First-gen PhD, paleontological consultant, arthropod enthusiast, developing policy wonk. He/him 🏳️🌈🦐
Los Angeles, CA
Joined July 2014
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After 8 years of trying to understand the taxonomy of Edredgeops/Phacops rana, it was so cathartic to write this paragraph.
@niles_eldredge, I’ve got excellent news! There’s strong phylogenetic support to confirm Eldredgeops as a genus!
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This week alone:
DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.
The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.
The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.
Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.
It’s just Thursday.
The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.
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nothing against any of them but i’ve lived this movie before and when 15 professional politicians run at once primary voters get overwhelmed + default to who they’ve heard of and won’t bother learning what makes a Van Hollen different from an Ossoff different from a Beshear etc!
.@RepMarkPocan tells me and @Olivia_Beavers there is a progressive push to get Sen. Chris Van Hollen to run for president.
“He should be on everyone's short list,” he said, adding he sees him as someone who could appeal to both progressives and swing voters. “He kind of straddles two lanes that you don't see many people do.”
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Young people can’t afford to buy property not because Blackstone is buying it, but because we’re incentivizing seniors to never sell and making it impossible to build new stock through restrictive zoning, fake historic district rules & cities treating new projects as a tax farm.
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This seems like a very, very regressive way to handle property taxes.
With property taxes going up year after year, Michigan seniors deserve stability. They’ve worked hard and earned the right to relief in their golden years. freep.com/story/news/politic…
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Michigan's seniors repeatedly voted for White Flight/pro-sprawl policies that bankrupt Detroit and saddled state with unpayable infrastructure debt while they hoovered up suburban subsidies. Now they want young folks to pay the tab.
Democrats defending this should be voted out.
With property taxes going up year after year, Michigan seniors deserve stability. They’ve worked hard and earned the right to relief in their golden years. freep.com/story/news/politic…
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"The wealthiest cohort in American society deserves special treatment so they can stay in their homes long after they should have downsized and sold their homes to young families."
With property taxes going up year after year, Michigan seniors deserve stability. They’ve worked hard and earned the right to relief in their golden years. freep.com/story/news/politic…
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Old people are the richest demographic and it is wrong to continue using the government to enrich them at the expense of the young.
Property taxes pay for local services. If they are too high, the old should sell their houses to young families.
With property taxes going up year after year, Michigan seniors deserve stability. They’ve worked hard and earned the right to relief in their golden years. freep.com/story/news/politic…
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we’re actually about six months into a recession, it just hasn’t penetrated the stock market yet because the speculative AI bubble is keeping it completely divorced from what’s happening on the ground level
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What Trump did is almost identical to what his friend Bolsonaro did.
The prison sentence noted below is what any responsible attorney would say Trump deserved—effectively, life imprisonment.
I know that may hurt some MAGAs' feelings, but it's what law-and-order always required.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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It's not normal for an American president to send troops to American cities in times of peace.
Chicago, document what you see and be loud for America.
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"Elordi plays the creature as a misunderstood...outsider with Oedipal issues rather than as an agent of evil and chaos...the most sympathetic character in the movie[.]"
THAT'S THE POINT!
THAT'S THE POINT OF FRANKENSTEIN!
YOU HAVE IDENTIFIED THE POINT OF THE BOOK!
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is all show and little substance – review independent.co.uk/arts-enter…
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped…”
Orwell 1984
The White House plans to conduct a wide-ranging review of the Smithsonian Institution's exhibitions, materials and operations to ensure the museums align with President Trump's view of American history, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. abcnews.link/1nvAoTP
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Celebrating 2 years since @_Lynds3_ joined our team at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History!
The Department of Invertebrate Paleontology at the @SamNobleMuseum is thrilled to introduce @_Lynds3_ as our new Collections Manager!
Lyndsey will be working with myself and fellow IP curator @LenaDoesScience to care for >1 million specimens in our collections! Welcome Lyndsey!
