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Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related fatalities in the United States. Last year, 16 people died in California due to extreme heat. These are often undercounts. With triple-digit temperatures returning to the West this week, now is the time to prepare. Learn more here: www.heat.gov

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Probably time to stop widening freeways. #orleg www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

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If you drive drunk and your negligence kills someone, you will likely be sentenced to years in prison. If you are a Boeing executive and your negligence kills 346 people, you likely will not receive any punishment at all. In America, we don't treat white collar crimes as crimes.

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The City Let Anti-LGBTQ Religious Zealots Take Over Cal Anderson Police Arrested 23 Counterprotesters, and the Far-Right Extremists Are Playing the Victim

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More than 32,000 low-paid AmeriCorps service workers were terminated in a sweeping budget cut last month that gutted the national service program. The April 25 move was one of the biggest government cutbacks since the Trump administration took office, but went largely unnoticed. Here’s why:

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in addition to being stupid and existentially depraved, llms are organized crime

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It’s strange to watch Americans memorialize soldiers who died for democracy whilst they giddily embrace fascism.

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We bought a used Chevy Bolt EUV in March and it has made the drudgery of driving and car ownership much more pleasant, but it is still a car. I much prefer to be on one of my bikes.

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#EVs are inevitable. They will replace ICEs because they're simply a far better technology. The GOP will just kill the US auto industry. Other auto cos are already innovating fast. The GOP action just benefits oil companies, who continue to kill us with #climatechange. insideevs.com/news/760459/...

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ICE is essentially using a trick to arrest people who are showing up for their civil court asylum hearings. Trump isn’t going after the “worst of the worst.” He’s targeting people who are following the rules. www.kuow.org/stories/ice-...

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The GOP strategy of Make America Dumb Again won’t serve us well. But it will serve the wealthy who plan to extract more resources from the rest of us. Parasites.

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Last Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol arrested 42-year-old Washington State resident Max Londonio at the SeaTac Airport as he was returning from a vacation with his family in the Philippines. Londonio is the second Filipino-American permanent resident to be detained at SeaTac since February.

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Around 80,000,000 people in the US are on Medicaid. Many don't even realize it because it's called something different in every state: KanCare MassHealth MedQuest Apple Health These cuts will: A. Plunge states into deficit B. Force states to slash enrollment C. Likely, both of the above

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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

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i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

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It was a colorful night in Tacoma after our run.

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When Trump is gone someday, the spell will be broken, and the people who supported him the whole time, will suddenly claim to have never supported him.

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Sen. Chris Murphy to NBC on Democratic opposition to the GOP mega-bill: "What we're standing in the way of is the most massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich in the history of the country."

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60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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Venus’ crust is thinner than expected, given the planet’s lack of plate tectonics. It looks as though the crust can only get so thick before the lowest parts break off and melt into the mantle 🧪🔭 science.nasa.gov/science-rese...

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Secretary of State Steve Hobbs is preparing to lay off nearly 50 Washington State Library employees due to a decline in state and federal funding. #waleg washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/05/13/m...

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Trump calls program to help low-income Americans pay their energy bills ‘unnecessary’. First, the administration laid off all of the program's staffers. Now the White House is proposing cutting its funding. grist.org/energy/trump... #Trump #Climate #Bills #LowIncome #Energy #Heat #AC

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for nine days. What the HELL? 1/

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Both exactly right. Total Trump surrender of his own boneheaded tariff disaster. The US is a global embarrassment.

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We continue to live in the dumbest possible time. By all means, let’s celebrate a 90-day reprieve from the trade war we started. Look at us go! </sarcasm>

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The fact that a standard Dutch bike almost always comes with fenders and, quite often, lights and even a wheel lock goes a long way toward normalizing cycling as a form of transportation for everyone.

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cc: Everyone who didn't vote for Kamala Harris.

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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” Via @grist.org grist.org/biking/one-m...

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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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To say legacy media is not built for this moment is a gross understatement. The people destroying this country are being treated with respect.

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A BICYCLE WEATHER ALERT HAS BEEN ISSUED TO SEATTLE AREA BIKE LANES AND TRAILS. ALL RESIDENTS ARE ADVISED TO TAKE ACTION IMMEDIATELY. RIDE A BICYCLE TO THE NEAREST BIKE LANE OR TRAIL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

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I just think it’s funny that the president thinks making everything more expensive will be no big deal in a nation that exists because its ancestors overthrew their government rather than pay an extra tax on tea

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Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy. In California's water-stressed Central Valley, farmers are fallowing land and installing solar, providing financial stability and saving water. grist.org/climate-ener... #California #Solar #Energy #Farms #Farmers #Water

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New study❗: Almost three million children face the threat of eviction every year. How does losing their homes impact their school performance? Our researchers explored this challenge. A thread of the main takeaways here 🧵: evictionlab.org/eviction-and...

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People are dying in Trump’s concentration camps

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All of these “first 100 days” stories in America miss a key point: why would Trump care what voters think about him? He should never face another election. I am sure polls bother his ego, but the idea that low poll numbers threaten him is laughable.

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