Madeline Cowen

I care about community + justice / quantitative ecologist @UCLA / co-Pres of Bruin Birding Club / she, her / #BlackLivesMatter

[Dr. Courtney Boen, PhD, MPH @CourtneyBoen]

Sotomayor's dissent is it.

"In so holding, the Court cements a superficial rule of colorblindness as a constitutional principle in an endemically segregated society where race has always mattered and continues to matter."

[Audubon California @AudubonCA]

Nicely done Bruin Birding Club! #pride #BirdsOfTwitter https://t.co/Y5XEC1r7Fm

[molly adams 🐏 @ilovemosss]

I’m really excited for #FemaleBirdDay and the birdathon this weekend! I helped design a shirt with @CaseyGirard that will be abailable until Memorial Day and all the proceeds go directly to the Western Mass Asylum Support Network. :) https://t.co/qDF80nCDdA

[Lura Groen @lura_groen]

TW: deadly homophobia and transphobia.

I need my cis het friends to understand how terrifying this is.

This bill means that an EMT can simply refuse to treat me in a life-threat emergency. That I cannot assume I will get help if I go to the ER.

[ACLU of Florida @ACLUFL]

This bill is shocking in its breadth, vagueness, and government overreach into the private sector and regulated businesses. It goes far beyond any alleged claims of religious freedom.
https://t.co/c7eBtLHpUW

[Dr. Lauren Eve Simonitis 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @OceanExplauren]

Hey Allies!

Instead of being like boo Florida sucks you should leave, you can donate and support our trans community in this horrific time.

Some orgs I like:

https://t.co/yU8KGxgNSS

https://t.co/y0tTYzhgsJ

https://t.co/NJehtRh2yd

https://t.co/w8drc1Pgo5

[Brandon Wolf @bjoewolf]

Understand the depravity of what DeSantis signed today.

Ripping healthcare from a majority of trans ADULTS by banning Nurse Practitioners from providing it and criminalizing that care for youth.

Deputizing people to patrol airport bathrooms and harass people in the stall over.

[Rupsy Khurana @Rupsykhurana]

I have begun a new series of illustrations depicting birds of India to raise awareness about the birds around us and build it as a resource for children’s nature education too.
More soon.
#artist #birdsofindia #illustration #birdillustration

[Jabari Brisport @JabariBrisport]

Jordan Neely was lynched.

He had no food, no water, no safe place to rest. He had the audacity to publicly yell about that massive injustice, so they killed him.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

Anyone who blames violence on mental illness is deeply unserious about ending violence.

[CHIKA 🧚🏾‍♂️ @oranicuhh]

the news is really like, “a Black man was yelling and a fellow citizen killed him. did he deserve to die? perhaps. what do you think?”

and this is why we yell Black lives matter cuz what the fuck are y’all even talking about right now

[Ri / ᕒᐊᔦᓬᐄ @Rileyyesnomaybe]

Landdddd Backkkkkk!

Imperfectly, piece-by-piece, but happening.

https://t.co/gPuIt2DDXj

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

A Missouri government snitch site for ratting about gender-affirming care is down after “people flooded it with fanfiction, rambling anecdotes and the “Bee Movie” script.”

You love to see it.

https://t.co/X9ammYIYF5

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

This is still happening. For the second day in a row, Representative Zephyr was not allowed to speak, as the GOP has decided to disenfranchise all 11,000 of her representatives.

Democrats stood unified to demand she be allowed.

They refused.

https://t.co/6NsuGz8rV0

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

All of this coincides with the rise in laws that criminalize communities.

Abortion bans that will be disproportionately enforced against Black and brown people.

Outlawing trans healthcare—forcing folks to break the law to live as themselves.

And a police state to enforce them.

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

We need to be very clear about what’s happening.

The ubiquity of guns gives police an excuse to “believe” everyone is armed. It’s a premade defense for murder.

Simultaneously, it creates more shootings, more daily violence—the exact circumstances people use to expand policing.

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

The police murder of Tortugita is grotesque—not just the brutality of shooting a peaceful protestor 57 times, but the state’s defense of his killing.

This is fascist logic: You have no right to resist expanding authoritarian violence. If you do, we have the right to kill you.