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Not just because he remains the biggest celeb I've met (Sorry, Magic Johnson!) on-set at L.A.'s Bonaventure Hotel filming 1993's "In The Line of Fire"...
I'll get this book because... Well, his movies can be awesome. There's at least 15 I've seen multiple times. #BookSky
They should put Kawhi and James on the same team. James could teach Kawhi how to keep his butt on the court for more than a handful of games each season, and James would no longer have to worry about Kawhi owning him in the playoffs.
Wildlife volunteer opportunity in your own backyard!
Wildfire smoke impact on bird movements...
#ProjectPhoenix
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Put the cat in the Tiger Bar!
Well... I mean it's not like it happened in Turpin, Oklahoma.
But Huntington Beach is pretty good start! Congrats to the people of HB who woke up and took back their library from the asshats they elected. From the L.A. Times...
I don't want to give up on America - but I understand those who have (at least for the time being). Our national "race to the bottom" is unnerving at the very least.
So if your conscience says you can make the world a better place living outside "The Land of the Free", some corners welcome you.
I'd rather not flush $650M down the drain if it isn't going to solve the problem. Get something concrete done. Get the Pentagon - with all their trillions - in on the action. It's their guys who are at SEAL BUDs training in the muck. It's their guys at North Island and stationed near the Hotel Del.
I love rewilding stories, restoration stories (Owens River, Elwha Dam, L.A. River, etc). Fascinating as hell.
Nobody does it better than the #Yurok tribe up on the Klamath. Can't wait to see what they do with it! Congratulations to them...
I always wonder in these one-off attacks of ours...
You knock out the thing, and you've knocked out the thing. You did what you think needed doing. Just let it go from there. My guess is we do it all the time anyway w/out fanfare. No need to take a curtain call.
Why claim credit/responsibility?
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"It's not like I'm an ax murderer". No, my man, you've got far bigger issues.
From the Times:
A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.
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Re-watching "John Adams" currently (partially as a counterpoint after I saw "Hamilton" last month, and partly because July 4 is coming up and I thought it wise to preview it before I show it to my preteen kid).
The compare/contrast is fascinating...
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This one is a bit "next-level" (I'm happy when people care enough to take the first step of maybe a native plant and a birdbath).
But it's got some good advice for people who really want to help creatures. There's some trade-offs: e.g. we keep a porch-light on at night for security.
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From the article:
"This mess isn’t a glitch. It’s the system. The blackouts and paywalls aren’t bugs. They’re features. The leagues and their investors count on fan loyalty. That your devotion runs too deep to quit.
Fandom isn’t being nurtured anymore. It’s being mined."
Just feels right today.
On basic human rights from the "John Adams" miniseries...
#BookSky
#FrederickDouglass by David Blight
An hour out from SD Mission Valley N.K.D. event, so killing time by re-visiting an amazing read I heavily highlighted...
And so my question would be: Why haven't you -- and like 200 or so of your fellow Democratic MOCs -- been doing what Sen. Padilla just did?
What. Are. You. Waiting. For!!!
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This "50 States/50 Solutions" series by the Times is solid with every entry.
Who wants cake!?!?
#Spaceballs2 coming not real soon.
My pick to play Barf?
DJT!!
1) DJT knows his supporters could give a rip about soccer.
2) Torpedoing the event really only effects Blue cities, so this is revenge.
3) Look for huge swaths of empty seats at these games.
4) 2028 Olympics in peril? DJT would take it as a win in a heartbeat if IOC moved them out of L.A. and CA.
iNat... You are about to go from the one fully trustworthy thing on the internet to being counted with the things I can't stand about it. Please don't do this.
Yes, I've noticed across the sports landscape that nothing "enhances the flow of the game" like video replay...
My little girl is a tween, so she's too old to distract her with PBS Kids, but too young to show what's happening here in So Cal.
She's also rapidly approaching the age where she's knows it's not all rainbows and sprinkles. Small bites -- but large impact. Solution: "Too Kill A Mockingbird"...
You know what a 3.3 quake means in So Cal? It means it's .1 bigger than a nothin'-burger.
I think you actually did piss off the crows. The coyote was "side-eyeing" you because coyotes -- like a lot of other species -- have good reason to side-eye humans.
Something not to overlook in L.A.:
The timing of Friday's raids was absolutely calculated to stoke things up. More people off for the weekend meant more people able to protest which meant higher likelihood things would get out of hand.
So now he has pretext for sending out-of-state National Guard.
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Long Hot Summer could be coming. I'm hopeful that, like a lot of DJT's intentions, this will turn to shit and a cork stuck in it. But many innocent and productive lives are interrupted in the meantime.
There's ways to have border security and enforce sovereignty. This ain't it.
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As we were discussing a couple of days ago here. And how does this fit into plans for the Big Beautiful Bestest Golden Dome Friend Ever??
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What caught my eye:
Mick Ryan, a retired Australian general and fellow at the Lowy Institute, said “the long-range strike is now a commodity available to almost every nation state, and nonstate actor, with a few million dollars and the desire to reach out and strike their adversary.”
