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🌱 Stopped at nursery for soil to sow seeds (lettuce, arugula, basil, maybe?) for kitchen window garden. My seeds were in envelopes in a box inside the house. Will chem sponge #EatonFire smoke off envs & hope they’ll be OK. Talked w/ cashier at nursery; her daughter’s Altadena house burned 🫶 😢

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Don't drink the water. Still. Benzene bad. Causes leukemia. And anemia. Lots of work still to be done to restore water to Altadena after #EatonFire www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Welp. Woke in middle of night and couldn’t get back to sleep. Picked up my phone and saw many items of note. Reposted them (reskeeted them?) “Reskeet” sounds kinda sorta like Rita Skeeter, that character in the Harry Potter series.

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Once upon a time, these were actions by a private company. Now they are actions being undertaken by a high-ranking government official, in connection with his public activities. This raises 1A issues that didn’t exist before.

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A source stationed in Germany has sent me emails showing the principal at a Department of Defense school, Weisbaden Middle, telling teachers they can no longer allow books to be checked out until someone has reviewed them for compliance with Trump’s anti-trans, anti-diversity ex orders.

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He thinks AI can do air traffic control and is willing to kill people to prove it

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I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired directly by the Founding Fathers The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper

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Been thinking about a bookbinding project to do for fun, got carried away, cut a load of sections for a miniature book. It’s white cartridge paper, gsm already forgotten, sorry. The thing about cutting the paper this small is that you really become a servant to grain direction, but that’s okay.

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I love the reply to this skeet…

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It’s honestly been a huge lifeline to organize with all my neighbors during this horrible crisis - laist.com/news/housing...

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How the Eaton Fire motivated Altadena renters to organize for change. Oof, this anecdote. Oh, a fire, you say? Here’s a rent increase. Adequate notice, schadequate schnotice laist.com/news/housing...

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When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

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Literacy IS political- Indiana wants an illiterate populace for a reason.

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HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.

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You know this is 100% going to happen…

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Putting a face to what you read in the news. Until last Friday, I served our nation working as a Research Ecologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). As a federal scientist, I provided robust, defensible information to support good decisions in natural resource management.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that one of the most difficult things to throw away is the product box for an old iPhone (kept as a backup camera).

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I had such an awesome time learning about marbling at the SoCal Renegade Bookbinding meetup. Really pleased with how things turned out. Everyone’s papers turned out so beautifully! #bookbinding #renegadebookbinding #marbledpaper #marblingpaper #marblingart

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Elegant text composition method & technology. Am re-starting to write letters—the kind you put in envelopes and put a stamp on and send snail mail. It cancels mental habit of picking up fone ea 30 seconds. Beetle Juice Ink by Fox&Quills. Writes red when wet, dried black. So satisfying.

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🎁 ARTICLE U.S. weighs destroying $500M in stockpiled covid tests The govt is reviewing proposals to shut down the program that ships free covid tests to American households & is considering DESTROYING 160M tests. Only a fraction are expired. How is this not WASTEFUL? Where's DOGE? wapo.st/42VLGQh

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Wearing your masks and getting your vaccines is an act of resistance

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😭😭😭

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I never dreamed that our post-fire soil study with Duke University would be so personal. Collecting samples has been archaeology- & tear-filled. More photos from 16? Of 22 houses sampled yesterday x 3-4 sites each & 2 samples each. More photos 🧵… #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #LosAngeles 🌱

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I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

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Congress needs to hear from all of these fired federal workers.

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Opinion | We must stop allowing immigrants to loot our nation’s wealth. by Elon Musk

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Elon Musk is doing exactly what Americans elected him to do.

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Love letter from Altadena: KUOW host revisits hometown in wake of LA fires (Angela King) www.kuow.org/stories/love...

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