Washington State University and Schweitzer Engineering Lab are tackling wildfire prevention from an entirely new angle through a newly announced partnership.

WSU and Schweitzer Engineering Lab partner on wildfire prevention research

SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington State University and Schweitzer Engineering Lab are tackling wildfire prevention from an entirely new angle through a newly announced partnership.

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The administration keeps telling us that ICE is in our cities to make us all feel safe, but if they're goons in plainclothes bum rushing vehicles with guns and pounding on the windows, how exactly does that make anyone feel safe?

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · yesterday

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,

Imagine claiming to follow Jesus who was publicly executed and then glorifying public executions by wanting to live stream them.

In the same week, the “pro life” party jokes about American cities being bombed and says it wants to live stream executions.

The Theatre of Punishment: when authoritarian states rely on the expressive, visible power of "shock punishment" to project absolute dominance when their political legitimacy feels threatened.

Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service (SCRAPS) announced on social media that its shelter has reached maximum capacity and is urgently seeking adopters and transfer partners.

SCRAPS animal shelter reaches capacity, urgently seeks adopters and transfer partners

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service (SCRAPS) announced on social media that its shelter has reached maximum capacity and is urgently seeking adopters and transfer partners.

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If you are feeling hopeless and overwhelmed right now, please know that not only did the enormous political propaganda machine not work on you, but you are the exact kind of person we need to engage, raise your voice, vote, and speak truth to power. We need you. Do not give up.

🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal

It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.

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Even if people protest in Lafayette Square, so what? What makes it the President’s personal preserve? Are we a better country when the President can remove any hint of dissent from his gaze?

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.

Well, that's a hell of a thing to leave next to a statue of Joan of Arc.😏

Good news from the Badlands! Today, October 6, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a Lakota nonprofit based on the Pine Ridge Reservation, plans to return 50 bison to nearly 40,000 acres in the Stronghold area of Badlands National Park.

Lakota nonprofit returning bison to 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park to restore native prairie

Thunder Valley CDC will release 50 bison across 40,000 acres in Badlands National Park on Oct. 6, restoring native prairie ecology and Lakota stewardship.

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Notice the absence of the traditional olive branch? The olive branch symbolized America prioritizing peace with war as a last resort. It has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 and was part of the original seal of the Department of Defense.

It is a broken society that is suspicious of the poor and the immigrant possibly exploiting the system to have more than they need all while the rich and powerful are encouraged to exploit and hoard as much as they like. It is a broken Christianity that endorses such a society.

This corruption must be investigated.

Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.

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The family of an American woman shot and killed by an ICE agent has filed two civil lawsuits related to her death.

Family of Renee Good sues US government and Trump officials over her death

(CNN) — The family of an American woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has filed two civil lawsuits related to her death, according to court

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🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/

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Hegseth Announces New Office of Religious Affairs.

History tells us why this should be alarming.

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So what if you just want to serve your country in the military now and don’t want Christian nationalism shoved down your throat and pushed on you by military leadership? I guess you are out of luck. Because that was our military for the entire history of the country until now.

Wow! Schmitt didn’t just get it wrong, his team was warned the texts were unvetted, but he used them anyway. Not only that, Chuck Grassley’s Judiciary staff left the texts out of its own hearing memo. Schmitt’s team went digging for them, then used them to accuse Jack Smith of perjury.

This is just despicable by MS NOW, which has accepted stolen taxpayers dollars for 38 illegal ads. Give me a break with this bullshit statement too. So your hosts are on air all day saying this is illegal while you are taking the money and running the ads? Just gross.

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again  Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

Today, Russia struck a school in Kyiv with a drone during the morning hours. At the time of the strike, about 100 schoolchildren and 60 staff members were in the shelter; fortunately, no one was hurt. Who does that? What kind of barbarians attack children on a school day?