Kathleen Rhoades, PhD
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UGH FINE I'M HERE. I have BROKEN my PROMISE to MYSELF I am ONCE AGAIN MICROBLOGGING UNDER MY GOVERNMENT NAME.
Today I'm taking persimmon seeds I collected this past fall to the farm so that our farm team get them started in a warm little germination chamber in the greenhouse.
They will go out into the breeding orchard, just down the road from the greenhouse, in 2027.
They will go out into the breeding orchard, just down the road from the greenhouse, in 2027.
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Today I'm taking persimmon seeds I collected this past fall to the farm so that our farm team get them started in a warm little germination chamber in the greenhouse.
They will go out into the breeding orchard, just down the road from the greenhouse, in 2027.
They will go out into the breeding orchard, just down the road from the greenhouse, in 2027.
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There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 PM
There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this?
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.
Reposted by Kathleen Rhoades, PhD
Reposted by Kathleen Rhoades, PhD
Dems are starting so far back from what is needed that one of their demands is "warrants for arrests"
MOTHER FUCKER THAT WAS ALREADY REQUIRED
MOTHER FUCKER THAT WAS ALREADY REQUIRED
Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools
"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point”
As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.
newrepublic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Dems are starting so far back from what is needed that one of their demands is "warrants for arrests"
MOTHER FUCKER THAT WAS ALREADY REQUIRED
MOTHER FUCKER THAT WAS ALREADY REQUIRED
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this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
this is a fake problem. no one is saying this to regular, offline people who are coming around. they’re saying it to people who are engaged in professional political analysis who committed professional malpractice by scolding people who saw what was coming.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
no, those people shouldn’t get a break.
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
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sam and I decided if they make science and therapy illegal we're going to become plow truck drivers
when I was a kid my dad told me that the snow plow drivers (at least in NY state) made most of their money on overtime in the winters, so they were happy to be out before dawn clearing roads and you could count on roads to be pretty clean pretty early.
Iiiiii am not sure that applies to Michigan.
Iiiiii am not sure that applies to Michigan.
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
sam and I decided if they make science and therapy illegal we're going to become plow truck drivers
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I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
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I don't want the Democrats to win the midterms, I want ICE to be dismantled, anyone involved with the murders prosecuted, and every person harmed compensated for the harm.
January 25, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I don't want the Democrats to win the midterms, I want ICE to be dismantled, anyone involved with the murders prosecuted, and every person harmed compensated for the harm.
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
when I was a kid my dad told me that the snow plow drivers (at least in NY state) made most of their money on overtime in the winters, so they were happy to be out before dawn clearing roads and you could count on roads to be pretty clean pretty early.
Iiiiii am not sure that applies to Michigan.
Iiiiii am not sure that applies to Michigan.
January 25, 2026 at 3:06 PM
when I was a kid my dad told me that the snow plow drivers (at least in NY state) made most of their money on overtime in the winters, so they were happy to be out before dawn clearing roads and you could count on roads to be pretty clean pretty early.
Iiiiii am not sure that applies to Michigan.
Iiiiii am not sure that applies to Michigan.
Reposted by Kathleen Rhoades, PhD
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
ripe opportunity for a sketch about all the NYC-based cop shows in this era where there aren't enough murders for them all to have jobs anymore so they get in fistfights with each other at every single homicide scene
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
January 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
ripe opportunity for a sketch about all the NYC-based cop shows in this era where there aren't enough murders for them all to have jobs anymore so they get in fistfights with each other at every single homicide scene
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What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
ICE out of Minnesota NOW.
Breaking News: Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a person in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, state and local officials said. Follow live updates.
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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I will work 100 hours a week for whoever is gonna run the Nuremberg trials against these fucking monsters
democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”
March 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I will work 100 hours a week for whoever is gonna run the Nuremberg trials against these fucking monsters
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An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it's embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.
Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:03 PM
An excellent, bone-chilling story about a cadre of online racists who stole genetic data from studies on children so they could make specious arguments for the innate inferiority of non-white people, it's embrace by Elon Musk/twitter & how the Trump administration might make it easier to do again.
man you gotta TRY to do that, there is no conceivable way that would be a mistake or a simple loss of control
Video circulating online shows a man in a Detroit Lions jersey being taken into custody at the scene.
Car crashes through Detroit Metro Airport's McNamara Terminal
Video circulating online shows a man in a Detroit Lions jersey being taken into custody at the scene.
bit.ly
January 24, 2026 at 3:54 AM
man you gotta TRY to do that, there is no conceivable way that would be a mistake or a simple loss of control
I need to take a social media break, I really do, but my anxiety brain is so sure that I will be in danger if I don't receive up-to-the-minute news updates every waking hour
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I need to take a social media break, I really do, but my anxiety brain is so sure that I will be in danger if I don't receive up-to-the-minute news updates every waking hour
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This is so fucking haunting.
January 24, 2026 at 3:11 AM
This is so fucking haunting.
wow if only there was a branch of government that could open investigations into this and force these people to testify on national tv
This is abhorrent. The 4th amendment is the law of the land, and you need a warrant to enter people’s homes.
The courts must step in immediately and ICE must leave our cities.
The courts must step in immediately and ICE must leave our cities.
January 24, 2026 at 3:37 AM
wow if only there was a branch of government that could open investigations into this and force these people to testify on national tv
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"let her cook" except it's me and my heated blanket turned up to the highest setting
January 23, 2026 at 9:10 PM
"let her cook" except it's me and my heated blanket turned up to the highest setting
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Current* conditions near Muskegon, MI:
January 23, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Current* conditions near Muskegon, MI:
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Children are brave. They shouldn’t have to be, but they are.
nine years old
January 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Children are brave. They shouldn’t have to be, but they are.
I was expecting to have to thin out my breeding orchard in the next few years but this winter may take care of that for me 🙃
Coldest temp on the sensors at Valley Farm (Spring Green, WI) this morning before the sunrise was about -27C/-16.6F. That's not accounting for windchill.
January 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
I was expecting to have to thin out my breeding orchard in the next few years but this winter may take care of that for me 🙃