Brian Ehrmantraut

Brian Ehrmantraut

@behrmantraut.bsky.social

Eastsound, Orcas Island

42 Followers 81 Following 24 Posts Joined Jan 2025
7 months ago
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Wildfire season is upon us, but it sure does make for pretty sunsets here.

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Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records President Trump has fired the nation's top record keeper, Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan.

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As someone living and working on the trans-boundary Salish Sea I can't imaging this is going to work well here.

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This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

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We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency
Rebecca Solnit
 
04 Feb 2025 — 10 min read
Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally and imaginatively impoverished billionaires, notably Musk and Trump, right now is: they do not expect or imagine or understand consequences. Any of them– their theory of change seems to be that they are going to do stuff and then it will be done. Like they're moving furniture around, like you and I and the trans and immigrant communities and federal workers and Canada and Mexico are just so many sofas and chairs that are going to sit where they place us. Like we're inanimate objects. Maybe everything is dead in the sad lonely worldview inside their head. Which would also explain their recalcitrance about climate and nature: if you see it as a collection of inert objects rather than an intricate living system in which what you do to any one part may affect the whole, you grant yourself more license to meddle. But today I'm here to talk about the human--and human nature, and how they misunderstand that too.

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

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Make no mistake: Trump's illegal destruction of USAID will cost lives. All my colleagues should understand these actions empower Russia & the Chinese Communist Party at the cost of America because one billionaire with deep ties to U.S. adversaries decided to do so on a whim.

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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

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“When I look back at those days I have no doubt that Providence guided us, not only across those snowfields, but across the storm-white sea that separated Elephant Island from our landing-place on South Georgia" - Ernest Shackleton, South

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This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

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Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' when the evenin' come
Watching the ships roll in
And then I watch 'em roll away again, yeah

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The Dead Internet Theory, Explained The Dead Internet Theory suggests that the vast majority of online activity has been replaced by AI-generated content, and the theory is becoming more popular.

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All the people who were shrugging and equivocating over Elon and whether he was aligning with Nazi, far-right forces should be launched into the sun.

May they never be taken seriously again.

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Good advice for sanity from @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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