caredwen

caredwen

@caredwen.bsky.social

Chemical policy. Occupational and consumer health. Knitting. Reading. Speaking my mind. Raising my child to be kind and brave.

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Replying to @angieforfl.bsky.social

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

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Replying to @brianphillips.lol

I don't have kids, but if the president of my college-aged niece's university ran over her foot because she asked him a question, I'd be showing up outside his office in this

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Tech companies are racing to force AI into every part of our lives before the courts can enforce our copyright laws. I am running for Congress to regulate AI companies before they become too big to fail.

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More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

insidehighered.comBoard Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s FutureThe White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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If we organize around candidates of courage and conviction, we can take down this criminal conspiracy. We can prosecute the corruption. We can put the criminals in jail. We can seize their ill-gotten loot. Political violence is bad, and it can't do any of that.

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Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

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The President of Iran condemns insults to the Pope and the desecration of Jesus by the President of the United States. What a time to be alive.

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I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

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The sickest burn I was ever subject to was when I was trying to buy an overcoat at some shop in The Hague. I put one on, thinking it looked pretty nice. My wife looked me up and down and said “you look like a magician.” Seeing my offended look without missing a beat she said “sorry, illusionist.”

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Replying to @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Consider — where are those new tolls going? To Iran’s murderous regime. Is it too much to wonder, though, whether a portion reaches the pockets of US negotiators or other Americans? (3/14)

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Replying to @helldude.bsky.social

There's a toddler with a gun and the adults are embarassed they gave him a gun so they insist he's actually very mature for his age

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Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Acting AG Blanche: I just operate every day on doing everything that I need to do to execute the president's agenda and priorities

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The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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If you have federal student debt, you may have recently received an email from the Department of Education telling student debtors who are in the SAVE forbearance to switch plans. We want to encourage you to not rush this next step. Take a deep breath. You have until September.

I had many funny thoughts after watching this eleventy million times, but my favorite one was imagining the Gus Fring face scene, but you pan around and the other half of his face is Olaf in the moment the light leaves his eyes

Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew@amandasmith.bsky.social

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

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Replying to @bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

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As a protestant, this feels strange to say, but the point at which an adult convert to Catholicism has been rebuked by two Popes in one year and then goes on to write a memoir called 'Communion' about his faith, they ought to bring excommunication back. This guy is evidently an unrepentant heretic.

Vice President JD Vance has a new book that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” will be out June 16.

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Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

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Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

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One way to explain it to centrists is, instead of killing 100 innocent schoolchildren, what if they had used your tax dollars to feed those 100 kids steak without checking if they were poor? A bomb is like a really, really expensive steak. Maybe even worse.

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“I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free” Stares at camera.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

Some of the numerous bangers from this episode. (I especially like the last one, wherein Mehrotra inadvertently reveals how little he understands teaching OR history.)

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

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every single financial institution would benefit from hiring exactly one (1) progressive to walk around the office all day long going “are you fucking stupid?” to anyone within ear shot

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social

lmao

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Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

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I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit