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j wahr
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She/her. Xennial. Vegan. The world is on fire and I’m just here for the spiders. 🕷️❤️
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Are we great yet, America? Endless billions of our tax dollars spent on Tr*mp corruption while necessary services OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE MEANT TO FUND are slashed, gutted, erased.

$500k grift to Lady Lindsey Graham would more than cover the entire tsunami warning budget to protect thousands of lives
Budget cuts to take away real-time tsunami alerts
Real-time tsunami alerts for the West Coast, including Oregon and Washington, are expected to end next month due to federal budget cuts, according to U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash, the
www.thenewsguard.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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ahoy!
my pal @samfeder.bsky.social's film Heightened Scrutiny is available free to stream for a week starting tomorrow!
check out trans people just wanting to live their lives while horrible Supreme Court and NYT weirdos try to legislate us out of public space!
also Chase Strangio is a dreamboat!
HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY - Video On Demand - Gathr
With the dangerous SCOTUS decision upholding the ban on life-saving healthcare, Heightened Scrutiny is an urgent call to action against bigotry and injustice. HEIGHT...
gathr.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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A quick history of avocets (published in 2018), a charadriiform bird group with special connection to conservation (at least, here in the UK)... tetzoo.com/blog/2018/10... #birds #ornithology #waders
Avocets in Flight and Phylogeny — Tetrapod Zoology
The avocets: what do we do know about, and what are they?
tetzoo.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:

acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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🫀 Prints are here! Grab yours at @gallerynucleus.bsky.social

#frankenstein
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Genuinely obscene that after encouraging multiple suicides, OpenAI is allowed to have any influence at all on education.

End your partnership with OpenAI now, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org.
Just reading through this new OpenAI "teen literacy blueprint document." A few things jumped out. 1) document mentions multiple times that rigorous instruction must be protected but also seems to be suggesting/1
cdn.openai.com/pdf/openai-t...
cdn.openai.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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A bit of a squabble over the suet feeder. This shot definitely has some meme potential.

(Blue Jay vs Hairy Woodpecker) #birds 🌿
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
The more local police see ICE assholes as criminals, the better it will be for us.
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A tiny dragon guarding his treasure.
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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All the VSPs decided that we can't talk about climate any more, and the entire climate establishment pathetically acceded, nonetheless: climate change is still very real! And Trump is going to rack up Holocaust-style numbers with his anti-climate policies.
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The Trump Administration killed over 383 active clinical trials and directly harmed more than 74,000 Americans with lasting future impacts for the public at large.

Trump' s war on scientific research and public health is costing Americans lives and livelihoods.
Trump admin axed 383 active clinical trials, dumping over 74K participants
It’s a “violation of foundational ethical principles of human participant research.”…
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills: the emails from Landon Thomas has his New York Times signature block...he was employed by NY Times at the time. He was communicating directly with Epstein about Trump, and was given incriminating information about Trump. It's been in NYT's possession since 2015
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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RAPE. Words do matter. If they were under the age of consent, it's called statutory rape. I fought for years at various news outlets, always with male writers who tried to use phrases such as "had sex with a 5-year-old" or "12-year-old" or the like. It's not "having sex." It's rape.
Quick point of clarification for pundits, politicians, journalists, & any others commenting on the Epstein Trump files:
The victims were NOT "young women". They were CHILDREN.
As such, they were not capable of giving legal consent. Sex without consent is rape.
Words matter. Get them right.
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The bill to end the shutdown kills FDA food safety rules.

Just like public health, food safety isn’t flashy or exciting

When it’s functioning well, you barely notice it.

But it’s necessary for our survival.

Food borne illnesses have been on the rise & this cut will endanger lives l
Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules
After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.
www.levernews.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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starry ocean 🦈🌊
#art #sharks #fish
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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🚨 New @therealnews.com

"We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table.

I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike

therealnews.com/starbucks-is...
‘Starbucks is the largest labor violator in modern history’: Starbucks workers prepare for indefinite national strike
“We've been fighting for a very long time, and we're at the point now where we're done—and workers will go on strike by Thursday if this company does not come back with some new proposals and resolve ...
therealnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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From 50501 folks. These are the House Dems who have a tendency to DINO. Call them now and if any of them are YOUR rep and they vote with the GOP, what's your strategy to work to get representation in Congress? Bc these guys ain't it.
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Can anyone explain to me why the pharmaceutical companies are supporting the MAHA movement even though it directly threatens their business and bottom line?

(Only answer this if you have expertise or sources to point to. Don’t answer this based on vibes.)
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
Shutdown Deal Kills Rules to Prevent Food Contamination and Foodborne Illnesses
The gutting of these rules coincides with a huge increase in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.
truthout.org
November 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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hey GOP is THIS impeachable, or nah

(we fucking knew they had kompromat in December 2015)
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM