Silver Chica
@silverchica.bsky.social
A ramble rouser and writer
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently decided that the golden-cheeked warbler, native to Central Texas. should no longer be considered “endangered.”
The decision came despite mounting threats to the warbler’s habitat from both land development and climate change.
The decision came despite mounting threats to the warbler’s habitat from both land development and climate change.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moves to downlist the endangered golden-cheeked warbler
The decision came despite mounting threats to the warbler’s habitat from both land development and climate change.
www.tpr.org
January 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently decided that the golden-cheeked warbler, native to Central Texas. should no longer be considered “endangered.”
The decision came despite mounting threats to the warbler’s habitat from both land development and climate change.
The decision came despite mounting threats to the warbler’s habitat from both land development and climate change.
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The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
January 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this
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The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The LA Times photo desk, which is doing incredible work covering these brutal fires, has set up a Bluesky account that is among the newest ones we have verified. They are well worth following right now. @latimesphotos.bsky.social
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At least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders because of the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County. Red flag warnings remain in effect for L.A. County and much of Ventura County through Thursday.
www.latimes.com/california/l...
www.latimes.com/california/l...
January 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
At least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders because of the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County. Red flag warnings remain in effect for L.A. County and much of Ventura County through Thursday.
www.latimes.com/california/l...
www.latimes.com/california/l...
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What’s your favorite Tiny Desk Concert?
January 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What’s your favorite Tiny Desk Concert?
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My Top 50 Songs of 2024:
15. Joshua Idehen, “Mum Does the Washing”
Without question, the sleeper hit of the year. Just listen to it, no spoilers. Shout out to Ann Powers for sharing in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up here! www.npr.org/newsletter/m...
15. Joshua Idehen, “Mum Does the Washing”
Without question, the sleeper hit of the year. Just listen to it, no spoilers. Shout out to Ann Powers for sharing in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up here! www.npr.org/newsletter/m...
Joshua Idehen - Mum Does The Washing OFFICIAL VIDEO
YouTube video by Joshua Idehen
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December 25, 2024 at 2:48 AM
My Top 50 Songs of 2024:
15. Joshua Idehen, “Mum Does the Washing”
Without question, the sleeper hit of the year. Just listen to it, no spoilers. Shout out to Ann Powers for sharing in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up here! www.npr.org/newsletter/m...
15. Joshua Idehen, “Mum Does the Washing”
Without question, the sleeper hit of the year. Just listen to it, no spoilers. Shout out to Ann Powers for sharing in the NPR Music newsletter. Sign up here! www.npr.org/newsletter/m...
Stormy weather 60 miles away.
December 25, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Stormy weather 60 miles away.
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me 🤷♀️
December 25, 2024 at 1:54 AM
me 🤷♀️
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Beyond imagination!
A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)
A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)
December 21, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Beyond imagination!
A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)
A zoom out from the sharpest view of the Andromeda Galaxy ever, showing more than 100 million stars!
(Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B. F. Williams, L. C. Johnson, the PHAT team, R. Gendler / video by Universal-Sci)
Show me your tree
December 20, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Show me your tree
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In the past three years, Texas has spent $3.1 billion to build 50 miles of wall scattershot along the border. State officials have kept many details of the program confidential.
The Texas Tribune has for the first time identified where Texas has built its border wall. 🧵
The Texas Tribune has for the first time identified where Texas has built its border wall. 🧵
December 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
In the past three years, Texas has spent $3.1 billion to build 50 miles of wall scattershot along the border. State officials have kept many details of the program confidential.
The Texas Tribune has for the first time identified where Texas has built its border wall. 🧵
The Texas Tribune has for the first time identified where Texas has built its border wall. 🧵
Can you guess what this is?
December 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Can you guess what this is?
Meet horn down Joe, the lead singer for our local deer boy band.
December 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Meet horn down Joe, the lead singer for our local deer boy band.
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Choose kindness always …
December 18, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Choose kindness always …
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NPR member station WBUR in Boston has a story near and dear to my drummer's heart: A look at how 400-year-old cymbal maker Avedis Zildjian Co. does its work in Norwell, Mass. I've been playing Zildjian cymbals for nearly 40 years and learned a lot: loom.ly/H_8kp3Q
Inside Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts
Drummers across the globe know the Zildjian name because it’s emblazoned on every shiny cymbal they make. What’s less known is that the family has been making their famous cymbals, with a secret proce...
loom.ly
December 18, 2024 at 4:38 PM
NPR member station WBUR in Boston has a story near and dear to my drummer's heart: A look at how 400-year-old cymbal maker Avedis Zildjian Co. does its work in Norwell, Mass. I've been playing Zildjian cymbals for nearly 40 years and learned a lot: loom.ly/H_8kp3Q
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Should be in every newsagents window.
December 17, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Should be in every newsagents window.
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New: A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state’s prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder conviction. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/17/t...
Texas House panel subpoenas death row inmate Robert Roberson a second time
The new subpoena comes after lawmakers say Ken Paxton’s office stalled a previous effort to get Roberson’s legislative testimony about his conviction in “shaken baby” case.
www.texastribune.org
December 17, 2024 at 7:31 PM
New: A bipartisan committee of Texas lawmakers again issued a subpoena compelling the state’s prison system to let death row inmate Robert Roberson provide testimony at the Capitol about his murder conviction. www.texastribune.org/2024/12/17/t...
A story about being last. herald-zeitung.com/life/prosapi...
PROSAPIO: This is the story of the last tree
This is the story of being last. Of being picked up and put back down, over and over. Of having your faults highlighted, of being turned from side to side
herald-zeitung.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:02 PM
A story about being last. herald-zeitung.com/life/prosapi...
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NEW: The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.
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Are Abortion Bans Across America Causing Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out.
The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.
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December 18, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: The same political leaders who enacted abortion bans oversee the state committees that review maternal deaths. These committees haven’t tracked the laws’ impacts, and most haven’t finished examining cases from the year the bans went into effect.
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Wow. Just wow. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Wow. Just wow. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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NEW: A host of billionaires — sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others — have managed to avoid paying a tax on investment income.
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How Billionaires Have Sidestepped a Tax Aimed at the Rich
Wall Street financiers were a clear target of the tax, but some, on questionable legal grounds, have claimed their outsized profits were exempt, sometimes avoiding hundreds of millions in taxes.
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December 18, 2024 at 1:00 PM
NEW: A host of billionaires — sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others — have managed to avoid paying a tax on investment income.
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A Senate committee investigation, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, accused Amazon of risking worker safety for speed while manipulating injury data to make its warehouses seem safer than they are.
Amazon manipulated injury data to make warehouses appear safer, a Senate probe finds
A Senate committee investigation, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, accused Amazon of risking worker safety for speed while manipulating injury data to make its warehouses seem safer than they are.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2024 at 11:41 PM
A Senate committee investigation, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, accused Amazon of risking worker safety for speed while manipulating injury data to make its warehouses seem safer than they are.
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More threats from Bannon. At the NY Young Republicans event. c/o @tpm.bsky.social
December 17, 2024 at 2:33 AM
More threats from Bannon. At the NY Young Republicans event. c/o @tpm.bsky.social
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Public radio journalists of Bluesky, please take note and help spread the word:
We're working on an episode about what the current threats to funding for public media would mean for your community. We want to hear about the journalism that only public radio can do:
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We're working on an episode about what the current threats to funding for public media would mean for your community. We want to hear about the journalism that only public radio can do:
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On the Media: Call Out to Local Stations
At On the Media, we're working on an hour all about the state of public radio. We're concerned with the role of stations in their local communities; how public media has been politicized; and what a c...
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December 9, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Public radio journalists of Bluesky, please take note and help spread the word:
We're working on an episode about what the current threats to funding for public media would mean for your community. We want to hear about the journalism that only public radio can do:
forms.gle/KWf2XYgQX1cV...
We're working on an episode about what the current threats to funding for public media would mean for your community. We want to hear about the journalism that only public radio can do:
forms.gle/KWf2XYgQX1cV...