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Eric Leonard
@frebodar.bsky.social
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Public history and public lands professional. I am passionate for understanding the past and imagining the future. Views expressed are mine alone.
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Not every trail needs to be accessible, but every park should have an accessible trail. Access matters.
OMG. “Mar-a-White House”

“THE BUILDING’S FAÇADE IS GONE THIS MORNING—an ugly gash reminiscent of the smoldering Pentagon on 9/11. This disfigurement is not the act of terrorists or foreign foes. It’s the work of our president.”
Trump’s Mar-a-White House
The president is desecrating a symbol of liberal democracy and replacing it with a tacky, bloated eyesore.
www.thebulwark.com
This also brings to mind @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social extraordinary book on humans and monsters.
@practicalnecromancy.com this fits with our conversation this morning.
Goddamn, is this a good read
I’m deeply upset over all of the uncertainty that many of my interior colleagues are feeling right now around these proposed reductions in force. This is a further undignified action on top of the fact that many are working in an unpaid status at this time.
Only the very best morons, these people.
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It should from this point forward be called the Top Runs video.
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“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline
Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...
Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
www.gelliottmorris.com
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"Violence is when people cannot afford a house, violence is when a voter cannot afford medicine, violence is when mothers continue to lose sons and daughters to greed and guns," Rev. Valtoria Jackson told about 600 people at a "No Kings" protest in Montgomery. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)
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Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy upon us.
It’s a strange world indeed when rolling Stone is a cutting edge news media outlet. Their reporting matters.
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Among the very greatest moments on Al Gore’s inter webs
this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳
This is Star Trek’s greatest zombie episode
Trails in Petroglyph National Monument are open.
I’m headed there myself. Going hiking first. I hope to see you in the next couple of days.
I had to look that up. Good luck, and sorry.
My running playlist is about 50% mid-80s Metallica, with other punk, new wave to even it out.