“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis

Thank f-ing goodness for @randyrainbow.bsky.social

Should be grading and preparing for a six year old’s birthday, but instead I’m worried about people eliminating polio vaccines.🤦‍♀️

Time for another academic mixtape!

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This is something the Republicans have done well that the Democrats have not: slowly and incrementally working with a goal in mind like the R's did to gerrymander or take control of the SCOTUS. The D's seem to think they are always just one email or campaign ad away from total victory. They are not.

I want to watch TV coverage of the live fall of the Syrian regime.

CNN is airing a Giuliani documentary, Fox News has a comedian joking about Canada, MSNBC a documentary about migrants

So I turned on BBC,which is breathlessly switching between Syria, South Korea demonstrations, and Ghana election

My god. It’s happening. A post-Bashar Syria.

The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky.

But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵

The big question is how much longer Trump will allow Elon Musk to be the acting president. It’s clear that Trump isn’t making the real decisions.

Everyone knows that Elon is the alpha and Trump is the beta in this relationship. That has to be humiliating for Trump.

As an ecologist and science educator, I know how to bring some skeptics along to the ideas of evolution. However, I don’t know how to talk to people I disagree with about political ideas. Someone out there is good at that. Teach the rest of us!

How can we reclaim narratives that the right has been dominating? How can we organize to reclaim local and state governments? How can we have conversations with people we disagree with? How can we get the non-voting 30% of the population interested?

Sure it’s satisfying to trash talk Trump and his looneybin of comrades. But I would also like to see this platform used for good…connecting people with ideas and perspectives that could move us forward. We need to start working on winning back the country.

One exciting prospect about this platform is feeling the freedom to myself fully without considering the presence of conservative family members. I can let the real me out of the bag!