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Brian Muegge

@bigbrifishguy.bsky.social
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Farm Program Manager @salmonsafe Native fish absolutist, bird guy, proud Zag, and fun uncle Spokane, WA 📍 Board member at @WashingtonWild open.substack.com/pub/fishbirdsandw…

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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
@rangemedia.co absolutely hate to be this guy, but that’s definitely a prairie dog, not our highly esteemed native Yellow-bellied Marmot!
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Damn proud of my Spokane community today! #NoKingsSpokane
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Farmers trying to do the right thing are yet again getting frozen out by this government, which seems determined to make the wrong decisions at every opportunity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review
Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
What a breath of fresh air into my lungfish!
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I'm going to leave these plant posters up on the shop until midnight, then whatever is leftover I'm going to cut off the "take one and plant" portion of the posters and staple them up around the neighborhood and call it a wrap on this project for 2025. Get 'em now or never squidfacts.bigcartel.com
a poster is stapled to a tree and it says plant native plants, take one and plant, with a bunch of seed bags clipped to the bottom of the poster. The image on the poster is an illustration of a purple coneflower plant
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When shooting your dog in the face isn’t the worst thing you ever did.
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Eliza Billingham @elizabillingham.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
ICYMI: a little more evidence that Joni Mitchell is always right www.inlander.com/news/why-the...
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Why the Department of Natural Resources is trading a Spokane forest for a Bellingham grocery store
The hundreds of acres just south of Thorpe Road are the largest area of undeveloped land left inside Spokane city limits. They're a travel corridor...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
spring trend predictions: — 5" shorts — camp collars — recession
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Eliza Billingham @elizabillingham.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The headline I really wanted to run with this was “Aquifer? I Barely Know Her!” www.inlander.com/news/will-sp...
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Will Spokane city voters get the chance to rejoin the region's Aquifer Protection Area?
The Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer is the only supply of drinking water for most of Spokane and Kootenai counties. It flows for about 370 square...
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NPR @npr.org · 30/03/2025
The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American defense industry in the 1940s, and preserve their stories for future generations.
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Rosie the Riveters honored for service in WWII
The National World War Two Museum and the Gary Sinise Foundation celebrate the trailblazing women who worked in the American defense industry in the 1940s, and preserve their stories for future genera...
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 29/03/2025
More context + community opinion on the DNR item we briefed in Wide RANGE
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@wadnr.bsky.social @rangemedia.co @inlander.com @thestranger.com @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social @highcountrynews.bsky.social @gristnews.bsky.social @outthereoutdoors.bsky.social @spokanerising.com
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
It’s not every day you have a former DNR board member calling out the agency for mismanagement of conservation land. Today is one of those days though. Our community is pissed - DNR can help right the ship by voting to opt out of the exchange April 1st. washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/03/29/s...
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State’s hasty swap of 200-acre Thorpe Property in Spokane should be reexamined • Washington State Standard
COMMENTARY | New information has emerged about the deal. The Board of Natural Resources still has a chance to halt it.
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Boy. DNR’s Thorpe Rd exchange is the unwanted gift that keeps on giving. This entire exchange was predicated on misinformation and faulty arithmetic from the start. Talk about a golden opportunity that @wadnr.bsky.social has to opt-out of this exchange by April 6th - put this nonsense to bed!
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Washington Wild @wawild.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Following last week's deadline, the Trump Administration is currently reviewing plans to eliminate an additional 20-50% of jobs across the federal workforce. Demand that Congress act now before it's too late! wawild.org/%f0%9f%9a%a8...
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🚨Tell Congress: Stop the Attack on Our Federal Workforce! - Washington Wild
Demand an end to the mass firings of federal workers and gutting of government agencies that are putting our environment and public lands at risk.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Picked this up on the way out of my local bookstore today and was happy to hear it's been flying out the door.
A hand holds the small book, "How to Resist Amazon and Why (updated & expanded) - The Fight for Local Economies, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future" by Danny Caine, co-owner of the Raven Book Store.
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Washington Wild @wawild.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
From teaming up with local craft brewers to protect clean water to leading grassroots campaigns against threats, WA Wild is committed to building a wild, sustainable future for all, generations to come. wawild.org
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Home - Washington Wild
Washington Wild is a nonprofit organization that protects wild lands and rivers in Washington State through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
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Washington Wild @wawild.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Hello Bluesky! If you already know us—thanks for joining us here! And if you're new—lovely to meet you! Since 1979, WA Wild has been at the forefront of protecting Washington's wild places, partnering with local and national groups to safeguard nearly 3 million acres of Wilderness.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11/03/2025
Get in loser, we're tanking the economy
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Kate Bernot @kbernot.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Huge turnout for the public lands rally in Missoula this afternoon. Hearing from fired federal land managers and former BLM director Tracy Stone-Manning ✊
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/03/2025
That’s right. 🇺🇦
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
DOGE to manatees: drop dead. www.tampabay.com/news/environ...
tampabay.com
These park rangers oversaw Florida’s only manatee refuge. Then they were fired.
The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce are impacting the only national refuge created specifically for threatened manatees.
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Big thanks to DNR’s new Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove for meeting with our crew today to chat about the Trust Land Transfer program, as well as ongoing efforts in Spokane that better protect public lands! #ConserveSky #TLT
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wendysig.bsky.social @wendysig.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Good job Spokane! #50501 #notmypresidentsday #protest #spokane #resist
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Always fun to see a young Ed King prior to his time with Lynyrd Skynyrd!
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan @alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A Mount St. Helens ranger. A plant scientist on the rolling hills of The Palouse. An entire staff of backup crews meant to support front line firefighters during a raging wildfire. Across the PNW, the Trump administration gutted most of them. Here is their story: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I gave them my best double bird as I drove past yesterday🖕🏼🖕🏼.Glad those little babies got scared and didn’t linger!
