frasier
@notalocal.bsky.social
retired librarian - living in spain
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I’ll tell you why I post photos of beauty. Because while this corrupt admin floods the zone with cruelty & lawlessness— I refuse to allow them to flood my whole life. I still get to notice daily miracles & have joy & beauty and SO DO YOU. #resist
May 21, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’ll tell you why I post photos of beauty. Because while this corrupt admin floods the zone with cruelty & lawlessness— I refuse to allow them to flood my whole life. I still get to notice daily miracles & have joy & beauty and SO DO YOU. #resist
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We are choosing ignorance and poverty
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We are choosing ignorance and poverty
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Congratulations to all the wonderful Locus award nominees! locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...
2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 21, 2025, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile …
locusmag.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Congratulations to all the wonderful Locus award nominees! locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...
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Basically, he’s decimating every good department that helps people.
a cartoon of snoopy laying on a blanket with a box of peanuts and a box of milk
Alt: a cartoon of snoopy laying on a blanket with a box of peanuts and a box of milk
media.tenor.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Basically, he’s decimating every good department that helps people.
MAGA’s War on Science
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MAGA’s War on Science
Why do these people believe that ignorance is strength?
open.substack.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
MAGA’s War on Science
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In Trump's first 100 days, he alienated us from our allies, crashed the stock market, decimated U.S. cancer research, expelled American toddlers, lost the Canadian election by proxy, and threatened your Social Security checks.
But at least he focused on the important stuff.
But at least he focused on the important stuff.
April 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
In Trump's first 100 days, he alienated us from our allies, crashed the stock market, decimated U.S. cancer research, expelled American toddlers, lost the Canadian election by proxy, and threatened your Social Security checks.
But at least he focused on the important stuff.
But at least he focused on the important stuff.
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Reading about Trump’s cruel crackdown on immigrants reminds me of 1939, when the U.S. turned away a ship of 900 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany — a third later died in concentration camps.
Take down the Statue of Liberty. This is the end of welcoming the stranger.
www.history.com/articles/wwi...
Take down the Statue of Liberty. This is the end of welcoming the stranger.
www.history.com/articles/wwi...
A Ship of Jewish Refugees Was Refused US Landing in 1939. This Was Their Fate | HISTORY
The more than 900 passengers of the M.S. St. Louis were denied entry by immigration authorities in multiple countries in the lead-up to the Holocaust.
www.history.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reading about Trump’s cruel crackdown on immigrants reminds me of 1939, when the U.S. turned away a ship of 900 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany — a third later died in concentration camps.
Take down the Statue of Liberty. This is the end of welcoming the stranger.
www.history.com/articles/wwi...
Take down the Statue of Liberty. This is the end of welcoming the stranger.
www.history.com/articles/wwi...
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And this rupture of families affects entire generations!
Historian Marci Shore describes it so vividly in "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe."
Historian Marci Shore describes it so vividly in "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe."
April 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
And this rupture of families affects entire generations!
Historian Marci Shore describes it so vividly in "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe."
Historian Marci Shore describes it so vividly in "The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe."
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Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
April 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Barry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
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I simply want to know when the media is going to do huge headlines & days of stories about Trumps obvious mental decline. In other words, he’s batsh*t crazy & they are silent.
Such hypocrisy - they covered Biden relentlessly & refuse to cover trump’s delusional demented behavior. @nytimes.com
Such hypocrisy - they covered Biden relentlessly & refuse to cover trump’s delusional demented behavior. @nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I simply want to know when the media is going to do huge headlines & days of stories about Trumps obvious mental decline. In other words, he’s batsh*t crazy & they are silent.
Such hypocrisy - they covered Biden relentlessly & refuse to cover trump’s delusional demented behavior. @nytimes.com
Such hypocrisy - they covered Biden relentlessly & refuse to cover trump’s delusional demented behavior. @nytimes.com
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Read our letter. 550 Jewish clergy signed onto this letter to declare our refusal to be silent in the face of abuse of migrants and immigrants. THIS MUST STOP TODAY. Not tomorrow, or next week. NOW. @hias-refugees.bsky.social
When law becomes a source of abuse rather than of justice, it ceases to fulfill its intended purpose. We condemn the systematic undermining of the rights and security of immigrants.
And we refuse to remain silent.
Read our letter:
And we refuse to remain silent.
Read our letter:
Jewish Clergy Speak Out on the Immoral Use of the Law
A letter from Jewish clergy challenges what it calls the Trump administration's immoral use of the law in its immigration policy.
hias.org
April 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Read our letter. 550 Jewish clergy signed onto this letter to declare our refusal to be silent in the face of abuse of migrants and immigrants. THIS MUST STOP TODAY. Not tomorrow, or next week. NOW. @hias-refugees.bsky.social
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This is all very reasonable though unfair to Chamberlain who, mistaken though he was, tried to appease —before— a war. Trump is siding with a fascist aggressor after three years of war.
