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Marnie Erin,Ph.D.

@ecoverdant.bsky.social
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus" The CDC raised its COVID wastewater benchmarks, so levels once considered “high” may now be labelled “moderate.” The agency says the change is intended to better reflect the current risk of COVID transmission.🤦‍♂️
  A screenshot of an article preview from NBC News featuring a United States map tracking "Covid viral levels."
The map color-codes states to show differing ranges of viral activity, using shades of orange (with Texas, California, Florida, and Washington showing deeper orange hues), light peach for lower levels, grey for unavailable data, and diagonal grey stripes over several states.
At the bottom, a dark grey text overlay reads: "Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus." Small grey attribution text below the main card indicates the source is from nbcnews.com.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22/09/2026
We have a new #OpenAccess commentary piece out in @aguadvances.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1029/2026.... This article introduces a new collection of “Impactful Datasets in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences” by @agu.org. I was very excited to support the nomination of the NSIDC’s Sea Ice Index.
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Impactful Datasets in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences: Highlighting the Data That Transform Research
American Geophysical Union announces the new living collection “Impactful Datasets in Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences” Nominators submit datasets impactful to their work along with perso...
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Jonathan Larsen @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've got all the receipts, and have been reporting on Walberg, et al, for years. If your news outlets report on Piker and el-Sayed, but not Rogers and Walberg…maybe they shouldn't be your news outlets? You can check out, and support, my reporting, here: jonathanlarsen.substack.com
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Jonathan Larsen’s Substack | Substack
Adversarial journalism and commentary from the former executive producer of Up w/ Chris Hayes, senior producer at Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, and veteran of The Daily Show, ABCNews, CNN, The Young T...
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My spirit animal! 🦝 Looking forward to my new #BestQuestie & cruising with #Jimothy
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 19/09/2026
"All of this analysis, the stats, the records is here to show one thing. We are having a profound climate impact on billions of people right now. Not five, ten, fifteen years from now. But right now." ➡️ Check out our latest state of the climate webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrXC...
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Climate Central’s Monthly Briefing Highlights: August 2026
YouTube video by Climate Central
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
PMC COVlD Update, Week of Sep 7, 2026 ◾️33 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt) ◾️Highest levels nationally since March 5th ◾️1 in 86 Americans estimated actively infectious ◾️Peak expected soon, but some caveats THREAD (1/5) 🧵 pmc19.com
The US has at least 33 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alaska, Hawai’i, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 33 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, South Carolina and Oklahoma likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 31/08/2026
The Center and our allies have sued the Trump administration over the registration of #trifludimoxazin, a potent #PFAS #pesticide that breaks down into long-lived, PFAS byproducts. Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4gFTA5l
Photo of a field of soy plants with a heavily clouded sky above. Text over the image reads: "Cancer-Linked Pesticide Currently Allowed 
on Widely Eaten 
Fruits, Nuts, Grains"
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
❤️this soooooo much!! My spirit animal 💯 Thank you #Jimothy for waking people up to the wonderful creatures that are raccoons 🦝
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
My husband 🐝 keeper @nybeekeeper.bsky.social got told today by the supplier of beekeeping equipment that they no longer can ship to the US. Canada 🇨🇦 is the only producer of this product. And they won’t sell to us anymore. Thanks fot your attention to this matter 🍊🤡💩cuz it’s all your fault!
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Mapquest for the win. (You too can rename Lake Ontario: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario )
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
You can now search which businesses in your area are collaborating with ICE, thanks to a new project from @theappeal.org 🔗 theappeal.org/ice-local-bu...
Background: deli store front | text: A NEW PROJECT ALLOWS YOU SEARCH LOCAL BUSINESSES TO FIND OUT WHO'S COLLABORATING WITH ICE
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com
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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive
Human-caused global warming and a strong El Niño are adding excess heat to the oceans, threatening marine life and providing storms with more energy and moisture.
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4hunger.org @arcticmark.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
open.substack.com/pub/markrobe... Two-degrees is will be a reality, sooner than was predicted a couple years ago! This year we had two famines and four countries near famine, 1.4 million people in the most severe stage of hunger where people starve to death!will be much worse in a two-degree world.
