Stop Calling it a "15-week" ban! Even for *wanted* pregnancies it's 12-13...
In 20 years living here following US politics and media coverage, there’s been one rule:The US corporate media (including NPR+PBS, alas) will always frame every political(and even many non-political)...
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The Daily Bucket: Unbelievably, we're still watering trees in Seattle in...
THE DAILY BUCKET IS A NATURE REFUGE. WE AMICABLY DISCUSS ANIMALS, WEATHER, CLIMATE, SOIL, PLANTS, WATERS AND NOTE LIFE’S PATTERNS.WE INVITE YOU TO NOTE WHAT YOU ARE SEEING AROUND YOU IN YOUR OWN PART...
View ArticleICYMI Israel had a general election this week. And the results couldn't be...
I’ve been waaay too busy and worn out to write much about Israel’s 5th election circus in the space of 2.5 years.I only wrote once about it, in July, explaining how and why this election came about....
View ArticleWA-03 Update: Seems like Marie might pull through after all... Hopefully
I’ve been following WA-03 very closely ever since the primaries, when White nationalist and regional embarrassment Joe Kent narrowly upset incumbent Jaime Herrera-Beutler (one of the 10 R’s who voted...
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Who Knew? All it Took was a World Cup in Qatar.
For 33 years, on and off, I have tried to interest my fellow Israelis in human rights - to no avail.During my undergrad in Jerusalem in the early 1990s I volunteered in the human-rights organization,...
View ArticlePSA: Daily Kos Should Stop Embedding Tweets.
Daily Kos staff and volunteer community bloggers have done a generally excellent job of covering and analyzing Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter, and the wanton destruction he has brought upon...
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This Unending PNW Heatwave Feels like a New Normal
Disclaimer: I’m using the Metric System’s Celsius temperatures, and IMHO sticking with degrees F is yet another silly+unhelpful form of American Exceptionalism. That said, the graphs from UW are...
View ArticleThe Best Joke You will hear Today
We’re all here recovering from our first-ever bout of Covid. While nominally “mild” under the official definitions, it’s been an entire week of anything but fun. So I’ll take any smile and laughter I...
View ArticleGQP Disarray: Good News from WA's Congressional Primaries
Last week our state had its primaries. Like in other places, the media has been projecting Doom and Gloom onto Democrats here for months, both at the state and Federal levels. Seems like the outcome is...
View ArticleBanality of Apartheid, #1: Israel's Sick Obsession with Palestinian NGOs
Since 1967, Israel has controlled the lives of Palestinians inEast Jerusalem, West Bank, and Gaza, without giving them citizenship.IOW for the past 55+ years, Palestinians have been forced to live...
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Climate-fueled Tinderbox: Huge Flash Wildfire in Seattle's Back Yard
I’ve written here occasionally about how the historically mild ocean-facing (west of the Cascades) Pacific Northwest climate is becoming more and more like its southern neighbor and sibling, the...
View ArticleStop Calling it a "15-week" ban! Even for *wanted* pregnancies it's 12-13...
In 20 years living here following US politics and media coverage, there’s been one rule:The US corporate media (including NPR+PBS, alas) will always frame every political(and even many non-political)...
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The Daily Bucket: Unbelievably, we're still watering trees in Seattle in...
THE DAILY BUCKET IS A NATURE REFUGE. WE AMICABLY DISCUSS ANIMALS, WEATHER, CLIMATE, SOIL, PLANTS, WATERS AND NOTE LIFE’S PATTERNS.WE INVITE YOU TO NOTE WHAT YOU ARE SEEING AROUND YOU IN YOUR OWN PART...
View ArticleICYMI Israel had a general election this week. And the results couldn't be...
I’ve been waaay too busy and worn out to write much about Israel’s 5th election circus in the space of 2.5 years.I only wrote once about it, in July, explaining how and why this election came about....
View ArticleWA-03 Update: Seems like Marie might pull through after all... Hopefully
I’ve been following WA-03 very closely ever since the primaries, when White nationalist and regional embarrassment Joe Kent narrowly upset incumbent Jaime Herrera-Beutler (one of the 10 R’s who voted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who Knew? All it Took was a World Cup in Qatar.
For 33 years, on and off, I have tried to interest my fellow Israelis in human rights - to no avail.During my undergrad in Jerusalem in the early 1990s I volunteered in the human-rights organization,...
View ArticlePSA: Daily Kos Should Stop Embedding Tweets.
Daily Kos staff and volunteer community bloggers have done a generally excellent job of covering and analyzing Elon Musk’s hostile takeover of Twitter, and the wanton destruction he has brought upon...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Peak Oil (Consumption) had already happened - in 2019!
“Peak Oil”, a concept originating in Big Oil research, was associated in 1960s-2000s popular culture with societal collapse. One day, said this theory, oil reserves will start depleting, oil prices...
View Article"Dissidents" vs. "Moderates"???? Corporate Media in Pretzels trying to...
Eric Wasson’s Twitter handle says he’s the current Congress reporter for Bloomberg. Fits the bill of “mainstream Beltway corporate media”.And par for the course: look at how he describes in the Tweet...
View ArticleConsidering a New EV in 2023? Best Get it NOW, might cost more later
Consider this diary a PSA/Disclaimer combo :)The old Federal EV tax credit regulations, enacted ~2008 under the W. Bush misadministration and extended with Obama’s Stimulus Act, were simple.They were...
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