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M. Crosby
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Home in the land of white pine and blue water, educator, science evangelist, admirer of all 🦑🐙
Thank you Governor Janet Mills! Send her some kudos if you agree.
February 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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but this is good.
February 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being.

www.youtube.com/@americanmed...
February 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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I have lost all respect for Google, the shameless fellator of fascist idiocy.
February 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and @chenoweth.bsky.social is a 2nd urgent read for the assignment we all must now undertake: learning about authoritarianism & effective strategies for its defeat. A must-read for this weekend. #PeoplePower meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...
The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth
"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io
February 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The Maine Principal’s Association said it will continue to allow transgender female athletes to compete despite an executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to ban the practice.
Transgender female athletes can still compete in Maine, sports governing body says
The Maine Principal's Association will continue to allow transgender female athletes to compete despite President Donald Trump's executive order.
buff.ly
February 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
@hcrichardson.bsky.social said to stop everything and read this. I say follow her orders - read how to resist destruction and what regular people need to be doing. It's an antidote to the disaster porn.
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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One GOP proposal takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own by eliminating the “head of household” filing status to reap some $200B more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own.
To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class
A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.
propub.li
February 2, 2025 at 4:00 AM
LOVE my Kobo Clara Colour. You can read almost any text based file, including saving articles from a browser and other long form writing. Agnostic text reader, good ebook deals, solid library.
Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.
February 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Thank you, Canada!
February 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Black cat loaves are hard to photograph. #caturday
February 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"The purpose of the End of Term Web Archive is to preserve a record of government websites... because they can provide a snapshot of government messaging before and after the transition of terms...and preserve information that may no longer be available...for open access." @archive.org
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The Reviews Are In! 👀

“Grotesque & Outrageous” “Downright Disgusting” “Disgraceful” “Absolutely Shameful” “Despicable” “Racist & Sexist” “A Betrayal” “Monstrous” “Simply UnAmerican” “Craven” “Pathetic” “Absolutely Vile” “What A Horrible Pathetic Little Man!”
#EmbarrassmentInChief 😩

bit.ly/3PZ2H4j
Trump's 'Grotesque' Plane Crash Comments Leave Democrats Gobsmacked
"What a horrible, pathetic, little man," one said of the president blaming DEI efforts for the deadly crash.
bit.ly
January 31, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated the GSA and they're looking for ways to use White House credentials to access agency tech, potentially allowing them to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say.

w/ @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk's Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...
www.wired.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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If Elon Musk's goons are downloading all this data (including non-public, protected data) that they are deleting from federal websites -- which is likely the case!!! -- then we are actually witnessing a heist job in broad daylight
The Trump Regime scrubbing health care data from federal websites is going to directly kill seriously chronically ill and acutely ill children and adults across the United States.

Doctors rely on this information to make life and death treatment decisions.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies
Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Good morning & welcome to #Caturday

Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up.
February 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Are you the "tech person" of the family? 👩‍💻

Now EFF has resources you can share! Send your family and friends to Digital Rights Bytes to get their tech questions answered.
Welcome to Digital Rights Bytes
Digital Rights Bytes
digitalrightsbytes.org
January 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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NEW: All students deserve to feel safe & welcomed in school — but Trump signed an executive order that would strip funding for schools that support LGBTQ+ students & teach an honest history of our nation.

This action is NOT implemented yet. We'll provide updates as we learn more: hrc.im/equalityhub
January 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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“Pairing cruelty and loyalty is at the core of autocracy.”

Trump's Week 1 flood of executive orders shows how these twin pillars—cruelty to enemies and loyalty from followers—lay the groundwork for dismantling democracy. @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explains.
Cruelty and Loyalty
On zone-flooding fatigue and the tenets of autocracy
contrarian.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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"Post it on your social media." Thank you, Mr. Acosta.
Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.
January 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Joy is not meant to be a crumb"

True. Eat the donut. Or the cake. Also the loaf and the whole cookie.

"We are not wise and not very often kind ... still life has some possibility left"
January 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM