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Kevin Turinsky 🇺🇸🇸🇰🇪🇺🇺🇦
@kevinturinsky.bsky.social
Alaska-grown |📍Salish Sea | 🏫 SU & APU alum
Oxford comma. 1 space.

🏫Public Schools
🚃Transit
🏥Health Care
🚲Bicycles (The All Powerful Bicycle Lobby)
🏔️Mountains
📻 Amateur Radio - K7SEA
⛑️ Wilderness First Responder
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😻 Cats
Pinned
Is it too early for this?
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Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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BREAKING: We're joining a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from accessing Rhode Island’s entire voter file as part of their effort to create a national voter database.

This puts our sensitive information at risk and could be used to try to disenfranchise voters.
December 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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When Trump’s administration stopped making pennies, they left banks, retailers, and consumers unsure how to conduct basic cash transactions.

The result? Inconsistent price-rounding and unequal treatment of customers. I’m pushing for answers.
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Just discovered this NBER paper examining the safety dangers of car bloat:

"Being hit by a vehicle that is 1,000 pounds heavier results in a 47% increase in the baseline fatality probability."

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Or raise the price of gas
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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If American car manufacturers want a chance at survival, they could start by no longer shoving oversized design down our throats.

American car companies have effectively eliminated smaller, practical vehicles from the marketplace, leaving only massive, expensive trucks and SUVs for basic transport.
Western carmakers ‘in fight for lives’ against Chinese rivals, says Ford boss
Jim Farley’s comments come as US manufacturer and Renault announce deal to make two smaller electric cars
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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It's time once again for my annual #treebybike post. This is the 12/19/42 cover of @newyorker.com, so one full year after the attack on Pearl Harbor. This would be the first real Christmas alone, or without a family member, for millions in the US. Gas and tire rationing had begun earlier that year.🗃️
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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What in the actual hell
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Keeping kids in school sets them up for success, but right now New Mexico is stuck at the bottom of child wellbeing. If we embrace creative ideas that help kids focus on school, New Mexico can become a leader and kids can find the success they deserve.

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Students in need were paid $500 a month to stay in school. It worked.
The state is launching a three-year pilot program offering $500 a month to homeless students who maintain high attendance and fulfill other requirements.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Gorgeous day for a king tide beach ramble.
December 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Hey @kitsaptransit.bsky.social how about a local version of this for my Christmas list next year??
❄️🟨🟦❄️ The 2025 NY Transit Museum Holiday Sweater!

Farewell soon to the iconic MetroCard ❄️🟨🟦❄️
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Nice rain shadow, Sequim.
December 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Just a reminder for everyone that MTG followed teens down the street, bellowing at them and harassing them right after they saw their friends murdered.

She's also still a racist scumbag.
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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MAGA-like Marjorie Taylor Greene-never care about the type of pain they inflict on others until it happens to them
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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May you have a chilly but happy Manul Monday!
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
December 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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As of this morning, our data analysts have worked through ~180 aftershocks above magnitude 3 from yesterday's large earthquake near the Hubbard Glacier. While we have not detected landslides, note that this event was on the same fault system that led to the 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami.
December 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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An Alaskan Village Confronts Its Changing Climate: Rebuild or Relocate?

After a devastating storm, the people who fled a remote coastal village (Kipnuk) face an existential question.

Gift Article
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
An Alaskan Village Confronts Its Changing Climate: Rebuild or Relocate?
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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This week, Trump quietly released his National Security Strategy.

It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world.

Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.
Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy
www.nytimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.

www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Not enough has been made of Trump grabbing the FIFA medal and putting it on himself when it should have been placed over his head by Infantino. A telling move by the Narcissist-in-Chief.
December 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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🔥🇬🇧 POLANSKI: “The issues with NHS, housing, society feeling broken— are not issues of migrants clinging to small boats, but of 14 years of conservative austerity. You’re a government of cowards bc you won’t tell people the truth: We need migration.”

Sound familiar? 🇺🇸
December 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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from a state party director
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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This project isn't clean energy, it's an ecological and cultural travesty.

Solar belongs on rooftops and over parking lots. We have plenty of existing built space in which to locate it.

@governorferguson.bsky.social should have rejected this project.
Yakama Nation says new solar power project will encroach on tribal resources
The Yakama Nation is expressing its disappointment with the approval of a solar power project by Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson, saying that it will encroach on tribal land and
www.applevalleynewsnow.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...
Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is
The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.
paulwaldman.substack.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM