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Zia Kitty
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I do K-12 STEM outreach at Caltech. Favorite topics include but not limited to: science, education, politics, parenting, social justice, being outdoors, dogs, climate change, Hatch green chile, dystopic fiction, dystopic reality. Trans ally.
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one year and everyone is so sick of your boy that Virginia is starting to look like Massachusetts and a democratic socialist won a million votes in NYC, get fucked
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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The US Administration has decided to destroy a top network for clinical trials to test new treatments for children with brain cancer.

This is another atrocity that will harm Conservative and Liberal Americans, long after the politicians responsible are gone.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Do the powers that be at NPR hope that giving the Heritage Foundation so much air time to blather about how they think the ICE raids are going swimmingly will result in getting their funding back?
June 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I was curious how these ideas are "taught," so I visited the Creation Museum in 2016. They have created a perfect blend of cherry-picked science with only the most convenient theology; a toxic soup of pseudoscience. We on science's side all need to understand that this is what we're up against.
Young earth.
Creationism.
Flood geology.
Climate change denialism.

This is what "viewpoint diverse" could look like in Geological Science departments. In the sciences it likely would mean teaching known falsehoods with no factual basis.

Call your alma mater.
Tell them to hold the line.
April 16, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.
March 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports.

He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth.

It's so much worse than being reported.

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CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast
The California Governor, in the launch of his new podcast, announced that he completely aligned with far-right, ant-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk on sports, and agreed on prisons and youth care.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills.

While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation.

Watch their speech.

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Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In Montana
Transgender Reps Zooey Zephyr and SJ Howell delivered powerful speeches on the Montana House floor on Thursday. Republicans defected en masse to join them in voting against anti-trans bills.
www.erininthemorning.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
My letter to my governor today. Y'all better let him know how you feel about him, too, because either he really does hold anti-trans views, or he thinks playing with the Charlie Kirks of the world will win him MAGA votes, and I'm not OK with either of those being true.
March 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I have a theory about why, beyond just being people, much of US scientific leadership was caught so flat-footed and is displaying Neville Chamberlain-tier wet kleenex resolve in defense of our institutions and values.
I wish more prominent scientists would speak out about what is happening under Trump.

Yes, there is a real threat to one's livelihood of doing so. Being a scientist has been my lifelong dream, but there's honest work I can do outside of science, and I'd rather do that than serve the current regime.
March 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year."

It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.
February 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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"assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs"

good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
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.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Only ELEVEN Democrats voted against this bill which strips trans kids of their healthcare. Eleven. As the party lurches forward with a collaboration-with-Trump plan, we have officially been abandoned.
www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/p...
Senate passes defense policy bill that bans gender-affirming care for transgender children of service members | CNN Politics
The Senate voted on Wednesday to pass a critical defense policy bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which includes a ban against gender-affirming care for transgender children of ser...
www.cnn.com
December 18, 2024 at 6:58 PM
TLDR: The killing of the UHC CEO has the hallmarks of a class war, and class wars are more dangerous for all of us than political strife.
Murder, America, and the French Revolution www.thebulwark.com/p/murder-ame...
Murder, America, and the French Revolution
The killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO is a dangerous moment.
www.thebulwark.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:06 PM
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My daughter is a trans woman.

Here is a comprehensive list of people and institutions she's harming by identifying as a different gender than she did as a child:
October 22, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined 1 hour and 14 minutes of coverage across 50 segments that discussed the record Northeast flooding. Only *one* of those segments mentioned climate change.
Only 10% of national TV news segments about the catastrophic flooding in the Northeast mentioned cli...
During coverage of the recent catastrophic flooding across the Northeast, major TV news networks mostly largely ignored clear climate signals linking the historic extreme weather event to global warmi...
www.mediamatters.org
July 14, 2023 at 5:55 PM