Kent Lind
@camasonian.bsky.social
Former NOAA fisheries biologist now in my second career as a HS science teacher. I'm interested in all things related to environmental policy, cycling as transportation, and public education.
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New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:
This church headquartered in Moscow ID next door to Pullman WA where my daughter goes to school.
The sane folks in both Pullman and Moscow (which are blue communities) are fighting the slow encroachment of these folks into their community. It is insidious because they have big $$$ backing them.
The sane folks in both Pullman and Moscow (which are blue communities) are fighting the slow encroachment of these folks into their community. It is insidious because they have big $$$ backing them.
Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.
Christian Nationalist, Doug Wilson, confirms that children who don’t accept and follow their parent’s religious beliefs should be turned over to the State for capital punishment (be put to death). This fanaticism is real:
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This church headquartered in Moscow ID next door to Pullman WA where my daughter goes to school.
The sane folks in both Pullman and Moscow (which are blue communities) are fighting the slow encroachment of these folks into their community. It is insidious because they have big $$$ backing them.
The sane folks in both Pullman and Moscow (which are blue communities) are fighting the slow encroachment of these folks into their community. It is insidious because they have big $$$ backing them.
Back to back, both the Dolphins and Commanders give up game-winning field goals at the 1 yard line to go for it and get stuffed on 4th down?
Does neither team want to win this game?
Does neither team want to win this game?
November 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Back to back, both the Dolphins and Commanders give up game-winning field goals at the 1 yard line to go for it and get stuffed on 4th down?
Does neither team want to win this game?
Does neither team want to win this game?
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Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
November 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Here an underage girl testifies that Epstein vaginally and anally raped her before beating her in fury because Trump had taken her virginity before he could.
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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
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The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
After failing to stop a major state housing bill from becoming law, Los Angeles leaders are turning to plan B: Delaying Senate Bill 79's implementation and pushing for unspecified legislative changes next year. My dispatch for @politico.com Pro subscribers subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
POLITICO Pro: Los Angeles failed to defeat a major housing law, so it's turning to Plan B: Delay, delay, delay
A report from the city planning department outlines strategies for pushing off many of the effects of SB 79 through 2030.
subscriber.politicopro.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The City of Los Angeles has 43,700 homeless people. Seven of them die on the streets every day.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
Mobilizing the planning department to slow-walk new mixed income housing near the train stations that taxpayers spent billions of dollars building reflects perverse priorities at best.
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We have to turn the Growth Machine back on until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are below 4x median annual household income.
amusing chart. it turns out New York City built more housing units in the 1920s than in the 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and 2010s put together www.nyc.gov/content/plan...
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We have to turn the Growth Machine back on until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are below 4x median annual household income.
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pack it up, it's over
Miss World Chile did is in a metal band. This was her talent portion at Miss World
www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQuI2W7...
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
pack it up, it's over
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It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Caveats:
-*-*-*-*
> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees
> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases
Hey all you young MAGA men who can't find dates?
Hint. This is where all the young women are. Fealty to Trump isn't just killing your job prospects. It is killing your social life as well.
Hint. This is where all the young women are. Fealty to Trump isn't just killing your job prospects. It is killing your social life as well.
These are the exit polls from the Virginia Gubernatorial election. The majority of young men voted for Democrats but look at women! The majority of women in every age group voted for Democrats!
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hey all you young MAGA men who can't find dates?
Hint. This is where all the young women are. Fealty to Trump isn't just killing your job prospects. It is killing your social life as well.
Hint. This is where all the young women are. Fealty to Trump isn't just killing your job prospects. It is killing your social life as well.
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Remarkable investigative work by @propublica.org to dig what’s really happened in Portland & who is to blame for the violence.
Like Chicago, it shows it’s the federal agents who are out of control.
Read every word.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
Like Chicago, it shows it’s the federal agents who are out of control.
Read every word.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
What Really Happened in Portland Before Trump Deployed the National Guard
In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...
www.propublica.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Remarkable investigative work by @propublica.org to dig what’s really happened in Portland & who is to blame for the violence.
Like Chicago, it shows it’s the federal agents who are out of control.
Read every word.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
Like Chicago, it shows it’s the federal agents who are out of control.
Read every word.
www.propublica.org/article/port...
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Damn. Athens catching strays in the first paragraph. Just putting it out there that Themistocles won, while Marcus Aurelius's biggest achievement was writing a book about how if deer don't complain about waking up in the morning, you shouldn't either.
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Damn. Athens catching strays in the first paragraph. Just putting it out there that Themistocles won, while Marcus Aurelius's biggest achievement was writing a book about how if deer don't complain about waking up in the morning, you shouldn't either.
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🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
October 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA
There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.
He crazy.
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This really is it. If you live in a metro area with an inelastic housing stock you will see no benefit from low unemployment and higher wages, you'll just see higher housing prices. No progressive economic project can work until housing is fixed.
I am stubborn I still think Bidenomics was correct and it worked! People experienced lifestyle creep and depression, and/or lived in NYC where housing costs genuinely got untethered for completely separate reasons!
October 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This really is it. If you live in a metro area with an inelastic housing stock you will see no benefit from low unemployment and higher wages, you'll just see higher housing prices. No progressive economic project can work until housing is fixed.
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“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social
Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American
Scientific American confirms that human on a bicycle more efficient than salmon, seagulls, or jet planes, updating a piece from 1973.
www.forbes.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social
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“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
What happens when students can't use their phones at school?
Library use goes WAY up.
www.wweek.com/news/schools...
Library use goes WAY up.
www.wweek.com/news/schools...
PPS Students Are Flocking to Their School Libraries
This fall, phones went out of sight at Portland Public Schools buildings. And then something unexpected happened.
www.wweek.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
What happens when students can't use their phones at school?
Library use goes WAY up.
www.wweek.com/news/schools...
Library use goes WAY up.
www.wweek.com/news/schools...
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I’ve been really shocked how many people on here didn’t know any of this
Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.
Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal
If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.
www.msnbc.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I’ve been really shocked how many people on here didn’t know any of this
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This is rather remarkable.
October 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is rather remarkable.
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In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.
Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.