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katdavinci.bsky.social
Political junkie, blues dancer, switch-to-electric environmentalist
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I want to know what happens if we just let our grain out where it stands? I know there are Americans who are starving. Would it just be left there to rot because of tariffs?

I take back everything I said about ChatGPT - if you give it a ridiculous premise, it comes up with some hilarious stories.

I rarely read the "Culture" section of any paper but this one really spoke to me. It injected the author's personal story seamlessly into the review, IMO. I felt like I learned something.

"I want people to be safe and protected. I want to live on the right side of history. I am an immigrant. My parents are refugees from Chile. We fled a dictatorship and I was privileged enough to grow up in the United States after asylum in Denmark. I stand by those protections, always."

was wondering why I was so sore from just gardening yesterday - forgot I spent the time throwing around big bags of soil like a lumberjack

For the June issue of @thenation.com, I wrote about the Harper’s letter 5 years later, and how under a quarter of its signatories have spoken out about Mahmoud Khalil and other campus activists imprisoned for speech.

This has been in the making for quite some time, I'm surprised people still think otherwise

Superb and important article, pointing out that politically the best way to save biomedical research is to get communities around different diseases informed of the problem, and set them loose on their congresspeople. Right now they just don't know what's going on. How to make this happen?

just made a soup using a cornstarch slurry the right way instead of the absolute wrong way which I definitely did before. Feeling virtuous

gardening marathon over. soon to be living off the land 😅

First a plantation, and now this? What a day!

NEW from me — ICE is actively searching for job candidates with backgrounds in construction management and engineering via a third party recruitment agency. This comes on the heels of the @aclu.org uncovering ICE's plan to expand their detention facilities in 10 states. My report:

Explosive original reporting about Trump's plans to drastically restructure domestic law enforcement to target immigrants en masse and crack down on opponents.

The toilet from Your Friends and Neighbors is real

The plane being a White Elephant gift is the funniest turn this saga could have taken

“Honey that stripper wasn’t giving a lap dance to ME — she was giving a lap dance to EVERYONE who advocates for freedom!”

“So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom theonion.com/gavin-n...

this would be the kind of scandal that demands resignation if these people had any commitment to public service!

Sean Duffy changed his wife's flight on Monday to avoid Newark Airport and then made a TV appearance on Tuesday insisting it's safe to fly from there.

One way to think about what’s happening to (some) Jewish Americans is to look for an analogy in the example of the Irish: a once brutally oppressed people seduced out of their former radicalism and into complicity and conservative politics by the allure of American whiteness.

I’m glad people are chastising Hasan Piker for how much he engaged with his ICE interrogator. No one should do this. ANDBUTALSO, we now know ICE is willing to detain media people for their speech because he did. If he had refused to engage, they would claim he was flagged randomly. Now they can’t.

The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

"the money is too good to pass up"

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

I recognize the irony of reacting in this way to a protest by faith leaders but my immediate response was indeed 'hell yeah'

The media’s inability to state facts when it comes to Republicans (and Trump) is partially how we got here. The plane is a corrupt violation of the U.S. constitution (not to mention a security risk). This is a fact. Full stop. It’s not up for debate with weasel words like “raises concerns”

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Badass move from the Episcopal Church" is not a thing I get to say very much, but in this case...

We're tea service pros, we are! #MothersDay

Now we're cooking

"The researchers then compared the drumming of the two subspecies, finding western chimpanzees drummed with evenly spaced intervals between beats – like the tick of a clock – while eastern chimpanzees alternated between shorter and longer intervals, resulting in a swing-like beat."

about to find out what a "sound bath" is

Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial A combination shot would make it easier for people to get vaccinated against Covid and the flu at the same time. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

SCOOP: CBP says it plans to bring real-time facial recognition to outbound vehicle traffic lanes at US border crossings. This could be used to log every person who leaves the US by vehicle, and track the number of people self-deporting by vehicle. www.wired.com/story/cbp-fa...

Breaking news: The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into real estate transactions involving New York Attorney General Letitia James — the first known criminal probe of a law enforcement official who took action against President Donald Trump.

this is my favorite

Are they being replaced with AI?

at the end of the day our billionaires mostly want to be plantation aristocrats

Profile in courage

Biden does not have any documented "condition" other than being old. Perhaps evidence will arise later on that indicates some other "condition" was present. Until then, I would urge people, particularly "investigative reporters" to be more cautious.

the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done