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Another Landscape Photographer out west ( 2005 )
Itâs wild how many drivers plow through this stuff not appreciating that itâs salt water.
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Alex Spahn đđŞď¸âď¸
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Fantastic lightning display across the entire horizon.
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The Tennessee Holler
about 2 months ago
WATCH: âWE WILL NOT GO BACK⌠today is the day we see if multiracial democracy dies in Tennessee and across the South.â Powerful â ryan camp followed Rep.
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the day Republicans stripped Memphis of representation. đĽ
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High Country News
2 months ago
The agencyâs leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales, shares Public Domain.
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Interior Department crafted talking points for public lands sell-off agenda - High Country News
The agencyâs leadership distanced itself from the controversial proposal even though staff helped research public-land sales.
https://buff.ly/I84qBYr
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More Perfect Union
3 months ago
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to âJust turn around and not look. Letâs get back to work," according to
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âEveryone is Replaceableâ: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazonâs Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/everyone-is-replaceable-death-rattles
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Marc Elias
3 months ago
Hey media-- Pam Bondi is not a victim -- she willingly carried out Trump's political agenda to prosecute his political enemies and undermine free and fair elections. Todd Blache is not shouldering a "burden" or "walking a tightrope." He is a willing accomplice. Language matters.
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Dakota Smith
3 months ago
A zoomed-in view that's just remarkable.
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Jenny Cohn
3 months ago
My 8-point article re: the âSave America Actâ, which wld nationalize voter purges via a centralized computer system overhauled by DOGE in collaboration w/ SSA whose databases have allegedly been compromised by DOGE. The bill also makes it hard to prove youâre a citizen if the system flags you.
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I read the Trump-backed âSave America Actâ so you donât have to. Here is my 8-point summary.
Most of the media apparently *hasnât* read the Act because, if they had, they would sound the alarm about Point 1, below
https://jennycohn1.medium.com/i-read-the-trump-backed-save-america-act-so-you-dont-have-to-here-is-my-8-point-summary-0cac998e6415
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Irony dies a thousand deaths
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Lincoln Square
4 months ago
What you need to know to stay safe out there on social media. Read the latest from Frank Figliuzzi for Lincoln Square:
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
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Hate ICE? Social Media Companies Will Snitch on You.
What you need to know to stay safe out there.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lincolnsquare/p/hate-ice-social-media-companies-will
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Blue-sky still not as good as Twitter was in this regard. Daniel was the only person in my feed talking about this - if your feed is full of info about this event let me know. I am still not following enough of the right people.
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High Country News
4 months ago
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Betty Reid Soskin, who taught about the Black experience during WWII at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. At 104, she was the oldest ranger serving at the NPS.
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Unique Westerners inspire HCN - High Country News
Thank-yous, farewells and forthcoming welcomes to the people who keep the organization going.
https://buff.ly/CN98HEG
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The Tennessee Holler
5 months ago
From
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: âFederal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state â many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship⌠DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal proceduresâŚâđ¤
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Spoiler: all but a few Dâs and Iâs take the money.
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Jenny Cohn
5 months ago
ââWhat Oligarchy Looks Likeâ: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms *** The goal of the PAC is to elect a Congress that will prohibit individual states from passing their own AI regulations.â 2/11/26 ⌠1/
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âWhat Oligarchy Looks Likeâ: AI Giants Pledge to Pump $100 Million Into 2026 Midterms | Common Dreams
Silicon Valley elites plan to spend big in 2026 to influence Congress for AI-friendly legislation. Leading the Future PAC pledges $100 million.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-super-pac-midterms
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Tim Onion
5 months ago
Once again, it turns out âfully autonomousâ means âa guy in the Philippines.â
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio PeĂąa, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines
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More Perfect Union
5 months ago
Republicansâ new tax law decreased Amazon's taxes 87%, while the corporate giant's profits grew. The companyâs U.S. taxes went $9 billion $1.2 billion. Amazon is also in the process of cutting 30,000 jobs.
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Bill Kristol
5 months ago
"And all of this is happening not after the great shocks of a depression or a world war, not at a time when the country was reeling from earth-shattering events...The rise of Trump came at a time of relative peace and prosperity. We have no excuse for having succumbed to the degree we already have."
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The Washington Post
5 months ago
Exclusive: Homeland Security has used whatâs known as an administrative subpoena, a legal tool that federal agencies can issue without an order from a judge or grand jury. Under President Trump, DHS has weaponized the tool to strangle free speech.
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/02/03/homeland-security-administrative-subpoena/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Chris Geidner
5 months ago
This entire answer from Mike Johnson â the speaker of the House and a lawyer â must be seen. It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).
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Media Matters for America
5 months ago
Tom Homan in August: ICE agents âneed a judicial warrant for a searchâ âŹď¸
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Marc Elias
5 months ago
It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after.
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs...
