Michelle Takemoto
@mynt808.bsky.social
Hawaiʻi • Blasian • Gen X • Genetic Counselor 🧬 • Cat Lady • 🍉
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#GeneChat #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
I’m endlessly curious, so I follow all sorts of people. My feelings won’t be hurt if you don’t follow me back.
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#GeneChat #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
I’m endlessly curious, so I follow all sorts of people. My feelings won’t be hurt if you don’t follow me back.
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"It wasn’t just about trees any more, it was about identity and heritage.”
Beautiful story about how Dr Katy Soapi and villages combined Indigenous knowledge with conservation science to protect the sacred island of Tetepare from logging in the Solomons. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Beautiful story about how Dr Katy Soapi and villages combined Indigenous knowledge with conservation science to protect the sacred island of Tetepare from logging in the Solomons. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The scientist who helped win the fight to protect a sacred piece of the Pacific
Respected ocean expert Katy Soapi continues to advocate to protect Tetepare, one of the last untouched places in Solomon Islands
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"It wasn’t just about trees any more, it was about identity and heritage.”
Beautiful story about how Dr Katy Soapi and villages combined Indigenous knowledge with conservation science to protect the sacred island of Tetepare from logging in the Solomons. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Beautiful story about how Dr Katy Soapi and villages combined Indigenous knowledge with conservation science to protect the sacred island of Tetepare from logging in the Solomons. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Who might be affected by proposed #Medicaid work requirements? A new study estimates 5 million people could lose #HealthCoverage under a national policy. Details here: ⬇️
bit.ly/3FSBezy
#WorkRequirements #Medicaid
bit.ly/3FSBezy
#WorkRequirements #Medicaid
5M would lose coverage with national Medicaid work requirements | TechTarget
Discover how national Medicaid work requirements would impact Medicaid enrollment in 2026.
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April 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Who might be affected by proposed #Medicaid work requirements? A new study estimates 5 million people could lose #HealthCoverage under a national policy. Details here: ⬇️
bit.ly/3FSBezy
#WorkRequirements #Medicaid
bit.ly/3FSBezy
#WorkRequirements #Medicaid
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RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
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So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Here was our sign!
October 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Here was our sign!
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ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
My latest video for @propublica.org.
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A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
October 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...
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Why isn't this major headline news? Why isn't corporate media covering NSPM-7?
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Why isn't this major headline news? Why isn't corporate media covering NSPM-7?
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
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The Onion had a post about NSPM-7 before The New York Times did lmao
THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...
THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...
What To Know About NSPM-7
On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity” were described as “common threads...
theonion.com
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The Onion had a post about NSPM-7 before The New York Times did lmao
THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...
THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...
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One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
From AI to TikTok to TV, This Pro-Israel Billionaire Is Expanding Power in US
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”…
buff.ly
October 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One of Trump’s advisers once called megabillionaire Larry Ellison a “shadow president of the United States.”
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‘Medicine is more than science—it is a moral duty. And when that duty is under threat, silence becomes betrayal’ @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Gaza's healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent
The catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Gaza, with the apparent deliberate targeting
of health-care infrastructure and personnel, has highlighted a profound challenge
to the global medical community. ...
www.thelancet.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‘Medicine is more than science—it is a moral duty. And when that duty is under threat, silence becomes betrayal’ @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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a lot of what trump and the SC are doing does have precedents in american history.
those precedents are bad and people fought them too. the takeaway is we can be better than this, not, "oh well, it doesn't matter because america was always bad."
those precedents are bad and people fought them too. the takeaway is we can be better than this, not, "oh well, it doesn't matter because america was always bad."
September 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
a lot of what trump and the SC are doing does have precedents in american history.
those precedents are bad and people fought them too. the takeaway is we can be better than this, not, "oh well, it doesn't matter because america was always bad."
those precedents are bad and people fought them too. the takeaway is we can be better than this, not, "oh well, it doesn't matter because america was always bad."
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"it's all bad, everyone is corrupt" is literally a fascist talking point. it is what fascists want you to think. "nothing matters, why resist?"
September 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
"it's all bad, everyone is corrupt" is literally a fascist talking point. it is what fascists want you to think. "nothing matters, why resist?"
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"This is the deadliest period for journalists in recorded history. More than 240 journalists killed in Gaza alone," journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social said at the UN. "They are targeted and there must be accountability," Ressa added at a meeting marking the United Nation's 80th anniversary.
