Ross
@jrossthomson.bsky.social
Rower, complainer, aging in place.
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests : ScienceAlert www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat...
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests
Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related conditions, according to an analysis of 17 studies.
www.sciencealert.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests : ScienceAlert www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat...
What is the US trying to hide?
Mexico Leads 59 Nations Defending ICC Against 'Unacceptable' Trump Sanctions www.commondreams.org/news/mexico-...
Mexico Leads 59 Nations Defending ICC Against 'Unacceptable' Trump Sanctions | Common Dreams
One observer asserted that Washington's sanctions against the tribunal "have nothing to with US interest and everything to do with upholding Israeli impunity as it commits genocide."
www.commondreams.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What is the US trying to hide?
Cost cutting.
The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.
Coast Guard Reportedly Spent $172 Million On Private Jets For Kristi Noem’s Use
The Coast Guard spent $172 million on the jets, according to The New York Times.
www.forbes.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Cost cutting.
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Trans service members signed up to risk death for a country they well knew would likely never return the favor. And now the Trump administration is trying to make their lives hell. @kaliholloway.bsky.social has more.
Trump's Staggering Betrayal of Trans Service Members
Trans people signed up to risk death for a country they well knew would likely never return the favor. And now the government is trying to make their lives hell.
www.thenation.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Trans service members signed up to risk death for a country they well knew would likely never return the favor. And now the Trump administration is trying to make their lives hell. @kaliholloway.bsky.social has more.
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I’ll drink to that! 🥃
August 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’ll drink to that! 🥃
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Thank you, LA People!!!!!
Get some youtube videos of it, maybe some of the independent news channels could do some interviews. Post more here on bsky.
If the antique news outlets aren't doing the job, make some new ones!
Get some youtube videos of it, maybe some of the independent news channels could do some interviews. Post more here on bsky.
If the antique news outlets aren't doing the job, make some new ones!
People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25
8/8/25
August 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Thank you, LA People!!!!!
Get some youtube videos of it, maybe some of the independent news channels could do some interviews. Post more here on bsky.
If the antique news outlets aren't doing the job, make some new ones!
Get some youtube videos of it, maybe some of the independent news channels could do some interviews. Post more here on bsky.
If the antique news outlets aren't doing the job, make some new ones!
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"See the problem?"
August 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"See the problem?"
"There is no sane or reasoned argument for suddenly throwing a wrench into the entire wind power sector, for example; there is just Trump. There is no underlying principle behind the various dizzying tariff rates — just Trump."
August 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"There is no sane or reasoned argument for suddenly throwing a wrench into the entire wind power sector, for example; there is just Trump. There is no underlying principle behind the various dizzying tariff rates — just Trump."
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An Everett woman and her son were detained by immigration officials in late July when they were coming back into Washington from British Columbia. The labor union representing her is requesting her immediate release.
State employee and son detained by ICE; transferred to Texas immigration facility | Cascadia Daily News
The labor union representing Sarah Shaw is calling for her immediate release
www.cascadiadaily.com
August 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
An Everett woman and her son were detained by immigration officials in late July when they were coming back into Washington from British Columbia. The labor union representing her is requesting her immediate release.
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"
Smithsonian’s removal of Trump from impeachment exhibit draws fire
The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History removed an exhibit this month referencing President Trump’s two impeachments, according to the institution’s spokesperson — d…
thehill.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength"
Another Republican wet-dream comes true.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Addresses Operations Following Loss of Federal Funding
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissio...
cpb.org
August 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Another Republican wet-dream comes true.
"Complaining about the Supreme Court’s decisions in this case or that case feels like a guy on the Titanic complaining about the song selection from the band. "
The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US
The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.
www.thenation.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"Complaining about the Supreme Court’s decisions in this case or that case feels like a guy on the Titanic complaining about the song selection from the band. "
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I don’t agree with Blue Dog head Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on a host of issues, but my kind of Dem can’t win in every district.
She says age-related cognitive decline among elected officials is a major issue for voters. She’s not getting much support from
TheDemocrats™. She’s right.
She says age-related cognitive decline among elected officials is a major issue for voters. She’s not getting much support from
TheDemocrats™. She’s right.
