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Andrew Bear

@andrewbear.bsky.social
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Born when there was 319 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. Deep love for nature. Healthcare Chaplain, Palliative Care/Critical Care. Grief support.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 20h
In case anyone missed it at the time, a part of why schools handle sexual violence so badly is because perpetrators were more involved in writing Trump’s 2020 Title IX regulation. It literally comes up in the Epstein files.
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Jeffrey Epstein Loved Trump’s Changes to the Title IX Rule. That Tells You All You Need to Know. - National Women's Law Center
Content warning: reported sexual violence, reported homicide As an attorney who focuses on gender-based violence, I wasn’t surprised that the “Epstein files” confirmed what my gender justice comrades ...
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The 4-year-olds don’t know where they are and what’s going on" “I have no one. I have nothing.” This is beyond grotesque. Shame, Shame, Shame on Trump and everyone involved in this horror.
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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As you organize, teach, write or do whatever it is you do for our collective please ask yourself if you’re actually fighting for freedom or are you fighting to access privilege. I think people get these two confused as little too often and I’m getting effing tired. #communityasrebellion
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/09/2026
Quick oceans update: yah, sea surface temperatures remain in new territory this year. See more at zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... This data (extrapolar ocean) is provided by @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5. 🌊
Graph showing daily global mean sea surface temperatures for 2026. This is also compared to the daily data from the 1981-2010 average and 1991-2020 average. Annotations are also shown to the current year with the other years from 1940 to 2026. There is a seasonal cycle. There is a long-term warming trend. 2023 and 2024 are also indicated, which were the warmest years on record. Data is from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis and updated through 23 September 2026.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bahahahaha 🤭
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A woman informed the FBI that Donald Trump sexually assaulted and physically attacked her when she was between 13 and 15 years old. The FBI interviewed her four separate times—yet 37 pages of handwritten agents’ notes remain hidden while the DOJ fights their release.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I published This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate in 2014. Lots of serious people explained that we didn't have time to tackle capitalism, climate was too important. Let the market fix it for us. The track record is 12 wasted years and a world on fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...
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How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026
For my newsletter, I wrote about Democrats coming out against "trans surgery for kids" (which do not happen) and how the myth took over our politics. www.burnsnotice.com/the-trans-ki...
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The "Trans Kid Surgery" Myth
The big lie worked because it played on your protective instincts
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Andrew Bear @andrewbear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Unbelievable.
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An important proposal for the security of Europe: www.ft.com/content/4870...
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We need an observatory for the cooling north Atlantic
The UK should convene a coalition of concerned states if rising emissions lead to the collapse of the Amoc that brings warm water to northern regions
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
"The seven transgressed boundaries are: climate change, change in biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater change, modification of biogeochemical flows, introduction of novel entities, and ocean acidification." @pik-potsdam.bsky.social www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Planetary Health Check 2026 finds mounting pressures across Earth’s life support systems
21.09.2026 – Seven breached Planetary Boundaries continue to worsen as record ocean heat, droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme heat reveal an Earth system under strain, according to the latest Plan...
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s official, the 2026 El Niño has broken a record for the highest ocean anomaly in 170+ years… Incredibly reaching that threshold a full 2 months ahead of 2015’s record of +3.02C set on Nov 18th. See that red line? That’s 2026. Every other bold line are the strongest El Niño’s on record. 1/
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 18/09/2026
We could already face 2.5-3°C of global warming by 2050!
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Andrew Bear @andrewbear.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Deep respect to Beoga for dropping out of the tour. They were Ed Sheeran's back up band. I first heard Beoga and this this song, Eochaid, while sitting in the dentist's chair getting my first crown! I had asked for Irish music on the dentist's streaming service. Enjoy!
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good news for prospective MAGA FBI applicants: Beastiality is no longer an automatic disqualifier for service.
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Andrew Bear @andrewbear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wait--what?
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 15/09/2026
what
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This summer, 35,000 heat deaths in Europe got one news cycle. Last week, a probability estimate about a hypothetical AI apocalypse got seven. The warnings may be sincere—but notice what they justify: fossil fuel plants. Climate change is existential now. electricnotes.news/p/pick-your-...
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Pick Your Apocalypse: Climate vs. AI Doom
Some Thoughts On the *Other* Existential Threat
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15/09/2026
If you really still think it’s about antisemitism—and not about enabling Palestinian genocide—then you’ll have to pretend Kanye pro Hitler West isn’t playing at several of the same venues Macklemore was just cancelled from for saying Free Palestine.😐
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/09/2026
Seems like a good time to re-up this post. It is a list of 26 Dems at the statewide/national level that have made anti-trans statements or voted anti-trans policies. I do not advocate for abstaining from all of the ones on this list, but if the worst offenders who call us “biological men,” I do.
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"I'd much rather talk to a climate denier, a real person who's been told climate warming is BS, than a privileged, white centrist. I've never encountered such an incurious, more blasé lot than that group." The Climate Chat pod with @ghostpanther.bsky.social is up, and it's a barn burner.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shit in the Middle East and with the economy is likely about to get very bad very quickly.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I know it's going to be another busy, busy news week but we've really got to also focus attention on Elon Musk's role in this neo-nazi win in Germany AND his enormous financial role in the GOP elections here. He is financing extremism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Elon Musk thanked by German far-right leader after landmark election win praised by Russia | First Thing
The populist, far-right, anti-immigration AfD won the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There is simply no reason why ANYONE who isn’t a white supremacist to invoke the term “woke.” To do so now validates its racist misappropriation and keeps its misuse in circulation.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We had 10 years to reach zero and we did the opposite.
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Andrew Bear @andrewbear.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What this article actually means is that Canadians should prepare to die.... and watch their children and grandchildren die. And that is not hyperbole it is from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Download the report here: actuaries.org.uk/news-and-med...
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Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Current climate policies risk catastrophic societal and economic impacts.
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Heat kills 9,000 in the US each year — at least 5x higher than the reported total — but likely even more, and climbing. The 2025 US murder rate was 4.1 per 100k citizens, about 14,000 people. The heat Big Oil caused and lied about for decades is now murdering nearly as many people as all murder.
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NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In Maricopa County, Arizona, which has put in place systems to more accurately count heat deaths, the number of people murdered by Big Oil's extreme heat now averages TWENTY SEVEN TIMES more than the number murdered by murder: 413 to 15.
CDC estimates an average of 413 people die from extreme heat in Maricopa County, AZ. 

Which is greater than NPR's model estimate of 168Graph of Maricopa County Homicides 5 year trend.

15 in 2025. A 5 year high of 29 in 2022.
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
A cute kitten with the text
NORMALIZE SAYING THAT BIG OIL IS MURDERING PEOPLE

IT’S TRUE, YOU’RE ALLOWED TO (FOR NOW) AND LEGAL EXPERTS AGREE
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/08/2026
The latest data has the global surface temperature for August 25th at 1.76°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline and more than 4 standard deviations above the 1991-2020 baseline. The planet hasn't been this hot in over 120,000 years. The Climate 8-ball is drunk again.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 27/08/2026
Tonight I dug this script out of my visualization archives from four years ago. Sadly, I had to further extend the y-axis scale as rapid warming continues, with a new record this year. No surprise to many experiencing the extreme summer heat... Data from GISTEMPv4: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
To the American professors more concerned with the academic freedom of a professor in Belgium to engage in "race science" than the federal government punishing one because they engaged in actual science at one of the US's oldest and most important higher education institutions, we see you.
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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Here’s a graphic projecting massive and devastating #climate driven drying out of soils right across Europe by mid-century… …oh wait, sorry, that’s an ACTUAL reading from August 10th last. My mistake.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Astronaut Don Pettit aboard the ISS Orbiting over wavy green auroras! Moments like these are some of the most surreal in spaceflight. What a view!
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/08/2026
Trump on Darlene Graham not being able to answer a very basic question about Taiwan-China: "All she was was being honest. I mean, she's into the price of groceries ... she's going to do what the president wants."
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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Our government has awarded a $158M contract for the care and feeding of unaccompanied migrant children to a group run by an ex-ICE agent accused of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking. Much more on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
EXTRAORDINARY WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN 40c IN WINTER IN SOUTHERN AFRICA We are witnessing something beyond any imagination with records smashed every day and full summer Temperatures. SOUTH AFRICA HIGHLANDS 37.0 Augrabies Falls 33.6 Brandvlei MADAGASCAR 36.0 Mahajanga
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Stop calling them anti-vaxxers. Call them plague-supporters.
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Seniors for Climate @seniorsforclimate.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This interview with @katharinehayhoe.com is a masterclass in communicating about climate change! 🌎 Join Seniors for Climate on Sept. 9 for a special webinar with Dr. Hayhoe on why talking about the climate crisis matters. 👇 Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #SeniorsForClimate
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Climate change 'loading the dice' for extreme weather, says climate scientist
YouTube video by CBC News
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This is what @leahstokes.bsky.social new book Climate Wave is about. substack.com/@leahstokes/...
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Leah Stokes (@leahstokes)
Fossil fuel companies spent over $100 million a year selling us all on the "carbon footprint" idea. No wonder this shoddy framework is everywhere. Let's replace it, with a new model for collective ac...
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Andrew Bear @andrewbear.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What are the chances that Mitch McConnell shows up with the unredacted Epstein Files?
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/08/2026
404 Media = a squad of absolute real ass mfers. So many props to these folks and their excellent journalism. LET'S GO SCRAPPY INDIES!
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you @natashadevon.bsky.social for covering the #NationalEmergencyBriefing. We need more broadcasters like Natasha who are listening to the scientists and providing high quality media coverage of this vitally important topic. It's #TimeToStepUp #NationalEmergencyBriefing
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Robert MJ Thompson @wh0n0z.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Big thanks to Mr.A. for cleansing my sensitive palate on all things having to do with the 80s. Reading his full personal historical narrative of that miserable age of political atrocities, confirms my perspective, makes me feel less alone, and awakens me to the value of the punk rock music genre.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
So much life, so much beauty, so much of what makes our planet function as a system, all going up in smoke because of rampant greed and corruption. Headlines like this are heartbreaking far beyond anything words could possibly express.
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE The most extreme heat wave the world has ever seen continues unabated (and will get far worse next week). Today QATAR broke its national record of August highest temperature with 49.5C at Abu Samra. Next week 52C in IRAN with MINS up to 39C ! The Hell🔥
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.
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"In today's society, you know, everybody's filming everything, everybody has a cell phone," Glueck said. If an officer punches someone on camera, that can go viral in an instant; even a standard taser leaves puncture wounds. But "the glove is low optic, and it looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars."But local police across the country are still eagerly buying the gloves—in large part so that they can harm people and avoid being sued for it. It's been successful "from the patrolmen to the jailers," Lumpkin County Sheriff Stacy Jarrard said in a Compliant Technologies promotional video. "It's been a great tool as far as mitigating liability," according to Nelson County Jailer Justin Hall.
Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff's Department sung the GLOVE's praises, too: "I highly recommend these gloves to anybody that's looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits."
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 15/08/2026
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 15, 2026 ~ And then there were none. "Scientists say this El Niño is on course to be the strongest in 150 years by a 'mind-blowing margin.' Even in its incipient phase, it is wreaking havoc across the planet." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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El Niño may peak at the worst time for the Amazon – and it should worry us all
Delay to rainy season in forest already damaged by human-driven heating could trigger powerful ‘Godzilla’ El Niño
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