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The look of satisfaction on her face while being arrested by the "brown shirts", aka Tennessee State Troopers for peacefully protesting is priceless! She knows she's doing "getting into good trouble" right.
80 year old Lynne McFarland is my newest shero!
80 year old Lynne McFarland is my newest shero!
April 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The look of satisfaction on her face while being arrested by the "brown shirts", aka Tennessee State Troopers for peacefully protesting is priceless! She knows she's doing "getting into good trouble" right.
80 year old Lynne McFarland is my newest shero!
80 year old Lynne McFarland is my newest shero!
Here's my latest conversation with a maga from yesterday, with my daddy's best friend of 45 years, Grizz. We haven't talked much since daddy died of covid, because we'd bumped heads on some of our political posts on Facebook in Mango Mussolini's first term.
Maga Family Conversation: Grizz Dumps Trump
Tonight's story is about a conversation I had earlier today with an old friend of my deceased maga daddy, so you know he was maga too.
open.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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"This administration wants to burn it all down, and measured responses won’t work as a counter; you can’t wait for your lawyers to go over the text of Trump’s executive orders and for your pollsters to focus-group the optimal response...” @dceiver.bsky.social says it better than I can.
Trump’s Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise
Somehow, Democrats got badly caught out by the president doing all the things he spent the past two years saying he was going to do if reelected.
newrepublic.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"This administration wants to burn it all down, and measured responses won’t work as a counter; you can’t wait for your lawyers to go over the text of Trump’s executive orders and for your pollsters to focus-group the optimal response...” @dceiver.bsky.social says it better than I can.
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Today in "Ask a Germanist How Bad It Can Get."
As the EOs and orders keep coming, I keep thinking of the exhibit in the Berlin Jewish Museum that displays the 962 anti-Jewish laws and policies in order as they came down. These kinds of drumbeats are designed not just to oppress but to normalize oppression. www.jmberlin.de/en/jmb-journ...
February 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Today in "Ask a Germanist How Bad It Can Get."
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The “free speech / anti-cancel culture” party now literally firing people for thoughtcrime
"The purging underway suggests that the agency is not just seeking to eliminate DEI but also to remove people who have expressed interest or participated in programs related to it."
First it's your actions, then it's your intentions, and then it'll be your literal existence in this space. Ugh 😡
First it's your actions, then it's your intentions, and then it'll be your literal existence in this space. Ugh 😡
Trump’s DEI purge targets federal workers who did not work in DEI
Dozens of federal employees who didn’t work on diversity or inclusion issues have been placed on administrative leave following Trump's executive order.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The “free speech / anti-cancel culture” party now literally firing people for thoughtcrime
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Welcome newcomers! Alt Text is a big deal here on Bluesky. It helps people with visual issues and in other situations as well. Here's a useful thread on how to do it, including some examples.
January 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Welcome newcomers! Alt Text is a big deal here on Bluesky. It helps people with visual issues and in other situations as well. Here's a useful thread on how to do it, including some examples.
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Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
Discworld is the warm hug of fantasy - so easy to pick up and get lost in. He’s phenomenal at subliminally using political/moral themes and basically reminding people to be good humans! Picking this one as I believe it’s one of the best 💙📚
#booksky #booktok #fantasy
Discworld is the warm hug of fantasy - so easy to pick up and get lost in. He’s phenomenal at subliminally using political/moral themes and basically reminding people to be good humans! Picking this one as I believe it’s one of the best 💙📚
#booksky #booktok #fantasy
January 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Book 3: Worn by Sofi Thanhauser
I don't have the quotes I want to share about this one ready at my fingertips. But it hits hard and is worth a read, and maybe a second just so you don't miss all of the things. Textiles Shape our lives, and our lives are shaped by them.
I don't have the quotes I want to share about this one ready at my fingertips. But it hits hard and is worth a read, and maybe a second just so you don't miss all of the things. Textiles Shape our lives, and our lives are shaped by them.
