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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump administration’s deep-sea mining scheme endangers the health of U.S. oceans, along with the health and livelihoods of the Indigenous peoples and local communities that rely on them. Learn more about the administration’s dangerous mining experiment: ampr.gs/4zDQibv

A three-panel graphic featuring a man with glasses, wearing a brown jacket over a patterned shirt and a white necklace, speaking against a blue background with yellow and white subtitles. Top Panel: The speaker gestures with both hands as yellow text reads: "Indigenous people have a phrase for what's going on: This is 'resource colonialism.'" Middle Panel: He speaks with hands lowered as white and yellow text reads: "Resource colonialism is where a colonial power uses its military and its economic might" Bottom Panel: He gestures downward with open palms as yellow text reads: "to come into a place and to extract the things that they own."

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looks like it's Raymond Williams Appreciation Day at @arthursmid.bsky.social --no clue why, but I'm here for it. (alt text: Cover of The Country and the City by Raymond Williams, with an illustration of a black and white city surrounded by green countryside)

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Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

PLEASE ask me for my article! It's always a thrill to know that someone wants to read it, and I hate that knowledge is gatekept like this. Not only do we not get paid if you pay the fee, but we have to pay the journal thousands of dollars for the "privilege" of making it open-access (not paywalled)

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“What does the footprint of a six to eight bedroom home, two city of Savannah squares, and 60 parked cars all have in common? It’s not really a joke, but each of those total 9,000 square feet." @onehundredmilesga.bsky.social on area of recreational private docks that GA DNR's proposal could allow.

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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 18/08/2026

BOEM is moving 69 million acres of seafloor around the Marianas closer to a deep-sea mining auction—despite tens of thousands speaking out. The public comment window may be closed to us. Our voices aren’t. 📣 Share Pacific voices. Grow the opposition. Make this impossible to ignore.

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Potential Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Offshore Minerals Lease Sale

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I like this read of Trump's Classical-ish campaign to remake our capital's architecture. (Since this is the internet--it's the *interpretation* that's good, not its object.)

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“The federal government is moving forward with a decision affecting Pacific communities before meaningful consultation has even begun — scheduling outreach after the lease sale, not before it"

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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Some rare and welcome good news on the science front. These ocean monitoring instruments are critical to deepen our understanding of climate and weather

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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Election Day is tomorrow! Every vote will count. Just ask our friend Sam Foster whose race came down to 89 votes! Polling locations are open 7am to 7pm tomorrow. You can check all your voter details on mvp.sos.ga.gov

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A quick, valuable read on ocean climate solutions. The short of it: Offshore wind, followed by coastal wetland and seaweed ecosystems, are crucial; the climate benefits of other answers are smaller, uncertain, or maybe more harmful than beneficial; ALL need funding for implementation and research.

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In a telling demonstration of the thought and care that went into this decision, both NSF spokespeople who responded to my emailed questions with the same prepared word salad misprinted the organization’s name as Woods Hole Oceanographic “Institute.” My latest @thebulletin.org:

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Why the National Science Foundation is ripping monitoring instruments out of the ocean

A spokesperson for the National Science Foundation pointed to a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics report as justification for the 'descoping,' but a co-chair of that group sa...

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Dr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

ICYMI, I broke down everything deployed in the various OOI arrays that NSF wants to dismantle. 🤦‍♀️💀 🌊 🧪

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Another in a line of shockingly destructive decisions eroding our national safety and global standing.

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Erin (Snow Mephit Era) @erinsopran.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Reminder to everyone that udm14.com exists and if you want to use Google without AI you can make it your home page. You can also change your default search engine right in your browser usually.

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&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code

A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Atlantans, the boil water advisory map 👇

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This is a real loss. Give a hand if you can. "We are looking for 100 champions of press freedom to support emergency relocation costs, legal fees, and Alex's colleagues who are covering some of his day-to-day responsibilities during this difficult transition."

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great piece, on one bit of the progression of hostile urbanism--what's lost, and communicated, with the disappearance of public benches.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Landscapes are stories, and American public lands and waters tell the story of Black people in America👇

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This is a year to pour out all four glasses on the table, not to take out little drops.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Patreon funds a ton of my science and outreach efforts. It keeps the Southern Fried Science server humming. It keeps the OpenCTD project alive. It helped launch the Dominica Distillery. It keeps the lights on when the feds cancel my teaching contracts for being "too woke".

