Sage
@gleaningsage.bsky.social
Outdoor enthusiast, dog-lover, USian, feminist, anti-racist. Interested in sustainability, biology, psychology, travel and other cultures, and avoiding infectious diseases.
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Okay all y'all "primary them all" folks! It is time:
-see who is being primaried
-figure out your state's rules
-do your registration if needed
-educate other people in your area
Get dialed in!
-see who is being primaried
-figure out your state's rules
-do your registration if needed
-educate other people in your area
Get dialed in!
bringing the math, hell yeah
February 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
bringing the math, hell yeah
20- and 30-somethings getting a small slice of joy out of eating *checks notes* slightly higher end rotisserie chicken than what Walmart offers. Wow what a journalistic reveal.
I wish I could hope that journalists (or more probably, editors) would connect the dots with falling birth rates but
I wish I could hope that journalists (or more probably, editors) would connect the dots with falling birth rates but
February 11, 2026 at 3:53 AM
20- and 30-somethings getting a small slice of joy out of eating *checks notes* slightly higher end rotisserie chicken than what Walmart offers. Wow what a journalistic reveal.
I wish I could hope that journalists (or more probably, editors) would connect the dots with falling birth rates but
I wish I could hope that journalists (or more probably, editors) would connect the dots with falling birth rates but
Yes, one who came for Disney 😥
Though it's awful for kids to get snatched from anywhere: on their way to school or the ER, out to get donuts on a weekend morning, anything
Though it's awful for kids to get snatched from anywhere: on their way to school or the ER, out to get donuts on a weekend morning, anything
ProPublica is publishing the letters of children incarcerated inside ICE facilities.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
If you are from another country, do not come here. Not even to visit. Some of these children have been inside almost a year and only came here for family vacation.
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Yes, one who came for Disney 😥
Though it's awful for kids to get snatched from anywhere: on their way to school or the ER, out to get donuts on a weekend morning, anything
Though it's awful for kids to get snatched from anywhere: on their way to school or the ER, out to get donuts on a weekend morning, anything
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This week marks a year since 10% of the CDC work force was fired. We are more vulnerable to the next pandemic,outbreak monitoring is crumbling, measles is basically endemic again,vaccine guidelines are now RFK Jr fan fiction.
All it took was one year.
All it took was one year.
February 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This week marks a year since 10% of the CDC work force was fired. We are more vulnerable to the next pandemic,outbreak monitoring is crumbling, measles is basically endemic again,vaccine guidelines are now RFK Jr fan fiction.
All it took was one year.
All it took was one year.
I mean, he could try out his spaceship! Or his brain implant company
February 9, 2026 at 11:21 PM
I mean, he could try out his spaceship! Or his brain implant company
Or of any of his other projects working, ever
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
Or of any of his other projects working, ever
An end to homelessness, the extinction of the virus that causes measles, everyone being able to just walk into a clinic when they need a doctor, those would make me excited for the future
February 9, 2026 at 11:17 PM
An end to homelessness, the extinction of the virus that causes measles, everyone being able to just walk into a clinic when they need a doctor, those would make me excited for the future
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After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
February 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
After a string of ICE murders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries proposed reforms — and $11 billion more for ICE.
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
Including reconciliation bill funding, the Schumer-Jeffries plan would give ICE a $30 billion budget, higher than all but 15 militaries worldwide:
www.stephensemler.com/p/democratic...
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there has been a repeated and calculated effort to not only go after Black activists and journalists but also to go to extreme lengths to try to rob them of their dignity and create racialized propaganda. this is vile, vicious stuff and it needs to be called out directly
Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
February 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
there has been a repeated and calculated effort to not only go after Black activists and journalists but also to go to extreme lengths to try to rob them of their dignity and create racialized propaganda. this is vile, vicious stuff and it needs to be called out directly
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Here is a little story from the World of Tech.
It's 2018; I'm working at a well-funded but not hockey-sticking startup. Execs liked to bring in company alums to give talks on what they've done since, how to grow your career, etc.
One is with the former Head of Marketing, so they ask me to Q&A. 1/
It's 2018; I'm working at a well-funded but not hockey-sticking startup. Execs liked to bring in company alums to give talks on what they've done since, how to grow your career, etc.
One is with the former Head of Marketing, so they ask me to Q&A. 1/
February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Here is a little story from the World of Tech.
It's 2018; I'm working at a well-funded but not hockey-sticking startup. Execs liked to bring in company alums to give talks on what they've done since, how to grow your career, etc.
One is with the former Head of Marketing, so they ask me to Q&A. 1/
It's 2018; I'm working at a well-funded but not hockey-sticking startup. Execs liked to bring in company alums to give talks on what they've done since, how to grow your career, etc.
One is with the former Head of Marketing, so they ask me to Q&A. 1/
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You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?
People
People
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:46 PM
You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses?
People
People
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It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
In one 30-minute stretch, three legal observers were arrested — as Trump’s Border czar Tom Homan calls on locals to “end the resistance.”
“Uptick In Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers
In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.
interc.pt
February 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.
Confused about people supposedly in good faith against the regime criticizing the hats, given that the Resistance in 1940s Europe also used knitting as a means of resistance.
February 9, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Confused about people supposedly in good faith against the regime criticizing the hats, given that the Resistance in 1940s Europe also used knitting as a means of resistance.
The alternative for a lost dog is a microchip.
The alternative for footage of your property is offline cameras.
The alternative for alerting someone expecting you is texting.
The alternative to unknown knocking is a window or peephole.
All of these are decades old.
The alternative for footage of your property is offline cameras.
The alternative for alerting someone expecting you is texting.
The alternative to unknown knocking is a window or peephole.
All of these are decades old.
i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!
February 9, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The alternative for a lost dog is a microchip.
The alternative for footage of your property is offline cameras.
The alternative for alerting someone expecting you is texting.
The alternative to unknown knocking is a window or peephole.
All of these are decades old.
The alternative for footage of your property is offline cameras.
The alternative for alerting someone expecting you is texting.
The alternative to unknown knocking is a window or peephole.
All of these are decades old.
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one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing
www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...
www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...
Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”
www.404media.co
February 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing
www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...
www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...
Literally, Colorado does this
February 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Literally, Colorado does this
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:21 AM
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:04 AM
The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
By law, the children of immigrants are citizens so it can't be "non-citizens who have been here for generations" but rather been here for decades. Just to clarify that the ruling didn't negate birthright citizenship
February 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
By law, the children of immigrants are citizens so it can't be "non-citizens who have been here for generations" but rather been here for decades. Just to clarify that the ruling didn't negate birthright citizenship
Born & grew up in CO too, and didn't know this. A failing of our schools if you ask me, because I certainly learned all about fur trappers and such.
February 7, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Born & grew up in CO too, and didn't know this. A failing of our schools if you ask me, because I certainly learned all about fur trappers and such.
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 4:00 AM
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May 2025)