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Anika Agrawal

@aquaticanika.bsky.social
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uhn-i-kah| Ph.D. UConn NRE | MS Marine Biology TAMUG| BS Marine Ecotoxicology UCDavis | She/They | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🌹

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luna stargays 🏳️‍⚧️ @stargays.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
if you ever randomly get the urge to donate to the democratic party, feel free to venmo that money to me or another trans person instead - we'll make sure it doesn't get used to take away people's healthcare
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Unless Democratic Senators who voted no on the #Schumersurrender today explicitly call for Schumer to resign or step aside - they all own this cave. Just pushing out performative posts and press releases don’t count for much anymore. Enough.
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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Just called Senator @schumer.senate.gov and told him he is a disgrace, that I don’t care that he negotiated a public “no” to save his own ass, and if he can’t keep the caucus together on something as basic as healthcare for millions, he needs to immediately resign as minority leader. 202-224-6542
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
I’m voting no on the continuing resolution that would double healthcare premiums for 20 million Americans, kick 15 million people off Medicaid & allow 50,000 Americans to die unnecessarily every year. All to give $1 trillion in tax breaks for billionaires.
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LIVE: I Won't Support Doubling Health Care Premiums
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Sunrise Movement @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Republicans are losing this fight right now. Why the hell would Democrats cave with nothing for the working people? When millions are losing healthcare? If you cave now, you don’t deserve to lead, you deserve to be replaced.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/11/2025
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?
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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 09/11/2025
Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/11/2025
NEW HAMPSHIRE: HASSAN AND SHAHEEN ARE BOTH ON THE LIST OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT DEFECTING CALL NOW (202) 224-3324 (Hassan) (202) 224-2841 (Shaheen) LEAVE VOICEMAILS #NHPoli #NHPolitics
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This vote has not happened yet. Call your Senators, especially your Democratic Senators, and tell them that a deal without protection NOW for health insurance tax credits is unacceptable.
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Sarah Hird, PhD @sarahhird.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I wrote an opinion piece about parental/family leave at UConn. I’m only ~75% happy with it but … something needed to be said. Many things actually. Loudly. Repeatedly. And with as many voices as possible. “This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors” ctmirror.org/2025/10/21/t...
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Opinion: This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors
UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:
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Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown
Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I ignored the murder of Melissa Hortman. Here’s why I’ll be talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk all day today. by most liberal pundits
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
If Charlie Kirk had been, say, a Black Panther or member of the Nation of Islam and went around college campuses saying white people weren't qualified to fly planes or deserved to die in mass shootings, no one would eulogize him by saying he was "practicing politics the right way."
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Aaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Governor Polis Orders Flags to Half-Staff to Honor the Anniversary of September 11th and the Passing of Charlie Kirk
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Kinda rings hollow that the same people condemning political violence because of the assassination of Charlie Kirk have been cheering on the mass starvation and slaughter of children in Gaza for years
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2025
Gavin Newsom really posted that the best way to honor Charlie Kirk's memory is by continuing his work. Fuck you, Gavin.
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itati santamaria de Collins @itativcs.latinsky.app · 10/09/2025
The entirety of TAMU governance is literally a MAGA tantrum like what are you talking about?
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Doug Aoki 青木定夫 @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
So what are we waiting for.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/09/2025
Well, the hearing is over. Even Crapo noted at the end that RFK has not been responsive to committee requests. This poster need to touch grass after that clown show. RFK definitely used the Kavanaugh approach, just yell back at everyone. TL:DR America is fucked. #SacktheQuack
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/09/2025
RFK Jr. CAN’T read readily available data on how many Americans died during the pandemic. He CAN read “data” that supports the debunked junk claim that vaccines cause autism. RFK Jr. is selectively illiterate when it comes to anything that isn't a clickbait conspiracy. #ImpeachRFK
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
please keep paying this company to spread misinformation about health because you like their word puzzles
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 04/09/2025
RFK Jr. says "the only way to restore trust in the agency is to make it trustworthy." You know what? We agree. To start restoring trust, we have to #ImpeachRFK.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
2025 Democratic politics is that scene in every 70s movie where somebody gets their car stolen and runs down the street shaking their fist in the air yelling, "Hey, that's my car!!!"
