@MichaelEdKelly

Comms Director for @WADNR. Very fond of @LaurenMcGowan. Glad that a word like KALSARIKÄNNIT exists. I too have concepts of a plan. All opinions are mine.

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Best thing the Times has published in years. nytimes.com/2025/10/09/opini…

Opinion | I Love Watching Yankees Fans Suffer (Published 2025)

I’m a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker. But I can’t help rooting against the Yankees.

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This is a really big day for the state and our forests. Incredibly proud to have lead the team that rolled out this announcement. More even prouder to be part of @waDNR and to work for @CPL_Dave! Now it’s time for the next steps to move our forests forward!
Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove@CPL_Dave26 Aug 2025
Today, I signed a Commissioner's Order to conserve 77,000 acres of structurally complex forests - including 100 percent of our older forests.
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Imagine hating Big Bird and Mister Rogers and PBS Newshour this much. nytimes.com/2025/08/01/busin…

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down (Published 2025)

The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.

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Spot on @CPL_Dave. “We need to be preparing for the wildfire season that’s one sunny week away, not responding to a poorly written executive order that will put us all at risk.” washingtonpost.com/weather/2…

Trump considering plan to change how the country fights wildfires

A draft executive order the White House is considering plans to overhaul how the nation fights wildfires by creating a new federal agency that prioritizes quickly putting out fires.

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Well this deportation cash grab is certainly gross, @AveloAir. washingtonpost.com/travel/20…

Small airline faces boycotts over deal to run deportation flights for ICE

Thousands have pledged to boycott Avelo Airlines over its new deal with Homeland Security.

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Also, if the "I have plane, will deport ppl" biz is so good, why hide it? "...crew members for these flights will wear a “generic uniform with no Avelo branding,” Goff said...In addition, the aircraft will be all white, with no Avelo regalia.
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Look AI is coming for all of us who write, but it's not gonna kill our jobs dead with the em dash. I love that puncation mark and have (maybe over) used it for years. washingtonpost.com/technolog…

Some people think AI writing has a tell — the em dash. Writers disagree.

Em dashes have been derided as the “ChatGPT hyphen” — a punctuation mark overused by artificial intelligence. That’s not quite true.

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If this doesn't horrify you, if this doesn't show you the deep moral rot at the heart of the Trump administration, then I don't know what will. washingtonpost.com/immigrati…

Trump administration says it mistakenly deported Salvadoran migrant

The government blamed “an administrative error” for the deportation of Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant married to a U.S. citizen. Officials say they’re unable to return him to his family.

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What @CoryBooker is still doing right now is something good. More us of need to stand up and keeping standing. That is one way we start to push back. nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/po…

Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record (Published 2025)

The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.

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We’ve moved to secret police pretty quickly. washingtonpost.com/immigrati…
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I just got the Wordle in one for the first time ever so I think I’m gonna take the rest of the day to celebrate. It’s the small things in life right now.
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When we try to deport a legal resident for exercising their constitutional right to protest a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced an entire people, we have lost ourselves. We are no longer the country we think we are. nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/po…

The U.S. Is Trying to Deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Legal Resident. Here’s What to Know. (Published 2025)

Mr. Khalil, who helped lead protests at Columbia University against civilian casualties in Gaza, was arrested by immigration officers and sent to a detention center in Louisiana.

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They all think we're so blind we can't see the idiot in the tech support t-shirt behind the Resolute Desk. seattletimes.com/nation-worl…

Elon Musk tells Republican lawmakers he’s not to blame for federal firings

Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers that he's not to blame for the firings of thousands of federal workers as he pushes to downsize the government.

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Brings to mind this from Hitchhiker's Guide: "...the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you—daft as a brush, but very very ravenous)"
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It’s been exhausting watching us drop whatever scrap of moral leadership we had left this week, cutting funding to AIDS clinics and Ebola research and firing wildland firefighters. Capping it off with Trump and Vance walking away from being “leader of the free world” is gutting.
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We gotta figure out how to fight back because whatever we’re doing right now, it ain’t working.
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Daily reminder that billionaires won’t save us.
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@covie_9326 Feb 2025
jeff bezos went from promising to never interfere with the editorial decisions of the Washington Post to flat out saying the Post is not allowed to publish any opinion he does not agree with.
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but why? nytimes.com/athletic/6144194…
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If you like having clean air and water, thank a civil servant. If you like having safe food, thank a gov't employee. If you like that there are people ready to fight wildfires, thank a public worker. What Trump and Musk are doing is stupid and will hurt us. All of us.
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The treatment of these dedicated people is sickening. They are just trying to do a job. For you. And for me. I don't think we're going to like what happens when those responsible for food safety, medical research, environmental protection and more are done being purged.
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