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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 5h

Washington State Minimum Wage to Rise to $17.13 in 2026,
Will Remain Highest in the Nation

www.myclallamcounty.com/2025/10/08/w...

Washington State Minimum Wage to Rise to $17.13 in 2026, Will Remain Highest in the Nation

OLYMPIA — Washington’s minimum wage will increase to $17.13 per hour on Jan. 1, 2026 — a 2.8% bump driven by inflation, the Department of Labor and Industries announced Tuesday. The current $16.66 rat...

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 7h

Jake Sullivan worked tirelessly on many fronts, constantly. I admire him. In case you're curious, this is 11 minutes w/ one brief ad:

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Jake Sullivan tried to get a Gaza peace deal. Here's what he thinks of Trump's : Consider This from NPR

A ceasefire is now in effect between Israel and Hamas, and the Israeli military has pulled back from certain positions in the Gaza Strip. In the coming days, a hostage and prisoner exchange is set to ...

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 14h

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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rrd-mwc @rrd-mwc.bsky.social · 1d

Funeral of trees. A picture with a very serious message. Please help save our public lands, our and their very existence depends on it.

#resistance #raiseyourvoice #takeaction #publiclands #biodiversity #nature #conservation #wilderness #wildlife #endangeredspecies #climatechange

A logging truck moving down the road with a long line of various wildlife following behind. Funeral of trees. A picture with a very serious message. Please help save our public lands, our and their very existence depends on it.

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 19h

Be part of the movement. Be part of the Resistance. This is not the time to sit this out! Get involved. Join local organizations. Be vocal. Fight for your rights. Freedom is worth fighting for.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 15h

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

A grand jury in Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday. James was charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 1d

Another good example. It's about a mining town called Prosperity, PA, by someone who lives there and must have been paid by the mining company to write this flagrant puff piece. Published in Bezos-owned Opinions section under his new rules.

tinyurl.com/36shpmdx

Opinion | Down in a Pennsylvania mine, I saw coal’s future

You can’t understand Pennsylvania without understanding coal.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 1d

That's how I feel every day when I read the news headlines.

Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 1d

Poor thing. So sleepy and can't get in to sleep.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe there are laws against squishing opposums? :-)

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 1d

Column: I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
wapo.st/48sc33b

Another problem that's happening on more sites: "dynamic pricing." The more people who look at an item, the higher the price goes, so it can change more than once the same day.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 1d

"Young people in Nepal rose up against corruption and inequality. But they say they did not expect the bloodshed, arson and government downfall that followed....

"Someone, somehow appears to have steered the movement in unexpected ways."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

How a Gen Z Revolution Spiraled Out of Control

www.nytimes.com

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 2d

Governors are meeting, planning, prepping lawsuits to file.

Media should be, but it would be silly to tell us before.

Another nationwide No Kings Day is coming: October 18th.

Nothing ever changes until millions of citizens protest over and over and make it clear that we will VOTE THEM OUT.

Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 2d

Hardy Merriman, former president of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict re: power of public pressure:

"You don’t need people doing things that are high risk. You just need large numbers of people.... In a backsliding democracy, it's public mobilization that's the guardrail."

Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 2d

From this,which isn't about Kimmel but is about the effectiveness of nonviolent public resistance and pressure:

www.wnyc.org/story/jimmy-...

Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure | The Political Scene | The New Yorker | WNYC

The Washington Roundtable discusses how, in the wake of the reinstatement of Jimmy Kimmel’s show, public resistance has a chance to turn the tide against autocratic impulses in today’...

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 2d

Hardy Merriman, former president of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict re: power of public pressure:

"You don’t need people doing things that are high risk. You just need large numbers of people.... In a backsliding democracy, it's public mobilization that's the guardrail."

Source:

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

it’s all just a grift

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 3d

These guys have no respect for women. We know that. At every protest, women are always on the frontline! This woman was doing nothing wrong. She was simply protesting. And these thugs violently took her down. What happened to all of our rights to protest? Are we no longer a country that obeys laws?

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 5d

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Good night friends.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 4d

Happy birthday! Indulge.

Birthday card that says "Eat cake for breakfast."

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know how long he has been the director, but I do know that the department hasn't been about protecting fish and wildlife in the 10 years that I've lived in WA.

Thanks for posting this. I reposted and signed the petition.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 4d

Another good example of why he should be ousted:

As a devout bear hunter, Susewind has vowed to bring the hunt back, even though 80% of Washingtonians oppose spring bear hunting and only 8% support the hunt.

Screenshot quotes part of the text that's on the official petition, which is shown on the next screen if you click the link to go there. This excerpt describes the reasons for ousting the Washington State Fish and Wildlife director.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 4d

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, a former girlfriend and associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison term.

A jury in Manhattan federal court convicted Maxwell in 2021 on charges that included sex trafficking a teenage girl.

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