Paula Dilworth Francis
@paulafrancis.bsky.social
Retired broadcaster living in Las Vegas and Wisconsin.
I still read the news, just not out loud.
I still read the news, just not out loud.
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The only site in the U.S. where lithium is currently extracted and produced is in Nevada, but a booming electric vehicle industry has increased interest in boosting domestic production.
Read more about it in this Fact Brief: thenevadaindependent.com/article/is-n...
Read more about it in this Fact Brief: thenevadaindependent.com/article/is-n...
October 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The only site in the U.S. where lithium is currently extracted and produced is in Nevada, but a booming electric vehicle industry has increased interest in boosting domestic production.
Read more about it in this Fact Brief: thenevadaindependent.com/article/is-n...
Read more about it in this Fact Brief: thenevadaindependent.com/article/is-n...
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Vetoes from Gov. Joe Lombardo helped avoid massive changes to Nevada’s election system, but several tweaks passed by state lawmakers will affect the 2026 midterms.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/how-...
thenevadaindependent.com/article/how-...
How different will Nevada’s elections look in 2026? - The Nevada Independent
In the final days of the legislative session, it looked like major changes could be coming to state elections. But Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed many election bills, meaning voters, candidates and elected…
thenevadaindependent.com
June 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Vetoes from Gov. Joe Lombardo helped avoid massive changes to Nevada’s election system, but several tweaks passed by state lawmakers will affect the 2026 midterms.
thenevadaindependent.com/article/how-...
thenevadaindependent.com/article/how-...
I really needed this feed! Enjoy.
We rely on game cams to capture important data on elusive species like black-footed cats. That "data" also happens to include adorable kitten play sessions 😍
June 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I really needed this feed! Enjoy.
Still unable to stop laughing after the David Sachs quote, “We wanted to create something new, hipper, and Trump-aligned.” Wonderful stuff from @eosnos.bsky.social
Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder
The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.
www.newyorker.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Still unable to stop laughing after the David Sachs quote, “We wanted to create something new, hipper, and Trump-aligned.” Wonderful stuff from @eosnos.bsky.social
Can’t wait for this!
Book news: “The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich” was scheduled to be published this fall, but the publisher has moved it up to June 3rd, because it describes a world upon us now. Details and pre-orders here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ha...
May 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Can’t wait for this!
Enjoy Nature while we stay have some.
Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye
(photo by me)
(photo by me)
April 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Enjoy Nature while we stay have some.
That’s why it’s a classic.
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
April 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
That’s why it’s a classic.
Trump admin freezes $29M in unspent COVID aid to Nevada schools thenevadaindependent.com/article/trum...
Trump admin freezes $29M in unspent COVID aid to Nevada schools - The Nevada Independent
Trump admin freezes $29M in unspent COVID aid to Nevada schools. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
thenevadaindependent.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Trump admin freezes $29M in unspent COVID aid to Nevada schools thenevadaindependent.com/article/trum...
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The White House has declared war on veterans, war on disabled people, war on older people who’ve paid taxes for decades, and now war on federal workers. And Fox is here to help gaslight that war-the network that paid $787.5 million for reporting 2020 election disinformation. #shutdownFox
Laura Ingraham tells laid-off federal employees to get ‘real jobs’
Fox News dismissed federal employees’s concerns about being fired, saying they need to find ‘real jobs’ in ‘the real world’
www.independent.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The White House has declared war on veterans, war on disabled people, war on older people who’ve paid taxes for decades, and now war on federal workers. And Fox is here to help gaslight that war-the network that paid $787.5 million for reporting 2020 election disinformation. #shutdownFox
The money in politics is one of our greatest dangers.
www.commondreams.org/news/wiscons...
www.commondreams.org/news/wiscons...
'He Wants It All': Musk-Linked Group Pours Money Into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race | Common Dreams
"Musk's attempt to buy Wisconsin's Supreme Court is a red alert that his attack on democracy isn't limited to gutting the federal government," said Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair Ben Wikler.
www.commondreams.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The money in politics is one of our greatest dangers.
www.commondreams.org/news/wiscons...
www.commondreams.org/news/wiscons...
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Gov. Joe Lombardo discussed Trump’s effects on the state, stricter immigration reforms and his conviction to school choice in a wide-ranging interview with Indy CEO Jon Ralston.
Read about some of the highlights here:
Read about some of the highlights here:
Lombardo talks Trump, immigration and school choice during IndyTalks interview - The Nevada Independent
In a wide-ranging more than 90-minute interview with Nevada Independent CEO Jon Ralston on Tuesday, the Republican governor was largely defensive of Trump, while saying he supported deploying the…
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February 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Gov. Joe Lombardo discussed Trump’s effects on the state, stricter immigration reforms and his conviction to school choice in a wide-ranging interview with Indy CEO Jon Ralston.
Read about some of the highlights here:
Read about some of the highlights here:
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In this week’s D.C. Download: Federal funds for Nevada solar, home energy efficiency upgrades in limbo
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Federal funds for Nevada solar, home energy efficiency upgrades in limbo - The Nevada Independent
State agencies and groups have diligently applied for their share of various federal pots for renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement goals, from electric school buses to solar…
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February 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In this week’s D.C. Download: Federal funds for Nevada solar, home energy efficiency upgrades in limbo
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Read the article and subscribe to our newsletter:
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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
Elon Musk is unelected and unauthorized to do what he’s doing.. Eventually, every American will feel the adverse effects of his actions to try to break the nation.
@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.
Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Elon Musk is unelected and unauthorized to do what he’s doing.. Eventually, every American will feel the adverse effects of his actions to try to break the nation.
Fantastic! Of course, the Cairngorms are incredible at any hour.
When Mother Nature shows off. The Aurora Borealis and the Milky Way. This was taken half way up Cairngorm mountain in the Scottish Highlands. Such a wonderful thing to see. There were people in camper vans who slept through it all 😮
Hope you’re all having a great day, stay safe.
Hope you’re all having a great day, stay safe.
January 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Fantastic! Of course, the Cairngorms are incredible at any hour.
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VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books (Gift Article)
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!
I don’t buy books on Amazon, and I hope you don’t either.
Support local bookstores by purchasing through Bookshop.org (or get books & ebooks FREE from Libby through your local library.
Support local bookstores by purchasing through Bookshop.org (or get books & ebooks FREE from Libby through your local library.
January 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I don’t buy books on Amazon, and I hope you don’t either.
Support local bookstores by purchasing through Bookshop.org (or get books & ebooks FREE from Libby through your local library.
Support local bookstores by purchasing through Bookshop.org (or get books & ebooks FREE from Libby through your local library.
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Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82
Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Good! Let heads explode. 😂
Breaking News: President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, saying his prosecution was political and designed to hurt him politically. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/u...
December 2, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Good! Let heads explode. 😂
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Our increasingly anti-social society. Make public transit better!
Such an important point from @davidzipper.bsky.social: self-driving cars will lead to more driving, therefore higher emissions. www.fastcompany.com/90846919/sel...
Self-driving cars would be a climate disaster
Autonomous vehicles are bad for the planet, no matter how efficient their computers become.
www.fastcompany.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Our increasingly anti-social society. Make public transit better!
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Forest fires in the Berkshires in November, brought to you courtesy of climate change: www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/l...
Follow live updates from the wildfire in Great Barrington here
Berkshire Eagle reporters and photographers are on the scene of the wildfire in Great Barrington sending updates from the scene as this story develops.
www.berkshireeagle.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Forest fires in the Berkshires in November, brought to you courtesy of climate change: www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/l...