SemiEmily
@semiemily.bsky.social
Westerner. Small town shit-talker, goat wrangler, art dabbler.
Boss mare at https://PaoniaBooks.com
IG: @SemiEmilyColorado and @PaoniaBooks
Boss mare at https://PaoniaBooks.com
IG: @SemiEmilyColorado and @PaoniaBooks
Just so I'm clear: a narco-terrorist is a guy in a boat and it's cool to vamoose him but a cocaine trafficker gets pardoned to so the president can try to swing votes in another country?
Breaking News: President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who was convicted in a sweeping drug case last year.
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
nyti.ms
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Just so I'm clear: a narco-terrorist is a guy in a boat and it's cool to vamoose him but a cocaine trafficker gets pardoned to so the president can try to swing votes in another country?
I want the drugs he’s on.
November 20, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I want the drugs he’s on.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Sure I'm petty, and this isn't the point, but: the former president of Harvard is barely literate in his emails ("u are"!)while my children send texts with full sentences, and proper capitalization & punctuation. Such a funny marker of the total indifference of these elites to norms & standards.
November 13, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Sure I'm petty, and this isn't the point, but: the former president of Harvard is barely literate in his emails ("u are"!)while my children send texts with full sentences, and proper capitalization & punctuation. Such a funny marker of the total indifference of these elites to norms & standards.
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It’s only an exododus if it’s from the Mamdani region, otherwise it’s just retiring to Florida.
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It’s only an exododus if it’s from the Mamdani region, otherwise it’s just retiring to Florida.
Main Street retailer here just noting how problematic it is that the New York Times regularly provides this kind of free advertising for Amazon and other huge corporate entities that can pay for their own advertising. NY Times, if you ever want to encourage people to shop local, I'm here for you.
Staffers from Wirecutter assembled a list of their favorite Costco purchases. nyti.ms/43vmHma
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Main Street retailer here just noting how problematic it is that the New York Times regularly provides this kind of free advertising for Amazon and other huge corporate entities that can pay for their own advertising. NY Times, if you ever want to encourage people to shop local, I'm here for you.
This is why they are gerrymandering—stacking the deck in desperation because of numbers like this. If the D’s were remotely strategic, they’d get rid of the Electoral College first thing if and when they get back in power.
October 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is why they are gerrymandering—stacking the deck in desperation because of numbers like this. If the D’s were remotely strategic, they’d get rid of the Electoral College first thing if and when they get back in power.
And: western ag folks often get income from oil and gas leases on property or, more recently, leasing land for renewables. Oil prices are is too low to drill, OPEC is releasing, and tariffs make well pad construction too expensive. And of course, renewables have been destroyed under Trump.
Tariffs.
Deportations.
A government shutdown.
A rough year in America’s farm belt.
@ohiocapitaljournal.com @politico.com
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Deportations.
A government shutdown.
A rough year in America’s farm belt.
@ohiocapitaljournal.com @politico.com
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/30/o...
October 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
And: western ag folks often get income from oil and gas leases on property or, more recently, leasing land for renewables. Oil prices are is too low to drill, OPEC is releasing, and tariffs make well pad construction too expensive. And of course, renewables have been destroyed under Trump.
For comparison's sake, the US has given Israel approximately $18B dollars.
President Trump hosted Javier Milei, the leader of Argentina, at the White House on Tuesday, just days after the U.S. agreed to move ahead with a major bailout of the Latin American nation for $20 billion.
Trump Hosts Argentina’s Leader as U.S. Moves Ahead With Bailout
President Javier Milei visited the White House on Tuesday after the Trump administration agreed to provide Argentina a $20 billion lifeline.
nyti.ms
October 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
For comparison's sake, the US has given Israel approximately $18B dollars.
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AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
October 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.
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So Trump is defunding the police.
Department of Homeland Security is cutting over $187 million or 86% of homeland security funding to New York State which will radically defund NYPD, FDNY, and NY State Police terrorism programs, according to a letter from New York Governor Kathy Hochul to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.
October 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
So Trump is defunding the police.
