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Upstate New Yorker. Current Interests: Native plants and biodiversity, science fiction/ fantasy, biology (especially infectious disease). And humor. We all need a laugh! Let’s keep our democracy intact!
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He's manufacturing chaos because he has nothing to offer. No vision. No ideas. No interest in building anything. Just tearing down what others have built.

Ordinarily, the President bragging that he passed his dementia test would be shocking.

🧵 Unlike DOGE, we bring receipts. WIRED's @leahfeiger.bsky.social went on @maddow.msnbc.com this week to talk about an agreement in which DOL agreed to pay DOGE $1.3M. (1/2)

How much you wanna bet that soon we’ll find out it’ll cost $100 billion or some such amount to fix everything he broke?

This is the consequence of a White House that has recruited for sycophancy rather than talent and patriotism. A bunch of yes-men, surrounding a mad king will destroy the global economy if left to their own devices.

Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission. [Marika Sparrow]

Another plane crash? A small plane that was headed to Columbia County Airport in Hudson, New York crashed in a field killing 6 people onboard, including Karenna Groff, the 2022 NCAA woman of the year. I’m sure that guy from The Real World is on top of it. 😔

Our libraries are essential. #AlexandriaVA #NationalLibraryWeek

Say what you will about Bernie- Love him. Hate him. But he IS (with AOC) the only one standing up for us! Just saying…

my mother: there are so many terrible books being published i’m sure you’ll get yours published too

Astonishing RFK Jr interview with NBC. At 23.30 he claims pharmaceuticals are the 3rd leading cause of death in the US [wtf]. He discloses the name & medical history of the 2nd child to die of measles, implies she wasn't healthy & argues about her cause of death. @gorskon.bsky.social

Sanders: I want to say a word about Alexandria Person in the crowd: Future president Crowd: *cheers*

This video shows the fire damage inside the Pennsylvania Governor’s mansion. Governor Shapiro’s reaction to the arson attack is on my timeline.

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

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20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

I found out last night that one of my neighbors died a few weeks ago. He was forced into early retirement by DOGE & the stress of having to get all the right paperwork back to them on a short & inconsistent time line spiked his BP so much he had a stroke & fucking died. DOGE killed my neighbor.

Betty White stamps are available at USPS. ❤️

When I think of Trump I'm reminded of Sun Tzu's quote, "an evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."

@tylerblack.bsky.social

In my experience, classified doesn’t necessarily mean you don’t have to tell the judge, unless you want to concede the case.

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has “100% hatred” toward Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “How else can you see a person who came here and murdered our people, murdered children?” says Zelenskyy. https://cbsn.ws/3YyaIlp

Very stable genius! 🙄 💙 @chrislhayes.bsky.social 💙 @briantylercohen.bsky.social

Happy Caturday!! 😺 #cat #cats #catsky

Doge not saving you money

#NeverForgetNeverForgive... Not ever.

Bernie just keeps leaving me in awe. I am embarrassed that younger me ever bought MSM's narrative on Bernie without MSM showing Bernie speak. He just endures all the BS and keeps fighting for us despite the numerous times we have let him down.

Because nothing screams ‘family values’ like sending Timmy from 3rd-period math to the night shift at the poultry plant.

The same people working for Ice now wearing masks to hide their identity probably were against wearing masks during Covid.

Pet peeve: People who complain about the #housing shortage but scream “NIMBY” every time a developer tries to build new housing in their town.

Cody Balmer, 38, jumped a fence and managed to evade state troopers as he broke into Josh Shapiro’s house and set the fire. He fled the scene and was arrested in Harrisburg. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

Forget about the legal case. A man was wrongly deported and placed in a notorious prison with leaders of a gang out to get him. Anyone with an ounce of basic human decency would fix the mistake and return that man to the United States

I guess we don’t need oxygen, huh?

Notice the pattern? California is the engine that makes the American economy go & makes the federal budget go. Numerous red states are literally funded by California.

For whatever its worth, and just speaking as a Catholic, the thing that pisses me off the most about Elizabeth Bruenig is that I know she's the type of Catholic that would look at me, a pro-choice Catholic, and think that I'm less than a Catholic, which is the same shit I take from my in-laws

Remember Fiona Hill? She’s now sounding the alarm again: “We’re definitely on a path toward full-on state repression. There’s no question about it. I’ve thought about this for an extraordinarily long time.” When Fiona speaks, we should all listen.

Karoline Leavitt lying to the cameras with her big fat necklace cross on

An update from my New Year’s resolution to compliment people more, especially focusing on when people are just exceedingly good at their jobs. I love it. I notice more good things. People are genuinely thankful to be told they are amazing. Everyone wins.

“As is evident, simply by looking at him, Dear Leader is in exquisite health, having the trim body of an athletic 23-year-old, the mind of an inquisitive genius, an the couth of the most refined men. Truly, the most perfect human walking among we lesser mortals. Praise God!” --The Court Physician

In my course on evolution and medicine I was discussing why—if fever is an evolved defense—we so often use antipyretic drugs to reduce fever. (FWIW, I think it's generally fine to do so.) "No one would prescribe an immunosuppresant to treat a deadly viral infection", I said. I forgot about RFK Jr.