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Adam Drummer

@adamdrummer.bsky.social
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- Bend, OR - Mojave desert 🐢 biologist - Part-time woodworker - Skiing, cooking, riding bikes - Cleveland Cavaliers 🏀 fan! - #noKings

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Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This machine fights climate change. 🌎 This machine fights traffic congestion. 🚴🏼‍♀️ This machine fights ill health. 💓 Love this machine (and the great new Art Station building it's parked in front of!)
A white cargo e bike is parked in front of the Art Station building at Larkspur Park in Bend, with two blue helmets in the handlebar basket.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/07/2026
The interesting thing about why Norway dominates at international sports is that they have a culture of not permitting ranking or competition in kids before they turn 12. It promotes cooperation and enjoyment instead. Along with affordable access, it means sports there are more equitable.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Alex Says Stuff @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The country in the world with the most Japanese people, facing off against the country with the second-most Japanese people, in the country with the third-most Japanese people.
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/06/2026
In the high desert of Central Oregon, the Deschutes River is a lifeline for farmers and landowners. A century-old water law, however, entitles just a few thousand people to more than half of its volume. with @opb.org
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An Oregon Law Lets One Wealthy Region Turn the Desert Green. When Drought Hits, Farmers Pay the Price.
In the high desert of Central Oregon, the Deschutes River is a lifeline for farmers and landowners — but a century-old water law entitles just a few thousand people to more than half of its volume.
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David Welton @davidwelton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Guess which development people complain about in Bend, Oregon:
Two developments - one on the edge of town with very expensive housing vs infill apartments built on a formerly barren lot
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Ariel Méndez @amendez.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In today's Bend Bulletin there is a point and counterpoint on the climate pollution fee up for adoption by the Bend city council tonight. It is literally a climate scientist vs. a paid lobbyist.
screenshot of a newspaper with two essays "Point: Pass Bend's climate fee" and "Counterpoint: Natural gas is not simply a fuel to be phased out"
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NBA @nba.com · 18/05/2026
The Cavaliers win Game 7 on the road and advance to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2018! They will take on the Knicks in the ECF. NBA Conference Finals presented by Google
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
From the Fort Worth Zoo (@fortworthzoo.bsky.social) FB & just in time for Mother's Day, freshly-hatched masked lapwing chicks (Vanellus miles). Native to Australia, NZ, NG, they're fierce parents, willing to charge/swoop at animals that threaten their babies.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Saverio, a 19 year-old Italian tuxedo cat, is living a happy life in the medieval streets of Poppi (Italy). He has become the official mascot of the village.
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Night 9 of Phish Sphere - 5/2/26 - Section 110, row 20 What a run! I hit nights 2 & 6 as well. The final night’s 2nd set was just so awesome… #phish #sphere
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I had a good conversation with Dean last night
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)
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Mike MacFerrin @icesheetmike.myatproto.social · 28/04/2026
1. The article is talking about _8_ people, which is genuinely obscene. 2. They didn’t “flee” anywhere, they just changed their “primary” address to another of their estates. 3. They weren’t paying taxes anyway. 4. Literally nothing of value was lost.
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sphere Las Vegas ‘26 night 6, April 25th From section 211 Let’s do it again next weekend! #phish
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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The afternoon rains are my favorite time of day at Paraíso Quetzal Lodge #CostaRica When the temp drops, the little beasts get hangry. I think these are all Fiery-throated Hummingbirds, but I think there is a single Talamanca behind. #birds #hummingbirds #nature
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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon is all over the news as details come out of all the penny-pinching he's done since taking over the NBA team. This probably won't come as a surprise to folks familiar with how Dundon amassed his wealth from sketchy subprime auto loans:
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Portland Trail Blazers Buyer Tom Dundon Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans
In 2020, the state sued Santander Consumer USA for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21/04/2026
Spent Saturday with President Obama and New York's Cutest — turns out my first name is Mayor and I need to be doing more squats.  Here’s to building a City where families can thrive and every classroom is full of this much joy.
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Sphere Night 2, 4/17/26 It’s been awhile since I’ve seen @phish.com and the Sphere show was a good reminder was to why I ❤️ this band! Just an incredible sensory experience and good vibes in there…
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Hey @melaniekebler.bsky.social can we do this in Bend??? 😁
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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026
As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Thanks for including On the Hippie Trail, @latimes.com!
A screenshot from the LA Times featuring the cover of "On the Hippie Trail" with the following text by Sophia Kercher:

"In the 1970s, tie-dyed vagabonds and stoney American expats loaded up in dusty vans in Europe and took off for Nepal. They'd roll through Turkey, snake up dirt roads to then-peaceful Iran and a welcoming Afghanistan; trek through Pakistan to India and head all the way up to happening Kathmandu. Folks called the route the Hippie Trail. I know because my mom was one of them -- and turns out she may have been lighting up with Steves during his first-ever toke in Herat, Afghanistan. Steves unfolds stories from the trail that widened his view of the world and drove him to become a beloved PBS personality in his resurfaced travel/photo journal meets memoir. Read it when you're longing for an epic trip."
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11/04/2026
Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 09/04/2026
What's cheaper: Fueling your car with gas or electricity? Check the cost in every US state: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/what... by @karinkirk.bsky.social
(Image credit: Collage by Samantha Harrington. Money photo by Giorgio Trovato / Unsplash; wallet photo by Emil Kalibradov / Unsplash; EV charger photo by myenergi / Unsplash; gas car photo by fr0ggy5 / Unsplash)
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
WSJ: Oil executives sold $1.4 billion in personal stock between January and March, making a fortune on the war www.wsj.com/business/ene...
Chevron Chief Executive Mike Wirth sold some $104 million worth of shares between January and March. ConocoPhillips’s Ryan Lance netted about $54.3 million in share sales in March alone. Lorenzo Simonelli, CEO of oil-field services company Baker Hughes, sold about $33 million worth of stock that same month
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Shout it from the roof tops!
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/04/2026
For my newsletter I wrote about *sigh* Hasan Piker. I get into why he is so popular and why Democratic centrists are so desperate to muzzle him. www.burnsnotice.com/hasan-piker-...
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Hasan Piker is the King of the 2nd Screen
Piker's success comes because he gives his viewers access to our paywalled news system – through his own political lens. If you're at all connected with political media like I am these days, you simp...
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
call for an investigation into the president's fitness. call for the house to impeach. say you will obstruct every last bit of senate business. call for soldiers to disregard illegal orders. say you will prosecute the people who do this. say you will take their military pensions and benefits.
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Mike Rogoway @rogoway.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Google’s Oregon data centers drank a lot more water in The Dalles last year – they now use 40% of all the city’s water, and climbing. City leaders and conservationists disagree about the implications of Google’s enormous thirst. But they agree the company’s secrecy continues sowing distrust.
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More Oregon water for Google’s data centers, more concern over secrecy
Conservationists and The Dalles disagree about the implications of Google's thirst, but they agree the company's secrecy is sowing distrust.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
this is what happens when democrats stupidly elevate "never trump" republicans into the movement when these are the people who built trumpism and are just mad he says what they believe out loud. you donated to the bulwark and you got what you deserve.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)
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John Heylin @jheylin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Bend priced people out who now commute in to work. Approximately 26k people a day. Now gas prices are up. Because we didn't build housing locally, we're not only contributing greatly to global warming, but also crushing workers with high gas prices.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/04/2026
For years I've been looking for the right guest to do a pod on this. The car-sales model that is dictated by law in the US -- you must go to a dealership & suffer for hours in order to buy one -- is one of the most nakedly anti-social special interest giveaways in history. Needs to be killed dead.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
After 15 whole minutes of discussion, the Endangered Species Committee (100% Trump appointees) decided that oil & gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico don't need to exert any caution anymore to protect endangered whales, turtles, or other wildlife. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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U.S. panel votes to exempt Gulf of Mexico drilling from Endangered Species Act
In its first meeting in three decades, the Endangered Species Committee voted to revoke protections for the endangered Rice’s whales and sea turtles.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
LISTEN. Thank you, Cecellia Wang.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
1. I think it's time for us to accept the bitter truth. We are going to pay, and continue paying for a long time to come, for the president’s war of choice against Iran. Such are the consequences of politics. Maybe Americans will take their democracy seriously next time.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Whether it's motorists filling their Toyota Corolla's gas tank or Mark Zuckerberg powering the four diesel engines of his 387 foot yacht, Americans are paying more to fuel their vehicles.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/03/2026
@bkindivisible.bsky.social had a STUNNING display, I believe primarily designed by the great Julie Pepito. @bradlander.bsky.social marching with them on the far left there.
Indivisible Brooklyn members marching with Brad Lander during No Kings Manhattan behind a banner reading "TOGETHER WE RISE." Gorgeous art placards, one with a sun reading "WE ARE THE POWER," others with monarch butterflies and flowers. Lander's carrying a placard reading "PEOPLE POWER"
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
NYC No Kings march today photographed by Adam Gray: www.instagram.com/p/DWcf2Xmj-UL/
a fuckton of people filling 7th avenue as far as the eye can see with billboards in times square
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings North Las Vegas. It was a hot one but good to be out with the locals in my temporary Mojave desert home!
Holding my Monarch butterfly-shaped sign that says “The Only Monarch I Want” at the North Las Vegas No Kings rally My wife Sage holds up her No Kings sign that says “ICE in Margaritas not Airports” at the North Las Vegas rally
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Adam Drummer @adamdrummer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Mamdani & his team are soooo good at this!
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Rod Schoonover-Rey @rodschoonover.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is what homeland security looks like in our age of Earth system stress. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
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‘The situation is dire’: Lake Powell is heading for a record low as Colorado River states remain deadlocked
After a record low snowpack, Colorado River states face a near-term crisis at Lake Powell and an ongoing stalemate over longterm plans. "The stakes have never been higher," said one state negotiator...
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Mira Rojanasakul @rjnskl.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Record heat is colliding with a snow drought across the Western United States, where snowpack accounts for much of the water supply 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/... w/ @byscottdance.com & @sachimulkey.bsky.social
A map of the snowpack across the western United States compared to average snowpack for this time of the year. In nearly all, large swaths of the mountain ranges have less than a third of the normal snowpack for the year. Nearly all of the Colorado River Basin has below-average snow. Snowpack is below average in every western state except for parts of Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Washington.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/03/2026
This is *terrible* policy -- terrible economically, terrible ecologically, terrible politically.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025
iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/
Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Octopus playing Now You See Me, Now You Don't: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Let's take a look at the empirical political record of the right-wing men who think women shouldn't vote in the United States, shall we? Started a war with no plan for the Strait of Hormuz. No plan for the succession after killing the supreme leader.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Upper Colorado basin snowpack has deteriorated drastically in the week since I wrote this column. This is a massive problem for water availability in the months to come
Chart of Colorado River snowpack as of March 20, show it far far lower than any previous year in the past 35
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