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Ken Worthy

@kworthy.bsky.social
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environmental scholar, gamelan musician I study and write on environmental culture, philosophy, ethics, and psychology and AI and technology ethics and teach at UC Berkeley and St. Mary's College of Calif. Check out my book invisiblenature.com

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 14h
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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The Epstein Files @pattytrelles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Vote. Vote. Vote. 🗳️ Vote 🗳️ BLUE 🗳️ No matter who
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Ken Worthy @kworthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Time to wake up and fight back.
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We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney
There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/09/2026
Ban Flock cameras. Ban Axon cameras. Ban Motorola cameras. Ban ALL automatic license plate readers. That was our message to the Senate today. The American people agree that it's time for Congress to take immediate action.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mary Peltola stood in Valdez with prices every Alaskan understands: $5.25 for gas, $6.75 for diesel. Dan Sullivan voted 12 times to continue the Iran war. Each vote drove fuel costs higher across Alaska. He chose the war. Alaskan families, fishermen, and truckers got the bill.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Ken Worthy @kworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
More action needed now. Rein in the wealthiest to begin with. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
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Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote
The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.
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Jake @jakeklee23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The problem that Dems will have in 28 is that they must prosecute & reverse everything this administration did, but the GOP candidates will say “move on” and the complicit American media will also ask, “isn’t it time to move on?”. We have an obligation to make sure nothing like this happens again
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you for your attention to this matter...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran cancelled Macklemore by kicking him off the tour over his support of Palestine. Within 48 hours, all of Sheeran’s support acts had cancelled him. This is how it’s done.
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Pammygirl10 @pammygirl10.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I really wish we as Americans had the right to sue Fox News for telling lies!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am tired of people saying we can’t win in front of the Supreme Court. I’m annoyed by those who say my firm is too partisan to be effective. Today we won a huge redistricting fight before SCOTUS and a ballot access case before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The lesson: When we fight we win.
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 08/09/2026
#DidYouKnow that wetlands are among the most severely degraded ecosystems on Earth? The @ipbes.net  #LandDegradation assessment reports that 87% of wetlands have been lost globally over the last 300 years, including 54% since 1900, primarily due to agricultural conversion and urbanisation.
Photo of a sparse wetland with shallow water, dry golden grasses, and rolling hills under a blue sky. A white circle overlay reads: "87% of the world's wetlands have been lost over the past 300 years. —IPBES Land Degradation Assessment." IPBES logo bottom right.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
Maricopa County, Arizona, often sends out more than 2 million ballots in its initial mailing. Under new regulations ordered by Trump, it’s possible that one ballot with a bad barcode or wrong voter information could delay the entire batch.
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New Mail Voting Rules Moved Forward Despite USPS Officials’ Concerns About Mass Disenfranchisement
In internal meetings, officials worried the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every Republican in Congress owns what Trump has done, is doing and is going to do. The vast majority of it would not have been possible without their collective acquiescence and enabling. He’s emboldened by the fact that Congress refuses to function as a separate branch of govt.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Garcia: We are going to hold the Postmaster General and anyone at USPS, particularly those that are at the management level, that are implementing this, accountable for what we view as an illegal action by USPS.
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A truer post has never been posted.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
On this I cannot disagree. Mainstream media and legacy media have been bought and paid for and are willing turning a blind eye to an obvious coverup. No one is willing to go to the hospital and find out the truth? Shameful.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From (speaker?) @rokhanna.bsky.social 👇🏽
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To my dying day I will regard it to be the blackest of marks that the US electorate conferred upon one of the worst human beings to have ever lived the US presidency, not once but twice. 🇨🇦
de Adder cartoon of US President DJT shooting himself in the foot.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Michael McFaul Is Spot On.......
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Starting a pointless trade war with our most reliable partner as a distraction from your failed war in Iran (that you launched as a distraction from your administration covering up the Epstein files) isn’t going to win you any votes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
WATCH: Hundreds of thousands of dollars in public subsidies goes to funding internet service to unlivable buildings on Alaska’s Adak Island. @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social knocked on every door and talked to every person he could find. Not a single person told him they used the service.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oh no! Not another strongly worded letter!
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A glacier lost to warming will not return within any timeframe meaningful to the human communities that depended on it. The carbon we are releasing from permafrost will remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years
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Majestic Iceberg Reflection
ALT: Majestic Iceberg Reflection
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We need more prominent political figures to talk shit openly about the disgusting, criminal, child-raping president. Have some balls, Y'all. It makes him mad. Hopefully, it causes a heart attack.
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A corporate death penalty is a legal process that forces a corporation to dissolve or cease to exist.
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Bring back the corporate death penalty
We have a mechanism to punish corporations that harm us. We should use it
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 18/08/2026
This Ossoff Natalie Harp drop-in, the ensuing media circus, and his use of the news cycles to zero-in on Trump’s “security blanket” staff who have cocooned him away from reality — it’s a perfect maneuver, start to finish. He is a real talent.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 17/08/2026
NEW – Analysis: The two largest reservoirs in the US have hit record-low levels | @giulianaviglione.bsky.social w/ comment from Jack Schmidt Read here: buff.ly/iwTZJ0Y
Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the US, reached record-low water levels in mid-August
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“In a sane world, a vast voting public would have grasped they were gifted…an extraordinary opportunity to pursue self-governance…an exceptional experiment to be embraced, improved and cherished rather than tossed away to the whims of a malignant sociopath.” www.americaamerica.news/p/sanity-mad...
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Sanity, Madness and the American Promise
A view from Finland (redux)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026
Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
If That's What Mayor Mamdani Has Been Doing For NYC,Count Me In...
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Dear Republicans, There are no communists in America. You are just gullible fools who are dumb enough to believe the constant lies Trump vomits out of his mouth… Any Questions?! 😎✨
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Anaximander @theskywalker1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The corruption in the Trump administration is so pervasive that billions of dollars in government contracts have been given to companies in which Don Jr. and Eric Trump hold investments, and the matter has received relatively little public scrutiny.
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