Pamela K Gilbert
@pamelakgilbert.bsky.social
Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
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Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and several other Trump officials are using Washington-area homes built for senior members of the military. Some former residents are worried that the break with tradition could make it more difficult for some admirals and generals to find affordable housing.
Trump Officials Move Into Military Residences in D.C. Area
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moved into a home at Fort McNair traditionally reserved for the Army’s vice chief of staff. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and others also now live in military housing.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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So much news, but remember this doesn't let up
Russia will not stop until it's stopped.
The war ends the moment Russia leaves.
Russia lies repeatedly (we won't invade Ukraine, we didn't kill Litvinenko, didn't kill 300 on MH17, didn't use Novichok in the UK etc etc)
We MUST NOT trust Putin.
Day 1345. Here's my daily thread
The war ends the moment Russia leaves.
Russia lies repeatedly (we won't invade Ukraine, we didn't kill Litvinenko, didn't kill 300 on MH17, didn't use Novichok in the UK etc etc)
We MUST NOT trust Putin.
Day 1345. Here's my daily thread
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
So much news, but remember this doesn't let up
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Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success
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This is so dumb. H1-B visas are a way the US has hired extraordinary people from around the world. Academic job markets are fiercely competitive, and foreign applicants are not paid less as departments generally follow disciplinary and departmental standards.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is so dumb. H1-B visas are a way the US has hired extraordinary people from around the world. Academic job markets are fiercely competitive, and foreign applicants are not paid less as departments generally follow disciplinary and departmental standards.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Tuberville thinks he’s sticking it to the Libs because SNAP recipients are all in the “inner city,” and Dems are gonna “feel the pressure” soon.
He’s the senior senator from freaking Alabama! He doesn’t care that his own constituents will suffer when SNAP is suspended?
Evil morons, the lot of ‘em.
He’s the senior senator from freaking Alabama! He doesn’t care that his own constituents will suffer when SNAP is suspended?
Evil morons, the lot of ‘em.
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Tuberville thinks he’s sticking it to the Libs because SNAP recipients are all in the “inner city,” and Dems are gonna “feel the pressure” soon.
He’s the senior senator from freaking Alabama! He doesn’t care that his own constituents will suffer when SNAP is suspended?
Evil morons, the lot of ‘em.
He’s the senior senator from freaking Alabama! He doesn’t care that his own constituents will suffer when SNAP is suspended?
Evil morons, the lot of ‘em.
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Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.
October 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.
No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.
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The Trump administration is a fascist administration, but the United States is not yet a fascist state.
Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process.
Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.
Total state capture takes time. Every obstacle we can present as individuals, groups, communities, and institutions helps slow that process.
Everything we do to resist matters. It ALL matters.
October 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Not feeling great about Pete Hegseth or anyone else tbh "testing" our nuclear weapons
None of this is correct. Good thing we have a steady hand on "nuclear"
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Not feeling great about Pete Hegseth or anyone else tbh "testing" our nuclear weapons
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Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Carney: But this decades-long process of an ever-closer economic relationship with the United States is now over. And as a consequence, many of our former strengths as a country—more particularly, our economic strengths based on close ties to America—have now become our vulnerabilities…
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omg!
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
omg!
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...
"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
Elements in Victorian Literature, Science, and the Environment « Humanities# « Cambridge Core Blog
Many eco-scholars today have lamented our current tendency to soft denial. We acknowledge major environmental concerns such as climate change while continuing to go about our lives as if they don’t ex...
www.cambridge.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look.
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
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Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.
October 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.
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“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.
apnews.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”
apnews.com/article/pope...
apnews.com/article/pope...
The whole thread
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The whole thread
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Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:
God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.
God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.
October 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:
God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.
God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.
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That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
October 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.
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Oregon AG Rayfield: Huge win at this moment in our democracy right now.
This is the president that is normalizing the use of the United States military in our country.
So to get this strong of a ruling out today for the public to see—it’s incredibly important.
This is the president that is normalizing the use of the United States military in our country.
So to get this strong of a ruling out today for the public to see—it’s incredibly important.
October 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Oregon AG Rayfield: Huge win at this moment in our democracy right now.
This is the president that is normalizing the use of the United States military in our country.
So to get this strong of a ruling out today for the public to see—it’s incredibly important.
This is the president that is normalizing the use of the United States military in our country.
So to get this strong of a ruling out today for the public to see—it’s incredibly important.
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My worst fear is that we have barely scratched the surface of what ICE has been doing.
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My worst fear is that we have barely scratched the surface of what ICE has been doing.
A summary both obvious and extraordinary
"You don’t need to be a mental-health professional to see that something’s very seriously off with Trump—particularly after nearly three years of watching his erratic and abnormal behavior in the White House."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A summary both obvious and extraordinary
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Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.
MacKenzie Scott gives $70 million to UNCF to financially strengthen HBCUs
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.
bit.ly
September 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $70 million to the UNCF, the largest private provider of scholarships to minority students.
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Donald Trump: Charlie Kirk "did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagree with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them."
In 2023, Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden.
In 2023, Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden.
September 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Donald Trump: Charlie Kirk "did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagree with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them."
In 2023, Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden.
In 2023, Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden.
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Wait isn’t this the war Grandpa Don dodged?
September 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Wait isn’t this the war Grandpa Don dodged?