Roger Link
roleli.bsky.social
Roger Link
@roleli.bsky.social
Retired leftist leaning letter carrier.
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The mountain is a library of old earthquakes.
The water is my amnesia.
The trees are scribbles in the margin,
frantic and clinging to the page.

We aren't the stone.
We are the panic in the branches,
the beautiful, exhausting struggle to stay vertical.

#photography #patagonia
January 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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Senate phone: (202) 224-3121.
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A switchboard operator will connect you.
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Our friend Megan Rothery developed this list. Don't be afraid to call Senators and Representatives from other states&districts too. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Do it!
January 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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I’ve been studying democratic transitions for the best part of four decades and the finding that most stands out is that if you remove the guy who’s acting as a dictator that usually solves everything
January 3, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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Our economy, our medicine, and the air we breathe are all gifts from healthy ecosystems. Denying the crisis of ecocide means denying our fundamental dependence on the natural world. We can't build a future on a broken foundation.
#Nature #Science #Biodiversity
January 4, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Trump is completely destroying our country and those who can stop him are sitting on their hands and just watching it happen. Trump has broken the law so many times that there is no reason to not take him into custody. Anyone in his regime should also be arrested today.
January 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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This. ❤️‍🔥

#Resistance
#BookSky
#Kindness
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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Meet the world's smallest bird: the bee hummingbird.
This tiny jewel is endemic to Cuba and holds the Guinness World Record as the smallest bird on Earth.
[📹 cubacan25]
January 2, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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www.npr.org/2026/01/01/g...
Congress returns January 6th
I am calling my representatives 202 224-3121
Please join me
EXTEND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SUBSIDIES
Congress failed to extend Obamacare subsidies. This Democrat says Trump can save them
Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., says he thinks the Senate can pass a "retroactive" Affordable Care Act subsidy extension, but "we need President Trump."
www.npr.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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The belief that we stand apart from nature is the root of our crisis. We breathe its air, drink its water, eat its cycles. Arrogance is poisoning your own well and being surprised you get sick. #OneHealth #Ecology
January 1, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution:
If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow.

If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious.

By making these choices, you will literally save lives.
December 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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In Iowa’s state Senate special election, Republican Lucas Loftin has had his ass handed to him by Democrat Renee Hardman by a huge margin.

“Tonight, Iowans made history by electing the first Black woman to serve in the Iowa Senate.”—CNN

#Pinks #ProudBlue #ReneeHardman

www.cnn.com/2025/12/30/p...
Democrat Renee Hardman wins Iowa state Senate special election | CNN Politics
Democrat Renee Hardman was elected to the Iowa state Senate on Tuesday in a holiday-week special election, denying Republicans’ bid to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber.
www.cnn.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu.

If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.
The Covid-19 pandemic killed off one strain of the flu, and that will change the next vaccines | CNN
For 10 years, Americans have had access to flu shots that protect against four strains of the virus: two A strains and two B strains. Starting this fall, however, all the flu shots distributed in the ...
edition.cnn.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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The Restore, Reinvest, and Renew (R3) Program invests in communities that have been harmed by the war on drugs.

Over the last 5 years, we’ve invested $280 million in grants to 400 grantees. 2025 was a year of building strong community ties!
December 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...
Grunya Sukhareva - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Currently writing about @asymptotia.bsky.social's The Dialogues and while I've read it before, writing about it has really made me appreciate how brilliant this book is as a work of #scicomm.

If you're looking for an accessible and FUN introduction to big ideas in physics, get this one. #booksky
The Dialogues
Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu, along with topics l...
mitpress.mit.edu
December 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Good news!

Gut bacteria in reptiles and amphibians have #cancer fighting properties and a specific one attacks tumor tissue while amping up the immune response, enlisting extra help from T cells, B cells, and neutrophils to shrink tumors, sometimes completely.

www.sciencealert.com/powerful-ant...
Powerful Anti-Cancer Drug Discovered Inside Japanese Tree Frog
Scientists have discovered a promising new approach to fighting cancer in the gut bacteria of a Japanese tree frog, with one strain completely shrinking tumors in mice, with no severe side effects.
www.sciencealert.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system news.mit.edu/2025/new-stu...
Stimulating the liver to produce some of the signals of the thymus can reverse age-related declines in T-cell populations and enhance response to vaccination
New study suggests a way to rejuvenate the immune system
MIT and Broad Institute researchers found a way to overcome age-related immune system decline by temporarily programming liver cells to take over the maturation of T cells. Using mRNA, the researchers...
news.mit.edu
December 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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If people learned that spending money on small businesses or creators made the world a better place, we wouldn't be struggling as much today. Big companies make billions and have learned they can do the bare minimum, or even cheat you out of what you're paying for
December 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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If you're comfortable doing so and are out shopping today or tomorrow:

Look a retail worker in the eye and say "Thanks" if they do something extra for you.

I promise you, they will remember your kindness.

It might be what gets them through this week 🙏❤️
December 23, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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It’s really strange the vice president of the United States is a white supremacist, who says white supremacist slogans, who publicly praises and follows the work of white supremacists, and it’s simply not mentioned or discussed in political media
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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December 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Gun violence

Sometimes you can't see the damage

The fear, stress, afraid to sleep, recurring nightmares...

Some don't see an end to the symptoms

They escape their own way

If you are suffering

Call 988

There is someone waiting to listen

www.huffpost.com/entry/parkla...
Parkland School Shooting Survivor Dies Nearly 8 Years After Massacre
Donovan Joshua Leigh Metayer is the latest Parkland survivor to die due to trauma from the mass shooting.
www.huffpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.

You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM