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Tim Fearnside

@timfearnside.bsky.social
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Pro-liberal democracy. Writing, art, politics, music, science, gardening, cycling. Manservant to a basset hound named Daphne. J.D. Boise, ID, USA. Please, no DMs unless you know me personally.

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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The difference isn’t subjective.
Screenshots of tweets from Presidents Obama, Biden, and Trump on Memorial Day 2013, 2021, and 2025.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The war on Harvard, Columbia, and higher ed in general makes sense when you realize their goal is dismantling liberal democracy. Nothing short of 100% fealty will ever placate these mobsters. America is teetering on the edge www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
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Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
For my Boise peeps: hosting a 2-3 day reunion later this year of old Midwest friends now strewn about the NW. it’s our 5th and 1st in Boise. We’ve rented the entire Heritage House on Idaho. Q’s: what would be your “must-do’s?” What is your favorite Idaho wine, beer, DT experience? Have thoughts but…
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
“Crashing our markets and bringing down the global economy is necessary and something we have to go through” is something no conservative ever uttered until a few short weeks ago. Now they’re lining up at the cliff’s edge like lemmings. This is psychosis.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🔥Rufus Gifford, former U.S. amb. to Denmark, unloaded on JD Vance for saying Denmark “is not a good ally”: Go to Denmark and say it to the faces of the parents of the young men and women who lost their lives alongside U.S. troops. Say it to them!
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
How many American principles have been violated here: free speech and expression, in the U.S. legally, violated no laws, detained in defiance of court order, detained without due process, denied legal representation. This is and should be impeachable. Trump & his cronies are anti-American fascists.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“Shares of the Big Three U.S. automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — all sank after Mr. Trump announced the new tariffs.” Just spitballing, but maybe its because places like Mexico have no brands but serve as low-wage hosts for companies like GM, etc. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...
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Trump announces 25% tariffs on foreign-made cars
President Trump on Wednesday said he is imposing a 25% tariff on automobiles not manufactured in the U.S.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It’s nice to see deep red citizens voicing opposition, but hard not to view it as other than self interest when you get quotes like this one, from the NE farmer who’s a-okay with everyone else losing jobs and services, as long as he’s subsidized in the end. us1.campaign-archive.com?e=972e728e83
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Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
But, but…her emails! www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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sharonmcc @sharonmcc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"We do not live in an ivory tower where the arts are untouched by society. Arts and politics, arts and society are inseparable. Therefore, as artists, we must react to the horrors and injustices of this world. www.kirshbaumassociates.com/agency.php?v...
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Pianist Sir András Schiff Cancels U.S. Appearances for 2025-2026 Season
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A couple of jive turkeys wandering the hood…
Two wild turkeys marching in line on the sidewalk in front of my house this morning.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Any engineer will tell ya duct tape beats glue every time, but hey, at least nothing exploded. The astounding 8th recall in <2 years for the cyber-dumpster gizmodo.com/tesla-recall...
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Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks Because the Trim Is Just Glued On
The manufacturer is recalling 46,000 of the vehicles due to a faulty exterior panel, marking the eighth time it's been recalled.
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Jay Orsi @jayorsi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“I don’t care whether you have an R or a D next to your name. I have no use for politicians that play dress up in cowboy boots and say they care about farmers and then do nothing in our hour of need.” @farmherhallie.bsky.social at @jonesforar.bsky.social town hall last night. #arpx #USDA #farmers
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Embarrassed and proud. Let me say it so that it’s clear: EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE. Signed, a typical Boisean.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A snow-shiny day in Boise, Idaho, USA.
Photo of downtown Boise this afternoon, with both the sun shine and lines of scattered snow showers moving past.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I have a Honduran-American step-nephew who was born in America on St. Patrick’s Day, who’s married to my kind and wonderful, maybe-half-Irish, niece, and I can’t help but think how wonderful it all is.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This statement from AG Bondi is a disgrace. The judge did not “support” terrorists. He decided a case, based on facts and law, finding the requirements of the Alien Enemy Act lacking.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being “Bill Murray in Caddyshack sniffing a Baby Ruth and declaring ‘it’s no big deal;’” 10–“would hire an assassin to recover the tape”) how embarrassed would you be if you were secretly recorded talking to your pet when home alone? I’m probably an 8. (It’s that bad).
