Elizabeth Le Fen

I may have to have my eyebrows surgically removed from my hairline after seeing this

I was at Haven myself, but it still fries the shit out of me. Evanston was a diverse and interesting city even when I lived there 45 years ago, and for these assholes to run around disappearing people in my birthplace makes me SO mad. (I haven’t visited since my Mom’s funeral 3 years ago but still.)

It’s obvious this is a purge. They’re removing any non-white/non-male leaders using any lame excuse so they can have their “Master Race” military. Which won’t be able to fight its way out of a paper bag bc it’s led by idiots who think hazing = strength.

So a Black leader questioned the (illegal) commands from an incompetent Defense Secretary, then abruptly “retires” from a post he held barely a year? If he’s retiring, he isn’t doing so happily or voluntarily.

He’s likely been given an ultimatum: retire or be court martialed for “insubordination.”

It is said that nothing lasts forever, and often that is cause for sorrow and regret. But take heart, for it also applies to the reign of despots, to tyranny. They too cannot last forever, so let us usher in their end, let us outlast them.

They’re being so overt about it that I’m a little scared about the magnitude of what we’re not seeing.

Judging by the gurgling noises coming from my Dane’s GI tract, it is going to be a long night.

I wish mah big girl would recognize that she has a delicate tum. Dunno what she ate but it ain’t sitting well.

Good God.

I grew up in Evanston. It’s hard to wrap my head around all this happening there.

Dear Sam's Club Team:

It's sweet that you want my mother to rejoin Sam's Club in order to keep her $18.27 in Sam's Cash rewards.

Thing is, SHE DIED 3 YEARS AGO. So it's a bit late to be trying to offer her incentives.

The "small part" of my premium that's covered by the enhanced tax credits is over $1200/month. Maybe that's "a little bit" to Thune, who gets paid approximately 3x what I do for his Senate gig and doesn't actually have to pay for insurance, but it's a substantial hit to my budget.

I haven't even looked at how much my premiums are going up because I know I won't be able to afford them.

I'm expecting AT LEAST a 200% increase, best case scenario. That means insuring my family will cost 2x more than housing does.

Have I mentioned that all four of us have autoimmune diseases?

We should've jailed Nixon over Watergate.

We should've impeached Reagan over Iran/Contra.

And yes: Clinton should've been, at minimum, fined for his perjuries.

No consequences --> no shame

I'm hoping the "nothing" comes very soon and when it does, I will be LOUDLY advocating for harsh and punitive responses for anyone at the federal level who supported or instigated this mess. Including (especially!) asset seizure and reparations.

Would like to know the same for Maine. We’re one of the oldest states in the nation and we’d benefit from having the support of this coalition.

Me too

This is FUCKING AMAZING and it’s the kind of thing the science 🧪 feed brings me that gives me needed emotional boosts.

YouTube video by Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD — Climate Ages Scientists Found a 126,000-Year-Old Butt Drag #paleontology #science #wildlife #biology

The first fossilized butt drag was just documented.
126,000 years ago, a rock hyrax dragged its rear across sand in South Africa.
Those grooves became stone.
It’s hilarious AND scientifically important
showing us how extinct species behaved in daily life. 🦴
🧪 #SciComm

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🍃 🦠 🧪 Oral Rabies Vaccines This Fall for Raccoons in NYC

The most interesting thing I find in the graph is the differences in changes from 2020, the first year of COVID which was without immunization, and 2021 the first year with vaccine. I guess I should look at that and provide some numbers by party. Let me know if you would like to that.

Here is a graph I intended to post about three months ago. It shows the death rates for ages 20-64 of all races by party by year from 2018 through 2023. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News

This is precisely why I have the science feed.. it calms me down when I get too wrapped up in the doom.

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

We prevail through solidarity. Much organizing is behind this decision by Brown U to not cave, on the day that the Pentagon press corps walked out in unison rather than submit to censorship. In the year that so many non-immigrants showed up to stand with immigrants. #nokings

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My husband just now: “They have no intentions of opening the government back up. They’re shooting their whole load.”

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

NYT infographic. What could happen without Section 2 of the voting rights act. Current map shows mostly red (Republican) districts but some blue (Democrat) districts among Southeastern United States. Then a plausible scenario map that shows nearly all red.

US political elites have spent the better part of a decade obsessed with "civility" and purported threats thereto but politics is increasingly about raw power.

What does public debate even matter if the lines are drawn to all but guarantee right-wing political outcomes?

PLAY THE ROLE YOU TWAT. YOU WANTED IT, YOU NABBED IT, NOW STOP PHONING IT IN.

And yes. This is indeed the most petty and whiny of my reasons for despising this man but the up-from-under-his-chin photo TIME magazine produced just sent me over the edge.

Carry on.

For better or worse (all right, just for worse), he is. He attends functions with all the dignitaries of the world. He has enriched himself to ridiculous levels via corruption of his office, yet he doesn't even have someone who can ensure his clothes fit, which is just aggravating.

Now, **I** can be a slob.

I'm perfectly content to be in my house with my pre-owned, bleach-stained, flannel shirt with 2 missing buttons and denim capris that started as regular jeans and only became capris because I wore out the hems & re-hemmed them rather than buy new ones.

But I'm not POTUS.