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I still believe in the Replacements and the Bill of Rights
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about 21 hours ago
A sign at California's Muir Woods National Monument explaining that redwoods soak up planet-warming greenhouse gases has been removed by the Trump administration. One of many ways the National Park Service is now silencing science and history:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/c...
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How the National Park Service Is Deleting American History
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/climate/national-park-service-deleting-american-history-slavery.html
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New ESA and Klamath from
@jacquesleslie.bsky.social
dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026/01/...
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The Endangered Species Act Meets the Klamath River Basin - Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
Jacques Leslie is the author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for its “elegant, beautiful prose....
https://dornsife.usc.edu/icw/2026/01/13/the-endangered-species-act-meets-the-klamath-river-basin/
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This must be the first time I've found a new band because I recognize their byline. Here’s the Paranoid Style
theparanoidstyle.bandcamp.com
with the music critic Elizabeth Nelson
@paranoiacs.bsky.social
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The Paranoid Style
The Paranoid Style was a special committee convened in 2012 in order to address our country's many pressing problems.
https://theparanoidstyle.bandcamp.com/
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Thomas Paine published Common Sense 250 years ago this week. I can't stop thinking about it so I compiled some quotes and added a little commentary.
brianjayjohnson.substack.com/p/common-sen...
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"Common Sense" Turns 250
In an era where people are questioning the first principles of the American experiment, we might re-learn what those principles are — and why they are worth defending
https://brianjayjohnson.substack.com/p/common-sense-turns-250?r=bhzf
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“Last year was a bonkers, crazy warming year—that's the technical term,” Abraham joked to me. “The peer-reviewed scientific term is ‘bonkers’.”
www.wired.com/story/the-oc...
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The Oceans Just Keep Getting Hotter
For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
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Spencer Ackerman
17 days ago
Copy editors and all other headline writers should have bylines so people can scream at whoever actually wrote the headline instead of the reporter(s) who wrote the story
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On repeat this morning - isolated vocal track for Under Pressure. So so good.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb...
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Under Pressure (A-Capella) - Only Vocals
YouTube video by MisteRhapsody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMQb9LCNGxs
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Congrats to Chuck and TNC California. DFW Director is one of the hardest jobs in state government and Chuck always managed it with a strong and steady hand. TNC is a good fit for him, and vice versa.
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Peter Head
24 days ago
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01761-5
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Yo La Tengo and Luna together last night. They played ‘till midnight and left us with a great poster. Good evening and welcome to the Fillmore
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Someone asked for 90s records
www.teenbeat.net/images/items...
30 days ago
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Here are 81 songs I loved in 2025. This playlist is mostly
#indiemusic
. Jazz & country/adjacent music go on other lists. Shoutout to
#KEXP
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#MPR
The Current,
#NPRMusic
, and others who turned me on.
#musicsky
#bestof2025
Tidal & Spotify playlists in comments ->
about 1 month ago
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Outdoor Life with a good explanation of what's at stake in the Clean Water Act rule making ->
www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-...
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'This Would Have Serious, Real-World Impacts.' Why the EPA's Rule Change on Water Protections Would Be a Disaster for Fish and Wildlife
Conservationists are sounding the alarm about the EPA's proposal to strip Clean Water Act protections from many of our streams and wetlands.
https://www.outdoorlife.com/opinion/epa-rule-change-disastrous-for-fish-wildlife/
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San Francisco just after dark. (Didn’t post earlier.) Pano view from Grandview Park toward downtown. I could see UCSF Parnassus and some car headlights.
about 1 month ago
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Funny how the people who talk most about defending “Western Civilization“ also hate Europe and its most admirable ideas, like the universal rights of humankind. They’d keep the imperialism and ditch the Magna Carta
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Peter Brannen
about 1 month ago
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
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You Can’t Have Popehats
4 months ago
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
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I’ll bet there’s an even dumber reason
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about 2 months ago
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Alison Killing
about 2 months ago
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045?st=w7ZTZ9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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One of my pet theories is that the 2000 recount era is the Rosetta Stone for 21st Century American politics. I wrote about it today. (Trigger warning: apologies if this is traumatic for any of my friends. I still have nightmares about election night.)
open.substack.com/pub/brianjay...
about 2 months ago
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“Mr President, can you tell us more about that amazing cognitive test? It sounds *very* impressive.”
