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forestdenizen.bsky.social
@forestdenizen.bsky.social
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Linguistics, IPA, Oregon, botany, hikes #CronesofAnarchy
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Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices.
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Republican response to climate change.
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The most interesting thing to me is that one of the fake books "... follows a programmer who discovers that an AI system has developed consciousness—and has been secretly influencing global events for years.” Are you hearing the Twilight Zone music?
No, he actually spelled "fertile" correctly.
40 years I've lived without a furnace in the woods of Oregon. My partner and I are in our 70's. Still using a chainsaw and then splitting the wood by hand (with a maul, wedge, and axe.) I'm not sure if it prolongs one's life or leads to an earlier demise. 😆
My partner and I cut and stacked 5 cords of wood this spring. My 1980 ft² house is heated with just a woodstove
Mt McLoughlin shows under the branch of a juniper tree. View from Hobart Bluff. Oregon.
#Hikingoregon. #cascademountains. #volcano. #hiking. #nature. #mountains. #dayhike #jacksoncountyoregon
It's not just DOGE's flipflops that I can't keep up with.
US citizens are being deported and some citizens are receiving letters from the federal government telling them to leave the US.
As others have noted, it’s truly wild to see Terry Doughty write this. He is one of the most extreme MAGA judges appointed in Trump’s first term, author of many wacky, hard-right rulings reversed on appeal. When even he is appalled by an illegal deportation—it’s a sign of something. Wow.
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.

Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
What does this even accomplish except make banking CEOs beholden to Trump?
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
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The Supreme Court blocked the Trump admin from deporting Venezuelans out of the Bluebonnet facility in TX — for now.

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 has NO place in modern immigration policy. This pause is a win, but the fight is far from over.

And yes — Thomas & Alito dissented. Of course they did.
From WSJ today: "Dozens of household-name stocks posted double-digit declines, incl HP, Nike and Target. Stellantis also fell sharply. Jeep .. is tempotatly halting production at its ...factories in Mexico & Canada. 'I think it’s going very well,' Trump said to a question about his tariffs. 😳
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Alabama cannot prosecute doctors and reproductive health organizations for helping patients travel out of the state to obtain abortions, a federal judge ruled on Monday. Alabama has one of the strictest abortion bans in the U.S.
Alabama Can’t Prosecute Those Who Help With Out-of-State Abortions, Judge Rules
The state attorney general had raised the possibility of charging doctors with criminal conspiracy for recommending abortion care out of state.
www.nytimes.com
I didn't know they use seoarate computers for classufied info.
Buttigieg: I know this in my experience, both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system
Republicans are in an uproar about transwomen in college sports. I researched how common this is. NCAA president Charlie Baker told a Senate committee last Dec. that there are fewer than 10 in the whole country. Meanwhile, there are currently 225 kids just in Texas who have the measles.
Obama & Putin in Normandy, 2014.
Photo credit: Pete Souza