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🌱 Tea, nature, tai chi, gardening, baking & DIY projects. Time with my dogs, my people, my libraries. 🌕🔵 Go Blue! 〽️
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Starting the day at Songbird Cafe. Great soft conversation environment and windows to watch this slice of the world.

“Retirement never seemed like something that would be in my reach, and it still isn’t. But at WeStillWork, now I can continue to work fifteen-hour days, and occasionally indulge in building perks like Thursday-night bingo.”

This is my absolute favorite tea shop, and they need some help. Whether that's ordering something delicious from them, donating, or just spreading the word, please consider it. The world needs more tasty, needy teas!

ten line T-shirt. small font. peak performance - nobody's doing it like Deadweight Loss Poster Guy

When you kill the DEI so you have no drums.

We must protect college athletes and ensure they’re supported, not exploited. Title IX must be central. College sports train Olympians, build leaders, and fuel our local economies. We’re at a crossroads and we owe it to these athletes to get this right.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Ann Arbor” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Yard signs are here! Show your neighbors you dream of a new downtown library on both the current site and the parking lot next door with one of these nifty signs! Sign up to get a sign, volunteer, and/or donate at supportaadl.com #a2council

🙏'MONKS THAT MAKE THE DAY SHINE'🌞 'Tsuyu' (梅雨) is a verdant, muggy and unpredictable time of year. It doesn't rain every day, but the season always seems to drag on. When the rain simply gets too much, it's time to bring out the ghost-like 'Teru teru bōzu' (てるてる坊主). #rainyseason #梅雨 #てるてる坊主 #Japan

Gotta love an 86-year-old woman with the heart of a poster

Without the ability of private individuals to enforce their own voting rights, the strength of those rights will rise and fall with the shifting priorities of whatever administration happens to be in power. www.wzzm13.com/article/news...

Amidst the chaos, please contact your congressional representatives to express support for Public Media. protectmypublicmedia.org/rsc-emails/

Incredible!

We hope you have a happy and safe Memorial Day!

1. Seems like he’s never had someone close to him experience cancer. 2. She was never considered for Surgeon General. 3. Two to four years of classes, field work and a dissertation to research, write and defend is not a “fake doctor.”

Breakfast perfection @Ondo. #ERCSunday

Watch: In an exclusive interview with WSJ, one veteran air-traffic controller opens up about his own close call and the reasons for stress-related trauma leave.

As House Republicans on Tuesday haggled over parts of a bill that proposes deep cuts and new restrictions on Medicaid, patients and doctors who rely on the program say they’re bracing for the worst.

There’s no such thing as a free airplane.

If you pay attention to just one thing tonight, make it this

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Medicaid covers 168,000 seniors in Michigan. Michigan nursing homes receive >$3 billion in Medicaid funding. Cuts to Medicaid? Wrong for Michigan seniors. #nomedicaidcuts #momsky

Top congressional leaders are pushing back against Trump’s attempt to replace two Library of Congress leaders.

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

www.nokings.org

Public health and infectious diseases know no borders. Major outbreaks like a measles epidemic in one region can quickly spread to others, including right here in Michigan. midmichigannow.com/news/local/a...

Just in case you didn't see this. 📚

Graduation weekend. Celebration @Zingerman’s Coffee Co # ERCSunday

Greetings from Houston. This is what is starting to happen within walking distance of my church in the Texas Medical Center: “The private school and healthcare provider in the Texas Medical Center also implemented a hiring freeze. So has the nearby MD Anderson Cancer Center.”

The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity. Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social

Fragrant Masala Chai with Cherry Financier. @Bird Dog Baking in downtown Ypsilanti

This one goes out in honor of due process…. A very important constitutional right 🌊 🌊

Resistence is NOT futile

#MeanwhileInMichigan Go BLUE! www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Happy Easter! #ERCSunday @Hyperion Ypsi

Congratulations to the 60th Drum Major of the Michigan Marching Band, Miguel Retto! Read all about Miguel here: myumi.ch/E8Pz7

This is known as a “Holy Ghost”

“I am still alive then. That may come in useful.” ― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

Today, Sunday 20 April, is (Inter?)National Lima Bean Respect Day. Most beans just want awareness, but lima beans demand respect. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa... Also, Chinese Language Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/chinese...

"Thrown Together" #Teableau 18Apr25 I rigged up this one at my volunteer gig today using borrowed treasures. #Tea

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

"Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboo, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things." —Okakura Kakuzo 🫖:Midcentury Japanese Kutani

Momentum for #HigherEd mutual-defense compacts continues, with Michigan State's Faculty Senate adopting a resolution Tuesday and the University of Michigan's hearing a motion today. #AcademicSky