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July 7, 2025

This BlueSky post

is one of the best I've seen.

RESIST!

Alex K. (@alexkahill-233.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T19:33:24.066Z
June 29, 2025

Apparent mass shooting near Cour d'Alene Idaho

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2025/06/firefighters-reportedly-shot-during-active-shooter-incident-in-northern-idaho/

On a zoom with my niece in Post Falls and it's just breaking. According to her daughter, the shooter started a fire with the plan to pick off the responders.

https://www.youtube.com/live/AQWGL7MYhzA?si=rdKZ2rI6eeRZMHRS
June 15, 2025

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

National Weather Service Raleigh NC
249 PM EDT Wed Jun 11 2025

This could be business as usual, or more fuckery per doge and project 2025. Who knows.

https://www.weather.gov/media/rah/RAHAWIPS_upgrade.pdf

...Computer System Upgrade at NWS Raleigh from June 16th
through 18th...
The National Weather Service Raleigh Weather Forecast Office
in Raleigh will be conducting a required, scheduled update
to our Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS)
computer system. NWS offices use AWIPS to display and integrate
weather and water information, and to send life-saving
information, such as weather and water warnings, to the public.
AWIPS is updated periodically, but this update is comprehensive
and requires that the system be taken completely offline for
approximately three days, from the morning of Monday, June 16th
through the afternoon hours of Wednesday, June 18th. During that
time, NWS Raleigh forecasters will produce and disseminate
products for the area using the AWIPS system at one of our
backup offices at NWS Blacksburg, VA. No impacts to our core
services of forecast products and weather watches, warnings
and advisories are expected during this period.
A few of our services will be impacted as they originate only
from AWIPS facilities at NWS Raleigh, namely:
* NOAA Weather Radio broadcast: The following NOAA Weather Radio
transmitters, programmed by NWS Raleigh, will be off the air
during most of the AWIPS update:
Buck Mountain (WWF 60 - 162.500 mhz)
Chapel Hill (WXL 58 - 162.550 mhz)
Ellerbe(WNG 597 - 162.400 Mhz)
Garner(WNG 706 - 162.450 mhz)
Henderson (WNG 586 - 162.500 mhz)
Tarboro (WXL 59 - 162.475 mhz)
Winston-Salem (WXL 42 - 162.400 mhz)
* Climate: Data will be updated in a limited fashion from Monday
afternoon, June 16th through Wednesday, June 18th. Climate
graphs for the Raleigh Forecast Area at
https://www.weather.gov/rah/climatePlots will not be updated.
* Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook images normally at
www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo?wfo=rah will not be updated.
* The Weather Story available at
https://www.weather.gov/rah/weatherstory will not be updated.
* Water level forecast services will be degraded due to a less
frequent update cycle. Forecasts will remain at
https://water.noaa.gov/wfo/rah through this period.
* NWS Raleigh will remain operational and staffed while AWIPS
is offline, taking public and partner phone calls, communicating
via social media, and performing other functions that can be
completed without AWIPS.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Please direct any questions
to Jonathan Blaes at jonathan.blaes@noaa.gov
$$


May 26, 2025

Memorial Day

My great uncle Mandus Edstrom died in Iowa during the 1918 pandemic. His story is in this article.
I have family who served all the way back to the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. To my knowledge, my Uncle Mandus is the only one to die. He was 22 years old.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/2020/03/03/influenza-outbreak-700-soldiers-died-1918-iowa-camp-dodge-johnston-army-base-national-guard-flu/2843939001/

May 13, 2025

MicrobeTV - if I only watched one channel on youtube,

this would be the one.

?si=OI8G_0gRSpJ3cTEG
May 6, 2025

Trump's MENTAL DECLINE on display in latest policies

?si=5qulDxypVxYb3ahd
April 19, 2025

Clinical Update with Dr Daniel Griffin

If this is not the correct forum for this I don't know what is. Let me know if so, thank you.

Working as a clinical researcher, I've always followed the FDA. Since krasnov took office I have found other sources to learn about public health. MicrobeTV is one of the best. I don't know how it is that I got through the whole pandemic without knowing or learning about MicrobeTV, but it is a fabulous resource for learning about science.

Vincent Racaniello is a virologist who runs MicrobeTV and he shares very strong opinions about what the administration is doing. His contempt for RFK jr is clear.

It's hard to find good news these days, but these scientists make learning the bad news palatable.

In this episode, Dr Griffin discusses the gutting of the CDC, reading an email from a colleague who has already lost her job there. It is catastrophic.

?si=yU0rLfnQn9jNAE0L
February 26, 2025

It showed up on time.

I'll make it through another month.

Does that mean I can relax now? Looking at what the feckless republicans in the House are doing, NOPE.

Being liberal means I care about everyone. That's my short definition of being liberal. These motherfuckers will not rest until everyday Americans are destitute, desperate, sick and starving. I'm reading Animal Farm at the moment and don't need to tell you who the pigs are.

They have neutered the Democrats, many of whom continue, inexplicably, pretending that what's going on is something less grave than the complete destruction of democracy in the USA.

We the People are all who can save us. There's not another way. The Courts are not holding. SCOTUS is useless.

https://generalstrikeus.com
This and a massive tax revolt are the way i see to a future that could work for us all. With every day passing, it only gets harder.

February 14, 2025

The Life of the Mother by the Grock

Listen on Suno

https://suno.com/song/fc6a53ce-6533-4b41-9f41-614bd93dc808

In this shithole of Abbott’s Texas rule,
Porsha bled out, while doctors play the fool.
They shoved pills down her throat, called it routine,
But she fucking died, left in a hospital sheen.
Pro-life,they scream, with their sanctimonious shit,
But for Porsha, they couldn't give a fuck, not a bit.
Significant bleeding, the charts did scrawl,
But minimal was the lie they let sprawl.
Chorus
Fucking hypocrisy is beyond insane,
Claiming prolife & causing but pain,
They'll ban the D&C, let women fucking die,
In the name of "life," they let blood fucking dry.
Verse
Two more names etched in this godforsaken tale,
Josseli, Nevaeh, left to fucking wail,
Doctors shackled by laws, hands fucking tied,
While these women bled out, their pleas denied.
Trump, the orange prick, said, "I am the law and order guy,"
But for these women, there was no order, just fucking goodbye.
"Life starts at conception," they chant like a curse,
But for the living, there's no care, just fucking worse.
Chorus
Fucking hypocrisy, it's beyond insane,
Claiming pro-life but causing nothing but pain,
They'll ban the D&C, let women fucking die,
In the name of "life," they let blood fucking dry.
Verse
MAGA, you motherfuckers, with your twisted creed,
You'd rather see women dead than concede,
You voted for laws that strip rights away,
You're not pro-life, you're just pro-fucking decay.
Make America Great Again, what a fucking jest,
While your policies leave women to rest,
In graves, not beds, because of your control,
Your greatness is just a fucking troll.
Verse
Evangelicals, you sanctimonious pricks,
Preaching life, you're just fucking sick,
You've turned the church into a political farce,
Where women's lives are expendable as an arse.
Your morals are as hollow as your fucking prayers,
You support a rapist, a Nazi, and you fucking dare,
To claim the moral high ground, what a fucking lie,
Your god must be weeping as you let women die.
Bridge
From Dobbs to the streets, your message is clear,
Your pro-life stance is nothing but fear,
Of women empowered, of choices they make,
You'd rather control than prevent this fucking heartbreak.
Verse
Every woman lost, every fucking story untold,
In a system where healthcare's bought and fucking sold,
Under the guise of morality, you legislate,
But the blood on your hands, you can't fucking placate.
The only good Democrat is a dead Democrat,said Trump with a shrill
But it's the lives of women he's willing to kill
On laws that are cruel, on policies that kill,
Your legacy's not life, but an unending fucking chill.
Chorus
Fucking hypocrisy, it's beyond insane,
Claiming pro-life but causing nothing but pain,
They'll ban the D&C, let women fucking cry,
In the name of life, they let women fucking Die!
So here's to rage & our anger we express,
For every woman in this fucking mess,
We'll scream our fury,shout our disdain,
For these fucking lunatics,the pro-life in name,
Who worship a Nazi,support a rapist's claim,
Your sanctity's a fucking sham, a stain.

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