Profile avatar
lghrsmssn.bsky.social
Midwest, Gen X, Cat Lady, Hodgepodge of Books, Prairie, Science, & Learning 🌪️♥️💛 Following you because you posted something insightful I loved. Not much of a poster myself, it’s okay to not follow back. We’ll sort it out later.
103 posts 1,317 followers 2,482 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 25 Comments 25

@sanders.senate.gov: "Saving money by dismantling the Department of Education, which, by the way, is illegal and unconstitutional, so that the billionaire class can receive huge tax breaks, is terrible public policy and morally reprehensible." #ProtectOurKids

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Save Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Fund medical research, National Park Service, USAID, the Forest Service, the Department of Education, veterans services, NLRB, and NOAA Tax the wealthy

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

submitted 6 days ago • 2632 comments

Hey Hawkeyes fans! When the children’s hospital no longer exists after Medicaid and NIH cuts… will you still wave to the empty pediatric hospital?

submitted 7 days ago • 116 comments

Medicaid covers... -40% of births nationwide -50% of kids with special needs -72 million people in total Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans.  "Party of family values."

submitted 8 days ago • 190 comments

In my latest post, I made some concrete recommendations what Europe+ needs to do now to make sure we don’t get steamrolled by the speed at which Trump is destroying everything that is dear to us. Including some thoughts on willingness to defend. In the end, strength is a mindset.

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

So: MAGA goes hard Putin. America is functionally a hermit kingdom like North Korea. People are pissed at their lives being destroyed. They are standing up. NOW - we shall soon see the brutal crack-down. ETA: End of March.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 17 days ago • 244 comments

You’re dumb, you’re gullible or you’re evil. Having often been one of the first two, I can always find the grace to work with you in those instances.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests,” President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, January 6, 1941

submitted 24 days ago • 106 comments

I think attitudes towards government employees are a bit like attitudes towards race and religion and sexuality. Plenty of people are unregenerate bigots in the abstract but have That One Black Friend who They Don’t Think of As Black. There are exceptions in the particular, unreconciled. /1

submitted 24 days ago • 32 comments

"Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it - turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal." -Marcus Aurelius

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Gratitude for today--we had a good snowfall overnight with more to come. One of the things I've missed about our not-so snowy winter is the quiet, especially when the world is so loud right now. www.cpr.org/2020/02/04/y...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.

submitted 28 days ago • 18380 comments

Nikes first Superbowl commercial in 27 years. What a way to pop back out 🔥

submitted 29 days ago • 68 comments

I am sobbing

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Connect the dots: *Canada's biggest export is oil *Tariffs are certain to raise prices *POTUS campaigned on "Drill baby, drill" *Oil company execs and investors not interested due to low oil prices, which was embarrassing * If oil prices ⬆️, oil companies incentivized to drill *POTUS saves face

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

ICYMI, my recap of all 29 posts about Iowa wildflowers (by twelve different authors) that Bleeding Heartland published during 2024. The hardest part was choosing just one photo from each. There are links to every post in case you want to see more. www.bleedingheartland.com/2024/12/25/r...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

“If you want to falsely convince people that your unscientific and harmful health policies are great, controlling research and the flow of information is critical.” “Prepare for the worst because hope is not a strategy.” As always, she breaks it down so well. #MedSky

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Raygun makes me SMILE LIKE AUDI 🌪️♥️💛

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Amazing strategy to silence all public health communications riiiiiiiiigggghhhhhhtt when we might have some bird flu to talk about

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

It’s like the US has been taken over by a ruthless Private Equity vehicle which is going to suck it dry and liquidate it.

submitted 47 days ago • 33 comments

submitted 50 days ago • 29 comments

Sara Bareilles is magical. 🤍

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

You'd think Republicans might hesitate to uninsure millions of Americans (concentrated in red states) and raise premiums dramatically on millions more. But Republicans regularly harm constituents without paying an electoral price. www.huffpost.com/entry/aca-su...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment