⚡ Kate 🌧️

Everyone is fighting a battle you can’t see, except me, my battle is very obviously kicking my ass

Kristi Noem's firing means one thing: The list of her crimes against this country will stop growing.

It is not accountability for her crimes. And it has not stopped the Trump regime from hurting and killing immigrants and their defenders.

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

Book cover of Explore: A Collection of Maps and Diagrams that Explain the World, published by DK. The illustrated cover shows several layers of maps and diagrams from hieroglyphs to space to a desert landscape.

My cousin's kids have enjoyed these:
- Spooky Lakes (Rutherford)
- Basketball (Nelson)
- Incredible Cross-Sections (Biesty/DK)
- Microbiome (Priestly & Rojas Marquez)
- Builders (Ollivier & Claes)
- Flowers in the Gutter (Gaddy)
- Persepolis (Satrapi)

The balls Discord has to introduce an age verification update after they already had a major data breach back in October.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

I think they erased or flattened tribes all over, there were waaaay more small distinct tribes in Washington and Oregon than they have on here, too.

Network Effect and Blood, Sweat, Glitter!

Exactly right.

Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.

Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.

Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.

Every possible angle.

The entire point of the Bill of Rights is so we don’t HAVE to spend our time yelling at electeds about stopping torture or secret police or kidnapping a fucking five-year-old. This is as straightforward a question as it gets.

"People in other countries will hate all Americans now." First of all that seems fairly shortsighted of you and second, that is going straight to the *bottom* of my current list of Worries.

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Minute by minute, the days get longer.

what do you mean i have to keep
working and paying bills during the civil war with the federal govt

Police kill about a thousand people in the US every year. EVERY YEAR.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

We've got a lot of problems as a country right now but wow this one hurts.

One of my friends introduced me to his Aunt, Julia Sweeney, in the hallway of our elementary school. I later found out she was on SNL and in Pulp Fiction.

Did you perchance change your mind about the children and turn them into doves?

Trans kids are so goddamn brave and strong and we are letting them down as a society and we should be ashamed

I’m sick to my stomach over these efforts to eradicate trans kids. Make no mistake, the goal is to stamp a group of people out of existence. It’s horrifying and violent and a bunch of Democrats support it.

I was so excited for an audiobook by an author I really love because he writes poetry and essays and usually reads them himself, but the audiobook for his new book is read by some random man and I had to dnf at 5 minutes. Feels like a betrayal 😂

I had a lovely get-together with friends to celebrate my birthday and then the next day went to a Punk Rock Flea Market!

I've found it fascinating, plus I get a kick out of it every time I hear you or Aubrey reading something

This is shocking to me, my family listens to it on the radio every year!

Discounts to Visit Seattle Art Museum To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to experience art, SAM offers monthly free days and various discounts for visiting our locations.

Today and every Wednesday through Dec. 17, get free admission to the Seattle Art Museum with a donation of at least two non-perishable canned food items, supporting the Pike Market Senior Center and Food Bank. Details below:

"you grew up in seattle, why are you complaining about the winters here?"

because they suck!

A view of Tahoma (aka Mount Ranier) where the peak is visible in golden light between multiple layers of gray clouds, photo taken facing South from Seattle.

Seattle is, of course, cloudy today but that won't stop Tahoma from peeking through.

310! So excited to eventually read the whole thing!