NorCal Earth Creature
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Sonoran Desert, Northern California, science, climate, music. Sometimes hockey. And birds! #woolfer
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
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Also, this is an invitation to international criminals, just like these kinds of program are everywhere else
An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Also, this is an invitation to international criminals, just like these kinds of program are everywhere else
Awesome event. Thanks to the City of San Jose and San Jose Rocks, there will forever be a historical marker for the first Dead show. #dtsj #gratefuldead
December 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Awesome event. Thanks to the City of San Jose and San Jose Rocks, there will forever be a historical marker for the first Dead show. #dtsj #gratefuldead
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You can't understand what has happened in Israel over the last few years without understanding how Benjamin Netanyahu has brazenly prioritized his own political power and survival over the preferences of the Israeli public:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
December 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
You can't understand what has happened in Israel over the last few years without understanding how Benjamin Netanyahu has brazenly prioritized his own political power and survival over the preferences of the Israeli public:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
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I’ve tried to think of a benign explanation for Trump’s plan to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, but I’ve come up empty.
The administration claims that the U.S. is engaged in a literal armed conflict against foreign drug traffickers, and the president is pardoning a notorious foreign drug trafficker?
The administration claims that the U.S. is engaged in a literal armed conflict against foreign drug traffickers, and the president is pardoning a notorious foreign drug trafficker?
Trump to add notorious Honduran drug trafficker to his list of scandalous pardons
If the president believes the U.S. is at war with drug traffickers, why does he want to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández?
www.ms.now
December 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I’ve tried to think of a benign explanation for Trump’s plan to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, but I’ve come up empty.
The administration claims that the U.S. is engaged in a literal armed conflict against foreign drug traffickers, and the president is pardoning a notorious foreign drug trafficker?
The administration claims that the U.S. is engaged in a literal armed conflict against foreign drug traffickers, and the president is pardoning a notorious foreign drug trafficker?
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![here is no question that the generations-long erosion of the
U.S. manufacturing base, and the diminution of the unionized pension jobs that this sector had offered, disproportionately harmed working-class men. (This is perhaps especially true for Black men, whose access to these steady, well-paying jobs greatly expanded following the victories of the civil-rights movement.) Ongoing industrial collapse has shaped many of the statistics that are central to the man-crisis discourse.
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Yet, if you tilt some of the most commonly cited data points this way or that, you can just as easily argue on the behalf of a woman crisis as a man crisis—or, perhaps most accurately, for an ongoing multidirectional crisis affecting us all,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbsuw4ceyirmgtbscyptwgbe/bafkreid7oybg6am6zsw5tm7hgkji362xtccn6wx6ki4vzbnsefidr7jm6m@jpeg)
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I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
Of particular interest to #Tucson and other Southern Arizona folks.
This AP news story is incredible from front to back but I wanted to flag something super serious and wildly illegal that may have flown under the radar. It’s called parallel construction and it’s when intel is washed from spy agencies and used by local cops. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Of particular interest to #Tucson and other Southern Arizona folks.
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In April 2025, Fiona Havers of the CDC reported on the impact of COVID on children in 2024.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.
Why the American Academy of Pediatrics is diverging from CDC vaccine guidelines
The American Academy of Pediatrics released new COVID vaccination guidelines, and for the first time, they diverge significantly from the recommendations from the CDC. The changes leave parents with c...
www.pbs.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In April 2025, Fiona Havers of the CDC reported on the impact of COVID on children in 2024.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.
She found that thousands of children were hospitalized.
Of those hospitalized, about 1 in 5 were admitted to the intensive care unit.
All were unvaccinated.
Half were previously healthy.
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chat are we cooked
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
chat are we cooked
www.metrosiliconvalley.com/grateful-dea... #gratefuldead #acidtest #dtsj @dgans.bsky.social @zzyzx.bsky.social
Zero to 60: San Jose Marks Grateful Dead Birthplace
In San Jose on Dec. 4, 1965, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Ron McKernan and Phil Lesh played their first gig as the Grateful Dead.
www.metrosiliconvalley.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The “kill them all” order by SecDef Hegseth would be a textbook war crime even if the original attack had been legal.
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The “kill them all” order by SecDef Hegseth would be a textbook war crime even if the original attack had been legal.
Bookshop.org is awesome. Check ‘em out
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Bookshop.org is awesome. Check ‘em out
Javelina, rattlesnake, sea lion, elephant seal, tarantula
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
(Greater Boston Edition)
Canada geese
Mallard ducks
Turkeys
Squirrels
Rock Pigeons
(Greater Boston Edition)
Canada geese
Mallard ducks
Turkeys
Squirrels
Rock Pigeons
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Javelina, rattlesnake, sea lion, elephant seal, tarantula
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Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
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All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
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Senator Kelly’s remarks in the video are “a 100% accurate representation of what the law says."
“No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.”
- Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/politics/mar...
“No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.”
- Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/politics/mar...
Pentagon Investigates Misconduct Allegations Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly
The review comes after Kelly, a retired Navy captain, appeared in a video with other lawmakers telling military members not to obey unlawful orders.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Senator Kelly’s remarks in the video are “a 100% accurate representation of what the law says."
“No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.”
- Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/politics/mar...
“No American citizen should have to deal with this type of preposterous investigation.”
- Professor Eugene Fidell, leading military justice expert in Wall Street Journal
www.wsj.com/politics/mar...
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When the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, there were still wooly mammoths alive in Siberia
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
When the Great Pyramid of Giza was built, there were still wooly mammoths alive in Siberia
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I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk?
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession.
But that's just me
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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“Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“Ale" works in the carrot harvest in CA. She earns $3.05 for every box of carrots she packs. One box has 24 bunches of 7 carrots each. To earn $100 she has to pack 34 boxes or 816 bunches which represents over 5000 carrots picked in a day. #WeFeedYou
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Every time I get a brain MRI scan the doc says “everything looks perfect, see you in three weeks”
so trump just out there getting standard MRI scans as a standard part of the standard multiple annual check ups a president gets in the first ten months
November 15, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Every time I get a brain MRI scan the doc says “everything looks perfect, see you in three weeks”
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Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".