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Data nerd passionate about public education, bike routes, housing, neighborhoods, kayaks, plants, cats, dogs, and just getting things done to make life better.
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submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Now it's your fault if you get sick? Dr. Oz: 'It's your patriotic duty to take care of yourself. Healthy people don't consume healthcare resources.'

submitted 6 days ago • 827 comments

Hey you 'think of the children' peeps, got a real culture war for y'all that would actually help children bsky.app/profile/anth...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.

submitted 10 days ago • 813 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 10 days ago • 1202 comments

Explain to me why encroaching on the second amendment is not allowed even when children’s lives are at stake but the first amendment is easily eroded when someone simply disagrees with our President.

submitted 10 days ago • 210 comments

When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.

submitted 12 days ago • 310 comments

Well, there you go Billions to Billionaires as they rape our forest. Expect more Flash flooding like what happened in North Carolina a few months ago, wiping out towns. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

People on foot, horseback, bikes and wagons were perfectly safe at uncontrolled intersections, but stop signs were created shortly after the invention of cars because cars are dangerous and drivers are assholes.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 14 days ago • 2341 comments

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 15 days ago • 2002 comments

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

submitted 15 days ago • 1806 comments

“We had literally 5-7 times as many people show up as RSVPs in most of the places where we held marches. What we were hearing throughout the day was the biggest problem that organizers of these marches were having…was that too many people were showing up.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social on #handsoff

submitted 17 days ago • 155 comments

A US citizen attorney was detained and questioned by CBP at Detroit Metro Airport, asked to give up his phone, and questioned about his clients. This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Elder millennials watching traders freak out about a global economic collapse that will wreck tens of millions of lives and livelihoods, possibly irreparably

submitted 19 days ago • 161 comments

Please … clap?

submitted 19 days ago • 360 comments

Great showing at Missoula's Hands Off rally today! It was an honor to get to speak briefly, and to introduce the folks doing amazing work on the ground here in Missoula.

submitted 20 days ago • 300 comments

Someone pulled this up from the recesses of the Internet, I think I originally posted it nearly a decade ago, and it's still true

submitted 19 days ago • 80 comments

A jury in Louisiana ruled on Friday that Chevron must pay a parish government about $745 million to help restore wetlands that the jury said the energy company had harmed for decades.

submitted 19 days ago • 50 comments

www.wcnc.com/article/news... 🤬

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

submitted 21 days ago • 805 comments

From a source at NIH: “Right now NIH’s ability to buy things is dead. Nearly all people with the power to make an order — purchasing people — have been removed. The NIH hospital can’t buy medicines, the labs can’t buy petri dishes. X-Ray machine breaks? Too bad. Everything is stopped”

submitted 21 days ago • 43 comments