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Retired Fed, still working in disaster recovery, theater Dad, struggling Catholic, a Grandpa trying to stem the climate catastrophe for the kids. Living in the People’s Republic of Takoma Park.
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Smoke em if you get em, baby

submitted 9 days ago • 37 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 10 days ago • 463 comments

New York City votes for mayors like they believe Batman is real and want him to have someone to fight

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submitted 15 days ago • 77 comments

RIP Norwegian writer/theatre director Henrik Ibsen, died this day 1906. “A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.” “To live is to war with trolls.” “You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.”

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

Refugees fleeing the civil war in Sudan’s Darfur region are finding little help, in part due to the Trump administration’s devastating cuts to foreign aid. Lynsey Addario’s photographs capture the first humanitarian crisis of the post-American world:

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

I’m glad it’s “saved”, but I can’t help feeling this is a sign of things to come. Something good and public is defunded, we freak out, a huge corporation swoops in and buys it cheap, we praise them. And slowly everything is handed to private enterprise with our blessing.

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"They'll never allow openly-gay men to enter seminary." "They'll never allow same-sex marriages to receive a priestly blessing under any circumstances." "They'll never allow trans people to be godparents." "They'll never allow trans to people to be baptized." All now outdated statements.

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Keep America free!

submitted 24 days ago • 175 comments

“In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous administration.” — Bruce Springsteen

submitted 25 days ago • 6 comments

It's especially fun to be a trans person in this moment because we're simultaneously told that we're too small of a community to merit advocacy and that we may also singlehandedly bring down the Democratic Party by our own existence. We're too insignificant and too powerful at the same time.

submitted 25 days ago • 40 comments

🎯

submitted 25 days ago • 291 comments

I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

submitted 26 days ago • 80 comments

🇺🇦🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV: “I carry in my heart the suffering of the beloved Ukrainian people. May everything possible be done to achieve a true, just and lasting peace as soon as possible. May all prisoners be released and children returned to their families.”

submitted 29 days ago • 146 comments

‘The Library’ 1960, Jacob Lawrence

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