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Megan Seling @meganseling.bsky.social · Apr 3

I can’t get over how much joy this brings me! Now @drmlharris.bsky.social's words and Greg Stump's illustrations are featured in the new issue of @thestranger.com, our climate issue.

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How Some Scared Little Gophers Brought Mount St. Helens Back to Life

If you ever feel like you’re trapped in a hostile environment, scrabbling around in a mountain of unforgiving rock and wondering how you can ever possibly make a difference, remember the poor, f...

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Mar 18

Why not both?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Mar 5

COLBERT, on Rep. Al Green’s removal:

“Some people questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove an old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he smuggled in a spine."

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Mar 6

Shades of the stupid Sen. Proxmire (anyone remember him?): performing outrage but revealing only profound ignorance.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Mar 5

Why is everything so dumb

Batman or halo @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.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · Feb 24

No notes

saramohrhair:
Where do I find a pediatrician that doesn't push vaccines?

matt.keller.33:
Look at your states medical boards. Find the pediatrician associated with the most childhood deaths.
That's your doctor.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Jan 31

For the Cenozoic, the mnemonic device: “please ply my oily ego pal” = Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, Eocene, Paleocene. These are fun to say too! The Holocene, not so much…

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Nov 13

Don't look at the news

Don't look at the news

Don't look at the news

(Looks at the news)

Oh, for fuck's sake

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · Nov 13

A Russian asset as Director of National Intelligence and a pedophile sex trafficking rapist as Attorney General.

We're in hell.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Oct 21

Here’s an evening rainbow, with clouds reflecting the sunset, to brighten everyone’s day (I hope)!

Complete arc of a rainbow against clouds reflecting a light reddish pink sunset.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Feb 19

Shelf mushrooms. About the size of a dinner plate.

Two large shelf mushrooms on the side of a fir tree, red on top and cream underneath. No stem and no gills.

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🍁 Prof. Roasty Toasty Neilsen 🍗 @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · Feb 11

It's also worth saying that you can't do STEM without reading comprehension and critical thinking!!! Treating the humanities and arts as secondary to STEM is bad for everyone in general, but it's also short-sighted for STEM education.

🍁 Prof. Roasty Toasty Neilsen 🍗 @joeyneilsen.bsky.social · Feb 11

I teach physics and my wife teaches literature and writing, and we see STRONG parallels between our students here. Physics students need literacy to be able to pick out important pieces of problems and to be able to see common elements across types of problems. It's reading comprehension! 🎢⚛️

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · Feb 11

Beautiful local Anna’s hummingbird in early blooming Ca Encelia. 🪶

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · Feb 11

do we do #SuperbOwl jokes on Bluesky? If so here is the most Superb Owl of all, the Blakiston's fish owl 🦉.

A massive owl, shaped like a bowling pin, sits on a field of ice to a background of winter darkness. Photo by Sergey Gafitsky in Primorye, Russia

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · Feb 11

Slavery was Legal.

Colonialism was Legal.

Jim Crow was Legal.

Apartheid was Legal.

Legality depends on who has power and the kinds of laws they pass to preserve their own privileges and bigoted views. Legality often has nothing to do with justice.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Dec 30

Read the full brief here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Dec 30

“Rather than vindicating our constitutional framework, the defendant’s sweeping immunity claim threatens to license Presidents to commit crimes to remain in office. The Founders did not intend and would never have countenanced such a result.” 2/3

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Dec 30

From merits brief of USA filed in Trump’s appeal from denial of immunity claim:

“The Presidency plays a vital role in our constitutional system, but so does the principle of accountability for criminal acts particularly those that strike at the heart of the democratic process.” 1/n

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Dec 23

Nice sunset last night, Seabrook WA.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Dec 18

Hero.

Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Dec 14

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Thoughts and Prayers

“Thoughts and Prayers” is the debut video by Mothers for Democracy. It points out the hypocrisy of people who say “thoughts and prayers” while going on with ...

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Nov 1

This is TERRIFYING:

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Trump’s Allies Want a New Style of Lawyer if He Returns to Power

Politically appointed lawyers sometimes frustrated Donald J. Trump’s ambitions. His allies are planning to install more aggressive legal gatekeepers if he regains the White House.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Oct 17

And of course there is an interlocutory appeal.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Oct 17

US v Trump DC District Court “gag” order available online.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Oct 9

In other news, Jeffrey Clark makes a desperate attempt to delay GA criminal case against him. Filed a notice of appeal and a motion for stay.

Motion for stay relies on CIVIL procedure rules, not criminal procedure. Dictionary illustration for grasping at straws.

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Samantha Clark @samanthaclark.bsky.social · Oct 6

Crazy stuff in the Jan. 6 criminal case against Trump. As others have reported, the Judge gave an additional 14 days to file dispositive motions instead of the requested 60.

But the crazy stuff are the motions to intervene. Unheard of in criminal matters. See Doc. Nos. 81, 83 and 84.