Dana 🌈🔬🪱
@millerlab.bsky.social
Worms, rainbows, glitter, 1 puppy, 1 kitteh, 3 F1. I speak for only me. If you don’t like swearing you can go fuck yourself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MM... A King just wiped one of your folks from his face Well I guess you all just own the place House fly, house fly You’re sitting by the phone in the back on a keg With your see through wings and your strange little legs
Tom Waits - "The Fly" (Lyric Video)
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has anyone unpacked christopher nolan casting a trans person to be the distraction sacrifice for a trojan horse to enter, and then destroy, civilization
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." --James Baldwin
stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d agoPatty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.
#OldTrailsFire in Spokane now appears to be most destructive wildfire in WA State history by wide margin (650+ structures lost), w/additional TBD losses nearby. Other PacNW fires actively burning, though less destructive, are far larger & could burn for weeks amid severe drought.
Every adult woman that I have been deeply familiar with has had a moment with a man when she knows that he would hit her if be could get away with it. Some even know what he looks like when he does it. You never forger what it looks and feel like. That Miller video has it all.
I don’t say this lightly or hardly ever but this is triggering.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
As I told @monicatorrr.bsky.social of @huffpost.com, "As [women] grow older and more mature in their careers, they lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that." www.huffpost.com/entry/age-di...
Data Reveals An Infuriating Reason Women Over 40 Are Held Back At Work
A recent study exposes how insidious age discrimination is — and it should make you mad.
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Have you voted? Your ballots are due in a ballot box by 8 pm Tuesday. Want help? Check out the REAL progressive voters guide for Seattle: electioncheatsheet.org
Lefty Cheat Sheet — Aug 2026 Primary
A quick guide on how to vote lefty using sources YOU trust!
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Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's time to post the current election turnout breakdown by age bracket chart again and remind you that ballots are due by Tuesday!
Bernie Moreno reminds you that Dr. Fauci deserves prison, but the guy who abused & terrorized his daughter needs psychological help.
Daniel Schulman@danielschulman.bsky.social · 3d agoSen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) just tweeted that his ex-son-in-law Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) "needs serious psychological help." Read @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social blockbuster investigation that broke the Miller story wide open www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.
you should be in jail, but instead you are describing an incredibly common abuse dynamic where the victim tries to keep the abuser happy to avoid another explosion this guy makes me sick
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
the whole “institutions won’t love you back” thing remains true, but there have to be people in the institution fighting for their right to be there or there aren’t going to be humanities and social science programs at all.
God forbid women have hobbies
In Otter News@in-otter-news.bsky.social · 4d agoSounds like otter chaos.
If I'm abusing my wife, why am I sternly and coldly intimidating you with my 'always about to scream at a woman' affect?
The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.
Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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Watching this unprecedented summer of drought, fire and heat unfold across Europe has just been awful. They're hitting temps the older, less catastrophic climate models told them wouldn't happen until 2050. We're in a new era.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d agoFirefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation.
Holy fuck, stay safe out there in Eastern WA 😳
Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 4d agoThe fires in Spokane County are already destroying homes as it has jumped the river and crossed into the city. Please keep us in your prayers. Read us for updates or follow me on Instagram for video. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...
on the right, "bravery" is when you're willing to be criticized by liberals, even if the position you're taking is fully embraced by the federal government and half the states.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
