LSU '14, UGA '16. Registered Dietitian. Health and Wellness Writer. Aerialist. Rollergirl. TTRPG enthusiast. ✌🏾👓 (she/her)
Atlanta, GA
Joined January 2012
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Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
The "Use AI or you'll get left behind" crowd always makes me laugh with how obtuse they are. Get left behind on what? Being unable to think for yourself? Do things for yourself? Have meaningful human interractions? The techs goal is to simplify & automate not gatekeep future use.
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
So 10 Dems can break filibuster for right-wing immigration bill but not to Codify Roe V. Wade—and a long list of other things—when they had power nitter.gq/prem_thakker/status/18…
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
If this country didn’t treat incarcerated people like they’re subhuman, this story would be all over every news platform. But because these are Black men and the US prison system is the evolution of American chattel slavery, people don’t care.
“In a span of just two weeks, a dozen Black men at Red Onion prison in Virginia took the same desperate measures, setting themselves ablaze. These are not acts of protest. These are human beings driven to extreme lengths, hoping for relief from torment.”
prisonradio.org/news-update/…
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
I don’t ever want to hear someone complain about fare evasion ever fucking again
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
Arizona ballots damaged after USPS collection box set ablaze in Dem-leaning county: report rawstory.com/maricopa-ballot…
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
Kenny Johnson had been begging for something to be done about BioLab since before the latest fire that spewed toxic gasses all over the Atlanta metro area.
He died shortly after speaking at this meeting. The GBI is investigating his death.
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
These updated #whindex status maps reflect our closures as of 2PM this afternoon in advance of #HurricaneMilton. Please stay safe.
***Due to the potential for variations in Milton's path, this information is subject to change without notice. Please follow local guidance.
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
🚨 CITY OF LA GOING BROKE ALERT 🚨
The City has SURPASSED its annual $87 million liability claims budget in just the THIRD MONTH of the new fiscal year, spending $97 MILLION so far!
TOP 3 SPENDING:
🚔 Police $59,391,312
🏦 Miscellaneous $21,745,201
🛠️ Street Services $6,110,000
ALT Bar chart showing liability payouts in the City of LA Text says: "THE CITY OF LA HAS SURPASSED ITS $87 MILLION LIABILITY CLAIMS BUDGET: WE'VE SPENT $97 MILLION IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF THE FISCAL YEAR" Bars are higher depending on how the payment amounts are with Police having the tallest bar with $59,391,312 then: Miscellaneous $21,519,428 Street Services $6,110,000 Transportation $5,600,000 Fire $2,126,566 Sanitation $1,136,793 Engineering $846,633 Rec & Parks $250,000
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
Letting shitty developers throw up housing without proper drainage systems, cutting down hella trees, spending all the city funds on cops instead of infrastructure
What could possibly go wrong
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
"Just wanted to make you aware if you hadn’t heard about the smaller communities regarding hurricane helene. I’m from a little town outside of Asheville NC called Burnsville…
Burnsville
Spruce Pine
Little Switzerland
Boone
Blowing Rock
Bakersville
They are devastated. I last heard from my parents in Spruce Pine yesterday at 8:15 as the core of the storm went over them and trees were falling in their house. All cell towers were wiped out, no electricity, no gas, limited food and water and every single road getting up to them is washed out and not drivable
The only way to get to them is by air. I’m going to send you some images I’ve gotten from friends who were able to connect to Starlink.
It’s absolute the worst devastation the mountains has seen in our lifetimes
We are all worried sick and no one can get in to help them. They need FEMA, national guard, Red Cross, urgently!”
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting Nov & they're banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings >Data & Privacy > Manage shared info >Personalized shopping, & toggle that shit off
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
The devastation in our region is unfathomable. People are suffering and in desperate need. Please donate what you can to these mutual aid efforts across the region. A 🧵:
ALT Mutual Aid to Help Hurricane Helene Victims
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
If you’re in the #ATL biolabs vicinity consider:
-wearing a respirator
-close windows/ turn off AC
-if evacuating area by car, keep air recycling on inside the vehicle.
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
Reminder that storm water from Hurricane Katrina wasn’t the reason New Orleans was devastated, it was due to systemic government neglect. The poor infrastructure of dams and levees that broke in impoverished, predominantly black neighborhoods below sea level; drowning thousands.
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
nothing demonstrates just how little regard the state has for its citizens like hurricane season. every year the policy is basically “evacuate if you have the money or die!” no preventative measures, no improved infrastructure, just everyone fending for themselves
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
I don’t think the national media is grasping the level of devastation in FL, GA, SC, NC, TN, and VA. Whole towns have been washed away. Asheville is cut off from the outside world. 1.3 million people in SC are still without power. It’s really bad.
Markita Lewis MS, RD retweeted
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Horrific and all too common reality out of Asheville, NC yesterday. Families making it to roof tops only to be swept away with structures collapsing in unsurvivable current, sending out last photos before the building failed. I don’t think we’ve seen the the worst areas with the cell phone coverage non existent #ncwx
