Patsy Baloney
@patsybaloney.bsky.social
Hope. Sewell. L'Engle. Zelazny. McKillip. Steinbeck. Asimov. Tepper. West. Pratchett. --- The creatures. The Earth. The stars.
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Patsy Baloney
@patsybaloney.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Softly humming La Marseillaise.
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This adds to the Democratic flip in the Miami mayoral election.
Those were two of my major elections to watch tonight — you can keep up here:
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
Those were two of my major elections to watch tonight — you can keep up here:
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.
This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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The Be Heard Movement has a goal of providing showers and laundry services to the unhoused for free. Now, they’re celebrating a big achievement.
Free showers for homeless; Group passes 1,000 showers
The Be Heard Movement has a goal of providing showers and laundry services to the unhoused for free. Now, they’re celebrating a big achievement.
kfor.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The Be Heard Movement has a goal of providing showers and laundry services to the unhoused for free. Now, they’re celebrating a big achievement.
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Great read...
"Today’s tech billionaires do not treasure humanity but instead see human beings as treasure, as generators of data and money, as resources to be manipulated and commodified and plundered. 1/
"Today’s tech billionaires do not treasure humanity but instead see human beings as treasure, as generators of data and money, as resources to be manipulated and commodified and plundered. 1/
The explosion of artificial intelligence is overseen by people who will do and say whatever it takes for them to maintain their dominance. Adam Lowenstein reports on the lust for power sweeping Silicon Valley:
trib.al/8gSJ5kO
trib.al/8gSJ5kO
Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - The American Prospect
To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a different set of rules and expectations.
trib.al
December 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Great read...
"Today’s tech billionaires do not treasure humanity but instead see human beings as treasure, as generators of data and money, as resources to be manipulated and commodified and plundered. 1/
"Today’s tech billionaires do not treasure humanity but instead see human beings as treasure, as generators of data and money, as resources to be manipulated and commodified and plundered. 1/
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Close-up of a sweet Black-capped Chickadee with a shallow depth of field. Chickadee noggins don't get bigger in the fall and winter but their brains do about by 30%. This increase in the brain's memory center helps them remember where they have stored thousands of seeds.
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Close-up of a sweet Black-capped Chickadee with a shallow depth of field. Chickadee noggins don't get bigger in the fall and winter but their brains do about by 30%. This increase in the brain's memory center helps them remember where they have stored thousands of seeds.
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Today's hearing featured GOP justices ready to take us to a system of election by oligarchs.
The Supreme Court ponders giving billionaires even more power
Republicans want the last limits on political spending eliminated.
www.motherjones.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Today's hearing featured GOP justices ready to take us to a system of election by oligarchs.
Yes, yes, the purpose of higher ed is to meet "workforce needs".
Philistines.
Philistines.
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education terminates 16 OU degree programs, suspends 3 others
The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education approved the termination of 16 and the suspension of three OU degree programs Friday as part of the board's comprehensive review of programs
www.oudaily.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Yes, yes, the purpose of higher ed is to meet "workforce needs".
Philistines.
Philistines.
Heroes everywhere!
A lot of really hopeful reporting here from American cities that have been invaded by the president's secret police force. These are normal folks doing what they can to respond to all-out authoritarian terror.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
www.inquirer.com/opinion/immi...
In New Orleans and across U.S., anger over ICE raids sparks a 2nd American Revolution | Will Bunch
Everyday folks are rising up to resist immigration raids with whistles, car chases, and noisy protests. Revolution is in the air.
www.inquirer.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Heroes everywhere!
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Hey, 🌱 native plant gardeners 👩🏾🌾 👨🌾 near Sapulpa, Creek County, 14 miles from Tulsa, Oklahoma
I donated some native plant seeds to the public library last month, but their seeds were all veggies and I'm afraid they will languish amongst the curcurbits. So, I thought I'd post them just in case anyone local is following me. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱
December 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hey, 🌱 native plant gardeners 👩🏾🌾 👨🌾 near Sapulpa, Creek County, 14 miles from Tulsa, Oklahoma
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I donated some native plant seeds to the public library last month, but their seeds were all veggies and I'm afraid they will languish amongst the curcurbits. So, I thought I'd post them just in case anyone local is following me. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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⚠️ BREAKING:
Europe Hit by Superflu Surge; UK Hospitals Overwhelmed, Schools Ordered Shut
The 'superflu' epidemic that has seen Britain's hospitals declare critical incidents, schools close and the return of face mask rules is now spreading to Europe.
Europe Hit by Superflu Surge; UK Hospitals Overwhelmed, Schools Ordered Shut
The 'superflu' epidemic that has seen Britain's hospitals declare critical incidents, schools close and the return of face mask rules is now spreading to Europe.
December 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
⚠️ BREAKING:
Europe Hit by Superflu Surge; UK Hospitals Overwhelmed, Schools Ordered Shut
The 'superflu' epidemic that has seen Britain's hospitals declare critical incidents, schools close and the return of face mask rules is now spreading to Europe.