September 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"This is the deadliest period for journalists in recorded history. More than 240 journalists killed in Gaza alone," journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social said at the UN. "They are targeted and there must be accountability," Ressa added at a meeting marking the United Nation's 80th anniversary.
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@mariaressa.bsky.social ’s call at UNGA could not be more urgent.
The time for AI self-regulation is over.
200 Nobel laureates, former heads of state, and industry experts just signed a statement: "We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks"
The time for AI self-regulation is over.
200 Nobel laureates, former heads of state, and industry experts just signed a statement: "We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks"
Maria Ressa at UNGA 80th anniv: 'Information integrity is the mother of all battles'
YouTube video by Rappler
youtu.be
September 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
@mariaressa.bsky.social ’s call at UNGA could not be more urgent.
The time for AI self-regulation is over.
200 Nobel laureates, former heads of state, and industry experts just signed a statement: "We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks"
The time for AI self-regulation is over.
200 Nobel laureates, former heads of state, and industry experts just signed a statement: "We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks"
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"The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting."
Emmy-Award Winning Journalist at Risk of Deportation Over ICE Coverage
“This is one of the most dangerous periods for free speech in American history,” a Georgia lawmaker said.
truthout.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting."
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“Since President Trump took office, 15 people have died in immigration detention, 10 of those deaths occurred between January and June … The senators say that is the highest rate in the first six months of any year publicly available.”
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention
Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.
n.pr
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
“Since President Trump took office, 15 people have died in immigration detention, 10 of those deaths occurred between January and June … The senators say that is the highest rate in the first six months of any year publicly available.”
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will god forgive us? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:18 AM
will god forgive us? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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So many people are asking how they can support me..
The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social!
I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month.
Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social!
I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month.
Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
So many people are asking how they can support me..
The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social!
I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month.
Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social!
I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month.
Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers!
www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
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man Māori get this reputation as SAVAGE WARRIORS and it's so weird because our most famous military victory involved figuring out the enemy was using a flagpole in the middle of camp to calibrate their artillery fire, and subtly moving it in the middle of the night to fuck with the British aim
August 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
man Māori get this reputation as SAVAGE WARRIORS and it's so weird because our most famous military victory involved figuring out the enemy was using a flagpole in the middle of camp to calibrate their artillery fire, and subtly moving it in the middle of the night to fuck with the British aim
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We are excited to join the Solutions Journalism Directory as the first newsroom in Hawai'i to be listed!
Thank you to Solutions Journalism Network, a nonpartisan organization for hosting the Directory and for their commitment to transparency and editorial independence.
Thank you to Solutions Journalism Network, a nonpartisan organization for hosting the Directory and for their commitment to transparency and editorial independence.
May 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
We are excited to join the Solutions Journalism Directory as the first newsroom in Hawai'i to be listed!
Thank you to Solutions Journalism Network, a nonpartisan organization for hosting the Directory and for their commitment to transparency and editorial independence.
Thank you to Solutions Journalism Network, a nonpartisan organization for hosting the Directory and for their commitment to transparency and editorial independence.
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I’m hearing this from many people - now is a REALLY GOOD TIME to submit proposals, to show there is persistent demand for grant funding
NSF funding allocations to divisions get adjusted based on numbers of proposals; if we opt out of submitting proposals because of threats of cuts, it can cause future years budgets to divert money out of our divisions.
June 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I’m hearing this from many people - now is a REALLY GOOD TIME to submit proposals, to show there is persistent demand for grant funding
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In light of venture capitalists building an uranium enrichment facility, re-upping a recent piece I wrote on how the Network State getting WMDs = automatic sovereignty
main blog: www.shanley.com/blog/wmd-sov...
substack: techfascism.substack.com/p/wmd-sovere...
main blog: www.shanley.com/blog/wmd-sov...
substack: techfascism.substack.com/p/wmd-sovere...
August 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In light of venture capitalists building an uranium enrichment facility, re-upping a recent piece I wrote on how the Network State getting WMDs = automatic sovereignty
main blog: www.shanley.com/blog/wmd-sov...
substack: techfascism.substack.com/p/wmd-sovere...
main blog: www.shanley.com/blog/wmd-sov...
substack: techfascism.substack.com/p/wmd-sovere...
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A sitting U.S. lawmaker just told 2.3 million Palestinians to “starve away,” brushing off their agony as a hoax and spewing Islamophobia. This is an open endorsement of genocide and collective punishment - a war crime.
July 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A sitting U.S. lawmaker just told 2.3 million Palestinians to “starve away,” brushing off their agony as a hoax and spewing Islamophobia. This is an open endorsement of genocide and collective punishment - a war crime.