Amber Capron
@acapron.bsky.social
Mother *Gardener* Event planner *Naturalist* Over-thinker *Animal lover* Fungi, moss, lichen enthusiast *Beach & Mountains*
Christmas morning bagels with lox. Tomatoes were picked green from our garden the night before our first freeze, and left to ripen on the counter. Wrapped in newspaper and boxed up, they would have lasted longer, but I was hoping to have some for Christmas. Just cut into the last one this morning.
December 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Christmas morning bagels with lox. Tomatoes were picked green from our garden the night before our first freeze, and left to ripen on the counter. Wrapped in newspaper and boxed up, they would have lasted longer, but I was hoping to have some for Christmas. Just cut into the last one this morning.
Grateful to work with Wild Virginia. Excited to see where this leads.
Conservation group sues EPA over PFAS contamination in Virginia waterways • Virginia Mercury
The conservation group Wild Virginia has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, alleging the agency failed to protect Virginia’s rivers and streams from PFAS, commonly known...
virginiamercury.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Grateful to work with Wild Virginia. Excited to see where this leads.
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Scott Beardsley, you will quickly learn about the separation of powers between branches and what happens when one branch gives a middle finger to another that funds, regulates and allows their existence. Buckle up.
December 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Scott Beardsley, you will quickly learn about the separation of powers between branches and what happens when one branch gives a middle finger to another that funds, regulates and allows their existence. Buckle up.
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You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.
December 15, 2025 at 10:33 PM
You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.
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The county removed all the air filters from the elementary school but wants to remind us by email that the flu is bad.
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The county removed all the air filters from the elementary school but wants to remind us by email that the flu is bad.
I'm helping kids wrap presents at the school's Secret Shop (where the community donates items, and kids pick out a gift for someone special). I just helped a boy wrap a new purse for his mom. "My mom's purse was stolen last week, cards and all, so I'm giving this to her for Christmas." ❤️
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I'm helping kids wrap presents at the school's Secret Shop (where the community donates items, and kids pick out a gift for someone special). I just helped a boy wrap a new purse for his mom. "My mom's purse was stolen last week, cards and all, so I'm giving this to her for Christmas." ❤️
Do not underestimate the sheer joy that snow days can bring to kids. Sledding, snow ball fights, hot chocolate, and, best of all, no school. Inconvenient, yes, but a child therapist friend told me about depressed kids who are happier than they’ve been in months after having our long, snowy weekend.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Do not underestimate the sheer joy that snow days can bring to kids. Sledding, snow ball fights, hot chocolate, and, best of all, no school. Inconvenient, yes, but a child therapist friend told me about depressed kids who are happier than they’ve been in months after having our long, snowy weekend.
We've been waiting for this. Here we go!
BREAKING: Former Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA05) Announces Candidacy for 5th Congressional District, Declaring “This Is an All-Hands-on-Deck Moment” (The district is currently MISrepresented by MAGA fanatic and 1/6/21 insurrectionist John McGuire) bluevirginia.us/2025/12/brea...
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
We've been waiting for this. Here we go!
Fungi fighting PFAS
Mushrooms could help address Merrimack’s PFAS problem • New Hampshire Bulletin
Angela Graves has lived in Merrimack almost all her life. She grew up aware of the Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics plant on the edge of town, and as a teenager learned alongside her community of the...
newhampshirebulletin.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Fungi fighting PFAS
A series of Congressional Christmas Carols where historians write vignettes about congressmen being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. Explain what they said in the past, show them what they're doing now, and tell them what their legacy will be before it's too late.
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A series of Congressional Christmas Carols where historians write vignettes about congressmen being visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. Explain what they said in the past, show them what they're doing now, and tell them what their legacy will be before it's too late.
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
(Published May 2024)
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This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.
Last tomato of the season.
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Last tomato of the season.
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"We are prepared to fund this program for the entire month of November" https://www.29news.com/2025/10/28/virginia-continue-snap-benefits-with-state-funds-during-federal-uncertainty/ #snap #virginia #hunger #poverty #uspolitics
Virginia to continue SNAP benefits with state funds during federal uncertainty
Virginia Emergency Nutrition Assistance will deliver benefits to individuals utilizing SNAP.
www.29news.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
"We are prepared to fund this program for the entire month of November" https://www.29news.com/2025/10/28/virginia-continue-snap-benefits-with-state-funds-during-federal-uncertainty/ #snap #virginia #hunger #poverty #uspolitics
Overwhelmed at 3am? This helps.
Make space for hope. Move.
Make space for hope. Move.
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 25, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Overwhelmed at 3am? This helps.
Make space for hope. Move.
Make space for hope. Move.
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BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.
October 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.
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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...
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Attention Cville/Alb: NOW is the time to donate to local food banks, emergency pantries, and food insecurity partner orgs. Funding freezes/cuts to SNAP and WIC are coming and the next few months (++?) will be HARD for our neighbors.
—Your local DSS Advisory Board rep ✌️
—Your local DSS Advisory Board rep ✌️
October 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Attention Cville/Alb: NOW is the time to donate to local food banks, emergency pantries, and food insecurity partner orgs. Funding freezes/cuts to SNAP and WIC are coming and the next few months (++?) will be HARD for our neighbors.
—Your local DSS Advisory Board rep ✌️
—Your local DSS Advisory Board rep ✌️
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I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:
October 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:
The family at Charlottesville’s No Kings Day.
October 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The family at Charlottesville’s No Kings Day.
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Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Climate change-driven range expansion leads to species interacting and creating hybrids.
September 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Climate change-driven range expansion leads to species interacting and creating hybrids.