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Mary K. Reinhart

@mkreinhart.bsky.social
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Former AZ journo, defending wild places and wildlife for future grandkids

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
El Niño is breaking every existing record already, and it's got weeks to go before it's likely to hit a peak. We're going to see a warmer world than any humans before us this year billmckibben.substack.com/p/hold-my-wa...
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Hold my (warm) beer
It’s Existential Crises Week!
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
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Border Construction in Big Bend Is Halted After Drawing Criticism (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has been carving a path through some of the beloved national park’s major natural attractions.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
130° in Death Valley this Weekend? Not probable, but certainly possible! NOAA’s forecast is for 129 - 1° short of the highest temperature ever “reliably measured” on Earth, also set in Death Valley in 2021. Believe it or not… 1/
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I have known Le Porge since I was a child. Much of it is now ash. We were warned this would come. We kept burning fossil fuels anyway. Adapting to this is not a plan. Stopping the cause is.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Marc was one of the most dedicated civil servants I’ve ever met, a man who wanted to make sure the government got the facts rights, and the public could understand what was going on. To see him driven out gives you a sense of how Orwellian this administration has become. Truth is their enemy.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 20/07/2026
More than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profit
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On a Colorado farm, solar panels bring shade for plants, power – and cash: in pictures
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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"This summer proves we don’t have to wait until the future for climate change to smack us in the face. From torrid heat waves, to deadly flash floods, to raging wildfires and their associated acrid smoke — the signs are all around us, right now." www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/c...
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Fires, floods and record heat: This is the summer of compounding disasters | CNN
This summer has proven we don’t have to wait for climate change to smack us in the face. The signs of global warming are all around us, right now.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 20/07/2026
NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.
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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity
How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Who Speaks for the Trees? A Tiny Quebec Town. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/w...
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Who Speaks for the Trees? A Tiny Quebec Town.
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Lori @tygergyrl17.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
FROM U.S. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/05/2026
Google's CEO saying that the reason there's intense backlash to AI is because humans aren't "evolved" enough to understand it youtu.be/RgV57kDzcng?...
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
“This checkerspot’s legacy is that it’s a canary in the coal mine” A Very Lonely Caterpillar, Possibly the Last of Its Kind, Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/c...
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A Very Lonely Caterpillar, Possibly the Last of Its Kind, Has Died
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. /1
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'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
About 7 million kids live in a home with a loaded and unlocked gun, a study finds www.npr.org/2026/05/12/n...
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About 7 million kids live in a home with a loaded and unlocked gun, a study finds
The new study in JAMA Network Open also finds that more parents leave their guns loaded and unlocked when they have teenagers, despite the fact that suicide risk goes up for this age group.
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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Wanted to share this powerful project by public historians at UMN to document the artwork and signage of ICE abduction sites around the Twin Cities. z.umn.edu/HereandGone
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Here & Gone is a public archive of art and signs that memorialize where ICE abducted neighbors
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The sooner we stop burning fossil fuels, the better it is for everyone.
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Babies exposed to air pollution during pregnancy take longer to learn to speak, research finds
A KCL study has found that exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy delayed speech development
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/04/2026
The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible.
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We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup
Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.
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damasterchief @damasterchief.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Ninth Grader Demi Johnson receives National Geographic award for plan to save Mississippi's oyster reef population. The ninth grader has produced 1,100 oysters that will in turn spawn millions of larvae into the ecosystem, a huge ecological impact
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Americans’ electricity was shut off 13 million times in a year, data shows www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Americans’ electricity was shut off 13 million times in a year, data shows
An advocate called the higher-than-expected numbers “jarring,” and consumer advocates say they signal a surprisingly high rate of extreme financial distress.
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day, Tom Chapin :) 🌍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2q9...
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Happy Earth Day by Tom Chapin
YouTube video by burninfire251
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Happy Earth Day insideclimatenews.org/news/2204202...
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Almost Half of America’s Kids Are Breathing Toxic Air - Inside Climate News
The American Lung Association’s annual report finds that climate change is making dirty air worse, especially for communities of color. The Trump administration keeps targeting rules meant to help.
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Money quote:
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
NEW: Minnesota's capitol lawn swelled with 200,000 protesters today on the third national 'No Kings' event protesting the Trump admin. “This is the largest protest in Minnesota history,” Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin said at the rally to uproarious applause. [Full video and report coming soon]
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Mika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Record-warm March after an unusually dry and snow-poor winter has pushed nationwide snow amounts to unprecedentedly low levels. Snowmelt is occurring more than a month earlier than usual. Normally, these snow depths would be present around May Day.
Daily average snow depth in Finland based on FMI gridded data. The chart depicts daily average snow depth averaged over the Finnish land area.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"If you are trying to protect life on Earth, you are working in an era defined by loss." As with climate scientists, many on the frontlines fighting for the living world are suffering a mental health crisis. It's *vital* we mind ourselves, and each other. www.butlernature.com/2026/03/22/t...
