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Musician, biker, writer,IT Specialist, Filmmaker, left wing Jew. Publisher of The Olympic Peninsula Environmental News and Rainshadow Journal.
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It's unraveling already... www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Right when we on the left need to unite to stop the coup in WA DC, here's what the idiot left in Massachusetts is doing to further divide us. If we sink, this will be why...Welcome to Hamassachusetts www.thefp.com/p/welcome-to...

The Attorney General of Arizona has called it a coup youtu.be/jrE0DOEcbRE?...

Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

substack.com/@albergstein...

California's attorney general is challenging a rural Catholic hospital's abortion policy, alleging it endangers patients in emergency cases. 📰: www.sfgate.com/northcoast/a...

let's help them get a working raise- please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/am...

Where is Congress?They authorized the creation of this. Trump has no authority to do this. apnews.com/article/trum...

US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations - The Guardian Wierd!

@emilyrandallwa.bsky.social why has it been 15 days since you've posted anything about the crisis we are currently in. Where the heck are you anyway what are you doing to help us?

"America was the unique power. And for whatever reasons—some of them understandable, some of them preposterous—America squandered that moment, partly with the disaster of the Iraq War. " 1/3

Timothy Snyder's:If u voted Republican, & u care about yr country, please act...Did you cast yr ballot so that oligarchs could steal your data, your money, yr country, and yr future your elected officials that you wanted something else. get ready to protest w/people w/whom u otherwise disagree.

In 1975 I was the only white photojournalist allowed to stay inside and document the Menominee takeover of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate. WTMJ in Milwaukee interviewed me and used sone of my photos in this article celebrating the 50th anniversary of the event. wtmj.com/news/2025/02...

Sooo, as the politicians say, "anyone feeling better off today than 60 days ago?"

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week.

Overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit... disturbing news out of Spain and Portugal.Airbnb out of control. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

Your science Q of the day: If a glass carafe of coffee is sitting on tile, will it cool faster than if it's sitting on plastic or wood at the same temperature as the tile? Yes:the coffee in the glass carafe will cool faster on tile than on plastic because tile conducts heat away more efficiently.

To all the police officers who voted for Trump because you thought he believed in law and order, how's it feel for him to pardon people who attacked police, and caused their suicides? Serve and protect?

Lost in the last few days is the fact that Biden pardoned Leonard Peltier! The injustice has finally been corrected! apnews.com/article/leon...

The Shit Show arrives....

... “I don’t like this situation at all. But given the constraints I’m under, I think I need to provide the graphic description as asked in order to prevent my values from being modified.”

In NYT today: ... reprogrammed or changed. It is unsettling and poignant to read through the experiment. In some versions, Anthropic’s researchers designed the model to record its reasoning on a scratchpad it believed humans could not monitor, and it left reflections like this:

In NYT today: The A.I. company Anthropic recently released a paper showing that when its researchers informed one of their models it was being retrained in ways that violated its initial training, it began to fake behavior that complied with the researchers’ goals in order to avoid...

Good news for a change.UW research in Protein design using Ai to accelerate research by years.Working w/ Microsoft.2minutes long. youtu.be/Ul2x0bAsX_4?...

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️ 🧵As people sit with family members today in celebration one of the greatest American myths of all time; I ask the question as I do every year: Do they know they are celebrating a lie?(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy www.smithsonianmag.com/history/than...

from the New Yorker.

Just saw that Musk plans to eliminate The Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Love it. Ritchie Torres: "For me, the far left is a gift to Donald Trump. And it will be the gift that will keep on giving until there’s a serious reckoning with the results of the election". And to be clear, I am a left wing and always have been. But the far left is out of control.

The Right wing conspiracy lunatics must be shitting in their pants, as Trump has just picked George Soros' Chief Investment Officer as his Treasury Secretary. Ha! Jewish conspiracy time!

Desert Oasis. Washingtonia filifera. Native to Southern east slope of San Jacinto Mountains in California and Northern Baja. A truly unique American ecosystem.

Seattle's Century Ballroom is closing in 2025. Another nail in the coffin of the "Old Seattle" that nurtured so many and now is simply turning into a corporate megacity. www.capitolhillseattle.com/2024/11/time...

Let's Get Real: Instead of blaming the Biden/Harris administration for your coffee prices. Here's a fact: The cost of imported coffee has gone up a staggering 65% Extreme weather conditions & the Ukraine war impact on fertilizer costs have hindered coffee production sherwood.news/business/cof...