Jen Badger
@jenbadger5.bsky.social
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Closet liberal in the reddest county of my state. Live and work in the woods. Atheist humanist.
I don't believe in gods, but I think people ought to be free to follow any religion, or none at all. Just as long as everyone is kind to each other, and they leave me alone.
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@jeff-merkley.bsky.social
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I know you two will NOT cave for nothing in return. Because they WON'T keep any promises, we all know that.
6 days ago
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I've been wondering this for a while now... and what will it take to make the necessary change?
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11 days ago
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“There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.” - Vaclav Havel
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Trump’s Plan Is Now Out in the Open
It’s getting ever harder to avoid connecting the authoritarian dots.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-authoritarianism/684773/
14 days ago
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Murshed Zaheed
21 days ago
Indeed Trump is not just the President and the Speaker (and the Senate Majority Leader)… given his win rate via shadow docket he is arguably the de facto Chief Justice too.
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about 1 month ago
One of my many, many questions about America in 2025 is how long it will take for people to realize they’re on the wrong side of history
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When is the media going to stop the detailed reporting on the Emperor's beautiful new clothes, or the Emperor's purported set of new clothes, or the Emperor's "ostensible" or "claimed" new suit of clothes, and simply report that THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES?
about 1 month ago
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... and Rep. Cliff Bentz said this wouldn't be happening.
about 2 months ago
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Muriel The Poet passes along every penny I send her way. Literacy and heath are high on her list of priorities. Her current project is back-to-school kits for Haitian children in need. It's easy to send a few bucks her way with PayPal. Every penny goes to where it's needed. Please do what you can.
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2 months ago
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This does not sit well when fires are burning nearby.
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3 months ago
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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️
3 months ago
🚨 How much more will ~162,000
#OREGON
residents have to pay if Republicans let the improved ACA subsidies expire?
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
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How much more will ~162,000 OREGON residents pay if the improved #ACA subsidies expire? (updated)
Originally posted 1/03/25 Oregon has around ~140,000 residents enrolled in ACA exchange plans, 80% of whom are currently subsidized. I estimate they also have another ~34,000 unsubsidized off-exchange...
https://acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-expiration/or
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Every day another Trump outrage. Every day another active shooter event.
3 months ago
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This is me. I get along with the neighbors.
4 months ago
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Cliff Bentz, shame on you! You've stiffed 26.3% of your constituents. The ones you screwed with your vote are the most likely to be diehard MAGAs. Those dual enrolees, whose Medicare premiums are paid by Medicaid, are going to be especially surprised if they get cut off.
acasignups.net/piecharts
4 months ago
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The real scandal is how long the Epstein gang (of all political persuasions) got away with it. Some are still getting away with it. I'd sure like to know who all used their money and power to victimize the young and powerless.
4 months ago
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Chaotic policy is affecting our standing with other countries.
4 months ago
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There's usually an excuse for higher energy prices: belligerence, or natural disaster in an energy-producing region, etc. But this is the first administration I've seen that doesn't at least attempt some defensive moves. This is self inflicted. A forced error due to poor vision and management.
4 months ago
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It should NOT be "political" to say "everyone is welcome here."
www.eastidahonews.com/2025/07/atto...
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Attorney general: 'Everyone is Welcome Here' sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools - East Idaho News
BOISE (Idaho Ed News) — The “Everyone is Welcome Here” sign that sparked a viral nationwide controversy can no longer be displayed in Idaho schools, according to an Idaho attorney general’s office opi...
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2025/07/attorney-general-everyone-is-welcome-here-sign-cannot-be-displayed-in-idaho-schools/
5 months ago
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Your national parks are not OK.
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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Crater Lake superintendent resigns, citing staff shortages
Since he started at Crater Lake in January, Kevin Heatley has seen Crater Lake’s permanent workforce cut in half, and onboarding seasonal staff was delayed by a month. "Things are not OK," he said.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/06/02/crater-lake-national-park-superintendent-kevin-heatley-staff-shortages/
6 months ago
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“This is the problem of this kind of autocratic regime — the people who stay there are kind of hostages,” she said. “That is the fear of being there. You don’t know what will happen. You don’t know if they will come for you or they won’t.” - Ksenia Petrova
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/science/russian-scientist-ice-detained-harvard.html
7 months ago
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He revels in personal power. All his moves are designed to enhance that one thing. Doesn't matter which way you vote(d), you are the fuel for this fire.
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7 months ago
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They said "You're a conspiracy theorist, you're worried about something that isn't going to happen."
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7 months ago
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I guess the cruelty *is* the point.
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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PHOTOS: Hundreds of HHS employees wait in a line stretching around the building to find out if their job is gone
One staffer waiting in line loudly joked: “Is this an April Fool’s joke?”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/photos-hundreds-of-hhs-employees-wait-in-a-line-stretching-around-the-building-to-find-out-if-their-job-is-gone
8 months ago
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In my Red district, R voters are absolutely sure they will be protected. They have no idea how vulnerable they are.
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8 months ago
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In my Red district, R voters are absolutely sure they will be protected. They have no idea how vulnerable they are.
