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ruralmuse.bsky.social
Rural Californian with many hats.
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Who's tracking the jobs lost in federal offices in your county? In your Congressional District? Is that information getting to your district's representative in Congress? If not, find a way to get that information and make it known to them.

All those MAGAs moaning about Zelensky not wearing a suit ... while Elon wears a hat and Mars shirts and let's his kid smear boogers on the Resolute Desk. Thanks for pointing some of that out, @adamkinzinger.bsky.social !

Unforgiveable U.S. treatment of Ukrainians under Trump/Vance/Republicans. Until yesterday, it was un-American. Republicans still standing around the bloody stage, fist-pumping, grunting and throbbing, the stage where Trump/Vance castrated Z on live TV, in front of the world, Putin's media filming.

Emergency Video: The Ukraine Disgrace open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work. "We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed." w/ @deldeib.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Bingo! "Economic dependency on nature is unrecognised in dominant economic theory which fails to recognise energy, food and other raw materials as factors of production." actuaries.org.uk/document-lib...

LA fire costs coming in at $250 billion or $6,000 for every Californian or $700 for every American. Musk's net worth nearly 2x the cost of LA fires. Bezos 1/2 that. Two men are worth 3x the projected cost of the LA fires. Exxon's profit would take 10 years to pay for the LA fires. Solutions?

In Praise of California open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Remembrance of Red State Bailouts Past open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Sometimes, we just want to experience sweetness. Here's a clip of the little guy in my profile photo when he was just a kid. youtu.be/Ne9WDUjZt1E

2025, here we go. The transition into another year can be a time to evaluate priorities. As a citizen of earth, I think one of the biggest priorities is global, active awareness of two big challenges: population and global consumption. Most else is deck chairs on the Titanic.