Judy Darnell
@jdarnell.bsky.social
Retired nonprofit public policy VP who fought for kids, families, health insurance income equality. MPP. Care about climate, science, animals and justice. Spend time in forests, beaches. Glad to be here.
Ready for the turkey! 🦃🍁🐈🐈⬛
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Ready for the turkey! 🦃🍁🐈🐈⬛
It not #caturday yet but this is so funny. He hid there so long. Didn’t think anyone could find him. 😂😂🐈 curtains customized by younger cat.
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It not #caturday yet but this is so funny. He hid there so long. Didn’t think anyone could find him. 😂😂🐈 curtains customized by younger cat.
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Judge Currie rejects AG Bondi's attempt to bless the indictments after the fact:
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
November 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Judge Currie rejects AG Bondi's attempt to bless the indictments after the fact:
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
"It would mean the Govt could send any private citizen off the street — attorney or not — into the grand jury room to secure an indictment so long as the AG gives her approval after the fact. That cannot be the law."
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This one is for the “I don’t like/follow politics” crowd or the “Politics doesn’t affect me” crowd. Your GOP government endorses more chemicals on your produce now. Congratulations PFAS!! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food
Critics warn the EPA’s approvals of new PFAS pesticides could expose more Americans to “forever chemicals” through their food.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This one is for the “I don’t like/follow politics” crowd or the “Politics doesn’t affect me” crowd. Your GOP government endorses more chemicals on your produce now. Congratulations PFAS!! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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"The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren't able to mask that up."
"200 teenagers from New Mexico, Kansas and Wyoming quit after just two weeks on the job. "We worked three days and all of us are broke,"
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November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
"The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren't able to mask that up."
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Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.
NYT isn’t worth reading because they are in the bag for Trump
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.
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Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Basically what Mom & Dad said 👇🏾
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BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard just announced they won’t classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols anymore they’re calling them ‘potentially divisive.’ Potentially divisive? Listen, a noose isn’t a conversation starter. A swastika isn’t a debate topic. They are dangerous hate symbols. Full stop
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
BREAKING: The U.S. Coast Guard just announced they won’t classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols anymore they’re calling them ‘potentially divisive.’ Potentially divisive? Listen, a noose isn’t a conversation starter. A swastika isn’t a debate topic. They are dangerous hate symbols. Full stop
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GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!
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JD Vance on the same morning Trump calls for execution of elected Democrats: "He's not a violent person:"
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
JD Vance on the same morning Trump calls for execution of elected Democrats: "He's not a violent person:"
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EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
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"I got a call from the general counsel at the F.B.I. about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts..."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"I got a call from the general counsel at the F.B.I. about changing exceptions to the gift rules because his boss, Kash Patel, felt like he should be able to accept more expensive gifts..."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In case you missed it: my follow-up video op-ed responding to ongoing conversations surrounding the COP30 climate conference and seemingly widespread misconception regarding how harmful 2-3°C of global warming would actually be for human societies, economies, and global ecosystems.
I recorded a short video op-ed to help cut through the noise surrounding the ongoing COP30 climate conference. In short: now is not the time to scale back our efforts to address climate change--quite the opposite, as the intensifying consequences have never been clearer.
Now is not the time to scale back efforts to address climate change!
As the #COP30 #climate conference unfolds, competing narratives from scientists, politicians, and influential billionaires swirl. In this brief video op-ed, climate scientist Daniel Swain cuts through the noise to explain why the present moment is an especially consequential one--including where wer
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November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In case you missed it: my follow-up video op-ed responding to ongoing conversations surrounding the COP30 climate conference and seemingly widespread misconception regarding how harmful 2-3°C of global warming would actually be for human societies, economies, and global ecosystems.
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
Beautiful video! ❤️
"A site affiliated with Lee Greenwood sells merchandise with the seal— pays licensing fees to a Trump LLC."
Trump makes being patriotic a total embarassment. Greenwood only had 1 song destined to last a lifetime, until now. Neil Diamond's song "America" is my song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulYe...
Trump makes being patriotic a total embarassment. Greenwood only had 1 song destined to last a lifetime, until now. Neil Diamond's song "America" is my song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulYe...
Neil Diamond - America
YouTube video by cozyhollow
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November 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Beautiful video! ❤️
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My family members were killed in the Holocaust—an evil era that went from deportations and a system where you had to show your papers & people were put in detention, to the tortorous murder of 6 million Jews, human experiments & 70-85M total deaths in WWII.
See the pattern?
Stop #ICELawlessness
See the pattern?
Stop #ICELawlessness
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
My family members were killed in the Holocaust—an evil era that went from deportations and a system where you had to show your papers & people were put in detention, to the tortorous murder of 6 million Jews, human experiments & 70-85M total deaths in WWII.
See the pattern?
Stop #ICELawlessness
See the pattern?
Stop #ICELawlessness
Share this video everywhere! Please. #ICElawlessness
What does freedom mean to you?
Have you asked your low info voter friends that?
Have you told them what it means to you? Does it mean masked men brutalizing random people—guns in your face—tear gas on your street?
Have you ever shared a video about #ICELawlessness?
Silence is complicity.
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Have you asked your low info voter friends that?
Have you told them what it means to you? Does it mean masked men brutalizing random people—guns in your face—tear gas on your street?
Have you ever shared a video about #ICELawlessness?
Silence is complicity.
Link⬇️
November 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Share this video everywhere! Please. #ICElawlessness
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Even though the end of the shutdown means SNAP funding should be making its way to the millions of Americans that rely on it, “the material consequences of the shutdown persist” writes @emmarjanssen.bsky.social:
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The Shutdown Is Over. SNAP’s Struggles Aren’t. - The American Prospect
Turning off the logistically complicated SNAP system—which relies on the federal government, states, and private companies to function in concert—and then trying to turn it back on quickly is no easy task.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Even though the end of the shutdown means SNAP funding should be making its way to the millions of Americans that rely on it, “the material consequences of the shutdown persist” writes @emmarjanssen.bsky.social:
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Happy Forest after 5” of rain yesterday. Morning sunlight thru the redwood trees.
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Happy Forest after 5” of rain yesterday. Morning sunlight thru the redwood trees.
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In my dictionary, the phrases "post-liberal" and
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
🔥 A former president & a former chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) resigned from ISI’s board on Friday. One of them posted this warning that “conservative institutions are being systematically…undermined by post-liberals who promote a ‘no enemies to the right’ mindset.” 1/
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
In my dictionary, the phrases "post-liberal" and
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
"no enemies to the right" and "neo-reactionary" and "alt-right" are merely euphemisms for "fascist" and "authoritarian."
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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A complaint: extending ACA/marketplace enhanced premium tax credits would be expensive.
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A complaint: extending ACA/marketplace enhanced premium tax credits would be expensive.
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...