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The Bog at Frostbite Falls. Pointing north, measuring up, & changing the world day by day. Exploring patience, patterns, hiccups, & connections. MN, NZ, #BookSky, #bees 🐝, journalistic integrity. #GenX Quantum Realm #WWFRD 🚋 #Proginoskes #MGlit #Dragons
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New from me and Elizabeth Dias: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

My daughter sent me this metro map of stockholm with literally translated station names. Greetings from Gruel Village.

Sorry, we promised not to post much today but we had to make a special callout. We forgot to give a proper shoutout to a few places yesterday. Denver and Dallas Fort Worth, you broke records. You were incredible.

There you have it. Lead TERF Maya Forstater says trans men - who they consider women - aren’t allowed in women’s spaces either. It was never about protecting women, just the most sexist, patriarchy-defined version of one. Good luck to all women who don’t meet the “feminine” brief.

We rewatched Andor S1 to prepare for S2 and this speech by Maarva (Fiona Shaw) in the S1 finale is just so good. I had forgotten almost all of it, and was so stunned by how relevant it is to America today. (SPOILERS!!) youtu.be/TaKrm5txGCQ?...

More of this please

Me every day

If you're struggling to keep all of the different immigration/deportation cases straight, I've got a post for you: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

As Trump v Harvard heats up, realize this latest move is another attack on Harvard's science, like pulling the research funding. 38% of Harvard's PhD students, who are the backbone of laboratories, are international. (It's even higher in state universities.) The best and brightest come to the US. 1/

Re-upping this in recognition of Pete Hegseth’s latest sloppy handling of secrets.

Disgraceful

Thinking of our military members & intel officers who have to serve under the reckless & incompetent Pete Hegseth. They deserve better. Sharing war plans in a Signal chat w/ his brother & wife? This is a nat’l security crisis not just a headline. As I’ve said before—how many more chats are there?

Indeed I’m fearful. We aren’t testing much any more. We’re firing everyone in govt who can help and stripping funding from academic & industry scientists who can fill the gaps. H5N1 is a real threat & US policy puts us all at risk. Me & colleagues Kay Russo, Kamran Khan, & Keith Poulsen discuss👇🏻

Lettuce now fear who comes next

Loved the article. Totally agree w/assessment as a formerly certified personal trainer.

I Completely Agree! You?😊💙

Bravo @vanhollen.senate.gov!!!!

“You should take a look around at the country we now share and picture what it will look like and feel like to be out in public - in a land where mental health services, substance abuse treatment, nutritional assistance, veterans’ benefits and Social Security have all been cut from coast to coast.”

When people say that some concept is too complicated for voters to understand, I remember Stephen Sondheim's line about the "West Side Story" movie. He was told that it didn't have "hummable" songs. Then United Artists spent a ton of $ promoting it, the movie was a hit, and suddenly it was hummable.

“The ultimate concern is a panopticon of a single fed database w/ everything that the govt knows about every single person in this country… What we are seeing is likely the 1st step in creating that centralized dossier on everyone in this country” 🧪🛟 @makenakelly.bsky.social @telliotter.bsky.social

A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.

This Easter I am thinking of the people of Palestine who suffer from indiscriminate killing and forced starvation in Gaza with illegal violence by settler gangs in the West Bank.

“Is it just about possible that some much-cited statistics – that many more professors vote for the Democrats – have more to do with the GOP having turned itself into the anti-science party, rather than professors all wanting to corrupt the youth with socialist nonsense?”

Who’s going to investigate this obvious corruption?

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Local libraries are helping to bridge the broadband gap by getting communities online. But federal funding is under threat. www.cnet.com/home/interne...

People are standing up to the Trump regime's power grab. We won't stand for them ignoring court orders, attacking education, or taking away our freedoms. We will continue to call out attacks on our constitution and our society. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

#bloomscrolling

Amazing to see the difference in color & shape between bright sunshine & overcast conditions—tulips were definitely keeping me up-to-date on how close the rain was getting yesterday. #Gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday 🌱

Bluebells are blooming! #nature #photography #flowers #spring #bluebells #bloomscrolling #blooms

Aquilegia are arriving, and this one is new to my garden this year, what a stunner! 🌱📷 #FlowersOnFriday #GardenersWorld #Bloomscrolling

#bloomscrolling #flowers #nature #photography #hyacinth

Cactus blooms. #bloomscrolling #landscape #desert #cactus #flowers #photography #Blueskyartshow #dream #nature #bigbendnp #altnps #texas

I've got one more tulip and then it's off to work for me. If spring hasn't quite sprung where you are yet, here's a little warmth that is hopefully headed your way soon! #Scape #Flowerscape #Photography #BloomScrolling #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #SensoryArt #smARTist #PhotographersOfBluesky

...a meandering river of tulips beneath the mid-day sun #photography #nature #gardens #bloomscrolling

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board pens sustained criticism of President Trump's current path to a constitutional collision in Abrego Garcia case. "Why is Trump so dead set on denying due process to the wrongly deported El Salvadoran migrant?" (Second time for WSJ to play off of Judge Wilkinson)

“Eliminating the Medicaid expansion would likely precipitate the biggest one-time increase in the number of people uninsured ever,” said @larrylevitt.bsky.social. The Dean of Health Care Reporters @citizencohn.bsky.social gives you the state of play and the headline that tells the whole truth.

The Pope seemed to have a pointed message for Trump & Vance to not "yield to the logic of fear which only leads to isolation from others, but rather to use the resources available to help the needy, to fight hunger and to encourage initiatives that promote development.”

*Be* the helper.