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Legal editor. Amateur🍄photographer, photos: 2020 iPhoneSE, iPhone 16. Nature/dogs/science/sci-fi/movies. Vegan! Hometown: Pittsburgh, living in PNW. Owned by a rescue dog
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I posted my favorite mushroom photo I’ve ever taken (and I’ve taken thousands!) when I first joined, but I didn’t know about #fungifriends yet, so I’m reposting it. Waxcap. #naturephotography #forestfloor
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A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
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An American president is pressuring politicians of his own party on social media by name, even after some of them have received threats and been swatted in the wake of prior Trump postings. This is what experts on political violence call "stochastic terrorism."
Trump puts screws on Indiana Senators to greenlight GOP-friendly voting map
The Supreme Court seems unlikely to halt a tsunami of partisan gerrymanders.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
An American president is pressuring politicians of his own party on social media by name, even after some of them have received threats and been swatted in the wake of prior Trump postings. This is what experts on political violence call "stochastic terrorism."
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Also, gentle reminder that if you like my storytelling ways there are whole books available of suchness at QuinnCummings.com. If you're stressing the holidays my books manage to delight moms of both political spheres and I am not an evil corporation.
I am just evil.
I am just evil.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Also, gentle reminder that if you like my storytelling ways there are whole books available of suchness at QuinnCummings.com. If you're stressing the holidays my books manage to delight moms of both political spheres and I am not an evil corporation.
I am just evil.
I am just evil.
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I’m Princeton - I was adopted but the cat didn’t like me so they threw me back here and now the #nycacc Supreme Court wants me dead. I’m a mellow pup. Love a couch. NY NJ NH NE DE DC MD RI VT PA VA I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u! Food/vet provided. Pls repost me! FUCK TRUMP
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’m Princeton - I was adopted but the cat didn’t like me so they threw me back here and now the #nycacc Supreme Court wants me dead. I’m a mellow pup. Love a couch. NY NJ NH NE DE DC MD RI VT PA VA I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u! Food/vet provided. Pls repost me! FUCK TRUMP
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Remember: RFK Jr. fired his last CDC director because she refused to ram through his anti-vax agenda.
Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up.
This will hurt American kids and families.
Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up.
This will hurt American kids and families.
CDC advisory panel rolls back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation
The change upends decades of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance and goes against widespread public health consensus.
www.nbcnews.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Remember: RFK Jr. fired his last CDC director because she refused to ram through his anti-vax agenda.
Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up.
This will hurt American kids and families.
Yesterday, RFK Jr.’s handpicked vaccine skeptics threw out DECADES of settled science — and Donald Trump gave a thumbs-up.
This will hurt American kids and families.
If you wrote this whole Trump era as part of a movie script they would send it back as far too over the top and farcical to be believable.
How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If you wrote this whole Trump era as part of a movie script they would send it back as far too over the top and farcical to be believable.
On our daily hike, I don’t know if you can tell in the video but it is raining on half of the lake and sunny on the other half of the lake!
December 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On our daily hike, I don’t know if you can tell in the video but it is raining on half of the lake and sunny on the other half of the lake!
Current hike:
December 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Current hike:
1/2 Question for you glasses wearers. I’ve only had distance classes for a few years and I’ve had the same prescription the whole time. At my last eye doctor appointment she said that my prescription had changed quite a bit and just now I picked up my new glasses. When I put them on
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
1/2 Question for you glasses wearers. I’ve only had distance classes for a few years and I’ve had the same prescription the whole time. At my last eye doctor appointment she said that my prescription had changed quite a bit and just now I picked up my new glasses. When I put them on
I had the most incredible find yesterday, a whole patch of hygrocybe punicea, the biggest and reddest of waxcaps. You can see all my photos at the link below. #fungifriends #fungi
www.instagram.com/reel/DR7TAzs...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR7TAzs...
December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I had the most incredible find yesterday, a whole patch of hygrocybe punicea, the biggest and reddest of waxcaps. You can see all my photos at the link below. #fungifriends #fungi
www.instagram.com/reel/DR7TAzs...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR7TAzs...
This.
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This.
A fungus photo a day: Elfin saddle/Helvella lacunosa taken yesterday in the rain. The are little sculptures. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
December 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A fungus photo a day: Elfin saddle/Helvella lacunosa taken yesterday in the rain. The are little sculptures. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
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A whole Fourth Estate and yet not a single, solitary spine.
this clip encapsulates so much of what has been wrong about MSM Trump coverage for the past decade -- treating Trump's lies and bigotry as a valid "side" of a debate instead of calling it out, because calling it out makes it seem as though you're biased
MSNBC reporter presents Trump's shameful racism towards Somalis as merely "a different view"
December 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A whole Fourth Estate and yet not a single, solitary spine.
4.1 million views now, it’s wild!!!! 😮
2.8 million views now!!! Absolutely bonkers.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
4.1 million views now, it’s wild!!!! 😮
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Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
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My god, it really does just get worse and worse, which is really saying something given that it started as a war crime and murder
NEW info on shipwreck attack. It gets worse.
The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
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The 2 survivors climbed atop wreckage and waved to overhead.
"Some of the people viewing the video thought ... could have been an attempt to surrender"
Others "said the most logical explanation was ... signaling for a rescue."
1/
December 6, 2025 at 5:21 AM
My god, it really does just get worse and worse, which is really saying something given that it started as a war crime and murder
Tried to take a picture of the cold moon supermoon but… #supermoon
December 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Tried to take a picture of the cold moon supermoon but… #supermoon
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December 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Those of you who are judging me for still being on Instagram, I notice a lot of you either post on or read/repost things from Substack so maybe be less judgy?
Until the 10ish animal rescue orgs & the Black Forager start posting somewhere else, my one Meta app will stay IG. Feel free to unfollow me.
Until the 10ish animal rescue orgs & the Black Forager start posting somewhere else, my one Meta app will stay IG. Feel free to unfollow me.
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Those of you who are judging me for still being on Instagram, I notice a lot of you either post on or read/repost things from Substack so maybe be less judgy?
Until the 10ish animal rescue orgs & the Black Forager start posting somewhere else, my one Meta app will stay IG. Feel free to unfollow me.
Until the 10ish animal rescue orgs & the Black Forager start posting somewhere else, my one Meta app will stay IG. Feel free to unfollow me.
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This is a judgment free zone. If you need to break into a liquor store and pass out in the bathroom because you’re a raccoon who’s having a hard time, that’s ok. It’s called self care
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This is a judgment free zone. If you need to break into a liquor store and pass out in the bathroom because you’re a raccoon who’s having a hard time, that’s ok. It’s called self care
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💦Fungi on 🐿️💩 (cf squirrel)
I believe the #fungi is something in the Mucorales, like Phycomyces. Regardless of species I love it. #fungifriends
I believe the #fungi is something in the Mucorales, like Phycomyces. Regardless of species I love it. #fungifriends
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
💦Fungi on 🐿️💩 (cf squirrel)
I believe the #fungi is something in the Mucorales, like Phycomyces. Regardless of species I love it. #fungifriends
I believe the #fungi is something in the Mucorales, like Phycomyces. Regardless of species I love it. #fungifriends
A fungus photo a day: A Turbinellus/scaly chanterelle growing next to a Ramaria/coral fungus. Taken yesterday in the rain. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A fungus photo a day: A Turbinellus/scaly chanterelle growing next to a Ramaria/coral fungus. Taken yesterday in the rain. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
2.8 million views now!!! Absolutely bonkers.
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
2.8 million views now!!! Absolutely bonkers.