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Laurin Lindsey

@ravenscourtgardens.bsky.social
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On a fabulous journey! Artist, traveler, philosopher, perennial student. Landscape designer 🌱 CALPD

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Laurin Lindsey @ravenscourtgardens.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Laurin Lindsey @ravenscourtgardens.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hundreds of NOAA workers, including National Weather Service meteorologists, have been laid off. @ejreports.bsky.social joins us to discuss her reporting on experts' concerns about forecast accuracy for the next hurricane season, for Wabe and @gristnews.bsky.social.
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Forecasting Cuts Leave Some Worried For Hurricane Season
Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service could mean less reliable weather forecasts.
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Waylon & Elephant Journal @elephantjournal.com · 28/03/2025
“Nuclear warfare is like two men standing in a pool of gasoline, one with five matches, the other with two.” ~ Carl Sagan
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Twenty Quotes to Give you Chills. | elephant journal
Isaac Asimov Too often, in this social media-happy, twitter-drowning, sound-byte-bit world of ours, we use quotes like a dopamine hit: to make us feel just slightly better, but not to go dee...
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Waylon & Elephant Journal @elephantjournal.com · 28/03/2025
"It reminds me of this poem, I used to love Neruda back in college..."
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Letting go isn't pretty. Pablo Neruda, a poet for sad, bad mornings. Plus, Trungpa: tonglen. | elephant journal
Letting go sucks. Pablo Neruda, a poet for sad, bad mornings. Plus, Trungpa: tonglen.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Poland will deploy up to 1 million anti-personnel mines on its border with Russia and Belarus as it prepares for the Russian invasion of Europe. The Baltics have also withdrawn from the Ottawa Treaty and are now actively fortifying their defense lines in preparation for war.
A deminer with the Ukrainian national police inspects mines that were found in a field in Izyum, Ukraine, in the Kharkiv region, on Oct. 24, 2023. (Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)
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Allan @allan1.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
The American people are becoming increasingly angry with what is happening in this country.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 19/03/2025
This woman! 👏👏👏👏👏 ... Come on America!
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Lucy 🇺🇲🇺🇦🐾♿️💙 @juice2024.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 17/03/2025
The greatest threat facing the United States is its own president.

The Washington Post
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly
The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 15/03/2025
a generational political talent
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Laurin Lindsey @ravenscourtgardens.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Monday morning, enjoying the sun in the garden. Flaming Torch Lily – Scadoxus puniceus #marchinthegarden from @treesearchfarms. 🌱
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
To repeat: Musk is an enemy of America; enemy of Europe; enemy of the West; enemy of democracy.
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Chinese investors privately take stakes in Elon Musk’s companies
Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to Donald Trump to lure capital to xAI, Neuralink and SpaceX
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
DOGE cut off payments for the electricity, cell phone, and internet service of U.S. government employees who work in a high-risk area in Central America. Meanwhile, DOGE apparently plans to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer for their own personal use in a federal office building in DC.
Because DOGE has shut down USAID's payment system (Phoenix), our housing
electricity and the electricity in our USAID building have not been paid for. Mission
leadership has informed us that the only reason our electricity is on is because we've
asked for an extension from the electric company. The Mission asked for a waiver but
because our payment system is down, the Treasury has no way to issue money to USAID
and State Department representatives here are hesitant to make payments on our behalf
for fear of not being reimbursed.
7. Once the electricity goes out in our homes, we lose access to our security cameras and
radios. Again, I live in a high-risk post, so access to security systems is very important to
me.
8. I have been told by Mission leadership that the cell phone and internet bills are due this
week with no way to pay them. This is despite the so-called "waiver" process that has
been allegedly implemented to preserve such access.
9. Our cell phones and radios are also the only way to communicate with the Regional
Security Office about security threats. We have access to no other USAID security
systems.The agency is also considering spending about $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the building’s 6th floor, according to a Feb. 25 invoice obtained by POLITICO. There is also a child’s play area decorated with a stuffed animal and toys, according to a photo of the room shared with POLITICO.

“People are definitely … sleeping there,” said one GSA staffer.
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Laurin Lindsey @ravenscourtgardens.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Some husbands buy you flowers but mine knows me well. #pickleplant from @buchanansplants Kleinia stapeliiformis is an evergreen succulent plant Belonging to the Daisy Family (compositae or Asteraceae) and native to the Cape Provinces and Northern Provinces of South Africa.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
No bone spurs detected.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
1. Trump declares tariffs that tank the stock market. 2. Trump and Musk buy cheaper stocks. 3. Trump rescinds tariffs, reviving the stock market. 4. Trump and Musk sell more expensive stocks.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Let's try and get another 1,000 letters to Congress tonight demanding they do everything they can to support Ukraine and Zelensky. Contact them now: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Congress: Stand with Ukraine over Russia
Contact Congress today!
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
News anchors and legal analysts, PLEASE. I beg you. America begs you: stop calling these SCOTUS justices "CONSERVATIVE." They no longer meet that definition. They are radical right wing activist justices.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
STOP THE COUP. “NECESSARY TROUBLE”!!
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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Madness He is destroying our country
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Reminder...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/03/2025
Is this what they meant by a Red Wave?
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Allan @allan1.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/03/2025
Taking over an institution, asset-stripping it, and selling it for parts. Usually the victim is company, but this time it's our government.
thebulwark.com
Vulture Capitalism Comes for Democracy
The playbook Trump and Musk are following to dismantle government resembles the one used to pick apart America’s newspapers.
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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Laurin Lindsey @ravenscourtgardens.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Happy Monday 😊 Cool spider web on our Eastern Barrel cacti. 🌱
Easter Barrel cacti with spider web.
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Vaughn Smider, MD, PhD @vvsmider.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I think Beaker wants everyone to #standupforscience
Beaker the muppet
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
"After the service, the family carefully placed a photo of Hertweck in his military uniform on the ground amid the thousands of mementos honoring other fallen troops and slowly walked away..." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
washingtonpost.com
Ukraine honors foreign fighters, Americans, as nation’s future on the brink
A family travels to Kyiv to bring home their Marine son who fell in the battle for Avdiivka as Trump and Zelensky meet over Ukraine’s future at the White House.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/03/2025
“Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace—and you can have it in the next second—surrender.” Reagan. Trump is surrendering
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Harry Shannon @harryshannon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It was very very clearly an ambush
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
REPOST if you stand with President Zelenskyy against Trump and Vance!
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Allan @allan1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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Laurin Lindsey @ravenscourtgardens.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
JD Vance is a whinging wanker! #neverpresident
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Patricia C @pearlypiper.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
HEY #republicans Government is not supposed to be a money maker. It's a service. Which is what we pay taxes for. If Rs in Congress think government employees are lazy losers--they might take a look in the damn mirror. #GovernmentForThePeople
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Harry Shannon @harryshannon.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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