Reposted by TamraAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14hJack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 632252978758
Reposted by Tamrafurryninja.bsky.social @furryninja.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I recommend calling the NFL to complain about the illegal propaganda ad being run during games on Fox. Here's the number: 531577656
Reposted by TamraJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fascinating study which shows that at a fundamental level the brain is two separate organs, essentially the brain stem is one and the rest of the brain (forebrain and midbrain) are another. Distinct from the beginning both in formation and evolutionary history. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...med.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 11588170
Reposted by TamraMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 19/09/2026To the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly: Welcome to the world’s city. 189100931912
Reposted by TamraGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026Ahmed Soliman has been missing for a week. 0304150
Tamra @tamramendelson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026September 15, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...heathercoxrichardson.substack.comSeptember 15, 2026Seven years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started: 000
Reposted by TamraAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...youtu.beJimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To SeeYouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live 4541892811124
Reposted by TamraIzzie Héjja-B. @izziehb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026🚨New paper out after several years in the making! "Background-matching patterns are attractive: support for a processing bias" with @tamramendelson.bsky.social, @julien-renoult.bsky.social, Innes Cuthill (CamoLab alumni), Michel Raymond (@isemevol.bsky.social) ▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 📷 Ed Nisley 1189
Reposted by TamraAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026This is so bizarre. A politician telling you her vision for America is that you’ll have to work when you’re sick and die young, orphaning your kids. Please vote for @drannieandrews.com 66366322207
Reposted by TamraAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE 87186573766
Reposted by TamraAFT @aft.org · 29/07/2026Trump & his allies proposed a rule to put political appointees in charge of federal grant funding - a move that could slow or stop the scientific & medical research we depend on to stay healthy. Tell your senators: Reject this rule ASAP. actionnetwork.org/letters/omb-... @aaup.orgactionnetwork.orgProtect science & innovation from political interferenceScientific research is already facing setbacks as this administration tries to gain leverage over independent scientists. Now, President Donald Trump and his allies have proposed a rule to put their p... 01715
Reposted by TamraDemocracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 26/07/2026People have the power to chart our democracy's path forward. Join us in taking action in the 100 days leading up to Election Day 2026. Each week, we'll provide daily actions you can take to reflect, learn, connect, restore, and – of course, to vote. democracyforward.org/act/100-days-of-action 15523
Reposted by TamraTroy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her. 684293596614
Reposted by TamraUrsula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 19/07/2026¡Campeones! ¡Muchas felicidades, España! Hoy Europa celebra con vosotros 🇪🇸🇪🇺 24995154
Reposted by TamraLuca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Dozens of immigrants at Miami’s Federal Detention Facility are trapped in brutal heat with no AC, sleeping in underwear, and finding roaches in their food. When one spoke out, he was thrown into solitary. Total abuse. We demand an immediate investigation and human rights NOW! 🎥 tomaskenn 19067033365
Reposted by Tamraescapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND 313149954241
Reposted by TamraTJ resists! Bluestormcoming! @tjjohnson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There is no need for fireworks now with drone shows. No need for pets and vets to cower and for wild life to suffer as well as the pollution and noise. I said what I said. 475118142229
Reposted by TamraMoms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 05/07/2026Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comWhy put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks?The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers a hot topic within renewable energy 34870951764
Reposted by TamraGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/07/2026Hey Chicago! Chicago! CHICAGO! OVER HERE! Whatcha doing next Wednesday at noon? Wanna eat lunch while I talk on your computer about the ICE collaborator trying to buy your parking meters? AND what you can do about it? Because you can do something about it! Register: bit.ly/iceparkingmeters 118997
Reposted by TamraACLU @aclu.org · 02/07/2026Using a strong password on your phone instead of Face ID or a thumbprint is an important way to protect your privacy while you protest. Chad Marlow, ACLU privacy expert, has the info you need to defend your rights while you protest. Watch the full video at youtu.be/H_kqWYbyJYg to learn more. 10291139
Reposted by TamraAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/07/2026No previous president has ever manipulated American foreign and domestic policy in order to make himself a billionaire. Unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump’s income topped $2 billion in 2025, boosted by crypto, coin venturesAlmost 1,000 pages of financial disclosure forms show that the president’s earnings far outpaced his $600 million total income in 2024. 991615619
Reposted by TamraThe Contrarian @handle.invalid · 11/06/2026ICE Air: Gulags in the Sky • Gillian Brockell on the airlines that profit from Trump's deportation machinecontrariannews.orgICE Air: Gulags in the SkyGillian Brockell on the airlines that profit from Trump's deportation machine 02918
