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Rich Naff

@buster79.bsky.social
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Retired hydrologist, USGS, Denver Colorado

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This should be the lead story with a screaming headline on every news website: “Trump sides with Putin in Ukraine war.” “After a long, friendly chat during which Putin offered Trump a political lifeline, Trump called for Ukraine to surrender.”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We live in a police state now
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Schmitt's big gotcha was that Smith was in the same city as Willis? Why did he think this was enough? In MAGAland, the idea that Willis and Smith were coordinating is seen as a) a big conspiracy that must be proven and which b) vindicates Trump instead of a) who cares? and b) no it doesn’t.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 30/09/2026
Rep. Gil Cisneros voted to stomp on the First Amendment on behalf of Israel.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
reality, what a concept
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump and Republicans will kill us all yet. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Can't get a job? Try ICE. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says (Gift Article)
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
Pathetic -- Google is now referring to Lake Ontario as "Lake America"
screencap of Google Maps showing "Lake America"
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Worth the read. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World (Gift Article)
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Replacing one dictatorship with another. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: U.S. Oil Takeover Prompts Pushback From Venezuelans (Gift Article)
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump's operation lipstick pig carries on www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
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Six Months In, Iran Appears Stronger and U.S. Goals Unclear (Gift Article)
Trump’s replacement of a military war with a heightened economic one is not expected to alter Iran’s strategy, while further impoverishing its people.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
For some reason, I couldn't get a gift copy of this article. Hope that you all can read it. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy
The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This whole ballroom project is emblematic of the Trump administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
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Trump’s Ballroom Is Rising at Breakneck Speed: 20 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week (Gift Article)
Although the fate of the ballroom is tied up in court, the Trump administration argues that the project is too far along to be stopped now.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Could people please post this image on Truth Social with flattering language to see if we can get him to repost it? Thx
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Fun read (not much reading, though). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Why Is It So Hard to Build a Transformer? (Gift Article)
Transformers are the linchpin of modern civilization. A single one can take five years to build.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"The Affordable Care Act was a triumph of government, and it is justifiably popular. . . . Mr. Trump and Republicans have sought to weaken the law and hope that voters do not notice." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/o...
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Opinion | Republicans Are Trying to Hide These Health Care Cuts (Gift Article)
Republicans are taking deliberate steps to make health care less affordable.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Immediate grounds for impeachment and removal under any previous modern president. Six million people live in Colorado.
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German Wondering @germanwondering.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
💯 👇 Equally important. "Democracy" for the US system is a misnomer, and the world should refuse to call it such. And ridicule #Musk next time he gives lectures to Europe on freedom and democracy.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"The F.D.A.’s decision to delay the rule was followed by action from the Republican-controlled Congress, which took additional steps to bar the F.D.A. from using its funding to enforce the rule and urged a revision favoring greater flexibility." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/h...
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How Cyclospora Evaded the U.S. Food Safety System to Sicken Thousands (Gift Article)
The Trump administration delayed a rule last year that could have sped up the effort to pinpoint the source of the contamination. Critics charge that food safety oversight has eroded overall.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Beware of el ninyo. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/c...
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Effects of Record-Breaking El Niño Are Happening on 3 Continents (Gift Article)
The recurring climate phenomenon is expected to peak later this year, but it is already causing dry spells and crop failures on three continents.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
US defense companies Raytheon and Lockheed Martin are reportedly resisting licensing Patriot missile production to Ukraine because they fear Ukrainian manufacturers could “improve the Patriot and then produce them at scale faster and for much less money”-The Atlantic.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Learning from the past can be difficult when the "past" keeps changing. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Trying to Force Americans to Unlearn What We Know (Gift Article)
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The 2026 election could be a real dilly. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
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A Growing Number of Election Deniers Hold Key Local Roles in Midterms (Gift Article)
These officials oversee or help administer elections in counties across the nation where competitive House and Senate races will determine control of Congress.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trump loses www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
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An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump (Gift Article)
The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
AIPAC money and U.S. elections. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside the Spending of AIPAC, One of the U.S.'s Largest Super PACs (Gift Article)
In recent years, AIPAC has more than doubled the amount it spends in political campaigns, while rarely mentioning Israel. Its biggest test yet, the Michigan Senate primary, comes Tuesday.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Trump, the great stupid one, caused this. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...
