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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fight, fight, fight. Vote, vote, vote. Organize! (We are once again canvassing Meridian Township this weekend. Join us! act.wewill2026.com/we-will-canv...) **Free paw-paws for canvassers this weekend, while supplies last!**

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I really think they’re equal in terms of famousness, but “learned it by watching you” is the more compelling one, imo.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dispatches from the Michigan mid-term campaigning. These are from our Lansing city paper. On the left, a thoughtful entry from @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. On the right, the entry from Mike Rogers.

At a town hall in Grand Rapids last
week, a young boy asked me a question:
“What was the driving factor for you to
run for Senator?”
I didn’t have to think twice. My answer
was as simple as it was automatic: “You.”
As a father, my “why” in this race has
always been clear. Our kids are the whole
point. In every child, I see my own chil-
dren.
My brilliant daughters, Emmalee and
Serene, are eight and three. I’m running
for Senate because I want them to grow
up in a world where they and all the chil-
dren they’re growing up with have a shot
at the future they deserve.
But right now, our politics are keeping
that out of reach. For far too long, billion-
aires and corporations have rigged the
system against us all. Special interests
buy and sell politicians while everyday
Michiganders strain under record-break-
ing costs and stagnating wages. Utilities,
insurance premiums, mortgages, gas and
groceries—none of them are affordable
alone. Together, they’re pushing us to the
brink.
I’m running for Senate because in
the richest, ost powerful country in the
world, it shouldn’t be this hard to simply
get by. That’s why I’ve never taken a dime
of corporate money and never will. And
on day one as Michigan’s next Senator, I
will champion legislation to overturn the
catastrophic Citizens United ruling to get
corporate money out of our politics—so
that we can finally build the world our
children deserve.
I am not sure what Mike Rogers would
say if he were asked the same question.
We may never know because he doesn’t
do town halls where such questions are
often asked. Considering the consequenc-
es of the full scope of his career, his honest
answer would likely be the exact opposite:
“To make more money.”
We’ve seen what happens when Mike
Rogers gets a taste of power. We’ve suf-
fered through it before.
Rogers spent twenty years in the state
Senate and then in Congress abusing his
office to enrich himself at the expense of
Michiganders.
He took money from Big Oil – then vot-
ed to ke…

An AI-generated comic book, with Mike Rogers as the main character. Buff Mike is the main character and is a swole version of Mike Rogers. The comic is trying to make the case that Abdul will not rebuild the auto industry, but Buff Mike will and that's why you should vote for him.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dispatches from the Michigan mid-term campaigning. These are from our Lansing city paper. On the left, a thoughtful entry from @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. On the right, the entry from Mike Rogers.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're able to donate to one of these candidates today, do it! It's the last day of the month!! I donated to @wewill2026.bsky.social!

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

these project of AI is so intrinsically based on destroying solidarity that its proponents don’t even understand that music is a communal experience

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pretty good content. (Will is going to CRUSH Tom) 🔨🤜🤛

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is hilarious but I also just want to recognize and appreciate that raspberry color. It’s gorgeous!

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In food systems, 5—US food waste fell slightly by 2% in 2024 but has been pretty flat for a decade 6—US meat consumption remains >200 pounds/person/year and is actively encouraged by new dietary guidelines 7—USG raised biofuel mandates to record highs 8—USG canceled climate smart ag funding

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s astonishing how far ahead the 2026 El Niño is. The red line is 2026. The other warmest El Niños are the colored lines. It’s not even playing in the same league. Some of this is of course due to this natural El Niño cycle on top of long-term ocean warming… 1/

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is one I'm going to talk about with my son. I'm sure the parents of these boys never imagined and now refuse to believe their kids did something like this.

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Christen Rexing, PhD, MPH @christenrexing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A must read. “A civilization in which 1 in 3 women are sexually assaulted, in which 98% of rapists face no consequences, in which nine out of ten women murdered by men are killed by someone they trusted—that civilization is not stable. It is not healthy. It is not just. It is destroying itself.”

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s what this joy-in-politics looks like in practice at the @wewill2026.bsky.social campaign www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... We Will Win!

