larosalind.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

“A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts have hung an upside-down American flag thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.”

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

1. I did the work of an employee you fired. 2. I did the work of a 2nd employee you fired. 3. I did the work of a 3rd employee you fired. 4. I did the work of a 4th employee you fired. 5. I did the work of a 5th employee you fired.

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

Grimes and the other lady should just tweet “failure to respond to your child’s mother will be taken as your waiving your parental rights.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 9 hours ago • 126 comments

1. Monday - fell apart 2. Tuesday - broke my heart 3. Wednesday - same 4. Thursday - didn't even start 5. Friday - I'm in love

submitted 8 hours ago • 56 comments

Everyone should write in, “got shitfaced and brandished a chainsaw like a dork.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Juan Soto just went oppo in his first AB as a Met. Lmao

submitted 13 hours ago • 12 comments

Something that's maddening about the cases involving DOGE access to our most sensitive private data and the irreparable harm standard is that the ACCESS ITSELF is the irreparable harm, and some judges just aren't getting that. (Some are, e.g., storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

submitted 15 hours ago • 27 comments

For those lacking but still wanting to make use this A box fan can use used quite easily to make a very capable air filter especially with wildfire season coming about in a few months

submitted 13 hours ago • 8 comments

honored ✨ @maureentai.com

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

One aspect of doing a political purge of the military and civil service is you can't come back in afterwards and just revert to status quo ante policies. A counter-purge becomes a necessity before you can then restore usual norms and protections. The people he's installing can't be left in place.

submitted 17 hours ago • 30 comments

It'd be awesome if @whitehouse.senate.gov asked Attorney General Bondi if she has issued some kind of finding that foreign donations are cool now, so long as they're covered up nicely. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/p...

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

I have to say I find the sexism of people's opposition to Pam Bondi grotesque. Not only is it sexist, but it leads you all to wildly underestimate her.

submitted 16 hours ago • 196 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

Firing all of the JAGs (Judge Advocates General)—the top lawyers in each service branch—is just as bad as, if not worse than, firing (most of) the Joint Chiefs.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

🚨Trump just fired Gen. CQ Brown and threatened more firings are coming. This isn’t strength—it’s the move of a weak, insecure tyrant. Gutting military leadership for loyalty tests puts US security at risk and sends a dangerous signal to our enemies. History will judge this—& those who stay silent.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

submitted 2 days ago • 2116 comments

You are not going to win a federal Dem primary ever unless you run on arresting all the DOGE boys. The Dem leadership doesn't realize how rapidly the party base has moved.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Misinformation sucks: This woman was likely killed in a domestic violence incident. Wife is suspect in stabbing death of Cal Fire captain who battled Eaton fire, officials say www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you need reliable health information, we got you. updates are regular.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

M 5.1 earthquake 36 km NE of South Pender Harbour, Canada earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Yup. 4.7 north of Vancouver, B.C.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hmm. Think we just had a little shaker here in the PacNW. Will await seismic updating.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Steve Bannon spoke at CPAC. He called for a 3rd term for FOTUS and then, unambiguously, threw up a nazi salute to the crowd. Just know, it can, and in all likelihood, will get a hell of a lot worse if we don't do something immediately.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Huge waves of 7-8 meters crashing against the lighthouse of Mouro in Santander, Spain 🇪🇸 #bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #light #travel

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

One other brilliant aspect of Judge Ho appointing Scalia clerk Paul Clement as his amicus: It'll make it FAR HARDER for Emil Bove to conduct his "weaponization" witchunt targeting (among others) Scalia clerk Danielle Sassoon.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

@greggjlevine.bsky.social did ya see that Marty Short caught the 'vid from Maya Rudolph at the SNL50 shindig? May turn into a super spreader!! (And my one hospital town has been overwhelmed with respiratory cases. Hours long waits. No beds. Good times!)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

If you buy the argument that Russia has a right to Ukraine because it was once theirs, Mexico would like a word.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

What we must do, I suppose, is to hope the world keeps its balance; what we are to do, however, with our hearts waiting and watching- truly I do not know. Mary Oliver

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Dale Ho Brings in the Conservative Cavalry www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/21/d...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

This is a sign that Judge Ho isn’t rushing to rubber-stamp Bove’s attempt to dismiss Adams’ charges w/o prejudice. (He might well dismiss with prejudice, removing the sword dangling over Adams’ head.) Clement is a savvy pick — a former Solicitor General with impeccable conservative credentials.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Saw a poll last night that 27% of Canadians view the US as an enemy country. Then a Canadian friend sent this after last night’s hockey game.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Our South Sound friends said: I see your Bluesky and raise you a stunning sunrise. Welcome aboard, @tacoma.wsdot.wa.gov!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 342 comments

"AI" is, purely, a marketing term and a (poor) umbrella phrase for a number of different types of computerized statistical analysis, iteration and synthesis. If something is being touted as "AI" to me, it's because someone wants me to buy it, and also I probably don't need it.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

So Musk with his chainsaw pic is confirming he IS indeed the Head of Doge. Good to know!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Short but sweet sunrise show over Seattle this morning! #wawx #wxSky #WxPics #wx #pnw #mountrainier

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This post office thing is about voting by mail, isn’t it.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Or as I call her: "Lady McDeath"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this