Karen Berkley

Happy Canada Day, Karen!

Good-sized, energized crowd today (19 Apr 2025) in Port St. Joe, FL, population 3,375.. :)

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I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

UGH!

Whoops.. ROBERT, not River…

The case for boycotting the United States | Robert Reich If you are considering a trip to the US, please reconsider. Why reward Donald Trump’s America with your tourist dollars?

Good for River Reich.. (So sad that I agree.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hi Jill! Great to hear from you. It was a post showing a float in a street carnival in Germany for Fasching. www.munich.travel/en/topics/ma...

www.facebook.com/100001335736.... !!

Opinion | James Carville: The Best Thing Democrats Can Do in This Moment (Gift Article) There’s nothing Democrats can legitimately do to stop Trump, so we need a tactical pause in our fight to plan for the future.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... —-Hmm.. interesting.

The photo shows that The Nature Conservancy now calls the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America!

No more donations from me, and I am telling them why: 🤬

Good analogy. You’re not alone.

Good analogy. You’re not alone.

Gorgeous!!! ..and all native plants; a bit of joy in the face of what else is going on around us.

Wow..

OMG.. Where did you get this list, Jill?

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

Fear mongering at its best (aka worst)..

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Hoping they will print this image on T-shirt, hat, stickers, etc.

Please make this into a T-shirt, sticker, hat, etc!! Thank you for all you are doing!!

Is it too late? Hope not. Please tead this entire thread. Thanks Chad Loder.

From Banksy Art Forever’s FB page:

Walking With Rhinos in Zimbabwe: ‘Everyone Benefits’ (Gift Article) On the fringes of an African game park, an ambitious project brings together tourists, local communities and white rhinos, emerging from the brink of extinction.

A bit of respite from the current and past weeks events.. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/t...

CDC Data Are Disappearing The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)

To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

January 31, 2025 On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... A powerful, powerful piece..

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

YouTube video by The Onion New Live Poll Lets Pundits Pander To Viewers In Real Time

New Live Poll Lets Pundits Pander To Viewers In Real Time

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing “a lot of uncertainty, fear, and panic”

This action (among many others) is devastating, terrifying , and insane. How, how can we stop this destructive descent?

www.science.org/content/arti...

Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"

Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭

The Chaos Continues Apace: The NIH Edition I don’t have any firm confirmation but over on BlueSky there are reports emerging that the new Administration’s halt of “communication” from any government agency until a po…

Bad news is coming in fast and furious today.

The Chaos Continues Apace: The NIH Edition
drugmonkey.scientopia.org/2025/01/22/t...

Snowfall, wildfires and the world’s largest flower – photos of the day: Wednesday The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

Amongst good and truthful reporting of awful news, The Guardian always has something else: www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...