@teem-crescent.bsky.social
Guv'ment drone. Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (1990's Asia). I follow international news, especially Ukraine and Russia. Also follow natural resource topics with emphasis on climate change and wildfire. And favorite authors.
Nexstar has cancelled Kimmel. This company is more than just ABC affiliates. They own local broadcase stations for a bunch of networks. Fox, CS, Comet, and others. Check the map to see which broadcast stations to avoid or even to picket in your area: www.nexstar.tv/stations/
Nexstar Media Group, Inc. | Stations
www.nexstar.tv
September 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Nexstar has cancelled Kimmel. This company is more than just ABC affiliates. They own local broadcase stations for a bunch of networks. Fox, CS, Comet, and others. Check the map to see which broadcast stations to avoid or even to picket in your area: www.nexstar.tv/stations/
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So wholesome, I love it 🤗💙
Another video from Compton High School's graduation day (6/5/25). Vice President Harris went inside to personally encourage students and teachers to keep striving.
Another video from Compton High School's graduation day (6/5/25). Vice President Harris went inside to personally encourage students and teachers to keep striving.
June 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
So wholesome, I love it 🤗💙
Another video from Compton High School's graduation day (6/5/25). Vice President Harris went inside to personally encourage students and teachers to keep striving.
Another video from Compton High School's graduation day (6/5/25). Vice President Harris went inside to personally encourage students and teachers to keep striving.
"....A way of saying, we were here—not for profit, not for politics, but for people.
And now that witness is fading. Quietly. Without scandal. Without trial.
Trust has a half-life. It decays when unreturned. It doesn’t scream when it dies. It just stops showing up."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
And now that witness is fading. Quietly. Without scandal. Without trial.
Trust has a half-life. It decays when unreturned. It doesn’t scream when it dies. It just stops showing up."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Defending the Peace Corps When It Needs No Defense
In a nation that no longer knows what to do with humility, service itself has become suspect.
substack.com
May 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"....A way of saying, we were here—not for profit, not for politics, but for people.
And now that witness is fading. Quietly. Without scandal. Without trial.
Trust has a half-life. It decays when unreturned. It doesn’t scream when it dies. It just stops showing up."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
And now that witness is fading. Quietly. Without scandal. Without trial.
Trust has a half-life. It decays when unreturned. It doesn’t scream when it dies. It just stops showing up."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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They love people who shower before work, and hate people who shower after work...
April 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
They love people who shower before work, and hate people who shower after work...
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“We’re under attack by a bunch of people who’ve never had dirt underneath their fingernails. People who have never swung a tool. People who know as much about the meaning of public service as they do about who’s in their Signal group chat.” Sam Forstag - USFS Smokejumper
April 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“We’re under attack by a bunch of people who’ve never had dirt underneath their fingernails. People who have never swung a tool. People who know as much about the meaning of public service as they do about who’s in their Signal group chat.” Sam Forstag - USFS Smokejumper
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Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk
The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...
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Lando's leadership of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be a tragically prescient parable for our time. Leaders of institutions: Pay attention! A story in four parts.
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
March 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Lando's leadership of Cloud City in The Empire Strikes Back turned out to be a tragically prescient parable for our time. Leaders of institutions: Pay attention! A story in four parts.
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
cc: Paul Weiss, Columbia University
bcc: all law firms, universities, and civil society organizations
Re: Paul, Weiss; Attorneys at law.
"Congrats to the GREAT Leapin' Lando Calrissian of the tremendous Cloud City! Made correct choice in picking EMPIRE (us) over the Radical Leftist REBELLION! (We arrived right before they did!) Now Cloud CITY can Prosper! Lord Vader and Boba Fett did GREAT! Maybe next time, Han and Leia! SAD!"
March 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Re: Paul, Weiss; Attorneys at law.
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“Sources within the Regional Office who spoke with Lee Newspapers all did so on the condition they not be named, citing fear of retaliation for discussing the retirements with the news media. Some of them characterized Marten’s departure as a forced retirement, rather than a voluntary decision.”
Forest Service silent as regional foresters depart, including from Region 1 in Montana
Breaking from precedent, the agency has not publicly acknowledged that three top officials, including one in Montana, are leaving. The agency has stopped issuing press releases on many topics.
www.bozemandailychronicle.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“Sources within the Regional Office who spoke with Lee Newspapers all did so on the condition they not be named, citing fear of retaliation for discussing the retirements with the news media. Some of them characterized Marten’s departure as a forced retirement, rather than a voluntary decision.”
