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John Lovie

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Islander. Water lover. Writer. Recovering award-winning serial non-profit volunteer. Writes Mostly Water at Johnlovie.substack.com

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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Freedom, Democracy, Truth.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The proposed desalination project calls for Arizona to build a plant in Mexico to supply drinking water there. In exchange, Arizona would get some of Mexico’s Colorado River water. But the project faces considerable challenges, @bobbymagill.bsky.social reports: news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...
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Drying Colorado River Seen as Risky Bet for Mexico Water Swap
A proposal to find new water for the Southwest by using desalinated ocean water from Mexico faces difficult odds as what remains of the waning Colorado River is legally contested by its surrounding st...
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Leaving and starting over in search of a place to call home has been the story of my life, from England to the Netherlands to New Jersey and finally to Washington State. This week marks 15 years in this house, the longest I’ve ever lived at one address. Have I finally found home?
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Looking for home
In all the wrong places
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
RIP Cassandra Wilson www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyZf...
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Time After Time
YouTube video by Cassandra Wilson - Topic
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Nate Chinen @natechinen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cassandra Wilson was one of our most gifted vocalists, just an unreal talent. Here is my obituary for NPR Music. (I believe I’ll also be on the broadcast later this evening.)
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Cassandra Wilson, Grammy-winning jazz vocalist, dies at 70
Wilson, who's deep, dark contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Miss.
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Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
R.I.P. Cassandra Wilson
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Lauren W. (she/they) @livewildly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Washington voters can print their ballots at home if they don't arrive. Libraries have reliable printers too.
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VoteWA Voter Portal
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 01/09/2026
The September issue is here! From the Borderlands with Gary Paul Nabhan to Bears Ears, Arctic Alaska and Navajo Nation, explore the people and places shaping the West. buff.ly/P5Nkykv
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Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest big writing and art project is live--please take a look so you can find out more about what this massive land transfer could mean for the Arctic!
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
30 years ago this would have been the purview of local newspapers. In Washington, it was the Seattle Times who broke the Booth Gardner story and the Seattle PI who broke the Mike Lowry scandal. KY's major papers are owned by USA Today, McClatchy, and Paxton Media Group who've destroyed local beats.
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Stolen Summer This greed-driven land raping and environmental destruction is just a 37-acre microcosm of the nation-scale greed-driven land raping and environmental destruction in the Trump regime's proposed roadless rule rescission.
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Stolen Summer
Spring's drought begets summer's fire and smoke
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 27/08/2026
Update: this horrific and devastating event was not caused by a GLOF but something else, similarly worsened by climate change - a huge chunk of ice that fell off a glacier and plunged into a river 😱
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Photos: A Deadly Flood Tears Through Nepal and Tibet (Gift Article)
An ice avalanche that started high in the Himalayas tumbled thousands of feet, releasing vast amounts of energy that pulverized the ice into a significant volume of flood water.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Sens. Alex Padilla and Mark Warner are demanding answers from prediction market giants Kalshi and Polymarket over their payments to influencers accused of spreading election disinformation. Here’s what the Senators uncovered:
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Exclusive: Senators Padilla and Warner Demand Answers from Prediction Market Companies on Paying Influencers Who Spread Disinformation
A formal letter was sent by the Senators on Wednesday
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 27/08/2026
My message to Trump: hands off our public lands.  Without the Roadless Rule, 2 million acres of forest in WA state alone will be unprotected and up for grabs to Trump's highest bidder. This is outrageous, and I will do everything I can to fight back.
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Trump Administration Moves to Allow Logging in Pristine National Forests
The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule’ would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
LA Times front page.
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An oil company wants to restart fracking off the California coast. The state’s top coastal officials say no way
The proposed fracking plan would quadruple production on an aging offshore platform in the Santa Barbara Channel.
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Daughter of the Raven @brannigan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This really is underreported. Please read.
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“This administration is essentially looking to silence the voices of states and local governments … there is no parallel to what we are seeing here,” said Meg Caldwell. “This would result in a massive power grab ... and a very dangerous, chilling effect on other coastal states.”
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Trump is attacking California’s ability to protect its coastline. The consequences are 'chilling'
Citing "environmental extremism," Trump officials want to end California’s ability to challenge offshore oil, floating nuclear reactors and rocket launches.
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Almost makes want to move to Clacton. Almost.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Washington State Department of Ecology @ecology.wa.gov · 03/08/2026
If conditions become smoky near you, stay inside, shut windows and doors, and run an air purifier. If you must go outside, wear an N95 mask and stay hydrated. Visit wa211.org to find clean air and extreme heat shelters near you. Check the WA Smoke Blog for smoke and air quality updates.
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love the caution tape
Display of banned books decorated with caution tape
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/07/2026
I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!
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kthlnhrzg.bsky.social @kthlnhrzg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
youtu.be/87JXPZJ1nbg?...
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The Real(ish) History of America (w/ Heather Cox Richardson & Rebecca Nagle)
YouTube video by Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams
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Safer States @saferstates.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
250 organizations are urging the Senate to put people’s health first by rejecting efforts to weaken #TSCA, our nation's chemical safety law. Families deserve stronger protections from toxic chemicals, not rollbacks that will increase exposure. Read more: www.saferstates.org/press-room/2...
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250 Organizations Urge Senate: Put Americans’ Health Before Chemical Industry Profits - Safer States
National alliance urges Congress to reject industry efforts to weaken nation’s chemical safety law and encourages Congress to hear from impacted communities, veterans, workers, and health professional...
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
anyway what's everyone having for lunch
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Grist @grist.org · 21/07/2026
As climate change threatens their lands, Indigenous nations demand more power at the UN
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As climate change threatens their lands, Indigenous nations demand more power at the UN
From the Arctic to the Pacific, Indigenous advocates say their voices are too often ignored.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/07/2026
Me everytime I try to explain Curtis Yarvin
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A settler pastor thought she could go onto the Wind River rez and preach racist shit to the People. She was wrong. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/tribal-news/...
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After a pastor’s comments, Northern Arapaho Tribe tells Christian church to leave
After a controversial sermon earlier this month that encouraged tribal members to denounce their traditional ways, the Northern Arapaho Business Council told leaders from Foundations For Nations Churc...
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 15/07/2026
1868: Cuyahoga River burns 1883: again 1887: again 1912: again 1914: again 1922: again 1930: again 1936: again 1941: again 1948: again 1949: again 1951: again 1952: again 1969: never again. our rivers must remain symbols of progress, not the cost of it.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Re-upping this. Asking about TV, cable, *and radio
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High Country News @highcountrynews.org · 14/07/2026
Utah Rep. Casey Snider spent years quietly carrying out a plan to guarantee hunter access to pristine roadless country — by blocking the Ute Indian Tribe from buying it back.
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How a Utah Republican’s quiet battle for hunting access undercut LandBack hopes - High Country News
Utah Rep. Casey Snider spent years quietly carrying out a plan to guarantee hunter access to pristine roadless country — by blocking the Ute Indian Tribe from buying it back.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/07/2026
Let me tell you a story. I woke up one morning in the barracks naked and bleeding. I was there at a party the night before. I’d been drugged and raped. My clothes were gone, so I wrapped myself in a blanket and stumbled out the door. 1/
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I asked nine scientists about "climate hushing," Bill Gates, the Trump effect and much more. They did not hold back! Published over the July 4 weekend, reposting in case you missed it: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-hu...
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Enough climate hushing, more listening to scientists
As we celebrate July 4, let's resolve to start learning from the folks who make America great.
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/videos/... Oops
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DO NOT USE: A lookback at Mitch McConnell's time in the Senate
A lookback at Mitch McConnell's Senate run **NOTE - do not use TBD
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 05/07/2026
Read JD Vance, writing in @theatlantic.com , from 2016. Ask yourself: was he right? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Opioid of the Masses (From 2016)
To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.
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ritchey @mariannaritchey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Follow these Indigenous-led river restoration projects if you want to maintain your will to continue living
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A very good piece by @sammyroth.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-hu...
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Enough climate hushing, more listening to scientists
As we celebrate July 4, let's resolve to start learning from the folks who make America great.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"It's rule by algorithm that beats to a dead heart. It's a Flock camera on every corner and a Ring doorbell on every home and a frightened family on every block. It's a million QR codes that all read 'You’re fucked.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-dirty-...
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The Dirty Bill
Making a clean break with the technofascist economy.
