Gene Parmesan, Jr. 🇺🇦 🐸 🐢
@citizen-scientist.bsky.social
Awkward cat dad. Environmental science and map/GIS person. Runner, pretend photog, music fiend. Keystoner.
A heart, a conscience, and kindness.
“It’s a strange world out there. Let’s keep it that way.”
A heart, a conscience, and kindness.
“It’s a strange world out there. Let’s keep it that way.”
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will say this over and over but the message from the republican party is that we need to go backwards, everything was better in the past, human progress is bad, and you should make less money, buy fewer things, and enjoy nothing. but minorities will also suffer and that is the most important thing.
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
will say this over and over but the message from the republican party is that we need to go backwards, everything was better in the past, human progress is bad, and you should make less money, buy fewer things, and enjoy nothing. but minorities will also suffer and that is the most important thing.
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If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
Stephen Miller: "If Somalia keeps failing, if these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself if you bring those societies into our country & then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think is going to happen? You're going to replicate the conditions they left"
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
If your origins are Southern Italian, Irish, Polish etc. some version of this claim - the immigrant is a criminal underclass incompatible with the true Americans - has been around forever. They hate that the idea of America is more important than any group.
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“These deals are real” is the kind of thing you never need to say when you make real deals.
Brooke Rollins: "These deals are real. No one in the history of our country has ever been able to effectuate deals like this. We won't see the effect until next year."
December 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
“These deals are real” is the kind of thing you never need to say when you make real deals.
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The Republicans really haven’t given healthcare policy even a few moments of thought. Every idea is just “take what insurance already is and make it less.”
Marshall on the GOP healthcare plan: "The other thing I would do is establish an invisible high-risk insurance pool, a reinsurance pool. And when people reach a certain amount of spending, say for cancer, they would go into this reinsurance pool & that protects everybody from a preexisting issue"
December 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Republicans really haven’t given healthcare policy even a few moments of thought. Every idea is just “take what insurance already is and make it less.”
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love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
love to get lectured on the virtues of spartanism from the guy with the gold toilets
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wanted to bring this to everyone’s attention but the SPEED Act is being advanced in the House of Reps. the SPEED Act is a bill that will rip environmental protections and put critical habitats and wildlife at risk. it will rewrite so many of the protections NEPA has in place.
if you can, speak up
if you can, speak up
Defend Your Right to Speak Up for Birds: Oppose the SPEED Act!
act.abcbirds.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
wanted to bring this to everyone’s attention but the SPEED Act is being advanced in the House of Reps. the SPEED Act is a bill that will rip environmental protections and put critical habitats and wildlife at risk. it will rewrite so many of the protections NEPA has in place.
if you can, speak up
if you can, speak up
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I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
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something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
something you have to understand about Trump & his weird comments about the economy is that the dude hasn't paid for anything like a normal person in decades - never pumps gas, never buys groceries - so he's completely & utterly out of touch with what life is like for most of us
Like most things TFG gets up to, follow the money. The swamp is growing from the utter corruption.
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Like most things TFG gets up to, follow the money. The swamp is growing from the utter corruption.
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I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
I need you to listen to and share this story - of how Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine in exchange for Russian money for his billionaire friends.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
It could be the greatest corruption of American foreign policy in our history. Russia gets Ukraine. Trump's friends get rich.
December 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've twice explained to spouse that there is no peace plan. Rather, there's a plan to limit the blowback when Trump capitulates to Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
Trump will do it anyway: Trump is going to reverse sanctions bc he wants the grift.
He's just trying to limit blowback for Russia Russia Russia.
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This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is a time in our nation's history that will be remembered for all the broken fools who needed so much attention.
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Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Did you know that before Nixon and Reagan, health insurance companies in America were non-profit? Yep, they screamed about "socialized medicine" and gradually shifted the focus of our entire healthcare system from public welfare to... making bucks off illness.
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Funny how 7-10 million of us managed to gather all over the country without a single violent incident that was not instigated by MAGA. But the minute a few hundred of us gather to protest ICE we turn into violent rioters who need to be pepper sprayed?
Smells like, complete and utter bullshit.
Smells like, complete and utter bullshit.
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Funny how 7-10 million of us managed to gather all over the country without a single violent incident that was not instigated by MAGA. But the minute a few hundred of us gather to protest ICE we turn into violent rioters who need to be pepper sprayed?
Smells like, complete and utter bullshit.
Smells like, complete and utter bullshit.
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John Roberts is a dick.
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
John Roberts is a dick.
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Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
BREAKING: Supreme Court GRANTS Texas request to restore redistricting maps
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
apparent 6-3 ruling with the liberals in dissent @courthousenews.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.
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It turns out, when you mix the 2016 video of Pete Hegseth talking about troops not following unlawful orders with the recent Democratic PSA on the same subject, their message flows together pretty seamlessly.
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It turns out, when you mix the 2016 video of Pete Hegseth talking about troops not following unlawful orders with the recent Democratic PSA on the same subject, their message flows together pretty seamlessly.
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
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It's kind of mind-blowing how these tech dorks think they're so smart and have the utmost confidence in their genius, while actual smart people are constantly doubting themselves and critiquing their own arguments.
December 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's kind of mind-blowing how these tech dorks think they're so smart and have the utmost confidence in their genius, while actual smart people are constantly doubting themselves and critiquing their own arguments.
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If there weren't 834 other scandals, this would be scandal #1.
Selling out US security, our European allies and Ukraine for personal financial gain.
Witkoff and Kushner must be investigated, or, there must be hearings if Dems take back the House.
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/t...
Selling out US security, our European allies and Ukraine for personal financial gain.
Witkoff and Kushner must be investigated, or, there must be hearings if Dems take back the House.
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/t...
Trump says Witkoff and Kushner had "a very good" meeting with Putin
Trump said their impression was that Putin wants "to see the war ended," but it wasn't clear what progress had been made in the talks.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
If there weren't 834 other scandals, this would be scandal #1.
Selling out US security, our European allies and Ukraine for personal financial gain.
Witkoff and Kushner must be investigated, or, there must be hearings if Dems take back the House.
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/t...
Selling out US security, our European allies and Ukraine for personal financial gain.
Witkoff and Kushner must be investigated, or, there must be hearings if Dems take back the House.
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/t...
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Oh boy. Good luck, Republicans.
Trump just f'd you.
I love it.
Trump just f'd you.
I love it.
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Oh boy. Good luck, Republicans.
Trump just f'd you.
I love it.
Trump just f'd you.
I love it.
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I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your own country and figure out your constitution."
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I hope people take two minutes to listen to this shocking display of bigotry. It brings clarity to what we are fighting against. We should all be sick to hear such un-American drivel from the President of the United States.
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I have been thinking a lot about hie we are simultaneously told that the guys behind AI tech are the most brilliant ones to walk the earth — and yet they require the creative output of the rest of humanity to make their product go, and they resort to stealing it, to boot.
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I have been thinking a lot about hie we are simultaneously told that the guys behind AI tech are the most brilliant ones to walk the earth — and yet they require the creative output of the rest of humanity to make their product go, and they resort to stealing it, to boot.
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Pope Francis, who died in April 2025, left money in his will to purchase ambulances for Ukraine.
This was revealed by Sister Lucía Caram.
This was revealed by Sister Lucía Caram.
December 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Pope Francis, who died in April 2025, left money in his will to purchase ambulances for Ukraine.
This was revealed by Sister Lucía Caram.
This was revealed by Sister Lucía Caram.