Kendra Maas

Nearly 1/3 of 3 years of injuries last year doesn't seem "in just the past year alone" worthy distribution.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

We were looking for cloudberries but didn't find them. These were a nice consolation prize.

Image of segmented red berries against their green and rust colored leaves.

Found and ate a new to me berry. Dwarf raspberry. Very tasty, basically no thorns. Would eat again.

Pitcher plants and sun dews are so common here. I'd only seen pitcher plants a few times before and never blooming. Had never seen sundews in person. My teen is annoyed by the amount of time I'm "hogging" the camera taking more pictures of them.

Selfie with a pitcher plant flower. The green center of the flower is visible since the selfie was taken from a very low angle. The flower partially blocked the face of a woman in the background with a giant "I'm walking on the mantle and pitcher plants are blooming" grin.

In focus chunk of rough peroditite with a vein of layered green and white harder rock. In the background, out of focus, is tableland mountain.

Close photo of sundew plant against the orange of weathered perioditite. Unidentified small green flowers are near.

I walked on the mantle. Serpentine and carnivorous plants everywhere.

So what happens when the Trump administration eventually says "Hey, 9% of your students are Black, that has to be DEI because Stephen Miller doesn't think Black people are very smart. You've got to cut that way back or we're going to cut off your federal grant money again." What then?

Picture taken through the front window of a car as it's driving across the gangway into a vehicle ferry.

Newfie ferry!

Congrat! Good luck! I hope everything goes as smoothly as possible and you are snuggling that smooshy baby asap.

2 children playing in waves. One wearing orange and pink suit and the other wearing light blue. Islands are visible in the distance.

Shutting the beach down at 9pm.

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yup. Everyone, including the evies, would be better off if they would just focus their energy on making this life better. Instead they make everyone, including themselves, miserable as they try to control the imaginary world to come.

Looking across a stream towards boats sitting in the much. At high tide most of the area in the foreground is filled with water.

More boats sitting in the muck

A backhoe driving on the mucky bottom of a wharf (or harbor?). Several fishing boats are sitting on their keels well below the level of the dock. The tide in this area is ~40 feet.

Just a little low tide wharf maintenance.

Photo of a dune with grasses and beach roses in front of a long pebble beach. In the background is a rocky wharf and behind that a tree covered hill ending in a seaside cliff.

#coastie

U of windsor citizen science coastline monitoring program.

Trump and Miller are intent on building an unaccountable domestic secret police force that would be the world's third-biggest security force by funding levels, after the US and China's *militaries*.

That kind of funding dwarfs its stated purpose, which tells you what its real purpose will be.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations, two sources told Reuters.

US-funded contraceptives for poor nations to be burned in France, sources say - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Oh must check that out. I've been a chaco geek for 20 years but my feet and knees need more support.

a person in an inflatable t-rex costume is standing next to a body of water Alt: a person in an inflatable t-rex costume running down a dock and jumping into a rubber raft

Out of office message sent. Computer shut all the way down. Status on as many slack channels as possible set to vacation.

Canada here we come!

$250,000 per bed. I think this is waste, fraud, and abuse all at once.

🚨 Israel is using starvation and dehydration as tools of genocide in Gaza.

After new displacement orders on July 20, Gaza’s largest desalination plant is at risk of shutting down.

Mass death by thirst and hunger is imminent.

Read more: mezan.org/en/post/46743

Nice! I got a laowa 9mm to go with my new micro 4/3 camera and am enjoying playing with it. Manual focus with electronic view finder is different. Or maybe its my mid 40s eyes that are making focusing hard.

ok I decided to actually read up a bit on the Epstein case and my initial takeaway is that a great way to protect women and children from sexual predation would be to prosecute white collar crime

There is no reason to protect the men in these files. None. I do not care if any of my faves are in there-expose them all for the rapists they are and get them out of power.

This is unconscionable. Our entire profession should be up in arms.

Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org

Small child sitting on the edge of a tent pad demonstrating kayak paddling technique in the sand. The tent is close to water. You can see near land across the bay and mainland in the distance.

One of my favorite pictures from my years as a single parent. It was hard and tiring and also we had some great adventures. Too bad the kid doesn't remember.

We kayaked to Buccaneer Bay provincial park with my office mate and her bf. Kid1 was mad that I "forgot" to bring him a paddle.

Hey #microbe people - what is the typical time between NCBI submission and getting an accession number these days? 🦠

We have had some interactions that seem extremely delayed but is it us having issues or the whole system?

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

No

Also, you can not move the task bar and 1/3 of it is bullshit system icons that you also can't move.