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Northern California forest walker #Humboldt
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The trails system in Humboldt County is amazing, and most of the manual upkeep is done by volunteers.

I wish I liked the latest from Sorrentino and Anderson more. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky

Trump's ICE raids mean Washington farmers cannot harvest this year's cherry crop, and that many will now go out of business. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

Normalize billionaires dying from a bee during polo matches.

California lawmakers introduce legislation to ban law enforcement from wearing face coverings The bill would also require law enforcement to wear identifying information.

They are driving this shit into people’s backyards. Jesus.

A new bridge over a small creek and a reroute of the trail away from muddy old logging roads in the McKay Community Forest. Come for a hike and see the new work! #trails #Humboldt #hiking #California

Sure as the stars return again after they merge in the light, death is great as life.

Great is death .... Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together;

Great is life .. and real and mystical .. wherever and whoever,

Good times in Chicago. #nokings

Inside-out flowers blooming in the Sequoia Park forest in Eureka California. Thinking about Los Angeles.

Newsom on Trump's military parade: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, you see it with Putin, you see it with dictators around the world that are weak ... Weakness masquerading as strength ... that's about as small as it gets ... that's Donald Trump."

RIP Brian Wilson. Always loved The Beach Boys,.

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It is with a heavy heart that we regret to inform that Douglas McCarthy passed away this morning of June 11th, 2025. We ask everyone to please be respectful of Douglas, his wife, and family in this difficult time. We appreciate your understanding and will share more information soon.

Spare a thought for Douglas McCarthy. Everyone is gonna be talking about Brian Wilson, but today also lost Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb. “Join in the Chant” was every bit as key a track as Ministry’s All Day or Halloween, or NIN’s Down In It. Nothing filled the floor like it #industrial

If the police decide to attack a group of protesters they will claim to have been provoked, and the media will repeat whatever the police say…

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

My obit for Bill Atkinson

LEVER: “A wave of bills to classify climate-heating methane gas as a source of “green” or “clean” energy to prevent transitioning away from fossil fuels — dark money (ALEC/Trump megadonors) are behind the effort. Indiana & Tennessee bills passed in April.” www.exxonknews.org/p/state-bill...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

Three young bucks sleep in my yard. Here’s one getting up for the day and checking in on me. #Humboldt #California

The federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions.

At a raw, practical level, they’re just men with guns. Law enforcement is supposed to be different because of law. Because they are supposed to be restrained by warrants and rules and due process and and people’s rights. But once they discard all that, they are, fundamentally, just men with guns.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

Wild turkeys in an Oakland, CA park

If you want insects to survive, you need to let dirt, dead wood and leaves, and "messy" gardens develop. These are essential to their life cycles.

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.” 🏳️‍🌈

This is huge. This week the Yurok Tribe and state agencies announced completion of the largest land back project in California history. 14,968 acres conveyed by the WRC to the Yurok Tribe marked the final step in a more than two-decade long, 47,097-acre (73-square-mile), $56 million land transfer.