Shelley Streeby
@shelleysuz.bsky.social
No Time for Haters SFF nerd Octavia E. Butler fan <3 Women's Basketball especially Iowa, Valkyries, Fever. Live in San Diego, Grew Up in Iowa, Have a Crush on Oregon Teacher/Writer, Opinions My Own
Ursula K Le Guin, "In Berkeley" (1999)
This is the city of my birth
This is my own uneasy earth.
Following Time's devious laws,
I pass the stranger that I was.
In the sea-reflected light
that makes the shadows of things bright.
I walk a half-remembered street
and am the stranger that I meet.
This is the city of my birth
This is my own uneasy earth.
Following Time's devious laws,
I pass the stranger that I was.
In the sea-reflected light
that makes the shadows of things bright.
I walk a half-remembered street
and am the stranger that I meet.
November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ursula K Le Guin, "In Berkeley" (1999)
This is the city of my birth
This is my own uneasy earth.
Following Time's devious laws,
I pass the stranger that I was.
In the sea-reflected light
that makes the shadows of things bright.
I walk a half-remembered street
and am the stranger that I meet.
This is the city of my birth
This is my own uneasy earth.
Following Time's devious laws,
I pass the stranger that I was.
In the sea-reflected light
that makes the shadows of things bright.
I walk a half-remembered street
and am the stranger that I meet.
this is the most immoral person I know from my high school debate days. Edward Heartney from Des Moines Dowling now doing Rump's bidding like a hateful fool www.hcn.org/articles/pro...
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
this is the most immoral person I know from my high school debate days. Edward Heartney from Des Moines Dowling now doing Rump's bidding like a hateful fool www.hcn.org/articles/pro...
enjoyed talking to Shady Grove Oliver of AfroLA about Octavia E Butler
afrolanews.org/2025/05/read...
afrolanews.org/2025/05/read...
Reading Octavia Butler in a time of change - AfroLA
With her groundbreaking work, Octavia Butler envisioned a dystopian future that is now eerily familiar, offering a powerful warning and a call to action for readers to work towards a better tomorrow, ...
afrolanews.org
May 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
enjoyed talking to Shady Grove Oliver of AfroLA about Octavia E Butler
afrolanews.org/2025/05/read...
afrolanews.org/2025/05/read...
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The NSF abruptly terminated their grant for a journal focused on advancing gender equity in academic STEM—jeopardizing decades of progress for women in science.
The National Science Foundation Canceled Our Grant Because It Focused on Women
In a sweeping rollback of diversity efforts, the NSF abruptly terminated our grant for a journal focused on advancing gender equity in academic STEM—jeopardizing decades of progress for women in scien...
msmagazine.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The NSF abruptly terminated their grant for a journal focused on advancing gender equity in academic STEM—jeopardizing decades of progress for women in science.
Really depressing to see former high school debate friend Ed Heartney go down this dark path
It's that scary DEI again... “The current draft resolution also contains references to diversity, equity and inclusion that conflict with U.S. policies that seek to eliminate all forms of discrimination and create equal opportunities for all,” Heartney added.
May 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Really depressing to see former high school debate friend Ed Heartney go down this dark path
May all of your high school friends turn out better than Ed Heartney did
The US govt voted against a resolution, “International Day of Peaceful Coexistence”, that reaffirmed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development w/US rep Edward Heartney saying “Simply put, the globalist endeavors like Agenda 2030 and the SDGs lost at the ballot box.” www.voanews.com/a/at-un-trum...
At UN, Trump's domestic policies enter international arena
US voted against a series of resolutions at the UNGA that support development and diversity
www.voanews.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
May all of your high school friends turn out better than Ed Heartney did
Knew Heartney from high school debate (Des Moines Dowling). What a sad shameful late turn in his career.
"Edward Heartney... used his time to tout President Donald Trump as a protector of Indigenous women...No one clapped. You could hear a pin drop."
Awesome reporting from the United Nations by @btoastie.bsky.social for @highcountrynews.org
www.hcn.org/articles/pro...
Awesome reporting from the United Nations by @btoastie.bsky.social for @highcountrynews.org
www.hcn.org/articles/pro...
Trump admin speaker at UNPFII met with silence - High Country News
During a discussion on the rights of Indigenous women at the United Nations Monday, a U.S. representative made a statement so strange you could hear a pin drop afterward.
www.hcn.org
May 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Knew Heartney from high school debate (Des Moines Dowling). What a sad shameful late turn in his career.
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This is indeed brilliant
This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams
Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....
www.commondreams.org
February 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This is indeed brilliant
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Beauty of what makes Syd great rebounder is her plan of attack cannot be scouted. On offensive glass, she developed a feel for how certain teammates' missed shots typically bounce off rim. On defensive glass, it’s mostly about hustle, desire, full-body strength. www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports...
Leistikow: What makes Sydney Affolter a rebounding dynamo for Iowa women's basketball
Why Sydney Affolter is a great rebounder is why she's finishing her Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball career strong: a relentless, fighting spirit.
www.hawkcentral.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Beauty of what makes Syd great rebounder is her plan of attack cannot be scouted. On offensive glass, she developed a feel for how certain teammates' missed shots typically bounce off rim. On defensive glass, it’s mostly about hustle, desire, full-body strength. www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports...