July 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I don’t agree with Blue Dog head Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on a host of issues, but my kind of Dem can’t win in every district.
She says age-related cognitive decline among elected officials is a major issue for voters. She’s not getting much support from
TheDemocrats™. She’s right.
She says age-related cognitive decline among elected officials is a major issue for voters. She’s not getting much support from
TheDemocrats™. She’s right.
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Oh, this is good!
Even Satan is disassociating himself from MAGA. TFG may not even be welcome in Hell now.
#PedoFiles
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
#PedoFiles
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
July 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Oh, this is good!
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The Israelis who created the conditions for this 5 month-old infant's death, and those who stood by and let it happen, are war criminals.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born. The body of 5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza on Friday and her family buried her on ...
apnews.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Israelis who created the conditions for this 5 month-old infant's death, and those who stood by and let it happen, are war criminals.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
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The Senior League Baseball World Series is a tournament for 13- to 16-year-old baseball players from around the world.
A qualifying Venezuelan Little League team will not be in attendance this year because players were unable to secure visas.
A qualifying Venezuelan Little League team will not be in attendance this year because players were unable to secure visas.
Venezuelan Little League team denied entry into US amid Trump travel ban
The team will not be able to play in the Senior League World Series in South Carolina.
www.politico.com
July 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Senior League Baseball World Series is a tournament for 13- to 16-year-old baseball players from around the world.
A qualifying Venezuelan Little League team will not be in attendance this year because players were unable to secure visas.
A qualifying Venezuelan Little League team will not be in attendance this year because players were unable to secure visas.
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And Josh Shapiro, an otherwise excellent governor, has a too-broad definition of anti-semitism. He is quick to condemn speech/conduct he sees as antisemitic yet doesn’t stand up for free speech he disagrees with.
jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh...
jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh...
Shapiro rebukes Mamdani for failing to condemn ‘blatantly antisemitic’ extremists
The Pennsylvania governor told JI: ‘When supporters of yours say things that are blatantly antisemitic, you can't leave room for that to just sit there’
jewishinsider.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
And Josh Shapiro, an otherwise excellent governor, has a too-broad definition of anti-semitism. He is quick to condemn speech/conduct he sees as antisemitic yet doesn’t stand up for free speech he disagrees with.
jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh...
jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh...
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I’ll bet FOX never tells their MAGA geezer viewers that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill accelerates Social Security cuts. Unless FOX figures out a way to pin it on Dems.
www.axios.com/2025/07/24/s...
www.axios.com/2025/07/24/s...
A new analysis projects a 24% cut to Social Security benefits by late 2032.
Trump's "big, beautiful bill" will cause sharp cuts to Social Security by late 2032, a new analysis says.
www.axios.com
July 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I’ll bet FOX never tells their MAGA geezer viewers that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill accelerates Social Security cuts. Unless FOX figures out a way to pin it on Dems.
www.axios.com/2025/07/24/s...
www.axios.com/2025/07/24/s...
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“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic and threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry,” says Columbia professor Marianne Hirsch, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors.
She may leave Columbia because of its new definition of "antisemitism".
She may leave Columbia because of its new definition of "antisemitism".
July 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“A university that treats criticism of Israel as antisemitic and threatens sanctions for those who disobey is no longer a place of open inquiry,” says Columbia professor Marianne Hirsch, the daughter of two Holocaust survivors.
She may leave Columbia because of its new definition of "antisemitism".
She may leave Columbia because of its new definition of "antisemitism".
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By continuing to ship arms to Israel, to defend them in the UN, to do Bibi's bidding, we are complicit in one of the worst slaughters since the Holocaust.
That's okay with AIPAC. Israel über alles. Criticism is antisemitic.
That's okay with AIPAC. Israel über alles. Criticism is antisemitic.
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
By continuing to ship arms to Israel, to defend them in the UN, to do Bibi's bidding, we are complicit in one of the worst slaughters since the Holocaust.
That's okay with AIPAC. Israel über alles. Criticism is antisemitic.
That's okay with AIPAC. Israel über alles. Criticism is antisemitic.
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