major traffic incident

Not to spread doom & gloom about the current state of rural healthcare in South Dakota, but in the past two months we've seen multiple closures of rural hospitals, ER depts, and OB/L&D wings. Multiple small town nursing homes have closed and it's currently a *14 MONTH* wait to see a dermatologist. 🙃

Neil Young started his Farm Aid set with his anti-Trump fascism in the White House song.

It's 12:30 am and 90-something Willie Nelson is rocking on a song called "Everything Is Bullshit" Farm Aid rules

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

I want to print it out giant and put it everywhere

As an ecologist, just putting here for the record that we are never going to have an AI model 'predict the future of biodiversity'.

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

DOGE staffer Akash Bobba knew that he hadn’t turned up evidence of 12 million “vampires” collecting Social Security benefits, and he tried to communicate this fact to Elon Musk, but to no avail, SSA officials say.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

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Hey everyone, could you please help me make my grandmother's upcoming 90th birthday extra special? Grandma Gail is a retired US postmaster, so she LOVES sending & receiving mail! Would you please drop a birthday card or postcard in the mail for her? I'd like her to see a wide variety of zip codes! 💟

It's also "political violence" to steal years off people's lives by depriving them of shelter, stripping away health care, and gutting environmental protections — while funneling more and more wealth to the ultra-rich.

🌴 The history of the Caribby-islands London: Printed by J.M. for Thomas Dring and John Starkey ..., 1666. [Source]

Several people and I sued DHS and Kristi Noem, and won a preliminary injunction. Here’s the meat of the judge’s order:

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C. The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.

saw a tiktok of a girl on her first day of law school, which she felt compelled to attend after surviving the shooting at sandy hook they are that old and we’ve done nothing

Water filtration systems installed to remove the #ForeverChemicals known as #PFAS are also filtering out other toxic chemicals — some linked to #cancer. Story by @mollytaft.com ‪for‪ @wired.com. A thread about major health benefit to needed upgrades. www.wired.com/story/we-can...

this is the most useful short-form video i've ever seen www.youtube.com/shorts/aALT9...

Declaring dissidents and undesired groups mentally ill was one of the fundamental means of control used in the Soviet Union.

Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville interrupted a red-carpet interview with a plea to stop Israel’s military assault on Gaza City. Bonneville was speaking to ITV News ⤵️

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

If you have your own professional website as a portfolio for your CV, research projects & pubs, teaching experience, and/or outreach activities, which platform do you use to host it and why? I used to use Wix, but now I'm considering Github Pages, Owltown, or Google Sites.

Potatoes! Tomatoes! Beans! Cucumbers! Jalapeños! Pumpkins the size of my nephew! I love harvest season.

"You can't have a 'blue economy' if you don't have water."

Today is my 31st birthday. I stayed up way past midnight waiting for any news just in case it actually happened, and I still hope I wake up to a day filled with plenty to celebrate out in the streets. And yes, that's exactly what I'm implying. 🎂

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

I’m just saying that when it happens I’m jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Found this 8 iron while fly fishing at a pond in my hometown tonight. What is the most unhinged object you've ever found next to or submerged in a body of water?

Don’t look away

Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved earned sick time last November. Governor Mike Kehoe and Missouri Republicans signed away that right. Corporations won. Working Missourians lost.  This is an actual email forwarded to me from an employee of a company removing earned sick time.

🌟 Redear Sunfish, aka “shellcrackers,” love snacking on snails! 🐟 🔍 Look for their red/orange gill edges in Florida lakes. 📘 Explore more fish facts in this freshwater guide: ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00000131/0...

Who doesn't need a remote-controlled badger?

Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement

I worked at a USDA dairy lab the summer after high school and one of our primary research goals was finding uses for millions of tons of whey protein that was a byproduct of subsidized cheese production. This was when I first learned about the Missouri Cheese Caves

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave the answer America keeps failing to learn.

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

When police are made to respond to every single failure of the social safety net, this is the result: forced overtime, declining quality of life, an exodus of officers. Our proposal for a Dept. of Community Safety will allow police to do the jobs they actually signed up for.

There are some hard-hitting reflections in this piece on the events unfolding in the United States right now. It's deeply validating to be seen and regarded with such care and empathy by members of the international community in this turbulent, terrifying period. Thank you, @jackkennedy.ie

Harvested another round of produce from my garden by headlamp & taillights tonight because there's simply not enough time in the day. Can't stop thinking about the ripe produce rotting on vines & trees across America tonight or the emaciated P@lestinians being starved to death by !sr@e\ in G@z@.

Know anyone looking for a funded MS thesis project focused on native fish conservation? Send them this ad. NDOW and U. of Nevada-Reno are going to be learning more about this newly described species. (Note that the application deadline is quickly approaching.)

Stumbled upon an interesting OA paper out of @igb-berlin.de: [Nicotine] was up to 16x higher after rain events & positively correlated w/pop density. We must encourage tobacco users to dispose of butts & vapes responsibly (or quit altogether for our lands & waters!) 🚫🚬 share.google/dPsb9dqNaIzF...