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deannabeachley.bsky.social
Historian, #gender, #suffrage, poet, essayist, artist. Avid reader, nature lover, and a HUGE fan of ravens, vultures, and condors. I draw rocks.
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Over the past month extreme drought has expanded in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada. This month’s rains ended a 214-day stretch without any precipitation in Las Vegas — which has received less than a quarter of normal rainfall since last March. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

I’m mentoring for Adroit this summer along with a whole roster of excellent poets and writers. Send your interested poets and writers to this great program. @adroitjournal.bsky.social

Find a protest near you. We can't promote wildlife and save what little is left without addressing the political situation we find ourselves in. The radical right must be stopped. Get involved Get in this fight www.mobilize.us/indivisible/

This is a good thread.

Took a walk in the LV Wetlands today. I needed to.

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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Went exploring at Lake Mead yesterday. Some water patterns from Rogers Spring.

Gneiss pebble over drawing and the palette used for the drawing.

Phainapeplas. They eat desert mistletoe berries.

For tonight’s wolf moon.

May Swenson's "Night Practice" ....

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www.imdb.com/title/tt1168.... This is such a good movie

Boosting this post from my pal Jeff Russo. ATTN LA Music industry folks: Musiccares is offering immediate financial assistance and food vouchers to anyone who has worked in the music biz for five years or longer. Write to [email protected] or call 800-687-4227

Los Angeles friends, a trustworthy friend of mine passed along this list of resources for sharing — here’s hoping it gets you help you need. mutualaidla.org

As I watch my beloved #losangeles burn — roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/... @rfpress.bsky.social

Don't wait until you are in imminent danger to create resource and pod maps. Everyone should create them and they need to be UPDATED at least every 6 months. Info about podmapping: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵

UFW union members are among those detained while traveling home from work yesterday. We are providing them and their families with support. 1/

Absolutely breathtaking.

“He’d been galvanized by the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol, when militias like the Oath Keepers conspired to violently overturn the election. He believed democracy was under siege from groups the FBI has said pose a major terrorism threat. So he infiltrated the militia movement on spec” Wow