Mercury Brown

Archaeologist, winter-loving hermit, snarky movie watcher, news junkie, Clockblocker.

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

To all the burned-out big-city executives coming back to their hometown for the holidays: yes our foresters manage a large tree farm and yes they had a crush on you in high school.

[Mercury Brown @MercurialBrown]

This is officially how I believe it really happened! 😂

[John Moe @johnmoe]

From the recording of "Do They Know It's Christmas", a thread:

[Kelly for Arkansas @Kelly4Arkansas]

My opponent was on @TheProblem with @jonstewart to defend Arkansas’ SAFE act that bans gender affirming healthcare (currently in federal court-results in mid Oct). The problem with this law is that the lawmakers didn’t bother to learn about gender affirming care. I can help🧵1/

[NASA @NASA]

IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

While everybody is arguing & fighting over all manner of terrestrial issues, @NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) slams a space probe into an asteroid’s moonlet today. Consider it practice, deflecting killer asteroids that might head our way.

https://t.co/kfuyZZI76v

[Mercury Brown @MercurialBrown]

@TSting18 I'm not saying I want to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely.

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

I volunteer as a translator with asylees coming through the Texas border and I wanted to make a thread on who these migrants are, what help is actually needed and why what DeSantis and Abbott are doing is so needlessly cruel.

Everyone is talking about it, but so few understand

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

BREAKING: Russia funneled over $300 million into political parties and candidates around the world — including the US — since 2014, according to a new US intelligence review.

Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro, Orban, Le Pen — there’s a reason for the rising tide of fascism: the Kremlin.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt

[Mercury Brown @MercurialBrown]

@jeeyonshim She needs to read this (not that she strikes me as someone who would read a whole book....) https://t.co/XdtDr2REUM

[Mercury Brown @MercurialBrown]

@sadmonsters @MalcolmNance For a deep dive, check out "An Artist in Treason" on General Wilkerson by Andro Linklater. A complicated period of US history often boiled down to "and then the Louisiana Purchase happened" in school. Things could have gone very differently! https://t.co/jrmGpeLdBX

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

These "I am not a robot" quizzes are getting complicated enough that I'm starting to think I may be at least part robot.

[Mercury Brown @MercurialBrown]

@psitext @freetofic "and 'Relena'" - bwahaha!! So true! 😄

[Eleanor #DCStatehood Holmes Norton @EleanorNorton]

Republicans have introduced a bill to impose a slew of voting restrictions, including on who, how, when, and where -- in DC, where residents have no voting representation in Congress.

Irony run amuck. I’ll defeat this bill.

#DCStatehood #HandsOffDC

[The Hill is Home @theHillisHome]

@wilfulpeg @HillRagDC Omg 😍😍 welcome home, Hildy!

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

Omg. We are starting to get prettttyyy close to 600k followers 👀

Consider this a *humble* ask for a RT + follow 🙏

It will take a BIG team to defeat Dr. Oz + win this seat

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Clarence Thomas writes, in a concurring opinion, that the Supreme Court should reconsider Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell — the rulings that now protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Yesterday in Oklahoma, the state legislature passed a law that would effectively ban abortion from the moment of fertilization. It’s outrageous.

We must elect pro-choice leaders at the local, state, and federal level.