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M.G. Thai, PhD

@solarsunfire.bsky.social

Plant pathologist by trade 🌱, proud state scientist by choice. Also a nature enthusiast and avid cook.

created April 19, 2025

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Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Let’s see if his idiotic staff is attempting a Weekend at Bernie’s effort…

2/9/2025, 6:50:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I grew up in LA. None of the protests in the Trump years have come close to the 1992 riots which were a genuine crisis in some areas of the city. This is all just manufactured BS. The city was nowhere near in danger like she’s suggesting, friends in the area said the city was operating normally. šŸ™„

31/8/2025, 5:21:37 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I needed this kind of levity today, this edit is pure gold!! šŸ˜‚

27/8/2025, 5:12:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Thomas A. Nguyen DO (@tom.medsky.social) reposted

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

27/8/2025, 2:34:29 PM | 8331 2413 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

Headlines like this make me all the more anxious about my son’s immunization future. We have his first (two month) course of shots due in October. I’m going to be a nervous wreck until he’s fully vaccinated. Feels like we’ve fallen through the looking glass. www.thebulwark.com/p/hhs-kenned...

27/8/2025, 2:05:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

So true. The measles outbreaks the US and Canada are experiencing right now is a perfect example. It’s genuinely wild to think that diseases that were once rare/kept in check are at risk of becoming common again. I will completely lose it if Polio gets a foothold here in the States once again.

26/8/2025, 4:17:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

The man’s completely losing it, wow. Also, does he not remember the BS he pulled with the Central Park Five? He’s notoriously racist.

25/8/2025, 4:38:14 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tango! (@pikeshorse.bsky.social) reposted

Me since January 20th

25/8/2025, 3:10:32 AM | 102 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

God this is such a mood šŸ˜­šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

25/8/2025, 5:37:34 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh my god šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

18/8/2025, 4:35:04 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Individual unions for the various agencies/job classifications might be able to send out a survey to verified federal workers, you could try going to them for help with something like this.

17/8/2025, 12:47:08 AM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

Putin wiped the floor with him,THEN ate him for lunch. I curse this country’s persistent racism and misogyny, I really do. The country would’ve been in a much better place with her as President….

16/8/2025, 1:27:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Bob Cesca (@bobcesca.bsky.social) reposted

Rolling out the red carpet for a dictator who bombed a maternity hospital.

15/8/2025, 8:51:19 PM | 984 326 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Andddd he’s back to playing hot potato so he can wash his hands of this. MY GOD THE STUPIDITY IS UNREAL šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

16/8/2025, 1:17:39 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD (@ryankatzrosene.bsky.social) reposted

I would deeply enjoy supervising a PhD thesis about this advertisement… please get in touch šŸ˜… (Yes, it’s a real advertisement!)

31/7/2025, 1:18:43 PM | 3715 754 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) reposted

Me, everytime SCOTUS issues a new shadow docket opinion:

Captain Picard, from Star Trek: TNG, shouting
23/7/2025, 8:40:43 PM | 1822 267 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg these are literally the cutest, where did you find these???

21/7/2025, 1:43:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I miss the days where people in public service led with empathy like that. We need it more than ever right now in this country.

11/7/2025, 8:05:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

In what world would anyone think it would be easy?? These are people’s loved ones, logistics aside. This would never be easy for the rescue crews and the families.

11/7/2025, 7:56:10 PM | 8 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

And it’s a cascade effect from there. Good oral health as a child as life long health implications. The stupidity of this is mind-numbing.

26/6/2025, 6:51:01 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Woah, little man is LOSING IT right now!! šŸ˜‚

25/6/2025, 2:04:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Angie@blueangie.bsky.social (@blueangie.bsky.social) reposted

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23/6/2025, 12:19:51 PM | 303 86 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture One Broomfield Indivisible (OBI) (@obi80020.bsky.social) reposted

John Lewis didn’t wait for permission to demand change as an activist, or congressman — and neither will we. He taught us that nonviolent direct action is a moral force, and that we must confront injustice wherever it lives. Join us July 17 because #GoodTroubleLivesOn

18/6/2025, 11:33:58 PM | 158 65 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

If only there was research out there to showcase the toxicity of fracking water…Oh, wait. THERE IS.

17/6/2025, 3:02:57 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

Someone, please explain term limits to her (and not the kind her boss would like to become the norm).

11/6/2025, 3:06:00 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Jake needs a lesson on statistics.

10/6/2025, 12:01:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Katie Mack (@astrokatie.com) reposted

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

3/6/2025, 8:51:06 PM | 12058 2947 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I love how dramatic your furbaby is šŸ˜‚

2/6/2025, 3:07:25 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

You don’t say….šŸ™„

1/6/2025, 10:08:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted

DOGE is not unstoppable. The courts stand in the breach.

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27/5/2025, 7:25:36 PM | 4092 552 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s out of her mind. I know people of various faiths that conduct research and don’t seem to find science a threat to their faith. There are many scientists we celebrate today that were Christians, too, so her arguments fall flat if she’s trying to make science out to be a pagan only play space.

26/5/2025, 1:02:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I, uh--

25/5/2025, 1:54:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

This makes me furious. I’m not going to feed my unborn son just so he can be tossed into the military meat grinder. These people are so blatantly soulless, good GOD.

23/5/2025, 1:55:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

These people are so unprofessional, it’s unbelievable. If most professionals posted something like this on a social platform and their boss saw it, they’d be fired. How is this even reality right now???

23/5/2025, 4:50:23 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s happening in California, too. Federal funding cuts have impacted the state’s financial forecast and it’s having all sorts of effects. Newsom is to blame, too, but the Federal cuts to public services and programs aren’t helping any. www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

22/5/2025, 8:24:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

This and his pocket square are so cringe-worthy….flag code? He’s never heard of it.

20/5/2025, 7:41:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Indivisible āŒšŸ‘‘ (@indivisible.org) reposted

"Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy the best of our American experience, to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring." - Bruce Springsteen šŸ‘

19/5/2025, 7:17:40 PM | 5963 1520 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I swear he's on something... šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’Ø

18/5/2025, 10:50:50 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm waiting for the inevitable raging text against Joe Biden where he goes back to taking swipes at the poor man that's going to follow in the next week...he can never help himself.

18/5/2025, 10:44:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

This cheapens the struggle countless people face to gain citizenship. For a group of people that keeps braying about the need to follow the law, this is wildly hypocritical…

16/5/2025, 10:26:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Amy Siskind (@amysiskind.com) reposted

šŸ‘šŸ‘šŸ”„šŸ”„

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16/5/2025, 8:09:12 PM | 15802 3066 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Bless Mark Hamill, slaying idiots one post at a time šŸ˜‚ He wasn’t wrong though!

15/5/2025, 4:31:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

This. Because the man refuses to wait for Boeing to finish their work on the new AF1 planes they ALREADY HAVE IN PRODUCTION. So we get to pay 1 billion in taxpayer dollars to properly retrofit the Qatari jet for him. Make it make sense.

14/5/2025, 6:53:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

Patel looks so caught off guard. What did he expect? It was a budget meeting to discuss the proposed budget for his agency. Usually you have to come with some sort of proposal in hand. The incompetence of these people is WILD.

9/5/2025, 8:43:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

Well this wasn’t on my bingo card for today. How anyone can deny that we’re not already in an authoritarian leaning environment is either blind, dumb, or being intentionally obtuse.

9/5/2025, 7:40:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m so tired of slapdash policy being broadcast over social media platforms. Professionalism used to be a thing! Oh boy, do I miss it. What an absolute joke 😭!!

9/5/2025, 5:45:08 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) reposted

Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been a tailor for about 70 years. He made the robes that welcomed the Pope today. You can read about him in the National Catholic Reporter (check the links in the IG handles below). IG sistersreport and ncronline

9/5/2025, 4:05:59 AM | 7338 1052 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted

Trump has now elected liberals in Canada, Australia, and the Vatican

9/5/2025, 1:01:02 AM | 12899 2185 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Shannon Skalos, PhD (@shannonskalos.bsky.social) reposted

Today was a really hard day as a federal employee. Here are some flowers outside the USGS Bee Lab.

Tall blue wild indigo (Baptisia australis) Pitcher plant flower Coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) American wisteria (Wisteria frutescens)
9/5/2025, 3:31:09 AM | 1331 134 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

The upside to this is that they’re self selecting for idiots. Stupidity always follows, and their ineptitude thankfully keeps them from doing worse.

9/5/2025, 4:43:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I want out of this cursed timeline. The stupidity keeps getting worse and worse. šŸ™„

8/5/2025, 7:59:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Please don’t give him ideas, he’s idiotic enough to go for this. šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

8/5/2025, 7:55:31 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted

When you realize the tacky Versailles-wannabe trash on the fireplace is just Chinese polyurethane spray painted gold.

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7/5/2025, 12:42:50 PM | 26000 4390 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s sad but true, people often have no idea how expensive research becomes from pipeline development to clinical trials. This administration only cares about profit and lining their own pockets though, so life changing tech like this will burn and children will die.

7/5/2025, 2:28:49 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social)

Good GOD, I keep thinking it can’t get worse and yet…it does. 😬😭

2/5/2025, 3:45:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

Well this will go terribly…

2/5/2025, 3:43:02 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Molly Jong-Fast (@mollyjongfast.bsky.social) reposted

Are we still pretending this is about free speech?

26/4/2025, 8:52:55 PM | 9387 2501 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD (@arghavansallesmd.medsky.social) reposted

Despite all his lip service to healthy food, RFK Jr was so unwilling to accept actual scientific research that he censored Dr. Kevin Hall, forcing one of the top nutrition researchers in the world to leave the NIH after 21 years. Believe what they do, not what they say.

23/4/2025, 7:07:39 PM | 124 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Black History Database (@blackhistorydb.bsky.social) reposted

ā€œBitterness is like cancer, it eats upon the host. Anger is healthy, I thinkā€ -Dr Maya Angelou Video courtesy of IG @femalepoetssociety

24/4/2025, 9:27:41 AM | 124 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) reposted

NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

April 22, 2025 BY EMAIL Todd Blanche Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice Dear Deputy Attorney General Blanche, The Department placed each of us on administrative leave ostensibly to review our, and the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office's, handling of the Adams case. It is now clear that one of the preconditions you have placed on our returning to the Office is that we must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the Office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case. We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none. We have served under Presidents of both parties, advancing their priorities while pursuing justice without fear or favor. The role of a career prosecutor is not to set policy. But a prosecutor must abide by the oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and the rules of professional ethics set by the bar and the courts. The Department has long understood that these duties can and should coexist with the need to follow Department policies and orders. This is to the benefit of all: the courts, defendants, and the public, who can have confidence in the good faith and judgment of line prosecutors; the Department, which retains credibility while still receiving zealous advocacy from its lawyers; and the prosecutors themselves, who can stand in court confident that they are ethically carrying out their duties. Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington. That is wrong. Serving in the Southern District of New York has been an honor. There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign. Sincerely, Celia V. Cohen Andrew Rohrbach Derek Wikstrom Assistant United States Attorneys
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Profile picture Andy Vitek (@avitek.bsky.social) reposted

This still of the kids behind Pete Hegseth as he drunkenly rants into a C-SPAN camera at 11:00 AM are an early lock for photo of the year.

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Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

None of his administrative hires possesses a working brain cell most days, so I’m going to say no.

21/4/2025, 10:20:02 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture M.G. Thai, PhD (@solarsunfire.bsky.social) reply parent

I was genuinely trying to understand why the AARP was suing them when I first read this. Abbreviations are such a double edged sword…

21/4/2025, 10:11:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kara Swisher (@karaswisher.bsky.social) reposted

Whiskileaks part 2

21/4/2025, 12:18:56 AM | 8572 1537 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Saganism (@sagan.bsky.social) reposted

In the last interview of his life (1996), astronomer Carl Sagan gave an eerily prescient warning of the dangers that come when you cannot ask skeptical scientific questions of those in authority. Watch and ask yourself: was he right?

20/4/2025, 9:36:09 PM | 881 365 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Happy #Easter

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Profile picture Saganism (@sagan.bsky.social) reposted

Right Now, most of the American can relate to this message from the 90's.

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