@jeffdevries

is: me. Friendly ally.

 Somewhere In, California
Joined January 2009
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Trump's wall decimated the borderlands. This disastrous project dynamited mountains, ripped open trenches & left mounds of bulldozed saguaro cactus scattered across wildlife refuges, national park units & wilderness areas. It's time to clean up the mess.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/06/…

Abandoned Construction Sites Scar Landscape Around U.S.-Mexico Border

President Biden promised a plan for what to do about abandoned construction sites when he stopped work on the previous administration's border wall, but so far has not produced one.

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SFGATE
@SFGate20 May 2021
It started with a petrified tree, half-buried in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The site intrigued Greg Francek, a ranger for East Bay Municipal Utility District. He inspected further, and it led to one of the biggest fossil discoveries in Calif. history. sfgate.com/local/article/fos…

'Wondrous': Ranger stumbles onto biggest Calif. fossil find ever

It started with a petrified tree.

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The reason the American debate over Israel-Palestine could shift dramatically and quickly is that many Democratic politicians don't need to be convinced that what Israel is doing is wrong. They just need to be convinced that they can say so without hurting their careers
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Thinkwert
@Thinkwert13 May 2021
No we are not stopping there we have plenty of anxiety at home
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Replying to @MaraGay
In 70's my first job paid 10k. My first house cost 10k. I was paid the price of a house/yr. Retired earning 60k living in house that cost 360k. My kid's first job paid 20k - his house cost 200k - he's paid 1/10 price of house. That's a 90% pay cut to his generation. 🇨🇦
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Remarkable. Cops in many cities have very low vaccinations rates: NYC: 39% Las Vegas: 38% Atlanta: 36% “I hate to sound like I don’t care, but I really don’t,” said one union rep. Citizens, obvi, don't get to choose whether they interact w/ cops. washingtonpost.com/health/20…
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Lena loo@lena_loo_30 Apr 2021
Replying to @BeschlossDC @FLOTUS @steveholland1
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit”
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Jeet Heer
@HeerJeet22 Apr 2021
Jacob Kurtzberg and Rosalind Goldstein, New York city, 1941. A very moving photo for some of us.
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Damn. xitter.cf/EverydayBastiat/status… – at Atlanta, GA
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There have been so many shootings Marco Rubio is going to run out of bible verses
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The Top 10 Storytelling Lessons I Learned From ✍️🌲🌈Writing on Gravity Falls!🌈🌲✍️ I made this for a talk and still take these lessons with me on everything I make!
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Someone build me a damn time machine 🎰 – at West Hollywood, CA
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I know this is a minority position but I love the goofy intro sentences students write. Since the dawn of time, humans have wondered about the mind. fuckin tell me about it man
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They kinda contradict each other though.
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It’s only illegal if they get caught, charged, prosecuted, indicted, convicted, AND sentenced to an actual penalty. Otherwise, it’s just another day for them.
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Axios
@axios24 Mar 2021
Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians and discussed how big is too big to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes. Their views were in sync with his own: It is time to go even bigger and faster than anyone expected. axios.com/biden-filibuster-a…
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Seriously though there’s no more obvious sign of the influence of money on politics than the collapse of tax enforcement.
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me and the girls once quarantine is over
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