Shelby Edwards
@sedwards.bsky.social
Writer poet with a day job | Senior senior risk manager with a knack for things going sideways | Army Maj (Ret). | Plant geek | Northwesterner | @STEWest at that other place
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"On Black Friday, take your dog for a walk, go on a hike, explore a beach, get out on the water, play a board game, spend time with those who matter," Richard Coolidge writes in this column.
And, "also remember to put down your phone." https://to.pbs.org/3TJzFVD
And, "also remember to put down your phone." https://to.pbs.org/3TJzFVD
Column: This Black Friday, do something different. Get outdoors
This year on Black Friday, take your dog for a walk, go on a hike, explore a beach, get out on the water, play a board game, spend time with those who matter.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
"On Black Friday, take your dog for a walk, go on a hike, explore a beach, get out on the water, play a board game, spend time with those who matter," Richard Coolidge writes in this column.
And, "also remember to put down your phone." https://to.pbs.org/3TJzFVD
And, "also remember to put down your phone." https://to.pbs.org/3TJzFVD
This is a company...and a leader as "Chief People Officer"... who's happy to pay and have policies to ensure a labor force on starvation compensation. She is a perfect product of the American corporate environment--but the model is bankrupt.
While work-life balance may give you a sense of happiness and fulfillment, it isn’t always realistic, says Walmart executive vice president and chief people officer Donna Morris.
Walmart exec: ‘I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance’—this is the mantra that made her highly successful instead
Many professionals see work-life balance as a non-negotiable. Walmart CPO Donna Morris says people should practice work-life integration instead. Here's why.
cnb.cx
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This is a company...and a leader as "Chief People Officer"... who's happy to pay and have policies to ensure a labor force on starvation compensation. She is a perfect product of the American corporate environment--but the model is bankrupt.
This young person should have never been on the streets of DC and the FBI should not be diverting anti-terrorism and crime resources to immigration sweeps--we have no idea what we are missing.
Thoughts with her family and friends, may she rest easy.
Thoughts with her family and friends, may she rest easy.
20 year-old National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom has died from her gunshot wounds. May she rest in peace.
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
This young person should have never been on the streets of DC and the FBI should not be diverting anti-terrorism and crime resources to immigration sweeps--we have no idea what we are missing.
Thoughts with her family and friends, may she rest easy.
Thoughts with her family and friends, may she rest easy.
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Worse yet, they say, it’s coming even before cuts to Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act take effect and the potential expiration of Obamacare subsidies at year’s end. The charities are warning of exploding medical debt and lower survival rates for diseases like…
Politico on the rising number of Americans facing catastrophic medical insurance costs: "The Trump economy is not focusing on the root causes of why health care costs are so high in this country."
Americans are buckling under medical bills. It could get worse.
Charities that help people pay for care say demand is way up. That’s before scheduled Medicaid and Obamacare cuts take effect.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Worse yet, they say, it’s coming even before cuts to Medicaid in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act take effect and the potential expiration of Obamacare subsidies at year’s end. The charities are warning of exploding medical debt and lower survival rates for diseases like…
Science is delivering some amazing stuff these days.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a heteromultivalent nanogel capable of killing some of the most dangerous bacteria known to medicine- with over 99.9% effectiveness against P. aeruginosa. It also showed strong antibacterial effects against other major threats, including E. coli and MRSA.
November 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Science is delivering some amazing stuff these days.
Kelly would make an exceptional SecDef...but he's a great Senator sitting on the Arms Services Committee providing that critical oversight role. Arizona did good.
In a more sensible and serious world, Mark Kelly would take Pete Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues:
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
bit.ly
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Kelly would make an exceptional SecDef...but he's a great Senator sitting on the Arms Services Committee providing that critical oversight role. Arizona did good.
So tired.
The prosecutor who recently took over the Georgia election interference case against President Donald Trump and others said in a court filing Wednesday that he has decided not to pursue the case further. https://to.pbs.org/4rlBdYb
New prosecutor won't pursue charges against Trump, Giuliani and others in Georgia election interference case
Legal action against Trump was unlikely to proceed while he is president but 14 other defendants, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, still faced charges.
to.pbs.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
So tired.
This is great science, representing decades of work. America needs to step back from the crazy and fund this research.
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
www.scientificamerican.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is great science, representing decades of work. America needs to step back from the crazy and fund this research.
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New Mexico's free universal child care program is a model for the nation.
www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
November 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
New Mexico's free universal child care program is a model for the nation.
www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
www.krqe.com/news/new-mex...
This is the most epic book recommendation thread...if you need something to read click away.
I used to share book recommendations on the other place but got out of the habit this year as engagement massively dropped off. Thinking about putting together my top 10 list for this year though, so as a test, like this, and for each like I'll recommend something great I read in the past 5 years
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This is the most epic book recommendation thread...if you need something to read click away.
