Betsy Novotny
@benovo.bsky.social
Retired scientist, horse woman, birder, founder of Luminaria Enclave 🐸🫶🏻💙
https://luminariaenclave.com/
https://luminariaenclave.com/
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Wild that the Secretary of Transportation is out here pretending pull-ups are policy while the rest of us are just trying to make sure bridges don’t collapse and planes don’t fall out of the sky.
December 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Wild that the Secretary of Transportation is out here pretending pull-ups are policy while the rest of us are just trying to make sure bridges don’t collapse and planes don’t fall out of the sky.
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*glaring at Mitch McConnell *
We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
*glaring at Mitch McConnell *
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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡
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Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
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My uncle, Louis Conter, was the last surviving crew member of the USS Arizona. Quite the character - after the Arizona he became a PBY pilot for the rest of the war and got shot down twice.
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
Lou Conter, last survivor of the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, dies at 102
The seaman had a storied career in the Navy. Over 27 years he served, he survived the surprise attack by Japan, was shot down over the Pacific and was uninjured in the Korean War.
www.npr.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
My uncle, Louis Conter, was the last surviving crew member of the USS Arizona. Quite the character - after the Arizona he became a PBY pilot for the rest of the war and got shot down twice.
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
Lou Conter, last survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona, dies at 102
www.npr.org/2024/04/03/1...
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What did the Nazis do with valuable items of Jewish people they deported or sent to concentration camps? They did the same thing that Nazi ICE rats are doing with the property of Hispanic people.
December 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
What did the Nazis do with valuable items of Jewish people they deported or sent to concentration camps? They did the same thing that Nazi ICE rats are doing with the property of Hispanic people.
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YO YO YO CALIFORNIA PEEPS!!!
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December 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
YO YO YO CALIFORNIA PEEPS!!!
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STUDY of 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals: “Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.”
#COVID19
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#COVID19
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality Among Adults in France
This cohort study uses the data from all adults aged 18 to 59 years living in France on November 1, 2021, to evaluate whether there is an association of receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine with long-t...
jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
STUDY of 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals: “Vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.”
#COVID19
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#COVID19
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”
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To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M
Because of course they are…
Kristi Noem and Tom Homan hiring the best and the brightest for their new ICE Army. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Because of course they are…
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Add me to the list…
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Add me to the list…
Same
He can't stay awake. Or walk. Or speak. I'm so sick of the GOP denial. The embarrassing flattery parades. The complicit press standing silent while he drones on incomprehensibly or insults colleagues who dare to question his lies. Or laughing obligatorily at his non-jokes. I'm just so tired of it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Same
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Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hegseth told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement. The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he sharply disparaged the Geneva and Hague Conventions.
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TODAY IS THE DAY!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
December 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
TODAY IS THE DAY!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
GET OUT AND VOTE. Polls are open 7 AM - 7 PM
WE GOT THIS!!!!!!
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Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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The fix is in. Trump's $20 billion bailout of Argentina is intended solely to boost bond prices for Rob Citrone, a US hedge fund pal, at the recommendation of his friend, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Now we know where that tariff revenue is going.
Are we winning yet?
Now we know where that tariff revenue is going.
Are we winning yet?
November 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
“ …we have the energy of a generation ready for change.” Such a great 🧵! We need the fresh energy of these next generations to get rid of the current regime.
🪡 We were pretty small in 2020, but our team was still mighty. We reached over 100M young voters who’d been kept away from school through an online campaign called Prom At the Polls.
Folks dressed up to vote, asked each other out on prom-poll-sals, and celebrated democracy.
Folks dressed up to vote, asked each other out on prom-poll-sals, and celebrated democracy.
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
“ …we have the energy of a generation ready for change.” Such a great 🧵! We need the fresh energy of these next generations to get rid of the current regime.
Deplorable
Hegseth issued an illegal Caribbean strike order: “Kill them all.”
SEAL Team 6 hit the boat and saw survivors clinging to the wreckage.
Commanders then ordered a second strike to finish them off.
Killing survivors is blatantly illegal.
#WarCrimes
SEAL Team 6 hit the boat and saw survivors clinging to the wreckage.
Commanders then ordered a second strike to finish them off.
Killing survivors is blatantly illegal.
#WarCrimes
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Deplorable