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Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Call your Senators/Reps to impeach/fire RFK Jr. before he kills us all. www.5calls.org makes it easy to reach them and has a script. CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on Covid Vaccines in Many States www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
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CVS and Walgreens Clamp Down on Covid Vaccines in Many States
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.
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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Inflation rose above expectations. Beef prices are at an all time high. But House Republicans ARE SHUTTING DOWN CONGRESS EARLY UNTIL SEPTEMBER TO AVOID VOTING ON RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES. THIS IS A COVER UP OF EPIC PROPORTIONS.
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Anika Agrawal @aquaticanika.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The first paper from my PhD is out now! 🦪 The presence of pea crabs (a bivalve kleptoparasite) is associated with higher mercury concentrations in their host oysters.... and more!! @noeliemolbert.bsky.social @jebrandt.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Macroparasite infection and mercury contamination as coupled stressors in Eastern oysters
Contaminants and parasites are ubiquitous in aquatic environments and their interactions can have detrimental effects on host physiological and ecolog…
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/07/2025
Kristi Noem must resign now.
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
One would hope the obvious fact that a crazy racist billionaire can reprogram an AI bot to also be crazy racist in the blink of an eye will make anyone pause just a sec before they open up any other AI tool and treat it as gospel.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/07/2025
IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org
DCCC
2026 DISTRICTS IN PLAY
NICK
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AK-AL
DAVID
SCHWEIKERT
AZ-OI
ELI
CRANE
AZ-02
JUAN
CISCOMANI
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DAVID VALADAO
CA-22
YOUNG
KIM
CA-40
KEN
CALVERT
CA-41
GABE EVANS
CO-08
CORY MILLS
FL-07
ANNA
PAULINA LUNA
FL-13
MARIA ELVIRA
SALAZAR
FL-27
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS
IA-OI
ASHLEY HINSON
IA-02
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ANDY BARR
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BILL
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MI-04
TOM
BARRETT
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NE-02
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KEAN JR.
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PA-OI
RYAN
MACKENZIE
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ROB
BRESNAHAN
PA-08
SCOTT PERRY
PA-10
ANDY OGLES
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MONICA
DE LA CRUZ
TX-15
ROB
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JEN
KIGGANS
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BRYAN STEIL
WI-OI
DERRICK VAN
ORDEN
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Raise hell. Voting starts at 9am this morning.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
really does feel like if we can cyberbully the House into passing changes on the shit they openly hate and get it kicked back upstairs again there’s a chance it might not survive the Senate a second time if you live in a GOP state it’s time to ruin a House rep’s life
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 01/07/2025
counterpoint: i want every dem in the country, at every level, every single goddamned day, reminding americans who did this. every time a hospital closes, a nursing home rejects a senior, a new parent gets a triple digit bill, i want a dem shouting that GOP did this until they’re dragged off
Even if Schumer genuinely believes the path back towards Democratic governance is through public outcry over disastrous consequences of Republican rule, a grim but debatable position, you can't stake your position on people remembering who authored the harm rather than who failed to prevent it.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Dear Dems, Stop asking. No more money. None. Until you get your act together and respond with the fire and fury and action the times demand.
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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 01/07/2025
America, listen up. We have one more chance to stop the bill that will cut $1 trillion from Medicaid. CALL. YOUR. REPUBLICAN. REPRESENTATIVES. It is your voice and your voice only that can fix this. Democrats will hold the line.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie. One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears. They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Lisa Murkowski told reporters she wants the House to send the murder budget back to the Senate to continue the work: "they're not there yet." Lisa Murkowski is a professional politician who knows exactly how full of shit she is. Lisa Murkowski can be reached at (202)-224-6665 and (907) 271-3735.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Call or email or fax your senators. (Again. I know, I'm sick of it too!) If they're against the bill, tell them to keep fighting. If they're for it, tell them you'll do everything you can to unseat them. Not sure what to say? ☎️ and scripts @ 5calls.org
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