SalixMountain
@salixmountain.bsky.social
Baker, hiker, seeker in Great Barrington, MA
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"
March 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"
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This energy right here.
March 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
This energy right here.
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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.
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for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession
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We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
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This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.
We were just denied entrance into the EPA after asking to meet with a DOGE representative. More to come.
February 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.
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As long as this Elon Musk person isn’t known for blowing things up, we’re probably fine.
February 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
As long as this Elon Musk person isn’t known for blowing things up, we’re probably fine.
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1. Create Bluesky bots to ping and repost information from government accounts.
2. Aggregate those bots into a starter pack.
3. Create a more useful collection of government information without rewarding Musk.
2. Aggregate those bots into a starter pack.
3. Create a more useful collection of government information without rewarding Musk.
There it is. NTSB only sending info out via X now. Expect the same from CDC FDA etc. soon.
February 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
1. Create Bluesky bots to ping and repost information from government accounts.
2. Aggregate those bots into a starter pack.
3. Create a more useful collection of government information without rewarding Musk.
2. Aggregate those bots into a starter pack.
3. Create a more useful collection of government information without rewarding Musk.
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”
We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽
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what would you do differently if you were trying to legalize discrimination?
Friday night inbox: Department of Labor to cease and desist all enforcement actions under Equal Employment Opportunity Act
January 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
what would you do differently if you were trying to legalize discrimination?
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I’ve been drinking coffee since I was 8. We didn’t have a coffee maker. Everyone else drank tea. I drank instant coffee & loved it. Drank it non-stop.
Years later, my mom had half a cup, got wired & was like “you’ve been doing this every day?!?”
Coffee was only for special occasions after that.
Years later, my mom had half a cup, got wired & was like “you’ve been doing this every day?!?”
Coffee was only for special occasions after that.
January 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I’ve been drinking coffee since I was 8. We didn’t have a coffee maker. Everyone else drank tea. I drank instant coffee & loved it. Drank it non-stop.
Years later, my mom had half a cup, got wired & was like “you’ve been doing this every day?!?”
Coffee was only for special occasions after that.
Years later, my mom had half a cup, got wired & was like “you’ve been doing this every day?!?”
Coffee was only for special occasions after that.
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just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin
Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...
bookshop.org
January 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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It’s a really good book.
just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin
Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...
bookshop.org
January 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
It’s a really good book.
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this is the party that keeps texting me and asking for money
January 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
this is the party that keeps texting me and asking for money
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Zuckerberg said he made a bunch of changes to protect free speech but actually he has kept a huge list of restrictions on legitimate speech but made it clear that its now OK to call LGBTQ people mentally ill
January 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Zuckerberg said he made a bunch of changes to protect free speech but actually he has kept a huge list of restrictions on legitimate speech but made it clear that its now OK to call LGBTQ people mentally ill
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I wrote about moss and lichen and how to survive when greed makes the ground parched, and cold and parsimony is our portion: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
On Moss, Rock, Lichen, and Survival
“Moss. Roots” by Ivan Shishkin Lately, I’ve been looking at the life cycle of moss. I found myself instantly lost in a thicket of botanical terminology—from...
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January 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I wrote about moss and lichen and how to survive when greed makes the ground parched, and cold and parsimony is our portion: buttondown.com/theswordandt...
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Some folks might be asking why we’re still wearing masks, but I think the better question is: Why the fuck are so many people open-mouth coughing their gross mucus in the grocery store?
November 30, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Some folks might be asking why we’re still wearing masks, but I think the better question is: Why the fuck are so many people open-mouth coughing their gross mucus in the grocery store?
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Always read @mattglassman312.bsky.social - excellent overview of the 119th Congress (de facto underway now), which is truly the dog that caught the car mattglassman.substack.com/p/welcome-to... Dynamics of the GOP caucus are utterly pathological.
December 19, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Always read @mattglassman312.bsky.social - excellent overview of the 119th Congress (de facto underway now), which is truly the dog that caught the car mattglassman.substack.com/p/welcome-to... Dynamics of the GOP caucus are utterly pathological.
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on monday i posted a photo that i pulled directly from the campaign website of maryland GOP state legislator nino mangione because his cousin luigi was in it. it’s been taken down, but you can see it here: web.archive.org/web/20231004...
today i received this email from a crisis management lawyer:
today i received this email from a crisis management lawyer:
December 14, 2024 at 3:35 AM
on monday i posted a photo that i pulled directly from the campaign website of maryland GOP state legislator nino mangione because his cousin luigi was in it. it’s been taken down, but you can see it here: web.archive.org/web/20231004...
today i received this email from a crisis management lawyer:
today i received this email from a crisis management lawyer:
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The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 PM
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.