Pretty Greene Leaves 🎶🌿
@greene-leaves.bsky.social
Software Engineer by day 🐧, Dada morning and evening 🧸.
Ravenous consumer of books 📚,
endlessly curious 🛰️,
non-stop singing 🎵,
unabashedly AuDHD 📢
🌺🌻"masculinity is what you make it" 🪻💐
Ravenous consumer of books 📚,
endlessly curious 🛰️,
non-stop singing 🎵,
unabashedly AuDHD 📢
🌺🌻"masculinity is what you make it" 🪻💐
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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
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More so, DNA is not culture, identity, nor kinship; which are, historically, what people have tended to use to reckon belonging. Partial genetic ties to ancestral populations do not, therefore, make you "part" anything. That's not how communities and cultures work.
It also summons eugenics.
It also summons eugenics.
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African?
What a genetic match really means:
What a genetic match really means:
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
Genealogical and genetic ancestors aren’t the same thing. A DNA match − or a lack of one − may not tell you what you imagine it does about your family tree.
buff.ly
May 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
More so, DNA is not culture, identity, nor kinship; which are, historically, what people have tended to use to reckon belonging. Partial genetic ties to ancestral populations do not, therefore, make you "part" anything. That's not how communities and cultures work.
It also summons eugenics.
It also summons eugenics.
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This is why we don’t like it when autism charities participate in genetic database studies & projects.
We get derided for being “anti-research” and yet look…
The US Far Right wants to make a registry of disabled people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We get derided for being “anti-research” and yet look…
The US Far Right wants to make a registry of disabled people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records
The National Institutes of Health claims it is fulfilling RFK’s promise to find cause of autism by September
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is why we don’t like it when autism charities participate in genetic database studies & projects.
We get derided for being “anti-research” and yet look…
The US Far Right wants to make a registry of disabled people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We get derided for being “anti-research” and yet look…
The US Far Right wants to make a registry of disabled people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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This is the way
I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.
April 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This is the way
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Sign of the day…
April 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Sign of the day…
On the one hand, I know this is entirely a publicity stunt and unrelated. On the other, it's a bit infuriating I see the positive coverage of this juxtaposed to all the nonsensical handwringing about trans athletes.
In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital.
No sweat: Humanoid robots run a Chinese half-marathon alongside flesh-and-blood competitors
In one small step for robot-kind — thousands of them, really — humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital.
bit.ly
April 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
On the one hand, I know this is entirely a publicity stunt and unrelated. On the other, it's a bit infuriating I see the positive coverage of this juxtaposed to all the nonsensical handwringing about trans athletes.
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Rümeysa Öztürk has not been accused of any crime. Plainclothes ICE agents grabbed her off the street, arrested, and detained her.
For nearly 24 hours, Ms. Öztürk’s attorney was unable to locate her as ICE quickly moved her in three different states.
We won’t stop fighting to bring Rümeysa home.
For nearly 24 hours, Ms. Öztürk’s attorney was unable to locate her as ICE quickly moved her in three different states.
We won’t stop fighting to bring Rümeysa home.
April 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk has not been accused of any crime. Plainclothes ICE agents grabbed her off the street, arrested, and detained her.
For nearly 24 hours, Ms. Öztürk’s attorney was unable to locate her as ICE quickly moved her in three different states.
We won’t stop fighting to bring Rümeysa home.
For nearly 24 hours, Ms. Öztürk’s attorney was unable to locate her as ICE quickly moved her in three different states.
We won’t stop fighting to bring Rümeysa home.
It is WILD seeing college protesters lumped in with sex traffickers and drug smugglers. All marketed to cops to sell AI tools that, regrettably, probably work very well at guiding people to incriminate themselves. Like a police car tailgating someone until they speed.
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
It is WILD seeing college protesters lumped in with sex traffickers and drug smugglers. All marketed to cops to sell AI tools that, regrettably, probably work very well at guiding people to incriminate themselves. Like a police car tailgating someone until they speed.
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
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Liz I'm not asking you to get on a plane to El Salvador at your age but some UC holds would be a nice start
If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next?
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.
April 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Liz I'm not asking you to get on a plane to El Salvador at your age but some UC holds would be a nice start
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Outrageous and thuggish.
“[C]riminal defense attorney Adam H. Bernstein… said it’s ‘disturbing’ that federal agents would go into a state courthouse and detain someone before their court-ordered appearance.
‘This is a tactic … to stymie the state judicial process,’ he said.”
“[C]riminal defense attorney Adam H. Bernstein… said it’s ‘disturbing’ that federal agents would go into a state courthouse and detain someone before their court-ordered appearance.
‘This is a tactic … to stymie the state judicial process,’ he said.”
Immigration agents tackled man inside N.H. courthouse, preventing him from attending his arraignment - The Boston Globe
The two agents, who told a local police officer they came to apprehend people on behalf of ATF and ICE, haven’t been publicly identified. It’s unclear where the man they detained was taken.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Outrageous and thuggish.
“[C]riminal defense attorney Adam H. Bernstein… said it’s ‘disturbing’ that federal agents would go into a state courthouse and detain someone before their court-ordered appearance.
‘This is a tactic … to stymie the state judicial process,’ he said.”
“[C]riminal defense attorney Adam H. Bernstein… said it’s ‘disturbing’ that federal agents would go into a state courthouse and detain someone before their court-ordered appearance.
