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Sarah A. Matsumoto

@hellosmoto.bsky.social
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Law prof and director of the Getches-Green Environmental Law Clinic at Colorado Law; talk to me about climate, food policy, water quality, track and field, WNBA/NBA, and anything Pacific Northwest, including the imminent return of the Sonics 🤞🏽WA/OR/CO

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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you'd like to join me in a making a small donation to Imagination Library Colorado in celebration of the life and generosity of Dolly Parton: www.coloradogives.org/story/Wordof...
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Support WORD OF THANKS-Imagination Library Colorado on ColoradoGives.org
Help put 45,000 books in the hands of Colorado children ages 0–5
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TAKE THE PEARS
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/c...
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Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument
President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Anyway, here's Wonderwall
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Jimothy more like Himothy
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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 13/07/2026
NEW: President Donald Trump shrank Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments Monday, opening the door to possible drilling, mining, and other development on formerly-protected lands.
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Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments, Setting Up Legal Fight
President Donald Trump shrank Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments Monday, opening the door to possible drilling, mining, and other development on formerly-protected lands.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trash
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hundreds of Coloradans have lost their homes in the Aspen Acres Fire in Pueblo and Custer counties. I'll match the next fifty $5 donations to the Southern Colorado Wildfire Relief Fund. Together, we've already raised $60,000: secure.qgiv.com/for/emergenc...
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
*Sigh* I guess I will eat moules frites and chocolate until next world cup, if that's the penalty for losing ...no it was a deal, fair and square ...NO REALLY JUST LET ME ACCEPT MY FATE
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🌮🌮🌮 Trump Always Curses Optimistic yet long-suffering scrappy teams who hope this year is their year* *I'm still working on the "O," sorry guys 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My Seattle friends, just know that I WILL vouch for you on Monday 🦅🦅 I've got dogs that need emergency sitting, locked vehicles that need emergency unlocking way across town, transpo needs to various appointments...I'm here for you when you need to need to dip out of work just a little early 😉
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
What a win, whew
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Unfortunately the interior West wildfire outbreak has continued to intensify under "extremely critical" fire weather conditions today and record-dry vegetation in some areas. Existing fires have re-intensified, and there are 2 new fires of particular concern in Colorado. [Thread]
Current screenshot from NOAA Wildland Fire Data Portal showing multiple large and high intensity wildfires across the interior West. Two fires of particular concern in Colorado are highlighted with yellow circles.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Cabo Verde!!! 🥹🥹🥹
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌🎌
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Disappointed to see this from NPR. Local journalism continues to be of critical importance. Good list of folks/pubs to follow/subscribe to. NPR Cut Its Climate Desk. These 33 Local Climate Reporters Are Still at It legal-planet.org/2026/06/16/n...
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NPR Cut Its Climate Desk. These 33 Local Climate Reporters Are Still at It - Legal Planet
Laying off 2 climate journalists is a step backward for NPR. The good news is that local radio stations are still doing climate journalism.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/06/2026
Parade 

