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bendite.bsky.social
Oregon mom, dem, graphic designer
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Their phones weren’t dead after a week off in that heat? #thewhitelotus

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

#handsoff in Bend, Oregon 🤣

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

#handsoff Bend, Oregon!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 33 days ago • 1065 comments

Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that. insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...

submitted 37 days ago • 527 comments

Good. Nail him.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone knows what happened here. Trump can only exist around people he can causally humiliate. Guys lie JD and Rubio. He wanted to do a ritual humiliation of Zelensky and Ukraine but Zelensky wouldn’t accept that and so Trump reacted like a stung bitch.

submitted 59 days ago • 301 comments

Federal funding cuts have forced wildland firefighters to cancel prescribed burns, which help prevent wildfires. “We will be more vulnerable to a catastrophic fire in the future as a result,” one firefighter said.

submitted 68 days ago • 28 comments

NEW: My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans. It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich. We're breaking down the highlights as we go:

submitted 101 days ago • 526 comments

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

submitted 109 days ago • 61 comments

Self-care, demonstrated.

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Tennessee has one of the highest rates of women killed by men, and most of those homicides are committed with guns. One rural county is taking steps to try to ensure that abusers don’t have access to firearms. (Published Aug.) w/ @wpln.bsky.social

submitted 121 days ago • 60 comments

With bedtime fast approaching for the orphaned elephants in Nairobi, we gathered the herd for a special Christmas Eve meet-and-greet, led by Head Keeper Edwin

submitted 125 days ago • 5 comments

Nrew from @propublica: State maternal mortality boards are supposed to find out why pregnant patients die and how to prevent their deaths. But they’re not asking whether state abortion bans are to blame, our survey of 15 states found. www.propublica.org/article/abor...

submitted 131 days ago • 12 comments

This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

submitted 144 days ago • 401 comments

Gooby turned 1! 😍

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Spotted by our pilot, watch as teams mount a rapid response to help this bull elephant who'd been targeted by poachers. This is your donations in action! To see the full treatment, and support our work, visit: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates...

submitted 166 days ago • 5 comments

Well this is refreshing. Hiya!

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