Liz Renner, Ph.D.

USAID’s Emergency Food Security Program spent $4 billion in FY2022 to feed 114 million people in 55 countries. We just blew that much money in four days of this war.

Former Marine Sgt. Brian McGuinness stood up in Congress to say what millions of Americans are thinking: We don’t want to fight a war with Iran for Israel.
Security dragged him out and broke his arm. Veterans are speaking out. The American people don’t want this war.

A screenshot of terrain from satellite imaging on the OnX hunt platform. On the left, a section of land with a harvested field adjacent to a wetland and surrounding slough is labeled "Living Trust" with a name blocked out in pink, and a duck hunting waypoint is denoted in orange. On the right side of the screen, abutting farmland bordered in orange to denote property lines reads "Living Corinne Arnold Trust." A waypoint across the fence line/property line is bright blue and shaped like scat.

For the low, low price of $300 USD*, I will personally fling the contents of your hermetically-sealed bags of feces across a barbed-wire fence and onto farmland held in trust by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Arnold Noem's maternal family. 💩

*Shipping not included. Some restrictions apply.

As the American state crumbles by the hour & my future safety/well-being here as an openly queer, outspoken leftist ecologist looks increasingly bleak, precarious, & fraught with unnecessary state censorship, violence, and impoverishment, now's a great time to announce my latest business endeavor! 🧵

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Thank you so much for taking the time to engage with my poetry, @rmcl82.bsky.social! Sending my best fishes and all the sanity I can spare from Lincoln NE. ✌🏻

Thanks for reading my work, JSnow! I really appreciate it when folks engage with my poems. Sending good vibes from Lincoln NE toward ATL. @atljohns.bsky.social

The image depicts a ghostly yeti crab, perched on a rock or deep-sea hydrothermal vent and spotlit by underwater submersible, and the meme caption reads: "This creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness."

Mmm, such an excellent word. Reminds me of my all-time favorite meme:

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A collage of close-up photographs showing early spring budburst on trees and shrubs. Swollen pink and red buds, fresh green leaf shoots, unfurling scales, and pale catkins are shown against soft blurred backgrounds, illustrating sap rising and plants coming back into life in March.

March’s full moon, rising on 3rd March, is called the Worm Moon or the Sap Moon. As the soil warms, earthworms emerge, and plants stir as sap rises and buds begin to unfurl. This year’s March Moon is especially notable as it coincides with a total lunar eclipse in the night sky.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.

America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

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One of the biggest problems with having a perpetual imperialist war machine is that "our leaders lied us into a war again" should be considered a crime that permanently ends the freedom of everyone involved but instead ends up just being background noise.

Tomorrow Never Dies remains the best Bond movie because everything in it happened for real

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@jimkeefe.bsky.social

Maybe putting people who *want* to bring about the end of the world in charge was not a great idea.

This is all to say that I'm TOTALLY functioning normally w/a well-regulated nervous system that's able to sleep, eat, & think normally right now. Zero insomnia whatsoever. Not at all worried about how I'm ~95% sure my cousin (active duty USAF major) and his unit are already across the pond.

/s 🥲

They're all having flashbacks right now and trouble eating or sleeping. They've seen enough of this latest escalation already to know that the full reality of American casualties won't come to light for a while. When C-17s are landing at Ramstein, the 💩 has hit the fan.

Vicki was a Navy nurse who served on the USNS Comfort during the Gulf War during Desert Storm back in 1990-1991. Her hubs, Barry, was an Army internist who also served in Germany and the Persian Gulf during Desert Shield/Desert Storm and had a long career in internal medicine + admin with the VA.

Since starting my postdoc post-DOGE on May 19, 2025, I've split my time between working remotely from Lyons, SD as live-in caregiver for my dad's mom, Gail, the widow of a Korean War USMC vet, and working on campus at UNL while renting a basement bedroom from my mom's mom's 1st cousin, Vicki.

How am I **doing** rn?!?🧵

My boyfriend is a purple heart Afghan War vet who served with the SoDak Army Nat'l Guard's 221th Engineer Company @ FOB Sharana back in '09-'10, where he swept for landmines + IEDs in a Husky VMMD MRAP. He still has PTSD + tinnitus from the explosions & sleeps w/a box fan.

I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge

new iconic meme format just dropped

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Going from "gambling is a moral stain and must be illegal" to "betting on whether people will be bombed before or after 6pm Saturday is perfectly normal" is one hell of a societal whiplash.

Big Oil has made nearly £346bn in profits since Ukraine war started Shareholders of the five companies have received £320bn in dividends and share buybacks over the past four years, more than the EU’s total clean energy spending in 2025, according to the analysis by G...

”Shareholders in the five companies received a total of $444bn (£329bn) in dividends and share buybacks (…) That figure exceeds the EU’s total clean energy spending in 2025 of $391bn (£289bn).”

Oil produces the largest CO2 emissions in the European Union.

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I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

A really difficult aspect of leftist organizing in the US is that we rarely have the funds to institutionalize our movements, and as a consequence our wisdom is rarely institutionalized and preserved.

It's hard watching this happen over and over again when it comes to talking about war.

me every single day

Oh and just remember - once you’ve decided a minority’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE.

To everybody who framed all of this as “The Trans Debate,” well done! You’ve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.”

Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.

Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?