January 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Book 3: Worn by Sofi Thanhauser
I don't have the quotes I want to share about this one ready at my fingertips. But it hits hard and is worth a read, and maybe a second just so you don't miss all of the things. Textiles Shape our lives, and our lives are shaped by them.
I don't have the quotes I want to share about this one ready at my fingertips. But it hits hard and is worth a read, and maybe a second just so you don't miss all of the things. Textiles Shape our lives, and our lives are shaped by them.
Book 2: Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Like I said it's a Discworld year.
“Insanity is catching.”
“pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it.”
Like I said it's a Discworld year.
“Insanity is catching.”
“pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it.”
January 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Book 2: Making Money by Terry Pratchett
Like I said it's a Discworld year.
“Insanity is catching.”
“pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it.”
Like I said it's a Discworld year.
“Insanity is catching.”
“pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it.”
First book of 2025: Reread of Small Gods. It's going to be a Discworld kind of year.
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
January 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
First book of 2025: Reread of Small Gods. It's going to be a Discworld kind of year.
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
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Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
The Nazis think this was a Nazi salute, but, hey, what would they know?
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk's Straight-Arm Salute
Right-wing extremists are abuzz over Elon Musk giving an awkward straight-armed salute during an inauguration rally for Donald Trump.
www.rollingstone.com
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too.
Late to the game but 2025 books of the year! Here we go:
January 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Late to the game but 2025 books of the year! Here we go:
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I think I'll go screen dark tomorrow, so here are some recycked #Discworld #PratchettQuotes as a placeholder.
January 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I think I'll go screen dark tomorrow, so here are some recycked #Discworld #PratchettQuotes as a placeholder.
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Thankfully, Jane Austen and Lucy Maud Montgomery have very likely already let me down as much as they’re ever going to.
January 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Thankfully, Jane Austen and Lucy Maud Montgomery have very likely already let me down as much as they’re ever going to.
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AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time
January 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time
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Today in
Wildlife Mismanagement
Wildlife Mismanagement
The Great Salt Lake has 70 percent less water than it did just a few decades ago, and for it to begin to refill, farmers will have to grow less alfalfa and hay using irrigation.
To Save the Great Salt Lake, Farmers Will Have to Grow Less Alfalfa - Inside Climate News
New research found that the crop used to feed dairy and beef cows uses the vast majority of agricultural water that would otherwise replenish the largest saline lake in the nation.
insideclimatenews.org
January 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Today in
Wildlife Mismanagement
Wildlife Mismanagement
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Years ago a coworker explained cycling to work to another coworker this way which was you're rarely going to be as comfortable as you are in a car but it's going to be a lot more fun and I wish we talked more honestly about the trade offs we have to face to keep this planet livable.
January 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Years ago a coworker explained cycling to work to another coworker this way which was you're rarely going to be as comfortable as you are in a car but it's going to be a lot more fun and I wish we talked more honestly about the trade offs we have to face to keep this planet livable.
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People have a lot to say about prisoner firefighters in California some of which is not particularly true. This 2020 legislation let them pursue firefighting careers upon release:
www.npr.org/2020/09/11/9...
www.npr.org/2020/09/11/9...
California Bill Clears Path For Ex-Inmates To Become Firefighters
"Inmates who have stood on the frontlines, battling historic fires should not be denied the right to later become a professional firefighter," Gov. Gavin Newsom said upon signing the bill on Friday.
www.npr.org
January 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
People have a lot to say about prisoner firefighters in California some of which is not particularly true. This 2020 legislation let them pursue firefighting careers upon release:
www.npr.org/2020/09/11/9...
www.npr.org/2020/09/11/9...
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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Remember to take your mental health walk in nature today 🐰
January 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Remember to take your mental health walk in nature today 🐰
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“The effect may be considerable in a few centuries” is a really remarkable sentence here…
January 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“The effect may be considerable in a few centuries” is a really remarkable sentence here…
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