Thursday 

Manhattan
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
desti-NY 🧡💙🧡🧡💙💙🧡🪄🪄🎉🎉
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A deal has been struck. OG gets one no-questions-asked favor from Knicks fans. The code is "I have friends everywhere," like in Andor. So one day when he approaches you with this acknowledgement of friendship, be ready to move a sofa or transport an unknown document or "account for his whereabouts"
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Your Honor, motion to continue trial due to emotional distress and excessive celebration of one of the greatest NBA Finals games in history...how do we think this would play, just hypothetically
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I repeat AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wooooo we're binging, we're bonging, we're bing-bonging!!! #knicks 💙🧡
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I'm in court this week (and next and next) and the judge let us break a teeny bit early today. He didn't SAY it was in honor of Game 1, but...
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
3Q bb lesssggooo 🧡💙
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I was at MSG last Nov when Shamet unlocked something deep in himself and had his career scoring night. Between the fan love at that game and Blazers Legend Josh Hart™️ I can't help but be so so happy for this team 🧡💙🧡💙 it ends whenever the Sonics come back but for now GO NY GO NY GO
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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
⏰ 👨‍⚖️ 🌐 Starting in 2 hrs: #ClimateJustice hearings at 🇳🇱 Dutch Supreme Court in case v. Shell: for the 1st time a country's highest Court will review whether a fossil fuel company can be required to cut emissions in line with science. 👀 📝 Follow here in real time with context & elements of analysis...
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
That's "Blazers Legend Josh Hart" to you
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"Boosting profitability?" Is that like when diapers were a loss leader for Amazon so Amazon could undercut diapers dot com, and then Amazon just bought diapers dot com's parent company only to shut it down a few years later due to lack of profitability? WaPo help is that boosting or not boosting
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
This is still a Seattle sports account but it's temporarily also a North Melbourne Kangaroos account. The Roos are 4-4 and hosting the 7-1 Sydney Swans and I'm in Melbourne rooting for the home team. That's the extent of what I know about Aussie rules football, educate me 🙏🏽
Australian Football match, North Melbourne Kangaroos just scored some number of points against the Sydney Swans. Flags are waving and fans are celebrating.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag
Oscar Isaac shoving movies into a bag that can’t take it anymore
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
He's trying Jennifer
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Apropos of nothing, IMHO, baseball has been more willing in recent years to make radical changes to the game than other major sports. Pitch clock, banning the shift, disengagement rules, 10th inning ghostrunners, ABS. Something to consider when just "calling balls and strikes" isn't working well.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Very interesting account of how oil & gas industry escapes responsibility for orphaned wells. capitalandmain.com/oil-companie...
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Oil Companies Accused of Massive Accounting Fraud in New Mexico
Suit claims ExxonMobil and others underreported debts by $194 million, calling it “a playbook” for how companies dump old wells and expenses on states.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 06/04/2026
Utah just "made it nearly impossible for residents to hold fossil fuel companies legally accountable for climate damages." Four other red states are now considering similar laws. This is part of a push from Big Oil and its political allies to secure federal legal immunity—and it must be stopped.
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‘A surrender to special interests’: alarm as Utah shields fossil-fuel companies
New legislation comes amid push from big oil, as critics warn polluters’ profits prioritized over Americans’ health
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is still a Mariners 🔱 account but every now and then I gotta check in on these rascals ⚾
Rockies hosting Phillies at dusk
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/c...
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The ‘God Squad’ Waives Environmental Rules for Offshore Drilling
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Ugh meant to link the first time but I repeat: THERE IS ANOTHER MUSEUM HEIST www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...
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Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse Paintings Are Stolen in 3-Minute Museum Heist, Police Say
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
🚨There's ANOTHER museum heist🚨
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It is so nice to feel moments of collective joy
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/
A young Fred KorematsuA photo of Fred Korematsu in his later years
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
12s 💚💙
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
There's something very bread and circuses about the NFL but I am a Seahawks fan and I am enjoying the evening so far 💙💚
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Michael Wara @michaelwara.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Refinery workers and community groups don’t usually speak with a single voice. The fact that they have come together around this issue is telling. We should all be concerned.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I saw Supertroopers here as a freshman at UW and was forever changed www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
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This longtime Seattle movie theater is closing
The Varsity Theatre is closing, effective Thursday, leaving the U District — once a hub of moviegoing — without a movie theater.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
www.cpr.org/2026/01/09/b...
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Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction gets zero bids in Colorado
The Trump administration wants to expand drilling on public lands, but oil and gas developers expressed zero interest in Thursday’s sale.
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Sarah A. Matsumoto @hellosmoto.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
If you can walk/run towards a car you can most likely also walk/run away from said car but what do I know I just go by what I see in multiple verified videos shot from multiple angles
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