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Hunger At The 2°C Dinner Table
2°C redraws the map of hunger when it arrives 20 years earlier than the IPCC said it would, and why starvation toll is still a policy choice.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/08/2026
Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown
An ADSBx map showing 35 planes flying all over the Americas and Africa, emanating out of Louisiana and TexasAn ADSBx map showing North and Central America, showing roundup flights to northern cities, about a dozen removal flights to central America and the Caribbean.A closeup of Alexandria, La, showing GlobalX's N966AD taking off and then quickly returning to the airport.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 13/08/2026
We're not too far off from the all-time highest sea surface temperature recorded in Niño 3.4. Join our next webinar covering the record July U.S./global temperatures, recent extreme events, and El Niño of course. 📣 Sign up at climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi..., also open Q/A at the end.
Line graph time series of daily Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures from 1982 to 2026. This year is currently a record high for this time of year through August 11, 2026. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1, and the graphic is created by Climate Central at https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-briefings.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Today’s garden harvest. Well, that’s really only 1 of the blueberry bushes. I have a hedge row 50ft long of blueberries 🫐 to go, but I guess that’s tomorrow’s garden harvest. #gardening 🌱
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Raccoons 🦝 on the porch. ❤️❤️❤️ @intheseshoes.bsky.social
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
When Montana feels like Texas, you know it is BAD! #climatecrisis #heatdome
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Feel bad for those living in the D.C. area this morning...horrible air quality after the sh%t show, I mean fireworks. aqicn.org/station/unit...
Air Quality Index (AQI) in Washington D.C. shows unhealthy levels post vanity-fair-sh%t-show-250th-fireworks.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Instead of following those engagement bait alt gov accounts, follow and support @climate.us instead.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The wonderful @marisakabas.bsky.social let me go long on the grim historic parallels between the Prairieland defendants and 19th century America’s brutal repression—and execution—of anarchists, union organizers, and political dissidents. We are all antifa now. www.thehandbasket.co/p/haymarket-...
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From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law
The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717) was a pioneering naturalist, entomologist & scientific illustrator whose meticulous artwork & observations: 🦋 Revolutionized the study of insects 🐜 Laid early groundwork for #ecology 🐞 Permanently changed how we understand insect life It's #InsectWeek #WomenInSTEM
A side-by-side image of the German-Dutch naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), celebrated for her groundbreaking contributions to entomology and ecology. On the left, a formal historical oil portrait depicts Merian as a young woman from the chest up against a dark, minimalist backdrop. Facing forward with a slight turn to the right, she maintains a calm, serious expression. She wears a black dress accented by a wide, sheer white lace collar draped over her shoulders, a dark jeweled brooch, a double-strand pearl necklace, and large teardrop pearl earrings. Her brown curly hair is partially covered by a black fabric head cap. On the right is a vibrant book cover titled "Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis." The cream-colored cover features her detailed scientific illustrations, including a large blue and brown butterfly, a yellow butterfly, a lizard, caterpillars, a large blue passionflower, and assorted foliage, showcasing her legacy of documenting insect life cycles and host plants.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Watched the 🐝 work today. #pollinators #savebees #poppy #flowers
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Marianne Denton @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
BlueSky Trending shows Bezos as # 1 and World Bee Day as # 4. Whatever we can collectively do to replace bees over bezos, you know that you need to do. #WorldBeeDay
Small black native bee collecting purple pollen from a mariposa lily stamen. Close up and face on with large black eyes.Small black native bee collecting purple pollen from a mariposa lily stamen. Close up and side view where the purple pollen is evident on the underside of the bee's body.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
It’s 🐝 season! #bees #pollinators #upstateNY #swarm #garden
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/05/2026
WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
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High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/05/2026
1/ ICYMI: We won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting! For our “On the Hook” series with @ctmirror.org, we reported on how Connecticut laws had come to favor towing companies at the expense of low-income residents. Here's a bit more about the series 👇
A group of smiling and clapping journalists, gathered in a room. Seated towards the front are ProPublica’s deputy data editor Hannah Fresques, assistant managing editor Sarah Blustain, senior editor Michael Grabell and managing editor, local, Charles Ornstein. Photo credit: Zaydee Sanchez/ProPublicaA joyous room of journalists, all applauding and celebrating Connecticut Mirror reporter Ginny Monk, a woman with blonde hair near the center of the image. She wears a black cardigan and a flowered black and white skirt. Credit: Cloe Poisson/CT Mirror.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
RIP sweet Chirpy ❤️this sweetheart & will miss her forever
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
🌱Happy Earth 🌏 Day! My bees 🐝 working hard & enjoying this beautiful blue Hyacinth 🪻 Wish this had smell-a-vision the scent of these flowers is intoxicating!! #spring #bees #pollinators #EarthDay
Happy Earth 🌍 Day!
My bees are hard at work enjoying this blue blooming Hyacinth 🪻
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/... Read this & thought of all the research @mizalisa.bsky.social has been doing on Epstein’s connection to both national labs in New Mexico. So many intersecting coincidences.
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Missing nuclear official becomes TENTH person tied to US secrets
Another key official who reportedly had access to America's nuclear secrets has gone missing, as a disturbing web of deaths and disappearances grows.
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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility @peer.org · 02/04/2026
As part of a wide-ranging reorganization and headquarters move from DC to Utah, the U.S. Forest Service is shuttering more than 57 research stations and eliminating a significant number of forestry scientists. ow.ly/HE8i50YCiQl #ForestService #NationalForests
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Forest Service Sheds Research Capacity in Move to Utah
USDA Abandons Science, Closing 57 Forest Service Research Stations
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Ghana has been in the news recently as they have submitted a draft resolution before the UN declaring the Atlantic Slave Trade the gravest crime against humanity. In the spirit of that, March 25 is also International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Design:

A backdrop of the World Map overlayed by red shackled hands breaking a chain.

Words accompanying list the date "March 25."

And "International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Agriculture already produces enough calories to feed the world. Yet, hunger persists, writes PIK scientist Christoph Müller in @science.org Editorial: Food insecurity is primarily a problem of poverty and unequal access not agricultural production.👇 www.science.org/eprint/WG6TN...
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Releasing agriculture from the food security mandate
The state of food security is achieved if no one has to worry whether or how they can acquire—typically purchase—healthy and nutritious meals. In theory, food security could be addressed from two side...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
My favorite pastel from the late great Becky Harblin Sunlight on Forest Floor #wood #woodart #BlueSkyArt
Pastel artwork by Becky Harblin called Sunlight on Forest Floor
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
5/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Hello? @governor.ny.gov Governor Hochul, can you please move to nullify these!?!
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
As far as NSF is concerned, when it comes to postdocs, biology is only worthwhile if it’s AI now. If there’s a clean break for saying America is no longer a country where it’s possible to do science, I think this is a pretty good death date
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Human growth economic systems be they left or right are incompatible with a living planet If you fail to live within the laws of nature Earth will shut down as a living planet phys.org/news/2026-01...
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For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It ca...
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IT3b... ❤️ this song Woody & Arlo esque
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The People's Will (A Song for Minneapolis) Demo
YouTube video by Jack Sargent
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I'm really torn on sharing this because I want people to know that I'm literally one of thousands of people doing the same thing, I'm not the face of it, but someone wrote a protest song for Minneapolis and it's genuinely catchy and I want to respect their work too
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The People's Will (A Song for Minneapolis) Demo
YouTube video by Jack Sargent
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Please take a moment to contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to oppose H.J. Res. 140. A short call, email, or message saying you care about clean water, wilderness, and public lands really does matter. If people stay quiet, this will pass quietly. If enough of us speak up, it doesn’t have to.
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Marnie Erin,Ph.D. @ecoverdant.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Hello @governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul? You listening?!!!! #ICEout of NY!
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The Trump Administration is no longer hiding their Nazi inspiration, with Noem adopting a slogan coined by convicted Nazi war criminal Kurt Daluebe, who ordered the murder of every male in Lidice in retaliation for the death of a single SS officer. Is this Trump's plan for American cities?
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
All right, woke up to Maduro being kidnapped, guess I'll catch you guys tomorrow when we wake up to the occupation of Panama. Would you like to get breakfast, after we wake up to the seizure of Greenland next week? I could also be available after we wake up to the invasion of Mexico, or Canada.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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