Caitlin Hardee

From the Ultralight community on Reddit: Enlightened Equipment: What You Should Know Explore this post and more from the Ultralight community

If you're into backpacking and ultralight gear made by small domestic brands, heads up: an UL Redditor has laid out a compelling case that Enlightened Equipment's ownership is spreading extremist, violently racist ideology. Spend your money elsewhere. www.reddit.com/r/Ultralight...

New MIT study suggests that too much AI use could increase cognitive decline Participants who exclusively used the AI to help write essays showed weaker brain connectivity, lower memory retention and a fading sense of ownership over their work.

just fighting a one-woman Butlerian Jihad against insidiously encroaching 🤖 features in basic work applications. OUT, OFF, BEGONE. I don't want slop and interruptions. And I don't choose to tread the path which leads to my own cognitive and creative atrophy. www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...

While the government is shut down, the Trump administration’s Interior Department has announced plans to open up 1.56 million acres of lands in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to more dangerous oil and gas leasing.

GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules A plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined it would violate the chamber’s rules.

GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.

ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

Almost all of the Fulbright board resigns, citing Trump administration interference Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.

Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

The Scariest Things About Thru-Hiking Aren't What You Think - The Trek This summer, I plan to hike Canada's Great Divide Trail. Not my first rodeo, but the GDT is not the PCT. Let's dive into how this trail could get my ass.

I tell folks about my GDT plans, they mostly go: ooh grizzlies 👀😬 this post will age poorly when I get eaten by one, but I'm not stressing the bears lol. I am, however, worrying about the rain 😂 like so: thetrek.co/fear-in-the-great-wild-north-the-scariest-things-on-trail-arent-what-you-think

My Brain Finally Broke Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.

Begun, the Finding Out has

Imagine living in a limestone cave, but with geologic time sped up, so you could really perceive the formation of stalactites and such. That's what it's like trying to deal with the hard water in Berlin

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump

America is crumbling. Like elsewhere in the world, it's a small minority that even have the option to flee to another country - far more people become internally displaced. Stories of refugees within the US, seeking safe haven from the encroaching destruction: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Let’s Not Kill 450,000 Owls It’s a testament to human arrogance and cruelty that this is even being considered.

Of all possible govt programs to nix, how about this one. Paying for the resources to kill half a million barred owls is not going to help spotted owls. This US govt doesn't care about endangered species anyway and is hell-bent on destroying their habitats. www.currentaffairs.org/news/lets-no...

The America I loved is gone It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shattered

Stephen Marche on the destruction of America: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Free Kseniia Petrova.

Trockenheit trifft Landwirtschaft März 2025 war in Deutschland der trockenste seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen. Für die Landwirtschaft hat das Folgen. Ein Bauer schildert die Situation.

Beim 🐰Osterspaziergang vielleicht nicht sofort sichtbar: wir haben #Dürre.

#Klimaanpassung ist wichtiger denn je, deshalb (u.a.): Wasserrückhalt in der Landschaft, natürlicher Erosionsschutz und Wiedervernässung von Mooren. @haraldgrethe.bsky.social 📺⬇️

Sounds like they should be paying him a consulting fee for exposing the gaps in their security...

Three years ago, I woke up under the cold desert stars, hit the Mexican border / southern terminus, and started walking north to Canada.

It remains the greatest adventure of my life and my most cherished gift to myself. Pacific Crest Trail, I love you forever.

Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador Donald Trump’s administration is talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador.

Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It's like Oscar Wilde said. "Everything in the world is about sex - except sex. Sex is about power."

Trump's Tariffs Aren't Economics. They're a Cultural Purge | Washington Monthly Trump's blunderbuss tariff policies are a declaration of war on the half of America that didn’t vote for him.

Trump's tariffs aren't just economics: they're a cultural purge designed to destroy white collar & knowledge work, deskill the country, force men into blue collar jobs & women to marry MAGA men, and render us all unable to resist fascism. My latest:

washingtonmonthly.com/2025/04/08/t...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

"ICE detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit . . . The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Saw that too, grim stuff. Annika didn't even have any errors with her visa though - it was all unfounded accusations, ignoring the terms of the legal extension she'd previously been granted, refusal of the agents to examine evidence that corroborated her story and now no legal recourse.

German Thru-Hiker Detained, Deported, and Banned From US - The Trek An experienced thru-hiker traveling to the US to hike the AZT last month says she was treated inhumanely and deported without justification.

ICE under Trump doesn't stop at persecuting undocumented immigrants. They're also harassing tourists with valid visas. CBP shattered the trail dreams of a German hiker: detained, deported, banned for five years. Wrote this up for @thetrek.bsky.social on her ordeal: thetrek.co/a-german-thr...

Opinion | In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years The president’s new slogan might as well be “We were better off 95 years ago than we are today.”

"So collapses the architecture of freedom and prosperity: with a lie, a taunt and a guffaw." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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