Deb McCaskey

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

Best cat video of the day

This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺

nywolf.org

I’ve been thinking about that quote often lately.

"Simply substitute the eggs in your recipes with 100% pure grade A American mud for a nutritious, patriotic, and extremely masculine meal."

I await the Good Morning America cooking segment on turnip recipes.

YouTube video by La Bottine Souriante - Topic La chanson du quéteux

Hard to pick just one by these guys. They started out as pure traditional Québecois folk music (which I jokingly called “Irish, Scottish & Cajun music fused at the molecular-genetic level”)… then they they added a jazz horn section from Montréal. My old roommate called it “instant happy music.”

Nothing deep: bagpipes were troop-signalling devices in war, so they're very, very loud. Some people hate that, but I have an affection for Scottish folk music.

Andy Stewart, of Silly Wizard, used to refer to bagpipes as "Scotland's answer to the cruise missile."

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Krakow tourists! You can't beat a trip to Zakopane if you have the time. Find out more here. 👇
Scottish people will def appreciate the folk music in the bars every night. 🎶
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)

YouTube video by Fairport Convention - Topic Tam Lin

Dave Swarbrick, English folk musician and singer-songwriter, member of Fairport Convention 1969-1979, was born on Apr. 5, 1941 (d. 2016). #DaveSwarbrick

Fairport Convention - "Tam Lin" (Traditional, arr. by Dave Swarbrick) (1969)
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Ultan O'Brien - Dancing the Line On Dancing the Line, Ultan O'Brien explores the fertile zone where Irish traditional and experimental music meet.

"Dancing the Line is solid proof of just how compelling that overlap can be"

Our reviewer Aidan Daly finds that Ultan O'Brien's new record explores the fertile zone where Irish traditional music and the experimental meet.

@nyahhrecords.bsky.social #IrishMusic #IrishFolk

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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Those are pretty good numbers! Follow MeidasTouch for fact-based info.

Not all the news is bad news.

Legends of the Early Country Music ©Paul Rogers/New York Times, Sept. 13, 2019 tinyurl.com/y54lxvcs
Country Music Is More Diverse Than You Think. Common stereotypes overlook the roles that blacks and women have played in shaping a uniquely American genre.

I seem to recall predicting misery and chaos if the guy was elected. (A whole lot of people predicted the same — it only required paying attention to fact-based news sources.) Hate to be proved right.

Why is it so hard to rewrite a genome? Synthetic biologists have the know-how and ambition to retool whole genomes. But the hidden complexity of biological systems continues to surprise them.

“We underestimated how complex biology is.” New @nature.com, why it’s so hard to rewrite a genome. By @eisensteinium.bsky.social 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Unconventional’ nickel superconductor excites physicists Compounds called nickelates can conduct electricity without resistance well above absolute zero and at ambient pressure.

⚛️🧪 New kid on the block. @nature.com study shows that films of nickelates are unconventional superconductors at room pressure (though still chilly temps). They're simpler & easier to control than cuprates. Could they help to finally unravel high-temp superconductivity? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Quantum mechanics is one of the most fascinating things that I try to understand and haven’t so far.

The National Science Foundation. Call your representatives, folks. None of this is normal or right.

Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.

Very interesting progress on migraines.
Article is behind a paywall but there's enough visible to get the gist. 🧪

Yeah, I didn’t get that either.

Today I got up, made myself a cup of coffee and called both my US Senators and my Congressman and told them Musk and Trump mist be stopped. Not just opposed or scolded or sued. Stopped.
For the first time I’m actually wondering if my Social Security payment will show up tomorrow.

I love when nerds like @katestarbird.bsky.social use their powers for good. Thank you for fighting disinformation.

Someone tell Dylan we need more protest songs, now.

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Man walking on beach with cliffs, and trees in the background.

Happy place.