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David E. Shellenberger

@deshellenberger.bsky.social
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Professional coach: Leadership and personal. Volunteer advocate: International liberty and international animal welfare. www.daveshellenberger.com

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3h
Singapore plans to merge several islands into a new “western island” for industrial development. Conservationists warn the mega-project could bury up to 60% of the country’s remaining coral reefs, which serve as ecologically vital “mother” reefs. Robin Hicks reports for #Mongabay.
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Singapore’s plan to merge several islands could wipe out coral reefs
SINGAPORE — “For seven thousand years, Singapore has changed around these reefs,” says Debby Ng, a Singaporean biologist who studies the city-state’s shrinking coastlines of seagrasses, mangroves and…
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 4h
Today is the publication date. "At its core, Higgs's work centers on the human stakes of political economy: freedom, coercion, and the conditions necessary for human flourishing." www.independent.org/store/book/t...
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The Indispensable Robert Higgs : A Reader (The Essential Robert Higgs) - Hardcover, eBook
A sweeping celebration of one of the most original and fearless voices in modern political thought. Best known for his landmark work Crisis and Leviathan:
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 10h
"Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday appeared receptive to allowing Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to continue investigating who may have been responsible for an alleged violation of a court order tied to deportation flights." share.google/jjSceFIlgyDq...
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Kristi Noem may face criminal probe as judges sound favorable
Appeals judges questioned whether Kristi Noem, attorneys, or others face blame in the deportation flight dispute.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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F.D. Shook III @fds3rd.bsky.social · 18h
#Russia strikes animal shelter in #OdesaOblast: 10 cats and 3 dogs killed #Animals #Europe #Ukraine #WarCrimes
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Russia strikes animal shelter in Odesa Oblast: 10 cats and 3 dogs killed – video
A Russian attack in Odesa Oblast damaged the Loving Hearts animal shelter, killing 10 cats and three dogs and destroying animal food supplies.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 14h
“P-22 became closely associated with the campaign for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing over U.S. Route 101, which is intended to reconnect habitat divided by one of the region’s busiest freeways." news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
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The mountain lion photo that helped change Los Angeles
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. A mountain lion in front of the Hollywood sign sounds almost too con...
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Burma Campaign UK @burmacampaignuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
URGENT ACTION: tell Malaysia not to hand over Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military, the same Burmese military which has committed genocide against them. It is not safe for Rohingya to return. Take action to halt the deportations planned for next week action.burmacampaign.org.uk/halt-handove...
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Tell Malaysia not to hand over Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military
At the end of September Malaysia plans to hand over 1,500 Rohingya refugees to the Burmese military. Rohingya in Burma face ongoing genocide, executions, sexual violence, torture, forced conscription ...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think we lucked out a bit here in that a lot of what Trump does falls into the bucket of “so jaw-droppingly vulgar or corrupt that it’s not technically illegal because it was inconceivable that someone would attempt it.” Like why restaurants rarely post “no defecating on the tables” signs.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development that I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations." www.daveshellenberger.com/leadership-w...
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Leadership Week in Review: Sept. 20-26, 2026
Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development that I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm quoted at @reason.com: "Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, says the ads are a 'gross violation of democratic norms, campaign norms, and expectations that government will treat citizens impartially.'...
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Trump's new ads look like campaign spots. Taxpayers are paying for them.
With midterm voting underway, the distinction between public service announcements and campaign ads blurs.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Boycott Montana. "His life ended far too soon when he ventured outside the invisible protection of the park and into Montana. On September 25, he was shot and killed during hunting season in Montana in subunit 313, located just outside Yellowstone." greatergood.com/blogs/news/b...
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Beloved Yellowstone Wolf "Tripod" Shot and Killed in Montana | GreaterGood
Gone way too soon.
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Humane World for Animals @humaneworldorg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
70 dogs have been trapped on a dog meat farm in South Korea, confined to rusty wire cages. Some of these dogs are still wearing collars. This is an extremely urgent situation. Please donate TODAY to help rescue these dogs and save more animals from suffering: hwfa.link/2bs092826
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Restore open borders.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WASHINGTON — Eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago when an Iranian cruise missile attacked the ship they were operating on in the Strait of Hormuz, according to three U.S. officials. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump regime is winning its war for disease, promoting the anti-intellectual discouragement of vaccination. Measles is itself dangerous, and it exposes people to other diseases. www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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Vaccinated or not, we’re on the brink of a measles epidemic : Short Wave
Measles is making a comeback. Ongoing outbreaks in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah have documented hundreds of cases, mostly among unvaccinated people. And while local and federal politi...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump needs to be impeached and convicted, and prosecuted by a special international tribunal. reason.com/2026/09/26/h...