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Wright, a longtime fracking exec, probably did more to kill coal than any wine-sipping coastal lib in America. He should be proud — it’s his industry’s greatest accomplishment!
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Wright, a longtime fracking exec, probably did more to kill coal than any wine-sipping coastal lib in America. He should be proud — it’s his industry’s greatest accomplishment!
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“.. The day after Hortman’s killing, when Trump was asked if he had called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, he said, ‘I could be nice and call, but why waste time?’”
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September 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“.. The day after Hortman’s killing, when Trump was asked if he had called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, he said, ‘I could be nice and call, but why waste time?’”
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High Country News's current issue is focused on food growth and supply in the US. Terrific reporting.
Now, Trump is resuming workplace raids, raising the question of what will happen to our food supply if ICE goes after JBS’s workforce again. A collaboration with @thefern.org.
How an immigration raid reshaped meatpacking — and America - High Country News
In 2006, large-scale ICE raids in Greeley, Colorado, and elsewhere, triggered massive changes to the meatpacking workplace that continue reshaping the center of the country.
www.hcn.org
September 8, 2025 at 10:43 PM
High Country News's current issue is focused on food growth and supply in the US. Terrific reporting.
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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COLORADO GOVERNOR’SOFFICE OF STATE PLANNING & BUDGETING:
“.. the effective tariff rate in Colorado has increased sevenfold since last year ..”
@colorado.gov
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“.. the effective tariff rate in Colorado has increased sevenfold since last year ..”
@colorado.gov
drive.google.com/file/d/1Y_-7...
September 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
COLORADO GOVERNOR’SOFFICE OF STATE PLANNING & BUDGETING:
“.. the effective tariff rate in Colorado has increased sevenfold since last year ..”
@colorado.gov
drive.google.com/file/d/1Y_-7...
“.. the effective tariff rate in Colorado has increased sevenfold since last year ..”
@colorado.gov
drive.google.com/file/d/1Y_-7...
But what did the eggs cost??
A salmonella outbreak linked to eggs has sickened 95 people across 14 states, federal health officials said. Eighteen people have been hospitalized.
Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Eggs Sickens 95 People
The outbreak, which was traced to eggs distributed in California and Nevada, has spread to 14 states, according to the C.D.C.
nyti.ms
August 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
But what did the eggs cost??
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Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
August 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
If you think that "socialism is when the transgenders use the wrong bathroom" and don't that socialism and communism are *economic theories*, you get...communism when the govt takes a stake in private enterprise, like Intel. Congrats, patriots, you've become that which you said you despise.
August 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you think that "socialism is when the transgenders use the wrong bathroom" and don't that socialism and communism are *economic theories*, you get...communism when the govt takes a stake in private enterprise, like Intel. Congrats, patriots, you've become that which you said you despise.
Our rural fire and rescue departments update us on FB. I hate it and it’s absolutely necessary in our town.
Facebook is not good, but it has become *essential* for a lot of people, which is a huge issue. If you're in a small town, Facebook is often the only source of news about town government or local events. This makes it hard to ditch Facebook in the same way that people ditched Twitter.
exactly, like what actual good is Facebook? a sort of internet white pages that easily could be run as a nonprofit or coop without obliterating journalism or touching off genocides
August 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our rural fire and rescue departments update us on FB. I hate it and it’s absolutely necessary in our town.
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The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Citing a nonexistent crime crisis, Trump plans to take over the Washington DC police and put troops in the streets of the nation's capital. Contrary to his claims, violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social Campbell Robertson Chris Cameron www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Here’s the latest.
www.nytimes.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report -- its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.
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August 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
- 1984, George Orwell
- 1984, George Orwell
Raising river levels? Fantastic! Now, do it for drought-ridden areas by fighting climate change. apnews.com/article/vp-v...
JD Vance went kayaking for his birthday. Secret Service had the river level raised
Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took for his 41st birthday.
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August 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Raising river levels? Fantastic! Now, do it for drought-ridden areas by fighting climate change. apnews.com/article/vp-v...