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Trees and clouds reflected on the waters of Bear Lake

Trees and clouds reflected on the waters of Bear Lake

Trees and clouds reflected on the waters of Bear Lake

Bear Lake reflections #rmnp

Me in front of an aspen with bright yellow leaves

Mountain range fronted by a mix of green pines and yellow-leaved aspens

Stand of golden-colored aspens

Beautiful yellow aspen set back from the trail

Near-peak fall color at Mueller State Park today! #fallcolor #autumn #colorado #aspens

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: DOJ Deputy Chief Joseph Schnitt was caught on a hidden camera saying the government will “redact every Republican” from the Epstein files and leave only the Democrats.

He also revealed that Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a minimum security “to keep her mouth shut.”

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

I’m still in disbelief that so many MAGAs are scared of everything and everybody. It’s sad how Trump too a whole group of people and made them afraid, all while convincing them it was actually “alpha”

Me at the summit

View from the summit

Friendly neighborhood mountain goat

View of Mt Bierstadt from about halfway up

14er number 3: Mount Bierstadt. Really nice hike to the summit!

Hegseth reportedly fires the DIA chief, pushing Pentagon purge to a ridiculous new level The Defense Intelligence Agency told the White House what it didn't want to hear. Soon after, Pete Hegseth reportedly fired the head of the DIA.

Must have provided an honest, reliable intelligence analysis. Getting fired by this administration is a badge of honor, tbh.

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Holy shit.

Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here.

The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

I think we could solve these issues with a Ministry of Truth. 🧐

Why is the FBI patrolling DC instead of releasing the Epstein files? Just another manufactured distraction. Sad!

Why is the FBI patrolling DC instead of releasing the Epstein files? Just another distraction…

I was one of the columnists who left the Post after owner Jeff Bezos demanded the Opinion section largely focus on “personal liberties and free markets." Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing.

— Perry Bacon, TNR's newest team member
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really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.

The damage is generational.

Completed my first 14er yesterday at Mt Elbert - the highest peak in Colorado (but one of the easier ones to hike up)

We said release the files not the accomplices, idiot.

Some pics from my recent backpacking trip in Rocky Mountain National Park

Infographic titled “One Court, Two Standards” compares how the Supreme Court used emergency powers to rule on lower-court injunctions against the Biden and Trump administrations. Two panels show: • Biden Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 21 cases. All 21 cases are represented by red squares, indicating that 0% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. • Trump Administration: Lower courts blocked policies in 86 cases. 66 green squares and 20 red squares show that 77% of injunctions/TROs were lifted by SCOTUS. Key takeaway box below reads: “Using its ‘shadow docket,’ the Supreme Court granted emergency relief to lift 77% of lower-court injunctions against the Trump administration. It lifted 0% of those against the Biden administration.” Sources and notes below include: CourtListener data through July 7, 2025; analysis by Adam Bonica.

The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.

When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.

For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

NREL Maps Out US Data Infrastructure Spending time as wee hackers perusing the family atlas taught us an appreciation for a good map, and [Billy Roberts], a cartographer at NREL, has served up a doozy with a map of the data center inf…

NREL Maps Out US Data Infrastructure

“You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.”
-Marcus Aurelius

Designed for mass shootings, but same idea applies here. Too early to know anything.

Eric Andre Show meme, “now is the time for peace”

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Pic I took a few years ago of St Non’s Chapel in Wales, birthplace of St David.

View of the sand dunes in from of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains

Looking up at the dunes from the bottom

Following a dune ridge to the top

At the top of High Dune

Quick trip to Great Sand Dunes National Park