Jon Flora

@svdate.bsky.social

Old fishing vessel returning to the earth near Pilot Point, Alaska.

The region affected by catastrophic flooding in Central Texas typically averages 28 to 32 inches of rain in a year. Instead, four months of rainfall came down in four hours.

Pico de gallo is an instant mood boost in these dark times.

The floor of Calvin & Coyle Trail

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

Mt. Iliamna, Alaska

The first American Pope, Leo XIV, has just been elected. Prevost, from Chicago, is deemed to be in the mold of Pope Francis—a progressive. Yes, this is real.

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

I have waited my whole life, for this moment....

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

JUST IN: Judge finds 'probable cause' to hold U.S. in contempt over Alien Enemies Act deportations

We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower

“.. ‘This is their M.O.,’ Mr. Mahdawi’s lawyer, Luna Droubi, said. ‘They just continue to hide the individual to the point where their attorneys can’t quite understand or identify where to file.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

Who is going to do something? This is Kim Jong-Un shit.

It’s a national celebration.

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

Mike Johnson just voted to cut Medicaid. Nearly 40% of his district relies on Medicaid.

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

NEW: The Supreme Court took 6 months to decide immunity, but just 6 days to effectively strip the rest of us of due process. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-corrup...

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

Where is our humanity?

Even Hellsite has its moments. 👏🏼 @jonfavs.bsky.social

More money from the Biden Administration is in peril to communities that urgently need help. The Trump Administration calls this project wasteful and it’s in peril of being cancelled. This is the Trump Administration “war on Alaska.” #akgov #akleg

Predating statehood, the Carrs on Gambell is the first Carrs in Alaska. It's my grocery store and pharmacy. It's where I see neighbors and catch up with friends. I ❤️ the People's Carrs. I am devastated by the news of its impending closure and the impact it will have on the community I love.

WHAT THE F**K!

Today, we are being liberated from the burden of economic prosperity and growth! Happy Liberation Day! (Remember: we have always been allies with Eurasia… George Orwell)

Remembering Val Kilmer in Real Genius (1985). Somehow laser science got an astonishingly accurate pop culture movie. It didn’t have to accurately depict building and troubleshooting excimer lasers and yet somehow it did.

Don’t call them tariffs. Call them import taxes.

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969. One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

Everything they do is filled with chaos and cruelty: today HHS workers discovered they were fired when their security badges stopped working. This is the way you treat your fellow Americans? 

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

I’m old enough to remember when people who called themselves “conservative” said they believed in something called … geez, what the heck was it … I used to know this … oh yeah, now I remember— … “limited government.”

“The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, abruptly resigned Friday, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.”

The push back on this should be, what was the ruckus? Because so far what I've heard is that Ozturk wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper, that is it. The fact that the government can just swoop in and take someone should be extremely alarming to all.

I for one will never forgive or forget the people who ordered this - nor the people who voted for this.

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@slotkin.senate.gov My grandfather, Robert L. Flora, grew up in Muskegon. He was a Kennedy Democrat, and would have probably regarded you as a Goldwater Girl or worse, Reaganite.

this stuff is happening across the country and even more intensively downstream of the veterans admin but it's happening in so many places at once and without any public notification that it's still only barely emerging in the news