Pete
Father of twin daughters, retired FDNY Lt. Walk out of any doorway
Feel your way, feel your way like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
Around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you Bob Hunter
- Reposted by PeteThe tariff exemption process "has lacked transparency and procedural fairness for American stakeholders, especially small businesses and family farms," Sens. Wyden and Van Hollen added in the letter. An advance copy of the letter was seen by NPR. #Corruption
- Reposted by Pete“It’s been challenging for us on costs and then trying to figure out how we absorb some of that and what we have to pass on,” Andrew Bish, chief operating officer of his family farm equipment business, told Nebraska Public Media. #Tariffs
- Reposted by PeteReposting because … well, you know why.
- Reposted by PeteAdvocates for greenways have a number of detailed recommendations for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
- Reposted by PeteWhat we now know about the Potomac air-crash disaster, thanks to this week's NTSB hearings. (Most before paywall.) As always in modern air disasters, lots of things had to go wrong at the same time. But most of them went wrong inside the Army helicopter. fallows.substack.com/p/what-weve-...
- Reposted by PeteTrump administration denies full disaster funding for Western Alaska storms, state files appeal, writes @corinne-smith.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/30/t...
- Reposted by PeteNEW: This week, Trump and the GOP kicked their anti-voting campaign into overdrive — from an unprecedented FBI raid on Fulton County’s elections office to new voter suppression bills and midterm interference warnings. We tracked it all.👇
- Reposted by PeteApprox 100 record lows tied or broken this morning. ~11 monthly records broken. And it seems 1 all-time low in Bartow, FL.
- Reposted by PeteThis Administration has been ignoring the constitution for a full year and no one is holding them accountable. They are doubling down on ICE Warrantless Arrests www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
- Reposted by PeteJanuary 31, 2026
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- Reposted by PeteJoin The Public Theater along with artists, elected officials, and community leaders, as we read seminal texts from the founding of our nation…as a living call to action.” publictheater.org/productions/...
- Reposted by PeteTens of thousands of people are going on six days with no electricity as the Carolinas and Virginia face a significant winter storm that could bring more snowfall than some parts of North Carolina have seen in years.
- Reposted by Pete#OtD 29 Jan 1912 striking textile worker Anna LoPizzo was killed by police during the "Bread and Roses" strike in New England. Shamelessly, police then arrested two leading @iww organisers for the crime. Learn more about women in the IWW in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...
- Reposted by PeteRick Hasen's comments here are pretty good. But let's not sane wash this. Patel's FBI have been ordered to stand up some completely nutcase conspiracy theories which have already been presented and debunked numerous times. This isn't "bad practice," it's rank insanity.
- Reposted by PeteMississippi dispatchers are fielding desperate calls for medication or oxygen from people stuck in their homes after Winter Storm Fern. State officials confirmed six more deaths, bringing the death toll to 10. www.mississippifreepress.org/situation-in...
- Reposted by PeteNew from me: Last month I asked HHS about South Carolina's measles outbreak. They brushed me off, saying they weren't "concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak." A month later, it's the biggest since measles was declared eliminated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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- Reposted by PeteJanuary 28, 2026
- Reposted by PeteNo Kings AND No Occupying Armies prospect.org/2026/01/27/n...
- Reposted by PeteThis world class research is critical in this era of climate change. It is a global treasure. What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled eos.org/opinions/wha... @geolsoc.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @agu.org @jeremybroberts.bsky.social
- Reposted by PeteLast spring Mike Lawler’s staffer Erin Crowley used a false name to infiltrate a local Signal chair in order to encourage chaos at a town hall (see thread below). To thank her, Lawler then donated $1,000 to her Putnam County Legislaive reelection campaign. americanjournalnews.com/mike-lawler-...
- Reposted by PeteMy latest in @nymag.com: Bruce Blakeman is running a political risk by tying his fortunes to the Trump administration and the tactics of ICE. Last November, a poll by Siena College found solid opposition among NYS voters to masked ICE agents arresting immigrants, by 61% to 31%.
- Reposted by PeteInside Climate News: A Winter Storm Fueled by Global Warming Tests U.S. Disaster Response insideclimatenews.org/news/2601202...
- Reposted by PeteMinnesota exemplifies how the States can use their constitutional authority to challenge the tyranny of the Trump Regime, as I discuss in Public Notice.
- Reposted by PeteMust read: "If America is to climb out of this era of rage and hate, those who stand against the extremist wave cannot just show up and expect to be counted. They must loudly demand their voices be acknowledged in every setting and institution of civic life..."
- My latest, for the MIT Press Reader: Why is an anti-immigrant extremist force cracking down on non-immigrants? Because when extremists can't win over their in-group, they must assign dissenting members to an out-group in order to maintain legitimacy. thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/anatomy-of-e...
- Reposted by PeteJanuary 25, 2026
- Reposted by PeteJoseph Goebbels or Stephen Miller?
- Reposted by Pete"'What did we learn from the Holocaust? We have to act and we have to resist,' Tracht said, running out of breath as the car turned the corner. 'If I’m not going to act and resist now, then I shouldn’t call myself a rabbi and I can’t be a proud Jew.'" religionnews.com/2026/01/22/h...
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- Reposted by PeteDonald Trump campaigned on fighting crime and improving public safety. Since he entered the White House, his administration has terminated, redirected, or delayed more than $1 billion in federal grants related to gun violence, public safety, mental health, and other efforts to save lives.
- Reposted by PeteOne of the things I was most worried about is starting to come to fruition. RFK Jr. will succeed in eliminating all of our vaccines if allowed to remain in office. His disinformation campaign and the falling demand for vaccines will cause American companies to stop making them.
- Reposted by PeteThese spectacular riches comes at the expense of workers, the ones who are actually generating wealth. Social services are being cut while tax burdens are eased on the rich, writes @millsrodrigo.bsky.social.
- Reposted by PeteSeems to be the most dramatic breakthrough in preventing/slowing dementia & alzheimer's ever. But it's a vaccine, so it doesn't get headlines. Wish you could get the shingles vaccine before age 50. You don't have to be 50 to get shingles—I can attest as I had it last summer (not recommended).
- The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging. erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...
- Reposted by PeteA European official said there was no written document and that no real details on Greenland’s future had been negotiated between Rutte & Trump. Another Euro official briefed on the talks said the meeting provided Trump with a face-saving opportunity for a de-escalation. www.wsj.com/world/alarm-...
- Reposted by PeteJanuary 21, 2026
- Reposted by PeteA new United Nations report warns the world has entered an era of “global water bankruptcy,” where irreversible water losses leave some regions unable to return to historic levels. ow.ly/HRzT50Y0TVT
- Reposted by PeteFewer older adults being vaccinated against #flu, #pneumonia, CDC data reveal Older adults have higher risks of certain diseases because they have more underlying illnesses and because immune systems weaken with age. www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...
- Reposted by PeteSen. KELLY: It’s been sixteen years since the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision. Families are paying more for groceries, rent, gas, and health care. They’re wondering why the people they elect seem to always have time for billionaires and big corporations, but not for them?
- Reposted by PeteThere is nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is going on. Trump may not succeed. But he will only fail if patriots stand up and defend our democracy and the Constitution. We must act, as @mashagessen.bsky.social writes, while we still can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
- Reposted by PeteMake America Hungary Again www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by PeteBob Weir, who died Jan. 10, “was one of the loveliest, most unaffected, open-hearted people that I’d ever encountered,” Alec Wilkinson writes. The Grateful Dead guitarist was also “incorrigibly mischievous.” www.newyorker.com/culture/post...
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- Reposted by PeteYour uncle's house in an intensifying wildfire zone didn't lose value because researchers documented the growing risk of it burning down. It lost value because burning fossil fuels has made wildfires worse. alexsteffen.substack.com/p/will-your-...
- Reposted by PeteSome perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.
- Reposted by PeteCompare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/
- Reposted by PeteNew — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:
- Reposted by PeteWe are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
- Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
- Reposted by PeteChanneling the Founders on this one: www.againstallenemies.net/p/a-declarat...
