Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒

a squirrel is standing on a log in a forest ALT: a squirrel is standing on a log in a forest

A marten to bless your #Mar10.

13K immigrant truck drivers lose California licenses Many of them live or work in the Bay Area.

They’re extremely committed to the “make every aspect of US industry and life grind to a fucking halt” bit

Ugh Monday afternoon felt like summer, today it got cold and rainy, and tomorrow is rain turning to snow… I knew I couldn’t trust false spring but I’m mad about more winter.

smh of all the places to host your charity event to support getting stray animals into homes… and the orange cretin wasn’t even there

U if I takes their corn very seriously!

A photo of the Chicago skyline at night with a tangle of bright lighting lignite gap the night sky during a thunderstorm

Boom! Had a great ight show over the skyline tonight. Here’s my first big lightning shot of the season.

This is a 2-frame composite. Best as I can tell, two large, branching bolts struck the eastern antenna mast of the Hancock. #wxsky #ilwx

Also if you had said "hey we're gonna bomb Iran" to any of the thousands of former or current sailors who have transited the Strait, down to a damn Boatswain's Mate we all would have said "what's the plan for the Strait of Hormuz?"

...any of the thousands of US Navy members current and former who have transited the Strait of Hormuz while Iran trolled the ship for shits and giggles can describe for you at least 3 ways they can close the Strait without attending any briefing.

New: Doomposting

Old, very very VERY Old:
Doomtableting

For those keeping score at home:

I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.

To be continued...

just remembering the time the Washington Post leadership hung my friend Felicia, a sexual assault victim, out to dry because she tweeted *a link to a news story* about the rape when he died.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

Oh ok. I don’t associate her with farm labor. I think she does psychedelic consulting or something like that.

we need to address the end of good-paying jobs for melancholics, like lighthouse keeper or fire tower watchers

Wait this anthro PhD? I have no idea who this could be!

A heart with a black dog with the words “dog is love.”

Just drew this. Thinking it might be a fun sticker to give away in boxes.

Oof mine is doing the same. I do not like being middle-aged.

I have a friend who was hit by a car as a pedestrian and suffered some pretty horrible injuries and she says the very worst part of the experience was dealing with her insurance.

I don’t think people living outside the US realize how a lack of universal healthcare BREAKS people. There are people in catastrophic accidents who wake up in an ambulance and wish they were dead because they have no way to pay for their treatment.

a German wirehaired pointer (not Cricket)

former DHS secretary Kristi Noem makes a frowny face

CRICKET'S REVENGE! 🐶🔪

I just realized that Kristi Noem's career as head of DHS had exactly the same lifespan as the 14-month-old wirehaired pointer puppy she weirdly bragged about impulsively murdering in a gravel pit behind her house in her 2024 campaign book, thought you'd want to know

One of the things I find fascinating about the "you need to learn to use AI or you'll be left behind" crowd is that everyone I know who has been forced to use it has said that the only way to use it in a way that actually results in time savings is to know the field extremely well.

The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.

You’d have to keep him with Catherine of Aragon.

They're not being "kept under wraps."

They're being "illegally hidden from the public."

Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “Well, they’re killing people in the streets. I don’t like to say I told you so, but I saw this coming years ago, and they said I was being too alarmist. But it’s consistent with what the United States is as a country.“

Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Vote Kat.

A camel library sounds cool, but I’m kind of sad I missed the era where “Pack horse librarian” was a career option #2026MMM

www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hors...

Unfortunately my favorite library of personal experience was destroyed when @brynmawrcollege.bsky.social renovated the art & archaeology library. There used to be a separate sem room for Near Eastern archaeology. When I got to grad school I was like, "Where's the Archaeology Library?" SURPRISE. 😢😪

Americans are rejecting Donald Trump’s mass deportation assault on America. Americans don’t want to see students who are good enough and safe enough to perform at the U.S. Capitol and Carnegie Hall deported. Americans don’t want a five-year locked up at a trailer prison.

THE GROUP CHAT: How We Get By In which we say the money part out loud.

It's rare for writers to talk about their advances (usually it's decontextualized like the nyt bestselling writer in the NYMag $$ feature yesterday). I'm so glad Scratch is reincarnated! This group convo about the masthead's money situations is very illuminating!! www.talkscratch.com/the-group-ch...