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🕰️ Historian, writer, editor. Emerita U of Cal. 👩‍🌾 Book: Sowing the Seeds of Victory #victorygardens ❤️ Family, science, 🎶 🐶 🦜 📗 ✍️ Writing a novel ⌨️ Blog & more 👉 bio.site/rosehaydensmith 💙 #dem 🏡 So Cal #805/PDX 💒 Episcopal 😬 A bit anxious
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submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

A friend told me last week her husband said DOGE meant "Defecate on Government Employees." Seems about right. King Ketamine is the biggest jerk ever, ever, ever. There's a ton of competition for that spot, so I don't say this lightly.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

I've got a new post up on A Polyphonic Life. It's about how I'm using creativity (ceramics, writing, choral singing) to respond to the current political situation and shape my resistance. I hope you'll give it a read and consider subscribing! rosehaydensmith.substack.com/p/shaping-re...

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 12 hours ago • 1183 comments

At what point do leaders in the GOP band together (since they seem to lack courage individually) & say enough is enough? The party of Reagan becomes the tool of Putin if they don’t, especially after last night.

submitted 10 hours ago • 545 comments

If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.

submitted 13 hours ago • 622 comments

"Six weeks ago, we had the strongest economy, employment, and stock market in history. ..All gone in 30 days."

submitted 21 hours ago • 332 comments

Feb 21th update: Infections starting to decline again after a plateau in the first few weeks of Feb. Should continue to trend down for the next few weeks. Current estimates: 🔸440,000 new infections/day 🔸~1 in 76 currently infected

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

What is happening at the Pentagon right now is the purge of people loyal to the Constitution to replace them with people loyal to MAGA. Trump is taking over democratic institutions so they cannot oppose him anymore like last time. That's autocratic legalism 101, another attempt to end democracy.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

PLOS, JAMA, and The Lancet have made these kinds of important statements standing on principle. Any others?

submitted 20 hours ago • 4 comments

Under her command, the US Navy met its recruiting goals last year. The Army did not. She made being in the Navy more tolerable, based on experience of more than 20 years of her career at sea. People wanted to join Navy, to the point they had to deny people because the training slots were filled.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

"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 1 day ago • 242 comments

Colonists needed a way to communicate during the Rev War so USPS was created. It proved so vital it was written into the Constitution. It served as a secure way to hold elections. Voting by mail is how this country was founded. A traitor is sabotaging it. #ProudBlue #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

Note to any potential Starlink customers: Elon Musk will extort you if given the opportunity.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2383 comments

WOOHOO! A new bat coronavirus that has the capacity to spread to humans, similar to the one that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, has been discovered….I’m sure everything will be perfectly fine 😬 www.newsweek.com/new-coronavi...

submitted 1 day ago • 286 comments

Trump did this. The GOP did this. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/20/s...

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submitted 1 day ago • 161 comments

musk's private security deputized by u.s. marshals service -- potentially clearing the way for his personal bodyguards to be carrying weapons on federal grounds. um... www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 724 comments

wearing sunglasses inside and following an event where he at times had a hard time speaking coherently, Elon Musk walks off the CPAC stage waving around a chain saw. this is the guy currently running our government. Congrats, America!

submitted 2 days ago • 1911 comments

The past ten years has just been the same clutch of morons and apologists insisting that Trump would never cross that line and then shuffling along with him to insist that he would never cross that next one.

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Literal Nazi.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

share of americans who believe the wealthy have too much influence on the trump administration: 71% -reuters/ipsos

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Pro tip: don’t tell your patients with an anxiety disorder not to worry about something

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

submitted 2 days ago • 673 comments

Love my new morning routine of waking up, brewing some coffee, logging on and checking the End Times Billboard to see what new Calamities were pinned there overnight. Then I ride that cortisol high, like I'm surfing on piranhas and broken glass, baby.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

I’m an infectious disease epidemiologist, and it’s not great when we’re super busy, and man, we’re SUPER BUSY and it doesn’t look like it’s gonna let up anytime soon. #EpiSky #IDSky

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments