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hammerlady.bsky.social @hammerlady.bsky.social · 1h

Too funny.... I think I'll shoot my own posters, though.
Today's view, beautiful hike/walk at Goat Marsh...on the last of the sunny days for a while here in the Pacific Northwet.

Wispy white clouds in a blue sky over a snow covered Mt. St. Helens. Goat Marsh in the foreground.

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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 1d

If you are a federal scientist in the US and have a been served a RIF notice during the shutdown, experts say this is illegal. you can contact Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) confidentially via the Science Committee Democrats’ Whistleblower form democrats-science.house.gov/contact/whis... 🧪.

Science & Tech Whistleblower | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

democrats-science.house.gov

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Jenny Schuetz @jennyschuetz.bsky.social · 1d

New federal policy on historic preservation: better to ask forgiveness than permission?

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Max M. @ambystomax.bsky.social · 1d

The turn of the season is seen in the death of the fireweed and the vine maple's changing colors, but the rhododendron doesn't seem to mind. Nice work day in the woods.

Bright green rhododendron leaves on a forested slope

Sunlit brown stalks of dying fireweed in a burned forest

A backpack and trekking poles rest against the charred base of a large Douglas fir, as an indicator of its size

Leaves of vine maple colored yellow and red contrast sharply against a still-green carpet of understory plants

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 2d

Some folks were worried that they'd sic thugs on the protestors or declare martial law. Instead they posted AI videos and complained.

These people have no juice. Their supporters are cowards. They are are all bark and no bite. They collapse when we push back. Remember that.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3d

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid

anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House”

this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 3d

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 3d

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎

www.opb.org/article/2025...

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers

Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.

www.opb.org

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 4d

You can easily block the official MAGA government accounts here. Do not engage them. Do not give them what they want.

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 4d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 4d

Office For The Day ❤️. I recommend all Feds to get out in the woods, even if burned over (there’s pine seedlings though!) and even if you are not in land management.

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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 4d

Today is #scape day as well as #ForestFriday. I think this image fits both themes. Made deep in the woods of North Florida over a river sink. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #reflections #longexposure #springs

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Max M. @ambystomax.bsky.social · 5d

Nutcracker butt!

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Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 6d

Federal judge blocks Trump from carrying out thousands of layoffs during shutdown

w/ @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/brea...

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump from carrying out thousands of layoffs during shutdown

WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday, blocking the Trump administration from moving forward with the thousands of layoffs it initiated after the government shutd...

www.newsfromthestates.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6d

A judge Wednesday extended her two temporary restraining orders that barred President Donald Trump from deploying Oregon National Guard members - or any National Guard members - to Portland for another two weeks.

Judge extends two restraining orders on deployment of National Guard to Oregon

U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut also set a trial date on the merits of Oregon's underlying lawsuit against federal deployment of troops.

www.oregonlive.com

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 | #MSH45 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 8d

Before it was Mount St. Helens, it was Lawetlat’la—Loowit, the smoking mountain.

To the Cowlitz (Upper Cowlitz/Taidnapam) and Yakama (Klickitat), the volcano is alive—a place of story, balance and renewal.

Today, we honor those who have cared for it since time immemorial. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

View looking south toward Mount St. Helens from the Johnston Ridge Observatory area on August 6, 2017. The wide panorama shows the open crater of the volcano beneath a hazy summer sky, with the North Fork Toutle River valley stretching across the center. Replanted forests and natural regrowth patch the gray landscape of ash and debris left by the 1980 eruption.

Photographed by Chris, August 6, 2017.

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Max M. @ambystomax.bsky.social · 10d

If you do nothing else, continue to bear witness (and call your reps about it). They have shown time and again that they will fold under public outcry. Do not let the dismantling of science fly below the radar, keep the pressure on.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 10d

Sending love to all the CDC folks who are experiencing a RIF today (and late Friday night a 3-day weekend, to boot). Scroll through the @altcdc.altgov.info posts from tonight to see the many affected offices. Thank you for your service. You are appreciated. We will get through this together.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10d

RIFed:
PHIC - Public Health Infrastructure Center

Their job? Make public health infrastructure and workforce development actually work.

They help state, tribal, local, and territorial health agencies.

Y’know… everyone in the U.S. 🫠

2024 Accomplishments

Strengthening the public health infrastructure and workforce of the United States

www.cdc.gov

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Steph likes the outdoors @dendromecon27.bsky.social · 12d

FYI High Country News is letting current and former federal employees access their online content for free right now.

www.hcn.org/about/govern...

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 12d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 | #MSH45 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 14d

Okay, switched to Average White Band (AKA Vulfpeck before Vulfpeck).

From the valleys to the lakes, signs poked through as early as Summer—fireweed, trillium, berries shaded by snowfall.

It would be brutal, but the process had begun.

A small cluster of fireweed and other low plants sprouting from fine gray ash on a slope near the North Fork Toutle River, showing the first signs of life returning after the Mount St. Helens eruption. Cowlitz County, Washington. 1980. USGS.

A trillium plant emerging through blast deposits at Upper Clearwater, its green leaves breaking through a layer of gray ash loosened by melting snow. Photographed by Jerry Franklin, Oregon State University, June 17, 1980 (ABB-051).

A cluster of bright red berries clings to the branch of a mountain ash shrub on the shore of Meta Lake, one of the few plants to survive beneath winter snow cover within the Mount St. Helens blast zone. Photographed by Fred Swanson, summer 1980 (ABB-061).

Two researchers stand among a dense spread of fireweed blooming across gray ash deposits and clearcut stumps in the Upper Green River or Clearwater Valley area, showing the landscape’s early recovery after the eruption. Photographed by M. Hermstrom, September 15, 1980 (ABB-067).

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Max M. @ambystomax.bsky.social · 14d

Chipmunk is a go for launch in 10... 9... 8...

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 14d

31 USC 1341 is clear.

Each employee of the United States Government... furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations.

"covered lapse in appropriations” means any lapse in appropriations that begins on or after Dec. 22, 2018.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16d

Your moment of calm this morning, in totally unwartorn Portland. Cedar waxwings lit by the sun, preening on branches.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16d

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

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Max M. @ambystomax.bsky.social · 16d

Every person ripped from their families, ever cruel heartless jab, every child experiencing trauma they will carry with them the rest of their lives - I feel all of it, and I don't understand how others can't, much less how they can be the cause of it. It doesn't make sense to me.