Marla

@RMedia communicator. Biracial and queer. Tweet about equity, politics, abortion, climate justice, NYC. Into travel, cooking, rum, music, culture. She/her.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

Check this prediction from February 2025 —>

[Maria @mlstrat]

never forget when rand paul sat on the senate floor and railed against federal funding to study the screwworm’s reproductive cycle as wasteful 😌

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

A whistleblower reports that the Trump admin planned to classify 2.7M living people as dead, nullifying their Social Security numbers, to force them out of the country.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The New York Assembly and Senate have both passed a one-year moratorium on the construction of AI hyperscale data centers.

The bill is now on Governor Kathy Hochul's desk.

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

If only there were a safe process for removing pathogens from milk.

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

One of the costs of not wanting to employ workers or provide competitive pay.

[Marla @dcmarla]

Every day, the headlines are like, “Violent zombies invade country after Trump nixes violent zombie prevention program” 🥲

[Grace Yarrow @YarrowGrace]

NEWS: Screwworm has been detected in Texas, USDA confirmed - marking a serious threat to US cattle and other animals

Larvae of the parasite were found in the umbilical cord of a 3 week old calf

Screwworm was eradicated from the US in 1966

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Since 2000, breast cancer among AAPI women under 50 has increased by 50%, more than 2% every year since 2012, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. https://t.co/zPkq83fU3T

[David Petersen @typesfaster]

The amount of wealth in NYC is unimaginable.

[Luthen’s Reality 🟢 @RealLuthen]

This is exactly why billionaires can’t exist. This man is burning the entire world down because he cannot accept his daughter for who she is. And he has the money to actually do it. No one can have that power.

[🦅 @JayZ0verrat3d]

after all them years of calling dude sleepy joe is CRAZY

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

Just a massive change in NYC's power grid this week. Getting almost no attention.

A 350-mile transmission line bringing hydro-electric power from Canada to NYC is now live.

Will provide enough electricity to power 1 million homes, bringing us to 40% renewable energy sources for the five boroughs. At last making up for the loss of Indian Point nuclear power plant, which used to provide 20% of our power.

The Champlain Hudson Power Express took more than 12 years to build. It was a tough political fight. Now we need to win many more fights like this.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Democrats will of course not use this to their advantage

[NYS Senator Julia Salazar @SalazarSenate]

Today, New York became the first state in the country to pass a data moratorium.

Championed by @SenGonzalezNY, this pause allows us to ensure we put our local communities and our environment ahead of big tech profits.

[Raj Goyle @RajGoyle]

This had real bite. I told my daughter to go to bed and she invoked the EO below to overrule me and watch until the end. Elections have consequences.

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

was it by “drinking raw milk”