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In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear (Gift Article)
With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Another indication that humans are inducing climate change. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/c...
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Earth’s Warming Primed France and Spain to Burn, Scientists Find (Gift Article)
The likelihood of hot, dry weather that helps wildfires spread has increased sharply in Europe in recent decades, according to a new report.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Dr. Fauci, who saved millions of lives in the USA, is getting treatment harsher than all the Epstein perpetrators. America is fundamentally damaged to its core.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Trump's misadventure has gone astray. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
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U.S. Strikes Iran Again, as Trump Encounters a More Determined Adversary in Widened War (Gift Article)
The United States is again exchanging strikes with Iran, just days after the president appeared to reject plans to escalate.
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Pax Linson @paxll.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Most notably, a book [David Barton] published in 2012 about Thomas Jefferson was pulled from the shelves by its publisher after a group of historians from Christian universities accused him of including distortions and false information." @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social
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The fake historian advising Trump's anti-Smithsonian crusade
Last Friday, President Trump released an executive order directing officials to install signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) informing visitors that the museum pr...
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Will the real Elon Musk step forward? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Much truth here. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
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Opinion | Jewish Terrorism Is Also a Threat to Zionism (Gift Article)
A blunt warning for Israel.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Our great, glorious war with Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...
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Iran War Enters 6th Month and a Period of Greater Uncertainty (Gift Article)
Here is a rundown of the major events of the war, as both sides consider their next moves.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When China stepped up its crackdown on human rights activists in 2019, lawyer Wu Shaoping thought he found a safe haven for his family The United States Instead, it's America's ICE that's imprisoned this asylum seeker after a traffic stop My column on this outrage www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...
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Wu Shaoping escaped China’s repression, only to get busted by ICE in Pa. | Will Bunch
The U.S.’s reputation as a safe haven for the world’s dissidents takes another hit with Pennsylvania’s arrest of a Chinese human rights lawyer.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Good to see mass murder isn't popular.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Who knew genocide could be so unpopular?
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 24/07/2026
Haley Stevens on U.S support for Israel: “This is a relationship that must continue to thrive and go unquestioned”
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Colorado drought increasingly linked to long-term climate change coloradosun.com/2026/07/22/c...
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Colorado drought increasingly linked to long-term climate change
Climate change has made a repeat of this year's historic low snowpack 14 times more likely, Colorado School of Mines researchers say
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sending ICE Agents to intimidate voters at polling places, declaring martial law to try to delay or cancel the election, seizing ballots-As he gets more desperate, there's nothing he won't do to try to save his pathetic orange ass. ALL states should preemptively prepare to defend Democracy! 🇺🇸 ✊
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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...
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Remarks at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism - United States Department of State
DEPUTY SECRETARY LANDAU:  Thank you.  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the State Department.  It’s an honor and a privilege to have you here.  For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the topic that ...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lake Powell and Lake Mead "hold almost 60% of the water stored in the Colorado River system. "As of July 12, Mead was 27% full and Powell was 24% full." www.sltrib.com/news/environ...
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The Colorado River’s 2 biggest reservoirs just hit a new record low
The combined storage in the nation’s two largest reservoirs has dropped to a level not seen since 1956, when Glen Canyon Dam was still under construction.
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Rich Naff @buster79.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
When the Turd loses, he raises a great stink. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...
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A Trump Obsession That Carries a Cost for Democracy (Gift Article)
In demanding steps to address the integrity of voting, President Trump persisted in relitigating his 2020 election defeat while finding ways to cast doubt on the 2026 outcome.
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