Reposted by TamraLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This piece is just maddening - in laying out the incredible destruction the Trump admin is doing to scientific research that might help to understand or cure … who knows what. We’ll never know since they’ve destroyed it. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The Science That Turned Lizard Venom Into GLP-1s Is Under Attack 722879
Reposted by TamraBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come. 1077321616288
Reposted by TamraPhil Yabut @philliefan99.bsky.social · 19/06/2026They're dumping slimy, green peroxide water from the Reflecting Pool back into the Potomac. #dc @popville.bsky.social 143891493968
Reposted by TamraHemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint 22093912272
Reposted by TamraElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026SCOTUS piece filed. Now to watch every available video on the Knicks. 181002125
Reposted by TamraaltNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 18/06/2026There are no economical benefits from datacenters to communities. Convenience stores have more employees, and most of the employees will be shipped in from out of state. Any financial gain to the community will be dwarfed by the increase in electric utility rates. And the noise is unforgiving. 32980347
Reposted by TamraJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/06/2026We're here because of corporations driving profits with planned obsolescence and disposables, a culture of overconsumption, and the municipalities and state agencies that keep slapping bandaids on bullet wounds. There are no easy answers here, but we start by knowing the story behind the smoke. 13710
Reposted by TamraTeeBo @texastob-24.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Happy Birthday Anne Frank, born OTD in 1929. Reading these two quotes had me thinking about the paradoxes we hold simultaneously, today. 67723
Reposted by TamraBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting. 313154533521
Reposted by TamraPhysicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/06/2026@catgyoung.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/06/01/n... 206117243023
Tamra @tamramendelson.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Write or call your congresspeople to denounce the administration’s plan to politicize science with the new Executive Order 000
Reposted by TamraSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 28/05/2026I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.youtu.beWhat I Saw Inside Delaney Hall Detention FacilityYouTube video by Senator Andy Kim 6126941148
Reposted by TamraDemocracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 28/05/2026BREAKING: We’re seeking an emergency court order to stop payouts from President Trump’s billion-dollar slush fund. Million-dollar claims are already being submitted, and the danger is no longer hypothetical. We're taking action to block this unlawful scheme before irreversible damage is done. 821362
Reposted by TamraMichael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s... 447188326433
Reposted by TamraJames Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton 1168307118235
Reposted by TamraBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/05/2026“[Colbert] went on to quote Robert Hayden's famous poem: ‘We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstraction police and threaten us.’” www.editorialboard.com/take-comfort...editorialboard.comTake comfort knowing Trump is the loneliest man in AmericaIt's why he hates Stephen Colbert's joy. 421172320
Reposted by TamraHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social 1104252116634
Reposted by TamraAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/05/2026BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery 24283824710131
Reposted by TamraSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe. 16594011414961
Reposted by TamraDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Tierney Thys, marine biologist and interpreter of the sunfish news.mongabay.com/2026/05/tier... “Tierney M. Thys, who died in March at 59, spent much of her life asking those questions, and then finding ways to share them” 🦑🌎🧪news.mongabay.comTierney Thys, marine biologist and interpreter of the sunfishIn the open ocean, far from coasts and categories, there is a fish that seems to defy the logic of design. It is round where others are tapered, truncated where others trail into a tail. It drifts… 25416
Reposted by TamraBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Without grants, America's basic research--the risky stuff that lets us understand how things work and lay the groundwork for research that mission-oriented government agencies or for-profit companies pursue--ends. So does its ability to train new scientists. 28136
Reposted by TamraChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 23/04/2026ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime. 887290249910
Reposted by TamraGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 22/04/2026Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...sahanjournal.comICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data revealsImmigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows. 523031405
Tamra @tamramendelson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026April 8, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...open.substack.comApril 8, 2026On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S. 010
Reposted by TamraDr. Kara M. Million @darterdancer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026First rule of darter fight club is... nah, we're totally going to talk about darter fight club right here in our new paper!! I'm pleased to share the latest from myself, @izziehb.bsky.social , @tamramendelson.bsky.social, and two brilliant undergraduate co-authors! #FishSci #FishSky 🐟❤️ 1/tandfonline.comAssessing the dual utility of nuptial patterning in the rainbow darter (Etheostoma caeruleum)In this study, we assessed the possible dual utility of nuptial color patterns in male rainbow darters (Etheostoma caeruleum) in the context of male-male territorial interactions and female mate ch... 3193