@fishlawjensen
Husband. Dad. GS dog guy. Citizen. Lawyer @ Perkins Coie. NAFO. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 White House/CEQ/US Senate Energy Committee/.NSN natural resource counsel. Friend of undammed rivers and edible clients. Grateful former 🇨🇦 (BC) resident. “Everyone counts or no one counts.”
My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
whoa!
(gift link so you can read without the paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...
Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards.
Me, via “One First”:
This is astounding — with huge implications for the years ahead:
The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.
Oh my America, North Korea really has his number! Must watch.
Would you look at that.
It’s not a surprise that the man who purposely incited a violent attempt to overthrow an American election would now purposely incite violence on the streets of Los Angeles as a justification for military force against American citizens.
Not a surprise at all.
Weak men pretending to be strong. It’s bad stuff. Always has been. Pathetic.
Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.
White flight ☠️😂
This seems a wee bit prejudicial
Driving, I asked Alexa for songs based on Dolly Parton’s splendid “Jolene.” The first song to play was Waylon Jennings’ splendid “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way.” Pro Tip: Don’t underestimate Alexa’s subtle understanding of the human story.
A hydrangea that can’t make up its mind whether to be acidic or base.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c... The proposed cuts to climate science are today’s version of the persecution of Copernicus and Reformists. It’s our era’s Counter-Reformation, but focused on preservation of a particular energy industry, not an entrenched religious institution.
The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...
Clarence Thomas being forced to decide between Trump and Leo
Old dog and new flowers.
Narrative warfare is the use of lies, disinformation, and doublespeak to mentally manipulate and confuse the public, break trust in objective reality, and normalize authoritarian control by breaking people's brains.
youtu.be/kRtUb1dHLh8 Solidarity with Bruce. Such a beautiful song about failures of the American Dream and the potential for redemption.
Honestly this is one of the few quotes from a politician that are going to live rent free in my head. He nailed it perfectly.
This is so disturbing. Who in the world would pursue this kind of whitewashing? Oh, I see.
That seems to be their position, yes.
Fully disqualifying. It amounts to an insurrection.
www.abebooks.com/978006241065... America’s Founders had a very good idea of what our nation was meant not to be. Given present circumstances, I highly recommend this brilliant, wry, penetrating, and readable history of Enlightenment (including but not limited to “The” Enlightenment.)
A song about searching with hope and faith in the dream that most American still share.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e... I am proud of my firm. Standing up for the Constitution, not bending to (insert pejorative of choice), is citizenship and patriotic. And just damn right.
