Michelle
@michelleme-515.bsky.social
Wetland scientist, naturalist, and beer slinger. Cat video enthusiast. Curating posts for my own historical reference.
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files
October 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files
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The people who build their heaven on your land are telling you that yours is in the sky. - Nina Simone
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The people who build their heaven on your land are telling you that yours is in the sky. - Nina Simone
Pic of the day
#photography
Pic of the day
#photography
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
October 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”
It’s about control.
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ICE is committing crimes against humanity. And they’re doing it in our community.
Shut the Broadview facility down. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...
Shut the Broadview facility down. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...
‘Dehumanizing’: Inside the Broadview ICE facility where immigrants sleep on cold concrete
An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that immigration detainees have been held for days at the processing center in west suburban Broadview.
www.chicagotribune.com
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
ICE is committing crimes against humanity. And they’re doing it in our community.
Shut the Broadview facility down. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...
Shut the Broadview facility down. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/03/d...
WTF America.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
WTF America.
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“Every political movement in history, including the most bloodthirsty, has condemned political violence by its opponents. The only real test is whether you also oppose political violence by your allies. This is a test Trump has repeatedly failed.”
Trump is exploiting Charlie Kirk's murder to delegitimize political opposition www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump’s Dangerous Response to the Kirk Assassination
Rather than condemning violence and calling for unity, the president of the United States accused his political opposition of being accessories to murder.
www.theatlantic.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
“Every political movement in history, including the most bloodthirsty, has condemned political violence by its opponents. The only real test is whether you also oppose political violence by your allies. This is a test Trump has repeatedly failed.”
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them
September 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The last passenger pigeon died 111 years ago today and not a day goes by that I don't think about how their flocks numbered in the *billions*, that their roosts covered 100+ square miles, that they collapsed trees with their nests. America is incomplete without them
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A sitting US congressmen is openly saying this about trans people.
September 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
A sitting US congressmen is openly saying this about trans people.
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This Labor Day, never forget: the sitting President said we have "too many non-working holidays."
Happy Labor Day, workers.✊
Happy Labor Day, workers.✊
September 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This Labor Day, never forget: the sitting President said we have "too many non-working holidays."
Happy Labor Day, workers.✊
Happy Labor Day, workers.✊
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It just absolutely blows that RFK Jr. looked at this and said, no that’s not bad enough, we can do worse
August 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It just absolutely blows that RFK Jr. looked at this and said, no that’s not bad enough, we can do worse
I arrived as an EPA contractor to relieve my colleagues months after Katrina hit. Everyday we saw the failures at all levels of government. There isn’t a few days that go by that I don’t think about my short time there. From the bottom of my heart, fuck Trump and fuck this administration.
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
Hurricane Katrina forced changes at FEMA. Trump is rolling them back
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
n.pr
August 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I arrived as an EPA contractor to relieve my colleagues months after Katrina hit. Everyday we saw the failures at all levels of government. There isn’t a few days that go by that I don’t think about my short time there. From the bottom of my heart, fuck Trump and fuck this administration.
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Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
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In Middleton, NY.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
August 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
In Middleton, NY.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.
This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
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For the 3rd straight year, Alaska’s “Suicide Basin” is overflowing an ice dam, sending water from melting glaciers rushing towards Juneau.
An explanation of the rising risks of floods in mountain areas:
buff.ly/gFHmRWM
#climatesky
An explanation of the rising risks of floods in mountain areas:
buff.ly/gFHmRWM
#climatesky
Glacial lake flood hits Juneau, Alaska, reflecting a growing risk as mountain glaciers melt around the world
Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on an arm of Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges of water into Juneau for 3 straight summers.
buff.ly
August 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
For the 3rd straight year, Alaska’s “Suicide Basin” is overflowing an ice dam, sending water from melting glaciers rushing towards Juneau.
An explanation of the rising risks of floods in mountain areas:
buff.ly/gFHmRWM
#climatesky
An explanation of the rising risks of floods in mountain areas:
buff.ly/gFHmRWM
#climatesky
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Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
August 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.
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what could possibly go wrong?
August 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
what could possibly go wrong?
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Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down?
J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.
J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.
August 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Remember when Vice President Harris bought a few quality cooking items at a French cookery store with her own money and legacy media melted down?
J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.
J.D. Vance literally used the Army Corps of Engineers to manipulate a public waterway, so he’d have an easier time kayaking and it’s a blip on the radar.
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I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.
What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
August 7, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I know nobody under 30 will believe me, but this is the sort of scandal that ended careers, back in the before-times. Congressional hearings, weeks worth of Nightline reports, the whole works. The press _lived_ for this stuff.
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Republicans’ deafening silence on the ongoing deportation of Afghan interpreters and allies who risked their lives for the U.S. reveals the true depth of their betrayal. This is not just a policy failure — it’s a moral failure and a disgrace.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
ICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say
Advocates fear President Donald Trump’s ambitious deportation plan jeopardizes Afghan interpreters and other allies who worked for U.S. troops during the war.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Republicans’ deafening silence on the ongoing deportation of Afghan interpreters and allies who risked their lives for the U.S. reveals the true depth of their betrayal. This is not just a policy failure — it’s a moral failure and a disgrace.
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Man, it's just so gross that we're governed by these wackos who live in an alternative universe.
FDA Commissioner Marty Makary accuses the NIH of funding a lab that "brewed up a virus that killed 20 million people"
July 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Man, it's just so gross that we're governed by these wackos who live in an alternative universe.
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Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
Israel is starving Gaza | Editorial
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www.haaretz.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible.
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...
www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...