Gardenermerc

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Female, liberal, married & atheist boomer in Oregon with a rescued Great Pyrenees mix. Backyard habitat gardener.

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I still love this place

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Hey wow as someone with a stutter y’all are not kind At all Do you know what happens when you have the kind of stutter where you swap words? Your brain makes an association in a split second and you go “no, not that”, especially when nervous, and it just blorts out of your mouth.

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two reasons everyone could do themselves a favor and chill out: 1) we’ve seen an unpopular nominee everyone wants to drop out beat an even more wildly unpopular nominee (2016) and 2) unlike the goons who pretended they wouldn’t vote for trump, everyone’s being honest here

These are tense times, friends, and I appreciate everyone who's keeping a cool head and a kind heart while chatting about politics. I think it's entirely reasonable to feel that Biden should go or that Biden should stay. We all have fears, but there are also limits to what we can predict.

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I was the only video journalist there all three days. It was basically Project 2025 the conference and no one bothered to cover it outside of extremist reporters and David Weigel.

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Margaret Sullivan, the much-missed former public editor of @nytimes.com, on the bizarre collapse of our major media in the face of a fascist, rapist traitor who has been granted full immunity by a thoroughly corrupted SCOTUS stacked with GOP hacks. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The media has been breathlessly attacking Biden. What about Trump? | Margaret Sullivanwww.theguardian.com The bigger story is Donald Trump’s appalling unfitness for office. He tried to overturn a legitimate election and is a felon

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I don’t think anyone realizes that it’s not as simple as shoving Biden out and getting a new face. If you’re worried about Biden, Kamala is right there behind him. Maybe our press should step out of the feeding frenzy and write a few articles about THAT.

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Biden’s anger over Trump lying about abortion is bringing him a bit back to life

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Boy, I sure am getting a lot of cold calls and texts from recruiters looking to hire OB/Gyns in Southern states… Wonder what that’s about…🤔

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Lately, journalists have asked if scientists didn't warn us enough, or didn't know how bad climate change would be. Scientists did their jobs. It's fossil fuel companies who lied about climate impacts FOR DECADES. They're to blame for these heat waves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents showwww.theguardian.com Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak

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@washingtonpost.com publisher Will Lewis, one of the metastases of the Murdoch cancer killing democracies worldwide, advised Boris Johnson to delete incriminating images and texts on his phone. No wonder Jeff Bezos wants this stooge to put the fix in for Trump. www.theguardian.com/media/articl...

Washington Post publisher alleged to have advised Boris Johnson to ‘clean up’ phone during Partygate Covid scandalwww.theguardian.com Sources’ claim suggests advice by Will Lewis, an informal adviser to then prime minister, contradicted instructions to staff

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Chef's kiss. No notes.

Amanda Chadwick (@rain_storm_dancer) on Threadswww.threads.net I just died! 🤣🤣🤣

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One of the lessons emphasized in the wake of WWII and the various fascist nations was that there was a degree to which lots of people could be lured to support horrible things, that this was a huge risk, and this was why it was so important that we not have politicians & movements doing the luring.

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Thank you to everyone who welcomed me to BlueSky. Much appreciated.

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COVFEFELON

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I guess I can announce now that I'm one of the expert witnesses in this case (I would tag the other one but I'm not sure if he wants it announced over here yet) so things aren't all bad

Elon Musk asks Texas court to bar deposition in defamation lawsuitwww.reuters.com Elon Musk has asked a judge to block a bid to question him in a lawsuit that claims he spread lies on his social media platform X that a California man participated in an extremist group's street brawl.

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More than 150 fake local news websites pushing Russian propaganda to U.S. audiences are connected to John Mark Dougan, an American former Marine and law enforcement officer living in Moscow. Dougan fled his home in Florida in 2016 to evade criminal charges related to a massive doxxing campaign.

Russian disinformation sites linked to former Florida deputy sheriff, research findswww.nbcnews.com A new report from a media watchdog connects John Mark Dougan, who now lives in Russia, to scores of fake news sites.

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Reminder: these “disclaimers” in an account bio mean, respectively, “the entire purpose of this account is to steal other people’s work” and “we don’t care who they are”. I don’t know why such accounts are allowed here. Don’t follow or promote content theft accounts. They make the internet worse.

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GIFS!!!!!!

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love to listen to Supreme Court oral arguments about fun hypotheticals like “if you have a womb is it possible you aren’t a person” and “should we have a king”

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For Republicans, life begins at conception, but not giving a shit begins at birth.

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With my periodic thanks to @tomscocca.bsky.social for the concept of being Mad Enough To Blog It…folks, I am Mad Enough To Blog It www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | There is no constitutional right to pitch your tent on the sidewalkwww.washingtonpost.com With the right ruling, the Supreme Court can help restore order, both to constitutional law and to parks and streets across the West.

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By the way... we lifted our "no heads of state" policy. 🤐

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So I had a friend dying in the hospital last week which was really devastating after all these other deaths, but now there's a twist. The hospital told his family he had no brain activity and that it was time to take him off life support. Everyone came to the hospital to say their goodbyes.

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Over the first three months of 2024, a network of oddly similar and mutually interacting "news" accounts has sprung up on Bluesky. These accounts post almost no original content and instead just link articles and videos and continually repost each other's posts.

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NEW from Aleja and me: Staffers at agencies of Catholic Charities, the century-old faith/based nonprofit, tell us they’re upping security and fielding threats after becoming a target for right-wing media personalities — and even members of Congress — because of their work with migrants.

Threats to Catholic Charities staffers increase amid far-right anti-migrant campaignreligionnews.com (RNS) — Catholic Charities locations have become the target of far-right media personalities, conspiracy theorists and even members of Congress.

Fawn Lily #Oregon #NativePlants 🌱

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People engaged in actual electoral organizing are too busy to be yelling at strangers on the internet so that's your clue.

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I received an email from a to-be-unnamed press outlet asking me to comment—BEFORE the SOTU address—how gaffes during the address would hurt Biden. Really? LOOKING for bad news? They didn’t ask: how might this address affect his campaign? Nope. Just—WHEN he does badly, what happens Unbelievable.

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But I ALSO know about the secret or suppressed histories of resistance to fascism, real resistance, shit that isn't corporate or performative. It's the through-line. We can and will prevail

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Biden is just a few days older than he was the last time NYT made this the story. Meanwhile, Trump's business partners sued on allegations that he cheated them. News!!!

Absurd to say NYT wants Trump to win. This is how journalism works. 1. Biden weakness is more novel and thus bigger "news" (professional incentive) 2. Biden stories are of greater interest to NYT readership ($ incentive) 3. Being tough on Biden counters bias claims (prof./$ incentive)