dougmcw.bsky.social
@dougmcw.bsky.social
Retired Navy from the Poconos, PA. Enjoy the outdoors, horses (always wanted to be a cowboy), reading, playing pool and darts (but not very good). Steelers Fan. Profile picture is my son and I enjoying a bourbon at the StanIey Inn.
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The freedom run of Las Vegas & Smoke, San Jose & Black Beauty. Two bonded pairs from the McCullough Peaks HMA in WY. They represent so much of what we do: restore the health and freedom of #wildhorses & #burros, and reunite families on 9000 acres of beautiful land under #Skydog care & protection.
December 26, 2024 at 3:52 AM
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I'm no wildlife photographer, but here's Silver Ghost of Nevada's wide open spaces, being all stalliony for me. #Project2025 would be deadly for #wildhorses #publiclands #horses #wildlife #Nature #Hearts4Horses
February 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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nytimes.com/2025/02/08/opi…
“They don’t care if the government delivers food or rescues your town from a flood or teaches poor kids in the inner city because they don’t have to live through any of that themselves. They’re rich and powerful, so they’re insulated from consequences of their actions.”
February 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Lots of anticipatory obedience from scientific institutions including ones that are home to astronomers and physicists, like Brookhaven National Lab and Vera Rubin Observatory. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ #giftlink

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/s...
A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences (Gift Article)
President Trump’s executive order is altering scientific exploration across a broad swath of fields, even beyond government agencies, researchers say.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com
The US Government Is Not a Startup
Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.
www.wired.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM