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John Mashey

@johnmashey.bsky.social
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Semi-retired computer scientist, ancient UNIXer, "Big Data" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey Last 20 yrs: chasing anti-science disinfo, esp. on climate or tobacco, helping defend scientists. Supporter of UCSF, CSLDF, NCSE, CSI, member AAAS, AGU.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 1h
"Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business." by @zachdespart.bsky.social / @propublica.org / @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Dr. Richard Pan @drpanmd.bsky.social · 1h
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h
Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices.
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Trump Announces Russian Diesel Deal Ahead of Midterms
Trump campaigned against foreign oil.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h
July 31: Russia is sharing intelligence with Iran to launch assaults on US troops October 9: Trump is doing a diesel deal with Russia (which can now use that money to provide intelligence to Iran in launching assaults on US troops)
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EXCLUSIVE * FOR SUBSCRIBERS IRAN WAR Russia is sharing valuable electronic intel with Iran, officials say, as U.S. war drags on Russian satellite surveillance and signals intelligence are likely allowing Iran to better defend itself against U.S. airstrikes and refine its own aerial assaults, officials said.Donald J. Trump O @realDonaldTrump

a I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP 117 ReTruths 323 Likes

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4h
“RFK Jr. has once again created a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. It's more window dressing to advance his anti-vaccine agenda and will only serve to create more confusion and doubt in public health”. My impression of RFK Jr.’s announcement about his new “vaccine injury” initiative.
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HHS Touts New Vaccine-Injury Initiatives
Proposed changes will only undermine confidence in vaccines, health groups say
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 6h
The International Criminal Court enforces the Geneva Conventions and other international laws of war against genocide and illegal actions of governments. Trying to cripple it is basically saying, we're looking for ways to violate international laws without consequence. Like crippling the US DOJ.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 2h
Biden implemented sanctions on oil sales in an effort to not finance Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Trump celebrates buying Russian oil while that war drags on (after celebrating Putin's birthday).
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 3h
And not just any "political interference," but interference from an administration that is absolutely desperate to publicly distance itself from abortion as an issue, at least before the midterms
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h
National climate assessment reports are considered the gold standard report on global warming. So of course, Trump's energy chief wants to mess with them.
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Trump's energy chief, a former fracking CEO, aims to tinker with key climate reports
He's doing "exactly what Stalin did."
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Couldn't wait to finish Biological War: A Scenario to put Annie Jacobsen on blast for her contributions to disinforming the public about plague, pandemic risk, & Russian bioweapons so that she can use a crisis to sell her book on the national news. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/annie-jaco...
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Annie Jacobsen’s Expertise in One Photo
Fearmongering For Profit: A Scenario launches on my Substack later this week
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 23h
Race “science” is, sadly, alive and well. @socialistdogmom.bsky.social and her work on her Weird Little Guys podcast are more relevant than ever.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21h
Shameless plug: In our Cambridge Element, we argue that Trump consistently tries to distract from bad news with outrageous new stories, and that he usually succeeds at dominating attention. But this strategy often fails to generate positive coverage or popularity. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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American Presidential Campaigns in the Attention Economy
Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - American Presidential Campaigns in the Attention Economy
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Well slap my ass and call me Suzy. Nearly 70% of people in the Deep South oppose abortion bans. All five Deep South states have banned abortion.
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Southerners Are Misrepresented on Abortion
A majority of voters in the Deep South disagree with their states’ extreme restrictions, highlighting the disconnect between the public and the legislators who represent them.
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 23h
The UCSF Industry Documents Library, www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu, has a large collection of internal documents of corporations that privatize profits & socialize costs, especially to health, starting with tobacco, but adding others over the years. Firearms are the latest addition, long wanted!
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Industry Documents Library
Industry Documents Library: a searchable archive of internal industry documents to support research, education, and public interest.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.
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American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hegseth => shrinkage of US military, will get even harder to attract competent people (other than white males) to a military career. (Both my parents were US Army officers in WW II and served abroad. They kept a big trunk of Stars&Stripes (independence recently wrecked). They’d be appalled.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The FDA just announced they won’t release their “safety review” of abortion pills until March of next year. In other words: They’re stalling until after the midterms.
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FDA says it will complete safety review of abortion pill in March
A federal judge in Louisiana ordered the FDA to provide an update on its safety study as part of a lawsuit seeking to overturn a provision allowing mifepristone to be delivered by mail.
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Climate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · 08/10/2026
As the Trump administration continues its extreme (and generally illegal) anti-science actions, @csldf.org will continue to stand alongside researchers. Help us protect and defend them: csldf.org/donate
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Donate - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
15 Years of Defending Science Since 2011, CSLDF has helped scientists stand up against attempts to silence them. READ MORE…
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The thing I love most about this headline is imagining all the Real Men who will be tricked into thinking this article will confirm their priors www.ft.com/content/6111...
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Real men don’t do climate change
Research on the gender differences in how people think about global warming suggests campaigns and communications may need a rethink
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A new analysis has found that Southern voters in the U.S. largely do not support the abortion policies in their states (especially AL, GA, LA, MS, SC). Further, those living in regions with the strictest antiabortion legislation are the least likely to support abortion bans.
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Southerners Are Misrepresented on Abortion
A majority of voters in the Deep South disagree with their states’ extreme restrictions, highlighting the disconnect between the public and the legislators who represent them.
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The pattern is simple and it is everywhere now: donate to Trump or do business with his family, and the rules stop applying to you. Skip the donation, and the rules suddenly apply with a vengeance. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is not some one off poll btw - years of data shows the same. But for whatever reason, establishment pundits and politicos are intent on buying into conservative’s propaganda
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sorry, Fellow...
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes, and I'm glad we inducted her as Fell of Computer History Museum a few years ago, nice event. bsky.app/profile/did:... Not just one of the coolest, but the one credited with coining the phrase "software engineering." www.computer.org/publications...
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First Software Engineer | IEEE Computer Society
Margaret Hamilton is credited with having coined the term software engineering while developing the guidance and navigation system for the Apollo spacecraft.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NIH
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Indeed iconic, in multiple forms, including a Lego set: computerhistory.org/blog/margare... and more detail: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Margaret Hamilton In Her Own Words
Iconic computing pioneer Margaret Hamilton, who helped land men on the moon, shared her story with CHM in a uniquely rare oral history interview.
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Despite maybe admiring them, our president is not a king, a tsar, or a general secretary of a communist party. He can’t do whatever he wants.
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Argh. 2017 CHM Fellow: computerhistory.org/profile/marg... And her oral history: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVR...
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Margaret Hamilton
For her leadership and work on software for DOD and NASA's Apollo space missions and for fundamental contributions to software engineering
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John Conor Ryan @johnconorryan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Then it's evident that the data center fracas and the fight over oil's responsibility for the climate crisis are just the most in-our-faces example of unpriced systemic risk. It's time to systemically price externalities. Unpriced is not unpaid. www.calx.info/ledger/unpri...
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Unpriced Does Not Mean Unpaid — Calx Analytics
A cost excluded from one balance sheet will always appear on another. It appears in a household’s medical expenses, an insurer’s losses, a government’s adaptation budget, a farm’s diminished output, o...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration is weaponizing the DOJ and DHS to generate propaganda to push its “rigged election" narrative. The timing and promotion of arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud suggests a strategic effort to push their false narrative. Thread:
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Every year that we wait and don’t remove pollution from communities, that is costing people in their lives. And so speed is a progressive value in my book. I think we have to build institutions that can move a lot faster." So great to record w/ @volts.wtf live at Town Hall Seattle. Check it out!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The University of Arizona has just suspended 6 fraternities after “allegations of misconduct” were made, including “physical assault, drugs and alcohol, hazing, and creating unsafe environments for students”. Seems like the mishandling of the rape allegations at Cornell may be rippling outward.
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University of Arizona suspends six fraternities, pauses activities for almost all others
The University of Arizona is taking action against several of its fraternities after more misconduct allegations were made.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In 2024, I was incredibly distressed and nauseated at the thought that RFK Jr, a hero of the MAGA/MAHA/Great Barrington Declaration/anti-vaxx crowd, might end up leading the US health system His dismantling of US public health was faster, wider, & deeper than in my worst nightmares
New York Times, Christina Jewitt, Aug 2024

Other public health leaders have voiced deep concern about the prospect of RFK Jr gaining influence in national health policy. "It's horrifying to think of RFK Jr ascending to that level of power and influence," said Dr Gavin Yamey, the Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at Duke. "He is an extreme anti-vax activist and conspiracy theorsit with fringe views."
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good. Thread 1-6: bsky.app/profile/john... The Candide comment of course does not imply actual hanging, but strongest legal penalties for bad behavior.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sen. Collins faced Troy Jackson last night in their Maine Senate debate. On stage, Collins inaccurately described ProPublica’s story about an FBI anticorruption investigation that probed the conduct of her & her staff until Trump’s DOJ shut it down. Let’s get into the facts…
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New blog from Laura Peterson publishes emails obtained through an open records request and reveals that some groups involved in the disinformation campaign at the heart of Boulder’s climate accountability lawsuit are shopping legislation to shield the fossil fuel industry from liability.
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The Fossil Fuel Industry’s State-by-State Strategy to Squash Accountability Lawsuits
As the US Supreme Court considers Suncor v. Boulder—a key climate accountability case—documents obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists reveal that some groups involved in the climate disinforma...
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Voters overwhelmingly say Trump plan to use taxpayer money to pay for election-related ads featuring the president or Cabinet members is inappropriate www.axios.com/2026/10/07/t...
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Americans don't want taxpayer dollars funding campaign ads: poll
Even 80% of Republicans call the practice inappropriate.
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Mary Tuma @marytuma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Texas reproductive rights advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing its much anticipated maternal death report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027: Background here: www.texasobserver.org/maternal-mor...
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A ‘Politically Motivated Cover-Up’: Why the State's Maternal Death Report Was Pushed Until After Midterms
Advocates and lawmakers warn the state healthy agency's decision to delay releasing the annual report will further harm women—and make it harder to enact necessary laws in 2027.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Remarkable lack of dot-connecting to attacks on Trust & Safety over the last 3 years, executed by some of the same people. Then, they worked to reframe the research community as woke censors. Here they're trying to reframe it as woke cranks...and censors. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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They told the world AI was dangerous. Now Trump’s allies are coming for them.
The Trump administration and its allies are embracing some ideas championed by AI safety advocates, while also working to marginalize the movement in Washington.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 06/10/2026
this is a HUGE DEAL. the grift is ON.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dear Mainers, I'm reposting this as the election nears. #SusanCollins #Maine
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"An Influential Voice in the Climate Debate Has Died at 66" | A fitting tribute for our friend and colleague Joe Romm in the @nytimes.com by Clay Risen: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/c...
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An Influential Voice in the Climate Debate Has Died at 66 (Gift Article)
Joe Romm was a prolific writer who never hesitated to take on climate change deniers and the fossil-fuel industry — or even ostensible allies.
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Iykyk @realturkana.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of the first and best at raising public awareness of the climate crisis. He had a huge influence on a generation of climate writers and activists. Future historians will regard him as a legend.
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Rachel Santarsiero @rsanta.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yesterday, wildfire survivors, ranchers, and young people from Colorado came together outside the Supreme Court to rally behind Boulder’s case against Suncor and Exxon. Here’s what they said: @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/environment/...
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“They knew, they lied”: Fire survivors bring their fight to the Supreme Court’s steps
As justices weighed the merits of Boulder's case against Big Oil, those who lost everything want accountability.
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, as per this 2012 workshop sponsored by @ucs.org : climateaccountability.org/pdf/Climate%... Climate + tobacco control folks, idea was to compare notes & for us to learn from latter’s long experience with litigation.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 06/10/2026
It’s been 67 years since fossil fuel executives were first warned their products could contribute to climate change and harm communities. Since then we’ve seen companies not only fail to act, but outright obfuscation, distraction, and deceit to distort that undeniable truth.
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Decades of Deceit
Why the case against the major fossil fuel companies for fraud and climate damages is so strong.
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