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- Reposted by jestraI’ve been thumping the table about this for years. Now it’s accelerating. I wish I could get my private college colleagues to realize that if it’s not stopped, it’s coming for us, too. “But we’re private!” Sure, ask Orban or Erdogan what an autocrat does with private higher ed.
- Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
- Reposted by jestraStumbled upon this work of art while hiking yesterday. #MushroomMonday #optoutside #photography #getoutside #pnw #nature #fungi
- Reposted by jestraIn service to the Trump Junta
- Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...
- Reposted by jestraLook if I let myself start crying about all the women, especially women of color, that I saw pushed out of physics and astronomy by people who subscribe to sexist and racist views, I truly might never stop The things I saw and heard the grief feels enormous and bottomless
- Reposted by jestraIn the second-growth forest around my house there are many large trees, but there are also remnants of the giants who came before. #ForestFriday #optoutside #photography #forestscape #getoutside #pnw #scape
- Reposted by jestrafree them all
- Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares
- Reposted by jestraFederal testing improves detection of H5N1 avian flu in US dairy herds Early in the outbreak, the virus was more widespread than reported. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
- Reposted by jestraI deeply enjoy that National republicans started a conflict they cannot win
- Reposted by jestraI call my work ‘The Art of Calm’ I have to be calm to make it Making it calms me further I’m told that looking at it brings calmness to the viewer This tree is in my studio One day it will sell. I'ill miss it Until then it delights and soothes me #ink #calm #art #interiordesign #mentalhealth
- Reposted by jestraA Granblue Fantasy request I got awhile ago of Monika that I never got around to posting. #GranblueFantasy #グラブル #fanart
- Reposted by jestraA progress update on yesterday’s partial sketch 🥰 Still very much a work in progress #watercolours #birdart 🪶
- Reposted by jestraThis week I watched a screening of the new documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, about how the Russian state has transformed schools into indoctrination centres over the past four years. The most disturbing part for me was knowing that the 🇺🇸regime is starting to make the same efforts.
- Reposted by jestraI’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
- Reposted by jestraFebruary 2016. This was a drawing from the first year of the Bird Whisperer Project. 🖤 ᏣᏩᏳᎩ #tbt #birdart #drawing
- Reposted by jestraHow will it work out when they come for your family? You may never even know. messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...
- Reposted by jestraJeff 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.
- Reposted by jestraStuart Dunkel (American Artist, born 1952) "Hero", 2020. Oil on Panel, 4 × 5 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
- Reposted by jestraDid you know you can grow your own paprika? This pepper is easy to grow in sunny garden beds or pots. Get my tips on growing paprika in my new short video.🌶️🌱😊 youtube.com/shorts/iVul9...
- Reposted by jestrawow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
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I'm looking for people to interview whose budgets are extremely tight this year because of 1) Increased health insurance premiums, 2) catching up on student loans or being forced into a higher payment plan or 3) both. Contact me at mpotts at tnr dot com (monicabpotts.57 on signal) if this is you! - Reposted by jestraCastle doctrine people trying B&E's imo
- Reposted by jestraIt's another moral-panic moral panic. The people most responsible for most of our current moral panics (like "cancel culture") either don't know what "moral panic" means, or they're pretending not to know. Hint: Epstein really did rape those kids, and those people really were his pals.
- Reposted by jestraIf 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.
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- Reposted by jestraThe banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
- Reposted by jestrait’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
- Reposted by jestraWriting an unclassified note about my classified note in case I’m randomly found dead later
- Reposted by jestraAt the end of his life, Epstein had assets of around $600m. A large part of that was due to his ability to get in early to hot tech deals. The returns he made off those deals helped fund his lifestyle. Here's a gift link for those who want to read the full piece: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Reposted by jestraSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by jestraSO PROUD OF NOGALES Protesters today Many came from Tucson and Phoenix Many told me attacks on high schools will ramp up Please be safe Please call your Representatives 202 224-3121 ICE OUT BLOCK ICE FUNDING
- Reposted by jestraHe's said he is scared of going to hell. He needs reminding that he'll be dragged off by devils to a very nasty place for all eternity and he won't be able to get out of it by a bit of last minute praying. Although I'm an atheist I'm saying special prayers for that to happen, and soon!
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- Reposted by jestraFor this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM Watch or (Rewatch) the memorable "The Fabulous Baker Boys" (1989) - Dir. Steve Kloves, starring Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges, & Michelle Pfeiffer. Full film ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFt...
- Reposted by jestraThe GOP’s new Voter Suppression bill, the so-called “SAVE Act,” would disenfranchise many of the 69 million women who took their husbands’ last names, as explained in my summary. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous voter purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/
- Reposted by jestraLight filtering through the trees in Christ's Pieces, a park in central Cambridge, watercolour and Indian ink, with a lady in a pink dress wheeling her bicycle. This one sold at an exhibition. #Cambridge #christspieces #watercolour
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- Reposted by jestraAfter latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
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- Reposted by jestraBig Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
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- Reposted by jestraWhen you know you're next to testify.
- Reposted by jestra@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
- Reposted by jestraThe wrong ICE is melting. The wrong Amazon is burning. #Truth
- Reposted by jestraWatch lawless ICE thugs now start every paper with claim that they were an "escape risk"! Illiterate, Ignorant, untrained KKK/ProudBoy/3%er are NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT!! And have no business being on the street until they are taught legal procedures!! We The People teach!! apnews.com/article/immi...
- Reposted by jestraAre you an US healthcare professional that has had enough of the regime? Are you looking for a safe landing for you, your family and career? British Columbia Canada is actively recruiting doctors and nurses and fast tracking credential recognition. See more here. news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
- Reposted by jestraSo weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by jestraJacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"