Europe Hit by Superflu Surge; UK Hospitals Overwhelmed, Schools Ordered Shut
The 'superflu' epidemic that has seen Britain's hospitals declare critical incidents, schools close and the return of face mask rules is now spreading to Europe.
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Getting rid of this disparate impact potentially opens the gate for "neutral" hiring and admissions procedures that are designed to discriminate. Which is why the segregationists running the Trump "justice department" are getting rid of the rule. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
theemancipator.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Getting rid of this disparate impact potentially opens the gate for "neutral" hiring and admissions procedures that are designed to discriminate. Which is why the segregationists running the Trump "justice department" are getting rid of the rule. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Just in: Missouri organizers have turned in ≈300,000 signatures to block the GOP's new gerrymander there.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
Campaign to put gerrymandered Missouri map on the ballot turns in 300,000 signatures • Missouri Independent
Roughly 300,000 signatures demanding Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map be placed on the 2026 ballot were submitted.
missouriindependent.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Just in: Missouri organizers have turned in ≈300,000 signatures to block the GOP's new gerrymander there.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
That's an impressive haul in the very compressed window they had. They need roughly 110,000 signatures to succeed, though the GOP will now throw everything it has to disqualify them.
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News about the Ellison/Paramount bid for WB & CNN just keeps getting worse. Now we learn from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social that Trump’s son in law would be one of the owners along with the country that killed an American journalist? This is obscene.
www.status.news/p/david-elli...
www.status.news/p/david-elli...
December 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
News about the Ellison/Paramount bid for WB & CNN just keeps getting worse. Now we learn from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social that Trump’s son in law would be one of the owners along with the country that killed an American journalist? This is obscene.
www.status.news/p/david-elli...
www.status.news/p/david-elli...
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One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD
After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left
Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.
n.pr
December 9, 2025 at 10:10 AM
One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.
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American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) at sunrise at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County, #Oklahoma, US on November 25, 2025
Some camera settings I used are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Nov...
#birds #pelican #saltplainsNWR #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
Some camera settings I used are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Nov...
#birds #pelican #saltplainsNWR #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
December 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) at sunrise at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County, #Oklahoma, US on November 25, 2025
Some camera settings I used are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Nov...
#birds #pelican #saltplainsNWR #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
Some camera settings I used are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Nov...
#birds #pelican #saltplainsNWR #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
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happy bday rear admiral and pioneer of computer programming Grace Hopper, b.1906, NYC.
"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.'"
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."
"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.'"
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."
December 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
happy bday rear admiral and pioneer of computer programming Grace Hopper, b.1906, NYC.
"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.'"
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."
"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.'"
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones."
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The basic brioche stitch is really really easy: Slip a stitch purlwise, yarn over (this is done together in one single motion), knit the next stitch together with its yarn over.
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/b...
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/b...
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The basic brioche stitch is really really easy: Slip a stitch purlwise, yarn over (this is done together in one single motion), knit the next stitch together with its yarn over.
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/b...
annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/2022/10/13/b...
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Trump's National Security Strategy shocked many in pushing to overturn our alliances and cozy up to Russia. Reports now say it was largely written by Michael Anton, one of the first to push election-fraud claims in 2020: "Game on for the Coup", he wrote. Today's players are still the Jan 6 crew. 1/
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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In an effort to jumpstart a global microbe conservation movement, a team of scientists is collecting samples from all over the world—including the oceans.
📷 : Morgan Smith
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📷 : Morgan Smith
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December 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
In an effort to jumpstart a global microbe conservation movement, a team of scientists is collecting samples from all over the world—including the oceans.
📷 : Morgan Smith
🧵 1/3
📷 : Morgan Smith
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“Since 2016,” Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule has “emerged as a proponent of integralism, the idea that society and government should be based on Catholic principles. He has also become a staunch critic of liberalism, which he views as inherently reactionary and unstable.” 10/4/25 … 1/
The Theory, Born at Harvard, That Could Remake Right-Wing Jurisprudence | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Over the past five years, common good constitutionalism has taken tenuous root in elite legal academia. It’s now beginning to find its way into courtrooms. But scholars remain divided on its potential...
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“Since 2016,” Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule has “emerged as a proponent of integralism, the idea that society and government should be based on Catholic principles. He has also become a staunch critic of liberalism, which he views as inherently reactionary and unstable.” 10/4/25 … 1/
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Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter, 1862–1918.
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1916.
Oil on canvas.
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📷 Sotheby's
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1916.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Sotheby's
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter, 1862–1918.
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1916.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Sotheby's
Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, 1916.
Oil on canvas.
🙏🏼🌍🕊️
📷 Sotheby's
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Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections.
https://to.pbs.org/3KHQeTv
https://to.pbs.org/3KHQeTv
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett announces run for U.S. Senate in Texas
Texas is critical to Democrats' long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year's elections, and GOP incumbent John Cornyn is facing the toughest primary race of his 24-year Senate career...
www.pbs.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senate majority in next year’s midterm elections.
https://to.pbs.org/3KHQeTv
https://to.pbs.org/3KHQeTv