Ironically, the program was so successful at eradicating screwworm that it also eradicated much of the experience of DEALING with screwworm. All it takes is a female laying eggs on a cow owned by someone whose granddad wasn’t around to say “Shit! I know what that is!” and the next wave goes out.

A good thread on screwworms. Talking to an entomologist last year, he also added that the pandemic was the first domino. Scientists couldn’t get to the facilities, couldn’t get out into the field to check outbreak reports.

Autocrats do not follow the "rule of law." Autocrats "rule by law." They use the law capriciously to reward their friends and punish their enemies. The do not allow the law to bind them and their cronies, they use the law as a cudgel to punish others. Authoritarian law doesn't protect, it punishes.

This scummy lizard knows he can have an impact on those feelings of undermined voter integrity as he's doing the undermining.

This is not ok. This is the stuff that makes societies unravel and devolve into chaos. Everyone partaking in this should be treated like a traitor. These are not Americans.

Post a cartoon you remember that nobody else remembers

Rocking my Dorley mug camomille too 🍵

Look, my opiníon on the dude is he's gross, but there is something to be said about how badly the Dem party establishment F'ed up that Platner could come outta nowhere and win a primary. Maine isn't my beat, though, I'm involved in the Flanagan/Craig fight in MN.

Chanting at my tv "Ip-po's gon-na kill you!"

The law is salvageable, though, if these people face punishment. They dragged my family through hell despite a jury of our peers saying repeatedly they wouldn't indict protesters. A perversion of justice like this needs to be met with real justice for the prosecutors who broke the law.

When these orgs who want to restrict care talk about how much they compassion they have for people, how much they just want people to have time to make decisions responsibly, they're fucking lying. They just want support from people who don't already know how it is on the ground.

I'd like it if Democrats would fucking actually learn what the healthcare needs of a portion of their voters are so they'd stop getting baited into throwing their voters under the bus. They get asked this enough that they should have been curious to explore this by now.

New dish I made today. Cassoulet. Some kind of French comfort dish. Didn't make it perfectly, but I was so very filling <3

If you know ANYTHING about the French Revolution, you know that oligarchs would rather destroy their own country and run their own lives into the ground than pay their taxes. Nothing has changed. You cannot be pro-American and pro-oligarchs. Their greed is an illness that must be controlled.

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

Fuuuck, ok, yelling into void now; Any politicians answering this question is a moron. Unless you believe it should be a politicians job to regulate other people's health care, this has as much pertinence in a politicians job as asking "how will you defend us against the lochness monster?" 1/

This is Completely Unacceptable! You know what to do New Yorkers….

Ok, hear me out, thinking of our backsliding democracy and our constitutional crisis and ractionaries and such, and listening to @strictscrutiny.bsky.social So, ok, I think what I notice SCOTUS mention A LOT is how they are a bulwark to protect freedoms, BUT freedoms do not equal democracy

a very brief thread of my favorite stories written during my time at e&e news before politico destroyed it for no decent reason first, when i exposed terfs were behind this massive protest against the nation’s largest lithium mine

“The question is no longer what rights the constitution grants each person in America, but what rights minorities could ever have in a country dominated by far right ideologues.” Dismantle MAGA and its corruption, misogyny and racism

Hell yeah! Top 4 for Chaos Renegades on BB3 ladder <3

No matter how dreadful you think the Harris campaign was, it's an underestimate.

Watching the Volg-Ippo match of Hajime no Ippo, and screaming at my TV screen: FIGHT FOR-EVER!!

FFS guess I gotta look up who Northstar Dawn PAC are because they're saturating my YouTube viewing with anti-Flanagan ads trying to paint her as right of Angie Craig

This is just Tony Khan

Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry

Jesus fuck, just got a YouTube ad alledging Peggy Flanagan is supporting ICE detention prisons, and, just, my child, she's running against Angie Craig. Peggy isn't the pro-ICE one in this primary.

And this is the killer part, this industry wide instinct is exactly what paved the way for the Bari’s of the world.

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

Quick! A compliment I gett a lot at work is "How do you stay so friendly all day?" and I need a fun, non-cynical answer to give customers besides, "IDK, just the way I feel coming to work everyday"

Drugs I havent tried but would, at least once: X Low Key; Cocaine

Anyway, here’s that report. IMHO it’s very solid and I stand enthusiastically by it. bsky.app/profile/walk...

America; Multiple people involved in restraining and administering a lethal injection to an innocent black boy, and the courts determine no one caused his death.

Ah, the classic insane American puritanism. Movies glorifying violence but God forbid a sex scene exists, that's what's harmful.

Saw a clip of that guy from Staind saying that Bruce Springsteen duped us with Born in the USA because it’s actually not patriotic but I don’t think it’s really duping people to ask them to listen to more than four words of a song

@allelitewrestling.com is MY wrestling promotion of choice, and not close. Got this from @seanrosssapp.bsky.social

Just saying; I lived in Louisiana as a small time library manager and was making $16 an hour after a decade starting at $14. I now live in NW rural MN, working at Caribou, and I make $18 an hour after tips after 1 year. This is what's wrong with living in Louisiana

I'm glad to say I am not a Maine Democratic voter at this moment. And all I can say about the latest Platner stuff is... Trump is president because negative polarization in this country is so intense that there was no scandal that could disqualify him in Republican voters' eyes. 1/

WE USED TO BE A REAL COUNTRY A COUNTRY WHERE A MAN COULD SPEND YEARS OF HIS LIFE AND TWO MILLION DOLLARS AFTER SEEING A GRIMLOCK TOY TO MAKE A REAL LIFE TRANSFORMING DINOSAUR MECH THAT EATS CARS AT MONSTER TRUCK RALLIES AI? WEARABLES? A FOOL'S LEGACY THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR CAR CRUSHING DINOSAURS

Fyi to those unfamiliar with the history: “your sex life makes you too vulnerable to blackmail and so we must ban you from government work” is what we did to queer people in America throughout most of the 20th century

The GoFundMe is here www.gofundme.com/f/back-our-s...

Watching Ippo, reminded me of this meme I made.

I didn't realize the quality of your ad game, netflix

People such as; -Olivia Reingold -James O'Keefe -Andy Ngo -Nick Shirley -Lari Geiss who is not Bari Weiss with a mustache -And Tucker Carlson!

There's gonna be so many Democratic part consultants trying to put forth the idea that declining approval numbers for trump signs that there are gettable Republican voters for Democrats. What they'll not ever acknowledge is low approval is a sign of lost enthusiasm, not a sign of party switching.