Madelyn

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The Library of Congress is a national treasure because it preserves *everything* —good, bad, mundane— about us. Cheap paperbacks. Dry tomes. Amazing poetry. The collected works of that guy. Tax law treatises. Those sci-fi novels by Bill Barr’s dad. It’s our unedited conscience. Leave it be.

Recently I was in a meeting about how to detoxify discourse in the US. While discussing techniques for conveying the confidence of expertise, I referred to RFK jr. as being “obsessed with the shit he is full of” so I may be part of the problem.

Trump issued an executive order invoking a wartime law the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—a little-known law—would allow the government to deport without due process.

Today, rallies, walkouts, & demonstrations are happening nationwide in support of defending science, funding, and equity—including the main DC Rally organized by Stand Up for Science 2025. Share photos of your actions today with us @botsocamerica.bsky.social! #StandUpForScience #IamaBotanist

This may be the fastest Presidency to recession in American history

Paul Tazewell wins Oscar for Costume Design for “Wicked.” More black excellence, and I love to see it. #Oscars

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

Trump announced plans to cut 65% of the EPA’s staff.

Putting “Trump declares Pluto a planet again” on my bingo card.

If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

BE THAT ADULT! BE THAT ADULT! BE THAT ADULT!

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

This UNBELIEVABLE 15-year-old with college and masters degrees is in medical school working on a doctorate,,, but federal funding has cut off her research and scholarships. We NEED more doctors,,, especially little black and brown girls to grow up believing they can be anything. gofund.me/1549247a

Even though Rubio promised life-saving aid wouldn't be interrupted, it has essentially been halted worldwide, interrupting HIV and TB treatment and threatening millions of lives. People are dying today because of these chaotic, inconsistent stop work orders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

I will not be the frog who makes exceptions for scorpions who seem nice.

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

I saw the Kanye ad yesterday (it aired in the Philly market, where we were) but didn't click on the link. Today I found out it went to a website selling swastika T-shirts. This was a Superbowl ad. And it was to a website selling swastika T-shirts. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

Party of Law and Order?

None of this would have made any sense in 2012, but that Mayan calendar didn’t have the courage to kill us all.

Elon will be gone by April.

It should be illegal for representatives to not have a voicemail set up.

Just gonna slide this information in here. The Eagles refused to go to the White House after their Super Bowl victory in 2018. Do with that what you will.

the professor in my real estate law class had to use the wayback machine for HUD pages on disability accommodations in housing for this week's unit on fair housing. grim.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

What the fuck did you think he meant by "mass deportations now" Liz????

This is what Christianity should look like!!!

“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?” So, she took a breath, and spoke.

The nice thing about smallpox is that, if it comes back, they'll be able to make vaccines...but also so will I. Just take a bit of a puss from someone who is recovering and scrape it on the skin!!! (don't do this) (unless you REALLY have to)

Texas Rep. Cody Vasult has filed a bill to add to Texas required curriculum in K-12th "instruction that human life begins at conception and has inherent dignity and immeasurable worth from the moment of conception." This is another attempt at indoctrination! legiscan.com/TX/text/HB19...

Or won’t…

The media illiterate yahtzees are already claiming that Wicked is about Trump… Let me be very clear when I say this: the ONLY thing, and I mean THE ONLY THING, that Donald Trump has in common with Elphaba is that they are both a vibrant secondary color. That’s it. There is literally nothing else.