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Still On This Side of the Grass
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This one is personal. I am a self employed artisan, cancer patient, musician and devoted husband with two cats, an amazing wife, and a stubborn determination to keep breathing and contributing to making a better world. (He/Him/Hey you! )
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
The incompetence of this administration is stunning.
Two days after the floods in Texas, FEMA failed to answer two-thirds of incoming calls. Contractors were laid off on July 5th, and Kristi Noem didn’t renew their contracts until five days later.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
www.nytimes.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
Kristi Noem didn’t approve FEMA rescue teams for over 72 hours after the Texas floods, following a rule she imposed that required her personal sign-off on any operation over $100K.

This is inexcusable. She should resign.
July 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
🚨🚨🚨 Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” funds LETHAL AI-powered drones that can make KILL DECISIONS. The bill does NOT specifically protect Americans from being targeted.

Why is anyone supporting this bill?
June 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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cwebbonline.com
If only we had warned folks before the election that the real plan wasn’t border security…it was mass deportation in the interior, federalizing the National Guard, ripping people out of homes, families, jobs, and schools.

Oh wait…we did.

This segment with the author of 2025 aired one year ago.
June 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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meganranney.bsky.social
I am a little late on this one - but Moderna published their phase 3 trial of a combined influenza/covid mRNA vaccine in adults age 50+.

Great immunogenicity. Mild, short-term side effects (muscle aches, fatigue, etc).

This is good news.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Immunogenicity and Safety of Influenza and COVID-19 Multicomponent Vaccine
This study examines the immunogenicity and safety of an investigational mRNA-based vaccine against seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in adults 50 years and older.
jamanetwork.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
It's time for another electric vehicle charging video.

Too many people believe EV charging solutions require expensive, huge electric circuits (or worse: service upgrades).

The really high-power ones people tend to go with can be a headache, but there are many other options!

youtu.be/W96a8svXo14
The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but you electrician might not know that
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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June 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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motherjones.com
“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.
June 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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charitystates.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 3:45 AM
thissideofthegrass.bsky.social
4 models showing my jewelry at the Syracuse Fashion Week 2025 gala show
sunshadowdesign.bsky.social Page @sunshadowdesign.bsky.social · Apr 6
My jewelry from the 2025 Syracuse Fashion Week Gala show benefitting the Food Bank of Central New York. First 4 images
Claire, with light brown hair, light skin, and stylish black glasses wearing my sterling silver five tudor rose necklace Eden, with dark brown hair, dark red lipstick, and a black dress wearing my sterling silver heraldic tyger necklace and art deco sterling silver and amethyst earrings Eliza, with medium brown hair and a black dress wearing my gold plated enameled strawberry leaf sculptural neckpieces and flower earrings Hanna, with dark brown skin and a black dress wearing my sterling silver strawberry leaf sculptural neckpiece and earrings
April 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
thissideofthegrass.bsky.social
4 models showing my jewelry at the Syracuse Fashion Week 2025 gala show
sunshadowdesign.bsky.social Page @sunshadowdesign.bsky.social · Apr 6
My jewelry from the 2025 Syracuse Fashion Week Gala show benefitting the Food Bank of Central New York. Second 4 images
Megan, with long light blonde hair and a black spagetti strap dress wearing my sterling silver flowers and butterflies necklace and butterfly earrings Jamie, with light brown hair and a black dress wearing my sterling silver flower branch sculptural neckpiece and earrings Tere, with frosted brown hair and a black dress wearing my sterling silver and amethyst art deco V pendant, and sterling silver medusa earrings Emilie, with bright magenta hair and a black dress wearing my gold plated and green polymer enameled maple leaf sculptural neckpiece and earrings
April 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
thissideofthegrass.bsky.social
2 of the models showing my jewelry at the Syracuse Fashion Week Spring 2025 gala show
sunshadowdesign.bsky.social Page @sunshadowdesign.bsky.social · Apr 6
My jewelry from the 2025 Syracuse Fashion Week Gala show benefitting the Food Bank of Central New York. Last 2 images
Precious, with dark brown hair, dark red lipstick, and a black dress wearing my sterling silver maple leaf sculptural necpiece and sterling silver maple spinner earrings Danielle, with blonde hair and a black dress wearing my sterling silver floral garland necklace and sterling silver dragonfly earrings
April 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.

Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
< Jaime Montana Cook is at Sackets Harbor Central School. 5h • Message from the Sackets Harbor Principal As the principal of these students, I need to speak plainly. Our three students who were taken by ICE were doing everything right. They had declared themselves to immigration judges, attended court on their assigned dates, and were following the legal process. They are not criminals. They have no ties to any criminal activity. They are loved in their classrooms. Their family has worked at the nearby "Old McDonald's" petting zoo and dairy farm for 15 years. They lived in a house on the same road as a home ICE had a warrant for. The fact that ICE went door to door is unfathomable. The fact that our students were handcuffed and put into the same van as the alleged criminal from down the street is unconscionable. When I think of my third grader's experience, my stomach twists and it is hard to breathe. We are in shock-and it is that shared shock that has unified our community in the call for our students' release. We are in direct communication with our students. Let me be clear: they are not "being medically evaluated." They are not being "questioned as potential victims." Calling a detention center by another name does not change what it is. We deserve better than spin and misinformation. My teachers and my students are already hurting. Please, think about how long every hour feels for a third grader in a detention center. The wait had already been too long a week ago. I have no other agenda. Please release my students and their mother back to our community. Jaime Cook Prek-12 Principal Sackets Harbor, NY
April 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
thissideofthegrass.bsky.social
This! The factory of the turn of the last century, which is what the hedge fund class still has stuck in their demented noggins does not exist, everything is contracted to “job shops” (whatever sweatshop is the lowest of lowballs that will still hit print at an acceptable ratio)
kattenbarge.bsky.social Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Apr 4
The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit
April 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
thissideofthegrass.bsky.social
brilliant! hoping that this comes to market quickly and brings broader applications through better understanding how to fight aggressive virus threats
sailorrooscout.bsky.social Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Mar 9
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
It occurs to me that not everyone knows how to get to Sugarbush, the ski resort JD Vance is visiting.

It’s a great mountain, but even if you don’t ski, it’s a beautiful drive to get there, especially on a clear day like tomorrow.

You can get directions here. You’re welcome!
Google Maps
Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
maps.app.goo.gl
March 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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maryannefranks.bsky.social
The man who sicced the black-shirted thugs on this woman is Sheriff Bob Norris. The man jeering, "Look at this little girl over here...We've got to be a little aggressive with some of these folks here... Your voice is meaningless right now...I can talk over all of you" is "voice actor" Ed Bejarana.
February 23, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
Federal Judge Banishes Musk’s DOGE Aides From Treasury Dept. Systems - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/n...
Federal Judge Banishes Musk’s DOGE Aides From Treasury Dept. Systems
A group of state attorneys general sued to block the Trump administration’s policy of allowing political appointees and “special government employees” championed by Elon Musk access to government data...
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
thissideofthegrass.bsky.social
PRI is a fantastic museum
February 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
💉 USDA Approves Poultry Vaccine
Zoetis’ H5N2 = killed-virus vaccine.
162M+ birds lost since 2022 due to H5N1 outbreaks.
Global trade concerns may limit vaccine use.
More poultry outbreaks in Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, & California.
Egg prices remain high.
www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu
The decision brings U.S. poultry farmers a step closer to immunizing their flocks
www.science.org
February 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
🐱 Raw Pet Food Linked to H5N1 in Oregon Cats
2 sick cats from Multnomah County ate Wild Coast Raw feline formula before falling ill.
H5N1 confirmed in both cats & unopened pet food samples.
Affected lots: 24oz boneless free-range chicken formula.
USDA urges pet owners to avoid raw pet food.
February 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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boghuma.bsky.social
Updates #H5N1
🐄 Arizona Dairy Herd Tests Positive for H5N1
Herd asymptomatic when milk tested positive.
The D1.1 genotype (circulating in wild birds) differs from previous outbreaks. 5 more herds confirmed today, bringing total to 972.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Third avian flu spillover reported in Arizona dairy herd; raw pet food sickens Oregon cats
www.cidrap.umn.edu
February 18, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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mcbridetd.bsky.social
Are you Kidding Me?

Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn
Defendants argue that Trump pardons should absolve them of additional crimes, some discovered during investigations of the Capitol riot
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
Jan. 6 Rioters Argue Pardons Apply to Charges Including Murder Plot, Child Porn
Defendants are arguing that President Trump’s pardon for offenses related to the storming of the Capitol should also absolve them of other alleged crimes, some discovered during Jan. 6 investigations.
www.wsj.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
thissideofthegrass.bsky.social
Brilliant!
hankgreen.bsky.social Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Feb 14
GM patenting an EV battery pack that can charge twice as fast by plugging it into two chargers at once is the most American innovation I’ve ever heard 🦅
February 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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crockett.house.gov
Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, our adversaries now have access to sensitive information about one of our intelligence agencies.

Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website
“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.
www.huffpost.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM