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Barclay Palmer

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Executive Editor, Producer, Board member, Advisor, Consultant, Visiting Professor, Investor focused on Climate, Finance, Nature-based Solutions, Sustainability

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Solar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation in history - and it is still accelerating reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-alr...
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Solar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation in history - and it is still accelerating
Solar is moving fast. Really fast. Batteries are moving faster. And there is no evidence in either prices or deployment that the system is about to tap the brakes.
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
#TopStories of #2025 from C&C. In February, @hlovins.bsky.social announced COPx, a new people‑powered climate network designed as an alternative to traditional #COP summits to mobilise grassroots #ClimateAction. Read more 👇
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Announcing COPx: the people’s climate network - Climate and Capital Media
See Hunter Lovins on a new people's climate network and its mission to help people confront the climate crisis and protect the planet
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
#Greenhushing won't work. 2026 candidates can win by showing how #climate change is driving #inflation in #energy, #insurance, #food etc, says @claravondrich.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Show "how the impact and costs accelerate from here." @barclay2.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3uzjwhjz
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Care about affordability? Then care about climate change – cuz you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Fossil-fueled extreme weather is jacking up prices for everyone and everything. We need to start saying so.
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Granny T @granny-t.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Georgia Fort was arrested by the FBI at 6:30 am in her home simply for covering the anti-ICE protest at a church in Minnesota. Please consider donating to support independent journalists who have been targeted by Trump.
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Donate to Let's get Georgia Fort On-Air, organized by Georgia Fort
Georgia Fort is an Emmy-nominated journalist whose reporting has been featured on CNN, ABC,… Georgia Fort needs your support for Let's get Georgia Fort On-Air
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/02/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Journalism is a public service, and I am proud to be a public servant,” Georgia Fort, an independent journalist who was recently arrested in Minnesota, writes. “Professional reporting, observing and documenting is not a crime. But the freedom to do so is at risk.”
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Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?
I covered the Minnesota church protest. Press credentials didn’t protect me.
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"A society that claims to value our democracy cannot criminalize those who document threats to democracy... If we as a nation fail to defend that principle now, clearly and without compromise, we may soon find that there is nothing left to defend." By Georgia Fort www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...
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Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next? By Georgia Fort Gift link!
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Opinion | I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Ana Cabrera on arresting journalists Don Lemon & Georgia Fort: "I really want American people to understand attacking the press is not simply just attacking journalists, it's attacking the public's right to know." #sheshed
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Jess💙🩵🔥🌍🌈🪢🦀🐋🇺🇲wokeAF @makora33.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence
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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’ve reached out to both Gov. Walz and Sen. Klobuchar following the latest shooting involving federal agents in Minnesota. Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This is really something. Mark Warner, one of the more moderate and cautious senators in the Dem caucus, says he'll vote No on ICE funding:
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Forbes @forbes.com · 24/01/2026
Video Saturday showed federal agents wrestling a man to the ground outside a donut shop before shots rang out.
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Walz Reports ‘Another Horrific Shooting’ Involving Federal Agents In Minnesota
Video Saturday showed federal agents wrestling a man to the ground outside a donut shop before shots rang out.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Federal agents shoot person in Minnesota, governor says
Minneapolis officials said they are investigating.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The more evidence rolls in, the more obvious it is that ICE simply executed a public-spirited nurse who tried to help a woman assaulted by ICE. But, Trumpies don't care. They will always believe what Trump tells them to believe and the ignore the evidence of their eyes and ears... and videos.
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Multiple Videos Undercut DHS Account of VA Nurse’s Killing
Kristi Noem called him a “domestic terrorist.” The footage tells a different story.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC
You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 25/01/2026
The U.S. is… withdrawing from the UN program to protect women and children from sexual violence during wars slashing its contributions to peacekeeping and food aid refusing to participate in a global review of its human rights practices buff.ly/Pjwii0i
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US turns its back on global efforts for women and children terrorized by violence and conflict
The Trump administration’s move to withdraw the US from these organizations risks undercutting lasting peace and global human rights accountability.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The nurses are pissed
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Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control.
This is about total control.
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The Jack of Kingfield @thejackofkingfield.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Mood in minneapolis right now
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 25/01/2026
A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 16/01/2026
Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The US is withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the treaty that has governed international climate diplomacy since 1992, per the AP: heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi... George H.W. Bush first signed the pact, and the Senate unanimously ratified. US has been a member since then.
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The U.S. Will Exit UN’s Framework Climate Treaty, According to Reports
The move would mark a significant escalation in Trump’s hostility toward climate diplomacy.
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
#TopStories of #2025 from C&C. In July, we reported that Musk’s xAI facility in Memphis installed 35 gas turbines without permits in 2024 — raising concerns over #AirPollution & unregulated emissions.
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35 gas turbines, no permits: Elon Musk’s dirty xAI secret - Climate and Capital Media
In Memphis, AI’s environmental impact is invisible, until you turn on the camera
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Both major U.S. parties are betting on "affordability." They could win if they show how #climate change is jacking up prices of #energy, #food, #insurance etc, says @claravondrich.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social. "Climate pollution is driving the cost-of-living crisis." @barclay2.bsky.social
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Care about affordability? Then care about climate change – cuz you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Fossil-fueled extreme weather is jacking up prices for everyone and everything. We need to start saying so.
