BCtreehunter

BCtreehunter

@bctreehunter.bsky.social

The occasionally organized thoughts of an itinerant forest wanderer, writer, family man, mountaineer, martial artist, and would be guitarist. #BCBigTreeRegistry 🌲 🇨🇦

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Gatsby
@grategatsby.bsky.social

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All 15 states above the United State's overall Human Development Index voted for Harris. 26 of the 28 worst states voted to make their own states even worse.....

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Jeff Tiedrich
@jefftiedrich.bsky.social

the war on Iran is the first American conflict that hasn't had the press embedded with the troops. that's so they can lie their fucking faces off about the war crimes they've been getting up to. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I lay it all out. link is here: bit.ly/4ujsypQ

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Doug Trevors 🇨🇦
@dougat.bsky.social

Replying to @suzannedaley.bsky.social

I tell my students to watch for banned book lists and then find them at the library or bookstore and read them. Find out for yourself what the fuss is about and make up your own mind.

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid

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Mike Nellis
@mikenellis.bsky.social

Trump saying nobody gives a shit about housing is the perfect example of how this idiot has no idea why he won in 2024. He ran on reducing prices and not starting new wars, and now he’s wondering why his approval rating is in the 30s.

BCtreehunter
@bctreehunter.bsky.social

Since the herring are spawning here on the shores of Vancouver Island right now, I am reminded of the great run that took place in 2020, a once in 25-30 year event. It was amazing to see, so I wrote about it at the time... bctreehunter.wordpress.com/2020/08/02/s...

bctreehunter.wordpress.comSurf Scoters of the Salish SeaSpringtime, in the year 2020. For most of us, it’s likely to live in infamy for some time, after all, it isn’t every year that a pandemic takes place. My family is fortunate enough to l…

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Mark Jacob
@markjacob.bsky.social

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

pbs.orgIn first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocraticWhile other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

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BladeoftheSun
@bladeofthes.bsky.social

Cuba is a Socialist country and one of the poorest in the world suffering under a 60+ year economic blockade by the richest country in the world. Guess which one has better healthcare, life expectancy, literacy, lower infant mortality and every type of crime. It ain't the USA.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

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Adam Forte
@topoismyforte.bsky.social

As talk of the US annexing Greenland ramps up again, I remain struck by the extra dimension of ridiculousness that most of the reasons that the current admin float for why we "need" Greenland ultimately relate to the impact of climate change on the Arctic, something that this admin says is a hoax.

BCtreehunter
@bctreehunter.bsky.social

Thread, excellent points here

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social

1/6 Trump’s threat to seize Greenland isn’t just reckless. It’s traitorous. Almost everything he does benefits Russia and China. This move forces Europe to panic about Greenland instead of focusing on Ukraine, which is exactly what Moscow and Beijing want

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer
@brcremer.bsky.social

When Christians tie Christianity to a particular political figure and party, not only do they fuse the reputation of Christianity to everything that political movement does, they become more shaped by the ways of that political movement than they do by the ways of Jesus.

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Dean Preston
@deanpreston.bsky.social

Tax. The. Rich.

Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

bloomberg.comMillionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in MassachusettsA millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

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Governor Gavin Newsom
@governor.ca.gov

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

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Tim Hannan
@timhannan.bsky.social

Donald Trump lied about a stolen election with not a shred of proof, incited a mob to riot on the Capitol to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. We all saw it happen.

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Mack Butterfield
@mack2114.bsky.social

The Berman Amendment, part of the Trading with the Enemy Act, restricts the President's power to regulate or ban the import or export of "informational materials". This includes publications, films, records, and other forms of communication, regardless of format or medium. No can do Dumbass.