Josh Rosenau
@joshrosenau.org
Science belongs in politics. Nature-poker, cephalopods fan, conservationist, climate hawk, evolution fan. PTA dad. he/him
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Elected to city council in Lake Forest Park, WA https://joshforlfp.com
Build parks and community!
Elected to city council in Lake Forest Park, WA https://joshforlfp.com
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Worth noting that Stephen Miller almost certainly knows Sinatra and Martin had immigrant parents. He's just trolling, trying to get outraged people to spread his bigoted message through their corrections.
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worth noting that Stephen Miller almost certainly knows Sinatra and Martin had immigrant parents. He's just trolling, trying to get outraged people to spread his bigoted message through their corrections.
Prydain.
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Prydain.
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learning yiddish history in college is one of the things that brought me to clearer articulations of my politics (which honestly isn't saying that much), so I love that this stuff is still being developed out of the Archive
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Rediscovering a History of Jewish Anarchism | Antidote Zine
Handcrafted transcript, including presentation slides and images, of an information-rich March 2025 online event hosted by Firestorm Books exploring Joseph ...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
learning yiddish history in college is one of the things that brought me to clearer articulations of my politics (which honestly isn't saying that much), so I love that this stuff is still being developed out of the Archive
antidotezine.com/2025/12/01/r...
antidotezine.com/2025/12/01/r...
Is it cultural appropriation that all the Chinese restaurants are full of goyim on Christmas, and decent Jews can’t get a nice meal?
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Is it cultural appropriation that all the Chinese restaurants are full of goyim on Christmas, and decent Jews can’t get a nice meal?
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Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Every jaw in the room dropped. He had done the unthinkable. He had not only told them his beliefs, but he had done it with the equal degree of certainty that they had employed in telling him theirs. And there's this unspoken rule in America: Only Christians are allowed to do this.
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merry Christmas, Bluesky: he has risen again
merry Christmas Bluesky, may your Alf’s be merry and bright (censored edition)
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
merry Christmas, Bluesky: he has risen again
Merry Christmas (Island crab migration)
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
December 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Merry Christmas (Island crab migration)
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Merychippus to all who celebrate!
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Merychippus to all who celebrate!
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Lot of conversation about antisemitism this week so just a gentle reminder that we don’t hyphenate the word, because it implies there is such a thing as a “Semitic” race (there isn’t, there’s only Semitic language) - and implying there is a Jewish race is of course deadly for the Jews. More info:
December 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, fled through the desert while the gunslinger followed.
December 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Tiny Tim, who DID NOT die, was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
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A Democrat actually listening to the polling on taxing the rich is the real Christmas miracle
Gov. Ferguson Backs Millionaire Tax After Ghost of Christmas Future Shows Him Losing In 2028 If He Doesn’t: tinyurl.com/ye25s9zp
December 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A Democrat actually listening to the polling on taxing the rich is the real Christmas miracle
‘I’iwi on Haleakala. 🌿🦉
December 25, 2025 at 5:12 AM
‘I’iwi on Haleakala. 🌿🦉
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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I got too tired earlier to keep posting (darn this sickness!) but want to add Ferguson's proposed budget cuts education further, incl. cuts to pre-K (Transitions to Kindergarten) and to public colleges and universities. Universities have already been hit hard by federal shenanigans this year.
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I got too tired earlier to keep posting (darn this sickness!) but want to add Ferguson's proposed budget cuts education further, incl. cuts to pre-K (Transitions to Kindergarten) and to public colleges and universities. Universities have already been hit hard by federal shenanigans this year.
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"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
Check out the Kavanaugh FN 4; I think it's pretty clear that the Kavanaugh Stop thing has gotten to him:
December 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"Kavanaugh Stop" went from a skeet on here to Bluesky meme to crosspollinating over on X to Brett Kavanaugh's burner account seeing it there to a whiny defensive footnote about it in a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Juice.
Juice.
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Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
December 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"
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2/ read the story that made Stephen Miller sad. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...
How Rep. Dan Goldman’s Office Became a ‘Triage Center’ for ICE Detainees
It began in the spring, when Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) went to...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
2/ read the story that made Stephen Miller sad. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...
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“All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is life’s only irreducible essence”—Gould
Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries
Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries
Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
And that’s a follow.
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.
Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
December 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is life’s only irreducible essence”—Gould
Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries
Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries
“to put it simply, it's overgunned and overpowered for a ship its size. During battle drills, it nearly tore itself apart when the engines were tested at full capacity.”
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 AM
“to put it simply, it's overgunned and overpowered for a ship its size. During battle drills, it nearly tore itself apart when the engines were tested at full capacity.”
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
And with no warning at all.
December 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
And with no warning at all.
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A month into my new job, my first real scoop.
Exposing thousands of babies to “a significant risk” of hepatitis B “in a low-income country with limited health care resources” would be “wildly unethical and a disgraceful use of American taxpayer money,” @angierasmussen.bsky.social said.
Exposing thousands of babies to “a significant risk” of hepatitis B “in a low-income country with limited health care resources” would be “wildly unethical and a disgraceful use of American taxpayer money,” @angierasmussen.bsky.social said.
CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A month into my new job, my first real scoop.
Exposing thousands of babies to “a significant risk” of hepatitis B “in a low-income country with limited health care resources” would be “wildly unethical and a disgraceful use of American taxpayer money,” @angierasmussen.bsky.social said.
Exposing thousands of babies to “a significant risk” of hepatitis B “in a low-income country with limited health care resources” would be “wildly unethical and a disgraceful use of American taxpayer money,” @angierasmussen.bsky.social said.
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A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter.
Where those Harper’s Letter folks at
December 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter.