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We finally care about native species! #nature
Good vibes only in #Virginia today as children from the largest Muslim community center in the commonwealth sing “this land is your land, this land is my land” to first woman governor @SpanbergerForVA and first Muslim woman to win statewide office in US, Lt. Gov. @GhazalaHashmi.
ALT Governor Spanberger in all white double breasted coat and Lieutenant Governor Hashmi in season green and spouses wave and smile at children’s choir
ALT Choir of children in white coats and navy blue scarves
This has a real Hunger Games vibe
Summer break is in full swing! Discover cool things for teenagers to do this summer at Virginia State Parks, such as 🏖️ hitting the beach, 🥾 learning survival skills, 🏹 trying archery and more. Learn more in the first blog of this three-part series: dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks…
How today started
NYT: Scientists are still trying to figure out whether humans can contract avian influenza by eating or drinking...
How it’s going
NPR: Scientists in the US are in a state of confusion and panic …A pause on research funded by the …NIH remains in place.
You know who is NOT gutting their science and education agencies?
ALT President Xi of China toasting with white wine with Russian President Vladimir Putin
The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-lo…
This is the all you need to know.
No matter what the Heritage plan was, the bonkers appointees are coming straight from Putin to destroy the very things they’d run. And therefore, our country.
Decapitation Strike - by Timothy Snyder - Thinking about... snyder.substack.com/p/decapi…
When your climate policy is more extreme than Exxon's.
Exxon Mobil’s CEO says Donald Trump shouldn’t pull the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, putting the oil giant at odds with the incoming administration on.wsj.com/40FjFLx on.wsj.com/40FjFLx
“Americans, in poll after poll, told us how this result should be interpreted — as a reaction to inflation and personal economic unease among many voters.”
Some sane thoughts from @AGTheodoridis and other experts:
nytimes.com/2024/11/08/opini… via @NYTOpinion
“Hope, to me, is the active conviction that despair won’t have the last word.” @CoryBooker
Let’s not over torque. We don’t need to assimilate into UFC fans. Don’t need to buy crypto. Won’t get lip injections. Won’t discourage women from running for office.
Still gonna talk about love, kindness, and nature. Gonna tip well and talk to neighbors. Might rewatch Barbie.
As a poll observer for the kids ballot box (since it’s near the everything’s a dollar” bake sale) I’m noticing a lot of uses of first name only.
Ellen Qualls retweeted
Not too sure that Republicans going from calling Puerto Ricans garbage to calling a woman garbage is the whiz-bang political chess move they think it is
Ellen Qualls retweeted
ProPublica found four women now who've died because of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, exposing two central problems with the press: 1. ProPublica found them and not the New York Times 2. Joe Biden's 'garbage' comment can lead the evening news but not these women's deaths
Timely reminder from @SenBooker in gorgeous profile by WaPo’s @RobinGivhan:
“Hope, to me, is the active conviction that despair won’t have the last word.”
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