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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️

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I support brown bears, bees, birds, rivers, public lands, and democracy.

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · May 14

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed . . . One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world.

Wallace Stegner, 'Wilderness Letter'

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a great local story. CSU professor emeritus Rick Knight and students from CSU and FRCC built four wildlife crossings under this highway to help prevent wildlife vehicle collisions.

www.kunc.org/news/2025-10...

Under 287, Larimer County residents help build a simple fix for wildlife crashes: vertical posts

Wildlife and vehicle collisions happen too often in Colorado. So much so, the state is investing tens of millions of dollars to create safe animal crossings. This includes an overpass on I-25 in Dougl...

www.kunc.org

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah and AirNow is now showing my town at 154 so something's going on. Just would like to know who/what is causing it. 🤷‍♀️

Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 11h

I usually take a quick look at my weather app when I get up. Air quality 158! (It's down to 111 now). Checked AirNow and PurpleAir and they show 20s and 30s in my town and the sky looks clear to me. But what's going on a little north of Longmont at Crazy Daisy Farm - 492? Yikes.

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the link to today's Stalinism show. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

What can Americans learn from Stalinism?

Some historians argue that President Trump is using a Stalinist-style playbook to amass power, silence his enemies and suppress science. What Americans should know about notorious Soviet dictator Jose...

www.wbur.org

Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend every American listen to today's On Point Stalinism program. Not sure if it's available yet other than on NPR programming but it should be later today or tomorrow. www.wbur.org/radio/progra...

Next episode

The latest show topics from On Point, updated daily.

www.wbur.org

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson resents Americans who want to protect our country from fascists, theocracy, and pedophiles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

So what do you say, J.D. Vance? You once feared Trump could be the American Adolf Hitler. But that seems to be the hope of the new generation of Republicans you’ve raised. Will you denounce this outbreak of antisemitism, racism and fascism in your party?

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! I hope so too.

Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 1d

You have not lived until your sweet 8 year old grandson throws up in your car and tells you he's sorry. 😢 Poor little guy and here he was apologizing! Thankfully his big brother was at his climbing class. Also, this is why I mask.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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Holly @5ofcrones.bsky.social · 2d

Madera Canyon is always known for it's hummingbirds, but the variety of birds in the canyon is stunning. Mexican Jays are plentiful as were the Nuthatches, just to name a few. #AZbirding

A Mexican Jay enjoys a bath in a water feature.

White Breasted Nuthatch on a pole with peanut butter treats.

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing this. I didn't know who I was or wanted to be until I was alone.

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 2d

Important⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 2d

A Grand Junction pre-K in the midst of farm experiments teaches kids how to learn and parents how to support them

AmiGOs, based on a CSU Extension research campus, uses bilingual experiential education to help build community and “agricultural literacy”

coloradosun.com

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 2d

This is so wonderful. Indian Peaks Wilderness is among my favorite places although it's been a long while since I've hiked there.

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Coyote Gulch @coyotegulch.bsky.social · 2d

I was wrong about Trump, okay!?
www.landdesk.org/p/i-was-wron...

I was wrong about Trump, okay!?

But I was right about "governance by spite."

www.landdesk.org

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 2d

😬 Good luck to your Dodgers!

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I already do all of that, depending on my mood, lol. We just need the option to allow or not allow reposts. Maybe that'll happen one day.

Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 2d

Good job, Oklahomans!!

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I – like Trump and RFK Jr. – do not have a medical degree.

So, when questions surrounding medical treatments emerge, I listen to people who do.

I get my information from doctors and public health experts – and urge you to do the same.

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Ted Zukoski @tedzukoski.bsky.social · 3d

“Public lands are part of Colorado’s identity & once they’re gone, they’re gone forever,” said Will Roush of Wilderness Workshop. “This report is both a warning & a roadmap. It identifies ... steps we can take now to keep our most treasured wild places intact.”
www.aspendailynews.com/news/new-rep...

New report identifies at-risk Colorado lands

Wilderness Workshop’s Wild for Good report represents “a call to action for current generations of public lands advocates and residents to come together to protect these places for the benefit of wild...

www.aspendailynews.com

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Colorado Carol 🌻🌲🏞️ @coloradocarol.bsky.social · 3d

I had twitter on private which meant only your followers could see what you posted. Here, if we could at least have the 'do not repost' option, that would help. Few days ago, someone mentioned that private accounts take a lot of tech work so...

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