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Sen. @warnock.senate.gov at the No Kings rally in Atlanta, GA: "A wannabe king who is busy building himself and his billionaires a ballroom, who intends to use ICE as his own private army. He is not a king. This is our land, this belongs to We The People."

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Y'all, when you can tear yourself away from *everything else going on* over the next couple of weeks, check in on @deepstewardship.bsky.social to keep up with what's happening toward solidifying the outcomes of the high seas biodiversity treaty 🐳🦐🦈 #BBNJ #HighSeasTreaty.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Folk Engineering, out just a couple of months ago, is a beautiful exploration of not just regionalism in the American South but of the visions and tensions at work in different strains of regionalist planning thought in general. This is very sad news. uncpress.org/978146969011...

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Folk Engineering

During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and place in the United States. In the South, Ji...

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

This looks to be an insightful pulling together of climate research and memory studies, much of which is open access. On grief, witnessing, and responsibility to our planet.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

On the threat of deep sea mining👇 Read @drandrewthaler.bsky.social's piece on the current U.S. state of affairs, and add your voice to seabedminingsciencestatement.org if you want to join a call for caution.

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Deep-Sea Mining Science Statement

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

A satisfying dose of schadenfreude👇

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

If you like it here, this'll help it stay that way.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Polymetallic 👏 nodules 👏 are 👏 a 👏 renewable 👏 resource! "If you come back in tens of millions of years, you will find nodules back on the seafloor where we have taken them away."

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

One way abundance looks! This thread 🤩👇!

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Sailors--I don't know this mission enough to endorse, but I'm posting to share info. It looks like the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian flotilla to Gaza, is still open to more captains and crew #SailToGaza globalsumudflotilla.org

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Sail to Gaza - Collective Action for Gaza

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

ATLANTA: Vigil for Gaza's Journalists Saturday, August 16 · 7pm · Freedom Park Join local journalists and community members to honor the 260+ reporters, photographers, and media workers killed in Israel's ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza. More details in next post. Please share widely.

Illustrated poster for a vigil. At the top, text reads: “ATLANTA – Saturday, Aug 16 | 7PM | Freedom Park – Moreland Ave NE & North Ave NE.” Below, in large red letters: “Vigil to Honor the Journalists of Gaza.” The poster describes the event as a gathering of local journalists and community members to honor and grieve the lives of over 260 reporters, photographers, and media workers killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza, and invites attendees to wear black and bring flowers or candles.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

This is a brutal article. "What I've learned in the past few yrs is that the political imagination of the rt wing is far more developed than the political imagination of the left, & contrary to the left it also possesses the means to make that imagination materialize." Still, specks of light in it.

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Scout Blum @scoutblum.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

This is a great project and already generating some fascinating information from interviewees! If you are a federal employee in env'l, health, energy, climate work, please contact us!

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

First, I got obsessed w/a spy story about seabed minerals, then I got obsessed w/the role it played on the stages of lawmaking. As seabed mining becomes a more + more pressing issue, tensions btwn US + int'l seabed law do too--this is a bit of their story 🌊🌐🪨 #deepseamining #lawofthesea #saveourseas

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Secrecy & spectacle, or how a tale of seabed exploitation shaped the U.S.’s relationship to the law of the sea

How do representations of extractive frontiers shape political geographies? This study examines one episode, that of the USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer, …

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Former and current employees of federal environmental agencies--participating in this project is one valuable way to share your experience 💚 info is below.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Primer-in-progress about ableism and lots of ways to do less of it. Highly recommend.👇

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So looking forward to reading this essay! Seems a good time to link to this reading list I made for @placesjournal.bsky.social--some of these pieces will make good company for it. placesjournal.org/reading-list...

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Reading List | The Pasts and Futures of the Floating City

A public reading list on Places Journal by Aria Finkelstein.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"The Negev is not a blank canvas." The State's displacement of the Bedouins, faciliated by framing the Negev as a barren landscape ready for settlement or tree-planting, is a long ongoing, cruel project.

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The Hayim Center, in honor of Hayim Katsman z"l, will be a center in Rahat for building a peace rooted in justice and ecology. causematch.com/Hayim/jadashi

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Campaign in memory of Hayim Katsman z"l

Donate now

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Aria Ritz Finkelstein @coastofbohemia.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

For anyone trying to get a mile high view of affect in Israeli politics v-a-v Palestine right now, this thread is a very good one.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

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