Coconino
@coconinoite.bsky.social
Retired wetland/stream/404 in NM. Part-time consulting. Geologist. Daughter is a badass Marine. The Guy (who eats dinner across the table from me) did the same thing I did before he retired. I photograph wildflowers and make jewelry.
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@coconinoite.bsky.social
· Jan 7
If I can’t find a personal skeet in your first 20-30 in your profile, I will not follow you back. If there’s nothing personal about you in your profile, I’m not following you back. If all you do is repost blue-anon, I’m definitely not following you back.
The 50-year mortgage is effectively interest only for most buyers.
1. Rebate checks are a mainline injection for inflation.
2. 50-year mortgage is not that much different from the interest-only loans that helped fuel the housing market collapse of 2008.
Good ideas for whom? That's the right follow-up.
2. 50-year mortgage is not that much different from the interest-only loans that helped fuel the housing market collapse of 2008.
Good ideas for whom? That's the right follow-up.
QUINTANILLA: What's more likely -- a $2,000 tariff rebate check or a 50 year mortgage?
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
HASSETT: They're both really good ideas
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The 50-year mortgage is effectively interest only for most buyers.
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Genspect is run by an Irish woman, Stella O’Malley. They have infiltrated an important US university. They are designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the internationally respected US Southern Poverty Law Center. O’Malley, disappointingly IMHO, is regularly platformed in Irish media.
1. Last week, we reported on WSU certifying an anti-trans SPLC-designated hate group to teach medicine.
Now, S. Baum has uncovered that the Michigan State Medical Society has certified anti-trans hate group Genspect to teach medical workers.
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Now, S. Baum has uncovered that the Michigan State Medical Society has certified anti-trans hate group Genspect to teach medical workers.
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Michigan State Medical Society Greenlights Anti-Trans Hate Group Genspect to Teach Trans Medicine
Anti-trans rhetoric—sponsored by Moms for Liberty, and brought to you by Genspect—could be coming to a clinician near you via CME.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Genspect is run by an Irish woman, Stella O’Malley. They have infiltrated an important US university. They are designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the internationally respected US Southern Poverty Law Center. O’Malley, disappointingly IMHO, is regularly platformed in Irish media.
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Having a coherent response to a fascist onslaught is difficult, to be sure. Not being able to come up with a coherent message against it, perfectly done here, is what suggests that Dem leadership is truly clueless and rudderless.
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Having a coherent response to a fascist onslaught is difficult, to be sure. Not being able to come up with a coherent message against it, perfectly done here, is what suggests that Dem leadership is truly clueless and rudderless.
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See also: bsky.app/profile/dran...
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
See also: bsky.app/profile/dran...
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Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Thinking Heinrich now needs a primary. Fng hell this is shitty.
The Senate has found a thing they don't like QI for: anyone investigating them for doing crimes (it explicitly waives any claim of QI lol)
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Thinking Heinrich now needs a primary. Fng hell this is shitty.
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Yeah it was the 8 that voted to to invoke cloture, but it's on Murray as SAC Vice Chair and Heinrich and Ossoff as the Dems on the Leg subcommittee as to how they either were a-ok with this, or didn't bother highlighting it as something in the bill they disagreed with
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Yeah it was the 8 that voted to to invoke cloture, but it's on Murray as SAC Vice Chair and Heinrich and Ossoff as the Dems on the Leg subcommittee as to how they either were a-ok with this, or didn't bother highlighting it as something in the bill they disagreed with
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The Senate has found a thing they don't like QI for: anyone investigating them for doing crimes (it explicitly waives any claim of QI lol)
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate
read the actual bill text and this is quite literally a provision designed solely to impede civil and criminal investigations into United States Senators and their staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
November 11, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The Senate has found a thing they don't like QI for: anyone investigating them for doing crimes (it explicitly waives any claim of QI lol)
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
Also this passed through regular order via approps, not any CR stuff, so Murray along with Heinrich and Ossoff should be the ones getting blasted for this
Sad but true
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Sad but true
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Wow! I am currently experiencing serious underwater-seismometer-envy. This is so cool.
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Wow! I am currently experiencing serious underwater-seismometer-envy. This is so cool.
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Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Why,
You grave but reckless senators
You grave but reckless senators
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Our statement:
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Our statement:
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Right wing men: being a wife and a mother is the most important job in the world.
Also right wing men: that bitch should have gotten a “real” job instead of taking my money.
Also right wing men: that bitch should have gotten a “real” job instead of taking my money.
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Right wing men: being a wife and a mother is the most important job in the world.
Also right wing men: that bitch should have gotten a “real” job instead of taking my money.
Also right wing men: that bitch should have gotten a “real” job instead of taking my money.
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Call your Senators.
I do not generally try to play the “oh this was leaked to do XYZ” or “this Must have been leaked by” game because it’s dumb and often gets u aggressively wrong answers but (lol @ me) this getting leaked to try to kill it is in my mind a really distinct possibility
November 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Call your Senators.
This is bullshit.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This is bullshit.
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
NM folks please consider tagging them enough in reposts that their staffers’ phones don’t stop buzzing.
@heinrich.senate.gov @lujan.senate.gov Please don't vote for this
Even the corporatist Hill reporters are gobsmacked by how complete @schumer.senate.gov's collapse is: "And this does absolutely zero on Obamacare. The most Democrats get is a Senate vote. After 40 days."
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
NM folks please consider tagging them enough in reposts that their staffers’ phones don’t stop buzzing.
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@heinrich.senate.gov @lujan.senate.gov Please don't vote for this
Even the corporatist Hill reporters are gobsmacked by how complete @schumer.senate.gov's collapse is: "And this does absolutely zero on Obamacare. The most Democrats get is a Senate vote. After 40 days."
November 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
@heinrich.senate.gov @lujan.senate.gov Please don't vote for this
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I called both and got VMs.
@heinrich.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov, for the love of God, please don't cave!!
@heinrich.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov, for the love of God, please don't cave!!
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I called both and got VMs.
@heinrich.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov, for the love of God, please don't cave!!
@heinrich.senate.gov and @lujan.senate.gov, for the love of God, please don't cave!!
NM peeps - any idea what Heinrich and Lujan are up to with this?
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
NM peeps - any idea what Heinrich and Lujan are up to with this?
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Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Guy with a sandwich: “Fuck you armed agent of the state.”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
Ivy League: “I will eat my poop and thank you for it because I’m scared of a Fox News personality cosplaying as a lawyer”
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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There are entire airports that only exist with scheduled service due to lavish Federal subsidies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenti...
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
There are entire airports that only exist with scheduled service due to lavish Federal subsidies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenti...
Chortle
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Chortle
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November 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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