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Trump nearly doubling his death toll estimate, continues to urge states to reopen despite official White House guidelines

By Mark | May 4, 2020

On Fox News yesterday, Donald Trump, after making the ridiculous case that he’s been “treated worse” than Abraham Lincoln, said that, in his opinion, it is now safe to re-open society. He then went on to say that, by the time all of this is over, the COVID-19 death toll in the United States could […]

Posted in History, Michigan, Politics, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged Abraham Lincoln, American individualism, anti-science, assault weapons, Canada, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, contact tracking, coronavirus, credit, Death, Donald Trump, Family Dollar, governors, Lansing, Marcy Wheeler, Marshall plan, masks, media literacy, narcissism, Opening Up America Again, pandemic, Parkland, public health, Sandy Hook, school shooting, Smithsonian Institution, social distancing, suicide, Trumpism, WHO, World Health Organization | 84 Comments

This is Donald. Don’t be like Donald.

By Mark | March 14, 2020

We know that Donald Trump and members of his administration have had direct personal contact with least two people who, shortly after their interactions, have tested positive for coronavirus. Trump had dinner with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s communications director, Fábio Wajngarten, at Mar-a-Lago, who afterward tested positive for the virus. And, the President’s daughter, Ivanka […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anthony Fauci, Brazil, Chad Wolf, coronavirus, COVID-19, Daily Show, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, Donald Trump, Fábio Wajngarten, H1N1, Ivanka Trump, Mar-a-Lago, Matt Gaetz, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, Obama, Peter Dutton, political rally, public health, role models, self-quarantine, shaking hands, social distancing, vaccination, virology, William Barr | 13 Comments

“Herp Talk” with local amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald

By Mark | June 23, 2019

Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted here about both tadpoles and frogs that my son and I had found in Riverside Park. Well, as a result of these posts, I’ve come into contact with Eastern Michigan University amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald, who, I guess, felt professionally obligated to write in and correct me, informing […]

Posted in Environment, Mark's Life, Michigan, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Ambystoma, amphibian biology, amphibian fungus, amphibian sex, amphibians, Ann Arbor Natural Area Preservation, Anura, Arlo, Arnold Lobel, biology, Bufonidae, bullfrog, Cane toad, cats, Central America, chickens, children's literature, chytrid, chytridiomycosis, critters, cryptozoology, cultural impact study, Diplocaulus, earth science, Eastern Michigan University, EMU, environmental impact study, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary tactics, extinction, faking death, faking one's death, flying frogs, Frog and Toad, frog-eating, frogamander, frogs, frozen frogs, gay characters in children's literature, Georgia, Gerobatrachus, Goro Furuta, habitat management, habitat preservation, HCI, herpetology, Heterodon platyrhinos, historic archeology, Historic Conservation and Interpretation, hognose snakes, Huron River, hybrid salamanders, immigration interview, invasive species, Karen Warkentin, Katy Greenwald, Kelly's Island, landscape architecture, Lepospondyls, Loveland Frog, Madagascar, Mark's frog pond, mass extinction, metamorphosis, nontraditional sex, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Paleocene, pit viper, Population Viability Analysis, predators, Ranidae, relocating wetlands, reproduction, reptiles, restoring wetlands, Rick Shine, ringneck snake, Rutherford Pool, salamanders, Science Friday, sentinel species, Skyline high school, smeet, snakes, South America, sperm-stealing, tadpoles, Temnospondyls, the canary in the cole mine, toads, treefrogs, twofold cost of males, unisexual, University of Michigan natural history museum, vernal pool, warts, wetlands, Ypsi immigration interview, zoospores | 27 Comments

Asked, “Do you consider white supremacy as a threat?,” Donald Trump responds, “I don’t really.”

By Mark | March 17, 2019

On Friday, a 28 year old Australian white supremacist by the name of Brenton Harrison Tarrant, seen above flashing a “white power” hand sign in court yesterday, murdered 50 Muslim residents of Christchurch, New Zealand. The attack, about 17 minutes of which the killer broadcast on Facebook Live, began at Christchurch’s Al Noor Mosque, where […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Al Noor Mosque, anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, anti-Muslim violence, anti-Semitism, assault weapons, assault weapons ban, border wall, Breitbart, Breitbart News, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, Christchurch, conspiracy theories, counterterrorism, Donald Trump, Felix Kjellberg, Great Replacement, gun control, Jacinda Ardern, mass murder, Milo Yiannopoulos, Muslim ban, national emergency, New Zealand, Obama is a Muslim, PewDiePie, Port Arthur, racism, right-wing extremism, Sky News, terrorism, white genocide, white nationalism, white power, white supremacy | 75 Comments

The Democratic response the Nunes memo proves what a farce the whole thing was and lays the groundwork for an obstruction charge

By Mark | February 25, 2018

Remember the so-called Nunes memo, and how it was supposed to expose a deep state conspiracy that, according Sebastian Gorka, the former deputy assistant to Donald Trump, was “100 times bigger” than what caused the American revolution? Do you remember how Trump had it released over the warnings of the intelligence community, who said that […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Adam Schiff, Brian Stelter, Carter Page, Christopher Steele, collusion, conspiracy theories, Devin Nunes, election meddling, FBI, FISA, FOX News, George Papadopoulos, Hillary Clinton, House Intelligence Committee, Howard Dean, Nunes memo, Obama, obstruction of justice, opposition research, Russia, Russiagate, Sebastian Gorka | 9 Comments

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“Herp Talk” with local amphibian biologist Katy Greenwald

Asked, “Do you consider white supremacy as a threat?,” Donald Trump responds, “I don’t really.”

The Democratic response the Nunes memo proves what a farce the whole thing was and lays the groundwork for an obstruction charge

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