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“If we enforce the law they might keep breaking it” is a hell of an argument for a fed judge to make.
Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.
March 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
“If we enforce the law they might keep breaking it” is a hell of an argument for a fed judge to make.
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NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
Is it too much to ask for an opposition party that actually opposes things?
Schumer need to go.
Schumer need to go.
March 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Is it too much to ask for an opposition party that actually opposes things?
Schumer need to go.
Schumer need to go.
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I’m calling for new leadership in the Democratic Party. So many democrats want to do the right thing, but leadership is stopping them with the unspoken threat of refusing to give them leadership positions down the road. NEW DEM LEADERSHIP NOW!! #NewDemLeadership
March 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I’m calling for new leadership in the Democratic Party. So many democrats want to do the right thing, but leadership is stopping them with the unspoken threat of refusing to give them leadership positions down the road. NEW DEM LEADERSHIP NOW!! #NewDemLeadership
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In every clip I've heard from Republicans being interviewed by the media, they just think Elon and DOGE are just GREAT!!!!
They are cutting "waste, fraud and abuse", the "fat", "saving taxpayers money" etc.
What they refuse to acknowledge and what makes them complicit in Trump/Musk's evil is:
They are cutting "waste, fraud and abuse", the "fat", "saving taxpayers money" etc.
What they refuse to acknowledge and what makes them complicit in Trump/Musk's evil is:
March 11, 2025 at 1:52 AM
In every clip I've heard from Republicans being interviewed by the media, they just think Elon and DOGE are just GREAT!!!!
They are cutting "waste, fraud and abuse", the "fat", "saving taxpayers money" etc.
What they refuse to acknowledge and what makes them complicit in Trump/Musk's evil is:
They are cutting "waste, fraud and abuse", the "fat", "saving taxpayers money" etc.
What they refuse to acknowledge and what makes them complicit in Trump/Musk's evil is:
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"Forest Service braces for up to 7,000 more layoffs, w/ a heavy toll on scientific research that supports healthier forests — more than double the number terminated in recent firings of probationary employees...'We are sheep headed to slaughter,' one employee said." 🌏 www.eenews.net/articles/for...
Forest Service braces for up to 7,000 layoffs
“We are sheep headed to slaughter,” one employee said as the Trump administration eyes further staff reductions.
www.eenews.net
March 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
"Forest Service braces for up to 7,000 more layoffs, w/ a heavy toll on scientific research that supports healthier forests — more than double the number terminated in recent firings of probationary employees...'We are sheep headed to slaughter,' one employee said." 🌏 www.eenews.net/articles/for...
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Not one news camera here at a protest outside Gabe Evans office in Northglenn, Colorado #copolitics
February 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Not one news camera here at a protest outside Gabe Evans office in Northglenn, Colorado #copolitics
I think that the retention of federal lands under public management is one of the best things America ever did. It would be indescribably horrible to sell it off.
But Trump is a real estate guy, so this threat to our shared heritage feels very plausible.
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
But Trump is a real estate guy, so this threat to our shared heritage feels very plausible.
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund
President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands i...
www.americanprogress.org
February 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I think that the retention of federal lands under public management is one of the best things America ever did. It would be indescribably horrible to sell it off.
But Trump is a real estate guy, so this threat to our shared heritage feels very plausible.
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
But Trump is a real estate guy, so this threat to our shared heritage feels very plausible.
www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
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A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."
After mass layoffs, some federal agencies are trying to bring employees back
A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."
www.npr.org
February 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."
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For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
February 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.
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“[H]ow does it not benefit the public interest to have clean bathrooms? How does it not benefit the public interest to have safe and clear trails. I was doing those things at a high level. And that’s on top of the collateral fire duties with the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service.”
‘It Hurts So Much’: Wilderness Workers and Park Employees Reel from Layoffs as Cuts to Federal Workforce Manifest in Montana - Flathead Beacon
When Jack Carroll received an email Friday explaining that his position with the Flathead National Forest was terminated because he “had not demonstrated that further employment at the agency would be...
flatheadbeacon.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“[H]ow does it not benefit the public interest to have clean bathrooms? How does it not benefit the public interest to have safe and clear trails. I was doing those things at a high level. And that’s on top of the collateral fire duties with the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service.”