Debs
@debsgardner.bsky.social
Public health professional, communications nerd, and nature enthusiast. Health equity, wildlife, fungi, anti-authoritarianism, berries, lichen, slime molds, pikas, anti-racism, and fighting climate collapse. Also, kittens.
Thanks to the @wsdot.wa.gov employee who helped me out when I had an emergency with an overheated engine on Saturday on I-5 and had to pull over. He helped me get safely off the road to a weigh station to call a tow.
Turns out a poor bird had gotten into a coolant hose somehow and died there.
Turns out a poor bird had gotten into a coolant hose somehow and died there.
February 9, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Thanks to the @wsdot.wa.gov employee who helped me out when I had an emergency with an overheated engine on Saturday on I-5 and had to pull over. He helped me get safely off the road to a weigh station to call a tow.
Turns out a poor bird had gotten into a coolant hose somehow and died there.
Turns out a poor bird had gotten into a coolant hose somehow and died there.
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I wrote about the new Muppet Show, which is, thank God, exactly like the old Muppet Show.
Finally, a Muppet Show Reboot That Understands the Original Appeal of the Muppets
After countless failed gimmicks, this time it’s just like you remembered it.
slate.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
I wrote about the new Muppet Show, which is, thank God, exactly like the old Muppet Show.
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Someone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and man…
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Someone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and man…
It’s not fair that Icelandic gets letters like ð and þ AND has amazing words like this.
Icelandic uses various animal poop in insults. Examples: Sparðatíningur (lamb poop picking) = you’re nitpicking. Kríuskítur (arctic tern poop) = you’re super pale. Tittlingaskítur (small bird poop) = doesn’t matter/small fry. Taðskegglingur (horse poop beard) = you’ve such a bad/nonexistent beard.
The meanings of seven different types of animal poop in English…
7. Apeshit = angry
6. Batshit = unhinged
5. Bullshit = lies (or unfair)
4. Horseshit = bigger lies (or totally unfair)
3. Chickenshit = cowardly
2. Dogshit = inferior quality
1. Catshit = what you do when someone throws a ball at you
7. Apeshit = angry
6. Batshit = unhinged
5. Bullshit = lies (or unfair)
4. Horseshit = bigger lies (or totally unfair)
3. Chickenshit = cowardly
2. Dogshit = inferior quality
1. Catshit = what you do when someone throws a ball at you
February 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
It’s not fair that Icelandic gets letters like ð and þ AND has amazing words like this.
Happy Marmot Day! Maybe someday the Washington State Legislature will make the switch from Groundhog Day official, like Alaska did. #marmotday #marmot
February 2, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Happy Marmot Day! Maybe someday the Washington State Legislature will make the switch from Groundhog Day official, like Alaska did. #marmotday #marmot
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This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners.
Decide. Who are you?
Decide. Who are you?
January 30, 2026 at 10:04 PM
This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners.
Decide. Who are you?
Decide. Who are you?
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We’ve said it before, and here we are again. Mass detention + privatized cost controls + infectious disease = a public health nightmare--one that harms detainees and puts us all at risk.
Case of measles confirmed in Arizona ICE facility | CNN
The US Department of Homeland Security says a person in detention at an Arizona Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility has measles, a highly contagious virus that can cause high fevers and a distinctive rash.
edition.cnn.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:31 PM
We’ve said it before, and here we are again. Mass detention + privatized cost controls + infectious disease = a public health nightmare--one that harms detainees and puts us all at risk.
Great op-ed by a member of our Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel. #mmrc
www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Dr. Leizl Sapico: State must put data, plans into action to help new parents
Maternal mortality increased in Washington state in 2021–2022, the most recent data available. And the leading cause of maternal death might surprise you. It isn’t birthing complications or post-partu...
www.spokesman.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Great op-ed by a member of our Washington State Maternal Mortality Review Panel. #mmrc
www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 PM
At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
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They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 PM
They don't care what you believe. They are about imposing dominance and control over everything including you.
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Heartbreaking
January 25, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Heartbreaking
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Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
January 24, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
ICU nurse and researcher asking a woman if she was ok. Murdered by ICE. So utterly sickening.
This is Alex Pretti.
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA.
Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE.
#ScientistsAgainstICE
January 24, 2026 at 8:35 PM
ICU nurse and researcher asking a woman if she was ok. Murdered by ICE. So utterly sickening.
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Hey, I’ve lived in South Seattle for 13+ years and barely know my neighbors names. We’re a community of introverts that smile, nod, & awkwardly wave at each other.