‘This is a tactic … to stymie the state judicial process,’ he said.”
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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
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I never thought we had a meritocracy going, but it wasn't....THIS
I once saw a guy get fired at a pizza place I worked at for giving a customer 8 breadsticks instead of 6, and it actually fucked up his life pretty badly. And yet these guys can just light enormous piles of money on fire and they’re still the most powerful and influential people on the planet 🥴
Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened!
finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...
finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...
April 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I never thought we had a meritocracy going, but it wasn't....THIS
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one of the most frustrating things about this "debate" is seeing liberals try to defend us and end up conceding virtually every argument made by their opponent bc they don't know how hrt works. everything about my life is being debated by two "sides" who can't even be bothered to understand my life
the trans women in sports bans have been such an effective wedge against ppl who are ostensibly trans allies bc combatting those bans requires an actual understanding of how trans women's bodies work and that has never been a high priority in cis allyship
April 11, 2025 at 12:27 AM
one of the most frustrating things about this "debate" is seeing liberals try to defend us and end up conceding virtually every argument made by their opponent bc they don't know how hrt works. everything about my life is being debated by two "sides" who can't even be bothered to understand my life
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The media's relentless coverage of the stock market as if it is experiencing a natural disaster - with the added insult of using metaphorical language borrowed from ecology - really highlights how loud they COULD be but AREN'T about environmental devastation and climate emergency.
April 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The media's relentless coverage of the stock market as if it is experiencing a natural disaster - with the added insult of using metaphorical language borrowed from ecology - really highlights how loud they COULD be but AREN'T about environmental devastation and climate emergency.
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You all know this already but what we want is normal and right.
And it's worth fighting for.
📷: @fightforaunion.bsky.social
And it's worth fighting for.
📷: @fightforaunion.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
You all know this already but what we want is normal and right.
And it's worth fighting for.
📷: @fightforaunion.bsky.social
And it's worth fighting for.
📷: @fightforaunion.bsky.social
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Going by number of Trump nominees:
1) Shaheen: 21
2) Hassan: 18
3) Fetterman, Hickenlooper: 17
5) Gallego, Kaine, Slotkin: 16
8) Kelly, Rosen: 15
1) Shaheen: 21
2) Hassan: 18
3) Fetterman, Hickenlooper: 17
5) Gallego, Kaine, Slotkin: 16
8) Kelly, Rosen: 15
April 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Going by number of Trump nominees:
1) Shaheen: 21
2) Hassan: 18
3) Fetterman, Hickenlooper: 17
5) Gallego, Kaine, Slotkin: 16
8) Kelly, Rosen: 15
1) Shaheen: 21
2) Hassan: 18
3) Fetterman, Hickenlooper: 17
5) Gallego, Kaine, Slotkin: 16
8) Kelly, Rosen: 15
Breaking: real actual child deaths caused by exposure to RFK Jr.'s bullshit fear mongering about Autism and anti-vaccine rhetoric.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Breaking: real actual child deaths caused by exposure to RFK Jr.'s bullshit fear mongering about Autism and anti-vaccine rhetoric.
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The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission.
Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?
Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?
April 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission.
Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?
Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?
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It's tempting to ascribe this to malice specific to Ms. Öztürk but no, this is actually pretty standard medical care in a lot of jails and prisons and ICE detention centers (same with the failure to provide religiously-appropriate treatment).
NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...
April 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It's tempting to ascribe this to malice specific to Ms. Öztürk but no, this is actually pretty standard medical care in a lot of jails and prisons and ICE detention centers (same with the failure to provide religiously-appropriate treatment).
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This is a cop out.
There is a much better way to kill an amendment. It's called a "no" vote.
Instead, they added a second amendment that still has language letting it go into effect should such a study ever happen.
The amendment shouldn't have even gotten in the bill. You have a MAJORITY.
There is a much better way to kill an amendment. It's called a "no" vote.
Instead, they added a second amendment that still has language letting it go into effect should such a study ever happen.
The amendment shouldn't have even gotten in the bill. You have a MAJORITY.
April 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is a cop out.
There is a much better way to kill an amendment. It's called a "no" vote.
Instead, they added a second amendment that still has language letting it go into effect should such a study ever happen.
The amendment shouldn't have even gotten in the bill. You have a MAJORITY.
There is a much better way to kill an amendment. It's called a "no" vote.
Instead, they added a second amendment that still has language letting it go into effect should such a study ever happen.
The amendment shouldn't have even gotten in the bill. You have a MAJORITY.
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Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
April 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
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Was just randoming through the SMBC archive (a webcomic by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social) and came across this and it's... honestly hilariously apt to what happened yesterday.
April 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Was just randoming through the SMBC archive (a webcomic by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social) and came across this and it's... honestly hilariously apt to what happened yesterday.
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best catch-all essay about all this that I've read this year. thank you for writing it @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump has transformed the American story | Osita Nwanevu
A decade ago, it was easy to believe US identity was a settled question. Now, as our institutions acquiesce to barbarism, the US’s promise has been traded for chaos
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
best catch-all essay about all this that I've read this year. thank you for writing it @ositanwanevu.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.”
This is the way.
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
This is the way.
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
April 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
10 national unions repping 3 million members demand the release of abducted immigrant workers and call for employers and university admins to refuse to cooperate and elected officials to “find their spines.”
This is the way.
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
This is the way.
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...