Violette in Dormancy
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Real human, plant nerd, Trekkie, opinion-haver, feminist
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Ben Zipperer
1 day ago
Trump's war has wiped out an entire year and a half of wage growth
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ProPublica
3 days ago
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfeeās raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. āIāve put a couple kids in the hospital,ā McAfee said. āBut hereās the thing: Iām a pioneer.ā
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He Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.
With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that's been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
https://www.propublica.org/article/mark-mcafee-raw-milk-recalls-maha?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1781006418&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Sky Marchini
7 days ago
has any man ever been more vindicated?
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Andrea LaFlamme
7 days ago
āThere may be.ā FFS. Forget the flags. I have a literal masters degree in public health, Iām an actual union leader (in my second term as chapter president,) Iām a college professor, and a reproductive health advocate. And people are quibbling over if he abused his exes enough to be disqualifying.
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Andrea LaFlamme
7 days ago
I never thought Iād be in politics either. And you know what Iāve been up to? Working in a local food bank, making art for nonprofit auctions, and volunteering on a board for homelessness relief.
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Gil DurƔn
9 days ago
What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."
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Michael D. Green, PhD
15 days ago
President of MIT not mincing words today in
@statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
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Plasma Ring
16 days ago
so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir
25 days ago
GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!
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Micah
17 days ago
Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch
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Michael LaFrance
17 days ago
A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
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NPR
18 days ago
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
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Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
https://n.pr/4faEqGt
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Just watched Meet Me In St. Louis, and is that depiction of Halloween accurate? We have gotten soft. Those children were burning things in the street, completely feral. They created a fake dead body to try and derail the trolley! There was no treat, just maximum trick.
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Saw a post about how doctors treat the pain of men and women differently, and it made me remember the time my brother and I went to the same oral surgeon for wisdom teeth removal but he got prescribed vicodin and I got double strength naproxen.
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Trish Greenhalgh
19 days ago
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years Iāve had SIX messages from people who saved a kidās life after clicking on the link from my feed.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesnāt Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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David Combest
20 days ago
When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.
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Courtney Milan
19 days ago
Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.
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Micah
20 days ago
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
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OlĆŗfįŗ¹Ģmi O. TĆ”Ćwò
over 1 year ago
turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
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Micah
23 days ago
it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me
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In shocking news, Justice department begins prosecution of rich people crimes.
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Rachel Maddow
26 days ago
"āItās possible that weāre starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...ā
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...
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Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/world/africa/congo-ebola-outbreak.html
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Sometimes you have one drink. And then you think, that was good, let's have another. But! You've been pregnant or nursing for most of the past 11 years and you are now, functionally, a light weight. This hangover is going to blow.
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Moby Dick Pride & Prejudice The Count of Monte Cristo This is too constraining, I need more slots
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Name a song with girl in the title but replace with squirrel: Squirrel all the bad guys want
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šØšØšØšššš Moth š§µ
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Apparently "8647" is our Spartacus moment
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
about 1 month ago
[disco sounde] Make a litel tea Reade a litel Woolf Staye yn tonighte! Staye yn tonighte!
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May they choke on their favorite food, the bastards
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The ten episode season is bullshit, bring back the 30 incredibly-uneven-quality seasons of
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Hillary Rodham Clinton
about 1 month ago
In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.
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Aaron Rupar
about 1 month ago
Alina Habba went on The View yesterday & it did not go well for her HABBA: The DOJ brings real cases. We are not Jack Smith. We are not Letitia James. We bring real cases AUDIENCE: *laughs & groans* HOSTIN: You actually were sanctioned nearly $1 mil for filing a frivolous lawsuit against Comey
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Strawberry Uterus On tour now!
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Paul Waldman
about 1 month ago
Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.
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The Onion
about 1 month ago
Supreme Court Overturns āRight v. Wrongā
https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/
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Micah
about 1 month ago
the thing with Trump is you really can blame most of the current inflation directly on him and his policies (tariffs, Iran war) in a way that is not true of other presidents who have had to deal with inflation
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ElieNYC
about 1 month ago
Hereās my piece on the ānow-completed demolitionā of the Voting Rights Act in
@thenation.com
The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.
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The Supreme Court Has Completed Its Quest to Kill the Voting Rights Act
In its 6-3 decision, the court gutted the legislation that ended apartheid in this countryāand once again gave white people the ability to suppress Black political power.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-court-demolishes-voting-rights-act/
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Micah
about 1 month ago
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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southpaw
about 1 month ago
āDisappointedā āSurprisedā āBetrayedā: 12 Dogs Who Were Given a Bath After Being Embraced and Told āItās Time for Your Bathā
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Tim White
about 1 month ago
Day 1526 of Russia's choice to invade and murder peaceful neighbours. They're still at it. But it's now 4,452 days since the start of Putin's plan to invade and illegally annex Crimea and all south-eastern regions of Ukraine. I've documented everything - here's the latestš§µ
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Karen Attiah
about 1 month ago
"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to oursāfor their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkersāit will be too late for many of the rest of us." -
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
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A Year of Magical Thinking
Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-year-of-magical-thinking/
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
HARDER: What are the health harms of this repeal? ZELDIN: It could be 0 HARDER: You think doubling the amount of mercury pollution is going to result in 0 health harms?
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Willow
about 1 month ago
Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.
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Harry Turtledove
about 2 months ago
Uranium glass ain't nothin'. They had...
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David Rothkopf
about 2 months ago
Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. Weāve lost the plot.
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Courtney Milan
about 2 months ago
The new technology that is going to actually transform this century is being able to manufacture and deliver solid state batteries at scale. There are so many applications for this, all of which will replace fossil fuels at a scale not seen before and enable things we have not yet dreamed of.
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