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|Retired pro 🎛️📻🎤nerd.| |USian beholden to generations of Séliš, Ql̓ispé, Ksanka & Nimiipuu for not mangling their land-water-human web.| |On autogolpe-watch.| |”The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” (Ellen Parr)|
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TIL about the mushing rangers of Denali, and about Squall, Storm, Graupel, Dew and Fog.

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It’s likely that “almost no place will get everything it needs to ruggedize itself from the national government, no matter what country we’re talking about. States and provinces, regions and cities will increasingly have to make critical decisions they’re unprepared to make …”

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I read the Grist article (👇)after listening to ‪@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on CBC Radio 1, talking about the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Los Cedros in N. Ecuador’s cloud forests, Chennai, India, and “the lives, deaths & rights of rivers.” Is a River Alive? www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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The parallel between our cultural-&-Rx🔥 deficit and risks to homes, towns & infrastructure would be tightening even without nihilistic federal U.S. budget ✂️. Look up the # of resident &🔥-fighter deaths in Peshtigo (1871) & The Great Burn (1910). #MTFire #Climate wildfiretoday.com/pre-colonial...

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(1/3) Before treaties & the Indian Act reduced access to traditional territories, I’m guessing cultural🔥 reduced some risks inherent to hot, dry summers - and greater mobility meant having options when 🔥 did blow up. Not helicopter evac, true, BUT humans hadn’t really begun warming 🌎 yet, either.

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“Because of their rapid growth and geographic concentration, data centers are the electrification challenge we face right now—the small stuff we have to figure out before we’re able to do the big stuff like vehicles and buildings.” In the 1960s, US 🔌 demand was growing at more than 7% per year.

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“The country is going to be mourning the loss of this enterprise for decades…” Like every bedrock gov.’t function the 🐘 unravel, I ask: WHY? * Project 2025’s dogma run amok? * Broligarchs’ obsessions (AI, feudal cities) aligning with Putin & Xi’s goals of sabotage, via 🤡? * Because they can?

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Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

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“The five year plan is extremely successful and all quotas have been met or exceeded.” As book-cooking becomes the default, watch news reporting all the more closely. I’m even more skeptical about the ability at the federal level to gather good data and not lose the staff required to analyze it.

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Demand for 🔌 is going ⬆️ (data centers, electric 🚗, other). ⬇️ the supply - while also eliminating LIHEAP - is classic Dump-assity. “Repealing (tax) credits could increase the average family’s energy bill by as much as $400 per year within a decade, according to several studies published this year.”

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How are these goons undermining Americans' capacity to understand, predict, prepare for and recovering from increasing climate damages and worsening climate stress? Every way they can. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...

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Plan “go” bags, escape routes & 💨-coping NOW: The Lolo NF of WC MT: fire danger is “high;” Extreme🔥 risk in BC, NT, AB, SK, MB, ON & QC means 🇨🇦 won’t have resources to spare; Large U.S. 🔥 might lack a dedicated incident meteorologist due to NWS ✂️; There are too few USFS🔥staff. #MTFire #MTNews

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🤡🚂 of unironic U.S. federal appointments continues: “Rich guy who intimidates federal workers with his helicopter and sues anyone who disagrees with him while he destroys public land (in several situations) without a permit. Perfectly aligned with this administration’s priorities.” #MTUSFS

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BC🇨🇦⛏️🫟in💧: “most important to the Transboundary Ktunaxa Nation, the board must regularly consult with … the Council of Indigenous Knowledge Holders … the Kootenai/y River is central to and woven into the heart of Ktunaxa Territory.” #MTNews #MTIndig #Mining missoulacurrent.com/koocanusa-po...

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Chapter 11 for 🤑 private equity🪆: “Barretts Minerals, once a talc mining subsidiary with operations in Dillon, filed for bankruptcy in 2023 amid hundreds of lawsuits alleging that asbestos-contaminated talc caused mesothelioma and other diseases.” #MTNews #asbestos nbcmontana.com/news/local/t...

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On the 12 new licensing agreements: “I think everybody knows that these countries are giving money to (Dump) because they think they’ll get favorable treatment in exchange,” - Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT, former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Middle East subcommittee. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Grow your own 🥬. “… officials never issued public communications after the investigation or identified the grower … The administration is disbanding a Justice Department unit that pursues civil and criminal actions against companies that sell contaminated food…” dailymontanan.com/2025/06/01/s...

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Want to know the minute by minute impact at home and abroad of US funding cuts? The impact counter tells the story . www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

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These maps of treaty cessions by decade should be in US-history textbooks--this is the story of the conquest of the US West. Treaty transfers in dark; reservations in very light shade; hidden CA treaties in shade between. (Maps digitized by Claudio Saunt from 1899 Bureau of American Ethnology maps)

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@stephenking.bsky.social

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Good clean fun at the Fire Lab. Surely one of those DOGE, Project 2025 or Dump-appointed miscreants would die of envy watching public servants light stuff on 🔥; they’d clamber to fully fund & rename the joint “Porno for Pyros.” Or they’d beg Skum to buy it and hire them. #MTFire #MTUSFS

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Three USFS research stations are in MT. “The Budget does not request new funding for Forest and Rangeland Research…” = their budgets become $0. See Jim’s full 🧵for a quick intro to the Forest Service’s century+ of research, which flies well below people’s radars. #MTFire #MTNews #MTPol #MTUSFS

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The stork doesn’t deliver sparkly, swaddled petrol to a gas station’s tanks. More discussion in Hank’s🧵 includes methane emissions, and this article from Oct. 2024: gasoutlook.com/analysis/lng...

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What if there’s a fundamental problem of democracy when a whole area of policy does not have any voting constituency who is directly individually subjected to it What if that allows people to treat the whole thing as a canvas for values instead of an infrastructure that dictates lives

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