Phoebe Lostroh

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Microbiologist, feminist, dog and cat lover, LGBTQIA+ communities, Grinnell College and UWC grad; she/her 🏳️‍🌈🥖🌹https://tinyurl.com/Virosphere

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Courtesy of a local mailing list, I really think “for sale, chicken bicycle basket, only used a few times” could compete with the baby shoes thing. Look at this. I’m considering buying a bike and a chicken just so I can buy this basket.

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Please ignore the “How to Make Me a Raging Book-banning Dictator God King” plan written by some of my favorite advisors. That was in my “Don’t Brag About It Until November 6th” file.

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"Besides MBS’s polycule with our three deputy managing editors and his torrid three-way love affair with columnists Gail Collins and Bret Stephens, several of our copy editors are in situationships with him."

‘New York Times’ Fails To Disclose That Every Editor Dating Mohammed Bin Salmanwww.theonion.com NEW YORK—Readers across the country were reportedly criticizing The New York Times Monday for publishing a positive article about the leadership of Saudi Arabia that failed to disclose that every edit...

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One thing I tell folks when considering the contentious topic of abortion— It’s not actually contentious when recognized for what it is: autonomy. Go ahead and try it. Pick an article about abortion & replace “abortion” with “autonomy.” Yes, Alabama has a total autonomy ban, for example. #Facts

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Rushing into the hall at the WTO meeting to file my report about Biden being Canadian and Mexican

next up NYT breathlessly reporting that joe biden is getting an abortion

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We were looking up who’s involved in the environmental aspects of Project 2025 and it turns out it’s perennial environmental villain and coal criminal William Perry Pendley, easily the most Deadwood-coded Trump administration official

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MAGA are not The People. They're a numerical minority. They claim to speak for The People, and get there by defining themselves as The People and the majority of Americans as somehow not. Don't prioritize trying to persuade them. They're committed. Try to persuade everyone else to help defeat them.

The number of people who have replied to either argue or bemoan that “MAGA doesn’t care” like that’s the voting bloc we have to mobilize is going to make my brain melt out my ears like taffy on a warm summer’s day

confession. I do not know what Threads is.

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They roasting on Threads! On THREADS!!

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a list of gentle shows might be a nice way to support equilibrium over the next few months. here's one: Our Great National Parks (Netflix), hosted by Barack Obama

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Muppet Rabies

Ruin a children’s television programme by changing one letter. I’ll go first: Bagpiss.

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If you are reading/read Parable of the Sower (story begins July 2024 so I imagine a lot of people are reading it now), it's the book club book for July for the podcast The Stacks. They will discuss it July 26th. If you are a book lover in general, I recommend this podcast. www.thestackspodcast.com

The Stacks | Traci Thomaswww.thestackspodcast.com

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"If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside?" h/t @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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Very happy to see Massachusetts taking serious action against fake Christian "abortion centers" that do nothing for women. www.the-express.com/news/us-news...

Massachusetts launches campaign against 'misleading' crisis pregnancy centerswww.the-express.com Massachusetts launched a public awareness campaign to warn of deceptive practices used at crisis pregnancy centers that stop patients from obtaining abortions.

I have to work on a writing project for work (not for myself) today, and I don’t wanna. Sabbatical, I barely knew you before you were gone …

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Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?robertreich.substack.com The evidence is increasing

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"history"

Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoods

Scorched by history: Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoodsapnews.com Millions of Americans are facing major heat waves with temperatures consistently exceeding 90 degrees.

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Here: the author was awful if I remember right but since this is now officially divorced from her, feel free to go peruse the shit that happened EVERY DAY, week by week, during the Trump years… theweeklylist.org/track-the-ch...

I feel like there are a lot of people who have forgotten what it was like during the Trump years to wake up every morning afraid to look at your phone and see what fresh atrocity happened since you went to sleep…

Search The Liststheweeklylist.org The “new normal” of American politics is not normal. The Weekly List reminds us of that. On a weekly basis, the List tracks specific news stories representing eroding norms under the current regime. T...

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There certainly is an agenda being pushed out there.

It held

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good morning bluesky. more than 1 million in Houston are now without power as Hurricane Beryl pushes into Southeast Texas. www.chron.com/weather/arti...

UPDATES: More than 1 million without power as Beryl hits Houstonwww.chron.com Outages are spiking in Harris County as Beryl's bands move through Southeast Texas.

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Do you remember a couple years ago when Boston Children’s Hospital was targeted with bomb threats because of disinformation of their gender-related services, and a woman was arrested? She was convicted, and in the defense sentencing memorandum is something interesting.

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For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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We understand this correct? Project 2025 is not fringe on the right. It's just that everyone in the center and on the left doesn't pay attention to evangelicals cause y'all think they're funny and weird instead of wildly fucking dangerous. Project 2025 is dead serious and extremely popular.

Project 2025 is a creation of Evangelicals and it's the core mission of the evangelical right. It's what major evangelical organizations have been building towards for decades. It's not fringe. (I just fact checked a whole book a out this.)

I typed something totally wrong today in a post - I don’t want people to vote a Republican. Goodness. I need to up my proofreading game. I deleted the mistaken post and hope I don’t lose too many peeps over it.

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The news from France and the UK are incredibly heartening, and we love being heartened.

The best part of he day

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Academia's original sin is forcing the most knowledgeable, talented, and passionate scientists, educators, and scholars to move every 1 to 4 years chasing postdocs. The kinds of community level changes we need to fight climate change need people who can commit to those communities.

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3 more pediatric #flu deaths were reported to #CDC for the 2023-24 flu season. They occurred in late Jan, late April & early May. 1 was caused by H1N1, the other 2 were caused by untyped flu A & flu B viruses (1 each). This has been a bad year for pediatric flu deaths. www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/i...

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The White House announces that President Biden will speak at the LBJ Library on Monday, July 15 (as the GOP convention opens), for the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. He will also speak at the NAACP convention in Vegas. Both are WH events, not campaign events. (via Semafor, NewsNation)

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Vive La France! 🇫🇷