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Environmental scientist (mostly retired) in central coastal CA focused on wetlands, watershed ecology, stream restoration and soil science. I love a good topo map. Scuba diver, sea kayaker, wannabebetter photographer, nature and animal lover in general.
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Since I didn't post this here before, an important story from @ktoropin.bsky.social over the summer on the safeguards, or lack thereof, around potentially illegal orders www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

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Donald Trump’s firing of military leaders — four-star General Brown and four-star Admiral Franchetti — along with top legal officers is a betrayal of legions of first rate service members who dedicate their lives to our nation’s defense. This is a growing national security risk.

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Hundreds of VA researchers are set to be terminated in the coming months. VA research has brought the world things like nicotine patches, cardiac pacemakers It’s one of the world’s largest medial research hubs. (Via @josheidelson.bsky.social + Sophie Alexander) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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@bsky.app What are the chances of getting a "Journalists on Bluesky sans sports" feed?😁

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"In our experiment, Grok-3 identified the correct source article only 21 % of the time, answered prompts correctly only 5 out of 200 times, and never declined to answer. It frequently returned citations that looked genuine but were in fact broken or fabricated links" www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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#MuskTakeover

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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'Rewriting History' is an overused phrase. Often it is used to simply devalue a differing perspective... But we all watched this happen. Trump watched this happen. In this case 'rewriting History' is entirely appropriate, as is 'rewriting the present'. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/20/p...

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Perfect cover!🤣😂🤣

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Legislation that I passed and was funded by Congress, Solar for All, could reduce electric bills for working class families by 80%. The Trump Admin is refusing to release the money in order to protect the profits of fossil fuel billionaires. Unacceptable. Release the funds NOW.

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Based on the pro-asteroid comments on this article, there's a lot of "please put us out of our misery" sentiment out there.😄😳 #asteroid

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A DOGE tip line for reporting on acts that harm and fail to respect veterans. votevets.org/doge-tipline

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NEW: Georgia’s governor promotes his Medicaid work requirement as a national model for reform. Yet the program has cost taxpayers $86M, three-quarters of which has gone to consultants, and enrolled less than 3% of the quarter-million Georgians eligible.

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Now is the time for our citizenry to fight for our federal workers and national programs. Let’s stand up to the power-mad autocrats, plutocrats and theocrats attacking democracy—at home and abroad. I spoke with @briantylercohen.bsky.social about our historic assignment today.

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This is so bad. #Ukraine

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Trump is blacklisting a news outlet for using a name he doesn't like. It's that simple. So why aren't more reporters and media outlets speaking out more vehemently to help The AP? In part, I'm told, it's because the WH Correspondents' Association is trying to work out a solution behind the scenes.

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4 inches *per week* is a lot of movement for a house/road/plumbing! But fun to see an article about CA geology/geomorphology in the NYT. (Tho glad I don't live in Palos Verdes) #geosciences #geography #California

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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#MuskTakeover #Agriculture #BirdFlu

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😳😳😳 "Over half (51%) of the AI answers had contained “significant issues of some form,” 19% of answers “introduced factual errors..." and “13% of the quotes sourced from BBC articles were either altered from the original source or not present in the article cited.”

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No one in Republican world seems to have a lot of curiosity about why Musk needs people’s personal data to engage in government cost cutting

submitted 4 days ago • 141 comments

Done *without* Musk or DOGE: "The money was reclaimed as part of a five-month pilot program after Congress gave the Department of Treasury temporary access to the Social Security Administration ’s “Full Death Master File” for three years as part of the omnibus appropriations bill in 2021."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Because...kindred spirits?

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