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DOJâs legal machinery to subvert the 2026 election is already in place
It is one thing to seize old ballots; it is quite another to imagine federal agents seizing ballots from county offices on election night or the day after.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dojs-legal-machinery-to-subvert-the-2026-election-is-already-in-place/
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The Atlantic
5 months ago
âThe Gilded Age saw an eruption of scandal and corruption that accompanied and even enabled the transformation of the American economy alongside explosive changes in technology,â Walter Russell Mead argues. âTrumpâs Washington looks like the Gilded Age on steroids.â
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The Rise of the Tech Hamiltonians
The political coalition that has formed under Trumpâs banner has the potential to reshape American politics.
https://bit.ly/4k8Cb6K
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The Bulwark
5 months ago
The harping about 2020 was never about the past. It was and is about the future: using a lie about a "stolen election" to actually steal elections.
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Trump Is Still Obsessed with Stealing Elections
The FBIâs seizure of Georgia ballots is as much about future elections as past ones.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/3M18gAX
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George Conway âď¸đşđ¸
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Jenny Cohn
5 months ago
Joel Berry, Managing Editor of the Babylon Bee, wrote this AM that: âIf we lose heart every time a feral Communist commits suicide by cop, our country isnât gonna make it *** Iâm so beyond letting my Christian compassion get weaponized by Leftist death-worshippersâŚâ (His âChristian compassionâ) 1/
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Jenny Cohn
5 months ago
I will never forgive the legacy media for failing to pick up where Heidi left off. Perhaps they were intimidated or fooled by what this network did to Heidi. Except what they did was the tell, ie, she was onto something big. Now some of the people in the same network are targeting Don Lemon.
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Andy Craig
5 months ago
"There are more of us than there are of them" is generally true under any government, but it is especially true in a country where the vast majority of police are state/local beyond federal commandeering, and federal agencies are built for elite specialization, not mass manpower occupying streets.
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A critical mass of our âessential workersâ in many industries, but especially healthcare, are immigrants.
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David Corn
5 months ago
This is what secret police do and repressive regimes.
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Joyce White Vance
5 months ago
âWe have a nice little database.â Two weeks ago I wrote about the risk of Trump using his NSPM-7 memo to treat citizens exercising their rights like terrorists. Now itâs a reality.
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Will Stancil
5 months ago
Opsec culture in activism legitimately needs to die
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Matthew Gertz
5 months ago
Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
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CREW
5 months ago
16 years ago, the Citizens United ruling set the stage for billionaires to take over our government. Now, under the Trump admin, corruption and self-enrichment are at an all-time highâleaving everyday Americans with less of a say in politics compared to the rich and powerful.
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Ryan J. Reilly âpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⌠disarrayâ
5 months ago
The pardons came about after the daughter of one of the defendants gave $2.5 million to MAGA Inc. on Dec. 31, 2024, and another $1 million donation in late July...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Trump pardon of former Puerto Rico governor failed to include a relevant criminal case
The White House said an additional document pardoning Wanda VĂĄzquez Garced will be signed out of an abundance of caution.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-pardon-former-puerto-rico-governor-relevant-docket-vazquez-rcna254677
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CĂĄnnonbol Ădderol â˝ď¸
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This was always their real flag
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Who Funds the Right
5 months ago
We have recently added ICE collaboration to our database tracking support for the right wing thanks to great work by 404 Media and the Nation. Will add this one as a source also.
whofundstheright.org
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Who Funds the Right
Your data source for information on which American companies donated to the right, sponsor right wing news, rolled back diversity, and have right wing ownership.
https://whofundstheright.org
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Joseph Cox
5 months ago
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet
www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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âELITEâ: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agencyâs activit...
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
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Zach Everson
6 months ago
âParliament had turned over its constitutional authority to Hitler and thereby committed suicide, though its body lingered on in an embalmed state.â Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 331)
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John Pfaff
6 months ago
ICEâs hiring process is even worse than expected (hiring ppl who donât even finish the paperwork, future-dating untaken med clearances, etc.). Which seems like something Dem candidates should jump on NOW. Like: âWe will claw back bonuses of anyone who shouldâve failed their background check.â
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ProPublica
6 months ago
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it â in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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ProPublica
6 months ago
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the centerâs patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wivesâ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
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âSlow Pay, Low Pay or No Payâ: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctorsâ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
https://www.propublica.org/article/blue-cross-blue-shield-louisiana-insurance-lawsuit-breast-cancer-doctors?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1768096806&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Laura G Mitchell
6 months ago
This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who donât have enough food & canât leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you
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Dennis Mersereau đ°ď¸
6 months ago
California hit 0.00% on the Drought Monitor this week for the first time in 25 years.
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California is drought-free for the first time in 25 years - The Weather Network
The state has seen significant precipitation from a series of atmospheric rivers since late last year
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/california-completely-drought-free-for-the-first-time-in-25-years
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Jenny Cohn
6 months ago
Everyone should read this one paragraph.
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David Kurtz
6 months ago
CBP agents shot and wounded a married couple this afternoon in a medical clinic parking lot in Portland, the Oregonian reports: "One was shot in the leg and the other in the chest, Portland police sources said." Police didn't have info on their conditions.
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...
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2 shot by federal immigration agents in Portland
Mayor Keith Wilson decried the shooting, saying "Portland is not a 'training ground' for militarized agents."
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/01/portland-police-responding-to-report-of-shooting-by-federal-immigration-agent.html
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