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Wildlife camera trapping by BRF research, 2025. Photo by Dr. Scott LaPoint.

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May your Thanksgiving be filled with peace & connection to nature! 🦃 & #OptOutside on Black Friday

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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.

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

Setting aside her thoughts on the dersh, "redrawing the lines of acceptable debate" is a blatant admission of attempting to redraw the overton window. She's stating openly her desire to operate cbs news as a vehicle for state propaganda

this is a visual haiku! 😍

they're outcrying their way to the bank

Trump set to reverse himself on tax credits...but with several poison pills included Via Politico this morning, a mixed bag of good & bad news on the enhanced ACA tax credit saga today: The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension...

📣 Trump apparently set to reverse himself on #ACA tax credits...but with several poison pills included...

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“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page "The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."

Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the CDC website. The agency's employees are not happy about it.

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”

In self-interest but also general interest, folks: Black Friday is coming up, and small publishers/independent creators will always be a better choice than megacorps.

When the sales drop, please remember that!

...and just when I thought I was done cancelling subscriptions 🫩

Fear is contagious, but so is courage. I remain steadfast in my oath to the Constitution and am grateful to those across the nation who stand with us. Don't give up the ship.

Let this sink in:

Rubio, Trump, and this admin just based their “Ukraine peace plan” on a document written and leaked by Russia.

Outsourcing U.S. policy to the Kremlin isn’t strategy, it signals to adversaries that they can shape American policy simply by slipping them a memo.

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, Federal Agents Repeatedly Lied About What They Did During Aggressive Immigration Raids: Judge U.S. District Court Judge Sara Ellis used a blistering 233-page ruling to painstakingly detail how agents falsely asserted in court and in official reports that they had been confronted with unrelenti...

FULL STORY: Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino, and the agents who led a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and its suburbs, falsely depicted ordinary Chicagoans as professional agitators determined to mount a violent resistance, a federal judge determined. @wttw.bsky.social

I just feel we need to keep saying, over and over, that the problem with DOGE was not its failure to cut spending. the problem with DOGE is that it CUT GLOBAL AID LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 600K PEOPLE AND COUNTING. 1

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"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

more Broke Drawlin's

anagram: Licknut✨

you're welcome

ironic that his tariffs have made blood-of-virgins harder to come by

DOGE fizzled out early, promising trillions in savings but delivering peanuts amid inflated claims and costly disruptions that hurt everyday workers and taxpayers. Another hollow victory for efficiency theater. #GovernmentWaste

Nobody should be running for public office without calls for swift and aggressive investigation, prosecution, trial, conviction, and appropriate sentencing for DOGE, ICE, the Trump administration, the Republican Congress, state level Republican, and their staffs, partners, funders, and associates.

Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Between this and Sean Duffy and telling us to dress nicer on planes, I think we need fifty New York Times op-eds about the GOP's "scoldy elitism" problem.

I talked to Sen Gary Peters about his investigation into DOGE’s handling of our Social Security data. It's CRAZY. If you haven’t read the report, do.

TLDR? It’s very likely that DOGE uploaded all of our most private Social Security data to an insecure cloud server. Nobody knows who can access it.

The actions of Witkoff, Rubio and Trump in this matter are an absolute disgrace. This means that the U.S. cannot be seen as an honest broker in any international conflict.

yes, impeccable pedigree

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

I know I’m still an eternal optimist because every time I open this app it’s with the hope of seeing the breaking news of that one really big thing.