Happy weekend friend,

37 DAYS TO GO!!! And there are SO many ways to jump in and be part of these final weeks! We’ve got canvasses, crafts, karaoke, birthdays, potlucks, phonebanks, tie-dye, soup, and opportunities to get involved all across the district. Don’t let November 3rd come without doing everything you can to make sure we flip the House! Take a look at everything happening this week and find your way to be part of a strong finish:

🎨 Sunday at 1 PM: Canvass & Crafts with Will’s Mom
Spend your Sunday afternoon with Will’s mom and friends! We’ll head out for a canvass, then come back together to hang out and get crafty. Bring whatever craft you’re working on, or just show up and join in with the supplies and projects Will’s mom and friends are bringing. No crafting expertise required!

🍲 Monday at 6:30 PM: Friend-a-thon & Potluck
Bring a dish, a drink, or just yourself and join us at campaign HQ for a big Friend-a-thon & Potluck! We’ll have everything you need to participate, plus plenty of food, people to hang out with, and a room full of supporters working together. Come spend the evening with us and help #WeWill close out the quarter together.

🎤 Tuesday at 5:30 PM: Canvass & Karaoke
Knock some doors with us, then stick around for karaoke afterward.

🎂 Wednesday at 5:30 PM: Canvass for Stevie’s Birthday
Come celebrate our campaign manager, Stevie’s birthday, and give the best gift you can give to her by coming out to knock doors!

🎂 Friday at 5:30 PM: Canvass for Shian’s Birthday
Then we’re celebrating our field organizer Shian’s birthday, who also happens to be one a fellow ELHS alumni with Will!

💗 Saturday at 1 PM: Mean Girls Day Canvass
They asked us what day it was.
“It’s October 3rd.”
You know what that means: Mean Girls Canvass Day.

Looking for something closer to home? We also have canvasses happening throughout the district, including the greater Lansing area, Eaton, Clinton, Shiawassee, Livingston, and Oakland counties.

And some of our local teams have made canvassing an event of its own. In Eaton County, come canvass and then tie-dye your Will 2026 shirt afterward. In Clinton County, it’s SOUPer Saturday: knock on some doors, then stick around to socialize over Melany’s famous soups.

Can’t canvass? You can still be a huge help.

Phonebank for Will from home, host an out-of-state volunteer, drive canvassers to rural turf, make food for volunteers and staff, or drop off water to keep everyone hydrated.

You can also get your own friends and family involved. Host a gathering at your house, invite some friends over, or bring people together to help out. Will may not always be able to join, but you don’t need the candidate in the room to get people together and be part of what we’re building.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm here at the @okemoscoffeeshop.bsky.social . Come canvass and I'll buy you a coffee ☕

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“I think people are plenty ready for fighters — he showed in the primary that that was an asset,” McKibben said in an email. And he thinks Lawrence will be in prime position to shape the national debate on climate and data centers if he wins in November.

michiganadvance.com

Meet the Michigan climate candidate on Trump’s radar • Michigan Advance

Less than two months ago, William Lawrence was a relatively unknown progressive climate group co-founder and a dark-horse candidate for Congress running in a Trump district in the middle of Michigan.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you happen to be in Meridian Township AND are thinking about the elections and want to see @wewill2026.bsky.social elected AND have free weekends, please come canvass! We’re meeting at the Okemos Coffee Shop at 10 and 1 tomorrow, and then again on Sunday at 1. Canvassing is Good!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Climate Week as described by various people on LinkedIn sounds more like a trade show. I’ve never been to NYC Climate Week. Is it more like a trade show?

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I never realized how lovely sweet Annie is in arrangements until this year. One of my top 5 favorite flower-related lessons this year.

A bud vase of fuchsia celosia, sea oats, strawflower and sweet Annie.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We must not fail and we must cut the cancer out. Get out there and canvass or phone bank for the candidate whom you resonate with. Donating $$ is good, too. Lots of Davids to beat the Goliath. I’m moving out of my 2026 gardening era to my 2026 “Get @wewill2026.bsky.social elected” era. Chip in!

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we are going to find out some truly horrifying shit in 2026-2028 and we are morally obligated to build a party that will punish them in 2029

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 23/09/2026

There's lots of reasons for despair, but here's a small bit of light: it's not hard to make change when you work together. 175 climate researchers volunteered time to ensure communities are informed about climate risks. Led by Melissa Kenney, @bobkopp.net, & me, free to read: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

doi.org

Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

El Niño is breaking every existing record already, and it's got weeks to go before it's likely to hit a peak. We're going to see a warmer world than any humans before us this year billmckibben.substack.com/p/hold-my-wa...

billmckibben.substack.com

Hold my (warm) beer

It’s Existential Crises Week!

