Mariah
@slangcaster.bsky.social
they/them | dogtor/policy wonk
a cappella music director
I snowboard in winter &
plant native flowers in spring
Boston↔️DC
a cappella music director
I snowboard in winter &
plant native flowers in spring
Boston↔️DC
Don’t give @janetmills4me.bsky.social a single cent before the @democrats.org primary.
Donate to @jordanwood.bsky.social and/or @grahamformaine.bsky.social!
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October 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Don’t give @janetmills4me.bsky.social a single cent before the @democrats.org primary.
Donate to @jordanwood.bsky.social and/or @grahamformaine.bsky.social!
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A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵
September 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A thread of all the elected Democrats who've put out statements of support for trans people this week as Republicans manufacture a genocide: 🧵
Got to meet K.A. Applegate, the author of Animorphs - the series that inspired my entire career in wildlife medicine and conservation. I would not be who I am today without her.
Thank you @kaaauthor.bsky.social, for everything! It was an honor and a privilege - can’t wait to read Pocket Bear!
Thank you @kaaauthor.bsky.social, for everything! It was an honor and a privilege - can’t wait to read Pocket Bear!
September 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Got to meet K.A. Applegate, the author of Animorphs - the series that inspired my entire career in wildlife medicine and conservation. I would not be who I am today without her.
Thank you @kaaauthor.bsky.social, for everything! It was an honor and a privilege - can’t wait to read Pocket Bear!
Thank you @kaaauthor.bsky.social, for everything! It was an honor and a privilege - can’t wait to read Pocket Bear!
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If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
July 14, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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Biotech company's chief scientist Beth Shapiro now admits: “It’s not possible to bring something back that is identical to a species that used to be alive."
No kidding.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
No kidding.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really made dire wolves
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's chief scientist now concedes that the animals are merely modified grey wolve...
www.newscientist.com
May 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Biotech company's chief scientist Beth Shapiro now admits: “It’s not possible to bring something back that is identical to a species that used to be alive."
No kidding.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
No kidding.
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
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HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is.
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
www.advocate.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is.
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need.
We told you this was coming
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
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If you're in the Washington, DC area, I'm giving a free public talk about shark science and conservation, including why Federal funding for research and conservation is important! Friday 5/30 at 7 p.m. at Silver Branch in Silver Spring. This is through @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🦈 #SciComm
May 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you're in the Washington, DC area, I'm giving a free public talk about shark science and conservation, including why Federal funding for research and conservation is important! Friday 5/30 at 7 p.m. at Silver Branch in Silver Spring. This is through @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🦈 #SciComm
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Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:
"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
May 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Ben of Ben & Jerry’s *arrested* after confronting RFK Jr. & Congress:
"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
"They need to let food into Gaza. They need to let food to starving kids! Congress is paying to bomb poor kids in Gaza, and paying for it by kicking poor kids off Medicaid in the US!"
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NEW: The govt wants Rümeysa Öztürk to notify ICE about any overnight travel outside MA/VT, get ICE's written permission to move, follow all doctors' instructions, and "surrender for removal from the United States if so ordered." (The judge may veto conditions.) www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
May 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
NEW: The govt wants Rümeysa Öztürk to notify ICE about any overnight travel outside MA/VT, get ICE's written permission to move, follow all doctors' instructions, and "surrender for removal from the United States if so ordered." (The judge may veto conditions.) www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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What do these scenes have in common? You own this land, every tree, rock, ridge and stream. These are lands managed by the Federal Government for our benefit. The insidious, corrupt Republicans want to steal our land and give it to oil, gas, mining and real estate interests. We cannot allow this.
May 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
What do these scenes have in common? You own this land, every tree, rock, ridge and stream. These are lands managed by the Federal Government for our benefit. The insidious, corrupt Republicans want to steal our land and give it to oil, gas, mining and real estate interests. We cannot allow this.
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The law is clear: Americans are protected from being compelled by the government to engage in speech with which they disagree.
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
The First Amendment Should Protect Trans People’s Passports — Assigned
Trump’s executive order defining sex made it clear that passport sex markers will now carry an ideological message. The constitution protects Americans from being forced to endorse ideological message...
www.assignedmedia.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The law is clear: Americans are protected from being compelled by the government to engage in speech with which they disagree.
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
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64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
May 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
64 days with no aid reaching Gaza. No food, water or medicine. Children are starving.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
Netanyahu’s extremist government now says it will occupy Gaza & put mercenaries in charge of distributing aid, instead of the UN and other aid groups.
Despicable. No more US support for Netanyahu’s war machine.
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Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
April 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?"
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."
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"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'"
Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors.
My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors.
My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"I have a colleague...his fingers were crushed... They showed him a picture of his wife & said 'we're going to gang rape her in front of you if you don't admit you're Hamas.'"
Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors.
My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
Dr Mark Perlmutter, in Gaza, on what Israel is doing to Palestinian doctors.
My full interview: zeteo.com/p/us-embassy...
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Rep John Larson - Connecticut:
March 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Rep John Larson - Connecticut:
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This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.
March 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.
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This is why I say you - local professor - should write for your local papers. Many cases they are doing great work. In other cases not, but they’re small ponds in which you, big fish that you are, can really have influence. And the right has long known this.
My hometown paper, The Stamford Advocate, isn’t afraid to report the truth.
Why is WaPo?
Why is WaPo?
March 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is why I say you - local professor - should write for your local papers. Many cases they are doing great work. In other cases not, but they’re small ponds in which you, big fish that you are, can really have influence. And the right has long known this.
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Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
March 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.
Casual sale of federal office buildings in order to lease them back at a higher cost to house all those mandatory in office feds.
This is NOT efficiency.
This is NOT efficiency.
*TRUMP SEEKS TO PUT 443 FEDERAL PROPERTIES UP FOR SALE
*PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC
Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...
*PROPERTIES INCLUDE HHS AND HUD HEADQUARTERS IN DC
Listed properties here: www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...
Non-core property list
Learn about our lease cost avoidance plan and its successes.
www.gsa.gov
March 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Casual sale of federal office buildings in order to lease them back at a higher cost to house all those mandatory in office feds.
This is NOT efficiency.
This is NOT efficiency.
We should be able to comment on ads. If they're foisted upon us, at least let us publicly ridicule them.
February 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We should be able to comment on ads. If they're foisted upon us, at least let us publicly ridicule them.
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🚨🚨🚨 Urgent Message to Share WIDELY 🚨🚨🚨
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board
MSPB Mission: To protect the Merit System Principles and promote an effective Federal workforce free of Prohibited Personnel Practices.
www.mspb.gov
February 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Urgent Message to Share WIDELY 🚨🚨🚨
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️
➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures:
www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe...
💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Biodiversity being flagged as DEI makes me want to kill myself.
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Biodiversity being flagged as DEI makes me want to kill myself.
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February 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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DO IT... make your small impact:
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DO IT... make your small impact:
CLICK > COPY > PASTE > SEND:
Thank you @qasimrashid.com
Thanks Comic SW.