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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026

I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...

Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11h

do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12h

I’m on the newest episode of The Bugle with Andy Zaltzman and Catherine Bohart! It was a lot of fun!!

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World Leaders Forced to meet Trump

YouTube video by The Bugle

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 12h

"Alito’s last-minute and unexplained recusal from Suncor v. Boulder raises a question:What role did Alito play in the Supreme Court’s decision to hear the case,and should the Court proceed if his participation was necessary to grant review?"-Good #SCOTUS question from @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 15h

I've noticed that a lot of men don't understand what the patriarchy is and how it structures their lives. You need to wise up.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 16h

I haven't seen any news coverage yet of Cameron Hamilton's announcement that he has re-defined the entire field of emergency management to include only preparedness and response activities related to coordinating police, fire, and EMS. Seems like something that should get some attention.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 16h

I keep hearing from sources about these but had no idea it was THIS many. of course these are also the orgs that squawk about the importance of "academic freedom" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵

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Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 29/09/2026

"Exxon and Suncor can point to no language in the Clean Air Act that preempts Boulder’s claims. Why? Because there is none." Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and former EPA general counsel Avi Garbow on why Big Oil's arguments to escape accountability "have no credibility whatsoever."

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Big Oil can’t hide behind the Clean Air Act

The Clean Air Act was designed to shield Americans from harmful pollution. It was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protec…

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 21h

Trump is set to tout a $54 billion deal with South Korea to help build a massive gas pipeline across the full length of Alaska to ship #LNG. I reported from Alaska last year for @rollingstone.com on Trump's Illusive Alaskan Pipe Dream. It's worse than you think. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Inside the Fight Against Trump's Alaskan Pipe Dream

Donald Trump is using Alaska and a proposed LNG pipeline to kickstart his fossil-fueled "National Energy Dominance" agenda. Alaskans are resisting.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧵 ICE is about to open a new facility for unaccompanied kids in Alexandria, Louisiana -- inside an airport to speed deportations. ICE plans to pack kids into planes, fly them into risk of trafficking. CEO of the new ICE facility contractor says kids are 'voluntarily departing.' I call bullshit.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw a paper at SpaceCHI last week that discussed the use of an AI agent alongside Apple Vision AR for doing spatial analytics of lunar data. Basically, you look at a globe of the Moon through the goggles and you speak commands to highlight areas with different attributes, like altitude.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huge belated kudos to @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social for their big win in Berlin. This gorgeous ad evokes shared VALUES, calls out clear VILLAINS (thus giving an origin story for people's pain) & paints an enticing VISION. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl0Y...

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Berlin, eine Liebesgeschichte ❤️ | Spot der Partei Die Linke

YouTube video by DieLinke

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Jeff Spakowski @jeffspakowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just finished chapter 4 of Brought To You By by @amywestervelt.bsky.social. Long time readers of Amy's work know who Ivy Lee and company are. But here, Amy ties them, their think tanks, etc. all together to help us truly understand the threat to our democracy, our planet. #DemolishMegaphones

Photo of part of page 96 of Brought To You By written by Amy Westervelt. Highlighted text reads "Maybe you're thinking, well, Amy, what if his ideas are just better? Fair enough! But it's very hard to evaluate the merits of two competing ideas when one is being amplified with the sort of megaphone that only a giant multinational can afford and the other is being distributed by an academic press while also being constantly criticized and ridiculed by the folks with the griant megaphone. This is where the point Brulle made about the public square really hits home. How can we say that a corporation should have "equal" speech rights to an individual when the corporation is so very capable of drowing out the individual?"

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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What were not talking about is that the Ivy League, by design, with its construction of “status” and “value” is designed to create men for whom there are no consequences & to dehumanize everyone else. This the Cornell 7. Thus the expulsion of anyone who dares protest genocide. This is privilege.

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigation

politico.com

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They mean male violence.

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 28/09/2026

i did a little Climate Week postmortem on data centers: co2 emissions are far & away the most alarming part of the buildout. but there hasn't been much of a reckoning beyond climate spaces kind of wondering when it'll enter the larger convo, if at all, and what that may look like

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The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet

Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'And why should something be assessed only for its benefits for us? This is such a narrow way to look at the richness of off-Earth environments, and one I’m deeply uncomfortable with'. 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci #SpaceHeritage

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How we manage the values of off-Earth environments

Before I was an academic, I was a professional heritage consultant working with Aboriginal communities in Australia. I worked on all stages ...

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Kerry + Nick @dosgoatsfilms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

AI bros remain the worst

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 27/09/2026

They're independent from Cornell.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So....there's a lot of tea spilled about a lot of media outlets' willingness to be tools of corporate propaganda in my book. In hindsight, I probably should NOT have been surprised that many of those same outlets declined to run op-eds pegged to the book. But I kinda was! What thin-skinned babies!

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Shout out to the readers and listeners who have kept me and @drilledmedia.bsky.social going for years and never once told us to tone it down

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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Climate vocab of the day: Carbon Tunnel Vision—when climate policymakers obsess about reducing carbon emissions, while avoiding the root cause: fossil fuels. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera on that and more w/ @ninalakhani.bsky.social: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

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Carbon Credit Markets Have a Human Rights Problem | The Spill

Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.

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Kerry + Nick @dosgoatsfilms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Get ‘em.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 25/09/2026

Would love to see this account delete this post as it’s the one I keep seeing reposted, proliferating the link to London Daily, the AI scraper that strips the original story & photos of attribution. The Guardian article it plagiarizes is readily available. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Intriguing new study by @schneidermayers.bsky.social finds New Yorker short stories rarely feature climate change — about as often as mass-market films, believe it or not. There's no censorship, no climate hushing. Wrote about what might be going on: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/new-yorker...

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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot

The climate silence is coming from inside the house.

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As I do each year I’m running the @unrwa.org 5K this year, a fundraiser! Last year we raised 1,025 and I’d love to beat that though I’m starting to fundraise later than I did last time. If you can chip in, here’s the link! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/7...

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2026 NYC Gaza 5K

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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 24/09/2026

the latest edition of POSSIBILITIES is out! wrote about #newyorkclimateweek and radical rest b/c ya girl is sitting this year out www.possibilities.news/ugh-new-york...

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Ugh, New York Climate Week

It's every climate person's least favorite time of the year.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026

Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.

Screenshot reads as follows:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.

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Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability @bu-igs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Join us Oct. 1 for a conversation with Amy Westervelt on her new book "Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy". Moderated by @commscholar.bsky.social RSVP ⬇️ spr.ly/63326BGdnzQ

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A Conversation with Expert & Author Amy Westervelt

"Brought To You By" Explore how corporations use science disinformation for profit and how to counter it and repair democracy.

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Attended an oil conference in Norway with fellow climate reporter @brettvsimpson.bsky.social this week and the local paper interviewed us there. Honestly, still pretty pleased with us😂

Screenshot of an interview that reads: "Courage is this year's ONS slogan. [Q from reporter]: What kind of courage do the participants need?
"I really sympathize with these men who must have the courage to continue to have the largest profit in the world," says Westervelt.

"It must be difficult to fight against all the opposition," says Simpson.

Clarification: Here both ladies are laughing, and they speak in a satirical tone.

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Kerry + Nick @dosgoatsfilms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

They cannot be trusted to do the right thing. Reform cannot fix rotten to the core.

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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The @sydney.edu.au is facing an alumni revolt over Israel. More than 450 graduates and staff signed a letter demanding a rare Convocation meeting to discuss the university's ties to Israel and free speech on campus. www.deepcutnews.com/p/alumni-rev...

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Alumni revolt over Israel: 450 Sydney Uni staff and graduates demand Convocation meeting

Signatories accuse the university of a “profound moral failure” on Gaza in push for first mass meeting in over three decades

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Clean Water Action Michigan @cleanwatermi.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If we're renaming bodies of water now, we might as well go with the classics.

Satellite image of the North American Great Lakes with Indigenous names: Gichigami (Lake Superior), Michigami (Lake Michigan), Karegbondi (Lake Huron), Ontari:io (Lake Ontario), and as with this and many other things, Erie is just Erie.

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Planet Detroit @planetdetroit.org · 27/08/2026

DTE Energy will ask Michigan regulators to approve construction of two natural gas plants totaling 2.1 gigawatts of capacity. Read the full story: planetdetroit.org/2026/08/dte-natur…

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries are, by trying to destroy Hassan Piker, telling us that they prefer Trump to anyone pushing change even if it means Democrats winning— because they too are enriched by the same capitalists. I wish people would listen.

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