Profile avatar
ldb71.bsky.social
Ohioan
35 posts 261 followers 1,583 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 11 Comments 35

🚨 Damning. Depressing. Infuriating. Just a few words that will occur to Ohioans watching the two-hour HBO documentary “Ohio Confidential,” walking through the First Energy/HB6 scandal—scandal—the largest bribery scandal in Ohio history and a case study of how dark money and 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The four U.S. Army soldiers killed in Lithuania: * Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25, from Joliet, Illinois. * Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, from Glendale, California. * Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, from Dededo, Guam. * Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, from Battle Creek, Michigan. The world honors you. 💔

submitted 20 days ago • 137 comments

I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat

submitted 17 days ago • 81 comments

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

submitted 21 days ago • 180 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 38 days ago • 629 comments

Reminder that when women won the right to vote in the US, it came down to a single legislator changing his mind after a letter from his mother.

submitted 41 days ago • 4 comments

This is a disaster for national security and America's role in the world:

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

i think it has not sunk in for people, including newspaper headline writers, that "probationary" employees does not just mean like, young novice staffers right out of college, but those who have received promotions in the last year

submitted 65 days ago • 40 comments

USAID cutoff is "leaving people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 77 days ago • 21 comments

As the spouse of an R&D scientist who worked yrs at a US university conducting research funded by US federal research grants and then, afterwards, yrs at a pharmaceutical company on drug design, I can confirm.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot imagine a world without Sesame Street. Grover. Bert. Ernie. Big Bird. Oscar. Snuffleupagus. Cookie Monster. The Count. Harry. Telly. I think for many of us these are characters who exist somewhere between fantasy and reality, as they were there for us daily as we formed our sense of self.

submitted 123 days ago • 237 comments