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rowdyandscout.bsky.social
News junkie that has quit the corporate news and non-blue sky SM habit. Love my people, doggos, sports, hip hop, bluegrass, ☕️ and 🍷. Don’t love jerks.
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Pls don’t repost this or Trump will expode his depends!!

submitted 3 days ago • 320 comments

Hands off in Leesburg, Virginia, great turnout out in red Loudoun county!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Hello Wisconsin!!! Way to stand up and show up! Congratulations, Susan Crawford, we all need you.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Per Dan Rather, familiarity breeds empathy. We would do better if we all strived to not judge a man (or woman or trans) until we have walked a mile in his/her/their moccasins. A friend mentioned that she recently heard that reading fiction helps build empathy as you have a chance to safely

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Senator Marshall, you do not deserve to hold office. You are not representing your constituents, and you are not defending the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Your state, our Veterans and our country need you to abide by the Oath you took…

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Have to share this…time to charge up that hill…!!! open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Just finished What Unites us by Dan Rather, and his final salvo was a call to heroic citizenship. As he quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson, “times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.” That is a call to us all… and a debt of gratitude to

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One thing before tomorrow: Use your local libraries. Get your card. Borrow books, manga, films, audios, ebooks. Recommend titles for purchase (usually online). Attend promoted activities. Fill out those "How are we doing?" questionnaires. Tell your kids that libraries are good. They are. 📚

submitted 78 days ago • 180 comments

Some resources for those in the thick of it. #CaliforniaFires

submitted 87 days ago • 66 comments

I’m a huge fan of U.S. Vets and was proud to support their DC location. Veterans who are displaced in LA can reach out to them for assistance.

submitted 88 days ago • 59 comments

Amazing….MusiCares is offering immediate assistance for LA area music industry people affected by the fires

submitted 88 days ago • 5 comments

PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot

submitted 91 days ago • 179 comments

List of LA area evacuation centers for people and animals secretlosangeles.com/available-re...

submitted 89 days ago • 7 comments

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

submitted 90 days ago • 1254 comments

If you're in an evacuation zone in SoCal, please check in with any disabled/aging neighbors you have to see if they need help evacuating.

submitted 90 days ago • 34 comments

If you are in the Los Angeles area, here's where to get information on the fires: - View the fire map at fire.ca.gov - Download the Watch Duty app - Sign up for NotifyLA alerts with the city at emergency.lacity.gov

submitted 90 days ago • 87 comments

Please stay safe! Mandatory evacuation order in parts of Santa Monica Santamonica.gov for updates

submitted 90 days ago • 34 comments

Free Blue Bus evacuation service if you need to get out of the evacuation zone in Santa Monica.

submitted 90 days ago • 13 comments

@meiselasb.bsky.social @bmeiselas.bsky.social Gents, please use your platform to reach the #MeidasMighty in Southern California. Everyone should download and monitor the app Watch Duty. It’s a phenomenal early warning and monitoring tool. Next 48 hours are critical. #PalisadesFire #EatonFire

submitted 90 days ago • 15 comments

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submitted 94 days ago • 71 comments

One of my hero’s. The Great One

submitted 98 days ago • 234 comments

Wondering what you can do as we go into 2025? Run for local office or support a campaign! In 2025 at least 31 states have local elections, 2 have Supreme Court races, and 2 have statewide races! Want to send a message to Trump? Win them. Take back our democracy from the ground up! Let’s go!!!

submitted 98 days ago • 37 comments

@dan-rather.bsky.social I am nearing the end of your wonderful book, What Unites Us, and I wish all of US would read it. Having just finished the chapter on Service, I am hanging on the last sentence: “On a personal level, service may be considered a virtue. But in a democratic society such as ours,

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment