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Hudson Valley resident, interested in progressive politics, folk rock, dogs and other pets. Currently a Social Studies teacher, but working on my Special Ed certification.

I'm @parabolicmirro on twitter, although I'm not active there anymore.

I would love to connect with other Hudson Valley residents.

#NY18 #NY19 #UlsterCounty #Liberal #Progressive #DogsOfMastodon

A nice editing catch is when you realize that a plant/animal should be described as poisonous vs. venomous or vice versa. I had to look up scorpions a few months and they are venomous. Venomous creatures generally need to bite, sting, or stab a person (or animal) for the person to be damaged, while a poisonous creature only needs to be bit or touched. #AmEditing

It's #RonaldReagan 's birthday. Learn the truth about #Reagan from @willbunch
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tear-Down-This-Myth/Will-Bunch/9781416597636
"In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, & turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology"
Buy it at Powells
https://www.powells.com/book/tear-down-this-myth-how-the-reagan-legacy-has-distorted-our-politics-haunts-our-future-9781416597629

"If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it." @GottaLaff

Tear Down This Myth

In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy ...

🤦‍♀️ “Iowa father who recently pleaded guilty to interfering with police during #Jan6 attack has found himself once again embroiled in scandal for allegedly using his cell phone to surreptitiously record a woman as she was changing clothes at a tanning salon. Daryl Eugene Johnson, 52, was taken into custody & charged with one count of invasion of privacy for the purpose of arousing or gratifying a sexual desire and one count of interference with official acts” #legal https://lawandcrime.com/crime/convicted-jan-6-capitol-rioter-caught-secretly-filming-woman-undressing-at-tanning-salon-owned-by-his-father-police/
Convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter caught secretly filming woman undressing at tanning salon: Cops

Daryl Eugene Johnson was arrested and charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly filming a woman changing at a tanning salon owned by his father.

Law & Crime
a single federal judge does not control the drug approval process. if he issues this bullshit ruling the FDA should tell him to pound sand https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/abortion-pill-outlawed-single-judge-real-possibility.html
The Worst Judge in America Could Outlaw the Abortion Pill Nationwide. It Gets Worse.

Dobbs was only the beginning.

Slate
'Google killer' ChatGPT sparks AI chatbot race https://bbc.in/3l2lT4U
'Google killer' ChatGPT sparks AI chatbot race

The future of internet search could be transformed by this new tech, writes BBC tech editor Zoe Kleinman.

BBC News

⚠️Yet another #recall:

More than 400 products including breakfast sandwiches and fruit cups recalled due to possible Listeria contamination - CNN

https://apple.news/ARjWDS6uRQYuVFdXuf7XwnQ

More than 400 products including breakfast sandwiches and fruit cups recalled due to possible Listeria contamination — CNN

More than 400 food products sold under dozens of brand names were recalled due to possible Listeria contamination, the US Food and Drug Administration announced Friday.

BIG NEWS: #TyreNichols’ murder reminds us that #police traffic stops can turn deadly. 400 unarmed drivers killed in 5 years.

I'm introducing the "Safer Traffic Stops Act". It would pay local governments to transfer traffic enforcement from armed police officers to cameras or civilians.

I don’t care if you make things up
I don’t care if you get facts wrong
I don’t care if you make up words
I don’t care if you pass off fiction as fact
These are the tools of the very best storytellers.

What I care about is if you try to use history to prop-up bigoted, fascist, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, right-wing bullshit.

You do that, believe me when I say I’m coming for you!

A neo-Nazi leader is charged in a plot to attack the #Maryland power grid with his girlfriend https://wapo.st/3I2w02W
Duo accused of neo-Nazi plot to target Maryland power stations

Atomwaffen founder Brandon Russell and a girlfriend, Sarah Clendaniel, are accused of launching a neo-Nazi plot to attack power substations around Baltimore.

The Washington Post