Roxanne B'Ogee

Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.

There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

What Is Civil Twilight? Civil twilight is the brightest of the twilight phases. How is it defined and when does it start and end? What are civil dawn and civil dusk?

I grabbed the difference among the twilights and dusks--civil, nautical, and astronomical. So, for weather and astronomy geeks who haven't seen this--

www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/ci...

Lessee...
Nine library books checked out.
One due in one week.
Seven due in two weeks.
One due in two-and-a-half weeks.
Yeah, I'ma definitely read that last one right now.

I'm not actually going to watch Jimmy Kimmel. You know why? Cuz I never watch Jimmy Kimmel. I just want there to be a Jimmy Kimmel show for me to not watch.

Fuck you, make me. — John Oliver

Thanks John Oliver

"We're going to destroy access to useful, factual information and use a water-destroying electricity hog that screws up all the time."

people: that sounds bad. why?

"It'll make a ton of money for my underground bunker once I've drained all you rubes dry"

people: oh. can I write a novel with it?

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2
Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1
Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

Great thread…

FDA will limit Covid vaccines to people over 65 or at high risk of serious illness, leaders say The FDA announced it will limit access to Covid-19 vaccines going forward to people 65 and older and others at high risk of serious illness

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

Germany's Plan for an Open and Independent PubMed Safety Net - Absolutely Maybe A few months ago, I wrote about reasons to be concerned about the reliability of PubMed under the new regime at the…

@issg-filters.bsky.social ICYMI: My writeup of the meeting on Germany's @zbmed.bsky.social plans for a PubMed safety net: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/05/14/g...

Please note the source.

“the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear & anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”

I sent the old punk
a video clip of one
of the men behind the curtain
saying: “it’s your patriotic duty
to be as healthy as you can,”
and the old punk replied:
“they want each of us to focus
on taking care of ourselves,
because they’re terrified
of us taking care of each other.”

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Just in case anyone's wondering how bad she's lying: the only people who can check books out of the LOC are congressional staff.

Library cards for use of the research centers are only available to people over the age of 16, and researchers under 18 need permission from a parent or guardian.

The Guardian, page one. Major US newspapers: unreported

Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee Four members said they were informed of the termination Friday, but it had already taken effect in late March, according to a CDC letter.

GHASTLY—Trump administration has shut down CDC's infection control committee HICPAC, which issued guidance about preventing the spread of infections in health care facilities—hand-washing, mask-wearing and isolating sick patients. The committee is now dead; long live hospital infections.

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

“Masks should not be worn in public spaces in the Center. This is especially important for our public-facing and front-of-house employees”

The Kennedy Center is violating the rights of employees AND patrons.

People in public facing roles have the greatest risk & should not be fired for masking 🧵

Rev. William Barber II arrested by US Capitol Police for praying 'out loud' in Rotunda after 'multiple warnings' | Snopes.com A video features Barber, a civil rights activist and ordained minister, and others praying in April 2025 in opposition to the Republican budget bill.

You know, I — like most reporters — don’t necessarily *need* Snopes to confirm that my reporting was accurate, but it’s nice that they did. www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

100 days of Trump 2.0 and what do we have? Mass deportations, pardons for insurrectionists, federal purges, economic whiplash, and tariffs choking families.

This ain’t leadership—it’s vengeance in a suit. He’s not rebuilding America, he’s gutting it.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Montana’s Republican legislators fight back after successful youth climate lawsuit Republican backlash could lead to changes in Montana’s courts and environmental laws.

Montana’s Republican legislators fight back after successful youth climate lawsuit arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

You had their ads taken down?

New journal co-founded by NIH nominee raises eyebrows, misinformation fears The Journal of the Academy of Public Health claims to open up scientific communication. But its unusual editorial policies have some scientists concerned

www.science.org/content/arti...

For Our Health warns the proposed HHS budget cuts put Americans at risk For Our Health, a nonpartisan public health advocacy initiative, strongly opposes the Administration’s proposed 2026 budget cuts that would devastate the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (...

www.apha.org/news-and-med...

Mike has this right. It is a coup, none of this is legal, and we need to talk about it in terms of authoritarian repression, not normal policy changes.

At approximately six-thirty on Tuesday evening, Joseph Morton, the Washington correspondent for The Dallas Morning News and the White House pooler on duty, tapped out a short email about the press being on the move and hit send. The crux of the email was fairly innocuous. It said that the White House pool, a small group of reporters designated to cover an event on behalf of the larger press corps, had been “loaded into the press vans” and was following Donald Trump “to the NRCC dinner at the National Building Museum.” But it also noted something else: “A reporter and photographer with The Associated Press were turned away from joining the pool.” It was likely that sentence, which came after a judge had ordered the administration to restore the AP’s access, that irked the White House. That specific pool report from Morton, I’ve learned, was never distributed by the White House to news outlets subscribed to its pool report mailing list—a notable omission and a clear break from precedent.

-Trump bans the AP from the White House press pool

-Judge orders AP be allowed back into the pool

-Trump admin continues to block AP from the pool, and then censors the pool report noting the AP was turned away.

Great reporting from
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

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