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Sharing only because many, many, even most Americans simply have no idea--and they should. Utter failure of our system.
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sharing only because many, many, even most Americans simply have no idea--and they should. Utter failure of our system.
Oye, that love/hate thing with flat pack furniture. The biggest kind. I do it so rarely and then I am reminded...
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Oye, that love/hate thing with flat pack furniture. The biggest kind. I do it so rarely and then I am reminded...
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Wordle was a little on the nose today...
November 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Wordle was a little on the nose today...
Can you pardon a co-conspirator? And have it stick?
This would be the most brazenly corrupt and obvious guilt ridden thing he has ever done out of thousands of other corrupt acts. Even a huge % of his hardcore MAGA cult members will revolt against this and finally realize he is involved. But I am quite sure he is desperate enough to do it anyway.
Trump just told reporters on Air Force One that he hasn’t ruled out a pardon for Ghislane Maxwell
November 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Can you pardon a co-conspirator? And have it stick?
Ah, my mistake yesterday. The person here has #H5N5 not #H5N1, a first ever recorded human infection with that strain. So we have that, #H5N1 in wild birds and seasonal flu all out there. Winter is fun times.
We get so lucky, so often.
We get so lucky, so often.
Health officials in Washington state said they have confirmed the first U.S. human case of bird flu since February, with a strain that has previously been reported in animals but never before in humans.
First U.S. case of human bird flu in 9 months confirmed in Washington state
The U.S. has reported its first human case of bird flu since February, with a confirmed infection in Washington state
wapo.st
November 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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⚡️Russian military vessel spotted near Hawaii, US Coast Guard says.
The U.S. Coast Guard detected and monitored a Russian intelligence-gathering ship operating near the Hawaiian Islands on Oct. 29, according to a press release published Nov. 13.
The U.S. Coast Guard detected and monitored a Russian intelligence-gathering ship operating near the Hawaiian Islands on Oct. 29, according to a press release published Nov. 13.
Russian military vessel spotted near Hawaii, US Coast Guard says
The U.S. Coast Guard detected and monitored a Russian intelligence-gathering ship operating near Hawaiian on Oct. 29, according to a press release published Nov. 13.
kyivindependent.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
⚡️Russian military vessel spotted near Hawaii, US Coast Guard says.
The U.S. Coast Guard detected and monitored a Russian intelligence-gathering ship operating near the Hawaiian Islands on Oct. 29, according to a press release published Nov. 13.
The U.S. Coast Guard detected and monitored a Russian intelligence-gathering ship operating near the Hawaiian Islands on Oct. 29, according to a press release published Nov. 13.
They just need to leave people alone. The idea of revoking someone's legal passport with their legal identity (these aren't whims, it inclds court orders), leaving trans citizens in this bizarre limbo where the government creates a situation where the passport doesn't match any other ID...obnoxious.
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.
This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.
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Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
They just need to leave people alone. The idea of revoking someone's legal passport with their legal identity (these aren't whims, it inclds court orders), leaving trans citizens in this bizarre limbo where the government creates a situation where the passport doesn't match any other ID...obnoxious.
#H5N1 is in the news today, with a person from Grays Harbor County in hospital with critical complications and a report from Bellingham of an inflected flock. Very worried about our masses of overwintering snow geese and swans in the Skagit Valley. www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/a...
Bird flu reported in flock of Whatcom County birds, WA resident
Avian influenza, or bird flu, is often carried by migratory wild birds.
www.bellinghamherald.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#H5N1 is in the news today, with a person from Grays Harbor County in hospital with critical complications and a report from Bellingham of an inflected flock. Very worried about our masses of overwintering snow geese and swans in the Skagit Valley. www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/a...
Just saw this announcement today and I'm just so happy to see a prize focused on poets over 40. More please! Deadline is February 2nd.
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
November 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Just saw this announcement today and I'm just so happy to see a prize focused on poets over 40. More please! Deadline is February 2nd.
We could have had the smart lady who had a career of putting wretches like DJT in prison....
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
We could have had the smart lady who had a career of putting wretches like DJT in prison....
Need help finding some super short essay collections, like the equivalent of a fiction novella/novelette. Maybe 20k words-ish. Likely not a big commercial thing. Anybody have examples they love?
#BookSky
#BookSky
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Need help finding some super short essay collections, like the equivalent of a fiction novella/novelette. Maybe 20k words-ish. Likely not a big commercial thing. Anybody have examples they love?
#BookSky
#BookSky
Small California born pup has decided to turn into a cat and do the "I want out--eww, no it's raining--I want out--eww, no" and then look at me like I can make the water out of the sky stop because I am supposed to be magic like that.
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Small California born pup has decided to turn into a cat and do the "I want out--eww, no it's raining--I want out--eww, no" and then look at me like I can make the water out of the sky stop because I am supposed to be magic like that.