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Formerly an environment reporter in the West. Currently tired.

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This keeps happening

05.03.2026 03:45 πŸ‘ 1997 πŸ” 600 πŸ’¬ 90 πŸ“Œ 23
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'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

04.03.2026 19:18 πŸ‘ 897 πŸ” 433 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 26

Tracking you through *ads on your phone*

03.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oklahoma bill proposes paying landowners for power lines, but at what cost? Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a bill that would pay landowners for transmission lines, but a senator argues it could raise utility rates.

www.oklahoman.com/story/news/p...

from the Oklahoman,

Republicans want utilities to pay landowners $2/ft/year for transmission lines. That's $10,000+ per mile. OG&E has 5,500 miles of transmission lines in OK.

That's $58M a year. OG&E transmission O&M is $170M/year in 2025. 35%.

03.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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"The trade was not that you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai."

02.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 4021 πŸ” 661 πŸ’¬ 219 πŸ“Œ 556

every time i look at instagram, i feel like im the only adult who doesn't know how to make money

03.03.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 9521 πŸ” 541 πŸ’¬ 266 πŸ“Œ 60

Your reminder that over 60 years ago, in the NPT, the nuclear powers committed to the "cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament".

If France etc need deterrence, why not everyone?

02.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Iran is an evil regime and deserves to fall. But that's not a good argument for launching a war of regime change without Congress and against the will of the American people.

28.02.2026 07:52 πŸ‘ 1726 πŸ” 310 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 16

good day to slap the shit out of anyone who contended Trump was a dove who’d keep us out of pointless wars in the Middle East

28.02.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh for fucks sake.

28.02.2026 07:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If Trump can declare war without congressional authorization, then Congress has effectively disbanded itself.

28.02.2026 07:36 πŸ‘ 2027 πŸ” 501 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 31

what the fuck friday night

28.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 563 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

Even for Shai's standards, this is incredible for a first game back in 24 days. 32 points in 25 minutes through three quarters. OKC +17 with SGA on, -20 in 11 minutes without him

28.02.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OKC trying to own Australia is making me lmfao

28.02.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And I'm a Mizzou grad too! I have a blood feud with the Brauns

28.02.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Jokic staying true to his tradition of making a pass that makes me gasp while also infuriating me

28.02.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

As a Thunder fan, even I thought it was bad. Cason was out of control

28.02.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I think the thing that annoys me the most about Crockett kicking a journalist out of her event and then smearing her reputation and lying about said journalist being sued for defamation is that the people defending her don't seem to even acknowledge what happened. Stan culture at its finest.

27.02.2026 21:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"I don't like non-laudatory stories about candidates I like"

27.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, just asking questions, except Crockett is on video denying it happened and claiming Elaine lost a defamation suit

27.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 69 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a bad look for Crockett. If a reporter writes a story about you and you don't like it, unless there are actual factual errors, you deal with it. That's what comes with the office. You don't like it? Get out of politics.

27.02.2026 20:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was a reporter for 14 years and throwing out a reporter from a campaign event because you don't like their articles but can't dispute the facts of their stories is Trumpian as hell and a terrible look for Crockett and her supporters defending this.

27.02.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But kicking a legit, credentialed reporter out AFTER the event, to the point where they escorted her with armed guards to the edge of a road ISN'T a fit of pique??? Retired journalist here. She was doing her job and they singled her out because Crockett 'didn't like her'. Sound at all familiar?

27.02.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If you throw a reporter out and then make false accusations about her, the reporter is part of the story.

The people mad about this are reaching MAGA-like levels of denial

27.02.2026 19:28 πŸ‘ 316 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 2
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US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

Typically when the heavily armed state militias shoot at each other, we regard that as a bad sign, I thought.

apnews.com/article/mili...

27.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
A defense official said the Pentagon’s technology chief whittled the debate down to a life-and-death nuclear scenario at a meeting last month: If an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at the United States, could the military use Anthropic’s Claude AI system to help shoot it down?

A defense official said the Pentagon’s technology chief whittled the debate down to a life-and-death nuclear scenario at a meeting last month: If an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched at the United States, could the military use Anthropic’s Claude AI system to help shoot it down?

It's not nuclear vaporization - it's annihilation. And honestly? You'll love a fresh start.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

27.02.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

Wow: the President of Columbia University is *directly refuting* the Department of Homeland Security’s claims.

DHS told us that agents β€œverbally identified themselves” & wore badges.

β€œThey did NOT and would not identify themselves as NYPD.”

Shipman here says agents pretended to be police:

27.02.2026 02:36 πŸ‘ 1114 πŸ” 420 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 12

i dont know if its always been like this but among the elites theres just no sense of responsibility to be good stewards of the society thats given them everything

27.02.2026 01:01 πŸ‘ 1654 πŸ” 277 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 26

if my journalism company got bought by a government stooge i would be planning my exit. people say "not everyone can quit," but i never think that far ahead and i've got a long, vague interest in stealth camping.

26.02.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Hillary Clinton derides her Epstein deposition as GOP β€˜political theater’ House Republican lawmakers on Thursday promised to deliver hourly updates on what they said would be lengthy testimony from Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton testified in front of the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

β€œYou have made little effort to call the people who show up most prominently in the Epstein files,” she said in her opening statement.

26.02.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 79 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 9