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Once a lawyer, then a travel writer. Now disabled, writing about curiosity, health, & loss. Travel writing, & celiac translation cards: legalnomads.com The best things I read each month: jodiettenberg.substack.com MCAS & health: jodiettenberg.com
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Holy crap, that must have been horrifying. Grateful to hear there are no casualties.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve made a starter pack for fellow celiacs here on Bluesky. Not many on the app just yet, but hopefully more soon. If you know someone who ought to be added, please let me know! go.bsky.app/PutzMbG

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent read. “What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent’s abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition.”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

“I may have worn a shirt that said, VOTE FOR THE MAYOR WHO WILL BLOW UP THE MALL FOOD COURT, but that was just my fun way of saying I only cared about the bowling alley. It makes me sad that you think I wanted people to get hurt by this.”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

🦅🦅🦅

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The Spinal CSF Leak Foundation is looking for a new executive director to work remotely & lead our small but dedicated organization in support of our mission. We’re looking for a visionary leader with nonprofit leadership experience & a passion for advocacy. We'd love your help to spread the word!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

1. It wasn’t just the tariff threats that united Canadians, it was also the swift understanding that our close alliance meant nothing to Trump. 2. “In addition to the tariffs, Trump has stated repeatedly (possibly as a joke) that Canada should instead become a US state” - uh, he was not joking.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

“The replacement of our constitutional system of government with the whims of an unelected private citizen is a coup.” Must read from @hcrichardson.bsky.social about how Republicans are allowing Musk to run amok, & create a constitutional crisis: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-3...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

“‘Canadians are now willing to reach across aisles and work together toward solutions to benefit the whole country, and I for one hope we get over that shit real quick,’ Poilievre added, angrily.” (The Beaverton is Canada’s The Onion)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

And yet…

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

A thorough @mmasnick.bsky.social post about the next steps of this madness. Already, Elon has shown a profound misunderstanding of charitable giving structures — & he loooves weaponizing misunderstanding. Next, blatantly false conspiracies that a "reporter" will “scoop” & people will think are true.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

HOW DARE HE

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

CAE 47 is out! Many more political reads than usual, which has led to a big jump in unsubscribes — but now is the time to be informed and aware! No regrets. jodiettenberg.substack.com/p/forty-seven Featured artist this month is Pedro Luis Ajuriaguerra Saiz, whose image “Galactic Bee” is below.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

A distraction from all the other stuff going on

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Somehow tariffs were the last straw not the rest of *gestures around wildly *

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Relatable.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

My talk at this conference was about why I've deferred treatment for my spinal CSF leak. It's a combo of factors I call my "onion of catch-22s". People often ask why I haven't gone back for repairs; this talk explains it. If interested: spinalcsfleak.org/2024-ettenbe...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"But the stark change in the congressional response to government watchdogs being fired in 1981 versus 2025 — or even in 2020 versus 2025 — is also part of something broader: the decades-long deterioration of lawmakers’ willingness to hold presidents of their own party to account."

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Americans generally have very little idea of the roles that the government plays in their lives. They’re about to find out.

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

Didn’t have wind-blown infected avian feces on my January bingo card.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

"The spectacle knows itself, after a fashion. It likes to nod and wink at its subjects, including those in on the joke. The fact that Trump is absurd is part of his mastery; the fact that he knows he is – knows what his absurdity is for – another."

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments