Allen Gathman
Retired genetics professor. I spend my time birding, reading, growing native plants, cooking, singing in a community chorus, playing mountain dulcimer, biking, kayaking. My wife and I are blue dots in very red SE Missouri. He/him.
- Mardi Gras season is upon us.
- Admittedly, anything the Orange One says is likely to be a lie, but “92%” is a dead giveaway. It’s the fake stat he used for everything.
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- Ice murders citizen.
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- Reposted by Allen GathmanTrump repeatedly confuses Greenland with Iceland during a low-energy, slurring appearance at Davos
- Surprise, surprise. America consumers have paid 96% of the cost of the Orange One’s tariffs.
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- Reposted by Allen GathmanOops: Eric Trump and other right-wingers accidentally gush over the fact that fentanyl deaths in the U.S. plummeted under Biden’s presidency after spiking during Trump’s first term—because they don’t know how to read a chart.
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- Sunrise in SE Missouri.
- Reposted by Allen GathmanWe got “liberated”, alright. 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
- Reposted by Allen GathmanA New York Times video analysis of an ICE agent’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis contradicts the Trump administration’s account. Watch our investigation here.
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- Reposted by Allen GathmanNicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
- Message below is what I sent to my Senators. Representative Jason Smith got a slightly different version.
- Mississippi River at 76 Conservation Area, Perry County, Missouri. Jan 3.
- If you haven’t listened to this, you should. It’s worth your time. And then call and write your congresspeople.
- Impeach Trump.
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- Just found this pic in an ad on another platform. AI, or do they have easy chairs in the space station?
- We just knocked out—I don’t know if you read or you saw—they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from. Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard.” Such eloquence. Someday school children will memorize this quote.
- There are heroes everywhere.
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- Sunrise in SE Missouri.
- Reposted by Allen GathmanDer Spiegel: Commander in Sleep
- Reposted by Allen Gathman“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
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- Reposted by Allen GathmanPete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.
- Reposted by Allen GathmanVance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
- “Yaroslav Trofimov, chief foreign affairs correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, posted: “Foreign nations now have to deal with rival factions of the U.S. government who keep major policy initiatives secret from each other and some of which work with foreign powers”
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- Breaking news! Well-known misogynistic asshole acts like misogynistic asshole!
- My father.
- Sunrise in SE Missouri.
- Maybe someone needs to tell him that there’s no “Nobel War Prize.”
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- Delphinium and Baby’s Breath from the grocery store. #ikebana
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- 20 Billion dollars for Argentina, and Trump won’t spend the 6 billion available for food stamps. But you get a huge ballroom for rich donors.
- Look out, sailor. Dawn in SE Missouri.
- Remind me, when did Congress declare war on Venezuela? Or authorize the President to take military action against them?
- Reposted by Allen GathmanWOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.
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- Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives. “This weekend, I was surprised to learn that Donald Trump seems to see himself in the same way I do: as a would-be monarch spraying the citizenry with excrement.”
- Sunrise at Pioneer Forest Virgin Pine - Randolph Tract, Shannon County, MO.
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- My dad (left) and uncle in their Antifa uniforms, 1941.
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- “No, Trump and his people are not playing four-dimensional chess, the response goes – we are simply witnessing the consequences of allowing a deranged man into the highest office, backed by a coterie of dim and unqualified cronies.” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
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- The executive branch has probably the world’s most extensive intelligence apparatus, and our president gets his information by watching TV.
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- “‘This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?’” Yes. We do.
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- Rest of the world: “Ignore that clown.”
- After the recent rain, I had to cut a bunch of prairie plants that had flopped into the path. I didn’t have the heart to compost them, so I made a bouquet. #nativeplants #gardening #Missouri
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- How is this not the Onion?
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- “I think families are very concerned. I think there’s an increased hesitancy through all families right now,” added Kirk Milhoan” Gosh, I wonder who’s spreading lies about vaccine safety and making families so concerned?
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- Kayaking the Mississippi River with the Missouri Department of Conservation yesterday. From Trail of Tears State Park to Red Star Access in Cape Girardeau.