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How murdering suspected drug dealers became the new normal
A year after launching his explosive antidrug campaign, President Donald Trump routinely rains death on alleged cocaine couriers.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"His relentless dishonesty has become a central feature of US and world politics." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Thanks to a Center legal challenge, a federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act in refusing to protect California habitat for these foxes." www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/mamm...
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Sierra Nevada red fox
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water
The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Here are 100 more of our favorite photos from this year's entries from both contests, displayed in no particular order. Scroll through to admire both the beauty of the birds and the skill of the photographers." www.audubon.org/magazine/202...
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 25/09/2026
A Win! Thanks to a Center for Biological Diversity legal challenge, a federal judge has ruled that the Fish and Wildlife Service violated the #EndangeredSpeciesAct in refusing to protect #California habitat for extremely endangered, extremely elusive Sierra Nevada red foxes 🦊🔗➡️ bit.ly/4e0b243
A Sierra Nevada red fox walking through snow with a snow covered evergreen tree in the background. Text over the image reads: Celebrating a win for Sierra Nevada Red Foxes".
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agustina Vergara Cid: "As I've argued before, many of Trump's policies resemble those of the Kirchnerist government that held power in Argentina for almost two decades." reason.com/2026/09/21/t...
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Trump takes page from leftist playbook with $5,000 dividend proposal
The Trump administration is willing to use public money for campaigning and gamble the country’s fiscal future, just like the leftists in Argentina who ran against Milei.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 26/09/2026
The Trump administration is trying to undo the 2001 #RoadlessRule, clearing the way for road construction and logging across more than 44 million acres of wild, natural forests. And they have only given the public a short time to weigh in. Tell the Forest Service to protect national forests 🌲⬇️
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Protect the Roadless Wild
The Trump administration just released its plan to undo the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and strip protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, national forest and 70,000 miles o...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"In a new report released today, Amnesty International documented widespread human rights violations committed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies ….” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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USA: Amnesty International Calls for ICE to Be Abolished After Documenting Widespread Human Rights Violations in Anti-Immigrant Operations
Amnesty International has documented serious human rights violations in ICE’s immigration operations and is calling for their immediate abolition.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
See the two videos! www.mlb.com/news/george-...
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Lombard's mind-bending contortionist moves flummox Rays catcher after WP
NEW YORK – When the Yankees promoted George Lombard Jr. to the big leagues in August, talent evaluators pointed to the rookie shortstop’s background as a soccer standout, noting that he seemed to move...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congress should have cut off funding for Trump's illegal war against Iran long ago. The Trump Party is complicit in all of the killing, destruction, and misery the war has caused and continues to cause. apnews.com/article/war-...
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Senate rejects resolution to halt the Iran war as gas prices upend midterms
Despite increasing political anxiety over Iran war, senators narrowly rejected a war powers resolution.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No. Free the market and end Trump's immoral, illegal, and foolish war against Iran.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Professor White's affirmative argument provides most of the information one needs to appreciate the proposal. I think that status quo bias makes people reluctant to embrace this and other free-market ideas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfEm...
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End the Fed? A Soho Forum Debate
YouTube video by ReasonTV
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We should oppose ICE's brutality against anyone — and the very existence of the agency and the war on immigration. apnews.com/article/chic...
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US citizen injured in Illinois after ICE agents mistook him for fugitive and tried to arrest him
A man was left bloodied and injured in an encounter with immigration enforcement agents in a Chicago suburb.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"[T]he agency is effectively paying out huge sums of taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be returned to their countries of origin." newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Stephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks
Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pierre Lemieux: "The common interest is to live in a free society, a society where each is equally free to pursue his own happiness. This is the classical liberal ideal (and libertarian ideal if we discount the higher heterogeneity of libertarians as we know them)." www.cato.org/regulation/f...
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The Dangerous "National Interest"
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I look forward to speaking at this webinar with Students for Liberty Argentina. Thank you, Zenon Yorllente Leguiza, for organizing the event. www.linkedin.com/in/zen%C3%B3...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Steven Greenhut: "This displays a nearly unfathomable level of economic ignorance." reason.com/2026/09/18/n...
