@bradklafehn.bsky.social
Above: My Great Uncle Dan Defending Freedom from Fascists.
Local government retiree
Weed whacker/Native plant defender
Environmentalist since 1974
Gaia Lover
Shakuhachi student
Local government retiree
Weed whacker/Native plant defender
Environmentalist since 1974
Gaia Lover
Shakuhachi student
The Great State of Colorado - first in the nation (again), this time enacting state-level wetland rules to make up for SCOTUS' Sackett decision, which ignored wetland science and axed protections for many western wetlands. Can our fellow western states do the same?
coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/c...
coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/c...
Colorado water regulators approve historic stream, wetlands protections
After three days of hearings and a late-night vote, officials gave the green light to rules that will protect Colorado’s waters even as the EPA pulls back
coloradosun.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Great State of Colorado - first in the nation (again), this time enacting state-level wetland rules to make up for SCOTUS' Sackett decision, which ignored wetland science and axed protections for many western wetlands. Can our fellow western states do the same?
coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/c...
coloradosun.com/2025/12/12/c...
Indiana's redistricting attempt fails, massively blowing up in Trump's face. Turns out that state Republican Senators don't much like it when the MAGA crowd doxes them and calls in pipe bomb threats.
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
I've thought this before, but maybe the Trump fever has broken?
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
I've thought this before, but maybe the Trump fever has broken?
Bomb threat targets Indiana lawmaker on eve of Senate redistricting vote
State police searched the home of Indiana Rep. Ed Clere, R-New Albany, the night of Dec. 10 in response to a bomb threat.
www.indystar.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Indiana's redistricting attempt fails, massively blowing up in Trump's face. Turns out that state Republican Senators don't much like it when the MAGA crowd doxes them and calls in pipe bomb threats.
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
I've thought this before, but maybe the Trump fever has broken?
www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
I've thought this before, but maybe the Trump fever has broken?
Reposted
calling for EU countries to implement a mirror policy:
- if you are still on X, 1000 euros entry tax
- if you are on truth social, entry denied
- selfie with a maga hat: deported to russia
- racist tweets: 1 month detention in french guyana
- if you are still on X, 1000 euros entry tax
- if you are on truth social, entry denied
- selfie with a maga hat: deported to russia
- racist tweets: 1 month detention in french guyana
December 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
calling for EU countries to implement a mirror policy:
- if you are still on X, 1000 euros entry tax
- if you are on truth social, entry denied
- selfie with a maga hat: deported to russia
- racist tweets: 1 month detention in french guyana
- if you are still on X, 1000 euros entry tax
- if you are on truth social, entry denied
- selfie with a maga hat: deported to russia
- racist tweets: 1 month detention in french guyana
Trumpers seek to turn US into East Germany, getting Americans to inform on each other for $$$, and using the JTTFs to target liberals of all kinds.
THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
[Excuse the caps but this is Code Red]
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
[Excuse the caps but this is Code Red]
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Trumpers seek to turn US into East Germany, getting Americans to inform on each other for $$$, and using the JTTFs to target liberals of all kinds.
THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
[Excuse the caps but this is Code Red]
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
[Excuse the caps but this is Code Red]
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
Landback!
Occasionally there is good news.
Native American tribe reclaims land at the edge of Yosemite National Park
The tribal nation that calls Yosemite National Park its ancestral home has reclaimed a stunning piece of its historical territory with the acquisition of 800 acres along the edge of the park.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Landback!
Need to learn this for the next demo! As Patti says, "Use your voice!"
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Need to learn this for the next demo! As Patti says, "Use your voice!"
Kennedy always looking for ways to make us citizens sicker. Science shows more saturated fat = faster-growing prostate cancer. But what do facts matter when you've got an ideology to push?
doi.org/10.1007/s126...
Dietary saturated fatty acids and prostate cancer
thehill.com/policy/healt...
doi.org/10.1007/s126...
Dietary saturated fatty acids and prostate cancer
thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Kennedy always looking for ways to make us citizens sicker. Science shows more saturated fat = faster-growing prostate cancer. But what do facts matter when you've got an ideology to push?
doi.org/10.1007/s126...
Dietary saturated fatty acids and prostate cancer
thehill.com/policy/healt...
doi.org/10.1007/s126...
Dietary saturated fatty acids and prostate cancer
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Never thought I'd be an admirer of Reagan, but he's speaking the truth here!
October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Never thought I'd be an admirer of Reagan, but he's speaking the truth here!
Reposted
I’ve decided to live in the moss world, everything is crystalline light and clean, untroubled by anything larger. Still working on how to shrink down to dew drop level, once that detail is overcome I’m there. It’ll be so easy to ‘touch moss’ every day when I live beneath the towering green fronds. 🌿
October 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I’ve decided to live in the moss world, everything is crystalline light and clean, untroubled by anything larger. Still working on how to shrink down to dew drop level, once that detail is overcome I’m there. It’ll be so easy to ‘touch moss’ every day when I live beneath the towering green fronds. 🌿
Utah law forbidding mention of DEI torpedoes 'Unity Conference' on free speech at Weber State.
www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...
www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...
‘I was ordered to lie’: Weber State censorship event canceled, after organizers said school wanted to censor speakers
Weber State University's annual Unity Conference tried to tackle the subject of censorship. Organizers said they canceled when school officials said they would have to censor some of the speakers' mat...
www.sltrib.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Utah law forbidding mention of DEI torpedoes 'Unity Conference' on free speech at Weber State.
www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...
www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...
Denver native Anna Hall is World Championship Heptathlete! Without this article, I wouldn't have known the story of this Valor Christian grad. She deserves a parade!
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/28/a...
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/28/a...
Anna Hall re-emerges as world champion heptathlete after enduring injuries, wrestling with self-doubt
With Anna Hall’s gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, the 24-year-old became only the second American woman to win a world title in the heptathlon, joining Jackie Joyner-…
www.denverpost.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Denver native Anna Hall is World Championship Heptathlete! Without this article, I wouldn't have known the story of this Valor Christian grad. She deserves a parade!
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/28/a...
www.denverpost.com/2025/09/28/a...
I'm against fascists, as was my great uncle Dan (see below, as well as my avatar - I love that photo).
Does that make me antifa? Where do I send my dues?
Does that make me antifa? Where do I send my dues?
September 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I'm against fascists, as was my great uncle Dan (see below, as well as my avatar - I love that photo).
Does that make me antifa? Where do I send my dues?
Does that make me antifa? Where do I send my dues?
Colorado 1st Amendment attorney Steve Zansberg issues a call for a National March Against Tyranny in DC and elsewhere, and suggests Nov. 5, the day SCOTUS hears the tariff case.
coloradosun.com/2025/09/22/a...
coloradosun.com/2025/09/22/a...
Opinion: It’s time we unite in protest against authoritarianism
Authoritarianism is likely to prevail unless we the people take bold action. A large, national protest would be a good first step
coloradosun.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Colorado 1st Amendment attorney Steve Zansberg issues a call for a National March Against Tyranny in DC and elsewhere, and suggests Nov. 5, the day SCOTUS hears the tariff case.
coloradosun.com/2025/09/22/a...
coloradosun.com/2025/09/22/a...
Reposted
4. Don’t let these distractions live rent-free in your brain - eating it from within, eroding your mental health and agency over our future.
The world needs us to get focused and take back our agency.
Join action groups get focused, friends.The future is not yet written. We have work to do.
The world needs us to get focused and take back our agency.
Join action groups get focused, friends.The future is not yet written. We have work to do.
September 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
4. Don’t let these distractions live rent-free in your brain - eating it from within, eroding your mental health and agency over our future.
The world needs us to get focused and take back our agency.
Join action groups get focused, friends.The future is not yet written. We have work to do.
The world needs us to get focused and take back our agency.
Join action groups get focused, friends.The future is not yet written. We have work to do.
Reposted
Conservatives packed a church outside Denver for a remembrance of Charlie Kirk that was a memorial service, a political rally, and a soft launch for a ministry leader's potential run for Governor. #copolitics
September 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Conservatives packed a church outside Denver for a remembrance of Charlie Kirk that was a memorial service, a political rally, and a soft launch for a ministry leader's potential run for Governor. #copolitics
Yikes! 20 year study in a relatively undisturbed subalpine meadow on Molas Pass in Colorado shows a 72% decline in flying insects, correlated with warmer temperatures. I'm not a scientist, but can ecosystem collapse be far away?
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This /2
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This /2
September 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yikes! 20 year study in a relatively undisturbed subalpine meadow on Molas Pass in Colorado shows a 72% decline in flying insects, correlated with warmer temperatures. I'm not a scientist, but can ecosystem collapse be far away?
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This /2
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This /2
Democrats need to heed this warning. Shut it down! SHUT IT DOWN!
September 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Democrats need to heed this warning. Shut it down! SHUT IT DOWN!
Timeline cleanse. 30 seconds along a creek in Bighorn Wilderness, Wyoming, last week.
August 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Timeline cleanse. 30 seconds along a creek in Bighorn Wilderness, Wyoming, last week.
Reposted
New book: Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp
"But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New book: Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp
"But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
"But even if you don’t have hope, it doesn’t really matter. This is about defiance. It’s about doing the right thing, fighting for democracy and for people to not be exploited"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I am not a Catholic, but I was a neighbor of Bubba's (his dad's nickname for him), and if anyone deserves canonization, it was him! RIP, Bubba! Your example of selfless sacrifice will live on forever!
www.denverpost.com/2025/08/01/k...
www.denverpost.com/2025/08/01/k...
Saint Kendrick Castillo? Douglas County church submits petition for Catholic canonization
“Although I have just begun to review the information submitted, it seems clear that Kendrick was an exceptional young man,” Colorado Springs Bishop James Golka said.
www.denverpost.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I am not a Catholic, but I was a neighbor of Bubba's (his dad's nickname for him), and if anyone deserves canonization, it was him! RIP, Bubba! Your example of selfless sacrifice will live on forever!
www.denverpost.com/2025/08/01/k...
www.denverpost.com/2025/08/01/k...
Reposted
America is now a place where the term "neonatal arrests" is entering the lexicon.
Under Trump's plan, noncitizen babies could be detained at birth. "The administration has already facilitated such neonatal arrests by repealing a 2011 rule that prohibited ICE enforcement in and around hospitals."
Under Trump's plan, noncitizen babies could be detained at birth. "The administration has already facilitated such neonatal arrests by repealing a 2011 rule that prohibited ICE enforcement in and around hospitals."
Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It’s Worse Than Imagined.
Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.
slate.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
America is now a place where the term "neonatal arrests" is entering the lexicon.
Under Trump's plan, noncitizen babies could be detained at birth. "The administration has already facilitated such neonatal arrests by repealing a 2011 rule that prohibited ICE enforcement in and around hospitals."
Under Trump's plan, noncitizen babies could be detained at birth. "The administration has already facilitated such neonatal arrests by repealing a 2011 rule that prohibited ICE enforcement in and around hospitals."
Now, if only we could invent a similar weeding game, removing invasive plants from public spaces...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The sorest my legs have ever been’: hordes to descend on Hackney for litter-picking world cup
The public-spirited sport of spogomi is catching on across Britain, which boasts its world champion team
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Now, if only we could invent a similar weeding game, removing invasive plants from public spaces...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...