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dragonflyatrest.bsky.social
@dragonflyatrest.bsky.social
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Interested in peace, kindness, inclusion, science, and truth

Mostly hanging at home due to being worn out
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
cannot recommend this enough if you need to feel optimism about something in the world right now (bill mckibben- here comes the sun)
And there are plenty of other supporters, too. The nearest city to Poplar Grove is Rockford, a Midwestern industrial center that’s clearly seen better days. “We were the toolbox of the country,” one local told me as we sat at Katie’s Cup, a coffee bar. “Machine tools, smelting, metallurgy—during the Cuban missile crisis people said we were one of the top three targets for the Russians. Washington, New York, and Rockford.” But the deindustrialization of the 1980s ended all that; before long the unemployment rate was 25 percent. Now the city is slowly recovering, and one point of pride was the solar farms popping up on vacant land around town. I wandered over to Ernie’s Midtown Pub for lunch (Wings Wednesday!) with another group of Rockford boosters. One of them, a went around the table explaining what solar meant to them. Brad Long, the head of Carpenters Local 792 (and lead guitar for Long Shot, which plays outlaw country and acoustic blues), said all the community solar farms are built with union labor—indeed, wages are about 60 percent of the cost of building one. “And it’s been a great thing for new apprentices—the young people are actually interested.” Keri Asevedo, head of the local Habitat for Humanity chapter, said they’d been building all-electric homes, complete with EV chargers, heat pumps, and induction cooktops. “People say, ‘We get that?’ They’re humbled, honored to be helping the planet.” Mike Gallagher, a community organizer, ran the numbers for his local parish when the boiler broke, arguing that solar panels on the roof would save on the $85,000 cost. Tretara Flowers started a nonprofit called Reconnect 815 when she got out of prison in 2005. “I realized there’s no one to help reentry individuals with interview clothes—with anything, really,” she said. Now many of the ex-cons she works with are training as solar installers. “When a man builds something—well, they’re eager to tell their friends what they’ve done. You feel a sense of ownership when your work impacts the entire world.”
September 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
This is about increasing crop yields and preserving soil quality, you hare-brained Luddites.
June 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
dragonflyatrest.bsky.social
This is dumb and an obvious conflict of interest. What are they going to do with the supposed deextinct animals given no habitat would be available? www.publicdomain.media/p/interior-d...
RECORDS: Trump's Interior Secretary Has Close Ties To The De-Extinction Company He Promotes
As North Dakota governor, Doug Burgum wooed Colossal Biosciences to his state. As Interior Secretary, he publicly champions the biotech company.
www.publicdomain.media
May 5, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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sabs.bsky.social
I spoke with Madyson Miller, a NOAA program analyst who was fired, reinstated, and then fired again, about the power of oral histories and what the U.S.'s recent breaches of trust means for our international partnerships
defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired NOAA Program Analyst | Defector
Madyson Miller’s Florida childhood was almost like a crash course in marine biology. She grew up going to the beach and going with her grandparents to see Shamu—”which I obviously realize now is not t...
defector.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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phillevin.bsky.social
This Earth Day, no photo could hold what I wanted to say. So I wrote about the National Nature Assessment: a project canceled, a team revived, a future still being written. Because we are—still—united by nature.
🍃 weareunitedbynature.org
April 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
The mainstream media keeps trying to bring Sec Def Hegseth down by accurately reporting things he did.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · Apr 22
NEW: Pete Hegseth’s Signal chats about pending strikes in Yemen included information from a top general’s secure messages to him, three U.S. officials with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
Info Pete Hegseth shared with wife, brother came from top general’s secure messages
Hegseth has denied the information he shared was classified, but it was given to him on a system for sensitive and classified information, sources told NBC News.
nbcnews.to
April 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
dragonflyatrest.bsky.social
How do I know there are many citizens who care about endangered species? By the great thoughtful comments already submitted on this site. If you want to submit a public comment about the weakening of the Endangered Species Act, please go here asap. www.regulations.gov/document/FWS...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
April 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
in his first ever appearance, superman beats up spousal abusers, halts an unjust execution and exposes government corruption.

i love how people think they *just now* made superheroes woke

superman, woke since 1938
April 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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emilycurates.bsky.social
Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission.

[Marika Sparrow]
April 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
dragonflyatrest.bsky.social
Defector has several in-depth articles that are interviews with the fired probationary employees. Please take time to read them. An Interview With A Fired USDA Specialist - defector.com/an-interview...
An Interview With A Fired USDA Specialist | Defector
Consider the sugar beet, a sweet and tapered tuber. Unlike tropical sugarcane, sugar beets grow in temperate zones, enabling colder regions of the United States to farm their own sugar instead of rely...
defector.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW ), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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matthewfacciani.bsky.social
“It is hard to put into words the extent of the damage being done to the US research enterprise, which is of almost incalculable value to both the nation itself and the wider world.”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit?

That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather.

Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...
February 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
Protect this law at all costs !

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
This obscure law is one reason Trump's agenda keeps losing in court
Lawsuits challenging Trump policies raise big constitutional questions, but they also rely on a law that requires the government to follow the correct procedures when changing course.
www.nbcnews.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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janevoter2018.bsky.social
Most of us have used Global Positioning System (GPS) for navigation & we can thank Gladys West for creating the foundation for GPS.

She used her mathematical & programming expertise to invent an accurate model of the Earth.

She was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame.
Pictured: Gladys West-the mathematical and computer programming expert who created an accurate model of the Earth, which was the foundation for GPS. She was inducted into the US Air Force Hall of Fame, one of the highest honors offered by the Air Force.
February 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
dragonflyatrest.bsky.social
Why did I learn all that Latin? Oh, so I could get more words on NYT Spelling Bee.
February 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
Meanwhile, in honor of International Day of Women and Girls in Science, this story highlights the work of iMMAP_Inc and The HALO Trust to teach women how to use GIS to gather data, create maps, and provide an operational awareness that leads to better outcomes. ow.ly/zym730sJXOa
#gischt #geosky
Tech Skills Open New Doors for Women in Humanitarian Aid
iMMAPP Inc. and HALO Trust lift up women, providing training and jobs that helps them feel valued and improve their lives.
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February 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
dragonflyatrest.bsky.social
Herman and Lily Munster have a fairly small bed given that Herman is such a big person. It’s like they sleep in regular single.
February 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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enmmd.bsky.social
Profoundly stupid & short sighted, just as one would expect from these buffoons. @nickkristov.bluesky.social
@altusaid.bluesky.social
The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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atrupar.com
Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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enmmd.bsky.social
A good time to re-post my 2020 @washingtonpost.com @postopinions.bsky.social piece on the MMWR. Back then political hacks were trying to interfere with its editorial processes and censor it. Now they aren’t allowing it to be published. @altcdc.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | A Roger Stone protege is interfering in important CDC reports. It’s appalling.
The Trump administration is allowing political interference to undermine a crucial CDC medical report. Doctors and patients will pay the price.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM