Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA

#BLM✊🏾🏳️‍🌈|Health Equity Advocate|PhD(c) @GWUPsych | Sociomedical Scientist & Social Worker-Psychologist @BrownUniversity @Columbia *Tweets my own

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

New. ✨
MMXXV, ready for you.

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

@ScottJenningsKY You should be ashamed of yourself!

[Preston D. Mitchum @PrestonMitchum]

Some were really acting like Kamala was about to do the same thing as Trump.

And look. Access to basic services are about to be torn apart, your friends are without jobs, freezes, etc.

But yes, the same thing. Tuh.

Dems have issues but so, too, is intellectual dishonesty.

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

Life is … beautiful! ✨
h/t @leahscucina

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

During Trump's first presidency, the rich got richer (fact). My question is, how did he convince the poor that they got richer, too?

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

RFK Jr. is a conspiracist and anti-science crusader.

He should've NEVER been nominated for the role of HHS Secretary.

He's made it crystal clear that if confirmed, he will lower access to quality health care and put American lives at risk.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

Might not feel this way on twitter - but back here on earth, DOGE did not have a great day yesterday on the @USAID front.

Elon's attempt to speedrun the destruction of USAID is starting to hit real legal and political bumps.

The pushback is starting - and must be sustained.
🧵

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive.

Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

[Trill Clinton @aStatesman]

Are eggs really $10 now!?
It seems almost as if the price of groceries had no bearing on the election. Perhaps it truly was all about racism, sexism, and ignorance. 😳

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Massive protests have erupted in front of the USAID building following Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s unlawful attempts to shut USAID down. The resistance to Trump and Musk’s incompetence is growing.

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

I can’t imagine being so miserable & desperate to “feel” superior that I’d literally let some Nepo baby lead me off the side of a cliff. Mind you, he has a golden parachute to take care of him…but at least it’s not a Black & Asian Woman at the helm.

A woman who inspired joy not joblessness.

A woman who knows the value of hard work not heartlessness.

A woman who our allies respected not ridiculed.

This isn’t political; this is pitiful & perverse.

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

Thankfully many of us scientists & science-based activists are fighting back!

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

This is the type of fascist antagonism that we knew Tr🚫mp and his cult were capable of! Truly deplorable! … if documentation of structural inequities is entirely erased, do such inequities really exist? Have they ever?

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

“Scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now…” !!!
https://t.co/gOwcE6ttV8 (1/2)

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

“They were all telling one another the same thing: Data on the website were about to disappear, or be altered, to comply with the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to scrub federal agencies of any mention of gender, DEI, and accessibility.”
https://t.co/gOwcE6ttV8 (2/2)

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

This is the type of fascist antagonism that we knew Tr🚫mp and his cult were capable of! Truly deplorable! … if documentation of structural inequities is entirely erased, do such inequities really exist? Have they ever?

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

“Scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website, and download your data now…” !!!
https://t.co/gOwcE6ttV8 (1/2)

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

@ninaturner In this case, they’re probably exploiting the fact (without any evidence whatsoever about what actually happened yet) that the AA pilot’s last name is “Campos.” Sadly, this is straight out of the racists’ playbook, which we of course know has its roots in anti-Black racism.

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

To be clear, the “best & brightest” rhetoric re: recruitment/leadership being stated by DT, his new DOT and DoD Secretaries is absolutely a racist dog whistle. Wow! smh

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

Did this evil orange racist mf’er just insinuate that the Black Hawk copter - American crash was a result of diversity initiatives of prior White House administrations? WTF 🤔🤬

[Trill Clinton @aStatesman]

You dont get to:

1. Fire the head of the TSA, and the Aviation Security Advisory Committee.

2. Freeze hiring of all Air Traffic Controllers.

3. Fire 100 top FAA security officers.

And then claim a plane crash a week later is “a tragic accident”.
#Trumptastrophe #ThanksTrump

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

Did this evil orange racist mf’er just insinuate that the Black Hawk copter - American crash was a result of diversity initiatives of prior White House administrations? WTF 🤔🤬

[Riko A. Boone, MSW, MPH, MA @rikoamour]

Thank you! @ReverendWarnock 🙌🏾

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

I’m voting NO on Mr. Kennedy’s nomination to lead @HHSgov.

He wouldn’t commit to working to prevent health care premium spikes & didn’t denounce his conspiracy theories about the CDC, which employs thousands of Georgians. I won't support a nominee whose policies hurt Georgians.

[Frank Underwood @FrankUnderwood]

How unoriginal.