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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

thank you for addressing this concept! I'm glad there are penguins too small for Trump to name, looking forward to the adorable resistance penguins :)

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The Eerie Canal could use a friend :) (one of my favorite essays from AP US History!)

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

also, the reflecting pool is a petri dish, so of course it's a perfect metaphor :)

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

"Once more, with algae!" algaecissimo?

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 17/03/2026

There’s always unlimited money for war, but never for health care, childcare, or food assistance. Our leaders’ priorities are way out of sync with what would actually help the American people.

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'Say what?' Outrage as cost of Trump's first week at war with Iran revealed

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Could you clarify what info about smart features is going around AI features that is inaccurate? I turned them off because I'd like Google to know to not increase their carbon footprint to summarize e-mails when not even wanted, even aside from any data privacy concerns...

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David Shor @davidshor.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Thank you again for the magnum opus, enjoyed listening again while cooking! (There may have been a dance break to twirl around the kitchen with a paper towel roll involved.) In other news, apparently Google's AI thinks you wrote Jingle Bells as a Thanksgiving song...

A screenshot of a Google AI overview with the following text:

"Alexandra Petri has written humorous Thanksgiving songs, including "I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For," "Jingle Bells," and "Over the River and Through the Woods," which are featured in her work and other content. She uses these songs to create comedic and critical takes on holiday traditions. Other popular Thanksgiving songs include "We Gather Together," "Thanksgiving," and "Turkey Trot".

Thanksgiving songs by Alexandra Petri
"I've Got Plenty to Be Thankful For": This song was written by Bing Crosby and is included in Petri's work.
"Jingle Bells": Originally written as a Thanksgiving song by James Lord Pierpont, this song is often associated with both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
"Over the River and Through the Woods": Originally written as a Thanksgiving poem titled "A Boy's Thanksgiving Day" by Lydia Maria Child, this song is a common part of holiday traditions and is often used in Petri's work.

Other Thanksgiving songs
"We Gather Together": A traditional hymn that is considered a Thanksgiving classic.
"Thanksgiving": A popular song by Mary Chapin Carpenter that celebrates the holiday.
"Turkey Trot": A fun and festive song that is great for dancing and celebrating the holiday. "

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I heard a story third-hand toward the beginning of the current regime about ICE agents being in tears about what they were ordered to be doing. I wonder if those agents are still working for ICE, or if they quit because their conscience couldn't take it anymore.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

There are other supports available too! Climate action and caring for our emotions are *both* important. ❤️ Very different from the (inaccurate and unhelpful!) cultural COVID narrative that the only way to deal with our emotions is to pretend there's no problem. www.climatementalhealth.net

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Home | Climate Mental Health Network

The Climate Mental Health Network harnesses the power of media and technology to address the mental health consequences of climate change.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Some official government sources on Long COVID: it's been extensively studied as a condition and quite clear that it's a phenomenon. www.cdc.gov/long-covid/a... www.nyc.gov/site/doh/cov... You can review the extensive body of research on Long COVID here pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%22long...

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"long covid" - Search Results - PubMed

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

No second "all" in the quote - it's "at all times in public spaces", which makes it genuinely unclear both what @jamellebouie.net feels is unreasonable and why! Nuance is hard b/c length limit - just offering opportunity for clarity b/c I appreciate and respect his work

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Sure thing! I assumed @jamellebouie.net was aware of the context but quoted below for anyone who needs it One thing it helps to clarify is *which* public spaces are referred to; it's a different convo e.g. wrt Matt McGorry's request for masking in essential public spaces (linked) vs. all spaces

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‘I was in denial about it’: actor Matt McGorry on having long Covid

Orange Is the New Black and How to Get Away With Murder star speaks about the disease and another way of looking at health

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

(I'm not even at high risk myself! I mask in public spaces both since research indicates that recent waves have still generated long COVID cases, and because the request from the disability community to mask in public spaces strikes me as eminently reasonable, so I'm happy to do it.)

