Alan's gone birding

GIScience Emeritus Prof at Penn State - geovisualization, visual analytics, cartography, spatial cognition, geographic info retrieval @[email protected]

[Alan's gone birding @alanGeoVISTA]

Finally received my own first published copy of he paperback version of my book - A Geo-Big Year: Pandemic Retirement is for the Birds (had only proofs earlier). So, I can confirm that the non-virtual version of the book exists 🙂
At 355 pages, it is hefty!

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Despite numerous sexual misconduct accusations, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Trump & Matt Gaetz are elevated to positions of power - while their victims are silenced & shamed. The ugly reality of American misogyny.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Elizabeth Warren on Tulsi Gabbard: "Do you really want her to have all the secrets of the United States and our defense intelligence agencies when she has so clearly has been in Putin's pocket? That just has to be a hard no."

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Tell me again why Matt Gaetz gets rewarded with an AG nomination after ‘allegedly’ raping an underaged girl, sex trafficking a minor & requesting a pardon - but Al Franken was forced to resign over a joke photo.

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

A rapist for AG.
A spy for DNI.
A zealot for Defense.
An antivaxer for Health.
A criminal for president.

This is what Orwellian means.

[Sen. Tammy Baldwin @SenatorBaldwin]

Look, if Rep. Matt Gaetz wants to serve as the highest law enforcement officer in the land, we need to vet him — that’s my job as Senator.

And that includes seeing this House Ethics report on him.

That’s exactly what I called for last night.

[Rick Taylor @OhRick4]

I remind everyone that we had over 1 million deaths during Covid

The United States has 4% of the Worlds population

We had 20% of the DEATHS

The reason ?

DONALD TRUMP and his unqualified and incompetent "czars"

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: John Bolton, who served in every Republican WH administration since Reagan, says today is not a good day and calls Trump picking Matt Gaetz as Attorney General the "worst cabinet pick in American history."

Whoa.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

I’m so old that I can remember when America had presidents and attorneys general who didn’t have mugshots.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Republican Senator John Cornyn just announced that he would like the House Ethics Committee to release the findings of the Matt Gaetz investigation. It sure looks like Republicans are going to sink one of Trump’s first nominees.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Vivek Ramaswamay, an incoming member of the Trump Administration, has announced plans to cut $120 billion in Veterans health care.

RETWEET to let the American people know what they voted for!

[Michael J. Stern @MichaelJStern1]

Trump picks incompetent loyalists for his Cabinet, and @CNN leads with "In Bold Move, Trump Picks Unorthodox Staff."

The media is the problem. They helped him get elected and they are covering for him now.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is General Charles Q. Brown, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 68 days, he will become the most important man in America: tasked with safeguarding our military from Donald Trump’s worst instincts.

RETWEET to thank General Brown for his service to our nation!

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

So, we’re replacing a former four-star general as Defense Secretary with… the weekend co-host of Fox and Friends?

Unbelievable. Just... wow.

[Republican Accountability @AccountableGOP]

Marco Rubio: “I will make this promise to you today. I will do whatever it takes...Trump, a con artist, will never get control of this party...We cannot allow a con artist to get access to the nuclear codes of the United States of America.”

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: Newly unearthed footage shows Fox News host and Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hyping up Trump’s infamous rally the morning of January 6, 2021. Totally unfit for office. Retweet so all Americans see this.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

"For years to come, there are many people on the right... that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump."

-Marco Rubio (2016), who was just named Trump's Secretary of State

[Treason Stickers @treasonstickers]

Trump is dismantling the department of education for 4 reasons:

1. Uneducated people vote for republicans

2. To allow red states to white wash history

3. To funnel tax dollars into private for-profit Christian schools that promote the patriarchy

4. Project 2025 said to do it

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Kerry Kennedy on her brother, RFK Jr:

"I am disgusted by my brother’s obscene embrace of Donald Trump. And I completely disavow and dissociate myself from Robert Kennedy Jr. and his flagrant efforts to desecrate my father's memory." @Acyn (August)