Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 29/09/2026For every complicated problem, there is an extremely simple solution, if you are very stupid. Our government is now run entirely by "Why Don't We Just" guys. 48218
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’m old enough to remember when Ted Cruz accurately called Donald Trump a pathological liar and the worst narcissist anyone had ever seen 1971212221
Reposted by Barbara B. Harrelljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.” 312656440
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026From @timmiller.bsky.social : “We are imprisoning Maryam, Eissa, and their teenage son not because they are a threat to national security—but because of something a family member did before any of them were born.” 😕🇺🇸 @marcorubiothebulwark.comMarco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s SinsAmerica gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage. 24429212
Reposted by Barbara B. Harrelljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance 358155522729
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026More pileateds today, viewed through window with Acopian #birdsavers. I think this baby was trying to tell me something, lol, before Mama called her over to our cherry snag. #birds #PNW #Bellingham #woodpeckers 052
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026US media: Why in the world are people voting for democratic socialists? Financial Times: “US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows.” 462777830
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026That suet is hanging under our deck, positioned where squirrels can't reach it. Frequent visitors include bushtits, chickadees, nuthatches, spotted towhees, western tanagers, Bewick's wrens, juncoes, downy & hairy woodpeckers, northern flickers. Pileateds just the past two days. #Bellingham #birds 250
Reposted by Barbara B. Harrelljamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs. 171146243125
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Not to brag but www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t... 1235562
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Even in the Trump era it somehow seems unreal that this dimwitted crackpot is the top public health official for a nation of 350 million people. 91348338
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellSenator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 04/08/2026Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:bloomberg.comDeutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report SaysDemocrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ... 8637111860
Reposted by Barbara B. Harrellmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020" 6052511213
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellNahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking. 8236462099
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The same is true about the “stolen” election 25569691841
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 29/07/2026A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...open.substack.comICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation ListA program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests. 642106885720
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/07/2026We really should have gone to greater lengths to be loudly disgusted by anyone who acted like getting a shot or wearing a mask to prevent the spread of a pandemic virus was worse than being conscripted into the First World War 462809465
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Rand Paul--who doesn't believe in evolution--holding a hearing of Dr. Fauci--a retired, life-long public servant-- while we are *actively* in the midst of SEVERAL disease outbreaks due to unnecessary public health cuts and corporate lobbying shows exactly how unserious Republicans are. 582526713
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Rand Paul has "an intense & seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, & obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable." 529129843699
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In old-time anthropology, this used to be called "culture shock." I experienced it, returning to California (Leisure World, of all places) from 5 months in an impoverished Taiwan coal-mining village. 002
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026This is crazy and wrong. Darkness is important to the health of many species, including ours. Do not allow this, people! #ALAN #darksky @danidarkskies.bsky.social @darkskyintl.bsky.socialnytimes.comF.C.C. Approves Test of Space Mirror to Light Night Sky Despite OutcryA start-up company has permission to try its plan to bounce solar rays onto the dark side of Earth, turning night to day for a three-mile-wide patch. 173
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026No.nytimes.comTrump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)The rule change ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could hasten the demise of imperiled animals. 010
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellMatt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Newsday.com/matt 511253
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026While I'm at it, here's an update re our back lawn #restoration. Started in 2024 by adding a few shrubs that deer tend to ignore. Let native wild strawberries invade, then removed sod bit by bit. #LawnRemoval #HabitatRestoration #NativePlants #PNW Photos Jun 23, Feb 25, Jul 26, Jul 26. 220
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Update. A few species have been shaded/competed out, but our back slope #restoration now has 73 species, including a new Pacific yew (Taxus brevifolia) and a new patch of California oatgrass (Danthonia californica) (native in #PacificNorthwest, not just California). #habitat 1) Jun 2025 2) Apr 2026 000
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026More from Samish Hill today. Just me and @steveharrell.bsky.social. We saw two other humans and one smiling dog during 3 miles on trail. #Bellingham #PNW #nativeplants 231
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Just a little hike up Samish Hill, one of our favorites here in #Bellingham. 020
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellWA Whistles @wawhistles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you? 14937072427
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Summer color for bloomscrollers 🌺 Nodding onion, Cascade penstemon, deer-fenced cape fuchsia and crocosmia—all of intense interest to our local rufous and Anna's hummingbirds. English lavender occupies bees and other pollinators, seems to please the neighbors ;-) #PNW #Bellingham #garden #habitat 031
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I assume in keeping with their methods, before Trump puts on the "largest fireworks display in history" (or whatever he's hyping) he has fired the fire department. 2339564
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellJB | Native Plant Gardener (WI) @jbtheexplorer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Me for the last two decades: That dead tree sure would be a great place to see a hawk perched. Me tonight: See, I knew it! #birds #nature #photography #Wisconsin 0609
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellColorado Wild @robin34.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Some hungry Northern flicker chicks and their hard-working dad. Colorado. 🪶 57414
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This real life “make way for ducklings” happened today in Newport right in front of me 2995524
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/06/2026💯% this 18468001627
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was. 25872022803
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellLori Batchelor🇨🇦 @lorichirp.bsky.social · 14/06/2026I don't know exactly what these Pacific Great Blue Heron nestlings were doing but I thought it was interesting...?! #birds #photography #ECK @everyheron.bsky.social 828049
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellHarrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026The hottest new lifestyle trend is cooking and eating the food you have at home. It’s called fridgemaxxing 1864964610
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellGrosdoriane @grosdoriane.bsky.social · 01/06/2026You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know." 373166223812
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellNorm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith 342135303492
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I love our enclosed garden in spring, especially after rejuvenating rain (which we badly needed here in #PNW). A place in the heart. Those upside-down wastebaskets that cost three times as much when they're sold as cloches keep the birds off the lettuce. It works! 🌱 110
Reposted by Barbara B. HarrellManisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.” 133136424613
Barbara B. Harrell @bbharrell.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Steller's jay sunning. Freaking out the bushtits nesting nearby, who did a great job of dive-bombing that jay away last Thursday. Sorry I can't show their nest--it's masterfully hidden. #birds 070