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Sep 9, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
I want you to know about #hotshots. Hotshots are the small, elite teams of on-ground firefighters who are braving the elements and fighting fires with shovels, chainsaws, and superhuman endurance. They work for the National Forest Service. #Fire
Here’s a good video showing what hotshots actually do for #fires. It is an amazing group of people, being taxed to the utmost by a catastrophic climate condition.
#Hotshots clear breaks, so fires have nothing to burn. They do this by hand, digging, picking, and raking, out in the wilderness. 16 hours a day, camping where they fight. And they set back burns to fight fire with fire. #fires science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural…
More background on #hotshots. #fire #calfire ushotshots.com/hotshotting/
Btw there have been female #hotshotters #firefighters since the 70’s. #fire outsideonline.com/2413566/first-…

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Oct 1, 2020
“If you know and love a stutterer and you watched the presidential debate last night, within minutes it became obvious what was going on. 1/4
Abusive tone of voice, rapid fire interruptions, zigzagging change of topic, personal insult and humiliation, and family pain are all tripwires that scramble a stutterer's ability to speak. There was nothing unplanned or spontaneous in the President's strategy. 2/4
The bastards did not prep him to attack Joe. They prepped him to attack Joe's disability hoping that by triggering his stuttering they might deceive an audience unfamiliar with the disability into thinking that Joe was stupid, weak, uncertain, confused, or lost to dementia 3/4
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Sep 21, 2020
No Supreme Court Appointment until after Election!
There are 9 Senators listed to be called. These are the only ones you need to call. We need 4 to vote with Dems in order to prevent an appointment.
You will be leaving a message. 1/5
If phone calls make you nervous, call after hours or on the weekend. You only need to leave a message, not have a big discussion.
Your script:
My name is...... I am calling because there is now a vacancy on the Supreme Court due to the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 2/5
Things to say: McConnell set the rule. Now he and the Republicans need to follow it. GOP has stacked the deck and put in 200 judges. 4 judges appointed by GOP who lost popular vote.
No vote on a Supreme Court nominee until the President is seated on January 20, 2021. 3/5
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Sep 14, 2020
Years ago, I traveled with a friend from Oslo to Bergen. It was off-season, and one evening the road ended at a fjord. We had to spend the night at the little hotel there. A man welcomed us in. The hotel was totally empty. He took our money and we went to our rooms.
Later on, we came down for dinner, since there was no restaurant in town. The hotel was absolutely silent, with only the hallway lights shining, but there were lights in the dining room. We entered to see that it was desolate. It looked like a summer camp in December.
We sat ourselves down, and in a few minutes, the same man appeared. He handed us menus, and we ordered. Twenty minutes later, he brought us out some food. While he was gone, we tasted the (extremely stale) saltine crackers, and looked out the windows at the amazing fjord.
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Sep 4, 2020
White women do a lot of compartmentalizing. We "don't really talk about politics." It's "rude." It's "too political." And what happened? Over 50% of white women voted for the man who #jailsbabies #privatearmy #killspostoffice #stealsmoney #lovesPutin. DO YOU WANT MORE? 1/7
We have a scant 60 days to elect Biden. As someone recently said, it's as though the entire family decided to shut up and let Crazy Uncle Harry talk for the last four years. Well, Facebook is helping the fascists. Time to speak up. MAKE FASCISM and TRUMPISM uncomfortable. 2/7
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Jul 8, 2020
This is the result of the religous right working their butts off for 30-plus years to literally break our country for their fucking righteousness. And mark my words: It's over. It might take a while to get it going, but we're looking at the dust of the religious right.
All of those white guys, let by sleazemaster Newt, who decided that the GOP would benefit more if they just stopped trying to talk with or work with the Democrats. And then they worked to elect stupider and more Christian-zombified people.
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Sep 7, 2019
Putin's goal in America is to render every single respected American establishment untrustworthy. He does this through Trump's own brand of "touch into corruption," as well as by letting people who blatantly lie onto SCOTUS. 1/5
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