@katydyd79.bsky.social
160 followers 27 following 550 posts
A "Park Service Brat" raised with morals, taught right from wrong, & to be respectful of/to others.
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
katydyd79.bsky.social
"[R]efusing to seat a member nullifies an election after the fact. It is another tool in the same kit: bending rules and procedures to deny representation." Disenfranchisement.
The Epstein Files and the Silencing of Adelita Grijalva
Why Speaker Johnson is blocking a duly elected representative and what it means for democracy.
open.substack.com
Reposted
katydyd79.bsky.social
👇
altcdc.altgov.info
🖥️Most CDC data dashboards are not being updated during the shutdown. Go to your state (or local/county) health department for up to date information on respiratory viruses, food borne outbreaks, and other health information.
katydyd79.bsky.social
Breathe. 🌬️
seanbagshaw.bsky.social
One of my favorites from the coastal redwoods a couple years ago.
Reposted
piperformissouri.bsky.social
I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.
Reposted
mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Finally, some common sense from a deep-red governor
larryferlazzo.bsky.social
Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
katydyd79.bsky.social
#VaccinesSaveLives #VaccinesReduceDiseaseSeverity #HerdImmunity #VaccinesReduceDisability
ryanmarino.bsky.social
The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.
melodyschreiber.com
The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted
beautysurroundsyou.com
Patagonia truly is wilderness untamed. It is not just the awe inspiring mountains, but also the stormy, dramatic and rapidly changing weather which make it so very special!⁠

#bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature #mountains #sunset
Reposted
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.
Reposted
monicatranel.bsky.social
Starving their base: Republican shutdown hides rural Montana's hunger

In the time of the Republican Grim Reaper We the People can support local food banks, register people to vote, gather data, and be the eyes and ears on the ground that the Reaper fears.
open.substack.com/pub/monicatr...
Starving their base: Republican shutdown hides rural Montana's hunger
The republicans shutdown starves their own voters
open.substack.com
Reposted
deanthepoet.bsky.social
Autumn in The Crown of the Continent

#ColorADay #YellowThu #GlacierNationalPark #Montana #RockyMountains #Fall #Autumn #Foliage #Aspens #SaveOURParks #PublicLand #ParkChat #LakeLife #NaturePhotography
Reposted
sbagen.bsky.social
I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back
open.substack.com
katydyd79.bsky.social
"Every shutdown teaches the public to expect less.

And once that expectation hardens, the parks change – from symbols of shared inheritance to neglected assets, open for use until they fall apart.

Somewhere in Yellowstone, a trail sign leans at an angle, half-swallowed by grass. The ranger..."
Will Pattiz (@willpattiz)
Every shutdown teaches the public to expect less. And once that expectation hardens, the parks change – from symbols of shared inheritance to neglected assets, open for use until they fall apart. So...
substack.com
Reposted
rbreich.bsky.social
Trump wants to invoke the Insurrection Act to punish anyone who opposes him, and he’s following a four point plan to do it.

Here’s what you need to know about it — and some thoughts on how to respond. www.youtube.com/shorts/31X8v...
The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
Reposted
milestaylor.bsky.social
I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.
katydyd79.bsky.social
I don't want to "like", or "heart" this, but thank you for sharing. 😞
Reposted
thebroncobill.bsky.social
In 2023, 919,032 people died from cardiovascular disease. That's the equivalent of 1 in every 3 deaths.
#CardiovascularDisease
Healthcare in Deep Red States (no pun intended) is about to get much worse. See map below. We deserve a Big Beautiful Universal Health Insurance Bill.
katydyd79.bsky.social
What a tragedy & loss! 😞
jjreport.bsky.social
A California wildfire wiped out this little-known ancient forest of massive trees just before major fire-prevention work was set to begin.

“I am sad because this old-growth forest is no more. I am angry because this outcome was a choice.”

www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out
Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.
www.sfchronicle.com
Reposted
calebcrain.bsky.social
Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Screenshot from a NYT article by Thomas Edsall, quoting Barbara Walter of UC-San Diego: "The quickest way to piss people off is to send soldiers into their neighborhoods especially when there’s no reason for them to be there. It’s inherently provocative, and Trump and his team understand this. Research by the political scientist Robert Pape shows that the single most powerful predictor of suicide terrorism is the presence of foreign troops on local soil. People hate, hate, hate that. They hate the humiliation, the powerlessness, the feeling of being occupied.

"Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order; they’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns. In the end, violence serves their ultimate end: They want to create the illusion of disorder so they can tighten control and stay in power indefinitely."
Reposted
altyellonatpark.org
Bighorn make for some great photos
Bighorn ram portrait in front of a field of green.