Lopez Daydreams
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Lopez Island is one of my favorite places, as are many of the wild and rural places of the West. Still like animal and nature posts, but will block unknown followers without ANY pro-democracy/anti-dictatorship posts.
ARSON????? Oh my god, this just keeps getting more and more devastating.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d agoAuthorities arrest a 37-year-old man suspected of starting the devastating Old Trails Fire in Washington state.
Alexi Pretti’s Mother Posted This On The 6 Month Anniversary Of His Murder By Federal Officers
Incredible story of a North Korean family that plotted how to escape and defect for decades and finally some of them did. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...
A Family’s Daring Escape From North Korea (Gift Article)
Their resolve for freedom hardened during the pandemic, when they lived through a crippling food shortage and were forced to witness frequent public executions.
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No one in this country is above the law, especially those who are I law enforcement, and they should be held to a higher standard.
A Dandelion@onedandelion.bsky.social · 3w ago7/14/26 🎥 KING 5 Seattle youtu.be/IOd9w5IYHck?...
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was gunned down by ICE, leaving behind a devastated family & an angry community. @lulacorg.bsky.social's Juan Proaño joins me for the very latest, including how the family is being prevented from being able to secure Lorenzo’s body for a funeral. youtu.be/Rb-XzJfeqsk?...
EXCLUSIVE: NEW Details EMERGE After DEADLY ICE SHOOTING In Houston!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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The amount of ICE activity around the Seattle metro area (Renton, White Center, Burien, Lynnwood, Everett) is ramping up at an alarming rate. Now is the time to be brave. Take a rapid response training class through WAISN or States at the Core. Talk w/ your neighbors about what they’re doing.
All we can do now is to act as quickly and unambiguously as possible to reject these policies, and to defeat decisively the spirit of indecency and inhumanity that lies behind them.
ICE Is Shooting People Again
Routinizing Trumpian cruelty.
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Minneapolis is a shining star that reminds us of the reasons our country had a Declaration of Independence 250 years ago. Our opposition to tyranny continues. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Why “The Nation” Is Nominating Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize
On this Fourth of July, Minneapolis reminds us of what America can be.
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This is a truly remarkable development: A carbonized scroll, sealed since the eruption of #Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and successfully deciphered in its entirety. What informations will the other carbonized scrolls reveal? What an exciting project! scrollprize.org/firstscroll
An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.
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When a news story includes claims by Trump that are unverified, it should run with a logo reading, ”He’s probably lying.”
Trump, Claiming Vandalism, Says Reflecting Pool Will Likely Need to Be Drained
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For those that care about health care and how the looming Medicaid cuts will affect us all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UFE...
American Conversations: Cleve Jones
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.
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Why is the CDC Silent About the Hantavirus Outbreak? (w/ Katelyn Jetelina)
Jonathan Cohn is joined by epidemiologist and former CDC consultant Katelyn Jetelina to unpack the emerging hantavirus outbreak linked to a small expedition cruise ship in the South Atlantic.
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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
People in local communities have been quietly opposing Trump throughout his second term. And as support for his handling of immigration continues to wane, that open opposition has grown louder and become more emboldened.
Scoring Small, Crucial Wins Against Trump’s Deportation Regime
As the president’s approval ratings on immigration continue to fall, opposition to his policies is spreading.
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I know it's #Caturday, but I'm in a Bald Eagle mood🦅🦅 Our nesting pair of Bald Eagles on February 14, 2023♥️. Kitsap Peninsula, Washington
Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube
From a post: “Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable. Earth and Moon in one NASA photo. ht @astrokatie.com
I did not have "frog costume dance routine to Edwin Starr" on my protest bingo card today. And yet here we are Washington D.C. 🐸