Benjamin Powell

Kira and I have new Alpacka pack rafts. These crafts are amazingly light. Can't wait for next year's boating season!

The neighbors kids were driving me crazy just making the noise that boys will make. Decided to go for a walk and caught this sunset. It reminded me to be more grateful and less grumpy tonight.

Spontaneous camping trip last weekend.

Found this on a sidewalk today.

Bear track in mud. Was wet & slippery yesterday.

Hiking today

114 fired from National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden as part of Trump administration cuts The National Renewable Energy Lab confirmed it has fired 114 employees and subcontractors as part of Trump administration cost-cutting.

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I kind of want to go

If a deranged president intentionally destroying the country's economy with a ludicrous obsession (and misunderstanding) of tariffs *isn't* justification for invoking the 25th Amendment, I honestly can't imagine any scenario that would be.

Easter Eggs Are So Expensive Americans Are Dyeing Potatoes

If this story didn't have today's date, I would've thought it was a Depression-era headline.

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

I'd rather see oil & gas subsidies go away. We need science more than ever.

Brutal.

Some sound advice:

It's going to be a long wildfire season...

It's going to be a long wildfire season...

Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

How many Tesla’s should we throw in the Boston Harbor?

Sign of the day…

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.

Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

Cost of extending the expiring Trump tax cuts for the rich: $4.6 trillion

Cost of cutting corporate tax rate to 15%: $1 trillion

Both Trump proposals will explode the deficit and be used as an excuse to gut programs that millions rely on.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

I think we’ve come up with the name…

Convicted Conman Ends Bribery and Corruption Laws

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

Petition for Denmark to buy California for $1 trillion surpasses 200,000 signatures A satirical online petition is catching the attention of both Californians and Danes alike.

We are a sad joke around the world.

Musks’s DOGE Announces Millions in Cuts to Education Dept. Amid Legal Pushback Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team said that it had “terminated” 89 of the department’s contracts, apparently targeting its research arm.

We need a larger, better funded education department! Not this.

I know he doesn’t owe us absolutely anything, but now would be a great time to hear Dr. Anthony Fauci’s thoughts on the current & future bird flu situation.

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