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Sep 16, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
As Alaska and the Amazon burned, a camera phone captured giddy Republican leaders discussing plans to log and mine the last great coastal rain forest left on earth....
I went to Tongass and found that even a few dyed-in-the-wool conservatives think this is a horrible idea...
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Mar 2, 2021
Here's a fun #InternationalWomensDay story that starts with this tough SOB.
He set out to build a bridge unlike any the world and it was going well until his foot slipped from a pier piling and got smashed by a ferry.
As he lost his toes, he refused to scream.
Then John Roebling got tetanus and this brilliant engineer refused all medicine, insisting doctors only pour water on his bad foot.
His mind was sharp as his body seized and spasmed and before he slipped into a coma, he wrote out his plans...
For his oldest son Washington to finish the Brooklyn Bridge.

No pressure.
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Jan 24, 2021
The passing of Larry King has me reflecting on the art of the interview and how the best questions are

1. Lean. Avoid the conversational temptation to load the question with your vast knowledge, either to prove yourself or connect.
(This gives the subject too many points to quibble which become off-ramps from the desired destination)
2. Neutral. It’s not a debate. If you treat it as one, it only walls off the truth you’re hoping they’ll reveal.
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Jan 20, 2021
NEWS: Here are the executive orders @JoeBiden will sign on climate and the environment

-Biden will rejoin the Paris Agreement, singing an instrument that will be deposited with the U.N. later today. The United States will officially become party to the agreement in 30 days.
@JoeBiden He will sign a broad executive order that will direct agencies to review emissions standards, take action on any regulations imposed under Trump that are deemed ‘harmful,’ and place a temporary moratorium on oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
@JoeBiden ...Directing the Department of Interior to protect our nation’s treasures by reviewing the boundaries and conditions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante, Bears Ears, Northeast Canyons, and Seamounts Marine National Monuments
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Jan 10, 2021
Horrific new video obtained by CNN shows a MAGA rioter (in white hat and backpack) grab a DC Metro officer and pull him down Capitol steps where he is stomped and beaten with an American flag pole.
At one point they sing the Star Spangled Banner
Can’t imagine a more fitting illustration of the 1775 Samuel Johnson line:
“(false) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”
Cc @FBI
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Nov 25, 2020
BREAKING: US Army Corps of Engineers denies a permit for Pebble Mine in Southwest Alaska, much to the delight of tribes, fishermen and nature lovers who have been fighting the massive Canadian-owned gold and copper project for decades.

cnn.com/2020/09/25/pol…
Alaska's USACE Commander Col. Damon Delarosa said #PebbleMine “does not comply with Clean Water Act guidelines and concluded that the proposed project is contrary to the public interest.”

cnn.com/videos/travel/…
“Today Bristol Bay’s residents and fishermen celebrate the news. Tomorrow we get back to work, asking the EPA to reestablish protections for Bristol Bay under the Clean Water Act,” said Commercial Fishermen for Bristol Bay" Katherine Carscallen....
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Nov 6, 2020
You know what it takes to get a ballot certified in most states?
-5% of all election machines are randomly audited to make sure the paper ballots match the tape.
-They double check the math at the local level.
-Then at the country level
-Then at the state level...
Each of these steps is observed by both parties and paper ballots are kept in a vault.

To steal just a few thousand of votes would require a conspiracy of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of librarians, Little League coaches, pastors, farmers and firemen. Your neighbors.
Here in Maricopa, teams of Dem and GOP observers sit together and examine each ballot unreadable by the machine.

A young GOP observer just had a minor medical emergency and after her Dem partner walked her to the ambulance in concern, she said "Guess I'm done for the night"...
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