Lisa Garbrick
@garblisa.bsky.social
Retired ER doctor enjoying a regular bedtime and so very much more.
I bike for transportation and community in Seattle. Got pretty good at making pizza last year; still learning spoon carving. Grandchild of immigrants.
I bike for transportation and community in Seattle. Got pretty good at making pizza last year; still learning spoon carving. Grandchild of immigrants.
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This is just kidnapping children
Trump's 2018 "zero tolerance" policy was denounced on both sides of the political aisle as inhumane, and a federal court ruled it illegal. Now the Trump administration is separating families again, only this time more quietly, and away from the border.
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
www.motherjones.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:59 PM
This is just kidnapping children
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The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
The US Energy Department will announce $150 million in new funding for power lines in Alaska on Monday as Vice President JD Vance visits the state, where Republicans are fighting to hold a critical Senate seat in the November midterm elections.
EXCLUSIVE: US to announce $150 million for Alaska power lines as Vance campaigns in Senate battleground
The US Energy Department will announce $150 million in new funding for power lines in Alaska on Monday as Vice President JD Vance visits the state, where Republicans are fighting to hold a critical Senate seat in the November midterm elections.
reut.rs
October 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate.
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
www.theunpopulist.net
October 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate.
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A close pass is a way to say you care more about 5 seconds than about the safety of other people 🚲
August 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A close pass is a way to say you care more about 5 seconds than about the safety of other people 🚲
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The driver who is both using this road all the time (and can confirm current conditions on it) and yet not using the road because there's too much congestion.
October 4, 2026 at 6:16 PM
The driver who is both using this road all the time (and can confirm current conditions on it) and yet not using the road because there's too much congestion.
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Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways.
October 4, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways.
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As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.
Trump: "Remember the global warming hoax? But the problem is the ice caps have gotten bigger. Everybody said 'we're all gonna be dead.' I think it was AOC."
October 4, 2026 at 7:47 AM
As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.
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There's not much better than riding with little ones.
October 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
There's not much better than riding with little ones.
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@cfiesler.bsky.social points out the resource asymmetry between one random Twitter user posting fake news vs a dozen legitimate news orgs having to write stories to rebut the lie.
October 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
@cfiesler.bsky.social points out the resource asymmetry between one random Twitter user posting fake news vs a dozen legitimate news orgs having to write stories to rebut the lie.
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Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time.
It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice.
This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice.
This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
No matter how bleak things may seem, just remember that in the 1960s the US Coast Guard received reems of earnest letters begging them to save those poor castaways on Gilligan's Island.
October 4, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time.
It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice.
This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice.
This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
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Kant’s Categorical Imperative includes the Formula of the Universal Law and the Formula of Humanity. Act as if your choice/act will be repeated by everyone; treat other people as an end not a means.
AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws.
AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws.
October 3, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Kant’s Categorical Imperative includes the Formula of the Universal Law and the Formula of Humanity. Act as if your choice/act will be repeated by everyone; treat other people as an end not a means.
AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws.
AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws.
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A negative externality is a shifting of costs. As the cost of a transactional communication shrinks to zero for a business they are incentivized to massively scale their funnel and so massively increase the time wasted by 99% of the recipients of a message.
We only have 24 hours in a day.
We only have 24 hours in a day.
October 3, 2026 at 12:09 AM
A negative externality is a shifting of costs. As the cost of a transactional communication shrinks to zero for a business they are incentivized to massively scale their funnel and so massively increase the time wasted by 99% of the recipients of a message.
We only have 24 hours in a day.
We only have 24 hours in a day.
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If this was from a movie that came out in 2016 set in future Trump’s America people would’ve called it alarmist and laughed but now it’s just life
new wolfenstein looks like shit
October 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
If this was from a movie that came out in 2016 set in future Trump’s America people would’ve called it alarmist and laughed but now it’s just life
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Of course they are.
Also: Holy shit.
Also: Holy shit.
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks.
www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
www.thequeenzone.com
October 3, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Of course they are.
Also: Holy shit.
Also: Holy shit.
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Yes! Even thinking about how you’d manage is good practice for the day you have a seizure or something else happens that keeps you from being able to drive. Having a backup plan to the car is just smart.
Could you go a week without driving? This Week Without Driving, we’re challenging you to leave the car at home and explore the many ways to get around our community.
October 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Yes! Even thinking about how you’d manage is good practice for the day you have a seizure or something else happens that keeps you from being able to drive. Having a backup plan to the car is just smart.
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Thread. (It’s a new world, fellow academics.)
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of.
What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
October 3, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Thread. (It’s a new world, fellow academics.)
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"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens."
There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
October 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens."
There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
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This whole thread 10000x yes.
Polarization is not the problem, it’s the symptom. The problem is that one party (guess which) has become radicalized and is willing to undermine democracy to preserve the entrenched power of the white/christian/male/cis/het groups
Polarization is not the problem, it’s the symptom. The problem is that one party (guess which) has become radicalized and is willing to undermine democracy to preserve the entrenched power of the white/christian/male/cis/het groups
You have to accurately assess the problem to create proper solutions
October 2, 2026 at 5:12 PM
This whole thread 10000x yes.
Polarization is not the problem, it’s the symptom. The problem is that one party (guess which) has become radicalized and is willing to undermine democracy to preserve the entrenched power of the white/christian/male/cis/het groups
Polarization is not the problem, it’s the symptom. The problem is that one party (guess which) has become radicalized and is willing to undermine democracy to preserve the entrenched power of the white/christian/male/cis/het groups
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"Not everyone wanted to peacefully extend power to previously marginalized groups": precisely. And not everyone — see this week's noxious right-wing foray at 'the Indian question' — wants to continue to abide that extension.
October 2, 2026 at 5:41 PM
"Not everyone wanted to peacefully extend power to previously marginalized groups": precisely. And not everyone — see this week's noxious right-wing foray at 'the Indian question' — wants to continue to abide that extension.
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I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!
October 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!
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🔪 BOOK 1 for November is Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social ! The town of Lake Argen has always been a little odd. But when a visitor goes missing, his family hires a private investigator to find answers.
October 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
🔪 BOOK 1 for November is Direct Descendant by Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social ! The town of Lake Argen has always been a little odd. But when a visitor goes missing, his family hires a private investigator to find answers.
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"One pattern I’ve noticed... is that someone will choose to replace car trips with bike trips to help them get through the week, then the week ends and they keep biking because they realize they love it." www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/09/29/a... @seattlebikeblog.com #WeekWithoutDriving
A Week Without Driving starts October 1 + Watch me talking about my no-biking challenge from last year
From the Week Without Driving website. Week Without Driving 2026 runs October 1–8, challenging people to do exactly what it says on the tin: Go an entire week without driving a car. It’s an e…
www.seattlebikeblog.com
October 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
"One pattern I’ve noticed... is that someone will choose to replace car trips with bike trips to help them get through the week, then the week ends and they keep biking because they realize they love it." www.seattlebikeblog.com/2026/09/29/a... @seattlebikeblog.com #WeekWithoutDriving
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I think we should all support responsible management of valuable curb space, especially when it is in high demand.
October 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
I think we should all support responsible management of valuable curb space, especially when it is in high demand.