heather cohen
@littlerockbabe.bsky.social
artist, plant friend, animalesque
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A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...
t.co
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
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“Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."
That is. Wow. A *reference*, as one says.
(It's what Jesus said to the people who crucified him. This is like nuclear levels of burn)
That is. Wow. A *reference*, as one says.
(It's what Jesus said to the people who crucified him. This is like nuclear levels of burn)
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."
That is. Wow. A *reference*, as one says.
(It's what Jesus said to the people who crucified him. This is like nuclear levels of burn)
That is. Wow. A *reference*, as one says.
(It's what Jesus said to the people who crucified him. This is like nuclear levels of burn)
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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"The world has seen a lot from Portland lately. It may be about to see a lot more." www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"The world has seen a lot from Portland lately. It may be about to see a lot more." www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
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Greg was the first to heads-up me about this. Was just coming back from breakfast with a friend (biscuits and gravy, of course), was thinking this was going to be another fairly normal day.
Breaking news from Instagram: @barackobama.bsky.social's 2025 Summer Reads list includes THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social and KING OF ASHES by @blacktopkid.bsky.social!!
August 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Greg was the first to heads-up me about this. Was just coming back from breakfast with a friend (biscuits and gravy, of course), was thinking this was going to be another fairly normal day.
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August 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
August 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.
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Bruh.
This is so. . . 😭
This is so. . . 😭
August 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Bruh.
This is so. . . 😭
This is so. . . 😭
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Every once in a while my wife likes to point out that a 90-day supply of anti-anxiety meds for our dog costs $10 without insurance, and every time she does I'm reminded that a human patient would be lucky to pay that little for a 30-day supply of the same medication *using their health insurance*
July 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Every once in a while my wife likes to point out that a 90-day supply of anti-anxiety meds for our dog costs $10 without insurance, and every time she does I'm reminded that a human patient would be lucky to pay that little for a 30-day supply of the same medication *using their health insurance*
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@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "Before I went on Rogan's podcast, I went on Fox... I'm trying to go into places where Dems don't typically go because politics is about addition, not subtraction. If you want to maintain a pure, insular group, you don't want a political party, you want a social club."
July 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "Before I went on Rogan's podcast, I went on Fox... I'm trying to go into places where Dems don't typically go because politics is about addition, not subtraction. If you want to maintain a pure, insular group, you don't want a political party, you want a social club."
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Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.
On Juneteenth, she celebrates the role quilts may have played in Underground Railroad
Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.
n.pr
June 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.
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The estimate is 18,000 people came out to protest yesterday in Santa Barbara, which is almost 1 in 10 people in the area. That's truly stunning. Wish the media would cover these protests more...
This is downtown Santa Barbara right now. The No Kings protest stretches for over a mile along the water. The cars who drive by are all honking in support. Probably the biggest protest this community has ever seen.
June 16, 2025 at 3:54 AM
The estimate is 18,000 people came out to protest yesterday in Santa Barbara, which is almost 1 in 10 people in the area. That's truly stunning. Wish the media would cover these protests more...
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You and your children will breathe more air pollution because of this action. People will have more asthma attacks. People will have more heart attacks. All while climate impacts accelerate.
The Trump administration plans to get rid of all limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel interests hailed the proposal, which likely faces legal challenges from environmental groups.
Trump's EPA plans to repeal climate pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants
The Trump administration plans to get rid of all limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel interests hailed the proposal, which likely faces legal challenges from environmental groups.
n.pr
June 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You and your children will breathe more air pollution because of this action. People will have more asthma attacks. People will have more heart attacks. All while climate impacts accelerate.
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Do kids today know the Colbert routine at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner where he absolutely savages the press? Just thinking about that for some reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a...
Watch Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Corresponde...
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Do kids today know the Colbert routine at the Whitehouse Correspondents Dinner where he absolutely savages the press? Just thinking about that for some reason.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ-a...
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again all of this stuff is resignation-level for literally everyone involved www.notus.org/health-scien...
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
again all of this stuff is resignation-level for literally everyone involved www.notus.org/health-scien...
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Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
April 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Steve Kerr: "I believe in academic freedom. I think it's crucial for all of our institutions to be able to handle their own business the way they want to. And they should not be shaken down and told what to teach, what to say, by our government. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard."
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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires.
Tell your friends.
Tell your friends.
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I have known for a while that I overuse the word “shape,” but only recently realized I also overuse “shift” and now I am feeling speculative about the origins of my lexical ruts. Desire for sonic hush? For meaningful transformation? Is it sound or sense? (It’s both, it’s both.)
April 7, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I have known for a while that I overuse the word “shape,” but only recently realized I also overuse “shift” and now I am feeling speculative about the origins of my lexical ruts. Desire for sonic hush? For meaningful transformation? Is it sound or sense? (It’s both, it’s both.)
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Duke falls to what I am coining as the "White Lotus Curse"
April 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Duke falls to what I am coining as the "White Lotus Curse"
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3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
First ‘Wistman’s Wood’ trees planted as part of efforts to double size of ancient temperate rainforest
duchyofcornwall.org
March 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
3 years ago, when I wrote The Lost Rainforests of Britain, I talked about the importance of expanding fragments of temperate rainforest like Wistman's Wood
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
Well now the Duchy of Cornwall is actually doing it. (And through natural regeneration, not just planting!)
duchyofcornwall.org/article/firs...
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This is really good.
Violence is not a sign that you really mean it this time, or that you are a Genuine Radical. Just as often, it's a sign that you have not thought through your strategy. And not thinking through your strategy is a luxury we cannot afford if we want to win.
Violence is not a sign that you really mean it this time, or that you are a Genuine Radical. Just as often, it's a sign that you have not thought through your strategy. And not thinking through your strategy is a luxury we cannot afford if we want to win.
a propos of all these crank leftists complaining that there wasn't enough property damage yesterday, dusting off my essay about the civil rights movement (and how they won without burning down any walmarts)
www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...
www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...
How to Win a Rigged Game
The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This is really good.
Violence is not a sign that you really mean it this time, or that you are a Genuine Radical. Just as often, it's a sign that you have not thought through your strategy. And not thinking through your strategy is a luxury we cannot afford if we want to win.
Violence is not a sign that you really mean it this time, or that you are a Genuine Radical. Just as often, it's a sign that you have not thought through your strategy. And not thinking through your strategy is a luxury we cannot afford if we want to win.