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No, cutting off trade with Europe would not make America wealthier
Free trade reduces prices and makes for freer lives. Unfortunately, the president is doubling down rather than learning the right lesson.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Boycott Wyoming.
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Cato Institute @cato.org · 23/09/2026
A Georgia officer shot and killed a baby donkey on its owner's land, and qualified immunity will likely shield him because no prior case matches. No one should need a matching precedent to vindicate their rights, writes Cato's Mike Fox. ow.ly/7VfB50ZQE9L
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No Justice for Heehaw. Why Police Won’t be Held to Account For Donkey’s Death.
Hannah Israel should not need to point to a judicial precedent to vindicate her rights.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last month, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved a quota allowing up to 300 wolves to be killed during the 2026–27 hunting and trapping season, despite 92% of comments speaking out against this decision. Read more: dailyinterlake.com/news/2026/se...
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Guest Opinion: Fish and Wildlife Commission silences Montana voices
The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission’s decision to allow the killing of 300 wolves — 50 more than Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks recommended quota of 250 — does not represent the 74% of Montanan...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"[B]ats play an important role in ecosystems, helping to pollinate plants, spread seeds, and keeping insect numbers – particularly mosquitoes, another spreader of disease – in check."
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Getting government involved in any area of human life is an effective way to guarantee you spend gobs of money without improving the situation or making people especially happy. That's clearly true of health care." reason.com/2026/09/23/f...
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Federal health care subsidies are devouring the budget and killing patient satisfaction
A recent report finds that health care now consumes almost one of every three dollars the federal government spends, with more to come.
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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Russia launched a major bombardment of Kyiv today, killing at least two and wounding dozens. Targets included a shopping center, conference hall, and railway station. Unable to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, Putin is escalating terror tactics against the civilian population
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As usual, Trump supports interference in the market, not freedom. "However, as CNN reports, 'researchers warn that an export ban would likely only provide a temporary reprieve from sky-high diesel prices and would backfire in the medium and long run." www.cato.org/blog/diesel-...
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A Diesel Export Ban Might Be Legal, but Is It Wise?
It is always tempting in politics to try a quick fix, especially when you are down and behind in the polls. But this proposed quick fix may not be a fix at all. In some places in the country, it could...
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
History will condemn the fascist regime and its supporters. "It's part of a massive detention expansion that began last year when the agency turned into the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency, with a $75 billion supplement from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act." www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n...
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ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'
Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump’s threat is another war crime. "'Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope ….'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s threat to annihilate Iran to UN general assembly is stunning, even for him
US president may have upstaged the ghost of Soviet leader Khrushchev by musing destruction of fellow member state
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21/09/2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers and relatives to find them.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers and relatives to find them.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The Sept. 17 executive order directs federal agencies to expand hunting access on public lands, permit the use of lead ammunition and tackle, and increase 'targeted management of predators'—a euphemism for the discredited practice of 'predator control.'" www.humaneworld.org/en/news/trum...
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New White House executive order seeks to expand hunting and toxic lead use on public lands
New directive raises concerns about wildlife exposure to lead, expanded hunting access and increased killing of wild carnivores
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Drawing for the Planet @drawingftplanet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're back in Times Square, #NYC! See our THRIVE video featuring amazing drawings of NY wildlife by Grade Riverdale Country School screening on @nasdaqexchange.bsky.social Nasdaq Tower - Monday Sept 21 @ClimateWeekNYC Big thanks Nasdaq RCS @wildbirdfund.bsky.social for your support
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development that I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations." www.daveshellenberger.com/leadership-w...
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Leadership Week in Review: Sept. 13-19, 2026
Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development that I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like Trump, Vance is an economic ignoramus and an enemy of freedom. www.cato.org/commentary/j...
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JD Vance’s Economic Agenda Is Just Socialism Wrapped in a Nationalist Flag
To save the working class, he wants to adopt the exact big-government policies that broke the economy in the first place.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Although the case is limited in scope to several counties in southern Alabama, it concerns significant Fourth Amendment issues related to the Trump administration's nationwide immigration enforcement surge." reason.com/2026/09/21/j...
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Judge blocks warrantless ICE construction site raids after agents in Alabama arrested a U.S. citizen 3 times
An Alabama construction worker and U.S. citizen was detained and handcuffed three times despite having a valid REAL ID.
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David E. Shellenberger @deshellenberger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Governor Polis is setting a good example.
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