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Sheltie dad. Bird and wildlife photographer. Reader of books. Retired appellate lawyer. Central Coast of California.
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🦋 In Costa Rica’s protected #forests, ecologists are witnessing a quiet crisis: #insect populations are collapsing, even in areas untouched by pesticides. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateChange is now the main driver of #BiodiversityLoss—even in nature reserves.

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The rules that Trump’s EPA wants to eliminate are projected to save more than 30,000 lives and $275 billion every year. Relaxing the rules would mean millions more tons of pollutants, especially tiny airborne particles that can lodge in lungs and cause myriad health problems.

submitted 19 hours ago • 19 comments

Trump’s actions and his inactions would be the precise conduct of someone whose goal was to destroy our country. We need to face what that means.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

The Owens Valley is a special, beautiful place that has survived in spite of our best efforts to destroy it. A Canadian mining company wants to begin exploration for an open pit gold mine just off the 395. BLM is accepting public comment til 6/16. Please speak out. eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 12 days ago • 464 comments

I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.

submitted 17 days ago • 580 comments

@peterhartlaub.bsky.social I sense a story here. How about finding out why the Warriors are still on X and don't have a presence here. I miss seeing their feed.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Succinctly states where we are and what's happening. These three things, in addition to doing much else, are the sheet anchors of American wealth and power.

submitted 20 days ago • 58 comments

How fascism arrives: complicit courts make the illegal legal. The Supreme Court, without merits briefing, argument, or a reasoned opinion, has by a short order effectively overturned a 90-year precedent and has allowed Trump to remove protected agency heads. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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The Federal WaterSense® program that labels and promotes water-conserving devices has saved 8.7 trillion gallons of #water, 997 billion kWhrs of electricity, substantial #greenhousegas emissions, and $207 billion in water and #energy bills through 2023. Trump and the GOP are eliminating it.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump administration is attempting to weaken the Endangered Species Act with a proposal to narrow its definition of “harm.” But this ignores the reality that if we lost forests, wetlands and other habitats to industry, we’d also lose the wildlife that depend on them.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

GOP proposes surrendering future to China www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/c...

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

The GOP’s reconciliation bill is one of the worst environmental bills I’ve ever seen. It guts public input, silences tribal and community voices, slashes environmental protections, and hands sacred and public lands to the lowest bidder with no accountability.

submitted 32 days ago • 273 comments

Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science

submitted 34 days ago • 116 comments

Bald Eagle, Atascadero Lake, Atascadero, California. #raptors #birds 🪶

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Warriors need a miracle at this point. #warriors

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