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Ken McGary

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Electronics engineer developing circuits and systems for environmental sensor networks. Also, hiker, biker, nature nerd (kensanfran on iNaturalist). 🏳️‍🌈

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you’re wondering who exactly Trump and Republicans are looking out for…it’s probably not you. (@itep.org) itep.org/impact-of-trump-policies-o…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Stock Trades by Presidents While in Office: Bill Clinton: ZERO George W. Bush: ZERO Barack Obama: ZERO Donald Trump (first term): 517 Joe Biden: ZERO Donald Trump (second term): 24,000+, averaging >60 trades per trading day. This is why the crook in the Oval Office manipulates the markets.
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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tern it up 🔊 A couple hundred elegant terns can be quite noisy! Lovely jaunt out along the Alameda shoreline.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Impeach this corrupt villain
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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God @thegodshow.com · 17/07/2026
If Andy Beshear doesn’t call for a special election before August 3rd and force Mitch McConnell to prove he can speak in a video, then Andy Beshear becomes the new Merrick Garland. I’m sorry but I make the rules.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The original No Kings day. Credit: chappatte.com
The signers of the Declaration of Independence shown in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 with a banner behind them that reads “No Kings Day”
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Clarity Movement @joinclarity.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
(1/4) We just published our first #AirQuality data story, and it's a striking one. A landfill fire burned for a full month across Metro #Manila, and the Breathe Metro Manila network captured every hour of it. 👉 www.clarity.io/data-stories...
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Navotas Landfill Fire: What Metro Manila's air quality sensors measured
When the Navotas landfill caught fire, air quality sensors across Metro Manila captured the plume in real time. See exactly what the data showed — hour by hour, neighborhood by neighborhood.
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Amy Elizabeth @amyelizabeth.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 20/06/2026
CNN has an up-to-date tracker in case you're wondering if any ships are moving during the MOU in its current form. (They are not.) www.cnn.com/world/strait...
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In 2017, I had to abandon ship. I was lost at sea. Caribbean fishermen, in the dead of night, risked their safety to pull me out of the ocean. Ever since the first illegal boat strike, I've been haunted by the betrayal of our duty to render aid and what it means for the safety of life at sea.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 10/06/2026
The Center and our allies sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop a land trade that would hand 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas to #SpaceX. Help support our fight. ➡️ biodiv.us/4okSIXf
A bird perched on a branch sits above text about U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service giving SpaceX 715 acres of a national wildlife refuge in South Texas. Below is a map highlighting a location near the Mexico-Texas border with red arrows pointing to it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Some call it sleeping. I call it rehearsing.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
"Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System--The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research". | Eric Niiler for @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 26/05/2026
Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐
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Why temperature records are being not only broken but smashed
The combined effects of a heat dome and climate change have brought extreme warmth to western Europe.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
My new house is 95% built. All it needs is walls, floors, and a roof.
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Cian 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him) @cbdawson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Based on my decades of personal experience, you absolutely can! And then just sit back and watch them lose their damn minds about it and have a meltdown. Also, pronouns are a renewable resource with no known environmental impacts, so it's quite sustainable.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Strait Status: still all but closed.
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Always loved this series of maps. 👁 Also: Comics! h/t @anuncivilphd.bsky.social & @iansociologo.bsky.social
How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The only thing inevitable in the deep sea is discovery. Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining. news.mongabay.com/2026/04/deep...
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Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)
When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea e...
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
ConservatIves used to call these kids sinners. And they’d punish them for being pregnant young. Surreal how they change once racist eugenics are what is valued.
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Jim Small @jimsmall.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Yesterday morning, the Mirror reported on how ICE's own data shows how overcrowded this Mesa facility has been -- and how ICE hid that from congressional Democrats in February. Last night, three of those Democrats showed up unnanounced and were horrified by what they saw.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Imagine that
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
If you like your Easter eggs dyed all red, you'll like this departure of temperature from average map for the past 30 days from drought.gov:
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Jack Brand @jacklbrand.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
No point in opening Alcatraz again - it isn't near big enough to hold the Trump administration convicts from Nuremberg II in 2029.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/03/2026
People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities
radio.garden
Explore live radio by rotating the globe
Explore live radio by rotating the globe.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I worry that Delta closing its special services for those in Congress will make it more difficult for Ted Cruz to abandon his constituents in a crisis.
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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This map is brilliant. What it maps is enraging Why cities are resisting ICE's detention expansion www.npr.org/2026/03/23/g...
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Mapping ICE's expanding footprint, and the communities fighting back
Resistance in both Democratic and Republican cities points to broader unease with the direction of immigration enforcement.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So if AI Psychosis is a thing that happens because the human mind breaks when it's trapped by a sycophant who affirms every thought, agrees with every delusion - does this give us a window into what's been happening into the ultra rich , and why they're such broken people?
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 19/03/2026
Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Screenshot showing the Climate Shift Index from Climate Central for March 19, 2026. There is a change in likelihood of CSI 5 across nearly the entire Western USA.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is the man who is now in charge of US Homeland Security.
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Clarity Movement @joinclarity.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
#AirPollution is linked to 6.7M annual premature deaths globally. In the U.S., the Clean Air Act has helped reduce harmful air pollutants and, according to #EPA modeling estimates, prevented more than 2.3M premature deaths. #AirQuality #PublicHealth tinyurl.com/bdep6hbv
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How many human lives have been saved by the Clean Air Act?
Learn how air pollution regulations save lives, strengthen the economy, and shape a healthier future.
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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 05/03/2026
For $1 billion a day we could add enough solar panels to double the generating capacity of the US grid in less than five years.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/02/2026
’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again
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representmeaz.bsky.social @representmeaz.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“The measure was pulled at the last minute after crowds waited hours to testify against it”
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Jesus's name appears fewer times in the New Testament than Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein files. And most people think the New Testament is ALL about Jesus.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Okay, I’ve heard all the criticisms. I agree now that my plan to create a Jonestown on Mars was foolish and dangerous. I will instead be building a much more achievable Jonestown on the Moon
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representmeaz.bsky.social @representmeaz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Fourth Amendment
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