Dan Thornton
@greatbasindan.bsky.social
Volunteer | Founder of Ride Carson City 🚴 | Carson City Bike Park Initiative Project Lead | Community Builder | 5th Generation Nevadan
Nevada just lost a lifeline. Congress slashed $9B—including aid that funds global health and CPB support that keeps rural NV stations like KUNR and KNPR on air.
This isn’t belt-tightening. It’s a targeted assault on informed communities.
#NVPol #PublicMedia #USAID #DemocracyUnderCut
This isn’t belt-tightening. It’s a targeted assault on informed communities.
#NVPol #PublicMedia #USAID #DemocracyUnderCut
July 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Nevada just lost a lifeline. Congress slashed $9B—including aid that funds global health and CPB support that keeps rural NV stations like KUNR and KNPR on air.
This isn’t belt-tightening. It’s a targeted assault on informed communities.
#NVPol #PublicMedia #USAID #DemocracyUnderCut
This isn’t belt-tightening. It’s a targeted assault on informed communities.
#NVPol #PublicMedia #USAID #DemocracyUnderCut
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Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
Finally, "the dog caught the car."
July 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Finally, "the dog caught the car."
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The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:fd572iftrmkwevmut55izp3b/post/3ltixwzrlrs2q.
Page by altNOAA 🇺🇸 | @altnoaa.bsky.social - skywriter.blue
Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵...
skywriter.blue
July 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:fd572iftrmkwevmut55izp3b/post/3ltixwzrlrs2q.
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LA: “Your children will one day grow up and know their fathers or mothers were kidnappers against our own people.”
July 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
LA: “Your children will one day grow up and know their fathers or mothers were kidnappers against our own people.”
Worth your time: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by altNOAA 🇺🇸 | @altnoaa.bsky.social
Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can r...
skywriter.blue
July 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Worth your time: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Important info here. We have to advocate for a return to safer staffing levels at NOAA and additional funding for weather balloons.
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Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Important info here. We have to advocate for a return to safer staffing levels at NOAA and additional funding for weather balloons.
Reposted by Dan Thornton
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Bernie is right—we have to put up a fight.
July 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Bernie is right—we have to put up a fight.
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This is a worthy read. Getting this dropped from the so-called Big Beautiful Bill was worth celebrating but it was only a battle - not the war. The fight continues:
www.propublica.org/article/utah...
www.propublica.org/article/utah...
Utah Sen. Mike Lee Says Selling Off Public Lands Will Solve the West’s Housing Crisis. Past Sales Show Otherwise.
Last month, Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did little to address the challenges of building affordable housing on...
www.propublica.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
This is a worthy read. Getting this dropped from the so-called Big Beautiful Bill was worth celebrating but it was only a battle - not the war. The fight continues:
www.propublica.org/article/utah...
www.propublica.org/article/utah...
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented and explain it to Congress and the Ukrainian government.
Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized pause on weapon shipments to Ukraine, sources say | CNN Politics
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off...
www.cnn.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented and explain it to Congress and the Ukrainian government.
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Los Angeles residents were outraged after dozens of federal agents marched through MacArthur Park, in one of the city’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Homeland Security officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. trib.al/JYW5IsU
July 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Los Angeles residents were outraged after dozens of federal agents marched through MacArthur Park, in one of the city’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Homeland Security officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. trib.al/JYW5IsU
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President Macron, "What is at stake in Europe is the different democratic models amid foreign interference"
"Information manipulation"
"Domination of minds by negative emotions and addictions to social media"
"Being vulnerable to algorithms designed in the US and China"
"Information manipulation"
"Domination of minds by negative emotions and addictions to social media"
"Being vulnerable to algorithms designed in the US and China"
July 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
President Macron, "What is at stake in Europe is the different democratic models amid foreign interference"
"Information manipulation"
"Domination of minds by negative emotions and addictions to social media"
"Being vulnerable to algorithms designed in the US and China"
"Information manipulation"
"Domination of minds by negative emotions and addictions to social media"
"Being vulnerable to algorithms designed in the US and China"
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At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
July 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
At a doctor’s office — with no warrants, masked, no ID 😳
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
What are we doing? 🇺🇸
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What could possibly go wrong here?
“ICE will have twice as many agents as the FBI and will have its own huge and growing prison system (which it operates independently) as its masked and un-uniformed officers continue to snatch people off of the streets and mete out violence as they see fit.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...
The American Police State Is Here
ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.
www.thebulwark.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
What could possibly go wrong here?
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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Protesting in a red state…
July 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Protesting in a red state…
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Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”
July 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”
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Essentially 100% of patients I see for substance use are on Medicaid (or uninsured & working to get on Medicaid). Most cannot afford their lifesaving medications without coverage & I’ve seen devastating results from coverage lapses in the past. This bill’s new “requirements” are going to kill people
July 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Essentially 100% of patients I see for substance use are on Medicaid (or uninsured & working to get on Medicaid). Most cannot afford their lifesaving medications without coverage & I’ve seen devastating results from coverage lapses in the past. This bill’s new “requirements” are going to kill people
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Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
July 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
July 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.