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Last week I was offered a settlement for my mom’s Camp Lejeune case and in consideration of any influence I have in my community I decided to take it and encourage others to do the same. It has been (still is) an emotional time but I walk away knowing at every step I worked for the greater good.

rollcall.com

Settlement of Camp Lejeune case shows dilemma facing many victims

Among the thousands of victims of contaminated drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune was a woman with the ironic name of Mary Freshwater, who was raising her family at the North Carolina ba...

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"In 2024, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping pay-to-play investigation examining interactions between Sen. Susan Collins and a top donor... "The donor, an ex-defense contractor, told agents his company won millions in federal contracts by bankrolling campaigns of powerful politicians."

propublica.org

The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Trump’s war in Iran cost Americans over $43 billion. That money could be invested in our communities: affordable healthcare, affordable housing, and good schools. Tom Barrett was the decisive House vote to fund this stupid war. In Congress, I will vote to bring money home to help Michiganders.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At some point, when we get back on track with building out the renewable energy system, advocates will have to distinguish it very clearly from the data center buildout. They're already doing that in Wisconsin. prospect.org/2026/09/21/w...

Alex Beld, communications director for RENEW Wisconsin, a nonprofit that promotes renewable energy in the state, has watched the two arguments fuse.

“I wouldn’t say we’ve seen a significant shift in favorability for renewables because of the deployment of these large hyperscale facilities,” he said. “What we’ve instead seen is those same groups that have already been pretty strongly against renewables are now using a new talking point—that all of these renewable energy projects we’re seeing come online are all for data centers.”

Tiffany “is tying both data centers and renewables to a land use issue,” Beld said. “He maybe isn’t directly tying the two always, but to some extent he’s talking about both in the same breath.” RENEW’s position is the mirror image—it wants data centers that do get built to run on clean power. “We don’t view it as, ‘Oh, this solar installation is just going to go to a data center,’” Beld said.

Meanwhile, utilities are walking back plans to retire coal plants, a point that public-interest lawyer Peg Sheaffer, director of communications at Midwest Environmental Advocates, pressed the candidates on at a town hall in August. And the Union of Concerned Scientists estimated that mid-level growth of data centers in the state could lead to more than 41 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2035—equal to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of about 9.6 million gasoline-powered passenger vehicles, according to the EPA.

Utilities are also asking the Public Service Commission for some of the largest rate increases in state history before any of the new data centers have been built and are operating. That is why, Beld said, “we’re starting to have more conversations about how renewable energy is tied to affordability”—a reframing with more purchase in a purple state than talk of emissions.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mike Rogers took his Florida house (the one with two hot tubs facing the inland waterway) off the market. It's like he knows he's going to be living there full-time again in just over six weeks. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

detroitnews.com

Mike Rogers' wife on why they took Florida home off market | Insider

"... With Mike running for office and us not being trust fund babies, I'd love to sell that house," Kristi Rogers told The Detroit News.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is my favorite seed-started dahlia this year and one I’ll propagate. It’s the lightest of lemony yellow, but has pale pink streaks on the back of the petals which show through. This is day 4 in the vase, so it’s got a good vase life, as well.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"In mainland China a 100-day campaign has been launched to prepare for extreme weather and help safeguard harvests against the opposing extremes of drought and intense rainfall" And in the UK????? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño

From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The question is, Tom Barrett has always has his finger on the pulse of what’s important to Michiganders . Push 1 for “Yes” and 2 for “No.”

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have reached the age in which people are amazed that I’m not on any medications. 😭

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’m proud to be endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign. This country was founded on the principle of freedom and equality. As extremists take aim at our civil liberties, we need leaders to fight back. I will stand with the Human Rights Campaign to fight for a better future together in Congress.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.

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peregrine kate (she/her) @peregrinekate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@christebbens.bsky.social @blooming-burbs.bsky.social Please feel free to spread the word regarding this Saturday’s derp canvass. Hope you can join us, too!

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 15/09/2026

We now live in a world where climate adaptation is necessary for health and safety. We still live in a world whose climate will get worse the more we pollute it with greenhouse gases. Both things are true. We urgently need to act on both adaptation and mitigation. Many actions help with both.

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