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"It's not that I'm afraid of dying, it's just that I'd rather not be around when it happens." (Me!) Writer, filmmaker, poetry. SF/Humor/Litfic. Minneapolis https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004K6HQNY https://www.youtube.com/@kwolfbrooks
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See which of YOUR public lands congress wants to sell off to the rich www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Melissa Hortman just days before her tragic assasination

It's hard to understate how important Representative & former Speaker Hortman was to Minnesota politics - she was probably the most prominent woman politician & integral to the recent budget deal. She was also incredibly kind and a real person - Kiernan sold her girl scout cookies. It's horrifying.

Here's the shooter: Vance Boelter

The year of hate, blood, and tears.

This chart @pbump.com crated for his @washingtonpost.com newsletter today really illustrates the responsibility—the guilt—of Rupert Murdoch and bad-faith alternative-facts Fox News for getting and keeping us in our current mess. More impact than any single U.S. news media enterprise has ever had.

Hmm.... :-(

Mamdani is now ahead of Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic NYC mayoral primary, a new poll found.

Sometimes this means that when you leave the house you need to stop for a second and ask yourself, "am I planning to do crimes today?" and take appropriate precautions if the answer is, in fact, yes.

awesome... but I'm thinking more like $3K

Spectral colours of meteors based on their elemental composition #colours #colors #meteors #elements #spectrum

One reason ICE agents are masking as they kidnap people is that they are using illegal face recognition to identify targets and they know how powerful it is www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I graduated middle of my class, I don’t need this shit.

Pure horror www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations.

It's amazing this still needs to be said in 2025 but here we are. The real estate industry has spent shedloads of money on PR that tries to convince you that market supply will fix your housing problem. But it won't "The supply & demand myth of housing" canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... #bcpoli

The Rules Committee is working in the dead of night to pass a tax bill that benefits billionaires and totally screws over working families and the Middle Class. That’s why I announced my candidacy today, to retire politicians who serve money not people. Join us: secure.actblue.com/donate/randy...

This year set the 2nd lowest annual maximum (boreal winter) #Arctic sea-ice volume on record in the PIOMAS data set. This follows "ice extent" reaching a new lowest annual maximum in 2025. Not a good winter for sea ice! Compare the annual maximum and minimum at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Study Finds Growing Gap Between America's Rich and Super-Rich

The Laureate’s Curse #poetry ...Awarded with that heavy wreath words return to fen and heath escaped from tongue and poet. 'Tis the laureate’s curse: to be draw to fame, and away from verse.

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