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The cost of caring for a dying world
Earlier this month, Jeremy Hance’s “‘An epidemic of suffering’: Why are conservationists breaking down?” and the follow-up commentary “Emotional and psychological stresses beleaguer conservation profe...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 24/03/2026
Nearly twice as old as the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs have been crawling ashore for over 450 million years. Sadly, their populations have plummeted by more than 70% in recent decades. So we just announced our intent to sue the federal government for denying them #ESA protections. bit.ly/41quLDj
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Happy #PiDay! Here are some pies to consider: If nothing changes, the remaining carbon budget to stay under 1.5°C, 1.7°C, and 2°C will be used up in 4, 12, and 25 years, respectively. Let’s eat up by setting all the fossil fuels on fire.
An infographic from the Global Carbon Project displays three pie charts illustrating the remaining carbon budget for different global warming thresholds (1.5°C, 1.7°C, and 2.0°C) with a 50% likelihood. Each chart features a large dark gray circle representing 2,770 gigatonnes of CO2 already consumed, paired with a smaller orange wedge representing the remaining budget. As the temperature threshold increases, the orange "remaining" wedge grows significantly: it is a narrow sliver of 170 GtCO2 for 1.5°C, a moderate slice of 525 GtCO2 for 1.7°C, and a large segment of 1,055 GtCO2 for 2.0°C. The visual contrast highlights how little of the global carbon budget remains to stay within the most ambitious climate goals compared to the vast amount already emitted.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 03/03/2026
New records show that #Florida applied for nearly $1.5 billion in federal funding to keep the massive immigrant detention center in the #Everglades afloat. The facility is harming the waters and endangered plants and animals in one of Florida’s most cherished wild places. Read on ➡️ bit.ly/3MShznh
An alligator floats on the surface of calm, dark water dotted with leaves.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/03/2026
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in
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Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice
As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchain sleuths began hunting for unusual patterns in recent bets.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Here's the full note from Walsh.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg Upper Colorado River region: 66% Oregon: 34% "Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future." www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org
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Little snow in California and the West as a warm winter nears end
California's snowpack remains much smaller than average after months of extremely warm conditions across the West.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 27/02/2026
“It’s a real impingement on state authority here that shouldn’t stand,” said Julie Teel Simmonds, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, before the judge’s initial ruling was issued Thursday. “They’re trying to basically seize control over these #pipelines.”
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“If Sable ultimately is not able... to reopen this pipeline I think it’ll just be confirmation that state and local governments have a say. It’ll just reaffirm the Feds can’t come in and force things down on states and locals.” calmatters.org/environment/...
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Judge blocks Trump's bid to override California on pipeline that spilled thousands of barrels of oil
A judge tentatively ruled federal intervention wasn't enough to let Sable Offshore restart a pipeline shut after a massive Santa Barbara oil spill.
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 23/02/2026
Steller sea lions are the largest member of the family Otariidae, the “eared seals.” They're also one of the species threatened by the Trump's latest push to open more than 100 million acres off the coast of #Alaska to highly destructive seabed mining. Take action 👉 bit.ly/3OQcITX
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
america (2026) www.404media.co/man-opposing...
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Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long
An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla collectively received $51 billion in tax breaks, thanks to the Trump and GOP corporate tax cuts signed into law last year. Together they effectively paid a federal tax rate of 4.9%, according to @itep.org. itep.org/trump-meta-t...
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Four Big Tech Companies Avoid $51 Billion in Taxes in Wake of One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Four of the corporations whose CEOs flanked President Trump at his 2025 inauguration ceremony have now disclosed that they collectively received $51 billion in federal tax breaks in 2025, much of that...
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Mary K. Reinhart @mkreinhart.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Consumer Advocates Could Derail Blackstone’s Utility Acquisition in New Mexico prospect.org/2026/02/19/b...
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Consumer Advocates Could Derail Blackstone’s Utility Acquisition - The American Prospect
The private equity behemoth’s bid to acquire New Mexico’s largest electricity provider could be null and void. Will regulators be bold enough to apply the law?
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
SoCal air quality officials rejected a proposal to phase out gas-powered appliances after being overwhelmed by more than 20,000 public comments in opposition. Well, turns out many of those comments were powered by AI! Crazy investigation by @hayleysmith.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments
SoCal’s pollution authority scrapped a plan to phase out gas-powered appliances after receiving more than 20,000 emails sent by an AI-powered platform called CiviClick.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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Reuters @reuters.com · 18/02/2026
A detainee died in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said, marking at least the seventh death in 2026 in federal immigration custody reut.rs/4aY1wgH
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 06/02/2026
🏈🥑 On #SuperBowlSunday more people in the U.S. eat avocados than any other day. To produce all that guac, the industry is scarfing up swaths of Mexican forest. Join us in urging U.S. grocers to adopt avocado-sourcing policies that prevent #deforestation ➡️ bit.ly/4tlE1oZ
An artistic rendering of an avocado with a football helmet and a monarch butterfly on a football field. White text in a black box reads: "Beware killer guac. About 290 million pounds of avocados are imported from Mexico ahead of game day, putting monarch butterflies on the defensive.
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Jeff Brady @jeffbradynews.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Trump administration tried to kill Energy Star last year. But the efficiency program has emerged stronger, with dedicated funding that reverses a decade-long trend of declining budgets. Here's my story for @npr.org: www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...
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Energy Star has emerged stronger after Trump's EPA tried to end it
The Trump administration tried to end or privatize the government Energy Star efficiency program. But now Trump has signed a budget bill that fully funds the program and leaves it even stronger.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 04/02/2026
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
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