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Things I’ve never seen or witnessed: Antifa. A person getting a job because they’re Black. Venezuelan gangs. The list goes on…
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Two Republican senators told me tonight this vote shows they can execute the same strategy again — cut Democrats out of the negotiations on a gov’t funding bill, pass it thru the House, and expect Senate Dems to back down and not filibuster it. “We liked it over here,” one said.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I fear there will come a day in the not too distant future when we press the Bluesky app on our phones and it will no longer work. I hope there are smart people out there preparing for this possibility. If you think this is nuts, read a newspaper while you still can.
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GregSergienko @gregsergienko.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I remember. I grew up in Tacoma. People who think Lewiston is bad now need to imagine it being 20 times worse. I remember cross the tideflats on 509 taking very shallow breaths so as not to get any more of that inside me than necessary.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
If you’re old enough, you’ll remember.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Posted this last week on Substack where I thought the fewest people would see it. 1st song I’ve written in decades, and the 1st I’ve “recorded” (with the help of my friend DA). Anyway, posting here now bc I think it speaks to how we got here, from a GenX lib POV. open.substack.com/pub/timfearn...
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Forty Years of Bullshit
Or, How We Got Here, or, Subterranean Fox News Blues (original audio)
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Releasing water from the Lucky Peak Reservoir into the Boise River, just below the dam in SE Boise. Encountered on a late afternoon ride.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Phone grab of the Idaho Capitol This morning. A beautiful building that deserves so much better than the idiocy and nonsense produced there in modern times.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sometimes she just sits there and stares at me. With. That. Face.
Close up of my tri-colored basset hound, Daphne, sitting and staring at me on our couch with a face only a basset hound can make.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.
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Todd Achilles | Achilles for Idaho @achillesid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’m starting a new series called “Bad DOGE” to expose the impact in Idaho of unconstitutional federal workers firings.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
More proof, as if we needed it, that Idaho’s GOP legislators don’t actually work for Idaho citizens, nor do they care one whit for democracy.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Not only do they serve our veterans, but over 25% of VA staff are veterans themselves. A double punch in the gut. Still waiting for the billionaire austerity www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to AP report
The VA's chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top level officials at the agency that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Oh look, more tariffs.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We’re literally borrowing money so billionaires don’t have to pay taxes.
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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
33 times when Zelenskyy publicly thanked Americans and U.S. leaders since 2022. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...
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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 #Ukraine #zelensky
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NancyBarrera @nancybarrera.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Slava Ukraini
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Today’s made for tv, apprentice-style ambush of Zelensky at the White House was a new low in television, US diplomacy, and international affairs. And that’s saying something. Thoroughly embarrassed.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Stripping US citizens of the rights of citizenship. Shameful and horrific. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protections
If signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, the Republican-backed measure would eliminate state civil rights protections for transgender Iowans.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Where is the austerity for billionaires in the MAGA plan?
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A fascinating summation of the difference between demagoguery and fear mongering, designed to outrage, divide, and gain power, and the deeper, truer motivations behind the demagogue’s quest for power.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Like most red states, Idaho contributes far less than it receives from the federal government. Trump’s arbitrary cuts will hurt and cost the state immensely. www.boisestatepublicradio.org/politics-gov...
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Gov. Little: Idaho should expect 'economic shock' with Trump priorities
Gov. Brad Little is warning Idahoans of a potential economic shock as President Donald Trump slashes federal programs and its workforce. But he said Idaho is poised to withstand the uncertainty.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
And now were taking their milk money. Trump could give a rat’s ass about the Ukraine, our allies, or democracy. But he sure loves Russia. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...
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U.S. and Ukraine Agree to Minerals Deal, Officials Say
President Trump, who had insisted he wanted “payback” for past military aid to Kyiv, suggested President Volodymyr Zelensky would visit Washington this week to sign a deal, which he called a “very big...
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Migration season.
Three unidentified, likely migratory birds perched in a barren oak. Birds appear in silhouette against a grey sky, as if in monochrome.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
And yet, hope springs eternal.
A small seed sprouting in a plastic container in my shop, under grow lights.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.
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Tim Fearnside @timfearnside.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
abcnews.go.com/Politics/rob... next up, a flat-earther to head NASA.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed by Senate as Trump's health secretary
RFK Jr.'s confirmation comes after months of controversy and debate, largely focused on his past comments casting doubt on the safety of vaccines.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/02/2025
That’s nothing. I found 13 contracts awarded to SpaceX since December totaling $77M. 1/
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