Westernlens
@westernlens.bsky.social
Another Landscape Photographer out west ( 2005 )
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Elon Musk’s father on the prospect of the U.S. becoming a minority-white country:
“This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You don’t like electric cars and technology? Do you want to go back to the jungle?”
“This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You don’t like electric cars and technology? Do you want to go back to the jungle?”
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Elon Musk’s father on the prospect of the U.S. becoming a minority-white country:
“This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You don’t like electric cars and technology? Do you want to go back to the jungle?”
“This will be very very bad. You want to see the U.S. go dark? You don’t like electric cars and technology? Do you want to go back to the jungle?”
Honest question, Can some explain what concessions the democrats were ever going to extract in this fight. Sure they caved, but what other outcome could there have been ?
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Honest question, Can some explain what concessions the democrats were ever going to extract in this fight. Sure they caved, but what other outcome could there have been ?
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ICE is completely out of control
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
ICE is completely out of control
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This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.
November 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is the correct explanation of what happened tonight👇
and 99% of them will want to give him more time to "Get it right"
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 AM
and 99% of them will want to give him more time to "Get it right"
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Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
awesome
Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
awesome
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Inevitable and tracks with the cycles of regimes
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Inevitable and tracks with the cycles of regimes
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Trump ally Mike Davis to food stamp recipients:
“Get off your fat, ghetto asses.”
“Get off your fat, ghetto asses.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Trump ally Mike Davis to food stamp recipients:
“Get off your fat, ghetto asses.”
“Get off your fat, ghetto asses.”
Guess the next step here is for California tax payers to stop paying federal taxes
October 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Guess the next step here is for California tax payers to stop paying federal taxes
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Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Oklahoma’s social studies standards, written with the help of the right-wing group behind Project 2025, now include roughly 40 points about Christianity that students should learn as well as skepticism about the 2020 election and COVID-19’s origins.
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
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ICYMI — @govpritzker.illinois.gov just went on Fox and told them Trump is planning to steal the next election (that’s what the troops are really about), and said ICE is not going after “the worst of the worst” they’re “going after black and brown people because of the color of their skin”
October 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
ICYMI — @govpritzker.illinois.gov just went on Fox and told them Trump is planning to steal the next election (that’s what the troops are really about), and said ICE is not going after “the worst of the worst” they’re “going after black and brown people because of the color of their skin”
Huh
A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...
www.propublica.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Huh
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There's a reason everyone is sharing this article—
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There's a reason everyone is sharing this article—
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Balaji Srinivasan suggests giving Elon Musk “control of a huge swath of land surrounding Starbase, Texas” & designate that land as “a military base or … similar, so that [Musk] can fence it off & determine at his sole discretion who can enter.” Then replicate in other states w/ other Tech Bros. 1/
October 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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This article discusses how the “network state” Tech Bros have noticed—and aren’t exactly pleased about—Gil Duran’s work exposing their movement. 10/15/25 … 1/ lithub.com/how-silicon-...
How Silicon Valley Became a Center of Reactionary, Anti-Democratic Politics
With 881,000 people living in less than 47 square miles, San Francisco packs a tremendous amount of wealth and cultural influence into a fiercely unequal city. San Francisco is far smaller than Los…
lithub.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This article discusses how the “network state” Tech Bros have noticed—and aren’t exactly pleased about—Gil Duran’s work exposing their movement. 10/15/25 … 1/ lithub.com/how-silicon-...
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Trump: "Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents almost have used that. And that's unquestioned power."
October 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Trump: "Don't forget I can use the Insurrection Act. 50% of the presidents almost have used that. And that's unquestioned power."
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📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.
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Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
October 19, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Imagine thinking they ever cared about debt, fraud, waste, abuse, or anything of the sort. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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“Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.”
- Donald J. Trump, second inaugural address
- Donald J. Trump, second inaugural address
George Santos is the 10th GOP Congressman to get a pardon or clemency from President Trump. The other nine were also all convicted of various criminal charges:
October 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
“Under my leadership, we will restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law.”
- Donald J. Trump, second inaugural address
- Donald J. Trump, second inaugural address
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Something that is always good to keep in mind — the loudest voices you’ll often hear are those strongly opposed to something, as for the most part people aren’t very vocal about *not being opposed* to something, which can create a perception bias.
October 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Something that is always good to keep in mind — the loudest voices you’ll often hear are those strongly opposed to something, as for the most part people aren’t very vocal about *not being opposed* to something, which can create a perception bias.
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If you’ve been telling yourself that we’re not really living under an authoritarian government, at some point you have to look at what’s going on and admit that this is what’s happening.
I know it’s hard to accept. It sounds like it must be an exaggeration. But it’s true.
I know it’s hard to accept. It sounds like it must be an exaggeration. But it’s true.
Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
If you’ve been telling yourself that we’re not really living under an authoritarian government, at some point you have to look at what’s going on and admit that this is what’s happening.
I know it’s hard to accept. It sounds like it must be an exaggeration. But it’s true.
I know it’s hard to accept. It sounds like it must be an exaggeration. But it’s true.