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ZenKen

@zenken5.bsky.social
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Environmentalist, seeker of Zen, geopolitical enthusiast. Just riding this beautiful rock, loving people and guessing what's next. Manchester City fan! Mountain biker. OSU College of Forestry graduate student. Go Beavs!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump continues to steal your money to pay for political ads while media companies continue to be co-conspirators to a crime by accepting the stolen funds.
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Lisa Song @lisalsong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The proposed rule is from OMB, the office run by Russell Vought -- who has a history of opposing government efforts to expand access to voting.
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"No house worth living in has for its cornerstone the hunger of those who built it.” Ursula Le Guin
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An important metric to watch.
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 23/09/2026
World Brief: U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to “annihilate” Iran at the U.N. General Assembly, the White House inks a security deal with Denmark and Greenland, and the European Union reaches an initial free-trade agreement with the Philippines. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/22/t...
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Trump Threatens to ‘Annihilate’ Iran in U.N. Speech
Such warnings—on the U.N. stage, no less—could be considered war crimes.
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
WTF is going on with this country?
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Earth Island Journal @earthislandjournal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just beyond the sprawling Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, the world’s largest nickel-processing complex, stands the Morowali Metal Industry Polytechnic. The school was built to prepare a generation of Indonesian students for “green energy” jobs in the industry that is poisoning them.
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The Nickel Syllabus
At an industry-funded technical school in Indonesia that trains young people for green jobs, students live and learn amid heavy pollution.
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just beautiful
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 23/09/2026
NEW – Cropped 23 September: Elevating the ocean | El Niño impacts | Ocean-protection ‘gaps’ ✍️ By @giulianaviglione.bsky.social @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here ➡️ buff.ly/8k8vh2Z Subscribe to our newsletters ➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/newsletters
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Cropped 23 September 2026: Elevating the ocean | El Niño impacts | Ocean-protection ‘gaps’ - Carbon Brief
This week, Carbon Brief covers the new “Ocean Protection Gap” report, which examines the state of global marine protection.
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Getting stuff done!!
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Earth Island Journal @earthislandjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In his September “Lookout” column, @jasondovemark.bsky.social shares his Wallace Stegner-inspired letter to the US government in defense of the federal Roadless Rule. “To allow more roads and more logging in our national forests would annul that right to pursue happiness in our public lands.”
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A Forest Lover’s Public Comment in Defense of the Roadless Rule
Expressing your ideas and opinions about why the rule should stand as is will make a difference.
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Earth Island Journal @earthislandjournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In April, the Trump administration lifted a Biden-era mining ban near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Besides recreation and conservation, the region is important for wild rice harvesting. And it's such Indigenous treaty rights that may help save the Boundary Waters from mining.
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The Fight for the Boundary Waters Gets Closer to Home
Congress may have stripped a mining ban from Minnesota’s treasured wilderness area, but local lawyers, activists, and Indigneous leaders aren’t giving up yet.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oops. 🥴 www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Keep her in jail...but can we maybe convict some of the men too 🤨
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ain't that the truth
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Other forms of AI catastrophe are merely possible (though I suggest we not ignore them). If we let them continue on their current trajectory, this one is certain.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Nailed it here. 👇
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Frederick Douglass, suffered lashes and beatings at the hands of those who also claimed his faith, Douglass said, “Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.”
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 14/04/2026
Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive Read here ⬇️
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Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"The very qualities that early on made Republicans, including evangelical and fundamentalist Christians, uneasy about Trump are those they have since come to accept and embrace. He rewired their moral circuitry." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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How Trump Killed Conservatism
The president has cultivated and encouraged the ugliest passions within the GOP, dousing the embers of hate with kerosene.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What a coincidence
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The Economist @economist.com · 13/03/2026
We are tracking his presidency. Here are this week’s numbers
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Donald Trump’s approval rating
Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
“Can we pray for the moms as well? Or just the babies?” Allie Phillips bravely told a pro-FAILED abortion death penalty bill group her story of fleeing Tennessee for a life-saving abortion Men tried to intimidate/stop her. She persisted: www.instagram.com/reel/DVuUJfm...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The fragile insecure flower is crying again.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🎯
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Domestic Terrorist"? DHS's catch-all smear term of the year. www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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The Preschool Teacher Shot by Border Patrol, Then Called a “Domestic Terrorist”
When Marimar Martinez was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent, the D.H.S. justified it by calling her a “domestic terrorist.” In the aftermath, she’s been trying to recover her reputation and, wi...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/03/2026
Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🚨🚨 Trump MURDERED an ICU nurse THEN called him a terrorist! Alex Pretti saved lives for a living!! Trump repaid this American citizen by pumping 10 BULLETS into him and is now lying about it Anyone who supports this brutal lynching should be considered an accomplice and dealt with accordingly 🚨🚨
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#MorningVibe When we stop seeing our neighbors as precious, it becomes a lot easier to explain away their oppression. Our protest is an expression of neighborly love. When we see each other, show up for each other, protect each other… we resist. 🔊🆙
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If it's not a regime change war, why did you target and kill the leadership??? More things from this admin that don't logic out. foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/02/p...
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Pentagon Says Iran War Is ‘Not Iraq,’ but Won’t Rule Out Boots on the Ground
“This is not a so-called regime change war,” Hegseth said.
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Incompetence sums up this administration
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Women For Survival @wmn4srvl.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Patel is totally and completely inept and incompetent.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
WATCH — @arianajasmine__: “I’m very disappointed in my own Iranian diaspora. I’m a political dissident… but dancing out in the streets while your own people are getting bombed — I’m finding it very hard to relate. When are we going to stop dancing and come back to reality?”
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I'm certainly interested in the Iran war... but I will NOT forget about the Epstein files!!
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
US administration: "We'll be there as long as it takes." US administration: "It won't be as long as the endless Iraq war". Sooo...we won't be there as long as it takes? and the Iraq war DID end...and has no one in this administration read a book on the Middle East? Long wars is their game.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I predict this man has a very bright future. 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 Congratulations, pal. #WellDeserved
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
And it starts...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/02/2026
Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"
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Tamera Wise @wisewonders.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Good morning my lovely friends, Happy Tuesday!! Life is not measured by the breathes we take, but by the Moments that has taken our breath away. I hope all of you have the most fantastic day today and have a moment that takes your breath away.💙💙💙
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
This is quite possibly the dumbest — and most dangerous — idea ever. Grok is unreliable and frequently manipulated by Elon based on whatever bender he’s on. Will this version of Grok be air-gapped from the public version? Will they share knowledge repositories? What a shitshow.
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Shay's bullfrog 🪷 @shaysbullfrog.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Well thank God for this.. it's about time someone blew the whistle on the jack-booted NAZI thugs and their overlords at DHS. youtube.com/shorts/WZZGL...
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ICE whistleblower: 'They're teaching cadets to violate the Constitution'
YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Way to go Norway!
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It will be interesting to see how the season shakes out! The power unit is just a part of the formula.
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I'm officially skeptical. Unless the Gaza relief package ends up building a trump tower on the Med.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
WOW! CNN found unredacted DOJ Epstein files, including nudity & a girl on tape says she’s 15. 😠 This is how you “protect” the victims? Yeah Trump… doesn’t sound like a “hoax.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Makes sense
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ZenKen @zenken5.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The cognitive dissonance is real. This administration continues to do things, then say that they are not doing them while looking at the rest of us like we're crazy. It's really odd. Great interview @ravireports.bsky.social ! Thank you! vimeo.com/1165761295?f...
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Does the “Donroe Doctrine” give Russia & China free rein?
This is "Does the “Donroe Doctrine” give Russia & China free rein?" by Foreign Policy on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our country is so divided that we don’t even share the Super Bowl anymore. But in the words of Bad Bunny: “the only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I adore Colbert. From "Strangers w Candy" to his current late night show, he's funny & whip smart. The mf at the FCC is a partisan hack who will be held accountable. Gifted wapo.st/4aAOrZh
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Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked interview with Texas Democrat over FCC concerns
In an on-air rebuke, Colbert said lawyers for CBS’s parent company barred airing an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D), a U.S. Senate candidate.
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