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'End policy of appeasement' — European foreign affairs chairs rebuke Trump's Russia stance
"Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile," a statement signed by officials from eight countries said.
kyivindependent.com
April 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
This is all very reasonable though unfair to Chamberlain who, mistaken though he was, tried to appease —before— a war. Trump is siding with a fascist aggressor after three years of war.
kyivindependent.com/european-for...
kyivindependent.com/european-for...
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Ukraine did what he asked; Russia did not; and now he will blame Ukraine and cozy up to Russia. This whole peace thing is a distraction from the ongoing war that Ukraine has no choice but to fight because it is being asssulted every day.
Ukraine accepted a ceasefire, Russia did not. This is Trump’s response: “if, for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we're just going to say, 'You're foolish, you're fools, you're horrible people' & we're going to just take a pass”
Trump says US will 'pass' on Ukraine peace talks if no progress soon
Trump's comments came hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the US could abandon talks.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Ukraine did what he asked; Russia did not; and now he will blame Ukraine and cozy up to Russia. This whole peace thing is a distraction from the ongoing war that Ukraine has no choice but to fight because it is being asssulted every day.
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I’m my wildest imagination I wouldn’t have thought that higher education would be a target….or that the CDC would be trashed…. Or that we would send immigrants to prisons in another country without due process… etc etc
Today, I’m deeply inspired that so many came out to protest this insanity.
Today, I’m deeply inspired that so many came out to protest this insanity.
April 20, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I’m my wildest imagination I wouldn’t have thought that higher education would be a target….or that the CDC would be trashed…. Or that we would send immigrants to prisons in another country without due process… etc etc
Today, I’m deeply inspired that so many came out to protest this insanity.
Today, I’m deeply inspired that so many came out to protest this insanity.
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Our nations students shouldn’t have to have the fear of being shot at school, or anywhere. I’m praying for the families and wounded, I’m acting so it never happens again.
FSU, I’m so sorry our government has failed you.
FSU, I’m so sorry our government has failed you.
April 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Our nations students shouldn’t have to have the fear of being shot at school, or anywhere. I’m praying for the families and wounded, I’m acting so it never happens again.
FSU, I’m so sorry our government has failed you.
FSU, I’m so sorry our government has failed you.
Bluesky has restricted access to 72 accounts and one post in Turkey, marking a shift for the decentralized social media platform that had previously resisted government censorship, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing a report by the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD).
April 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Bluesky has restricted access to 72 accounts and one post in Turkey, marking a shift for the decentralized social media platform that had previously resisted government censorship, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing a report by the Freedom of Expression Association (İFÖD).
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History is being rewritten.
Like a number of older trans people, I was involved in consultations around all the legislation of the 90s and 00s around trans equality. At no point was 'biological sex' discussed as a real thing which would impact and reduce my equal human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
History is being rewritten.
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I want to know about the other people the Trump regime sent to the prison in El Salvador. Were they given due process hearings? Why aren’t we talking about them?
April 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I want to know about the other people the Trump regime sent to the prison in El Salvador. Were they given due process hearings? Why aren’t we talking about them?
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“By continuing to punish Columbia even after the school gave in to its demands, the administration also appears to have overplayed its hand. If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why should other universities give in?”
What Harvard Learned From Columbia’s Mistake
If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why give in to the Trump administration’s demands?
www.theatlantic.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“By continuing to punish Columbia even after the school gave in to its demands, the administration also appears to have overplayed its hand. If cooperation and even capitulation don’t get you anywhere, why should other universities give in?”
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All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned.
This is the face of fascism. Look at it.
This is the face of fascism. Look at it.
April 16, 2025 at 9:30 AM
All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned.
This is the face of fascism. Look at it.
This is the face of fascism. Look at it.
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NO NO NO. The Trump regime doesn’t get to use us Jews as pawns in his fight with higher education. @harvard.edu stay strong. Do not cave to his autocratic demands.
April 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
NO NO NO. The Trump regime doesn’t get to use us Jews as pawns in his fight with higher education. @harvard.edu stay strong. Do not cave to his autocratic demands.
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Clearly, they wanted to believe it. "It's not about the immigrants," but if it were, then that would be okay?
April 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Clearly, they wanted to believe it. "It's not about the immigrants," but if it were, then that would be okay?
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"I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse.
My question is: why did he think things would change for the better? Trump locked babies in cages.
My question is: why did he think things would change for the better? Trump locked babies in cages.
"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action.
"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."
www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
www.nbcboston.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse.
My question is: why did he think things would change for the better? Trump locked babies in cages.
My question is: why did he think things would change for the better? Trump locked babies in cages.
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Not a bad time to read Applebaum’s classic history of the Gulag, Alexopoulos’s convincing interpretation of the Soviet camp system ("Illness and Inhumanity"), or Julius Margolin’s extraordinary memoir "Journey to the Land of the Zeks and Back."
Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book.
www.wsj.com/articles/mem...
www.wsj.com/articles/mem...
Memoirs of the Murdered
Timothy Snyder reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
www.wsj.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Not a bad time to read Applebaum’s classic history of the Gulag, Alexopoulos’s convincing interpretation of the Soviet camp system ("Illness and Inhumanity"), or Julius Margolin’s extraordinary memoir "Journey to the Land of the Zeks and Back."