Irene North
@irene-north.bsky.social
Writer at https://www.irenenorth.com/writings and https://substack.com/@irenenorth. I tell stories about where I live at https://storytellingontheplains.com
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Thanks to America’s ever shifting trade policies and Trump, LEGO has stopped shipping more than 2,500 pieces from its Pick a Brick program to both the United States and Canada.
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Trump Take LEGO
The popular Pick a Brick service let LEGO fanatics get the exact piece they wanted. It’s no longer available to US customers.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Thanks to America’s ever shifting trade policies and Trump, LEGO has stopped shipping more than 2,500 pieces from its Pick a Brick program to both the United States and Canada.
🔗 www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
🔗 www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
I really enjoy @tompowelljr.bsky.social 's videos, but this one had me cracking up today. Thanks for something positive to start my day.
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This woman has some strong feelings about birds
YouTube video by Tom Powell Jr
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August 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I really enjoy @tompowelljr.bsky.social 's videos, but this one had me cracking up today. Thanks for something positive to start my day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfx...
The "Weaving a Nation" Chautauqua event today was pretty cool. Humanities Nebraska always has great speakers and I'm looking forward to tomorrow and learning more new things.
Also, I need to post here more often, but I'm so busy banging out stories on my keyboard that I forget to log in.
Also, I need to post here more often, but I'm so busy banging out stories on my keyboard that I forget to log in.
Chautauqua - Humanities Nebraska
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August 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
The "Weaving a Nation" Chautauqua event today was pretty cool. Humanities Nebraska always has great speakers and I'm looking forward to tomorrow and learning more new things.
Also, I need to post here more often, but I'm so busy banging out stories on my keyboard that I forget to log in.
Also, I need to post here more often, but I'm so busy banging out stories on my keyboard that I forget to log in.
The newest episode of Storytelling on the Plains is out. Enjoy.
58 Hay Springs bank robbery, part 1 of 2 | Storytelling on the Plains
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August 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The newest episode of Storytelling on the Plains is out. Enjoy.
A new episode of Storytelling on the Plains is up. I hope this story provides a little distraction from all the things in the world that worry us today.
57 Lazy U Motel | Storytelling on the Plains
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July 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A new episode of Storytelling on the Plains is up. I hope this story provides a little distraction from all the things in the world that worry us today.
Here is my latest podcast episode.
56 The murder of Samuel D. Cox | Storytelling on the Plains
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July 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here is my latest podcast episode.
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Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in t
www.wilderness.org
June 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Millions of acres worth of public land would be put up for sale in the Senate version of Trump’s big, ugly bill.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
It’s a massive privatization of a public good that everyone gets to enjoy – all to finance tax cuts that predominantly flow to the super-rich.
Here is my latest podcast episode.
52 Heyward G. Leavitt | Storytelling on the Plains
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June 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Here is my latest podcast episode.
Yesterday in Scottsbluff, Nebraska I did a thing.
June 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Yesterday in Scottsbluff, Nebraska I did a thing.
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My latest speech speaks to this moment in history. I hope it fuels you forward.
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Seth Andrews: Dissent is our Duty
YouTube video by TheThinkingAtheist
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May 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
My latest speech speaks to this moment in history. I hope it fuels you forward.
youtu.be/woPq_hRSFlE?...
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After a bit of a hiatus following the passing of my mom, Conner and I are back with an all new episode about the Battle of Mud Springs.
We hope you enjoy our ramblings.
We hope you enjoy our ramblings.
47 Battle of Mud Springs | Storytelling on the Plains
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May 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
After a bit of a hiatus following the passing of my mom, Conner and I are back with an all new episode about the Battle of Mud Springs.
We hope you enjoy our ramblings.
We hope you enjoy our ramblings.
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ICYMI in yesterday's newsletter:
Speaker Mike Johnson let it slip that the GOP is going to use Trump's “big, beautiful” budget bill" to “redirect funds away from big abortion and to federally qualified health centers”
That means crisis pregnancy centers 🫠
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Speaker Mike Johnson let it slip that the GOP is going to use Trump's “big, beautiful” budget bill" to “redirect funds away from big abortion and to federally qualified health centers”
That means crisis pregnancy centers 🫠
jessica.substack.com/p/the-doj-pl...
The DOJ Plans to Target Pro-Choice Activists
4.30.25
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May 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
ICYMI in yesterday's newsletter:
Speaker Mike Johnson let it slip that the GOP is going to use Trump's “big, beautiful” budget bill" to “redirect funds away from big abortion and to federally qualified health centers”
That means crisis pregnancy centers 🫠
jessica.substack.com/p/the-doj-pl...
Speaker Mike Johnson let it slip that the GOP is going to use Trump's “big, beautiful” budget bill" to “redirect funds away from big abortion and to federally qualified health centers”
That means crisis pregnancy centers 🫠
jessica.substack.com/p/the-doj-pl...
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Donald Trump's "Unleash the Cops" executive order is being rightly read as a prelude to martial law.
But don't miss the other thing its doing: making the cops functionally unaccountable when they commit crimes.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
But don't miss the other thing its doing: making the cops functionally unaccountable when they commit crimes.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Trump’s Newest Executive Order “Unleashes” the Cops—and Flirts With Martial Law
The new order effectively allows police to get away with murder. And that’s just the beginning.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Donald Trump's "Unleash the Cops" executive order is being rightly read as a prelude to martial law.
But don't miss the other thing its doing: making the cops functionally unaccountable when they commit crimes.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
But don't miss the other thing its doing: making the cops functionally unaccountable when they commit crimes.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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"We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship": Elie Mystal on Trump's Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary
“We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump’s Lawlessness
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday criticizing attacks by President Trump and his allies on federal judges. “For more than two centuries, it has been established...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship": Elie Mystal on Trump's Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary
New episode is out.
We discuss the limitations of history and the quest to be accurate despite having limited evidence, documents, and resources of information when telling a story, by using the example of Amanda Lamme, who died on the Oregon Trail.
We discuss the limitations of history and the quest to be accurate despite having limited evidence, documents, and resources of information when telling a story, by using the example of Amanda Lamme, who died on the Oregon Trail.
44 Amanda Lamme and the difficulties of history | Storytelling on the Plains
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March 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New episode is out.
We discuss the limitations of history and the quest to be accurate despite having limited evidence, documents, and resources of information when telling a story, by using the example of Amanda Lamme, who died on the Oregon Trail.
We discuss the limitations of history and the quest to be accurate despite having limited evidence, documents, and resources of information when telling a story, by using the example of Amanda Lamme, who died on the Oregon Trail.
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If you missed this Business Insider article about the company tracking abortion pill prescriptions, fix that immediately. This is exactly the kind of reporting we need right now. www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...
Abortion pill prescriptions are now being tracked in parts of the US — with help from a little-known tech company
Louisiana has started monitoring abortion pills. Some other states are likely to follow suit. It could have disastrous consequences for patients.
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March 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
If you missed this Business Insider article about the company tracking abortion pill prescriptions, fix that immediately. This is exactly the kind of reporting we need right now. www.businessinsider.com/abortion-med...
Conner and I sit down to discuss life in Scottsbluff and talk about the day Babe Ruth came to town.
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43 When Babe Ruth came to town | Storytelling on the Plains
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March 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Conner and I sit down to discuss life in Scottsbluff and talk about the day Babe Ruth came to town.
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March 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“Today, I drove the SF-25 for the first time…” ✍️
February 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
“Today, I drove the SF-25 for the first time…” ✍️
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Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
February 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
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PSA: It’s not an “editorial section” if the owner of the newspaper is telling you what you can or cannot editorialize.
February 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
PSA: It’s not an “editorial section” if the owner of the newspaper is telling you what you can or cannot editorialize.
Here's my podcast about the Tri-State Building in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The Tri-State Land Company Headquarters building played a part in the "birth" of sugar beets in the valley
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Storytelling on the Plains: 41 Tri-State Building
The Tri-State Land Company Headquarters Building might just look like an old building to some, but Conner and Irene discuss its important history in relation to Scottsbluff and the North Platte Valley...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Here's my podcast about the Tri-State Building in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The Tri-State Land Company Headquarters building played a part in the "birth" of sugar beets in the valley
sites.libsyn.com/456480/41-tr...
sites.libsyn.com/456480/41-tr...
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Try not to think things can't get any worse because you're setting yourself up for disappointment.
February 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Try not to think things can't get any worse because you're setting yourself up for disappointment.