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caseyl.bsky.social
Seattleite, hiker, love all animals but currently live with just one cat, reading is my fave thing (history, mystery, historical mysteries, scifi, science, nonfiction generally), big fan of Deep Space and Deep Time. Liberal Democrat.
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Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

submitted 8 hours ago • 502 comments

Luscious. Startling. Hypnotizing. Very nearly pornographic.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

MAGA sure do like shooting dogs.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

submitted 13 days ago • 152 comments

First step is voting. That's how you get change. Oh you don't want that? Then there are no more steps. Nobody has to coddle you and waste their time caring what the fuck you have to say. There are plenty of places you can move where they don't make you do horrible stuff like vote. Go live there.

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 25 days ago • 463 comments

Most political commentators are too polite to say this, but Trump won because of his appeal to the most important voting bloc: morons. If the Democrats want to win again the answer isn’t becoming more left or more right, it’s coming up with dumb policies that morons like

submitted 28 days ago • 133 comments

I would have voted for Joe Biden if he had been laying in the ICU. If you don't understand why, you're part of the problem.

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

If ANYONE tries to employ Biden's cancer diagnosis in an argument about the 2024 election, I will block you. Twice. Miss me with that shit.

submitted 38 days ago • 476 comments

We need his name

submitted 45 days ago • 37 comments