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop Trump’s cuts to cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s research!
As the world’s largest funder of cancer research, NIH research grants have made it possible to extend countless lives and notably reduce cancer development and death. We can also thank NIH-funded rese...
sign.moveon.org
February 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
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Russell Vought is the architect of Project 2025, the force cutting NIH funding. But it's thanks to NIH-funded research that Vought’s daughter had access to some treatments.
“We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's then-wife wrote in 2021.
“We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's then-wife wrote in 2021.
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Russell Vought is the architect of Project 2025, the force cutting NIH funding. But it's thanks to NIH-funded research that Vought’s daughter had access to some treatments.
“We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's then-wife wrote in 2021.
“We’re extremely grateful to live in a nation that leads the way on medical innovation,” Vought's then-wife wrote in 2021.
My favorite quote after the Iowa women beat Nebraska was Lucy Olsen saying the entire team was extra motivated to get the ball to McCabe [who is from NE, had 60 people there), see her score, win that way:
“It was like, ‘We are going to win for you. You are from here, we cannot let them beat you.’
“It was like, ‘We are going to win for you. You are from here, we cannot let them beat you.’
February 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My favorite quote after the Iowa women beat Nebraska was Lucy Olsen saying the entire team was extra motivated to get the ball to McCabe [who is from NE, had 60 people there), see her score, win that way:
“It was like, ‘We are going to win for you. You are from here, we cannot let them beat you.’
“It was like, ‘We are going to win for you. You are from here, we cannot let them beat you.’
UCSD public health scientist Rebecca Fielding-Miller called the list Orwellian: “I guess a word that's not on here is "men," and I guess a word that I don't see on here is "white," so I guess we'll see what's going on with white men and what they need." www.kpbs.org/news/economy...
Federal list of forbidden words may jeopardize research at UCSD
The banned words include: women, disability, bias, status, trauma, Black, Hispanic communities, as well as socioeconomic, ethnicity and systemic.
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February 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
UCSD public health scientist Rebecca Fielding-Miller called the list Orwellian: “I guess a word that's not on here is "men," and I guess a word that I don't see on here is "white," so I guess we'll see what's going on with white men and what they need." www.kpbs.org/news/economy...
Beautiful team effort in @iowawbb upset of USC! @lucy3olsen was HEROIC! 28 PTS 10-18, 8-9 from line, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals! Don't overlook @hannahstuelke's BIG defense against way bigger USC bigs: 10 points, 5 rebounds, an assist, and steal in 20 minutes. Congratulations @janjensen13
February 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Beautiful team effort in @iowawbb upset of USC! @lucy3olsen was HEROIC! 28 PTS 10-18, 8-9 from line, 4 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals! Don't overlook @hannahstuelke's BIG defense against way bigger USC bigs: 10 points, 5 rebounds, an assist, and steal in 20 minutes. Congratulations @janjensen13
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This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
2. "For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”
William Stafford, A Ritual to Read to each Other
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58264/...
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”
William Stafford, A Ritual to Read to each Other
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58264/...
A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.
www.poetryfoundation.org
January 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
2. "For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”
William Stafford, A Ritual to Read to each Other
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58264/...
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep.”
William Stafford, A Ritual to Read to each Other
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58264/...
“I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact
And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider—
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact
And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider—
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark
January 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact
And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider—
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark
to know what occurs but not recognize the fact
And so I appeal to a voice, to something shadowy,
a remote important region in all who talk:
though we could fool each other, we should consider—
lest the parade of our mutual life get lost in the dark
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Large-scale ICE raids in cities including Chicago, Atlanta and Miami arrested almost 1,000 people. More in the latest Keeping Score:
Keeping Score: Trump's Executive Orders Undo Progress; Meta Allows Hate Against Women and LGBTQ People; Abortion Ban States Are Losing Residents - Ms. Magazine
Keeping Score: Trump's Executive Orders Undo Progress; Meta Allows Hate Against Women and LGBTQ People; Abortion Ban States Are Losing Residents
msmagazine.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Large-scale ICE raids in cities including Chicago, Atlanta and Miami arrested almost 1,000 people. More in the latest Keeping Score:
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Right. Deport the people
Who were here long before you.
Who were here long before you.
Navajo Citizens Facing Identity Challenges During ICE Deportation Raids
The Trump administration’s intensified deportation efforts have created unexpected challenges for Navajo citizens living in urban areas like Phoenix. As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement b...
nativenewsonline.net
January 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Right. Deport the people
Who were here long before you.
Who were here long before you.
Shelley Streeby @shelleysuz.bsky.social
A groaner of a boot-licking headline from @nytimes.com No, Trump does not support police when police support him. He did not support police when he pardoned criminals who inflicted violence on police and tried to violently overthrow our government.
January 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Shelley Streeby @shelleysuz.bsky.social
A groaner of a boot-licking headline from @nytimes.com No, Trump does not support police when police support him. He did not support police when he pardoned criminals who inflicted violence on police and tried to violently overthrow our government.