Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Eliminating EPA environmental protections will create a long legacy of human exposure to toxins. It doesn’t just “turn off” but persists in the watershed and the body for years. 010
Reposted by NeritaTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 09/06/2025This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. Read the step-by-step guide here ⤵️teenvogue.comHow to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your NeighborhoodHere’s a step-by-step guide. 10621375
Reposted by NeritaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/06/2025History shows that once an authoritarian ruler establishes the infrastructure of a police state, that same infrastructure can be turned on anyone. Trump is rapidly creating such an infrastructure. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-p…robertreich.substack.comTrump’s Police StateIt endangers all of us 852562983
Reposted by NeritaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025As of June 1, nearly 25% of the people arrested by ICE in the interior and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Data from the last six years, including 1.5 years of Trump's first term, reveals how this is completely unprecedented. It also helps explain the growing backlash. 721803747
Reposted by NeritaAndrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 08/06/2025🚨 The LA protests escalated fast. DHS called in the National Guard, and reports say Marines may be deploying next. The city is still on edge. 📢 If you’re out there, protect yourself and your crew. 📲 Save this. Share it. Stay safe out there. 25399243
Reposted by NeritaSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 02/06/2025Goes to show, the American people are distinct from the American government, and their views, values, and actions do not always align with those of the people and institutions that represent them. 04115
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Sadly, this is the medical system our country has built. Individuals’ health depends on profit-based administrative approval and women struggle for years for their symptoms to be taken seriously 000
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 28/05/2025The U.S. higher education system used to be one of our best industries. Students came from all over the world to be educated here and the government-funded research spurred new technologies and start-up companies. Now it’s being bankrupted like a Trump casino. What a waste of talent and opportunity 133
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Children age 0-11 are more likely to visit an ER due to Covid than adults <75 years old 010
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 25/05/2025I’ve learned that making kale chips in the air fryer results in a kale tornado 🌪️ 000
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Nobody is safe when visiting the U.S. “As a former police officer it was such an irony to be on the other side of things. Those inmates treated me better than anyone else.” 000
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Viruses mutate for interspecies transmission in both directions 😟 000
Reposted by NeritaData for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 22/05/2025There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans. 612291960
Reposted by NeritaDr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 18/05/2025US passes momentous energy milestone for first time in history in March. For the first time ever, cleaner, low-carbon energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels. Yahoo News - www.yahoo.com/news/us-pass... myahoo.comUS passes momentous energy milestone for first time in history: 'It is a trend we believe is irreversible'This development is welcome news and a harbinger of a new era in energy production in the United States. 921658
Reposted by NeritaCongresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The vast majority people on Medicaid who can work do. They’re the people supporting our communities on poverty wages. Study after study confirm that work requirements don’t increase employment and function as cuts that punish the low-wage workforce, seniors, children, and people with disabilities. 711547
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Most of California’s Central Valley is going to be without National Weather Service coverage soon due to government cuts. It supplies about 25% of American produce so how exactly will this make America greater? 000
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 16/05/2025If this horrifies you, I highly recommend reading the novel “Chain Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah for a fast-paced dystopian view of where this and our for-profit prison industry could lead. 010
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 13/05/2025In case you didn’t know, NPR posts the Tiny Desk concerts on YouTube. They’re fun background in the evenings when making dinner 000
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 13/05/2025This is truly interesting. Worth a read through the whole thread 000
Reposted by NeritaData for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 13/05/2025There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid. 11134831587
Reposted by NeritaBilly Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Health Central: 'Long COVID Now: A Special Report' 'Five years after the pandemic hit, questions remain about how and why millions of Americans are still struggling with long-term disease' www.healthcentral.com/condition/co...healthcentral.comLong COVID Now: A Special ReportDiscover expert insights on long COVID diagnosis, treatment & prevention as leading health authorities reveal groundbreaking findings 5 years after the pandemic's onset. 34116
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 09/05/2025I like the new Pope already. “Leo said there were many settings in which the [Evangelist] Christian faith was considered “”absurd, meant for the weak and unintelligent. Settings where other securities are preferred, like technology, money, success, power, or pleasure.””theguardian.comPope Leo holds first mass as pontiff in Sistine ChapelNew leader says he wants a Catholic church that ‘illuminates the dark nights of this world’ 021
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 09/05/2025This is what happens when our society and all of our media is structured on capitalism 011
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 09/05/2025You’ve never lived dangerously until you’ve used an immersion hand blender in a pot of borscht. One moment of inattention and you’re spending the next hour cleaning your kitchen. 010
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 08/05/2025A wee tremor while sipping my morning coffee today. I’m glad that we still have a USGS to track these 011
Reposted by NeritaPatient-Led Research Collaborative @patientled.bsky.social · 07/05/2025New PLRC-funded work out from Rob Wust & team! Skeletal muscles in #LongCovid and ME *differ* from skeletal muscles induced by bedrest. LC and ME is not deconditioning! 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...medrxiv.orgSkeletal muscle properties in long COVID and ME/CFS differ from those induced by bed restPatients with long COVID and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) suffer from a reduced exercise capacity, skeletal muscle abnormalities and post-exertional malaise (PEM), where... 211351
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Energy Star is a voluntary program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. The people who are cutting these programs must not understand math. 021
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 07/05/2025I sobbed at the end of #dyingforsex 😭 It was such a beautifully honest show about self-exploration, kink, recovery from trauma, friendship and death. The friendship between Molly and Nikki was so touching and that last episode may be the best I’ve ever seen about the process of death 😭 021
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I would not have guessed that there were commercial airlines in operation for more than 100 years 011
Reposted by NeritaDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/05/2025The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do. 5437471156
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Wow. The U.S. higher education and scientific research ecosystem was one of the best in the world. This administration really is going to crash it into the ground. Effects will be felt for decades as a lack of new researchers, a decrease in innovation, and a slow down in new high-tech companies. 021
Reposted by NeritaDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/04/2025A new study by economists estimates that a 25% cut in science funding would result in a GDP decline similar in magnitude to the 2008 recession. They also estimate that a 75% cut to government science would trigger a larger GDP decline than in any recession since the Great Depression. 21700294
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Now that the U.S. is no longer monitoring the safety of our milk or limiting salmonella in chicken, who knows other food safety protections they’ll drop. You can track commercial safety recalls using Canada’s regulatory agency. Link in thread below. 011
Reposted by NeritaDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/04/2025Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important. 5650302376
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 29/04/2025I’ve never seen the evolution of the alphabet laid out so cleanly. I wonder what let to the U, V, and W schism? 111
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Her doctors first told her it was due to her period. Mine told me it’s was probably perimenopause. Common theme: if mediocre doctors can feasibly blame illness on women’s hormones, they will. Then ignore it. 263
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 28/04/2025These are good verification guidelines before sharing any news 000
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I spent most of my rowing session looking out the window at my apple tree in blossom and now I feel better both physically and mentally 🌸 010
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 25/04/2025This is a touching account of Long Covid that could be describing my experience as well. 010
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Republicans encourage women to have more children but also enact laws that are 2x more likely to kill them during pregnancy 000
Nerita @nerita99.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Because it’s just concepts of a plan. “It’s confusing that this work is slated for elimination when it so clearly aligns with many of the administration’s priorities around commerce, shipping, trade and national security.” —Alex Harper, Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System. 000
Reposted by NeritaAskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 23/04/2025I honestly thought it was an ad for a new pad 1342430261
