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Map and information at trailhead

Runners For Public Lands event on the opening weekend

While there are new reasons to be concerned about public lands each day, a bit of sunshine and hope as the Ventura Land Trust opened its new Ventura Hills Nature Preserve. The preserve includes more than 1600 acres of hillsides above downtown and west Ventura 🌎

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

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How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.

If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.

Greenland should be part of the United States, says a senior Trump adviser Leaders in Greenland and Denmark are in shock. Is the president serious?

If I remember my history correctly, there was a time when Germany wanted/needed all of Europe

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Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration continues to alter the version of American history that appears in government publications, sources confirmed Monday that a page on the National Parks website ha...

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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

Sixty minutes CECOT segment

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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley

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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

A wave goodbye from two friends in the Santa Barbara channel 🐋🌎

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Something to brighten your day amidst all the other darkness. Breaching humpbacks off Channel Islands National Park. 🌎🐋

Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 9, 2025 | GoComics Read Doonesbury—a comic strip by creator Garry Trudeau—for today, November 9, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!

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Let this be a warning to any troublemakers who think it’s ok to care about child safety

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say

U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

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DeFlock Spot, map, and resist automated license plate readers (ALPRs) near you.

Want to see where there are Flock traffic cameras tracking your location? Check out this website deflock.me/map#map=17/3...

Who needs to hear about sciency stuff anyway? 🌎https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/09/23/hancock/hancock-environment/acadia-removes-signs-climate-change/?fbclid=IwZnRzaANBi5BleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpFrk9FgmfqvVZ87eTOzeI8bg5_0DQ4tU0iNMxyB02DTq4QKYsFaJTgwXlKS_aem_4vuhzufMGt5qvoUVajHoRw#mfyt652cc2t9wg529z9

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.
George Orwell

George Wright Society Trump's purging of historic documents and interpretations of history he doesn't like at NPs has begun. At Fort Pulaski NMon, USNPS is being ordered to take down a famous photo of a whipped enslaved.....

It won’t be long before they start revising the rest of the public displays to fit view of what science should look like www.facebook.com/100064681689... 🌎

175 year and going strong

Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.

Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons

Don’t worry “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects” was overrated. The founders surely never intended for people to be able to have secure encrypted messages. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Join us if you are in Ventura on Monday

Corp. for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts The Corp. for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal dollars to NPR and PBS stations, has long been a target of Republicans.

Corp. for Public Broadcasting shuts down after federal funding cuts

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Send the Marines

Still timely today.
Tom Lehrer rest in peace

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In a response to Trump's "tattletale" signs in NPs, a group is asking visitor to take photos of park signs and upload them to an archive in case they are adversely edited. | George Wrigh... In a response to Trump's "tattletale" signs in NPs, a group is asking visitor to take photos of park signs and upload them to an archive in case they are adversely edited. https://buff.ly/aUGAdTw

You can help record the signage of the National Park Service before it is erased 🌎

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Park gift shops could remove books on slavery and the Civil War Among the books flagged for possible removal were “The 1619 Project” and a book about former Interior secretary Deb Haaland.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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Action is the antidote to ecological grief and climate anxiety – an ecotherapist explains My research findings were clear: mental wellness in the face of ecological distress was anchored not in thoughts, but in action

My research findings were clear: mental wellness in the face of ecological distress was anchored not in thoughts, but in action