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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Aug 13

You were always one of my fav Twitter posters and I’m just so glad you’re here and filling my feed (as infuriating as the topics might be). Just an appreciation comment.

DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Aug 13

Unyoke this prof from existence

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

GeekTyrant @geektyrant.com · Jul 2

Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise

It looks like Indiana Jones might actually be headed for the reboot treatment. According to a recent report from DisInsider , Disney and Lucasfilm are considering a full relaunch of the iconic adventure...

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Jun 23

Second this!

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Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social · May 30

JOIN US, PALS! After a busy winter and spring of one-off community building classes, I’m switching it up for the summer. I’m launching a seven week cohort for folks who are currently part of a community project that they’re trying to keep humming (maybe as a leader, maybe as a participant).

Flyer with people dancing (an old WPA picture from Pie Town, New Mexico. They look like they’re having a blast). The text reads “how to build a community that survives and thrives. A Barnraisers Projecr summer cohort for tired but big-hearted connectors. Free. Virtual. Good vibes (with your help). Seven weeks of sessions (an hour and a half a week). June 16-July 31. Barnraisersproject.org

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · May 12

My coworker at a fed institute was told to destroy or payback a $50 thank you gift of a box of pears because it was over our allowed gift level.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 28

New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster

An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · Apr 24

At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague

Survey results of various medieval institutions, from castles to the Black Plague

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Apr 17

Manager is watching.

My cat is perched on a wood beam up near the ceiling of the house and behind me, sternly supervising me while I work (and make this post).

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Apr 12

Thank you for saying it 🙌

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Apr 5

Estimated 3000 people for the Missoula #handsoff - Via the Missoulian

Drone photo of the Missoula courthouse and 3000 protesters on the lawn

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Apr 5

Great turnout (and day) for the #handsoff Missoula, MT rally!

Hand screenprint sign in yellow and blue that says, “ENOUGH” being held up at a Handds Off rally.

Large group of Missoulians at the Hands off rally

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Mar 22

It’s giving this guy

Blowhard rich guy from I think you should leave sketch correcting an anecdote about himself visiting Egypt by saying, “I lived in Egypt for a month!”

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Mar 20

Yes

DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Mar 12

Bring that baby to Missoula or Bozeman, MT and you’ll make a fortune! Not joking.

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Mar 9

A group of Missoulians, many of us strangers to one another at the start, organized a Public Lands/Land Stewards rally that an estimated 1,100 Montanans attended today. We can make a better world.

A large group of people holding protest signs at a rally today

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Mar 6

A good thing has happened! Thought we’d run out of those.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 6

Rep. Zooey Zephyr - My Wife - just gave an incredible speech against a drag ban in Montana. It was so strong that a Republican rose to speak passionately against the bill, chastising the sponsor.

The drag ban dies in Montana, flips 10+ Republican votes!

This is the power of representation.

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DeAnna @minnetana.bsky.social · Mar 6

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performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Mar 5

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research

President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · Feb 28

I think if you don't want to buy things from major retailers today or any day that is great, and I would also love for everyone to remember that successful movements usually need to involve labor, and to start thinking of yourself as a worker first and a consumer second

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 24

1. Protests are happening literally every day these days. Trans rights protests. Protests against Musk. Heck, over a thousand people showed up for a protest at the Treasury.

I advise everyone, especially people who don't usually, to find any of them and just go to one.

It's important.

Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · Feb 22

The Tesla Cherry Protest is over 300 strong! Way to show up South Jersey! #teslatakedown #protest

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Feb 23

I've never seen it stated so plainly: Joyce can imagine herself as an author whose book event is disrupted by protestors so she opposes the protest.

Can you imagine yourself as a fired federal worker or deported immigrant? Wouldn't you want people to take drastic measures on your behalf?

joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · Feb 22

it's true that I tend to support bookstores & book people. I know what it's like to plan for a book evening, arrange chairs, hope for a good turnout. how dismaying it must have been for many when, outside the store, protesters caused a commotion as the event began.