Gina Kopp

#npsbirthday Yosemite June 2011

A president who governs by “Executive Orders” is weak, not strong.

Should you toss your plastic kitchen tools for health reasons? Here's the scoop Some of the microplastics we ingest may come from the kitchen tools we use to prepare what we eat. If you want to reduce your reliance on plastic, here are some ideas.

I'm in this NPR article this morning! "Should you toss your plastic kitchen tools for health reasons? Here's the scoop"

www.npr.org/2025/05/12/n...

Donald Trump ordered the Department of Justice to investigate the leading platform through which Democrats raise money for their campaigns. Less that 100 days in, Trump is weaponizing DOJ to prevent his political opponents from funding opposition campaigns.

Where is the outrage?

Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?

Good luck to the St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup Playoffs!

The CFPB Has Been Gutted The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” wins the 2024 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism - Nieman Foundation ProPublica’s skillfully reported series “Life of the Mother,” which reveals how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths, is the winner of the 2024 Worth Bingham Prize for Invest...

Congratulations to @propublica.org, winner of the Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism for “Life of the Mother,” a landmark series that showed how state abortion bans in the U.S. have led to preventable deaths and has spurred important reforms.
nieman.harvard.edu/propublicas-...

If you love your library, listen up…

How A Secret Plan To Save KDHX’s Broadcast License Collapsed | St. Louis Magazine Up until the day that lawyers for KDHX made their first appearance in bankruptcy court, Steven Fitzpatrick Smith and Jon Parker thought they might be able to

A clandestine meeting that could have preserved KDHX's broadcast license took place the evening before attorneys for the radio station made their first appearance in bankruptcy court. Now at @stlmag.bsky.social, the attendees are sharing what went wrong -- and why www.stlmag.com/news/secret-...

A protest in Manhattan on Sunday against President Trump and Elon Musk.

Give this photo a Pulitzer

That's about as horrifying a sentence as has ever been written

A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.

This is well worth reading:

"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."

slate.com/news-and-pol...

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

A star cluster within a nebula. The background is filled with thin, pale blue clouds. Parts are thicker and pinker in colour. The cluster is made up of bright blue stars that illuminate the nebula around them. Large arcs of dense dust curve around, before and behind the clustered stars, pressed together by the stars’ radiation. Behind the clouds of the nebula can be seen large numbers of orange stars. Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)

WOW WOW WOW LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL NEW HUBBLE IMAGE OF NGC 346!!! 🌌

Proud of my friends at Sandy Hook Promise. Countless lives have been saved thanks to their Say Something tip line. This is what school safety can and should be. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

How to Save a Democracy Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.

"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..."

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

What I did in my banking career was to project manage new technology implementations, which had to interface with legacy symptoms. You need to understand the legacy system… older coding languages that these “kids” do not know. This spells disaster.

Half of the United States has been slowly and carefully inculcated by Fox News to believe that the other half of the country is their enemy and out to ruin their lives. Once this was established, it didn't take long for those viewers to value hurting these other Americans over helping themselves.

How does exercise and fitness promote healthy brain aging?
An outstanding, comprehensive review @thelancet.bsky.social
reduced neuroinflammmation, preserves blood-brain-barrier, neurogenesis, role of exerkines, and much more
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Many of my elderly neighbors don’t have access to hot or fresh food. Meals on Wheels can’t be delivered this far out and we have no restaurants. Some elderly folks in my community count on the food bank who comes to our town to deliver fresh food.

Those food banks are now losing their funding.

Committee Membership | United States Senate Committee on Armed Services United States Senate Committee on Armed Services

People respond to “call your Senator” with “but mine are both Republicans.”
Precisely.
The only way anything will change is with PRESSURE.
Signalgate is a serious breach & display of lying & incompetence at the highest levels.

Call them! 202-224-3121

www.armed-services.senate.gov/about/member...

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

But, her emails

he is SOOOOO good at this

Goldberg indicates Hegseth lied when he denied texting war plans

Lyle Lanley of the Simpsons saying “before we begin is anyone here an investigative reporter”

@ditzkoff.bsky.social

From now on in every White House Chat: