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Feminist. Rhetoric: science, environment, tech comm, disability. really worried about climate change. she/her. Praxis or GTFO. Yes, it's Cagle. No, please don't call me Lauren. laurenecagle.com send dog pics (alt text a must)
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You really should read this fascinating and profound interview with Columbian President Gustavo Petro. How many other world leaders are acknowledging that "Climate change is just the atmospheric mirror of capital accumulation on Earth"?
Which, again, is why people who believe it's essential for Dems to come together in a big, broad tent in the coming years—and I am one of those people—need to be getting behind Mamdani and urging others to do so. There's no Democratic big tent without him in it. For a hundred reasons.
Geoffrey.
Also: New York politicians. Today is Labor Day. The final stage of the mayoral campaign starts tomorrow. Mamdani is going to win. Take note of how he treats his friends.
see, this is it:
Also the work: erasing culture and replacing it with slop. It’s a fascist project, full stop.
We remind students every time they log in that our product is defective and it’s up to them to keep that in mind.
This resignation is an abrogation of their responsibilities as educators.
I have seen people a couple of times standing on random corners just in twos and threes, holding “FREE DC” signs.
It kills me that it might cost $50 to go from one side of the bay to the other in a car but take 1/4 the time of a $15 mixed mode public transit trip in one of the most densely populated regions of the U.S. The tech future they advertised is upside down from what makes an actually better life.
My pre-labor day reward was to get laid off, do me a favor and sign up to get my now-independent reporting and writing
I'm adding a new week in Field Natural History focused on hidden networks in forests: fungi, detritivores, chemical ecology and plant "communication." (I structure this class around themes/stories.) Each week a I do a hands-on skill session, and I'm looking for ideas for activities we could do. 1/2
I really don't think anyone can plausibly accuse me of having an overly optimistic outlook on the current situation. But we must not give in to either cynicism or defeatism and instead resist the temptation to perpetuate rightwing assertions of democracy’s supposedly inevitable fall.
A vast gulf exists between Trump’s authoritarian aspirations and rightwing propaganda about his omnipotence on the one hand - and the realities of a complex modern state and society on the other. And in that space, politics continues, possibilities to resist and push back very much still exist.
What happens if you catch the bouquet at a funeral
you know who DID acknowledge the occupation of dc on the mic, is the union organizer. not the congressperson 🙂↕️
im at a rally in delaware where a congressperson is on the mic joking about the privilege of being on recess away from dc and the misery of having to go back there soon. not one word about the ongoing occupation of my city by armed goons. thanks a lot for the solidarity ❤️
My husband's gallbladder went out and fricking morphine didn't touch the pain. ( don't worry- they removed it and he is returning to work tomorrow)
A few years back some cows escaped into Cherokee Park and literally everybody in Louisville was rooting for them and I still think about that a lot
In what I'm sure is a source of pain to Republican-lite pundits like Matt Y & David Shor, the Dems have decided to campaign-message the way that the GOP's overturning of Biden's climate policies, and the crushing of renewable energy, are raising consumers' electricity prices. This is good.
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Every day, my colleagues humble me with their commitment to the pursuit of knowledge in service of humanity.
climate scientists are some of the most heroic people I know. truly.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
These are all camera-shy pragmatists who see this as a crucial, winnable battle to safeguard your and your family’s health. Their top priority is *still* protecting the health of Americans. When they call you to action, please listen – call your congresspeople.
“The men and women who have joined C.D.C. across generations have done so not for prestige or power, but because they believe deeply in the call to service. They deserve an H.H.S. secretary who stands up for health, supports science and has their back. So, too, does our country.”
I think Bluesky does have an endemic scold problem, but the larger one is the (understandable) focus on politics, and the attendant infestation of ResistLib/BlueMAGA types
I find my lack of funds disturbing
My goal here is not to downplay household energy costs, which are important and a main focus of my research. It's to point out that much mainstream coverage focuses on electricity generation, which plays a minor role in the utility bills people actually pay. It's mainly about poles, wires, and PUCs.
Obviously you know who wanted to watch it. I'm surprised I didn't end up watching more car movies under these circumstances.
I've watched exactly one James Bond film and it's because somebody I had a crush on in college wanted to watch it Something about a moon?
Also, it is truly elite Discourse Poasting to post that everyone is a scold and if anyone disagrees with you you get to call them a scold and say they prove you right, next level shit fr
Don't get me wrong, I get plenty of weird Blue Wave replies, I simply have toggled the settings so I do not see them
Every time I see someone post about how blue sky is just a bunch of wokescolds, I think about all the fun stuff on my feed So...skill issue?
Get out today, if you can! There are hundreds of Labor Day events where you can stand up for workers and against the cruelty and destruction of this billionaire-consumed regime. www.mobilize.us/aflcio/map/...
*8/31/2025 noncooperation thread* This is a turducken, Rube Goldberg machine, long-line-of-dominoes-falling-over example of noncooperation, with more people paying attention & playing their parts than I know, but I know that's how it works & how we'll win. Pls God these children are kept safe. 7/
Just want to remind folks during these messy times that you can buy a copy of Read This When Things Fall Apart for an activist in need. This book is a care package that my friends and I made for people on the front lines & in the thick of crisis. Let's pass it around: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...
If your reply to this is some doomer, negative shit, you’re blocked. Fix your heart. Find some folks to work with toward the change you want.
There are around 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA. Everything is carceral. You cannot interact with the government without interacting with police; this includes walking outside.
Franca's been found but Fiasco (the grey one) is still at large, so if you're in Edmonton maybe you can share this / keep an eye out?
There are too many Lexingtons!
Haha!
can’t believe i’m saying this: today i leave for my first tour of the entire united states to go play massive rooms with a rock band dreamt of this moment since i was a lil’ kid i’m so excited to chronicle this journey here for all of you 🥹
Heather Cox Richardson on Labor Day and energy. “Every solar panel installed, every wind turbine wired, every EV charger connected, that’s a job with wages, healthcare, and a pension that stands for dignity for the American worker. You don’t kill that kind of progress. You build on it.”
Every time you feel tempted to tell people they owe Gavin fucking Newsom anything, consider writing him a letter telling him what he owes trans people, poor unhoused people, people in debt from high tuition at UC and CSU, and so on. Ask him how he will deliver for them.
I cannot believe that after the fuck up’s of last year some of you took away “harass skeptical voters even harder about how they have to support someone that is deeply unpopular” Then you make fun of republicans for being immune to data!!!!!
When the state is reduced to police/army then the people are reduced to an occupied population
And I know about the Congressional Black Caucus because. @unbreaking.org saw this as a key framework to dismantling the government and its PART OF WHY WE STARTED unbreaking.org/issues/equal...
I'm a monthly donor to this fund & happy to be so. Monthly donations help organizations plan their budget & know what they can offer, & I'm glad to contribute to that (relative) stability as well as to abortions for people who need them.
Fascism will never be defeated by negotiating with fascism. Your willingness to cede ground and lives to fascists makes them look reasonable, undermining the best argument against them (that they're fascists and extremists). Keep your eye on the prize: no quarter for fascism.
You can tell when someone is well meaning by all the bitter pills they make you swallow for their own comfort
barry season 3 was one of the best seasons of television i have ever seen in my life. holy shit. crush on bill hader leveled up to hapless admiration
as a millennial with *severe* ADHD who’s been extremely online since I was like 8, I feel like I have some skin in the game here when I say that I think kids absolutely shouldn’t be allowed to use their phones at school
Without congressionally approved funding, public media stations say communities will be left with aging infrastructure amid growing risks from extreme weather.
“People with insidious motives have taken advantage of the widespread deployment of masked immigration officers as cover to allegedly harass civilians or commit violent crimes such as kidnapping, robbery, and sexual assault …” www.americanprogress.org/article/mask...
I finished this embroidery last night and it will also be available to purchase at our Craft Fair Fundraiser for Gaza next Sunday 9/7 from noon to 6 pm at Another World in BK.
Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.
From what I understand the laws that now have some states requiring covid prescriptions were written in good faith when we had a functioning govt to prevent people getting vaccines not approved by the CDC and ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices). They will have to be changed now 1/
So good to see you!!
WE HAVE TO GO BACK
We found the mascot and the fieldside seats
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It's bright and this is ~not~ my usual scene 😬
Baby's first UK football game! 🏈
NO OMFG KILL ME NOW
Obviously correct. Child labor laws are lax in Kentucky.
OH MAI GAWD
She was like, oh yeah he started watching it because it came out the day I was born ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
I am skeeting to you from beyond The pale for I immediately dissolved into dust and blew away on the wind 💀
Discovered yesterday that my intern and I have the same birthday, so I asked her if she had seen Lost, because the plane crashes on our shared birthday, and she said yes, it's one of her dad's favorite shows because he watched it when she kept him up late at night as a newborn
It was already on Broadway by the time I moved to Lexington, and I know I missed out
Saw a tiktok of someone reviewing local restaurants in Lexington and they included First Watch which was quite useful because then I knew not to take the rest of what they had to say seriously
On Friday, the U.S. is ending its de minimis rule that made it easy for cheap goods to reach consumers. The change will affect roughly 4 million such packages processed each day. www.lpm.org/news/2025-08...
I quite enjoyed this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
just another sexy ass Saturday morning, at the emergency vet because my dog ate two corn cobs!!! How have dogs survived to this point given how much they love eating things that kill them!!! Anyway this would be a great time for lots of people to buy my bumper stickers
It's not interdisciplinary if it doesn't engage the other discipline. Studying the past doesn't equal engaging the field of history, which has ongoing discussions about method including quantitative methods.
I think my favorite album rotates every couple of years, but if it's not a kishi bashi album, it's almost certainly a cure album
Same
I just got goosebumps reading this story
That song guts me
Omg absolutely yes.
Whatever his current opinion is about anything, it’s like the pollen count to me: out of my control, fortunately not something I have to personally pay attention to, and, good or bad, a random indicator I don’t notice unless someone points it out.
At some point, he got a sinecure at HBO where he yammers like the person you don’t want to end up near at a mandatory work event, and he’s just kind of been doing that ever since. He talks. I find him incurious, nasty and impossibly smug. He disproves a media meritocracy single-handedly.
It really is this simple
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Donated -- would love to see this funded 💖
Friend of mine and the only reason I even have the half job I do; I would basically be homeless. She's had major, major health issues and it's to the point where she has to ask for help financially. She's great and very kind and generous and I'd like to help her out, can you spare a couple of bucks?
Boys Don't Cry youtu.be/9GkVhgIeGJQ?...
Omggggg I love this song
Extremely agree, it is the objectively correct answer
Love Cats Next question.
It won't fix the problem with Trump chasing/arresting a lot of farm workers, but SCOTUS overturning tariffs would help reduce how bad it will be for consumers.
Milton Eisenhower, in his inaugural address in 1943 as president of Kansas State College.
I can understand not knowing that this work exists, I guess? And it's classic pundit arrogance to imagine (and promote the worldview) that scientists don't understand ~real people~ enough to even think of doing this. But public health experts are also sort of giving into this weird erasure. Sucks!
there's this sort of collective amnesia about decades of very difficult work that's been done to study and understand anti-vaccine (1) communities and meet them where they are, and (2) organizations, who often have the resources to put up a good legal fight / harass researchers personally.
Whoa!!
Norm Charlatan 
