Laurie Schowalter

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Greta Thunberg: global warming is a problem-

Media: YASSS

Thunberg: caused by capitalism and-

Media: BOOOOO

Thunberg: imperiali*drowned out by reporters making unusually loud moist mouth noises*

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

A patriot

This week, the Global Sumud Flotilla tried to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza.

Instead, 461 people—including New Yorkers—have been detained by the Israeli military.

They must be freed at once. And the deliberate starvation of Palestinians must end now.

Haha this would make me actually like her. Good for her!

It’s the right thing to do.

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration Apple said on Thursday that it had removed ICEBlock, the most popular ICE-tracking app, and other similar apps from its App Store after it was contacted by President Donald Trump's administration.

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

Not to be overly dramatic but don't ever say what happened to Khashoggi can't happen here. We've had a lot of things happen here already that "can't happen here"

I think we can agree that the real victim in a US government shutdown is Russ Vought.

Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up Hey there Angry Planet listeners, Matthew here.

@mjgault.bsky.social was interviewing a ABC correspondent about new podcast on the murder of US solder Vanessa Guillén. When brought up Hesgeth's recent speech, ABC PR interrupted, asked not to talk about that. Then asked Matthew to cut that part. Wild, wild stuff
angryplanetpod.com/p/vanessa-gu...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Hugs xxx

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41.

Here’s the President of the United States of America.

This is an infuriating and shameful scandal. The Roberts Court is condoning Trump’s law breaking, again, pure and simple. There is no serious path forward for democratic government without Supreme Court reform.

Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards.

When the people in government say, “We honor men who murder women and children,” believe them. apnews.com/article/woun...

btw @thexylom.com is legit — the only asian american-run science newsroom. independent and worker-owned. they could really use more support for this critical work

Ouch

Painfully true

White House press conference: DO NOT TAKE TYLENOL!!! IT CAUSES AUTISM!!!

Actual letter to physicians: Pssst... there is no link. Acetaminophen is the safest over-the-counter alternative in pregnancy.

IN FACT, countries are decreasing foreign aid

Unitaid, CHAI, and Wits RHI enter into a landmark agreement with Dr. Reddy’s to make HIV prevention tool lenacapavir affordable in LMICs - Unitaid

We all need some good news

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

“The revolutionary HIV prevention tool, injectable lenacapavir, will be available at a cost of US$40 a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries starting in 2027”

@unitaid.bsky.social CHAI Wits RHI

unitaid.org/news-blog/le...

Wonderful!

screenshot of Planned parenthood email with a sentence highlighted in blue Welcome to “The Quickie” — Planned Parenthood Action Fund’s daily tipsheet on the top health care & reproductive rights stories of the day. You can read “The Quickie'' online here. In today’s Quickie: Newsflash: Abortion rights are still popular, and Senate Republicans reject proposal to avoid a government shutdown. LOUDER FOR THE PUNDITS IN THE BACK: 8 IN 10 AMERICANS SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS. This past week, NYT’s Ezra Klein made clear that he hasn’t done the reading when he suggested that the solution to Democrats’ problems is to support anti-abortion candidates in places like Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri. This commentary is fundamentally dangerous. It’s also misguided and makes zero sense, especially as support for abortion and access to reproductive health care is at an all-time high. Not to mention the fact that while Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri voters all re-elected President Trump, in recent years, they’ve all also passed referendums that expanded access to abortion. The truth of the matter is, Klein’s rhetoric — and those who cosign it — emboldens those who would trade away our rights for a chance at political power rather than build on the massive support for sexual and reproductive health care to build real sustainable grassroots momentum. It also ignores the fact that abortion bans are inherently authoritarian. Politicians who want to take away access to abortion aren’t failing a litmus test; they’re backing a policy that will, and already has, cost people their lives. **You can either believe people should have control over their own bodies or you don’t. Period.** And as we face unprecedented attacks as a nation on all fronts from the Trump administration, it’s chilling that anyone could look beyond facts and reason to throw access to life-saving reproductive health care under the bus.

Look it's fun to dunk on men with bad abortion takes but if your organization supports laws that allow abortion bans later in pregnancy, you're not actually letting people have control over their bodies
www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/tipsheets/th...

Tips The New York Times is providing ways to get in touch and share materials with our journalists confidentially.

I just sent a hot tip to the NYT that the president of the United States publicly called for the Attorney General to persecute his political opposition, the most blatant such corruption in U.S. history, and an obviously impeachable offense. Let’s see if they decide to cover it! www.nytimes.com/tips

Trump's model for his emerging drug war has been imprisoned and awaits trial for war crimes.

The least shocking story of this administration

There is rightly frustration with hypocrisy but these aren’t the messengers! And let’s not forget South Africa’s case against Israel