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Within walking distance:
• California myotis bats
• Bobcats
• Coyotes
• Pileated woodpeckers
• Red-shouldered hawks
Bobcat
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. The 1935 novel about electing an idiot who becomes a dictator.
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. 1935 dystopian political novel about an idiot who becomes a fascist dictator.
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Victims of police officer domestic violence are particularly vulnerable.
Domestic violence is always a terrible crime, but victims of a police officer are particularly vulnerable because the officer who is abusing them: has a gun, knows the location of battered women's shelters, and knows how to manipulate the system to avoid penalty and/or shift blame to the victim.5, 6 Victims often fear calling the police, because they know the case will be handled by officers who are colleagues and/or friends of their abuser. Victims of police family violence typically fear that the responding officers will side with their abuser and fail to properly investigate or document the crime.
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Argentina?
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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The National Institute on drug abuse: Slow breathing from long term heroin use can cause permanent brain damage.
According to the National Institute on drug abuse slow breathing from long term heroin use can cause permanent brain damage.
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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The peace symbol is a combination of semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D" to stand for "nuclear disarmament"
August 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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“The nest contamination level was greater than 10 times the total contamination values allowed in federal regulations.”

Legacy radioactive contamination
from Cold War nuclear weapons.

And more nuclear weapons manufacturing to come.

Lots of future job openings in Superfund cleanups.
During the Cold War, the Savannah River Site produced nuclear material and nuclear weapons components. It became an EPA Superfund site in 1989, with cleanup and environmental remediation going on ever since. In recent years, the National Nuclear Security Administration has begun work on a facility there to produce new plutonium cores for American nuclear weapons. The NNSA plans to build at least 50 new plutonium cores per year in the new facility.
July 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Sounds like something Adrian Tchaikovsky dreamed up.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
July 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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“The Contrails Effect.”
screenshot of the funders:
Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
July 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Film reference: Mississippi Masala.
Mississippi Masala 1991 film directed by Mira Nair. About a family of Ugandan Indians living in Mississippi after the expulsion of Asians from Uganda by Idi Amin.
July 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I’m reading through a number of banned books this summer. This week it’s They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and wonderful artwork by Harmony Becker.
They Called Us Enemy graphic novel by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
June 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The meat industry is especially evil while taking advantage of migrant workers.
Safety and Health Administration regulates the safety and health conditions applicable to workers in the American meat packing industry. According to scholars of the American meat packing industry, despite federal regulation through OSHA and industry oversight, workers in meat production plants have little agency and inadequate protections. Workers in the industry perform difficult jobs in dangerous conditions, and are at significant risk for physical and psychological harm.
June 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Earthseed poem by Octavia Butler.
Earthseed poem by Octavia Butler. “To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen”
May 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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it doesn't matter what you wear
just as long as you are there...
May 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Everyday is Earth Day.
April 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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March 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Earth is my church.
California Lupine Blooming at the base of a moss covered tree trunk.
March 18, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Yesterday in the redwoods we heard a Pacific Wren singing it’s heart out. It filled us with joy.
Cluster of giant redwoods in afternoon light.
March 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Some of the most majestic things persevere.
Old growth redwood tree.
February 20, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Department of Labor used to have a Worker’s Rights poster.
Gone now.
Worker’s Rights poster on DOL.gov unavailable
February 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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This is from DOL . Gov
Graphic showing how lithium and cobalt are mined and processed.
February 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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USAID had a $50 Billion budget according to Wikipedia.
USAID Wikipedia page
February 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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TRUTH
February 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Nature, art, music, and poetry have been therapeutic for me lately.
book cover: You Are Here. Poetry in the Natural World book cover: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
January 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Banana slug in moss covered redwood.
January 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM