Friend M. Wells รีทวีตแล้ว
Friend M. Wells
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Friend M. Wells
@40th_Parallel_W
Producer of things in the built and digital world; film, museums, attractions, etc. @[email protected] CS: @friend.wells
Yaanga , Tovaangar เข้าร่วม Eylül 2012
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Friend M. Wells รีทวีตแล้ว
I know you will find this hard to believe, but at least half of America totally missed Tuesday.
They have no idea the rest of us spent the entire day like the rest of the world, watching a countdown clock.
Don’t believe me, ask people about it.
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LA has an insane variety of natural filming locations, from beaches to mountains to deserts, but it's missing one major category: the woods. There are very few places in the general LA area that believably pass for a forest...so Disney grew one in the middle of the desert. 🧵
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Forget 65, America's new retirement age is 85, per Business Insider.
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For a decade, Trump cast a reality-distorting power over nearly half the country. That power ceased to operate, first over Epstein, then over the Iran War. Hence today's outbursts by Trump and Melania, each pulling levers that no longer connect to any mechanism.
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Magic Castle Update: Re-opening Friday Night! Recovery and repair teams have been working in shifts literally around the clock to get the club house back up and running after the fire. Today the work proved worthwhile as inspection from the city has been passed and the place is set to re-open in 25 hours. Tonight would’ve been founder Milt Larsen’s 95th birthday and we had a big celebration planned. The event will be shifted to Sunday night, just after the Annual General Meeting of the Academy of Magical Arts. LAFD and staff and recovery crews are legends!
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So they are aware they’re wrong
FactPost@factpostnews
New reporting reveals the CDC suppressed a report showing the COVID vaccine cut hospitalizations for healthy adults by more than half.
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this is the "stripping the copper wire" phase of looting and the residents are too stunned to do anything about it
Mike Nellis@MikeNellis
Shutting down the National Forest Service is fucking insane. What the hell is Donald Trump doing? They’re just stripping the US government for parts like some hedge fund assholes, and people are going to be killed when fire season starts.
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There comes a point where the price of admission, price of parking, price of food becomes too much in the sports experience. I don’t know how it is in small towns but it’s reaching a point of no return for many in Los Angeles. Problem.
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600 meetings were held by the Feds on the Roadless rule in 2001. Now in 2026, Trump's Forest Service aims to kill the Rule, and there are zero public meetings. So Oregon enviros are holding their own - & generating publicity & push back.
opb.org/article/2026/0…
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It was Van Gogh's letters that made me love and understand his art
Joseph Fasano@Joseph_Fasano_
Van Gogh's letters save me:
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The Trump Administration has opened a seven-day public comment period on a proposal to revoke federal protections around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, setting up a fast-moving fight over whether more than 336,000 acres of public land near …
navajotimes.com/reznews/trump-…
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Stay in the know, but remember to practice self care and touch grass and seek laughter and whatnot.
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Calling all Long Goodbye freaks: Hollywood Heritage is working with the Hollywood Heights Association to offer a very early Sunday morning tour of High Tower--and yes, you'll get a ride in Philip Marlowe's elevator. BYOC (bring your own cat food). hollywoodheritage.org/event-details/…
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Exactly. Nobody knows anything. While reporting on Wall Street I saw authority and institutions fail early and often. Relying on authority and institutions is an enormous mistake. They lie and their only goal is their own survival.
Orange Book 🍊📖@orangebook
Once you experience, at least once in your life, being very right when the rest of the world was telling you that you were very wrong, then you become immune to groupthink and herd mentality, as you've learned firsthand that most people don't know what they are talking about:
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Remember when that bill to start selling off federal land died due to a senate rule? This is the work-around they’re using to privatize and start selling it off anyway.
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen@NoLieWithBTC
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
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Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds.
80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana.
The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load.
They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined.
In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies.
The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative.
The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced.
Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record.
This is not in the advertising.
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Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський@ZelenskyyUa
If sanctions on Russian oil have been lifted because of the war in the Middle East, will the U.S. sanctions be reimposed now that there is a ceasefire? I think that an answer to this question will expose the reason for lifting sanctions in the first place. We just need to wait and see. In my view, Russia played the Americans again – played the President of the United States. The Russians lied about the role their oil supplies played in keeping oil markets stable. If the U.S. reimposes sanctions, that would be fair. But if it doesn’t… We heard that Russia wanted Americans to buy certain energy assets in Europe belonging to Lukoil. I ask myself, “If I want to sell sanctioned energy assets, what do I do?” I come up with a scheme to lift sanctions. How else could I sell it? From an interview with Rai Radio 1 (3/3).
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