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Horticulturist by trade, plant nerd by nature. Also lots of opinions on scifi and crafting projects
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Menendez Jr: They feel no weight of the law and no restraint on what they should be doing. And that was shown in broad daylight today when they not just arrested the Mayor of Newark but when they put their hands on two members of congress standing behind me. How is this acceptable?

#FreeRümeysa

reason 5327 jersey is better than new york: eric adams, andrew cuomo, bill de blasio, rudy fucking guiliani could never. this is also the guy who told a bunch of other democrats “you talk a weak game *and* when it counts you don’t even come through for trans people.”

At least this job rejection was quick

NEW — Trump’s ICE has just arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Alongside residents and other officials, Baraka has been protesting outside a detention facility that’s set to help Trump’s mass deportation regime.

Sleeping bees. 🐝 🌱 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

What Did I Do To My back and Other Tales of Being Over 40

Timeline cleanse: we’ve got a record number of plover’s nests!

The way Rumeysa Öztürk holds her heart as she testifies for her own freedom at a bail hearing in federal court is truly heart-rending. She cannot be freed soon enough.

I wish I remembered exactly which Geum chiloensis cultivar this is. It's done surprisingly well in my no water dry summers garden. #bloomscrolling 🌱

🌱 Hey bud!

The silence from big patient advocacy groups and disease focused non-profits is astounding. American Cancer Society, Alzheimer's Association, American Heart Association, American Lung Association...should be running CONSTANT ads against these cuts with stories from patients. #StandUpforScience

Could I get a #knitting pattern sale today? Maybe, perhaps, even two? They're only $7 each and I REALLY need to make more sales. Had to close my comms so this is pretty much all I can sell right now. ko-fi.com/crippledcomm... #BSNM #ShopSmall #Knitsky

For context, Weird Little Guys has done a bunch of episodes on the weird little guys of Apartheid South Africa.

BREAKING—Fabian Schmidt, the German man with legal permanent residency who was detained for no apparent reason and violently interrogated at Boston’s Logan Airport in March, was RELEASED from prison yesterday and the case against him has been DISMISSED, a source familiar with the situation tells me.

When my parents got married, their marriage was illegal in seven states. That’s how recent this shift is: my (still living) parents could not visit some states for the first four years of their marriage.

In New York, ICE detained a busload of farmworkers that were actively involved in a union drive. In Washington state, ICE dragged a farmworkers’ rights activist and leader out of his car to detain him. Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism.

CDC leadership just told staff on Monday that they could stop sending their "5 things I did last week" emails. Finally. Per source, people were mostly just sending the same things every week. Many folks added read receipts and were able to see that no one at DOGE was actually reading the emails.

Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

These are so fun

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

My new favorite thing is this Reddit group where would-be vegetable gardeners post photos of their teeny tiny harvests

MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people? P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

This is “breaking faith” in its most classic and cruel form—the government assuring servicemembers they were safe to be open and live as their authentic selves, then turning around and punishing them for their honesty. A massive abuse of trust.

Back to back dingers from Robert Deniro and Liev Schreiber in the area of Hollywood tough guys shrugging their shoulders going “yeah why wouldn’t I love my child?”

The aircraft carriers are literally failing to carry aircraft but sure, this is the thing you need to be doing. Absolute chickenshit, cartoon villain behavior.

It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Now that's a Cthulhu, incredibly detailed

ISRAELI IS STARVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES IN GAZA TO DEATH Anyone who has ever said the Holocaust was disgusting should be objecting to this. Loudly. There are food trucks, waiting to deliver relief. Israel won't let them in.

SCOTUS majority commits treason, again, by allowing MAGA to remove transgender people from our military. Today is an especially dark, shameful day in this country. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes and other courts blocked the ban but the MAGA SCOTUS extremists promptly stomped them. (1/2)

The first Black woman to receive her pilot’s license was Ms. Willa Brown. She is the trailblazing woman who trained the Tuskegee Airmen. History books left her out but we will never forget her incredible accomplishments. Say her name and remember her. 💗 #MomSky #Voices4Victory

Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

Admiring my mini meadow planters. The Sea Blush (Plectritis congesta) is the star of the show at the moment. Accompanied by Roemer’s Fescue, Coastal Mugwort, Woolly Sunflower, Pearly Everlasting, Yarrow, Farewell-to-Spring and more. Last week I saw a hummingbird at the Sea Blush in our backyard.

Two weeks in ground and these tomatoes are putting on good growth. The 'Verona' is definitely growing faster than 'Magic Bullet'. I'm hoping for a better veg garden year than last year, last year was pretty lackluster. 🌱