Erica Gies / SlowWater.world
Author of "Water Always Wins," National Geographic, Explorer, TEDx speaker, independent journalist for Scientific American, Nature, NYT, the Atlantic, bioGraphic, and others. Fan of critters, plants, democracy, kindness.
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- This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
- I've heard from people in other cities "I'd like to see them try that in __!" No. No, you wouldn't. We have guns pointed in our faces in MN. I think you'd change your tune if this was happening to you, your family & your neighbors. Nobody knows EXACTLY how to do this. This is NEW to all of US.
- We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- 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...
- Clover is admiring the snowy treetops!
- We knew for sure Trump is treasonous when he started suggesting arresting Democrats for treason. His whole projection thing never fails. But after seeing Putin and other prominent, nefarious Russians all over the Epstein Files....well, now we know for SURE sure. Penalty for treason these days?
- So the “elected” President with his elected majority House and Senate says they have to takeover elections because Dems cheat. Make that argument make sense.
- Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
- So you won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. You stacked the courts, the DOJ, HHS, the FBI, and everything else with loyalists. But you think you should be allowed total control of elections to make sure it's not "rigged". "Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄
- A President can be impeached for Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. Just how many of those are needed! SOS..send help. Things are not okay.
- The online fat-shaming of my pitty/pig/hippo is equal parts mean and accurate 🙄 Yes, I know she’s chonky, SHE knows she’s chonky. No, she doesn’t need a diet, she eats a moderate, monitored amount already. She’s fine, and she loves you Just know I have shared all your positive comments with her 😊
- Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
- it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
- So weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
- Currently, in the UK ⬇️ youtu.be/g3arQRrNr9A?...
- It is terrible to see what is happening at The Washington Post. Democracy Docket is a small newsroom, but it is growing. If you want to work for an independent, pro-democracy media outlet, I encourage you to apply. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...
- A couple of cute shots of Junco's taken today, so round and full of good food.
- Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto
- I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
- MELIA is no longer in the shelter. She was rescued by @pawspathtofurever.bsky.social . now training at K9 Rehab in Watertown, Connecticut. With appointment you can do a meet & greet. And bring your dog to see if it's a good fit with Melia. Adoption application 👇 form.jotform.com/252536958908...
- Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
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- one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- The love affair with the blanket continues…
- If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Slime mould on birch bark - indeterminate ID #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #macro #macrophotography
- Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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- Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT ALLOWS CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL MAP INTENDED TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATS
- "power holds no value unless it is exercised"
- I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...
- But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
- The Supreme Court has cleared the way for California to use its new congressional map for this year's midterm election. Voters approved it as a Democratic counterresponse to Texas' new GOP-friendly map. n.pr/4kiKmxl
- BREAKING: huge, gigantic, enormous win SCOTUS allows our big victory at trial upholding the Prop 50 redistricting to remain in place Kudos to my @democracydefendersaction.org, @lulacorg.bsky.social, Arnold & Porter & rest of the coalition that countered Trump's attempt to steal Congressional seats
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- A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now he is threatening to take over elections. Sadly, this is treated by legacy media as just another normal day. I founded Democracy Docket because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
- George Washington Carver developed 300 derivative products from peanuts among them cheese, milk, coffee, flour, ink, dyes, plastics, wood stains, soap, linoleum, medicinal oils and cosmetics. #BlackHistoryMonth
- @viviennesoton.bsky.social Sweet little paws your daughter's cat has! 😂
- Slime mold, Craterium minutum on lichen, Parmelia sulcata. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are only about 2 to 3mm high.
- Lemon arrested last week and charged with federal civil rights crimes in a move that triggered criticism from free speech advocates, legal experts and Democratic leaders.
- Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Just in from a friend on holiday, currently in Sydney in Australia, a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo on a bench for #BirdsSeenIn2026
- Judge rules members of Congress can inspect all ICE detention centers without appointment. "...DHS Sec. Kristi Noem re-implemented a notice requirement…..[which] required 7-days’ warning for visits to [ICE] facilities... funded exclusively by the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’..." thehill.com/regulation/c...
- I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing. www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...