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
World Cup, Greece v. Germany.
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Monty Python's World Cup Team of Philosophers
YouTube video by Lonnie Goldman
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John Lovie @johnlovie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A couple of weeks ago, we took the van out to the Yakima Canyon in Central Washington for a few days. Here’s what we found.
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Blues from Yakima Canyon
The drought tour continues
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
this should be mandatory reading for the entire country
But what was known in 1964 was largely abandoned in 2024, and what was offered instead was a questionable survivalist theory of democracy-one that proposed to erect a shield over one group while providing weaponry to destroy another.
For reasons moral, pragmatic, and perhaps mostly ancestral, the next black presidency will have to think bigger. To its list of adversaries-which include a renewed white supremacy, a rapacious billionaire class, an energetic Christian nationalism-it must add another, perhaps more formidable than them all: empire.But for many Arab and Muslim Americans, "America before Trump" meant returning to a time when FBI informants sought to entrap them, when police agencies spied on their mosques, and calling a presidential candidate a Muslim was a slur. Seemingly blind to this trauma, the Harris campaign followed up the Democratic National Convention snub by deploying Bill Clinton to Michigan. There, in the state with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, Clinton told an audience that Israel had been forced "to kill civilians" by Hamas, and that the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea belonged to the Jewish people because "they were there first." Meanwhile, Harris welcomed her endorsement by Dick Cheney, who was not a very popular vice president but was a zealous defender of torturing Muslims.
The cumulative message was not "We don't need your vote." It was "We don't value your lifeIn 1965, the year of the Voting Rights Act's passage, Coretta Scott King stood before an anti-war rally in Madison Square Garden and rejected survivalist democracy:

Have you often wondered as I have, why it is that the same president Johnson who speaks so eloquently for civil rights, and who has been so moved by the struggle for the right to vote and the anguish of the poor, can be so callous about the Vietnamese and so apparently
thoughtless on foreign policy. I think it is because we permit him to be.And that story forces a very basic question: What was the point of all this?
Why the invocations of Tubman, the readings of Du Bois, the visits from Hamer? And did the advocates of this collective pedagogy imagine their children rising to heights of power, only to view the darker nations of the world through the same violent lens as their oppressors? And if they did not, if they believed that the "poor and needy" meant those within the empire as well as those without, then what moral mandate does that place upon their children?
And if their children have come only to praise, not check, empire, then why have they come at all?
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The most important paragraph by @juliaazari.bsky.social that you will read on the difference in reaction to Trump’s age and Biden’s age. Biden had to earn legitimacy. Therefore his age was an obstacle. Trump was given legitimacy. Age doesn’t matter.
Republicans represent groups who are assumed to hold legitimate power; Democrats represent groups who are not. Challenging these elements of the status quo runs the risk of violating journalistic norms about neutrality, while affirming the status quo does not. (Someone made this point in an excellent way somewhere online and I now can’t remember who said it or where I saw it.) So part of what drove the discussion of Biden’s age was that the former president was showing up, flawed, to advocate for policies on behalf of the poor, people of color, LGBTQ Americans. Trump, on the other hand, uses unconventional methods to advocate on behalf of the existing structure of power. For Biden, there was a higher burden to explain and justify. For Trump, some outbursts and rambling can still fit the script. And the messenger is hard to separate from the message.
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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I know I spend too much time on here because as I walked outside just now, my brain said “actually the phrase ‘touch grass’ overvalues colonialist, ecologically damaging botanical aesthetics and it should really be encouraging people to touch native plant species”
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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Congratulations to Ian Sample, science editor at The Guardian, for writing the lede of the year.
An investigation into acts of self-pleasure among parrots and other birds has reached a climax, with the results providing welcome relief for vets and researchers, not to mention the birds themselves.
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Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Hey all--tomorrow, June 2, is the last day of my print sale! 35 percent off all archival reproductions. Giclee prints look and last like original watercolors, especially when framed. Here are a few stories of some of my pictures. And you can find the sale directly here: www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...
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Picture stories
Sometimes paintings and words gotta hold hands
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/05/2026
He means white people.
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Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
UPDATE: Sold! But if you want your own, all archival reproductions on my Etsy will be 35% off starting tomorrow. Check 'em out here: www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...
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