Anjanette Baker
@anjanettepb.bsky.social
Retired as the @theaga.bsky.social majordomo; conservation genetics enthusiast; ocean/river/all water devotee, social democrat.
I love that the @nytimes.com featured this -- it's funny, and Emmett Lindner stresses how finding funds for research in this political environment is dire. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/s...
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
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BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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HUGE: I just led an “SOS” call on the Senate floor—Save Ocean Sensors—with Senator Lisa Murkowski!
Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.
Does he stay up at night concocting schemes to outshine his rival, Dr Evil?
a bald man is sitting in a chair and pointing at the camera
ALT: a bald man is sitting in a chair and pointing at the camera
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Lincoln County Oregon Democrats@lincolncodemsor.bsky.social · 6mo agoKilling The West, One Symbol At A Time open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Tariff chaos. Endless wars. Handouts to the rich. You can draw a straight line from Trump and the GOP to the economic chaos now slamming Americans. Instead of helping working families, Republicans now want taxpayers to pay for their dear leader's ridiculous ballroom.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoBreaking News: Senate Republicans proposed $1 billion for security measures around President Trump’s ballroom project in an immigration bill.
BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 7mo agoBREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...
“If You Can Buy the Met Gala, You Can Pay More Taxes.” Right, @patrioticmillionaires.org ? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
Mamdani Highlights Fashion Workers as He Skips the Met Gala
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"Slop is AI’s chief export," writes technologist Mike Pepi. "And there’s a simple way for lawmakers to mitigate its harms: institute a small slop tax."
It’s time to tax AI slop | Mike Pepi
We are stuck in a deluge of meaningless content that threatens human creativity. Here’s a simple way to mitigate its harms
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Speak up fur endangered species! Proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act would severely weaken our most powerful tool for saving wildlife. Make your voice heard before the public comment deadline on Dec. 22
Support the workers and tax the rich -- go, Santa Fe! "Santa Fe also is counting on revenue from a so-called mansion tax, which targets home sales over $1 million, to fuel a trust fund for affordable housing projects." @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sant...
Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach
Santa Fe is the first city in the U.S. to directly link wages to housing affordability, aiming to counter high rents.
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Decorated Naval aviator, astronaut, Senator, and endlessly supportive husband following the assassination attempt on Gabby Gifford. A hero by anyone's reckoning. This is who the idiots want to court martial? It beggars belief.
Captain Mark Kelly@captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 11mo agoDonald Trump and Pete Hegseth are not serious people. I won't let them stop me from holding this Administration accountable.
As the year comes to a close, we hope lawmakers in 2026 will take us at our word when we say we’d start being grateful if they taxed us MORE, not less, and undo the damage from the Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/7-wa...
7 Ways the Big Beautiful Bill Cuts Taxes for the Rich
Overall, the Big Beautiful Bill will harm poor Americans and raise the incomes of rich Americans—driving gains for the rich through cuts to marginal tax rates and the estate tax, along with tax breaks...
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Next year, Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" will hand $67 BILLION of YOUR taxpayer dollars over to corporations for a single tax break. Why? To "incentivize" research these companies did years ago. Let that sink in. YOUR money being used to boost Amazon's profits even more.
I think the phrase "the dangers of excessive wealth" should be widely disseminated on social media -- people need to realize how truly dangerous a social phenomenon it is.
Patriotic Millionaires@patrioticmillionaires.org · 11mo agoPatriotic Millionaire Scott Ellis spoke to Australia’s Fremantle Shipping News podcast about our mission and the dangers of excessive wealth. If you didn’t have Saturday plans before, you do now (it’s listening to this ⬇️) fremantleshippingnews.com.au/2025/11/20/i...
@dwallacewells.bsky.social once again cogently explores how little we seem to learn from experience. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...
Opinion | When the Next Pandemic Comes, MAHA Says, You’re on Your Own
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A monstrous, illegal waste of taxpayer dollars. Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities. The American people deserve to know.
Extreme wealth—and that includes obscene CEO payouts—is bad for society as a whole. Because extreme wealth translates into extreme power that threatens the stability of our economy, our democracy, the freedom of the press and media, and our planet. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...
Obscene CEO pay is bad for business and society
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Our President, Erica Payne, spoke with Fast Company, and shared our super simple message for the FAA during the shutdown: “If you need a 10% reduction [in flights], you can get 100% of your reduction from the private planes.” www.fastcompany.com/91437451/faa...
These millionaires have a suggestion for the FAA: Cancel all private jet flights during the shutdown
Private jets make up one in six flights handled by the FAA, and taxpayers already foot the bill for their 'jet setting,' says Patriotic Millionaires.
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‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard. "No credible evidence” that protests in the city had grown out of control before the president federalized the troops earlier this fall. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard
Karin Immergut said earlier she ‘found no credible evidence’ that protests in Oregon city were out of control
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How Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne made history rowing the Pacific Ocean www.nytimes.com/athletic/677...
How Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne made history rowing the Pacific Ocean
It took Jess Rowe and Miriam Payne six months, plenty of snacks and sleepless nights to row from Peru to Australia
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To those experts who said a Democratic socialist could never be elected mayor of NYC, a reminder that one was elected president of the USA four times
“It’s become out of control, and I really hope that this shutdown is a wake-up call of how bad things have gotten.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Workers decry Trump officials as ‘out of control’ as longest shutdown drags on
Key figures accused of harassment, bullying and attacks as US employees work without pay to keep services running
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Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights. And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports. People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.