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8 months ago
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I'm seeing a lot of clickbait articles about impending volcano eruptions. Couple of them (Adams and Seamount) are fairly near me, but hardly likely to erupt or, if one does, not likely to provide any disruption. Can anyone say "distraction?"
8 months ago
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Cliff Bentz, you spineless fraud! Only 28.3% of your constituents have insurance provided by their employment (mostly federal employees many of who've already lost their jobs). Almost 40% are on Medicaid. And you have SOLD THEM OUT, you heartless creep! I'm ashamed to have you as my Rep.
8 months ago
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"...there is no point in Democrats voting to fund the government only to let Trump and Musk do whatever they see fit with those funds." - Robert Reich (and me, and a hundred million other people). VOTE NO.
8 months ago
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Oh, yeah! Me too.
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8 months ago
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"If Donald Trump can override our elected officials’ control of the purse strings, we are effectively entering a period of taxation without representation." - from the facebook group Living Off Grid, Really!?!?
9 months ago
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What's going to happen to the stock market when Social Security checks don't arrive, and those who have investments contact their brokers and ask for some money to live on?
9 months ago
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When I was in grade school, everyone said if I somehow acted differently (stronger, sharper-witted, not as vulnerable), those bullies would leave me alone.
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...
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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/
9 months ago
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Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, said on social media that the job cuts “are spectacularly short-sighted, and ultimately will deal a major self-inflicted wound to the public safety of Americans and the resiliency of the American economy to weather and climate-related disasters.”
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Fury erupts over Trump’s firings of National Weather Service, NOAA staff
NOAA — which includes the National Hurricane Center and the Tsunami Warning Center — is the latest in a string of federal agencies targeted for cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2025/02/fury-erupts-over-trumps-firings-of-national-weather-service-noaa-staff.html
9 months ago
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Cliff Bentz: "If Oregonians are kicked off the plan, it's because they don't deserve to be on it." He thinks they only get kicked off if they are participating fraudulently, or for reasons that have nothing to do with the original goals of the program. Nothing at all to do with funding.
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Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz on US House budget resolution that would mean hundreds of billions of Medicaid cuts
Rep. Bentz joins us to talk about his vote and how he’s approaching his job at this political moment.
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/02/26/cliff-bentz-medicaid-cuts-vote-think-out-loud-interview/
9 months ago
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I wonder how many in eastern Oregon know that the Oregon Health Plan *is* Medicaid. Full disclosure: I was on it for two years. I'd had no health insurance for the previous 20 years. I worked, but insurance would have taken half my paycheck (not health care, just the insurance).
9 months ago
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I guess what MAGAs voted for (whether they knew it or not) is for AI to make decisions about how much they owe in taxes, the quality of education their kids are eligible for, if they can get healthcare, when they can retire, and how much they get in Social Security. I know I'm missing stuff here...
9 months ago
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The Poet is right on, as usual.
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9 months ago
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Buckle up, we are going to see the effects of unintended consequences at work. Don't be too hard on yourself for not being able to foresee everything that's going to affect you. Try to prepare as well as you can manage, and please be kind and helpful to each other.
9 months ago
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I live in one of the Red regions that the cuts will hurt the most. Folks here have no idea how dependent they are on the Fed Gov't. They will continue to support this agenda even as it kills them.
9 months ago
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I know there are some who didn’t vote for Kamala because they were concerned about the people of Gaza. How’s that going for you now?
9 months ago
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This page is still here. Got myself a screenshot, in case this info disappears.
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...
10 months ago
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I realize the President can do no wrong since the Supreme Court decision, but can his unelected and unapproved minions act with the same legal immunity?
10 months ago
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I went visiting in CA, and I brought back an unwelcome companion. A lot of people there had “a bronchial thing” that was going around but on my return I tested positive for Covid. Are they in denial? Don’t they have Covid tests there?
10 months ago
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If the secret to happiness is having *enough* that means I have something that those in power today do not, and never will.
10 months ago
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Posting this just so I (and everyone else) can remember, later.
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10 months ago
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Get out the popcorn! We don't have much to enjoy about the incoming administration, but I'll take it where I can get it.
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10 months ago
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Sarah Longwell
10 months ago
Which kind of MAGA are you? Are you “China is bad” MAGA or “Give me my Chinese spyware” MAGA? Are you “immigrants are bad” MAGA or “we need more immigrants in our tech sector” MAGA? Are you “cut taxes” MAGA or “don’t touch entitlements” MAGA?
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This article isn't perfect, but it's a good start. "Managing vegetation can no longer be an afterthought for Southern California. Healthy ecosystems hold water in soils, cool the environment and provide countless benefits ...the actual work takes boots on the ground."
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Is It Time to Rake the Forests Yet?
Prepping our forests for fire
https://biocharprepper.substack.com/p/is-it-time-to-rake-the-forests-yet
10 months ago
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Friend: "I'd be OK if the flags were at half-mast for the next four years."
10 months ago
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I had two lattes today (don't judge me. Yesterday was hard, and tomorrow is going to be even harder). Neither was hot enough to be truly satisfying. Is this some kind of a trend?
10 months ago
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