posse comitatus laws so that no president tries to deploy the military in this manner again.
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700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles
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June 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The president must send the Marines back to their barracks, and Congress must reform posse comitatus laws so that no president tries to deploy the military in this manner again.
abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
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Republicans love to say immigrants should “come the right way.” But when immigrants follow the law and show up to court, they’re being ambushed by ICE and fast-tracked for deportation.
May 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Republicans love to say immigrants should “come the right way.” But when immigrants follow the law and show up to court, they’re being ambushed by ICE and fast-tracked for deportation.
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NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin, Jayapal, Crockett, Scanlon, Nadler, Johnson, and McBath release a joint statement on the Department of Justice’s unfounded targeting of Rep. LaMonica.
May 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
NEWS: Ranking Members Raskin, Jayapal, Crockett, Scanlon, Nadler, Johnson, and McBath release a joint statement on the Department of Justice’s unfounded targeting of Rep. LaMonica.
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As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that protect the safety and wellbeing of occupants and residents.
May 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka has a responsibility to ensure that facilities operating in the city are adhering to laws that protect the safety and wellbeing of occupants and residents.