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about 2 months ago
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Daniel Swain
about 2 months ago
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
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So cool. Gift link ->
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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Her Lowrider Can Drive on Three Wheels and Hop
Sandy Avila took five years to completely rebuild the 1966 Chevrolet Impala convertible.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/her-lowrider-can-drive-on-three-wheels-and-hop-ea3e0e3d?st=zvx7ZU&reflink=article_copyURL_share
about 2 months ago
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Has anyone calculated the cost per deported criminal?
about 2 months ago
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This is a well-reported article describing a complicated situation that a lot of good people are working to resolve ->
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2 months ago
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“and their descendants“ … FFS
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Maven's Notebook
2 months ago
Milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’ acquisition of Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County, marking a concrete step toward restoring one of California’s most important salmon-bearing waterways
#cawater
mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/21/p...
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PRESS RELEASE: Landmark Battle Creek revitalization launches with acquisition of historic Tehama County Ranch
Press release from River Partners Today, a major milestone in the revitalization of Battle Creek was achieved through River Partners’ acquisition of the historic 1,721-acre Battle Creek Ranch in Teham...
https://mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/21/press-release-landmark-battle-creek-revitalization-launches-with-acquisition-of-historic-tehama-county-ranch/
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Welcome focus on “we” and “resolve” “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom”
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Maven's Notebook
2 months ago
A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife scientists are seeing salmon reoccupying just about every corner of their historic habitat.
#cawater
mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/19/c...
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CDFW: ‘Salmon Everywhere’ One Year After Klamath Dam Removal
Press release from the Department of Fish and Wildlife: A little more than a year after the historic removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife...
https://mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/19/cdfw-salmon-everywhere-one-year-after-klamath-dam-removal/
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The Mendocino Voice
2 months ago
🌊 In a Letter to the Editor, Dr. Jeanine Pfeiffer argues the Eel River’s century-old dams are unsafe, costly, and harming native fish — and says it’s time for removal.
mendovoice.com/2025/11/lett...
#mendocinocounty
#mendocino
#eelriver
#environmentalism
#california
#environmentalism
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Letter to the Editor: A reality check on the Eel River dams • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA
Lake Pillsbury has hazardous levels of mercury, and the dams are dysfunctional safety risks. I can’t wait to see them go.
https://mendovoice.com/2025/11/letter-to-the-editor-a-reality-check-on-the-eel-river-dams/?utm_campaign=letters&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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Cool place for a club
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2 months ago
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reposted by
Maven's Notebook
2 months ago
Two Northern California tribes announced Wednesday that they signed a treaty last month, committing to jointly restore the Eel River and its fish populations.
#cawater
mendovoice.com/2025/11/nort...
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Northern California tribes join forces to restore Eel River in response to anticipated PG&E dam removal • The Mendocino Voice | Mendocino County, CA
The Round Valley Indian Tribes and Yurok Tribe signed a "Treaty of Friendship" committing to joint restoration of the Eel River as PG&E prepares to remove the Scott and Cape Horn dams.
https://mendovoice.com/2025/11/northern-california-tribes-join-forces-to-restore-eel-river-in-response-to-anticipated-pge-dam-removal/
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@theatlantic.com
cracks me up. Every week they publish a few insightful pieces by excellent writers, but also at least one thing that’s almost unreadable. Here’s today’s selection. Gift link for the good one by
@cwarzel.bsky.social
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2 months ago
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MisterJayEm
3 months ago
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
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Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/letter-chicago-immigrants-broadcast-journalists/
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Billy Bragg is not in the Epstein Files
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Here’s the full statement ->
www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
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U.S. Bishops Issue a “Special Message” on Immigration from Plenary Assembly in Baltimore
The bishops issued a Special Message addressing their concern for the evolving situation impacting immigrants in the United States. It marked the first time ...
https://www.usccb.org/news/2025/us-bishops-issue-special-message-immigration-plenary-assembly-baltimore
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Josh Marshall
3 months ago
I tried to provide a simple guide to assessing which senators are ready and willing to battle back from Trumpist autocracy and which aren’t.
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reposted by
Courtney Milan
3 months ago
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
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Maggie Vail
3 months ago
Ours is going from $401 to $1951. I have no fucking idea what we are going to do.
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Ana Marie Cox
3 months ago
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
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Governor Gavin Newsom
3 months ago
Two-thirds of California's power comes from clean energy. For 9 in 10 days so far this year, we were 100% powered for some part of the day by clean energy. The Golden State has become the world's fourth-largest economy because of our climate leadership, not in spite of it.
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Anyone want a Belly ticket at Great American tonight? Short notice I know. DM me. Show is at 8:00
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Sharon Begley was one of the best reporters I’ve ever worked with. This is special
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Karen K. Ho
3 months ago
it's really weird to have developed super specialized knowledge of the art industry and art crime for three years and then just suddenly stop developing it or reporting on it due to a layoff; but this happens to so many reporters and then I see discussions about declining public trust in the media
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This is incredibly important. It's first principles for America.
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Why are the social media teams getting paid during the shutdown?
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3 months ago
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Me too
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