RobinSundstrom
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RobinSundstrom
@binniebeez.bsky.social
beekeeping bookloving violaplaying
Social justice. Food security. Progressive.
kindness is pretty much everything.
She/her. Noisy introvert
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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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On Wednesday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson ripped Donald for unlawfully firing a top government watchdog, and ordered they be reinstated—at least for now. In a scathing footnote of the order, the Judge wrote: “It's as if the bull in the china shop looked back over his shoulder and said, ‘What a mess!’”
Some Good News In A World Of Trump's Mayhem
Onward.
www.dworkinsubstack.com
February 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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And is the rest of the legacy media doing anything or are they just looking the other way while their billionaire owners keep sucking up to Trump?
Blocking the AP from what are known as "pooled" events, like Air Force One flights and Oval Office photo ops, interferes with the news outlet's ability to do its job. The "press pool" travels with the president at all times and shares information with the wider press corps.
February 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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President Donald Trump’s administration halted defunding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after Democracy Forward, on behalf of the city of Baltimore and a nonprofit, filed a lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Halts Defunding Nation's Financial Watchdog Agency After Lawsuit
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The federal civilian worker payroll totaled $271 billion in 2022.

The annual cost of permanently extending Trump's tax cuts that primarily benefited rich individuals? $400 billion.

Keep this in mind as Trump and DOGE lay off thousands of federal workers.
February 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Americans, we love you. But you elected a president who thinks the Russians are your friends and Canadians are your enemies.

What did you think would happen?

www.espn.com/olympics/hoc...
Fans in Montreal boo U.S. anthem at 4 Nations
Fans at Bell Centre booed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before the United States' 6-1 win over Finland on Thursday night in the 4 Nations Face-Off.
www.espn.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Every day they claim they're finding vast amounts of fraud in the federal government.

Fraud is a crime.

They've made zero criminal complaints.

Odd.
February 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A woman in Wyoming has been hospitalized with #H5N1 #birdflu, WY's health dept announced Friday. Likely exposure was to backyard poultry. Wyoming said #CDC confirmed the infection, though CDC did not add it to its H5 page today. Not clear if this is B3.13 or D1.1. health.wyo.gov/wyomings-fir...
Wyoming’s First Human Bird Flu Case Confirmed - Wyoming Department of Health
Wyoming’s first case of H5N1 avian influenza in a human has been confirmed in a Platte County older adult, according to the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH). The woman represents the third confirmed...
health.wyo.gov
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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This is awesome.
While Poilievre tries to rebrand himself yet again, we're sending a mobile Valentine with a clear message:

Love Canada? Don’t vote for Pierre Poilievre.

protectingcanada.ca/pierre-poili... #NeverPoilievre #cdnpoli #ValentinesDay
February 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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My former law school dean, Harold Koh, used to admonish incoming law students to "Never let your skill exceed your virtue."

A while back, I wrote about how lawyers, in particular, have skills they can use for good or evil. Reupping here cafe.com/notes-from-c...
Note From Asha: Never Let Your Skill Exceed Your Virtue - CAFE
By Asha Rangappa Dear Listener, This is the wisdom that the former dean of Yale Law School, Harold Koh, used to bestow on the newly-arrived law students on their first day of school. Taken from a Kore...
cafe.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Look at how many Cons approve of Trump. Almost 50% of them! Cons are Team 51, not Team Canada.
February 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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1. It's Friday, which means FluView. Let's take a look.
This has been a very full-on flu season — the worst since well before the #Covid pandemic. #CDC says 2024-25 is now classified as a severe flu season, the first since the very bad 2017-18 season. Red arrow this year, blue arrow 2017-18.
February 15, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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#USDA has confirmed that the discovery of #H5N1 #birdflu in Arizona — found through bulk milk testing — does indeed represent a new spillover from wild birds into cows. This is the third time this has been observed to have happened. www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program...
February 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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The leopards are eating faces, and people who were only told by everyone alive on Earth that that would happen are steamed about it

They were railroaded!

Yes—everyone on Earth told them this would happen—but what about all the people on Mars, Venus and Proxima Centuri! Why did they hide the truth!
February 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Just despicable and disgraceful. The US government is now indistinguishable from the mafia.
February 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block.

The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.

A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.

Again, this isn't about efficiency.
February 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:

www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds
Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.

Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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This seems bad.

The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, which has caused the death of hundreds of millions of birds in the last five years around the world, is spreading across Antarctica, a pristine paradise for wildlife.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Worst avian flu crisis ever recorded spreads across Antarctica
A Spanish expedition finds the potentially lethal virus ‘in all animal species detected at each site’
english.elpais.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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You might have missed it, but Amazon warehouse workers in Raleigh, NC are voting this week on whether to form a union.

If they win, they'll be the first unionized Amazon facility in the South.

Remember that we can always find hope in the labor movement.
February 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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I saw a video of known alcoholic Pete Hegseth drinking multiple scotches in the middle of a televised presser and started laughing so hard I began coughing as I believe we're less than 2 weeks removed from him promising never to drink a single time as Secretary of Defense and nothing matters anymore
February 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.

EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.

Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM