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Tim Penman
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Former Airborne Ranger and former free lance crime and health beat reporter for the weekly press up and down the Seattle/King County area; former oil field roughneck; former structural steel worker, teacher's aide, and chair of writing workshop.
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
As green energy gets cheaper, fossil fuel lobbyists and Republican leaders will have to lie harder to justify speeding up global warming.
Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
With Felon 47's backing, Putin feels free to commit any crime against America or ANY country he feels like it.
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Yes!
December 10, 2025 at 12:05 AM
So, YOU work for FOX Faux News, yes? Brietbart.bs? Newsmax? OAN?
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Felon 47 is and has always been criminal. Make the world safe for human life. LOCK HIM UP.
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Amen!
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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The idea that the US Constitution vests nearly absolute power in one person, in part because presidential elections are the main way govt is accountable to the people, is so crazy, illogical, ahistorical it shouldn’t need rebutting.

But here we are, and @donmoyn.bsky.social explains why it’s wrong.
At will? Whose will?
Removing independent agency heads is part of a broader assault on a nonpartisan government
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The death knell of the republic was when Robert's SCOTUS legitimized American oligarchy with Citizens United.

Something our Founding Fathers predicted would happen 250 years ago.

Funny how this "originalist" SCOTUS is the exact corruption that John Adams & Thomas Jefferson foresaw.
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It seems weird to me to have a pyramid hierarchy system that has no mental fitness checks for the people in it. You get a untreated mentally disordered person in there (Trump, Alito) and it's game over.

Other careers have yearly mental hygiene checks why not the most important jobs?
December 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
YES! YES! AMEN!
1) get rid of the Electoral College
2) increase SCOTUS to 13 seats
3) institute term limits for all federal judges
4) institute term limits for all federally elected officials
5) buff up our Constitution to prevent future attacks
6) No Citizen United
7) federally funded elections, spending limits
December 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Every real economist in America warned at the time he was imposing tariffs that it would affect each of these things, and deportations have affected the ability of farmers to access labor. This is all happening because of one man.
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Felon 47 inspires mindless hatred every day. The draft dodging coward has his own very-safe-from-a-distance, "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out." ...if you are nonwhite.
The R word is not acceptable to hurl as a slur, especially by the President. His followers see it as their cue, though, and now they're bullying the Walz family with it. Do you see what Trump has unleashed?
December 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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We're bringing in trillions in foreign investments....

All to ourselves.
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Spot on, Mr. Rather. 🎯 💯
December 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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The saddest part of the FIFA ‘peace prize’ was how excited Senile Satan got over a fake award.
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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If the Sep. 2 boat really had "narco-terrorists" on board, questioning the survivors would have been a way to learn about how the organization worked, where more drugs were stashed, etc. But this isn't a counter-terrorism campaign. It's a shooting gallery with helpless targets.
December 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Today we remember the thousands of Americans who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor 84 years ago. Nearly half of those lost were aboard the USS Arizona, and I remember what a moving experience it was when Gabby and I visited the memorial. We’ll never forget their sacrifice.
December 8, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Red Texas is a leader in renewable energy deployment.

The state's solar surge proves that the energy transition defies politics.
December 8, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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The world knows they have them; release the Epstein files now.
December 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Stephen Miller, long-time Alt Right member (of Jewish descent), along with Steve Bannon--admires Hitler's head propagandist even more than he loves Hitler. He quoted Joseph Goebels when selling pure nazi values to Charlie Kirk's mourner at his memorial. This, while claiming to be Christian.
Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Oh, look, just like Nixon’s enemies list from his "Political Enemies Project." They're lack of original ideas is astounding. I guess they're coming for all of us now.
December 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Release the Epstein files.
Lock up the war criminals.
Abolish the ICE Gestapo.
Lock up the felon.
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM