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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
STOP LISTENING TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT CLASS
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate
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Governor Jay Inslee @govjayinslee.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
As always, listen to my friend @billmckibben.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/o...
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Opinion | The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Former U.S. Senate candidate @rikleen.bsky.social was good enough to write for Bad Faith Times about the SCOTUS birthright citizenship ruling. It's good that Trump lost. Everything else about the decision in quite bad. badfaithtimes.com/the-birthrig...
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The Birthright Citizenship Ruling Is Far Worse Than You Think
The Roberts Court has legitimized the white supremacist attack on the 14th Amendment
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
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mike fleisch @mikefleisch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
M-m-maarva #andor
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Photo 3 of 14 in A Brick-and-Concrete Home With a Library Emphasizes…
Located on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico, the 5,920-square-foot UC House by architectural designer Daniela Bucio Sistos is grounded by a foyer with a raised, circular ceiling, which houses a tree t...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Cartoon by Nick Anderson. (Follow him on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Roberts Court is poised to shape American society in Trump’s image for decades to come. All three branches of the federal government are now committed to the Trump agenda: the restoration of America’s traditional racial, religious, and gender hierarchies; the enrichment of party patrons; the unencumbered pursuit of corporate profit; the impoverishment and disenfranchisement of the rival party’s constituencies; and the protection of the president and his allies from prosecution by any means available. Not since the end of Reconstruction has the U.S. government been so firmly committed to a single, coherent program uniting a politics of ethnonationalism with unfettered corporate power. As with Redemption, as the end of Reconstruction is known, the consequences could last for generations.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica. This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.
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mike fleisch @mikefleisch.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
“Ah, they'll never, they'll never ever reach the moon, At least not the one that we're after; It's floating broken on the open sea, look out there, my friends, And it carries no survivors.” Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen on Instagram: "7. "Sing Another Song, Boys" From 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 & 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦 The vinyl reissue is coming out on November 26th for RSD Black Friday. Check with your local record store for availa...
300 likes, 3 comments - leonardcohen on November 12, 2021: "7. "Sing Another Song, Boys" From 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 & 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦 The vinyl reissue is coming out on November 26th for RSD Black Friday. Check with you...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The birthright citizenship case shows how Trump-era Republicans have embraced the convictions of the proslavery Senator John C Calhoun, who believed America was a “white man’s government” and the integration of nonwhites onto the polity would destroy the country www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Calhoun’s theories have made a dramatic comeback with Trump, whose policies are guided by an unmistakable racial determinism. Trump warns that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” and that many immigrants have “bad genes,” telling a white Fox News host that “they are not exactly your genetic.”

Trump has focused his ire on immigrants from “third world” countries. He has virtually reimposed the eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions of the early 20th century, while instituting a Jim Crow–style system for refugees that prioritizes white South Africans. Trump’s reasoning for what he called a “permanent pause” in “third-world migration” was that instead of people from countries such as Norway or Sweden, we “always take people from Somalia,” which he called “disgusting.” The Democrats of Calhoun’s day, similarly, were not anti-immigrant, so long as only white people could naturalize. After all, the protection of slavery required white men, even those born in Dublin or Berlin.

In January, the Trump adviser Stephen Miller posted something even more revealing on X: “Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights.” Miller’s disgust here is not with the “importing” of a “foreign labor class.” It is with such a class having the same rights as he does.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
it is really bad how many people across the political spectrum on social media seem to discuss things in terms of discredited genetic pseudoscience when it comes to identity
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders. I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
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How to stop a dictator
I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a blind refugee, unable to speak English. DHS improperly detained-but finally released him Instead of bringing him home, they dropped him miles away-without regard to his disability or notifying his family Unable to find his way, he died on the streets of Buffalo Alone
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 10/02/2026
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump-administration officials and MAGA influencers have repeatedly called these activists “violent” and said they are involved in “riots.” But the resistance in Minnesota is largely characterized by a conscious, strategic absence of physical confrontation. Activists have made the decision to emphasize protection, aid, and observation. When matters escalate, it is usually the choice of the federal agents. Of the three homicides in Minneapolis this year, two were committed by federal agents.

“There’s been an incredible, incredible response from the community. I’ve seen our neighbors go straight from allies to family—more than family—checking in on each other, offering food and rides for kids and all kinds of support, alerting each other if there’s ICE or any kind of danger,” Malika Dahir, a local activist of Somali descent, told me.

If the Minnesota resistance has an overarching ideology, you could call it “neighborism”—a commitment to protecting the people around you, no matter who they are or where they came from. The contrast with the philosophy guiding the Trump administration couldn’t be more extreme. Vice President Vance has said that “it is totally reasonable and acceptable for American citizens to look at their next-door neighbors and say, ‘I want to live next to people who I have something in common with. I don’t want to live next to four families of strangers.’” Minnesotans are insisting that their neighbors are their neighbors whether they were born in Minneapolis or Mogadishu. That is, arguably, a deeply Christian philosophy, one apparently loathed by some of the most powerful Christians in America.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It's time for a truly massive general strike. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.)

Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
The entire conservative legal movement and philosophy of “originalism” is premised on the illegitimacy of any SCOTUS decision that doesn’t fit the GOP party platform
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Oh look, more of the same from the New York Times playing down renewables/decarbonization and playing up nuclear and natural gas (w/ mythical "capture). This time via David Victor, whom I identified as a problematic actor in the climate space in "The #NewClimateWar" (bookshop.org/p/books/the-...)
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James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
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mike fleisch @mikefleisch.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Notre Dame fans: channel your rage into fighting for justice and democracy :) #whatwouldyoufightfor #notredame @notredame.bsky.social
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/11/2025
When tech types pretend to be Christian, remember: nothing is more Anti-Christ than Silicon Valley. A Lancet-published study estimates USAID cuts will kill over 14 million people by 2030. “Whatever you did for the least of my brothers and sisters...” www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj0P...
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"Rovina's Choice" Shows How The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22/09/2025
"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.
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Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday
Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
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Grist @grist.org · 27/08/2025
In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change. The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth. grist.org/justice/in-t... #Wisconsin #Youth #Climate #Courts
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In the wake of destructive floods, Wisconsin youth sue state utility regulator over failure to consider climate change
The case is part of a growing movement to force climate action through the courts, led in part by Indigenous youth.
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
#ResistanceRoots “Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies ... ? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?” ― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
Rachel Carson in 1943. Photo credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It's their go-to play: www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/c...
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Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory | CNN
The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, superchargin...
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Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“The good news is that the data proves that the most effective message is love." Last week, public relations expert @dfenton.bsky.social joined us for a conversation about the importance of crafting a compelling narrative to promote social change. Visit thirdact.org/resources to watch more.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza - by @Alex de Waal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel’s food points are not just death traps – they’re an alibi for the starvation of Gaza | Alex de Waal
We saw famine in Biafra and Ethiopia. In the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s ‘aid distribution system’ we see an attempt to destroy a whole society, says academic and writer Alex de Waal
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“La CIJ ouvre la voie à des «réparations» climatiques par les États pollueurs (ICJ opens way for climate 'reparations' by polluting states)” | Article by Richard Carter for @ledevoir.com: www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
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La CIJ ouvre la voie à des «réparations» climatiques par les États pollueurs
Le climat doit être «protégé pour les générations présentes et futures», confirme-t-elle dans un avis fort influent.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I’ve been kind of a broken record on this, but: no, you can’t hand it to them. You can’t work with them to get anything you want to do, done. If you do, they will take what you do and use it to hurt people. I realize that this sucks because you want to do things, but that is the way it has to be.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas' More Common — And More Intense" by Li Zhou for @huffpost.com: www.huffpost.com/entry/extrem...
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Climate Change Is Making Extreme Rain Events Like Texas' More Common — And More Intense
"These are roughly one-in-1,000-year events, [and] would be extremely rare in the absence of human-caused warming,” one climate scientist says.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
From the 1970s into the 2010s, a statement like this would not have coded as particularly partisan or leftist. The fact that virtually no Republican public figure could have said this today is a sign of how much that party has radicalized away from what used to be the center of US politics.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If you’re an elected Democrat (rightly) complaining about the GOP kicking 17 million people off of Medicaid, now is a good and credible time to critique the entire broken work-based non-universal US healthcare system. Now is the time to call for universal healthcare, for Medicare for All.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The greatest tool working people have to win dignity, power and respect is organizing. So proud to stand with labor as your Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Be human. #ResistTrump
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
“In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion. During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself…”
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"Welcome to CECOT. Whoever enters here doesn't leave." Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was then
forced to strip, issued prison clothing, and subjected to physical abuse including being kicked in
the legs with boots and struck on his head and arms to make him change clothes faster. His head
was shaved with a zero razor, and he was frog-marched to cell 15, being struck with wooden batons
along the way. By the following day, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia had visible bruises and lumps all over his body.
121. In Cell 15, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia and 20 other Salvadorans were forced to kneel
from approximately 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM, with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.
During this time, Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was denied bathroom access and soiled himself The
detainees were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no
windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.
122. After approximately one week at CECOT, prison director Osiris Luna and other
officials separated the 21 Salvadorans who had arrived together. Twelve individuals with visible gang-related tattoos were moved to another cell, while Plaintiff Abrego Garcia remained with eight
others who, like him, upon information and belief had no gang affiliations or tattoos.
123. As reflected by his segregation, the Salvadoran authorities recognized that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia was not affiliated with any gang and, at around this time, prison officials explicitly acknowledged that Plaintiff Abrego Garcia's tattoos were not gang-related, telling him "your
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
How do these two different realities live in the same timeline? Easily under a capitalist society. Children go hungry while the rich drink champagne and ride in yachts and limousines.
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mike fleisch @mikefleisch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#Barbican as religious experience, and not just because they shot #andor here #barbicandor
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I discussed how climate change is increasing the occurrence of persistent summer weather extremes like the "heat domes" currently impacting the U.S. and Europe this morning on #BBCNews: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYe4...
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Michael Mann on BBC New Television Discussing Tie-In Between Climate Change & Heat Domes
YouTube video by Michael Mann
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David Fenton @dfenton.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Scientific American warned that Trump’s policies to weaken regulatory oversight of nuclear, “severely increase the risk of expensive, unexpected nuclear accidents.”
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Trump's $4 Trillion Plan to Raise Your Energy Bills
The Trump administration wants to spend trillions to promote the most expensive power there is: nuclear.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
We’re speeding towards the moment when one of these ICE kidnappings ends in bloodshed.
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mike fleisch @mikefleisch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#defenddemocracy
Torn Shepard Fairey poster peeling from a brick wall says VOTE and DEFEND DEMOCRACY
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mike fleisch @mikefleisch.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Calling all scientist friends! plumvillage.org/event/retrea...
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The Wonder of It All | Plum Village
A Plum Village Retreat for Scientists – At the heart of both the scientific and meditative journey lies a shared aspiration: the desire to understand and to discover.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
"I think it should be controversial to NOT say anything" about Gaza I spoke to YouTube star and children's educator Ms. Rachel about her outspoken support for Palestinian kids in Gaza - and the bad-faith attacks on her in response. Full interview here: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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