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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Ha! I work with amazing colleagues! Here's an essay I wrote about living in place during the poly-crisis. I hope it provides a way to manifest Keith Basso's statement that "Wisdom sits in Places."

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Kierkegaard

A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke.

—Søren Kierkegaard,
from Either/Or, Part I

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Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) @sehnetwork.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"A comprehensive 2023 review by New York public health groups found 2,500 papers with evidence that #fracking had negative impacts on human health." Our Compendium linked in this @thehill.com & @pulitzercenter.bsky.social piece on #OilandGas in the Permian Basin. thehill.com/policy/energ...

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Industry is finally telling the truth: carbon capture and storage is a scheme to use the CO2 for enhanced oil recovery--getting the last drop of oil out of near-depleted wells.

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Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) @sehnetwork.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

47 pulled the regulations for CO2 pipelines--the ones that explode and carry quantities of CO2 that can kill you. We have opinions about this and fortunately the press is reporting on the threats posed by carbon capture and storage in the absence of strong regulations.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Ooh, standing ovation to climate journalist Jonathan Mingle @jonmingle on your @selc_org Reed Environmental Writing Award for your outstanding book GASLIGHT! To celebrate, @islandpress tells me they are offering the ebook for $.4.99 today. islandpress.org/books/gaslight.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It appears that 47 and Musk are following the basic business precept: "if you break it, you own it."

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Elon Musk is the malware in the software of democracy. We all know who the hacker is.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My volunteer work is migrant defense. With the new president, the hardest part is sorting fact from rumor and fiction. When I was serving as a lawyer at Standing Rock, it was imperative that we were 100% accurate. Fear-based governing is designed to bleed fiction into facts. This is evil.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Oh man, the beauty of a chess metaphor well-played.

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Seth Weitz @sethaweitz.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

While we’re debating whether or not Elon did a Nazi salute (twice), ICE has already arrested 538 people.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Check this out: our SEHN newsletter on plastics with the incomparable team of Sandra Steingraber, Rebecca Altman and Ted Schettler. Writers and scientists all.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

What a pathetic, cruel administration. My DACA friends are being terrorized. Public health and the environment are being undermined and trashed. Justice is a joke. (Who frees violent seditionists but rounds up farmworkers?) I am part of the resistance & glad to have comrades in the struggle.

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Shoutout Mexico www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

WASHINGTON — Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration's plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

We could write a biography of the US through its most notable fires. The Shirtwaist factory fire in Lowell Mass that changed labor law, the great Chicago fire of 1871, the fact that Aldo Leopold died fighting a grass fire, Norman Maclean's book "Young Men and Fire" documenting the Mann Gulch fire.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/01/2025

My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Not only is ADM’s CO2 storage project in central IL (where I grew up) leaking near the drinking water source for 1 million ppl, it turns out this project captures just a tiny wisp of ADM’s total CO2 emissions. #CCS is risky AND it doesn't work! Good reporting: cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...

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Illinois Carbon Capture Project Captures Almost No Carbon - CleanTechnica

Carbon capture holds tremendous promise -- if it works. But in the real world, it doesn't and is costing taxpayers billions.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is our friendly reminder that standing up to the fossil fuel industry is necessary, effective and usually more fun than doing other stuff like, oh, doom scrolling.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is the best overview I’ve seen of Summit’s proposed carbon capture and storage scheme—the weird politics, the unusual public health threats and the twisted ethics. And yeah, I am quoted!

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This is a useful analysis of what we need to do in the face of our newly elected autocrat.

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Rebecca Altman, PhD @rebecca-altman.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Industry made the meme — “cover the Earth”— in oil, then paint & plastics — then they made it reality— now, as scientists document their reach, the planetary boundaries breached — they say: it’s bad waste management, it’s hyperbole; when max production, endless growth was the point. #plasticstreaty

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I have to say that being able to use two sticks and a piece of string to make whole cloth is still one of those miraculous things.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yesterday I saw an eagle fly by my Iowa window and thought "there is evidence that our environmental work can help the Earth." We brought eagles back from the DDT brink by stopping the use of DDT. Here's another win. Small, but a win.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

At the root of so many scourges you will find fossil fuels. Exhibit Q or R or S or T: Plastic causing more greenhouse gas emissions than flying.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hey scientist friends, we are seeking scientists to sign on to this letter to Governor Newsom to shut down the Aliso Canyon gas storage facility. Are you in?

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

For those wanting to look at the data, my shop, Science and Environmental Health Network has compiled a clearinghouse of vetted science on the sham that is carbon capture and storage. www.carboncapturefacts.org/use-overview

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We did this report on Enhanced Oil Recovery, the fossil fuel industry's kamikaze process of taking CO2 and using it to extract more oil out of nearly depleted wells. Check it out.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Check out our website on carbon capture and storage. This is some of what I do in my day job.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In January we will have three branches of government: Fox News, the fossil fuel industry and the Musky conglomerate.

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Amanda Palmer @amandapalmer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

If you need hope, read this. If you are an artist, read this. Stay the course in the dark times. Stay the course. Stay in community. www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/06/t...

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A Lighthouse for Dark Times

This is the elemental speaking: It is during phase transition — when the temperature and pressure of a system go beyond what the system can withstand and matter changes from one state to anot…

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trump might be spending all his time with the Tesla guy, but he plans to rule by Fiat

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

“My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.” Adrienne Rich

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i'm just patrick, deep down @ouisequitur.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

hey you guys, should that doomsday clock just be spinning like that

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Rebecca Altman, PhD @rebecca-altman.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Based on documents work carried out by @rebeccajohn.bsky.social -- "The newly unearthed documents come from the Caltech archives, the US National Archives, the U of California at San Diego, the State U of New York Buffalo archives and Los Angeles newspapers from the 1950s." @dharna.bsky.social

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Today's Singing in Dark Times: Holly Near's "Singing for Our Lives." We are a gentle and angry people and we are singing for our lives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwBw...

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

It will be important in this period to remember that kindness is a strength. It might also be one way we identify who is in the opposition.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Matt Cartoons:

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

I keep thinking about this quote from George Saunders on the tension between two disparate views of the USA, as seen through Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

Huck and Tom represent two viable models of the American Character.

They exist side by side in every American and every American action. America is, and always has been, undecided about whether it will be the United States of Tom or the United States of Huck.

The United States of Tom looks at misery and says: Hey, I didn't do it. It looks at inequity and says: All my life I have busted my butt to get where I am, so don't come crying to me. Tom likes kings, codified nobil- ity, unquestioned privilege. Huck likes people, fair play, spreading the truck around.

Whereas Tom knows, Huck wonders. Whereas Huck hopes, Tom presumes. Whereas Huck cares, Tom denies.

These two parts of the American Psyche have been at war since the beginning of the nation, and come to think of it, these two parts of the World Psyche have been at war since the beginning of the world, and the hope of the nation and of the world is to embrace the Huck part and send the Tom part back up the river, where it belongs

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

We are organizing Singing in Dark Times listening groups modeled after book groups. We have a potluck, a participant introduces a musician known for resistance or community-building music. Then listen to 4-5 pieces from that musician. Can also feature music from great protest movements.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Folk music legend Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) Born Okemah, OK. Age 7: Sister dies in a fire. Age 14: Mother institutionalized for dementia (secondary to Huntington's) He lived through the OK oil boom, Great Depression and Dust Bowl. He knew tragedy & want. This Machine Kills Fascists.

Woody Guthrie is standing, wearing a jacket, with a cigarette in his mouth. His guitar is slung across his hip, with the words "This machine kills fascists" written on it.

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Carolyn Raffensperger @carolynraff.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

We need all the anti-fascist music we can get.

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