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(she/her/hers) Ph.D. Education. Born on land of the Oceti Sakowin Nation. Humanist.
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July 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Making Data into Art - a microfilm we made with Microsoft a few years back, starring Information is Beautiful founder, David McCandless.

Learn more about our process & work & beautiful things 🌼
bit.ly/IIBWAB
geni.us/IIBLive
#iibwab
June 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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The outstanding investigative Russian journalist & Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya was murdered on Putin's birthday in 2006 (October 7).
Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman was killed in a "politically motivated assassination" (Mike Walz) on Trump's Birthday (June 14).
June 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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May 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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A medium-sized coronal hole in the Sun's southern hemisphere is now facing Earth. We may see fast solar wind at Earth and enhanced geomagnetic activity coming in the next few days.

#heliophysics
May 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Reup: There are 3 timelines that could determine fate of US democracy:
1) How long Congress GOPers take to codify Trump's policies
2) Whether & when SCOTUS rubber stamps Trump's effort to gut Congress
3) His tariff emergency
Now seems clear 3 will precede others.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/30/t...
Three Coequal Timelines of Government - emptywheel
The timeline for the Republican Congress to pass a budget codifying Trump's policies is slipping, now as late as July. That means it is increasingly likely that as Trump seeks near-unanimous Republica...
www.emptywheel.net
April 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Thank you Greyhound!
April 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Trump's first 100 days were the worst for the stock market since 1974. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Under Trump, Stocks Have the Worst Start to a Presidential Term Since 1974
During the first 100 days of the Trump administration, shock waves from the chaotic tariff rollout continue to send tremors through the global financial system.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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We're at 1500! Can you help get to 2000?

chng.it/KnVcTKgd7f
Rescind Noem's Offer of Honorary Degree and Invitation to Speak at Commencement
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
chng.it
April 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
apnews.com/live/canada-... IN: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals win election upended by Trump, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects
Live updates: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals win election, CBC projects
Canadians are voting in federal elections that follow a tumultuous several months defined by U.S. President Donald Trump’s often unpredictable global tariff policies and his calls for Canada to become...
https://apnews.com/live/canada-election-updates-results#00000196-7f50-d672-a9b7-ff7fa8830000?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share&nbsp;<br>JUST
April 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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He never should have been nominated in the first place. Good riddance.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Apr 21
BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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For the nth time, subscribe to @motherjones.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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March 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on & daring the world to stop them. On April 5th, we're taking to the streets nationwide to say: Hands Off! #HandsOff #April5
April 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/A9Zke7VD
Join me on April 5th
app.sosha.ai
April 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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WCK’s Relief Team is en route to Southeast Asia, where a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand. The quake caused massive destruction to buildings, infrastructure, and communities, and local authorities remain concerned about aftershocks and resulting tsunamis.

📸: @npr.org
March 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Not sure this is what they meant by "Red Wave"
March 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Representative Al Green responded to this fascist spectacle by rising and telling the wanna-be-dictator "you don't have a mandate to cut medicaid." He is working, quite rightly, on articles of impeachment.

He is showing the moral courage and leadership that House Dem leadership ought to embrace.
He stood alone with courage in the face of tyranny.
March 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM