SPM
Writer, professor, Rhetoric & Writing PhD. I study nature, human nature, and how language can help secure environmental justice. A weightlifter who runs sometimes, too. Appalachian. BLM.
- you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
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- i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.
- Beltaine, also known as May Day (1st May), marks the beginning of summer in pagan & Gaelic calendars. It's marked with Maypole dancing, bonfires, fertility rituals (👀) & by making posies & leaving them at the doors of those you love. Merry May Day 🌿-some May posies my daughters made 8 years ago:
- Meet the Short-eared Owl—known for its piercing gaze and silent flight. A true master of open landscapes. 📸 lydebug
- I love these too much. I just can't help myself with photographing them. Fiery-throated Hummingbird at Batsu Gardens, San Gerardo de Dota #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature 🌿
- happy may day here is a painting I did a long time ago
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- The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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- Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.
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- ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.
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- Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?
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- Way to go Wisconsin! ✊🇺🇸💚
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- He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.
- They bought votes and still lost.
- After 24 hours on his feet, Cory Booker is defending the scientific research establishment of this country - calling out an experience like the one that drives me and SO MANY of my fellow scientists to do the work we do - that maybe we can do for others what we couldn't for our own loved ones.
- what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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- y’all are wild
- Wyden: "I'm of the view that there ought to be resignations, starting with the national security adviser and the secretary of defense."
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- Timeline cleanse 🌞
- We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.
- Welcome to all our new followers! 💚
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- The guy whose daddy bought his way into Wharton, the guy whose grades were so shitty he's never disclosed them – that guy just destroyed the Department of Education. This is what dystopia looks like. This is what Fascism looks like.
- Can’t make this up.
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- Roses are red Violets are blue
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- Would like to report some gang tattoos.
- “The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:
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