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Fascist parallels across space and time.
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Spokane Indians @spokaneindians.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Thanks to all the STCU Gold Glove Members that joined us on Tuesday for Indians Night at the Chiefs. It was great catching up with the best fans in baseball and cheering on the Chiefs to victory! To learn more our ticket package holder benefits, please visit milb.com/spokane/tickets/goldglove
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Hell of a bird!
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
✊🐦 make windows birdsafe featherfriendly.com diy flap.org
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Scott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Amid today’s massive NIH cuts to universities, please know that my research colleagues: - Develop new cancer treatments for kids - Are curing sickle cell disease - Build new tech to help premature babies survive - Prevent teens from dying of drug overdose - And more #NIH #MedSky #research #science
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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Lesser Prairie-Chicken is the focus of new bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, with some legislators seeking to permanently remove the species from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). 🪶 If successful, this effort will be catastrophic for this icon of the American West. 🧵
Photo of a Lesser Prairie-Chicken in its natural habitat, used to illustrate a news article discussing new bills in the U.S. House of Representatives that may affect the Endangered Species Act and this species' conservation efforts.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 04/02/2025
County Commissioner Al French - who has been accused of covering up PFAS contamination on the West Plains - pledges to sell family stock in the manufacturers of those "forever chemicals." His ownership of the stocks was disclosed in PDC filings and discovered by RANGE and Sunlight Research Center.
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Commissioner Al French vows to sell chemical stock
County Commissioner Al French will divest from manufacturers of "forever chemicals"-containing products.
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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 04/02/2025
If you know and love RANGE you know part of our charm is our scrappiness. In that spirit, we are seeking donations of a few small to normal sized desks for our newsroom (right now we are cursed with small office, big desk, bad layout) and it's making it hard to work here! DM us if you can help :)
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Imagine saying this about an agency that has helped millions of people around the world avoid malaria, obtain clean water, and gain access to food & health care. Especially when you’re the world’s richest man & your net worth is something like 20 times this agency’s annual budget. What a foul soul.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 03/02/2025
An unelected billionaire gleefully shutting down the world’s largest provider of food assistance, an agency started 60 years ago by JFK with 10,000 employees in 100 countries www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump moves to wrest control of USAID as Musk says ‘we’re shutting it down’
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk said early Monday that his DOGE team is in the process of closing USAID, the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Where are the defenders of the US as Elon and nameless private agents infiltrate US agencies, commandeer US servers, steal US data, seize US money, march US officials from US buildings? Who sallies forth from the FBI? The CIA? Congress? DoD? The media? This is a coup—and America appears defenseless.
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
@lisaforprogress.bsky.social Seattle has their official city bird designated as the Great Blue Heron - why can’t we have our official city mammal as the Yellow-bellied Marmot?👀 www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
seattletimes.com
The great blue heron: What to know about Seattle’s official bird and where to spot them
Perhaps it's appropriate that Seattle's official bird, the great blue heron, makes a cranky, croaking sound when bothered by the proximity of people.
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Brb, starting a petition to get the Yellow-bellied Marmot designated as Spokane’s official animal mascot right now! Sounds like we have a supporter of the cause in the mayor’s office 😎🦫
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Happy Groundhog Day! Shoutout to my undergraduate research colleagues from back in the day at Gonzaga (Charlie, Taylor, and Naked Marmot Man), who all studied Spokane’s unofficial mascot, the Yellow-bellied Marmot, for our senior capstone research! #marmotSky #YellowbelliedMarmot #SpokaneMascot
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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 01/02/2025
“The Trump administration has frozen the federally funded ‘Road to Zero’ program, a stunning elimination of a small trove of Biden-era grants aimed at improving safety for pedestrians and cyclists in red states and blue.” usa.streetsblog.org/2025/01/31/i...
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'It's So Political': Trump's New Grant Freeze Puts Safety Last — Streetsblog USA
"They want to undo everything Biden did, regardless of the importance," said a recipient of a federal safety grant that is now frozen.
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
My Salmon-Safe work has been impacted this week due to the executive order to pause federal grants through agencies such as the EPA and others. it’s terrible, but we’ll survive. For some people dependent upon these grants however, they might not. Fascism kills. link.propublica.org/click/384265...
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“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/01/2025
It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts
The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.
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Rep. Jared Huffman @rephuffman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
🚨💵Please fill out my form to report how Trump’s illegal move to withhold federal funding would affect you, your family, or your neighbors. I am tracking every detail of Trump’s reckless avalanche of actions that have thrown the US into chaos, and I want to hear directly from you ⬇️ shorturl.at/QUqo8
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Brian Muegge @bigbrifishguy.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Oof. Things are rough out in the world today. For a brief timeline cleanse to break up your doomscrolling, enjoy this hilarious and adorable Sanderling I saw on the beach in Coronado last week. #TimelineCleanse #Shorebirds #birdsky
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 29/01/2025
Happy year of the snake! I would argue that the snakes of the United States are just as varied and pretty as our birds. A few years ago I made a poster to try and prove it. Drawing this took many months and a lot of research. You can get it here: topatoco.com/collections/...
A poster called Snakes of the United States & Canada, featuring every species of snake found in these two countries, all arranged by relative size and taxonomy, all smiling.A close-up of the poster, with a variety of cute snakes, from watersnakes to hog-nosed snakes.
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Victor Corral Martinez @victorcorral.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@inlander.com and @rangemedia.co offering free and meaningful news for Eastern Washington and North Idaho.
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a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
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Erick Doxey @erickdoxey.com · 29/01/2025
Good news, BlueSky, @inlander.com is verified and has left Xitter. You’ll be seeing more of them around here. So give them a follow if news from in and around Spokane is your bag.
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