Jennifer Thurston
@jennleegill.bsky.social
Childless cat lady | Higher Education - students are my energy source | Colorado | Running is peace | Animal pictures, please | There is beauty everywhere (she/her/hers)
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All eyes needed on the Krome Detention Facility in Miami FL. People with no criminal history held in crowded rooms like sardines, denied water, food, sanitary products, healthcare, toilets. At least 4 men have died since January #ConcentrationCamps
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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
All eyes needed on the Krome Detention Facility in Miami FL. People with no criminal history held in crowded rooms like sardines, denied water, food, sanitary products, healthcare, toilets. At least 4 men have died since January #ConcentrationCamps
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trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:47 AM
trump wants to be able to tell the USPS not to deliver ballots to blue states www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Tons of people turned out today in Denver!
February 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Tons of people turned out today in Denver!
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UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring."
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
February 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring."
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.
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INBOX: Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) is joining a 22-state lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from cutting NIH funding that supports medical research on cancer, flu, etc. Weiser says it would cost CSU, CU-Boulder, and CU Anschutz a combined $90M. #copolitics
February 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
INBOX: Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) is joining a 22-state lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from cutting NIH funding that supports medical research on cancer, flu, etc. Weiser says it would cost CSU, CU-Boulder, and CU Anschutz a combined $90M. #copolitics
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.
There are currently FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE signed up for tonight's call.
We choose to fight.
Join us at 8 PM EST to talk about how: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
We choose to fight.
Join us at 8 PM EST to talk about how: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
www.mobilize.us
February 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.
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I just signed up for this @indivisible.org call. They're literally our best bet right now for traditional political/electoral action, imo. Please consider joining me. mobilize.us/s/0x5dTb
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
mobilize.us
February 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I just signed up for this @indivisible.org call. They're literally our best bet right now for traditional political/electoral action, imo. Please consider joining me. mobilize.us/s/0x5dTb
The local journalists and meteorologists on the LA stations are heroes. And their graphics teams are amazing.
January 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
The local journalists and meteorologists on the LA stations are heroes. And their graphics teams are amazing.
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Southern xmas brunch at ye Ole house of waffles
December 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM
Southern xmas brunch at ye Ole house of waffles
Our kitten is trying to recreate a scene from Christmas Vacation
December 4, 2024 at 2:24 AM
Our kitten is trying to recreate a scene from Christmas Vacation
Colorado is putting on a show today
November 28, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Colorado is putting on a show today
This is a tough season for squeamish vegetarians. The turkey carcass per commercial ratio is super high.
November 28, 2024 at 3:13 AM
This is a tough season for squeamish vegetarians. The turkey carcass per commercial ratio is super high.
We got her a year and a half ago from a shelter in Houston - she traveled to Colorado with a van full of other pre-adopted cats and dogs. She is such a sweet soul.
November 25, 2024 at 12:53 AM
We got her a year and a half ago from a shelter in Houston - she traveled to Colorado with a van full of other pre-adopted cats and dogs. She is such a sweet soul.
Geez Denver. The temperature dropped 10 degrees and it smells like a barnyard, all in under 30 minutes.
November 24, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Geez Denver. The temperature dropped 10 degrees and it smells like a barnyard, all in under 30 minutes.
Our cat is just chilling like this.
November 23, 2024 at 4:16 AM
Our cat is just chilling like this.
He's daring me to use the countertop for food prep.
November 22, 2024 at 6:50 PM
He's daring me to use the countertop for food prep.
My favorite tree on campus is still rocking some color this late in November here in CO.
November 21, 2024 at 10:35 PM
My favorite tree on campus is still rocking some color this late in November here in CO.
Witness my squirrel proof bird feeder.
November 16, 2024 at 7:31 PM
Witness my squirrel proof bird feeder.
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Hey Coloradans, here’s the number for Jared Polis’s office.
(303) 866-2885
I left a message saying that I had a very positive impression of Polis up until now, and would have been happy to see him advance in national politics but if he’s going to roll over for fascist anti-vax nonsense, I don’t.
(303) 866-2885
I left a message saying that I had a very positive impression of Polis up until now, and would have been happy to see him advance in national politics but if he’s going to roll over for fascist anti-vax nonsense, I don’t.
November 15, 2024 at 2:08 AM
Hey Coloradans, here’s the number for Jared Polis’s office.
(303) 866-2885
I left a message saying that I had a very positive impression of Polis up until now, and would have been happy to see him advance in national politics but if he’s going to roll over for fascist anti-vax nonsense, I don’t.
(303) 866-2885
I left a message saying that I had a very positive impression of Polis up until now, and would have been happy to see him advance in national politics but if he’s going to roll over for fascist anti-vax nonsense, I don’t.
I appreciate all the Denver folks who still have their Harris/Walz signs up. Don't think I'm going to take mine down for some time.
November 15, 2024 at 3:07 AM
I appreciate all the Denver folks who still have their Harris/Walz signs up. Don't think I'm going to take mine down for some time.
I'm only posting a picture I took in March of our kitten to help cleanse the RFK timeline.
November 14, 2024 at 11:12 PM
I'm only posting a picture I took in March of our kitten to help cleanse the RFK timeline.
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👋If we've just connected, I'm a local TV journalist in Denver doing daily news differently by focusing on accountability, policy, and perspectives on @nexton9news.bsky.social. I also organize a weekly $5 microgiving campaign for Colo. non-profits that's raised $13M in five years. This is me at work👇
November 14, 2024 at 7:02 PM
👋If we've just connected, I'm a local TV journalist in Denver doing daily news differently by focusing on accountability, policy, and perspectives on @nexton9news.bsky.social. I also organize a weekly $5 microgiving campaign for Colo. non-profits that's raised $13M in five years. This is me at work👇
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"The ecological ramifications of eradicating woodlands and wolves from the landscape have been enormous"
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Anja Murray: We have to take on the role of the wolf in managing our woodlands
After a reign of more than 25,000 years in Ireland, the last Irish wolf was said to have been killed in 1786, on the slopes of Mount Leinster in County Carlow. The ecological ramifications of eradicat...
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November 13, 2024 at 9:52 AM
"The ecological ramifications of eradicating woodlands and wolves from the landscape have been enormous"
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
I know wildlife strikes are unavoidable at times, but dammit people!
Pronghorn herds dying by the dozen on eastern Colorado roads after snowstorm
Deep, crusty snow piled up on fields in eastern Colorado after last week's snowstorm is driving herds of pronghorn onto roads, and dozens of them are dying, state wildlife officials said.
phys.org
November 13, 2024 at 4:38 PM
I know wildlife strikes are unavoidable at times, but dammit people!