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Wildfire Mgmt 28+ yrs | Public Lands | Public Affairs | PIO | Emergency Management | News Junkie | Nerd | Foodie | Cooking | Travel | Sustainability | Community | #wildfire #communication #science -- 🏑=NM & AZ

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Read the linked News & Views commentary by Manolo Mischler & Olivier Tenaillon πŸ‘‡

Deep mutational scans clarify the record of evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free to read: rdcu.be/eQ5HU

21.11.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congressional Republicans Begin to Look Beyond Trump

Congressional Republicans Begin to Look Beyond Trump.
(Carl Hulse, NYT-unlocked)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

21.11.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Trump Overhaul of the Energy Dept. Breaks Up Clean Energy Offices

They’re dismantling clean energy. Phuck their grand kids I guess. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...

21.11.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme

Oh my god fuck this guy on so many levels. Trump's pardons are absolutely the worst (gift article).

21.11.2025 10:14 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Arizona water department defends new alternative to groundwater compliance Facing challenges over cost and constitutional liberties, the Arizona Department of Water Resources says a new groundwater rule will promote housing development, not hamper it.

Arizona water department defends new alternative to groundwater compliance
www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

21.11.2025 10:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Pentagon Can’t Trust GPS Anymore. Is Quantum Physics the Answer? New devices navigate without the help of satellites or the risk of enemies jamming signals.

www.wsj.com/tech/the-pen...

21.11.2025 02:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rising Home Insurance Premiums Are Eating Into Home Values in Disaster-Prone Areas (Gift Article) Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

21.11.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Toddler Response to the Epstein Saga The president baits, deflects, and chews the scenery in a drama that just won’t die.

For your reading pleasure: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

20.11.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

20.11.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

JP Morgan knew about Epstein's sex trafficking, but didn't report it so they could keep doing business with him.

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Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling

Trump Plans to Open More Than a Billion Acres of U.S. Waters to Drilling www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/c...

20.11.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Are you a current federal employee? In the absence of the 2025 FEVS, we created the Public Viewpoint Survey to assess today's federal employee view on their jobs and workplaces.

Have your voice heard. Complete the survey today. ➑️ ourpublicservice.org/PSVS

10.11.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

It's more inspiring when the NYTimes allows data to drive the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c... Feels similar to the local successes that @jfallows.bsky.social and Deb Fallows surface often.

20.11.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They retired from the government. Now they’re back, protecting forests Trump abandoned. The U.S. Forest Service lost thousands of workers under Trump. Volunteers and retirees are trying to help β€” but things are breaking.

They retired from the government. Now they’re back, protecting forests Trump abandoned.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

20.11.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot Nature Ecology & Evolution - Amidst the collective push to establish nature conservation initiatives, little attention has been paid to ensuring that they persist over time. The abandonment of...

Abandonment of nature conservation initiatives is overlooked but widespread globally, as key players abdicate their management responsibilities (e.g., "paper parks") and roll back formal protections (e.g., PADDD*).

More here: rdcu.be/eQpdN

*protected area downgrading, downsizing, & degazettement

20.11.2025 18:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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They retired from the government. Now they’re back, protecting forests Trump abandoned. The U.S. Forest Service lost thousands of workers under Trump. Volunteers and retirees are trying to help β€” but things are breaking.

The U.S. government is abdicating its responsibility to manage protected lands and waters. @hannahnatanson.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com reports on the aftermath...

#ConservationAbandonment #PaperParks @catalyzconserv.bsky.social

wapo.st/4r4727z

20.11.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

"Even if climate change does not trigger a full-fledged economic panic, whole regions will be thinned out & impoverished. Residential areas are the centerpiece of local economies, yet without insurance, people cannot get mortgages, & so most cannot buy houses." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

20.11.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items β€œpotentially divisive.”

Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses, as hate symbols.

The fuck?

wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

20.11.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7387    πŸ” 3166    πŸ’¬ 998    πŸ“Œ 575
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The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.

This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.

20.11.2025 17:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9865    πŸ” 3242    πŸ’¬ 600    πŸ“Œ 212
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Fire burning in southwestern Japan damages 170 homes and forces evacuations A man in his 70s was unaccounted for and firefighters later found a body, possibly of the missing man, and a woman in her 50s suffered a minor injury, officials said.

Firefighters and army helicopters battle a fire that’s burning through a neighborhood in southwestern Japan, killing one person, injuring another, and forcing more than 170 people to evacuate.

20.11.2025 05:00 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Jeffrey, Who? A Plane Ride with Donald Trump From the daily newsletter: remembering a trip to Mar-a-Lago.

Mark Singer recalls a 1997 flight with Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell, and a phone conversation the two had with a friend named Jeffrey. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jMp_Ao

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Don’t trade where you tweet Online conversations about hot meme stocks or cryptocurrencies are the source of some very bad decisions

Don’t trade where you tweet on.ft.com/48bvMCt | opinion

20.11.2025 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Jesse Welles on Instagram: "join ice! #sInGeRsOnGwRiTeR #OrGiNAL #sOnG #folk πŸ“· @thegrayhall 🌞" Are you seeking a career with purpose, respect, and authority? Learn about the role of law enforcement and how it can provide a sense of fulfillment and challenge. From handling difficult situations t...

Jesse Welles is the modern day John Prine.

This song, man....

www.instagram.com/reel/DQMeAF8...

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Rep. Vindman calls Trump's accounting of the Saudis' involvement in Jamal Khashoggi's murder "counterfactual." "It's contrary to the reports of the intel community determined with high confidence that this was an order of a kill or capture of Jamal Khashoggi."

20.11.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 705    πŸ” 236    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 12

interestingly, and few know this, there actually was an opportunity for the House to vote down a piece of legislation that it opposed

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Aliens? Submarines? Gassy whales? Mystery bubbles off California coast spark intrigue, theories Beachgoers and amateur sleuths tried to figure out what was causing the bubbles in the ocean off Hermosa Beach. The answer was less fun than the guesses.

Aliens? Submarines? Gassy whales? Mystery bubbles off California coast spark intrigue, theories

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Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the US justice department to release more files related to the deceased child sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein. πŸ”—πŸ‘‰ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

20.11.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Texas Is Turning Private Land Into Public Parks in a Historic Spending Spree A massive push toward public land expansion means more state parks for all Texans to enjoy.

Good news: Texas Parks and Wildlife is going on a spending spree to open new parks to the public, a welcome development in a state where some 95 percent of land is privately owned. πŸžοΈβ€οΈπŸŽ‰ https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/new-texas-state-parks-expansion/

19.11.2025 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Everyone Wants to Ban Congressional Stock Trades, but Some Supporters Worry Mike Johnson Is Stalling Members of Congress are getting rich trading stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations. Will Mike Johnson stall a ban?

Members of Congress are getting rich trading stocks and flouting the current, toothless regulations.

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F'ing this! πŸ‘‡

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