Mark JVB

@bluntrochester.senate.gov One of your constituents here. I couldn’t say it any better than Mallory McMorrow: a promise is not a deal. What you get now is all you will get.

09.11.2025 23:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

11.10.2025 15:48 — 👍 3992    🔁 1103    💬 26    📌 68

A decal of a moray eel skeleton and a hopkin’s rose nudibranch. Text reads ‘Memento Moray’

This one’s for my stoic icthyologists. Eventually, we all become Whalefall.
#sciart 🦑🐋

27.08.2025 17:17 — 👍 234    🔁 82    💬 5    📌 1

Opinion | These invisible ‘wild neighbors’ need our help Flying squirrels rely on dead and dying trees to survive — we are clearing away their homes.

Neat photos and info about flying squirrels! wapo.st/3S9npzy

19.05.2025 01:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Creators: Alyse Bensel

I really enjoy discovering and sharing the books they keep letting me review for Washington College Magazine. The new issue is out, and I’m excited to share this about a poetry collection I read. Tough to express its impact, but worth the effort: mag.washcoll.edu/spring-2025/... #BookSky

11.04.2025 12:43 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Trump Is Gaslighting Us — The Atlantic Trump is an agent of chaos, and chaos has a human cost.

“Figuring out how to scale up trust and truth is a central challenge of our time. It will take individuals and groups working together to insist on seeing the world as it actually is. Think of it as a dissident movement, an American Solidarity movement.” apple.news/A1QxRLoKITHK...

06.04.2025 12:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Proud of my town today, and the people across the country and around the world who marched and protested.

05.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This was the other: youtu.be/Kz0s0sd7IjE?... Feels like encouragement to do what we can, even, or especially, if it is something modest. And to recognize the holiness in partial measures, the reality that most of us don’t do big things, but none of us should turn away from what we can do.

26.03.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Opinion | Call me an optimist, but I sense an American spring But something is rising in the earth and in our hearts.

Anne Lamott always seems to speak my mind, and this is the second piece I saw this morning dwelling in the intersection of faith and practical action. wapo.st/42fqfsy

26.03.2025 13:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

22.03.2025 03:36 — 👍 6664    🔁 2518    💬 116    📌 722

Column | Drag is not a sideshow — and neither is Trump’s attack on it How Donald Trump swept up the Kennedy Center in a gender war.

This is a really smart analysis. Support your local queens! They represent love and freedom for everyone. wapo.st/4icoFNI

11.03.2025 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is an incredible thread, and this bit of advice comes from near the end. If you have to see only one part of it, this is it, but click through and read the whole thing. #breadandroses

25.01.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just heard a flock of starlings pass overhead before I saw it. Like wind through leaves, but the air is still. It was their wings….

27.12.2024 21:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love the broadsides! Such a great combination of art and poetry.

15.12.2024 00:33 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0