Stacey Berg
@staceyberg.bsky.social
Democracy, science, writing, and whatever else is on my mind. Author of SF novels DISSENSION & REGENERATION. Opinions my own. She/her.
Plus they had room to cross their legs.
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Plus they had room to cross their legs.
Because she has eyebrows?
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Because she has eyebrows?
@houstonchronicle.com deserves a lot of credit for this series
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
@houstonchronicle.com deserves a lot of credit for this series
Keanu Reeves is in the movie.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Keanu Reeves is in the movie.
Bet he flies private.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Bet he flies private.
Funny I just read the beginning of “the Belle Sauvage” & thought “Look how Pullman makes the kid so so smart, that actually makes it all the better when he doesn’t can’t quite figure something out. Why can’t I do that with my MC?” And then I realized…
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Funny I just read the beginning of “the Belle Sauvage” & thought “Look how Pullman makes the kid so so smart, that actually makes it all the better when he doesn’t can’t quite figure something out. Why can’t I do that with my MC?” And then I realized…
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social you might need to up your game www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bn8...
November 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
@blueheronfarm.bsky.social you might need to up your game www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bn8...
Trump is taking away your insurance AND your caregivers.
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Trump is taking away your insurance AND your caregivers.
So Trump says he can afford $50,000 bonuses for ICE recruits—but can’t afford loan repayment programs for nurses, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, and audiologists?
Nursing is no longer counted as a 'professional degree' by Trump admin
The Department of Education has excluded nursing as a "professional degree" program as it implements various changes to student loans.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So Trump says he can afford $50,000 bonuses for ICE recruits—but can’t afford loan repayment programs for nurses, nurse practitioners, physical therapists, and audiologists?
In the immortal words of Dan Quayle, What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
In the immortal words of Dan Quayle, What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
Just have an apple and a glass of water instead.
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Just have an apple and a glass of water instead.
Wait til he sees Darnell Washington
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Wait til he sees Darnell Washington
I am in no way inflamed by your food opinions but I will offer up the Primanti sandwich as one time that french fries in the middle or an amazing thing.
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Primanti Brothers is a chain of sandwich shops in the eastern United States, founded in and most closely associated with, as a cultural icon of,…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I am in no way inflamed by your food opinions but I will offer up the Primanti sandwich as one time that french fries in the middle or an amazing thing.
Cancel culture at the Alamo: “She said [Dan] Patrick demanded her resignation as head of the Alamo Trust, but he didn’t want anyone to know he was behind it. He said a handful of sentences she’d written two years earlier in… her doctoral dissertation were “troubling,” & he expected her to quit…”
How the Alamo's former boss is fighting Dan Patrick for free speech
Former Alamo CEO Kate Rogers describes how Patrick tried to silence her and promises to fight for free speech rights.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Cancel culture at the Alamo: “She said [Dan] Patrick demanded her resignation as head of the Alamo Trust, but he didn’t want anyone to know he was behind it. He said a handful of sentences she’d written two years earlier in… her doctoral dissertation were “troubling,” & he expected her to quit…”
“Why do you lie?” advocates & @houstonchronicle.com ask they mayor who bragged to the New York Times about leading a model immigration policy, then turned a lost autistic boy over to ICE.
Houston police broke a family. Whitmire calls it a national model. | Editorial
At the end of the day, a mother is still without her son tonight. A scared teen is still without his mom. For no good reason. Shouldn’t that be of concern to Houston's leaders?
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“Why do you lie?” advocates & @houstonchronicle.com ask they mayor who bragged to the New York Times about leading a model immigration policy, then turned a lost autistic boy over to ICE.
Here’s a handy list—from a Fox News affiliate— of Marjorie Taylor Greene statements that she should specifically have to retract before being welcomed the Democratic tent. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/some-ma...
Some of Marjorie Taylor Greene's most controversial statements, claims
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly drawn national attention for promoting conspiracy theories, including claims about 9/11, mass shootings, and “Jewish space lasers."
www.fox5atlanta.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Here’s a handy list—from a Fox News affiliate— of Marjorie Taylor Greene statements that she should specifically have to retract before being welcomed the Democratic tent. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/some-ma...
That would be so good. Everybody mocks AI but this is the sort of thing it could really be useful for.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
That would be so good. Everybody mocks AI but this is the sort of thing it could really be useful for.
You might even argue that science IS repeatable results.
November 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
You might even argue that science IS repeatable results.
Yup. “If you want to amount to anything as a witch…you got to learn three things. What’s real, what’s not real, and what’s the difference.”
witch.you
November 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Yup. “If you want to amount to anything as a witch…you got to learn three things. What’s real, what’s not real, and what’s the difference.”
The history our government doesn’t want us to remember:
“And here we all were - this group of Black Americans having to deal with these bodies of White Americans. The stark reality was we had to bury those soldiers although we couldn’t sit in the same room with them when they were alive.”
“And here we all were - this group of Black Americans having to deal with these bodies of White Americans. The stark reality was we had to bury those soldiers although we couldn’t sit in the same room with them when they were alive.”
Display about Black soldiers in World War II removed from US military cemetery | CNN Politics
Decades ago, as some of the bloodiest fighting in World War II ramped up in Europe, 19-year-old 1st Lt. Jeffersons Wiggins, along with hundreds of other Black soldiers in, were tasked with burying the...
www.cnn.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The history our government doesn’t want us to remember:
“And here we all were - this group of Black Americans having to deal with these bodies of White Americans. The stark reality was we had to bury those soldiers although we couldn’t sit in the same room with them when they were alive.”
“And here we all were - this group of Black Americans having to deal with these bodies of White Americans. The stark reality was we had to bury those soldiers although we couldn’t sit in the same room with them when they were alive.”
TIL that “Blue Rondo a la Turk” calls back to Mozart, and it’s as earthshaking as the time I learned that Boris Godunov was not a parody of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
TIL that “Blue Rondo a la Turk” calls back to Mozart, and it’s as earthshaking as the time I learned that Boris Godunov was not a parody of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
“Fiasco” is one of the great cat names of all time.
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“Fiasco” is one of the great cat names of all time.
I think also these analyses are fascinating, but also quite possibly give these guys too much credit. Maybe they’re just 12-year-olds in a clique believing they’re so clever for picking what they think are cool names that the adults will never catch onto?
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I think also these analyses are fascinating, but also quite possibly give these guys too much credit. Maybe they’re just 12-year-olds in a clique believing they’re so clever for picking what they think are cool names that the adults will never catch onto?