Geoff Thornton

@geoffthornton.bsky.social

Now is the time of returning love, respect, and service | Enviro planner. Risk and hazard mitigation | Family | Music and dance | Skier

Hot buttered rum string band on Friday . I remember the first time seeing this band (only 2 members are still there: Nat and Bryan) at Cato’s in Oakland. It’s been several years since I last saw them. They played a history of bluegrass music, which was fun to hear.

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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

NEW: Trump is floating a $1.5 trillion war budget. $1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED. War costs us a better world.

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

🇮🇷 In Iran, protesters have taken control of an entire city — Abdanan: local police have laid down their weapons and sided with the people Protesters are destroying streets and burning cars. Fierce clashes are ongoing between protesters and police in other cities.

I’ve seen this concern raised by some FF leaders related to the proposed use of goats/sheep for the purpose of grasslands fuel reduction. The concern: the herds will spread invasives from other grazing sites thru their scat and the invasives will exacerbate wf hazard or change the fire ecology.

Center for Biological Diversity@biologicaldiversity.org · 8mo ago

When cattle are #grazing where they’re not supposed to, it can spread invasive plants, pushing out native species and worsening #wildfire risk.

In my neighborhood. Please consider donating. Herd owners are doing this work on fed lands (w/ approval) for free. The BLM lands and adjacent state park are used by 100k’s peeps. This would help protect several summer camps, my neighborhood, and nearby areas. gofund.me/40163d9fd

Donate to Support the Round Mountain Shaded Fuel Break with First Rain, organized by Tim VanWagner

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