Christine Paige
@wanderofftrail.bsky.social
Semi-retired wildlife biologist, science communicator, lifelong bird/wildlife/ecology nerd wandering around the wilds doing what I can to help the living planet. Practical stuff for wildlife coexistence, elder in fence ecology. Kahu of Labradors.
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Kseniia Petrova fled political persecution from Putin and escaped to America. She’s a brilliant scientist—one of the most talented Harvard’s seen in 20 years.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her (Gift Article)
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Kseniia Petrova fled political persecution from Putin and escaped to America. She’s a brilliant scientist—one of the most talented Harvard’s seen in 20 years.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
Now she’s in ICE detention, facing deportation while Trump turns the White House into an arm of the Kremlin.
She should be released, NOW.
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We’re not sure what separates the Trump admin from the “terrorists” it claims to be fighting. You watch whats happening and can’t even process it—what the hell is going on is all we can think. Our Constitution grants everyone within this country the same legal protections, regardless of citizenship.
April 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We’re not sure what separates the Trump admin from the “terrorists” it claims to be fighting. You watch whats happening and can’t even process it—what the hell is going on is all we can think. Our Constitution grants everyone within this country the same legal protections, regardless of citizenship.
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
Mohsen Mahdawi’s Abduction “Should Terrify” Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
The Trump administration is now seeking to deport Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is being held in a prison in northwest Vermont. He was detained by Homeland Security agents when he went...
www.democracynow.org
April 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction "Should Terrify" Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
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Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.
April 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Musk staffers are in the process of seizing control of the Peace Corps’ headquarters.
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The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
April 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
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To the American people: "We hold diverse political beliefs, but are united as researchers in ...sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I am a signatory to this statement.
ScienceNotSilence
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I am a signatory to this statement.
ScienceNotSilence
April 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
To the American people: "We hold diverse political beliefs, but are united as researchers in ...sending this SOS to sound a clear warning: the nation’s scientific enterprise is being decimated."
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I am a signatory to this statement.
ScienceNotSilence
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I am a signatory to this statement.
ScienceNotSilence
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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ICE = Gestapo
Fill the streets April 5. If you are mad about ANYTHING this administration has done, go to the link, find a HandsOff rally near you, there are hundreds throughout the US, and make yourself heard.
handsoff2025.com
Fill the streets April 5. If you are mad about ANYTHING this administration has done, go to the link, find a HandsOff rally near you, there are hundreds throughout the US, and make yourself heard.
handsoff2025.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
ICE = Gestapo
Fill the streets April 5. If you are mad about ANYTHING this administration has done, go to the link, find a HandsOff rally near you, there are hundreds throughout the US, and make yourself heard.
handsoff2025.com
Fill the streets April 5. If you are mad about ANYTHING this administration has done, go to the link, find a HandsOff rally near you, there are hundreds throughout the US, and make yourself heard.
handsoff2025.com
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I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is…more freakin lawyers resigning from weak-ass law firms
March 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is…more freakin lawyers resigning from weak-ass law firms
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Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
March 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.
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Musk is rapidly pushing forward the privatization of space and satellite operations that have long been managed by the NOAA. DOGE has acquired confidential data from NOAA’s competitors—an alarming development that has further cemented SpaceX’s dominance in the space and satellite industry.
March 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Musk is rapidly pushing forward the privatization of space and satellite operations that have long been managed by the NOAA. DOGE has acquired confidential data from NOAA’s competitors—an alarming development that has further cemented SpaceX’s dominance in the space and satellite industry.
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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
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Last day to comment on Trumps push to get rid of NEPA!
Comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Removal of National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations
This interim final rule removes the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) from the Code of Federal Regulations. In addition, this...
www.federalregister.gov
March 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Last day to comment on Trumps push to get rid of NEPA!
Comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Comment here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
March 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It gets worse.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
This Signal situation is just the tip of the iceberg of incompetence in this administration.
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This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
March 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of student Rumeysa Ozturk.
Protesters demand Tufts student's release following arrest by immigration officials
More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk.
www.wbur.org
March 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of student Rumeysa Ozturk.
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They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down
A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.
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The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
By shipping men to a Salvadoran prison without due process, the Trump administration has begun defying court orders in earnest.
www.thebulwark.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The president is asserting an unreviewable power to seize any person off the street and ship him to a dungeon abroad. Nobody can say this is an overreaction or alarmism or "TDS" when this is literally what the administration is doing right now.
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Greenland leaders call visit by US officials this week a ‘provocation’ that shows a ‘lack of respect’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Greenland leaders call planned visit by US officials a ‘provocation’ as Trump talks of takeover – US politics live
Outgoing prime minister says Greenland can no longer trust Americans ahead of visit led by Usha Vance and Mike Waltz
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Greenland leaders call visit by US officials this week a ‘provocation’ that shows a ‘lack of respect’
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers.
(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)
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(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)
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March 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
THREAD: Law firm statements issued in response to Trump’s executive orders targeting lawyers.
(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)
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(This thread will be updated as additional statements are released. Want to flag something that I missed? DM me, email me at anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org, or send me a message on Signal at annabower.24)
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