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Skier. Bad surfer. Fascinated by rocks, evolution and deep time. I respect the law. No one, including presidents, should be above it. I lean left. MN born and raised. PNW these days. I live between two stratovolcanoes.
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It's a mighty big ask — but it'll burn Trump in the hell he's made

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 19 days ago • 856 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. This is major news. Judges discuss moving the U.S. marshals from the executive to the judicial branch. Not only would they protect judges from trump threats, but it would also make it easier for courts to order marshals to carry out court orders.

submitted 28 days ago • 441 comments

Hope Core

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

I hope we’ll se more of Billy with Dylan. Billy Strings on Bob Dylan's "Senor" 7/23/23 Essex Junction, VT youtu.be/LTXuJ4FKVLE?...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Great stuff! Billy Strings - Tangled Up In Blue ( Bob Dylan Cover ) Savannah GA 4/12/... youtu.be/e_hu46s8tpQ?...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

It’s kind of fucked up we made it to the moon yet we still don’t have equal rights.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday night urged the legal profession to toughen up. "If you’re not used to fighting, and losing battles, then don’t become a lawyer," she said. Her remarks came against the backdrop of immense stress on lawyers from the Trump administration.

submitted 44 days ago • 49 comments

If you’re wondering why young people are trending right it’s because youth orgs on the left are struggling to keep the lights on meanwhile TurningPoint and Charlie Kirk have enough money to waste on events in schools that vote 80% Democratic.

submitted 47 days ago • 158 comments

A couple weeks ago, I wrote that the MAHA movement does not want to eliminate chronic illness- it wants to eliminate the chronically ill. Since then, RFK Jr’s actions and statements have only reinforced my belief that his HHS will target disabled and sick ppl. www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

submitted 54 days ago • 83 comments

This is great news!

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submitted 56 days ago • 57 comments

Mark Carney on Pierre Poilievre's platform: "These numbers are a joke."

submitted 60 days ago • 35 comments

Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"

submitted 60 days ago • 874 comments

Important and disturbing. Deserves a lot of media coverage.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

submitted 69 days ago • 1612 comments

Infographic showing global monthly temperature anomalies by year compared to the pre-industrial period 1850-1900, in °C / AFP / Ioana PLESEA AND Julie PEREIRA

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

When this is over, no forgiveness for those involved. There will be trials. There will be consequences. 😡😡😡

submitted 76 days ago • 348 comments

I’ve seen a lot of comments on Twitter from the low forehead crowd about how great a market crash is, but I just sent out letters to 11 girls whose families live below the poverty level, telling them we had to withdraw their scholarships because our endowment lost millions because of Donald Trump.

submitted 76 days ago • 104 comments

Tomorrow will be an awful experience to go through but it’s important to know that the days to come after tomorrow will actually be much worse.

submitted 76 days ago • 109 comments

Finally starting There is No Place for Us by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social and hoooooooly moly this statistic. I was unaware the average wage for this many people was this low.

submitted 77 days ago • 7 comments

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

submitted 77 days ago • 1723 comments

Obama: Imagine if I had done any of this. Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials. Imagine if I had said to law firms that you will not be allowed into government buildings. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me

submitted 78 days ago • 424 comments

America is tanking, trust the process.

submitted 80 days ago • 135 comments

Another large law firm capitulates. Absolutely shameful. These firms are helping Trump destroy the rule of law and democracy. If Willkie Farr & Gallagher won't defend itself, why on earth would any client trust it to defend the client?

submitted 81 days ago • 519 comments

🔥 country singer Bryan Andrews is out here making a lot of sense

submitted 81 days ago • 67 comments

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

submitted 83 days ago • 282 comments

FWIW, anybody doing this on Musk's behalf is committing a crime too and anybody who has first hand knowledge should tell the DA and/or AG.

submitted 84 days ago • 20 comments

@scholten.house.gov Nice job! Happy. More. Please.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

submitted 86 days ago • 792 comments

Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

submitted 86 days ago • 2366 comments

Canadians have long been the top international travelers to the U.S. Now, infuriated by annexation talk, they are staying home.

submitted 89 days ago • 21 comments

I hate to break this news to Schumer, but if Repub Senators won’t strongly condemn & investigate such a blatant breach of national security at the highest levels during the first military action taken by the Trump Admin, they aren’t going to rebel when they defy court orders.

submitted 89 days ago • 199 comments

Sen. Chris Coons: "Every single one of the government officials on this text chain have now committed a crime – even if accidentally."

submitted 90 days ago • 193 comments

🇬🇱 🇬🇱

submitted 90 days ago • 763 comments

Bernie - 'If billionaires can lose hundreds of billions from bad business moves and not even flinch, they can afford to pay taxes without blinking too.' Nail. Head. HIT.

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

I've cossed more international borders than most, been through checkpoints and searches and have trained human rights activists, journalists and others in staying safe in repressive regimes. In the past few days I've provided some friends with travel advice for no particular reason; here's a thread:

submitted 93 days ago • 66 comments

NONE of this is normal

submitted 92 days ago • 1767 comments

Trump at a rally -- Elon Musk rigged the election for me CNN -- crickets NY Times -- crickets Washington Post -- crickets The mainstream media has already given up and died

submitted 153 days ago • 274 comments

🚨THIS IS AMAZING: An incredible crowd showed up to see Rep. AOC in Greeley, Colorado where Republican Gabe Evans is hiding from his constituents. MAGA doesn't believe this is happening. Make sure everyone sees this.

submitted 92 days ago • 41 comments

They're not even trying to hide it anymore. They're coming for Social Security.

submitted 92 days ago • 182 comments

80-year-old, starving to death: money? for food please? lutnick: avast, grifter! defense contractor who met Peter Thiel once and makes AI bazookas that shoot stray dogs on sight: I need $10 billion... for reasons lutnick: say less sir, yes sir, right this way sir

submitted 92 days ago • 60 comments

The French defence industry builds to a war footing: Increased defence spending having an effect on companies converting from declining sectors like automobiles

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

ICE detained Julio Noriega, a 54 year-old US citizen who was born in Chicago, for over 10 hours on January 31st. He was walking around "Berwyn, Illinois, handing out his resume to local businesses." They didn't show him a warrant. They didn't give him paperwork. And he's now suing.

submitted 95 days ago • 1395 comments

‘It’s a history lesson’: fossil fish up to 16m years old found perfectly preserved in central NSW

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments