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Laura Neish

@laura4climate.bsky.social
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All about fighting for climate justice. Happy to nerd out on the clean energy transition, cityscapes for people not cars, and way too many other things. Need an occasional baby animal video for sanity.

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 6h
Your periodic reminder that phasing out fossil fuels would largely pay for itself in avoided death and disease from air pollution alone:
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h
I guess I’m in the minority for focusing on how Trump’s oil deal helps Putin while most are focused on how little it helps US oil/diesel prices.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.
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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News
Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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petercracknell.bsky.social @petercracknell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#Restaurant induction hobs are cheaper to run, they don't pollute the kitchen air, electric kitchens are cooler, induction hobs are quicker and easier to clean, and they have better temperature control [compared to gas]. #Electricity thesra.org/news-insight...
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New Guide Shows Electrifying Kitchens Can Save Restaurants up to 20% a Year on Energy
This new guide to electrifying your kitchen highlights significant cost savings and provides a how-to guide for managing the process.
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Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Decades ago I was consulting for Az Public Svcs -we did focus groups about many things but also TOU pricing. Even back then, before you were in communication w your appliances, people absolutely knew how to shift their energy use to save money. Savvy is def the word for folks pinching every penny
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me.
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 07/10/2026
Starting a war and then inviting the country you’re fighting to destroy American cities is beyond disgraceful. The people of Los Angeles and San Diego are not pawns in Donald Trump’s war. A president is supposed to protect the American people, not fantasize about their destruction.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability.
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Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*Trying to wrap my brain around a universe expanding faster than the speed of light* Well, where’s it going! Thank you @bjkeefe.bsky.social - I can now ponder the very quickly expanding universe and let those determined neutrinos carry on
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Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Aha! I was listening to Science Friday ever so long ago and Ira asked a physicist what the most interesting thing you could do with pi. The response “measure the circumference of the universe.” This occupies my 3am thoughts for… decades. So?
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Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, where do neutrinos go if they don’t interact with much of anything? Do they pile up at the edge of the universe?
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Go vote today if you can
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is exactly the same as "We shouldn't do impeachment because it will fail." You impeach. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And you make the far right authoritarian party block it in the Senate, again and again.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Back on my Ethanol soapbox - Even under some generous assumptions, electrifying just 3.6% of the current gasoline-powered fleet would free up enough land to power EVs replacing the entire gasoline fleet with solar.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bankrupt this Infestation.
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Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: @governor.ca.gov just signed the Home Energy Choice Act, a bill that will give Californians the freedom and funds to install electric appliances with money that would otherwise have been used to replace old gas lines earthjustice.org/press/2026/c...
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California Passes the Home Energy Choice Act
AB 2313 gives Californians the option to install non-polluting appliances with the help of funds that would otherwise have been used to replace the old gas line to their home
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our response to the State Department using Smokey last night.
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Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, support stay at home moms with Medicare and count their work towards social security wages.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Evil. Shame on everyone who voted for this.👇
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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I never thought in a million years that the president and First Lady of the United States would be targeting me personally and trying to hurt me and my kids. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...
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Be Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.
Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“If you’re evil you’re actually kind of good. Because you’re at least getting something done.”🤔 Y’all aren’t alarmed enough about what MAGA tech billionaire (Trump donor, J.D. Vance’s pimp, Epstein’s buddy) Peter Thiel is doing to our country.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I also don't think most people, even extremely online people, clock what it means for Telegram Nazi misogyny to hit the political mainstream the way Telegram Nazi racism already has. It's not just "subjugate women." It's explicitly "rape, enslave, and murder women"
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Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How did that work last time folks? Damn feckless Dems…
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Should be bigger news, no? www.propublica.org/article/debu...
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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026
CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Did you know that about half of the climate change we have seen to date is caused by OTHER greenhouse gases beyond CO2? We tend to underestimate the importance of methane, N2O, f-gases, and so on.
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Psycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jeffries does not get it and he never will. Dems need to vote in new leadership. This is not the man for this moment. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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SCOOP: Jeffries to Fundraise With Fox News’s Favorite Democrat
Thin wallets make strange bedfellows.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
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US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Release ALL the Epstein files NOW!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Your regular reminder that there ISN’T a “war on cars.” Any objective observation in most cities however, would conclude that for 60+ years there’s been a war on every mobility choice EXCEPT cars. And that’s been bad for EVERYONE, including drivers. Poster via @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth
“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” – Union of Concerned Scientists.

Background image is a highway jammed with car congestion, and good luck, thanks to car dependency by design.

Tag line at the bottom says “Their profit, your cost.” All via the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth @UCS.org
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 01/09/2026
The Trump admin says its reversal of the Roadless Rule is about wildfire prevention, but research shows that wildfires are about 4x more likely to start near roads than in roadless forests. ​ The repeal of the Roadless Rule is about opening protected lands to extractive industries like logging.​
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Conservationists Say Trump Gutting of Roadless Rule Is Corporate Giveaway, Not Wildfire Prevention | Common Dreams
Trump has cleared the way for 45 million acres of protected forest to be opened for logging in what one conservationist group called the "largest evisceration of public lands protection in American hi...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Imagine trying to scare me “Sharia Law” while I live under a GOP supermajority trying to reinstate an abortion ban, while writing bills to put the 10 Commandments in public schools and ban books and free speech. I have nothing to fear, except the Christian nationalists in front of me.
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Analisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Trump/GOP are removing conservation protections from 86+ million acres of U.S. public lands to open them up to billionaires & corporations for logging, oil/mineral extraction, & despoliation! This land belongs to us as Americans! Trump/GOP, billionaire cronies, & foreign companies profiting from it!
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 26/08/2026
A man in was fined by an A.I traffic camera for running a red light in Alabama when he was actually in Florida and exposes the corruption behind the surveillance infrastructure and promises to continue doing so He finishes with "Congratulations, you all got yourselves a new pain in the ass"
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