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Reflections on Nature, live music, and my favorite sports teams. Once in a while, you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. Huchiun Ohlone Territory, East Bay Hills, CA.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country. Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Exactly this. It’s honestly concerning that we’ve hit over 15,000 targets and aren’t seeing any real strategic value out of it. Iranian missiles are increasingly getting through Israeli air defenses. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and we are preparing boots on the ground.
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Conservation Value Solutions @win-with-nature.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
As we like to say, protecting and restoring biodiversity is a conservation value solution! news.mongabay.com/2026/02/the-...
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The business case for biodiversity
In Manchester this week, governments endorsed a report that tries to do something business has long resisted: treat biodiversity as economically material. The new assessment from the Intergovernmental...
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Conservation Value Solutions @win-with-nature.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Yep - we are coming to the sad conclusion that skiing is no longer economically viable. The Ikon/Epic monopoly, arguably driven by climate change, is putting skiing out of reach for more and more families...
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The death of affordable skiing
Skiing season, whether its Meribel and the French Alps or the Italian Dolomites, has become an unbelievable expense.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/02/2026
As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org
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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding
The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Impressive piece - this is about democracy/freedom vs autocracy/control more than anything else... anchorlightpublications.substack.com/p/my-final-p...
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My Final Political Post - The Republican Strategy, Key Players, Timeline, Likely Outcome, and How We Should Respond
What started with a single question about the proliferation of anti-vax conspiracy theories, resulted in a life-changing discussion with A.I. about our future. My future.
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Wildlife is deeply embedded in sports culture. Therein lies a conservation opportunity. Researchers argue that the emotional pull of teams could become a force in endangered species conservation. www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/12/wild...
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Wildlife is deeply embedded in sports culture. Therein lies a conservation opportunity.
Researchers argue that the emotional pull of teams could become a force in endangered species conservation.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/12/2025
“How billionaires took over American politics” The concentration of wealth among the richest Americans is unlike anything in history — and so is billionaires’ influence in politics. The USA has over 342 million people. Only 902 billionaires. It's when we say it's over. 🎁 link wapo.st/4rG7WHH
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How billionaires took over American politics
The current concentration of wealth is unlike anything in history. So is billionaires’ involvement in politics.
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John Doffing @johndoffing.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"The frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis . . . " MADE IN USA 1941 AMERICAN SPRING harpers.org/archive/1941...
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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
“I am now an 81-year-old man and I know that in the minds of many, I carry the torch from a so-called centrist political era. Yet it is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression.”—James Carville
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Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance @protectwildutah.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Federal government and Utah leaders are having a meeting this week to discuss co-management of national parks in Utah, setting a dangerous precedent for national parks across the nation. Read more: www.thetravel.com/us-governmen...
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U.S. Government Eyes Utah National Parks For “Dangerous” Plan That Could Spread To Parks Across The Country
The alleged meeting fears the public and environmentalists it might involve the Mighty Five.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Also, a lesson to every DOJ lawyer & law enforcement official. A lesson to everyone.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back | Robert Reich
The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Here you go, @rystorm.bsky.social , NICE Agent…
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The New Mastersounds threw down an epic dance party at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore last night
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Elsewhere on social media…
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Polluters realized that democracy was incompatible with letting them destroy the planet and passing the costs to everyone else. So they're destroying democracy.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We can’t solve climate change without behavioral change. Maybe disruptions like this will force us to consider buying less stuff or shopping at Goodwill, which is one of the changes we need to make). (This is not an endorsement of anything that the Trump regime is doing)
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries, saving hundreds of billions of dollars, report @iea.org - including UK, Germany and Chile etc Story by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...
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IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries - Carbon Brief
More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports and saved hundreds of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in renewables
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
@riveraveblues.bsky.social If the knicks fired thibs, for boone not to be fired is insanity. Idiocy. Par for the course under Hal’s ownership
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
🚨🚨🚨 What Russ Vought Is Doing Right Now: Project 2025 Architect is Spending his Shutdown Destroying Your Government With half of Project 2025 implemented, what is its architect turned Director of OMB coming for over the shutdown? Find out (free) and then RP! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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What Russ Vought Is Doing Right Now:
Project 2025 Architect is Spending his Shutdown Destroying Your Government
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I feel heard - @governor.ca.gov’s team is on 🔥🔥🔥
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Spot on…
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Yep
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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Life in the USA feels like Gotham after Arkham’s breakout—villains roaming free, institutions crumbling—except there’s no caped hero coming to save us. Just regular people carrying on, working, raising kids, hoping tomorrow isn’t swallowed by the madness. #Pinks
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Snubbing Kennedy, States Announce Plans to Coordinate on Vaccines
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 01/09/2025
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/08/2025
That disastrous reshaping of the world's ocean currents that would leave the EU in an ice age & shift the world's fertile regions thus causing persistent global famine? According to science, it's no longer "low probability." Sleep tight.
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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
A mass wishful thinking event is occurring on social media right now…
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Putin did more than eat Trump’s lunch in Alaska. He ate Trump for lunch and swallowed him whole. The losers? Ukraine, the EU, NATO, and the United States of America.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2025
Don't get it twisted. Trump is having the National Guard pick up trash to debase them. He hates the military. He is incapable of understanding anyone who would make sacrifices for the greater good. He thinks they are suckers and losers, and he's treating them as such.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/08/2025
one that annoys me is that what these people think is cutting edge new political thinking is just warmed over slaveholder ideology
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It won’t fit in screen shots but linking here the full letter of resignation posted by one of the departing CDC officials, Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who ran the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and led efforts to fight COVID, monkeypox, and bird flu x.com/dr_demetre/s...
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
I had serious doubts about CDC Director Monarez’s willingness to stand up against RFK Jr.’s personal mission to destroy public health in America—I’m glad that I was wrong. If there are any adults left in the White House: we cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of CDC. FIRE HIM.
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New C.D.C. Director Resists Ouster as Other Officials Resign
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This is just going to waste LOTS of time of medical professionals, who are now going to face a Trumptillion number of requests for "underlying condition" notes to get annual COVI19 vaccines. For us, Novavax has been side-effect free and VERY effective! www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...
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The FDA Finally Approves COVID Shots — But With More Restrictions Than Ever
Experts warn the new guidelines — a sharp break from previous years — could have deadly consequences.
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Pam McElwee @pammcelwee.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Comment out now in Nature Reviews Biodiversity where we argue that blocking renewable energy, esp wind and solar, for biodi reasons is unnecessary - we can manage any tradeoffs. And unchecked climate change is far, far worse! Don't let biodi become political football www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The trade-offs between needed renewable energy transitions and biodiversity can be overcome - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
The expansion of renewable energy is urgently needed to reduce carbon emissions, but it can entail some trade-offs with biodiversity. Here, we argue that synergistic implementation strategies are poss...
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"It is even wilder to see Republicans, who since 1980 have held so fervently to the idea of free markets that they have denounced even the most basic regulations as socialism, celebrate the government takeover of a private company."
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August 23, 2025
“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A sign of the END TIMES..? (Found by my wife at Target - ironically after I caught her eating maple bourbon dill pickles with her pizza last night after got home from seeing My Morning Jacket at the Greek)
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River Ave. Blues @riveraveblues.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
They gotta fire Boone. It won't fix anything, but you have to at least pretend you care. Every day he stays on is a day the Yankees tell us they're perfectly fine with this embarrassment of a team.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
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Judge Orders That ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center Be Shut Down for Now
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Our Honey King Nectarines are truly exceptional this year - and nice crop of em! Dare I say just as good if not better than Ikeda’s - yep that good! IYNYN
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/c...
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Environmental Groups Face ‘Generational’ Setbacks Under Trump
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
From a US perspective, this is fundamentally worse than Sputnik, and it is having the exact opposite and wrong reaction to 1957 - retreat, shutting down basic science and clean tech commercialization, instead of diving into creating a national science complex and building fast.
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BiodiversityDad @biodiversitydad.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
A nauseating flow of Emperor Has No Clothes sycophancy. Literally the same difference except we are all suffering while he is fed the bullshit he insists on being told…
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a bull with long horns is standing on the side of the road
ALT: a bull with long horns is standing on the side of the road
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