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Progressive, admirer of Hitchens and Russell , rock and blues, classical and world music.

My deepest respect to Scientists and brave Journalists the world over.

AMOC is a thing.
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The Canadian Pacific Christmas Train is travelling across Canada

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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A major Environmental Protection Agency webpage no longer names fossil fuels as the central cause of global warming. This prompts sharp criticisms from scientists and former officials.
U.S. EPA Removes Fossil Fuels As Cause of Climate Change — Konsyse
A revised Environmental Protection Agency webpage now omits fossil fuels as the driver of global warming.
www.konsyse.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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This lawless abuse needs to stop. That includes Congress demanding the end to masked agents. Every Republican is complicit.
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Brown University paid $50 million for Trump’s extortion!

“Brown University- great school.”
—- Trump
December 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Yesterday’s attack at Brown University is just the latest example of the country failing its children, Xochitl Gonzalez argues.
America Is Failing Its Children
Yesterday’s attack at Brown University is just the latest example.
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December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne.

But ProPublica did.

@natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD
December 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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🚨 Tens of thousands of chickens dead in Sumas Prairie.

Another devastating blow to our farmers and food security. The price of ignoring the 2015 "substandard" dike ratings is too high.

#BCFlood #Abbotsford #FoodSecurity
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Here is a pretty good article on the history of Sumas lake and the Burrows pump station into the Sumas canal

www.exnews.net/vernon-news/...
What's Behind The Sumas Floods
The Nooksack River has surged once again flooding homes and farmlands on both sides of the border.
www.exnews.net
December 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.

We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Christopher Dawson won hundreds of millions in federal contracts, promising to help Native Hawaiians.

Instead, prosecutors say he pocketed the profits for personal gain, describing his actions as a “fraud scheme and embezzlement.”

With @civilbeat.bsky.social
He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him.
A small business program allowed Christopher Dawson to win big contracts if he promised to uplift Native Hawaiians. Instead, federal prosecutors allege, he used the money to line his own pockets.
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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No
December 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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If they’re willing to do this then I’d bet money they’re willing to encourage/support Alberta separatism.
Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.

(Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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That's worrying. interc.pt/4rR4FFP
December 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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In Utah, solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid.

State Republicans’ hard turn against the energy source mirrors Trump’s hostile approach to the industry.

By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social
Utah Leaders Are Hindering Efforts to Develop Solar Despite a Goal to Double the State’s Energy Supply
Solar power accounts for two-thirds of the new projects waiting to connect to the state’s power grid. Utah Republicans’ hard turn against solar mirrors President Donald Trump’s hostile approach to the...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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In 2022, a former LA County district attorney was put on administrative leave after he based a prosecution around tips from a right-wing group that promoted election fraud conspiracy theories.

Now, he's the top voting rights official at the DOJ, according to a legal filing reviewed by Mother Jones.
Scoop: New Justice Department voting rights chief had prior job suspension for ties to election deniers
California prosecutor Eric Neff relied on a right-wing group's intel to bring charges. Now, he's apparently in charge of voting rights at the DOJ.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The attorneys general of 20 states sued the Trump administration on Friday over its decision to impose a $100,000 fee on visas for skilled foreign workers.
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Fee Faces Lawsuit
California and New York are among the states arguing that the Trump administration’s decision to charge that fee for skilled foreign workers is illegal.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa: “I don’t want a Syria where the President decides everything, and I don’t think the people would accept that.”

The US slipping down the democratic rankings rapidly.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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🚨 #BREAKING : UKRAINE'S NAVY SAYS RUSSIAN DRONE ATTACK HIT CIVILIAN TURKISH VESSEL CARRYING SUNFLOWER OIL TO EGYPT ON SATURDAY, AS PER REUTERS
X
December 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Changed the weather.

According to Reuters, China grew 116,000 square miles of trees, increasing the country’s total forest coverage from 10 percent in 1949 to roughly 25 percent in 2024.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle
China’s planted a bunch of new trees since 1981, but that extra foliage is shifting more precipitation to some areas while drying out others.
www.yahoo.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Reuters reported Holsey was pushed out by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the secretary had grown frustrated with SOUTHCOM as he sought to flex U.S. military operations and planning in the region."

Admiral hands over leadership of US Southern Command www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...
Admiral hands over leadership of US Southern Command amid boat strikes and buildup in the region
Adm. Alvin Holsey formally handed over command to Air Force Lt. Gen. Evan Pettus, who will serve as acting head of SOUTHCOM.
www.stripes.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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'Pilot records show Trump as a passenger on multiple flights aboard jets owned by Epstein in the 1990s. But Trump claimed on his Truth Social website last January (2024): "I was never on Epstein's Plane, or at his 'stupid' Island."'
Donald Trump dismissed being pictured in a new trove of Jeffrey Epstein's photos released tonight, saying it was "no big deal".
Trump breaks silence on photos of him being in bombshell new Epstein files
www.mirror.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM