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park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, telling stories about America's public lands. EMT, unrepentant Draymond stan, wildfire PIO, erstwhile racing flack, forever believing in the better angels of our nature. opinions are mine. 🏳️‍🌈
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Something a lot of people on the American left don't really want to reckon with: many Western European nations have as many, or more, police per capita than we do. For example, Spain (run by the PSOE!) has 522 officers per 100,000 people - almost 20% more than the United States.

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

the dipshit who owns the bird site fired three of my people to beat his chest about "saving money" and further aggrandize his own Greenland-sized ego. I wouldn't go back if you paid me a billion dollars.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

submitted 3 hours ago • 68 comments

We’ve lionized “disruptors” for too long rather than celebrating people who put their heads down and do hard but necessary work. Becoming an expert in your field and working out how to make iterative/evolutionary gains over the course of your career isn’t splashy but it’s how progress is made.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

there are two types of people who worked for DOGE: malicious wreckers who wanted to destroy government, and credulous dipshits who understand nothing about government. both of them should be ruthlessly mocked and permanently shunned.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Three quarters of a trillion dollar budget, but they're beggaring barracks to pay for the border? This is why screaming about rapidly expanding defense budgets now gives me the shudders. It will be profoundly wasted in large part.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

the "suckers and losers" who fight our country's wars can't even get a place to sleep that doesn't leak, but what we really need is another tax cut for millionaires.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

told y’all. some UNBELIEVABLE clown shit. 🤡🤡🤡

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

GEN George “struggled to endorse the transfer of $ from barracks to the border &conceded that maintenance of living qrtrs for jnr enlisted troops will likely take a hit.‘Obviously, redirecting has an impact—…If we took $1B out of barracks, we'd be able to fix less barracks’ @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

It could not be more obvious what is happening if they hired sky writers.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

One after another access journalist is reporting a convo with Trump where Trump says Musk has a problem. None asked why Trump let him have unfettered access to the govt, and our data, for the last four months, then. And what he'll do to make sure Musk didn't do permanent damage.

submitted 1 day ago • 70 comments

Sure, he’s polling at 18% favorability, has no impulse control, is actively working to dismantle the government, and at times over the last year lashed out at Jews, black people, and trans people. But what if he was working for us?

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

The Times is a big paper. There are many thoughtful writers there doing really good work. Unfortunately most of your subscription goes to paying for the people who soft-focus nazi pedophiles or write op-eds titled “I Personally Respect Trans People, Just A Little Less Than Dogs.” Cancel your sub

submitted 21 hours ago • 31 comments

Who fired or forced out hundreds of thousands of government employees whom he declared had "low productivity jobs", gutting government services and destroying the lives of hard-working Americans?

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

Even if the Musk-Trump feud is permanent, he will have already done incalculable damage to federal programs, workers and civilians. But it's even worse than that—he's installed a framework and a logic that will *continue* to tear apart the federal government. Musk's job has already been automated.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

not sure how to handicap the chances of a related riot but it’s not zero

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

RETVRN and embrace Thompson Ramo Wooldridge thought. "Give us tons of money and we'll build really neat space stuff with no ideological baggage" sounds like a solid plan right about now.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Generated alternative views in its best moments” is just a braindead way to think about expertise

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I've covered the President's FY 2026 Budget earlier, but this afternoon I spent some time looking at the specifics of the Interior Department's own 2026 Budget. This is where all the details relevant to the National Park Service are listed. Once again, it's not pretty. #nationalparks #parkchat

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

oh my god

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RIP NBA on TNT

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

An early Father's Day dinner with the man responsible for instilling in me a love and respect for our public lands - and the Great Basin in particular.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If you go through Escalante Country without having dinner at Hell's Backbone, what are you even doing with your life?

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments