Lori Vanover
@lvmke.bsky.social
Milwaukee mom, birder, reader, writer, cat lady. Also a Master Gardener 🌻
Super random re: #horseracing - I have vhs tapes of Kentucky derby/triple crown and breeders cup races from 90s/early 2000s. I recorded the broadcasts. Would anyone have interest before I toss them? @rogueclown.bsky.social @tgenaro.bsky.social @thesirbarton.bsky.social @horseygort.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Super random re: #horseracing - I have vhs tapes of Kentucky derby/triple crown and breeders cup races from 90s/early 2000s. I recorded the broadcasts. Would anyone have interest before I toss them? @rogueclown.bsky.social @tgenaro.bsky.social @thesirbarton.bsky.social @horseygort.bsky.social
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
she ra from she ra and the princesses of power is holding a sword and cape
ALT: she ra from she ra and the princesses of power is holding a sword and cape
media.tenor.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
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I maintain that most raw milk evangelists only know about cows as abstract concepts, and have never actually seen one in real life
“If it’s a clean farm with clean cows there won’t be poop in it” have you ever been near a cow???? They are poop factories. Even if you hosed them down and scrubbed them every day, they are one poop away from pooping all over their udders. Raw milk got cow poop in it, sorry to break it to you.
June 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I maintain that most raw milk evangelists only know about cows as abstract concepts, and have never actually seen one in real life
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there are queens and then there's the woman who made sure the scathing songs about her ex were so iconic that his whole career would be defined by them
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
May 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
there are queens and then there's the woman who made sure the scathing songs about her ex were so iconic that his whole career would be defined by them
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
happy birthday to human goddess stevie nicks ✨
I’ve been way too busy with kids sports and remodeling projects to go out birding much this spring, so God bless that stunning scarlet tanager that flew into my yard today.
May 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I’ve been way too busy with kids sports and remodeling projects to go out birding much this spring, so God bless that stunning scarlet tanager that flew into my yard today.
Adventures in home remodeling with orange cats 🐈
May 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Adventures in home remodeling with orange cats 🐈
Today’s backyard birding highlight is the rose-breasted grosbeak throuple - one female and two males all feeding together #birding #birdwatching #birds
May 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Today’s backyard birding highlight is the rose-breasted grosbeak throuple - one female and two males all feeding together #birding #birdwatching #birds
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Kind of a big oops for a regime that wants us to breed more. 🙄
Virtually every car seat, stroller, bassinet and changing table sold in the U.S. is made in China, making the children’s products industry among the most vulnerable to fast-rising costs and shortages.
Read more:
Read more:
Trump’s tariffs hit baby industry hard, threatening parents with price hikes, shortages
More than 70 percent of U.S. baby gear is made in China, and that isn’t likely to change any time soon.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Kind of a big oops for a regime that wants us to breed more. 🙄
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“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist
May 4, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“Take and eat; this is my body.” - The Ueckarist
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Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
![WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media:
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.
“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/bafkreie7ky7hw4h6fcaqa6fkkqdyhg6czlebc2udp6fbbsjah4eoj7qg2y@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.
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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Just watched a red-winged blackbird chase off a large crow. Even if you feel small, you can still defend your territory (or democracy).
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Just watched a red-winged blackbird chase off a large crow. Even if you feel small, you can still defend your territory (or democracy).
Hoping to top this with even greater failure this year
I did so poorly in the SDCC hotelpocalyse queue that they didn’t even bother to send me a rejection email
April 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hoping to top this with even greater failure this year
It’s 23 degrees in mid April, our country is imploding, and everything is getting even more expensive, but Houston lost in the most embarrassing way so I’ll take the small win today.
April 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It’s 23 degrees in mid April, our country is imploding, and everything is getting even more expensive, but Houston lost in the most embarrassing way so I’ll take the small win today.
More good news in Wisconsin
Proud to be a Wisconsinite. We the People hold the power—when we use it. WI voted against hate, electing Shaundel Washington-Spivey as La Crosse’s 1st Black & openly LGBTQ+ Mayor. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion makes us great—not hate. Local elections = real results. 🗳️
📸: Shaundel for La Crosse
📸: Shaundel for La Crosse
April 2, 2025 at 1:23 PM
More good news in Wisconsin
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:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
April 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
:: BREAKING NOW: Multiple polling places across Milwaukee are running low or have run out of ballots as turnout is at record levels.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
MKE Election Commission is aware and sending out fresh ballots.
If you are in line -- or know someone who is -- ballots are on the way.
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REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
April 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
REMINDER: Wisconsin has same-day voter registration.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
So, if you haven’t registered or recently moved or anything like that, you can register at your polling place (with ID and proof of residence) TODAY.
Every state should do this. It’s great that Wisconsin does this. Go vote.
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dear god wisconsinsites please vote i am so tired
April 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
dear god wisconsinsites please vote i am so tired
The distraction cycle is in full swing today
March 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The distraction cycle is in full swing today
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become ungovernable
February 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
become ungovernable
Thinking I might go buy myself some DEI flowers at Costco today.
February 13, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Thinking I might go buy myself some DEI flowers at Costco today.
Thinking of upgrading my iphone because my 13 mini battery and camera is abysmal. Debating the 15 vs the 16; just wary of Apple Intelligence. Any preference for one over the other? Or is the plus or pro the way to go?
February 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Thinking of upgrading my iphone because my 13 mini battery and camera is abysmal. Debating the 15 vs the 16; just wary of Apple Intelligence. Any preference for one over the other? Or is the plus or pro the way to go?