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Semi retired union rep, at home in Oregon, which I love. I travel when I can afford it, interests in human origins, photography, fly fishing and restoring our US public lands..
The us government is regressing to the anthropological origin of all states as criminal syndicate for protection money
Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government on.ft.com/3JaXE0w
Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration
it is, effectively, a view that nothing should be done to solve any problem if there might be a trade-off somewhere for someone who you could code as “marginalized.” it is just anti-government conservatism with a different aesthetic!
There just isn't a set of laws that will hold if the president, the majority in both houses of Congress, and six votes on the supreme court want the president to be a dictator
If you're National Guard or any other service member being deployed against people in the US and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status or have any other concerns whatsoever, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options:
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BREAKING via Reuters
The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.
"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective." – Kurt Vonnegut, University of Oregon speech, 1990
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Identifying the problems - and some solutions, utilising the power of media.
It's another good reminder of the profound state of corruption of the current federal judiciary that these kinds of openly/criminal actions can take place and citizens have no recourse to the courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...
Motorola has also marketed the Halo 3C for use in public housing—inside people’s homes.
“That kind of took it up a notch as far as how egregious this entire product line is,” Nyx says. “Most people have an expectation that their home isn’t bugged, right?”
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College administrators: Cowards
College student journalists: Heroes www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/p...
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued the Trump administration on Wednesday over its decision to use part of a federal immigration law to target and deport pro-Palestinian activists, arguin...
You have to make it easy for them. Spend a couple of days googling fly fishing equipment or camping gear, and cameras and at least you will see stuff you like. Click on a link once in a while as intermittent ratio reinforcement and the good stuff will keep coming.
Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.
Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"
It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.
