Kelley Smoot
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Kelley Smoot
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Structural geologist, investigating Central Texas’ Balcones Fault Zone & Volcanic Province. Studied Moine Thrust https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/118942; former wellsite geologist on China’s #1 San Yuan Tang, Hunan Prov. PRC 1993. Beekeeper.
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Wasn't June 14th No Kings Day a terrific event!?! Get ready for Indivisible's next national event with protest training from @handsoffcentraltx.bsky.social on Sat June 21, 1-4:30pm, Online or in person at 901 Trinity St. ATX 78701.
RSVP to guarantee your spot here -> mobilize.us/s/0i6wD1
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Seems the Israeli military killed 27 people at a food distribution site in Gaza explaining they were shooting at some suspects and the dead were what military types call "collateral damage." One infers the value the Israeli military places on civilian Palestinian lives must be quite low indeed.
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@ohhthatsrich.bsky.social gives a breakdown of the inherently flawed authoritarianism governing approach for which those who try to propagate it lack capacity to grasp its non-viability, currently being led by "let's exterminate US citizens" tech oligarch guru #CurtisYarvin.

youtu.be/0Nm5tRe8GAs
The RAGE failure behind the DOGE failure
YouTube video by Ohh that's RICH
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For more overview on #CutisYarvin the person leading #PeterThiel, #JDVance, #ElonMusk, etc. into believing American citizens should, in general, be put to death/subjected to genocide, or at least be imprisoned & tortured in concentration camps as a way to better serve a ruling class, see this vid:
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Always and in all ways ❤️
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Terrible excuse for a human being...
These tech bros are severely mentally-ill & need to be restrained for the rest of society's health & wellness. In 2008 Yarvin wrote, "This new regime would sell off public schools, destroy universities, abolish the press, and imprison “decivilized populations.” Now we know who authored Project 2025.
my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.
www.newyorker.com
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The rain is clearing. Join us today 5/30 at 4pm at San Marcos' Old Courthouse Square to make some 'good trouble' for Trump! Let your voice be heard! DUE PROCESS IS FOR *ALL*!
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On June 14th, we'll be having a No Kings Parade in San Marcos, TX to counter Trump's vain military parade that is paid for with our tax dollars, while our healthcare and basic social services are reduced or just removed, hurting all Americans.
Watch this space for details!

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Massive 'No Kings' protest expected to rain on Donald Trump's (military) parade
YouTube video by MSNBC
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Let's go San Marcos, TX! See you tomorrow, May 30th, at 4pm at the Old Courthouse Square and San Antonio St. to make some "good trouble" for Trump!
Let's Step Up San Marcos!! We hope to see you all tomorrow at 4 pm for our peaceful protest (111 E San Antonio St., San Marcos)
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“Leftists cannot tolerate other ideas” said the people who disappear their political enemies
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In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained

Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant
People might think that whatever destruction is done to science in the US, we can undo in 4 years with a Democratic president and Congress.

The problem is that many areas require specialized knowledge and skills built up over years, and once that's lost, it's hard to get back.
The damage will be far worse than just a 4-yr gap. Both I and the individual who has managed this site for most of the past 50 yrs are retiring within the next 2 years. With this closure, we will not be able to plan a transition.
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KELLY: To be clear, the only winner in this shouting match in the Oval Office is Putin. Almost can’t believe this happened.
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A thing I was explaining to a reporter this week is there is no singular definition of a "state dei ban" because each state decided to target different functions within higher education in such a way that the actual unifying thread across the policies is segregation and censorship
Why are you so surprised? NO ONE is stopping the obviously illegal & unconstitutional behavior of non-elected, not approved, no security clearance power mad Elon MUSK. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Robert’s green-lighting this UNCONSTITUTIONAL behavior, giving it a veneer of legality & normalcy.
I am now hearing from multiple folks in the past two hours (including some who have personally been fired) that mass firings have now commenced within NOAA--including, yes, at the National Weather Service.
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See @colehood.bsky.social’s post about being fired from NWS… just because they could, not because of his job performance.
As someone who lives in the path of hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and apocalyptic freezes, I’m not exaggerating when I say people will die from these cuts to NOAA & NWS.
The firings jeopardize our ability to forecast and respond to extreme weather events like hurricanes, wildfires, and floods—putting communities in harm’s way. (1/3)

www.axios.com/2025/02/27/l...
Layoffs hit federal climate, weather agency NOAA
The cuts could affect NOAA's weather forecasts, climate research and other functions.
www.axios.com
This is exactly as intended. Musk wants to kill off as many poor people as possible, and increase the white (male) population by all means necessary. Our world as we once knew it, as recently as Jan 19, 2025, IS GONE. We will never have free & fair elections again, and all govt money will be taken.
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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
@tiffanyclay.dev Chris Hayes went to Hunter College HS. Chris is an example of the skewed admissions that developed once boys were admitted (1975), favoring white boys and Asians, based solely on standardized test taking. HCHS now produces mainstream people who don’t rock boat. No original thinking.
I was sitting in LA at an outdoor cafe on July 5, 2019 when the Ridgecrest EQ struck some 200+/- miles to the NE. I thought for a moment, “Wow the street, as well as the palm trees, are swaying like I’m sitting on an elevated train platform.” Disconcerting to see solid objects move like H2O ripples.
Well of course Musk’s men at HUD come from real estate, especially the real estate forms that are
1) ethereal (AI) and
2) the cheapest, worst, least durable, worst investment, incapable of building generational wealth — mobile home ‘operator’.
Duh! It’s the money - that’s all it ever is with Musk
The person Trump and Musk are both trying to please is named “Vladimir Putin”