TL Jordan
Writer, gardener, science nerd, meteorology zealot, volcanology fan, lifelong botany student, locksport novice, Elder Scrolls and Magic the Gathering junkie...
I share science news. I love cats. Writer of blog feature Cinematic Distractions.
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- Reposted by TL JordanHERE WE GO BABY THEY MAY BE BAD BUT THEIR MONEY SPENDS GOOD WOOOOOOOOO Shit like this is exactly WHY JEFFERY EPSTEIN WAS FUCKING JEFFERY EPSTEIN.
- New: Gov. Hochul's campaign won't commit to returning $17,500 in donations from Brad Karp, the Paul Weiss head who resigned this week after his Jeffrey Epstein ties became public. She's not the only NY politician declining to make that commitment, tho. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
- Reposted by TL Jordananyway sorry the guy you have supported and made excuses for for years is a sadistic gutter racist whose every action would horrify your average saturday morning cartoon villain we did tell you, repeatedly
- Reposted by TL Jordanwhen this is all over there will be a whole lot of "well I just didn't know" and yes you fucking did you don't get to "oops" your way out of this one
- Reposted by TL JordanThe trans panic is a men's rights movement in drag.
- Reposted by TL JordanNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by TL Jordanokay found what i’m getting him for father’s day
- Reposted by TL JordanIncredible
- Have a kitty. This big handsome guy is Goldie. He’s available for adoption in Minnesota through Kitty Revolution. You can learn more about him here: new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...
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- Reposted by TL JordanThe view from the cabin where I am staying is amazing. Also hard to believe this is nearly 47 degrees south.
- Reposted by TL JordanRepetition of an utterance erases its semantic processing, allowing those already-existing pitch modulations and rhythms to be processed as non-speech. And so you hear the music that always existed within human language.
- Reposted by TL JordanThe people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
- Reposted by TL JordanOne of my most woke opinions: France needs to pay back all the money they made Haiti pay for their independence (with interest).
- Reposted by TL JordanHere's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now. It's harrowing stuff: newrepublic.com/article/2062...
- Reposted by TL JordanTrump administration won't let student deported to Honduras return reut.rs/4tEMO5V
- Reposted by TL JordanI do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.
- Reposted by TL JordanSomebody’s eyeing up NEPA. c2VjdXJlIHlvdXIgY29tbXM= www.wvia.org/news/local/2...
- Reposted by TL JordanSSI wasn't well known in policy or political circles, so it was an uphill slog. I did SSI 101 for a LOT of legislative assistants, talked at think tanks, published pieces SSI *is* inhumane. I wanted to be able to get married. I wanted to be able to afford food. I wanted that for everyone else 🧵
- Reposted by TL Jordan"Disabled people aren't allowed to work" and "Disabled people can't get married" tells most of the 1 in 4 American adults who are disabled that they don't count as disabled, it shrinks the community and diminishes our political power. In 2016 I started talking about the brutality of SSI 🧵
- Reposted by TL JordanStephen Marche:
- Reposted by TL JordanBringing natural consequence to people who have abused their power with barbarous corruption and lawless brutality and cruelty and murder is not an extreme position. It shouldn’t even be a position. It should be a given. It should be a requirement of holding office.
- Reposted by TL JordanI realized that a lot of the guys who have been found in the Epstein files are probably really struggling because the guy they would have gone to for advice about being discovered in the Epstein files was JEFFREY EPSTEIN
- Reposted by TL JordanWe're fully into the "trafficking teenagers isn't that bad" stage of cope by the ruling class.
- Reposted by TL Jordan“I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
- Reposted by TL JordanThis happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
- Reposted by TL JordanFox News chumming the water for outrage and clicks despite the fact this is literally what they want, trans men not on HRT competing with women.
- Reposted by TL JordanI'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵
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- Reposted by TL JordanEmergency crews battled a blaze and evacuated patients from a hospital Wednesday night in Pennsylvania as fire engulfed part of the facility, according to officials. All patients and staff were safely evacuated from Lehigh Valley Hospital in Dickson City, according to a hospital spokesperson.
- Reposted by TL Jordanthe Tina Brown era of THE DAILY BEAST is the first time I ever saw real reporting on Epstein - like reporting that was like "hey what the fuck is this billionaire pedophile doing and why isnt he in prison" not "this mysterious bachelor financier's lifestyle is AMAZING" stuff
- Reposted by TL JordanKiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
- Reposted by TL JordanTimeline cleanse
- Reposted by TL Jordanher job is picking fights with god
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- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by TL Jordanthe number of academics who were in touch with Epstein really puts the (elite) backlash to Title IX's enforcement against sexual violence into perspective.
- Reposted by TL JordanMaybe the million and oneth study will be the one that convinces people
- Reposted by TL JordanI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by TL JordanReminder to never fucking post on X again in your life.
- Reposted by TL JordanWildfires are still tearing apart the drought-stricken region of Patagonia, ravaging its once-pristine forests.
- Reposted by TL JordanThese are all spectacular, but my favorite is the crab riding the jellyfish. Micromobility for the win!
- Reposted by TL JordanDaily bunny no.3205 has adapted to the cold
- Reposted by TL JordanPlease, I'm trying to stream the best community radio stations from around the world, and would like a recommendation for a good one to stream from London. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. x
- Reposted by TL JordanSea of ice. People walk on the frozen Baltic Sea near Mikoszewo, as temperatures drop sharply in northern Poland. 📷 Sergei Gapon
- Reposted by TL JordanHe literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.
- Reposted by TL Jordanstephen miller told me woke 2 keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to twitter and begs people to apply to become federal prosecutors so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding prosectors to woke 2 and then kristi noem started crying
- Reposted by TL JordanNew: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...
- Reposted by TL JordanInstead of going "qanon was right, but about the wrong people" or "the conspiracies were correct except for who was doing it" or such, actually look up the definition of DARVO. Those letters, they actually mean something. Think: DARVO with the budget of a nation state en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO
- Reposted by TL JordanParis prosecutors raid X's France offices. I hope they charge Elon, all the senior execs, and seek extradition. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by TL JordanAPPROPS OF NOTHING. www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...
- This is an excerpt from Peter Drucker’s autobiography that was featured in The Atlantic. Frankfurt university’s faculty had been gathered, the Jews were forbidden to enter, and a lead scientist asked about funding. Indeed, there was much for Nazi “science”. cdn.theatlantic.com/media/archiv...
- Reposted by TL JordanLook at what this 1982 text-based tolkien video game was doing en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hob...
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