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Clara Vondrich @claravondrich.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
My oped on climate change as the ultimate cost-of-living crisis. Extreme weather is jacking up prices for everyone & everything. We need to reject the idea that climate is too "abstract" for voters. Survivors will tell you there's nothing abstract about losing your home, much less a loved one.
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Care about affordability? Then care about climate change – cuz you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Fossil-fueled extreme weather is jacking up prices for everyone and everything. We need to start saying so.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/01/2026
Chrystia Freeland * @cafreeland • 40m
Ukraine is at the forefront of today's global fight for democracy, and I welcome this chance to contribute on an unpaid basis as an economic advisor to President Zelensky.
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In accepting this voluntary position, I will be stepping aside from my role as the Prime Minister's Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine.
In the coming weeks I will also leave my seat in Parliament. I want to thank my constituents for their years of confidence in me. I am so grateful to have been your representative.
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A look back at #TopStories of #2025 from C&C. In May, Ma Jun spoke with C&C’s @petermckillop.bsky.social on how global climate progress can continue even if the US government steps back from #ClimateFinance.
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Moving forward on climate without America - Climate and Capital Media
China’s Ma Jun sees a new path to Net Zero
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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Trump’s dizzying 2nd term has turned fringe movements and personal grudges into full-blown policies. But while vaccines and universities will endure through Trump’s political attacks, in one form or another, the U.S. offshore wind industry may not. My last story of 2025 is a postmortem.
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Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
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EU’s new ‘green tariff’ rules on high-carbon goods come into force
The ‘border adjustment mechanism’ aims to create a level playing field while also encouraging decarbonisation
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Great @nytimes.com reporting here: "Since his return to office, President Trump and his family have engaged in a moneymaking campaign like none in modern American history. It is enriching the family, as well as important officials and business partners." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Tangled Web of Deal-Making, Policy and Riches
The president, his family and some of their closest associates have engaged in a sprawling campaign of deals that stretches across industries and the globe.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
DHS spokesperson routinely make statements which are then contradicted by the facts. Their bodycam footage disappears during shootings. Now they also want to block the public from monitoring them. Media should be deeply cautious about presenting their claims uncritically. reason.com/2025/12/26/j...
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Justice Department says filming immigration raids is 'domestic terrorism'
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🇨🇳China is the world's largest emitter but also a leader in the #CleanEnergy shift.💡 We examine how China is driving change & why it's where the fight against #ClimateChange will be won or lost 🧵👇 www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-climate-...
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The climate crisis will be won or lost in Asia
Asia's trajectory will shape global climate outcomes
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
#CCMHolidayReading 📚Here Comes the Sun by @billmckibben.bsky.social — an optimistic read — traces the arrival renewables despite effort of the fossil fuel industry to hold this new power at bay. One of our top climate reads of 2025.
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
📚 Stellar by James Arbib & @tonyseba.bsky.social lays out a bold vision: a world powered by superabundant clean energy — enough to restore what fossil fuels destroyed. One of our top climate reads of 2025.
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Watching car salesmen days before year end baffled that sales have been down for 3 to 4 months. The cars are worse, cost twice as much, wages are half what they were, and you want $700 a month to lease. Nobody’s making money. Of course no one’s buying. It won’t be better in 2026. Any guesses why?
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus 2 will burn enough gas to power nearly half of Memphis daily & pump 2,000+ tons of NOx into the air, according to @selc.bsky.social. Residents call it environmental injustice in real time👇 www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/musk-mugs-me... #AI #EnvironmentalJustice
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Musk mugs Memphis again, with xAI’s Colossus 2 data center
World’s largest AI facilities give Boxtown headaches with tons of air pollution, huge water usage, and massive energy demand
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
#CCMHolidayReading 📚 Saving Us by @katharinehayhoe.com — blends science, faith & personal stories into a hopeful, practical guide for climate conversations rooted in empathy.  One of our top picks for 2025.
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New York is entering a moment when two political forces are hurtling toward each other.  With rising utility costs & 2026 elections looming, Gov Kathy Hochul will have to work to prove affordability and #ClimateAction go together. www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/as-affordabi...
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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
As I understand @ncar-ucar.bsky.social also play a crucial role in studying atmospheric rivers (ARs). An example of what these ARs can do can be seen in Seattle this week bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Kim Cobb @kimcobb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
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A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Here's what removal of the hepatitis B birth dose will look like www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
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CIDRAP Op-Ed: Here's what removal of the hepatitis B birth dose will look like
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A new AIGCC & MSCI Institute report reveals a stark reality for Asia’s power sector: #ClimateChange is already costing utilities $6.3B annually and could hit 33% by 2050 without resilience — writes @karihuus.bsky.social 👇
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Asia’s $6.3 billion climate blind spot - Climate and Capital Media
Why utilities and Investors can’t afford to ignore physical risk
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Climate and Capital Media @climateandcap.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Elon Musk’s xAI Colossus 2 will burn enough gas to power nearly half of Memphis daily & pump 2,000+ tons of NOx into the air, according to @selc.bsky.social. Residents call it environmental injustice in real time 👇 www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/musk-mugs-me... #AI #EnvironmentalJustice
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Musk mugs Memphis again, with xAI’s Colossus 2 data center
World’s largest AI facilities give Boxtown headaches with tons of air pollution, huge water usage, and massive energy demand
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