But when push comes to shove, ICE will have to go through me before they get to so-and-so down the street. That’s my fucking neighbor!
But when push comes to shove, ICE will have to go through me before they get to so-and-so down the street. That’s my fucking neighbor!
West Seattle Woman Posting About Importance of Community Doesn’t Know Names of Any Neighbors: tinyurl.com/mr2b425m
January 24, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Hey, I’ve lived in South Seattle for 13+ years and barely know my neighbors names. We’re a community of introverts that smile, nod, & awkwardly wave at each other.
But when push comes to shove, ICE will have to go through me before they get to so-and-so down the street. That’s my fucking neighbor!
But when push comes to shove, ICE will have to go through me before they get to so-and-so down the street. That’s my fucking neighbor!
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Two of the three regional blood banks serving WA are facing a severe #blood shortage due to the lingering effects from heavy rains and floods in December, combined with a slowdown in donations. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/cod...
Code Red declared as dangerously low blood supply affects hospitals and emergency centers
For immediate release: January 23, 2026 (26-011) Contact: DOH Communications
doh.wa.gov
January 23, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Two of the three regional blood banks serving WA are facing a severe #blood shortage due to the lingering effects from heavy rains and floods in December, combined with a slowdown in donations. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/cod...
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NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father.
They remain in a Texas immigration detention center.
The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
They remain in a Texas immigration detention center.
The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
Border patrol detains 10-year-old Spokane girl and her dad, sends them to Texas detention center
Arnoldo Tiul Caal dropped his daughter off for school at Logan Elementary the morning of Friday, Jan. 9 with the unnerving sense that they were being followed.
www.spokesman.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:57 AM
NEW: Federal agents have detailed a Spokane 10-year-old and her father.
They remain in a Texas immigration detention center.
The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
They remain in a Texas immigration detention center.
The judge that is set to oversee the case has a 90%+ denial rate for asylum claims. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
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right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 AM
right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out
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The one thing that is growing extremely fast is the wealth of the top billionaires:
The top 0.00001% used to own the equivalent of 3% of national income in wealth in 2010
Now they own the equivalent of 12% of national income!
The top 0.00001% used to own the equivalent of 3% of national income in wealth in 2010
Now they own the equivalent of 12% of national income!
January 20, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The one thing that is growing extremely fast is the wealth of the top billionaires:
The top 0.00001% used to own the equivalent of 3% of national income in wealth in 2010
Now they own the equivalent of 12% of national income!
The top 0.00001% used to own the equivalent of 3% of national income in wealth in 2010
Now they own the equivalent of 12% of national income!
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Crimes punishable by extrajudicial killing in the United States in January 2026:
Being a woman
Being Black
Having brown skin
Disliking fascism
Protesting
Speaking
Assembling
Expecting Constitutionally protected rights
Being rude to IceStapo
Wanting due process
Enough. #AbolishICE #RemoveTrump
Being a woman
Being Black
Having brown skin
Disliking fascism
Protesting
Speaking
Assembling
Expecting Constitutionally protected rights
Being rude to IceStapo
Wanting due process
Enough. #AbolishICE #RemoveTrump
January 17, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Crimes punishable by extrajudicial killing in the United States in January 2026:
Being a woman
Being Black
Having brown skin
Disliking fascism
Protesting
Speaking
Assembling
Expecting Constitutionally protected rights
Being rude to IceStapo
Wanting due process
Enough. #AbolishICE #RemoveTrump
Being a woman
Being Black
Having brown skin
Disliking fascism
Protesting
Speaking
Assembling
Expecting Constitutionally protected rights
Being rude to IceStapo
Wanting due process
Enough. #AbolishICE #RemoveTrump
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it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here
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“This is another Tuskegee” is not hyperbole. good reporting from IM
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
insidemedicine.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:22 AM
“This is another Tuskegee” is not hyperbole. good reporting from IM
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Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The detained tribal members are experiencing homelessness and living under a bridge in Minneapolis.
www.twincities.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...
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Surely the President’s antisemitism task force will be looking into this pronto
Conservative media are promoting a GiveSendGo fundraiser for the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. The page includes the following statement from the organizer: "But this didn't happen in a vacuum—it's the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish)"
January 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Surely the President’s antisemitism task force will be looking into this pronto
Broken slates
- Not saying “sorry”
- Weaponized smugness
- Weaponized beavers
- Weaponized smugness
- Weaponized beavers
Future Canadian Resistance Tactics
“We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada.” — Headline from op-ed in The Globe and Mail. - - -Jam...
buff.ly
January 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Broken slates