Don Carr
@doncarr.bsky.social
Author of THE MIDNIGHT RAMBLER and the upcoming THE REPUBLIC OF AWESOME. Iowa born, South Dakota raised, Minnesota to the end.
www.doncarrauthor.com
Views my own. Live Green or Die Hard.
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Views my own. Live Green or Die Hard.
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Don Carr
@doncarr.bsky.social
· Nov 10
The Midnight Rambler By Don Carr — the best thriller books
I am quickly finding that an environmental thriller is a sub genre that resonates with me and connects to so many current events. Sophie Grant, our FMC, is one bad a$$ Environmental Protection Agency...
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“I am quickly finding that an environmental thriller is a sub genre that resonates with me and connects to so many current events.” www.bestthrillerbooks.com/teresa-brock...
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This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Wooo hoooo congrats!
Good morning. ROBERT B. PARKER’S BIG SHOT is available everywhere today. Tell a friend.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771890...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771890...
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Police Chief Jesse Stone finds himself in the crosshairs of a rich hedge fund manager dead set on making Paradise Jesse’s personal hell, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved...
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February 10, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Wooo hoooo congrats!
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Data center watchers. Pub radio (WBEZ Chicago) chat with an expert on data centers today. When it came to environmental issues expert cites heavy electricity demand as an issue. No mention of water consumption. That seems to be the norm. Heads up water conservation advocates. @doncarr.bsky.social
February 10, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Data center watchers. Pub radio (WBEZ Chicago) chat with an expert on data centers today. When it came to environmental issues expert cites heavy electricity demand as an issue. No mention of water consumption. That seems to be the norm. Heads up water conservation advocates. @doncarr.bsky.social
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There is NOTHING ‘America First’ about selling out some of our most pristine waters so a Chilean mining company can come in, take our minerals, ship them to China for processing, then sell them off.
All while polluting the Boundary Waters in the process.
All while polluting the Boundary Waters in the process.
February 10, 2026 at 4:33 PM
There is NOTHING ‘America First’ about selling out some of our most pristine waters so a Chilean mining company can come in, take our minerals, ship them to China for processing, then sell them off.
All while polluting the Boundary Waters in the process.
All while polluting the Boundary Waters in the process.
You'd think over on the other site they'd know it's been 40 years and counting.
Totally complicit in continuing to fund campaign contributions for the GOP.
Totally complicit in continuing to fund campaign contributions for the GOP.
February 10, 2026 at 5:21 PM
You'd think over on the other site they'd know it's been 40 years and counting.
Totally complicit in continuing to fund campaign contributions for the GOP.
Totally complicit in continuing to fund campaign contributions for the GOP.
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It’s obvious that eating less meat and dairy has multiple benefits for people and the planet, we don’t do it because the power of the ag lobby is extraordinary and deeply intertwined with settler colonial beliefs and power structures (just look at land grant university research!).
Cows are an invasive species that damage nature. Tribes are showing that less grazing benefits native wildlife like sage grouse.
Yet ranchers dominate public land policy. In the American West, less grazing would mean undoing deeply ingrained “settler-colonial” beliefs
www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...
Yet ranchers dominate public land policy. In the American West, less grazing would mean undoing deeply ingrained “settler-colonial” beliefs
www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...
What’s needed to protect sage grouse? Less grazing. - High Country News
Two tribes are showing how saving sage grouse, and other iconic species of the West’s vast sagebrush steppe, will require are assessment of the widespread cattle grazing that has become an emblem of t...
www.hcn.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
It’s obvious that eating less meat and dairy has multiple benefits for people and the planet, we don’t do it because the power of the ag lobby is extraordinary and deeply intertwined with settler colonial beliefs and power structures (just look at land grant university research!).
You get what you vote for
"an agency in disarray"
"an agency in disarray"
USDA's reputation suffers after massive revisions in US corn acres
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders and economists following deep...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:46 PM
You get what you vote for
"an agency in disarray"
"an agency in disarray"
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BREAKING: Senate Dems Secure Porto Johns Instead of Buckets For Massive Detention Center Expansion
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
BREAKING: Senate Dems Secure Porto Johns Instead of Buckets For Massive Detention Center Expansion
Post a banger that isn't in English.
February 9, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Post a banger that isn't in English.
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Municipal officials have signed non-disclosure agreements with data center companies in at least four Michigan communities as developments "become a political trip wire."
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
Data center details shrouded as 4 Michigan communities sign non-disclosure pacts
The non-disclosure agreements follow a pattern of secrecy within the technology industry, experts said, amid a public outcry over development plans.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Municipal officials have signed non-disclosure agreements with data center companies in at least four Michigan communities as developments "become a political trip wire."
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...
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Considering the challenge in suggesting we eat more plants, proposing insect products seems ridiculous.
But it's received $1B to try to scale & now ~80B insects are farmed.
It can actually emit as much as some beef & has major risks.
My first in the Drawdown Explorer:
drawdown.org/explorer/dep...
But it's received $1B to try to scale & now ~80B insects are farmed.
It can actually emit as much as some beef & has major risks.
My first in the Drawdown Explorer:
drawdown.org/explorer/dep...
