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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 52m

So important. They fired people working on Ebola in Africa tonight. The people who track and investigate and report on disease outbreaks. The CDC prior to the first Trump administration was the global gold standard... but the ideologues can't stand it.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1h

More serious cuts to the CDC tonigh. The West Coast Health Alliance in partnership with the labs at University of Washington and Stanford along with our biotech hubs will need to recreate a monitoring network and testing capacity.

Lizard Of Oz @lizardofoz316.bsky.social · 3h

This is a hair on fire situation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 13h

E-bikes are so good.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

denvergov.org/Government/A...

Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 14h

At least they're being more open about her minder role these days?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 14h

There is much serious news, but there is also this from @pbsnews.org. A discussion with British author Ian McEwan on his book "What We Can Know". www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Ian McEwan's 'What We Can Know' depicts life in a world ravaged by climate change

Imagine the impact of climate change is irreversible, and decades of flooding, famine, pandemics and war have upended life on earth. That world is explored in Ian McEwan's new novel, “What We Can Know...

www.pbs.org

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 16h

What in holy hell is this??????

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 16h

I just love all this. We love our democracy and we love our towns. And we can play. It's so good.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 16h

This is the way!!

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 16h

This is such a choice.

Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 16h

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” apnews.com/article/nobe...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Friday.... This weekend I learned that we have tufted puffins here in the Puget Sound. Link comes complete with puffin sounds (and we all need that).

Starts about a minute in here: www.kuow.org/stories/satu...

Saturday Special: Meet the researchers trying to help the northwest’s puffins bounce back, and remembering Dr. Quintard Taylor

Today, we’re bringing you the best from our KUOW Newsroom… Sometimes a species becomes so rare that you may not know it still exists - like puffins in the northwest. Catch up with the researchers try...

www.kuow.org

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 1d

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Truth in this. But can you see it? Each city in it's nature, in it's colors? Bring your thing, amplify, be the technicolor and ridicule these people into oblivion. Deny them their new civil war. Demand our peace.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

it really has been amazing how much one person in a frog suit destroyed their fantasy visuals over the past week. this wouldn't work everywhere but Portland, you are doing amazing sweetie

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

From Portland...

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 2d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, I love you. May the frogs become multitudes.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

Twenty-two fellows were selected this year by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and announced Wednesday. It’s a recognition often called the “genius award,” which comes with an $800,000 prize, paid over five years that fellows can spend however they choose.
https://to.pbs.org/4ocQ7gW

22 artists, scientists and authors selected for $800,000 MacArthur 'genius' grants

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.”

www.pbs.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Thursday froze President Donald Trump’s attempt to deploy hundreds of National Guard troops in and around Chicago, saying the president lacked the authority to do so. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Chicago Military Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Always room for classics! It can join the shelf with his translation of Beowulf, Harold Bloom's collection of Shakespeare, and Mary Oliver's Devotions.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

So many questions...

(Also, this 9/11 and after vet, so tired.)

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: The U.S. says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.

US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private sector players, U.S. officials say.

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I gave in to the weakness and ordered it 🌿

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

The UK cover is much more attractive than the pending-release US cover, but it will be available in the US if you don't want to fuss with the import charges.

Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2d

The long-awaited, definitive edition of Seamus Heaney's poetry is out today, with illuminating critical notes and a selection of previously unpublished poems. Edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O'Donoghue, with Matthew Hollis.

www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 11d

One of his greatest poems.

• Seamus Heaney •

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 1d

This week has been death to my book buying budget, but this collection seems a must. True fact being an American who learned mostly by reading, for the longest time in my head "Seamus" was sounded as "SEA--Moose" not SHAY-mas. So here's to the great late Sea Moose, Seamus Heaney (with much respect).

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

www.theguardian.com

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Because one isn't fun enough... There's new evidence that if Cascadia goes it may trigger a San Andreas. Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch

Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

www.science.org

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Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Reagan times. Still holds. Just legends, these men.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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