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Multimedia and data journalist. @TheWaterDesk, Stanford @WestCenter ++. Former @jskstanford @nytimes @lemondefr also @[email protected]
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Eight+ years in, is California’s effort to curb groundwater use working? Research shows that it is not on track to protect wells, ecosystems and marginalized communities. https://t.co/cIOzgszwoM Research in @Nature with @Conserve_CA @UCSUSA @famfarms @CivicWellorg @CWaterC +++
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A closer look at how California’s landmark 2014 law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) is being implemented for all groundwater stakeholders. Drawn from recent research published in...
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The deadliest year ever for journalists. Driven by authoritarianism, corruption, crime and war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Sudan, a record 124 journalists lost their lives in 2024, with another 361 jailed for their work. Explore the data @pressfreedom: https://t.co/r6ZndQqlE8
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Just stop upgrading @flySEA you’re an airplug not an airport
It will be getting a complete redesign, adding space for comfort and efficiency. #UpgradeSEA
https://t.co/Frao7958Rg
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Wait GOP congressional favorite for WA-3 is in favor of nuclear terrorism as a form of petitioning the government and it appears in which paragraph, @seattletimes? 36th? Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Joe Kent in a nationally watched rematch https://t.co/J4z1bgQU1Y
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In the 3rd District, first-term Democrat Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is running against Joe Kent, the Trump-endorsed veteran she narrowly beat two years ago.
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Bums me out that I have to re-Xify a tweet from a partisan operative about this instead of a news org but here we are. This is a garbage idea from garbage candidates
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This is 💯 true sadly
@KarenAttiah Forget about canceling your Washington Post subscriptions, all of you snowflakes should cancer your Amazon membership, if you had the courage of your convictions, of course. And Amazon Prime, Whole Foods, cut it all out of your life, yes? Lmfao, paper tigers
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Here are the words in Esperanto––the utopian world language invented 150 years ago to fight nationalism and pursue world peace––for cheat, deceive, swindle. Names are destiny.
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Setting aside the very obvious fact that it's bad that extremists are now setting vote-by-mail drop boxes on fire, this is a reminder that if you do vote by mail, you should check online to make sure that your ballot has been accepted.
Burning ballots were pulled from inside a smoking ballot box in Vancouver, Washington, this morning, hours after police responded to an arson at a Portland ballot box https://t.co/C9t85W1UKf
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Sigh. Maybe the proper frame for this election is that a bunch of rich dudes and Christian zealots are trying to steal the entire country and turn us into Iraq under Saddam Hussein and not the early part with free preschool
America First? Interesting story last week in the NYT about Truth Social...employees say that Devin Nunes has "directive" to hire foreign contractors. https://t.co/OZkc0HtzYl
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So @VW gets americapilled and Germany learns its beloved industry might not love it back so much. Btw do the math on “87-year-old company”
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Europe’s largest carmaker tells works council it would slash pay by 10%
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It is 40 minutes since my wife left the mobile phone lot. Stop with the Ethan Showell restaurants and salvage wood and transport humans pets and belongings safely
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WSJ tweeted this to its 20 million followers and it has under 400 retweets - presumably suppressed due to the link out. “Elon Musk has secretly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022”
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In other news, apparently misinformed voters seem to be choosing facism in search of cheaper groceries
"In raw numbers, the loss of jobs in newspapers is the single largest drop in all industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey." https://t.co/IGvjJLVwr8
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As people debate the story about kids being targeted by snipers it’s worth remembering that the reason we have to rely on doctors as sources of information about this kind of thing is that Western journalists aren’t allowed in Gaza and Palestinian journalists keep getting killed.
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Rising from shrinking saline lakes and fallowed farm fields, the West's worsening dust storms threaten public health — Important reporting by @felicitybarr: https://t.co/UC6vuJusck
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A fixture of the West for millennia, the storms are becoming more frequent as the byproduct of water diversions and climate change.
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Did you know that states have significant inholdings on tribal lands? WTF! Check out this must-read investigation from @annavtoriasmith and @mariaparazorose from @highcountrynews in collaboration with @grist.
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How schools, hospitals, prisons and other institutions in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations.
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In our latest trust investigation, @grist & @highcountrynews located more than 2 million surface and subsurface acres of land on 79 reservations in 15 states that are used to support public institutions and reduce the financial burden on taxpayers.
grist.org
How schools, hospitals, and prisons in 15 states profit from land and resources on 79 tribal nations
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@washingtonpost 5. Nor was the coverage limited to information that "was truly newsworthy." Any tidbit of information was fair game for coverage. One Washington Post article discussed Clinton campaign chair John Podesta's risotto recipe.
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