February 6, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Considering the challenge in suggesting we eat more plants, proposing insect products seems ridiculous.
But it's received $1B to try to scale & now ~80B insects are farmed.
It can actually emit as much as some beef & has major risks.
My first in the Drawdown Explorer:
drawdown.org/explorer/dep...
But it's received $1B to try to scale & now ~80B insects are farmed.
It can actually emit as much as some beef & has major risks.
My first in the Drawdown Explorer:
drawdown.org/explorer/dep...
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Minnesota has now been turned into a war zone by a federal government that has lost sight of the values that make America great.
We must impeach Kristi Noem and abolish ICE.
We must impeach Kristi Noem and abolish ICE.
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Minnesota has now been turned into a war zone by a federal government that has lost sight of the values that make America great.
We must impeach Kristi Noem and abolish ICE.
We must impeach Kristi Noem and abolish ICE.
“Ain’t beat Toronto since Bruce Lee died”
February 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM
“Ain’t beat Toronto since Bruce Lee died”
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one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
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Democracy dies of heatstroke.
What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:35 PM
Democracy dies of heatstroke.
What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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people were clamoring for another newsletter. here's mine.
Midwest Excellence: An Introduction
Hello.
I'm Steve Neuman. You can call me Stu. Or RandBall's Stu, the unwieldy internet name I've used for so many years now.
Am I the first unemployed writer to ever start a newsletter? You ask an a...
midwest-excellence.ghost.io
February 4, 2026 at 4:20 PM
people were clamoring for another newsletter. here's mine.
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predatory billionaires are doing a speedrun, trashing what remains of any halfway decent institution, any semifunctional public service, any enterprise bent on discovering and disseminating truth.
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
predatory billionaires are doing a speedrun, trashing what remains of any halfway decent institution, any semifunctional public service, any enterprise bent on discovering and disseminating truth.
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Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed.
If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.
If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
The reputational hit for ag is real. Farmers used to be revered.
But gobbling billions more in totally preventable trade subsidies for wealthy landowners, doing nothing while SNAP and conservation is cut while producing cancer water and backing Trump 3 times -- not a winning PR strategy.
But gobbling billions more in totally preventable trade subsidies for wealthy landowners, doing nothing while SNAP and conservation is cut while producing cancer water and backing Trump 3 times -- not a winning PR strategy.
To be clear, absolutely nobody deserves this more than the fucking Corn Growers of the world
February 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
The reputational hit for ag is real. Farmers used to be revered.
But gobbling billions more in totally preventable trade subsidies for wealthy landowners, doing nothing while SNAP and conservation is cut while producing cancer water and backing Trump 3 times -- not a winning PR strategy.
But gobbling billions more in totally preventable trade subsidies for wealthy landowners, doing nothing while SNAP and conservation is cut while producing cancer water and backing Trump 3 times -- not a winning PR strategy.
Of course he wants to change the narrative of a blonde, bloviating, self-aggrandizing, strategic dumbass that got his ass handed to him by Crazy Horse.
Trump orders removal or changing of Native American signage at national park
The Trump administration has flagged two exhibits at Montana's Little Bighorn National Monument as non-compliant, targeting displays that honor tribal sacrifices
www.ktvq.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Of course he wants to change the narrative of a blonde, bloviating, self-aggrandizing, strategic dumbass that got his ass handed to him by Crazy Horse.
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Jesus Christ.
ICE agents clash with bystanders in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Jesus Christ.
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You’re kind, Don. Thank you. And yes, we are all bound by water!
A few years ago while teaching my ocean ecology class (in a landlocked Midwestern state) I sent the students out to take photos of our connections to the ocean. Didn’t take long for them to figure out we are VERY connected to it.
A few years ago while teaching my ocean ecology class (in a landlocked Midwestern state) I sent the students out to take photos of our connections to the ocean. Didn’t take long for them to figure out we are VERY connected to it.
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
You’re kind, Don. Thank you. And yes, we are all bound by water!
A few years ago while teaching my ocean ecology class (in a landlocked Midwestern state) I sent the students out to take photos of our connections to the ocean. Didn’t take long for them to figure out we are VERY connected to it.
A few years ago while teaching my ocean ecology class (in a landlocked Midwestern state) I sent the students out to take photos of our connections to the ocean. Didn’t take long for them to figure out we are VERY connected to it.
Dave's being modest -- Downstream is amazing and helped me see the river and chasing trout in a new way. We're all bound by water.
For the record, my books are okay, but Don’s latest novel is an absolute page-turner. Thrilling, and with a very good but never in-your-face environmental consciousness. I loved it.
I used to sing the $5 footlong song from Subway when I got my quarterly royalty for my first.
February 2, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Dave's being modest -- Downstream is amazing and helped me see the river and chasing trout in a new way. We're all bound by water.
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For the record, my books are okay, but Don’s latest novel is an absolute page-turner. Thrilling, and with a very good but never in-your-face environmental consciousness. I loved it.
I used to sing the $5 footlong song from Subway when I got my quarterly royalty for my first.
February 2, 2026 at 11:08 PM
For the record, my books are okay, but Don’s latest novel is an absolute page-turner. Thrilling, and with a very good but never in-your-face environmental consciousness. I loved it.