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

May I ask for clarification on the reasons you said this? I'm genuinely confused as there are many public spaces where people at high risk can't choose not to be, and masking in these spaces is something that the majority of Americans demonstrated the ability to do earlier in the pandemic.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I would guess that EBSCOhost's subject tags for this article are also AI-generated, but perhaps they were written by a confused human!

Screenshot of a listing from EBSCOhost's online Database, reading

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In Retrospect, You Should Have Known That Was Not Marco Rubio

By: Petri, Alexandra In: Atlantic.com, 09/07/2025, page N.PAG Academic Search Premier

Eleven signs to help distinguish between him and an AI impostor

Subjects: Artificial intelligence; Fraud; Media literacy education; Signage; Individuality; Outdoor Advertising; All Other Specialty Trade Contractors; Sign Manufacturing; Other Miscellaneous Durable Goods Merchant Wholesalers ..Less

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Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 02/09/2025

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

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DOEresponseSite

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Helpful talking points, also "Government reviewers will often lump together recycled language as a single comment. So, to have the greatest impact with your submission, we encourage you to ... reflect in your own words on how this proposed rule will affect your community and why you oppose it"

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Join the UUSC Resistance Network – Mobilizing for Human Rights & Democracy

The struggle for human rights has never been more urgent. Join UUSC’s Resistance Network—a hub for action, learning, and solidarity. Stay informed, take action, and build collective power to defend de...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding. ✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP... 🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p... 🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!) #31days

Use and adapt our drafted comment below or write your own!

I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. The science is clear: greenhouse gases unequivocally harm our health and our environment. Weakening or repealing the Endangerment Finding will make it harder, and costlier to protect our communities from pollution and from the effects of climate change.

Optional: I care about this issue because [insert your personal reasoning here -e.g. "my father has COPD," "I recently lost my home to a devastating hurricane"]

I urge you to keep the Endangerment Finding in place and to apply science to protect our health and our environment for generations to come.

****Remember, if you want to cite research to upload the paper as a file.****

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Invest in Our New York @investinourny.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

New date, same call to action. Join us on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 at 11am as we call on state leadership to convene a special session and protect our communities from the Federal Budget Scam. We’ll be in Foley Square in NYC & East Capitol Park in Albany. See you there! #TaxTheRich #NY4All

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

From Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon about dealing with hackers on the fantastic myNoise.net - feels like it applies to so much right now. "Let’s keep building things around us, and together, outnumber those who chose the opposite. Because in the end, building gives meaning to life. Destroying doesn’t."

mynoise.net

myNoise Backstage | The Blog of myNoise ®

Behind the scenes of myNoise. Personal notes from the Stéphane, the creator of myNoise.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"CEOs should now, this summer, this month, next week, sign a pledge not to use labor from concentration camps. It could be as simple as that: "On behalf of my firm I promise not to use labor from concentration camps nor to cooperate with any firm that does."" snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...

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Concentration Camp Labor

Cannot Become Normal

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/07/2025

We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Masking is a good idea everywhere! Both to protect vulnerable folks everywhere, and since COVID and other airborne illnesses are still a risk for everyone. However, since our culture has normalized not masking, the spaces that most center community care tend to be countercultural in some way.

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Brian Krohne @apparentlyyes.com · 20/06/2025

Organizing is not about convincing strangers to join your cause. It's about creating the conditions where strangers become people, seeing your lives and liberation bound up together. #UUAGA

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Brian Krohne @apparentlyyes.com · 20/06/2025

Sometimes, we progressives, we religious liberals, we forget that people don't join a cause. People join people. Not ideas, not institutions. People join people. #UUAGA

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Right, I was at a protest in late May where I was one of two people with a mask (out of ~100) and I noticed afterwards in the photos I had been a couple people over from someone holding a “why hide your faces cowards?!” sign…

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I don’t know how much regional variation there is in the protest culture - very possible different places have different experiences. I also suspect ICE covering their faces is decreasing masking propensity here - seeing fewer masks recently than I did in April.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I do also think the culture of masking at protests is more common among people who are marginalized on other axes (relatively privileged protests do not have masking culture) so this is intersectional in complex ways.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I think the request to mask at protests originally came from the disability/CC community, and there are regularly requests from disabled folks to those protesting to mask more in solidarity, though it’s clearly taken a life of its own independent of that.

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

(Much of the backlash has been towards the pro-Palestinian movement, I think, which I haven't really been involved with. There's more culture of masking there - both because of how they're treated specifically, but also overlap between the SC community and the pro-Palestinian movement.)

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Right, I live in New York and am very aware of this! Not sure there are any great answers here. I wouldn't want any of us to lose the right to mask in general, especially people at higher risk :( but also not comfortable telling others to not mask, esp with addit'l public health threats

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

In practice masking % has been around 1-10% at the protests I've attended - not high enough to provide significant public health benefits, but also not enough for backlash, I hope. I hope it's at least a helpful reminder that people who aren't ICE have legitimate reasons to wear a face covering!

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I have wrestled with the dilemma of encouraging others to mask more, since it would be a good thing for public health and many folks in the disability community have asked for this. But have shared your reservations about the backlash risk at this point in time if masking became more than rare. :(

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I am still COVIDing but not especially high risk (though no one is truly "low risk" for long COVID); I mask consistently with an N95 indoors and in crowds outdoors. I'm clear that this is for personal & public health only and that I'm happy to be photographed and to stand behind my actions.

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jessiker.bsky.social @jessiker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

As someone who tested positive for Covid today, get as current on your vaccines as you can while you can. I'm only doing as well as I am because I'm vaccinated. And mask up. Had I been masking consistently I probably wouldn't have gotten sick at all.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

If you are serious about intersectionality, about solidarity, about justice, about fighting fascism, one of the best things you can do is put a mask back on in public. On top of the “I’m Spartacus” effect—they can’t arrest everyone if everyone is masked—you will be helping decrease risk-

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

So sorry you're ill! FWIW I did find getting a well-fitting N95 greatly decreased the frequency with which I felt ill after going out in public - hoping this will work out well for you longer-term even if the short-term is rough.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I've agreed to talk with pupils at a local school about their climate protection projects. This has just been canceled bc the teacher now only wants to talk about democracy due to recent activities. How long do you think democracies will survive if people don't concentrate on climate protection?

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10/06/2025

Important to note that Trump’s budget bill gives the federal government the resources that they need to do across the country what they’re doing to LA. Defeating this takeover means defeating this bill.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social

A horizontal bar chart titled "Percentage of Global fossil fuel emissions (since 1751) occurring in my lifetime." The chart shows how much of the total historical global fossil fuel emissions have occurred within the lifetime of individuals of different ages, from 5 to 100 years old. The vertical axis on the left lists ages in increments of 5 years, from age 5 at the top to age 100 at the bottom. The horizontal axis represents the percentage of fossil fuel emissions, marked in 10% increments from 10% to 90%.

The black bars represent the proportion of fossil fuel emissions that have occurred during each age group's lifetime. The bars increase in length as the age increases, meaning older individuals have lived through a larger percentage of the cumulative emissions since 1751.

Three specific age groups are highlighted with red bars and white text annotations:

Age 30: "if you are 30 it is more than 50%"

Age 50: "if you are 50 it is about 75%"

Age 85: "if you are 85 it is about 90%"

The source of the data is cited at the bottom: "CDIAC and globalcarbonproject.org." The graphic is credited to "@neilrkaye."

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Catherine Miller @catherinemiller.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

As the medical establishment has minimized COVID, many of the voices still speaking about COVID are non-experts trying their best to interpret the available (concerning!) data. And that can lead to statements that overstate the science not getting corrected; so I appreciate your noting this!

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 04/06/2025

Our approach to climate change summed up in one photo from @mprnews.org . 🫠

Image shows hundreds of cars slowed/stopped on a highway with signage saying “air quality alert consider reducing trips.” Heavy wildfire smoke is in the air.

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