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Emily Satterwhite

@mountainsfalling.bsky.social
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Pipeline fighter in Appalachia. Holler to Holler mutual aid. Appalachian studies. United Campus Workers-VA and AAUP

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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Soaring tuition and student debt, …products of the corporate model, have contributed to mistrust in higher education. The authors of the study argue that to regain public trust, administrators must confront how corporate donors have reshaped their priorities, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“That’s what happened here: a great many individuals have worked tirelessly and persistently to get us to this point. There are too many to name, but you know who they are: they’re you.”
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
shit is so bad a pipeline can spill 1.3 million gallons of natural gas liquids-- making it one of the largest inland spills in North American history--and it only makes the local news. www.wpr.org/news/enbridg...
wpr.org
Enbridge temporarily halts work on Line 5 reroute after 1.3M gallon gas leak
Enbridge says it’s temporarily halting work on rerouting its Line 5 oil and gas pipeline following a gas leak in Iron County on Tuesday.
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
just a reminder that Enbridge spilled more than a million gallons of natural gas liquids in Wisconsin and it didn't even make national news and then they restarted the line over the objection of state officials because fed regulators no longer do their job. Nbd. wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/09/15/l...
wisconsinexaminer.com
Line 5 reopens after spill despite DNR warning • Wisconsin Examiner
Enbridge Line 5 went back online Monday, three weeks after a spill released 1.3 million gallons of natural gas liquids.
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“What the tunnel really means is locking in fossil fuel transport for another 100 years,” Insko said.
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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · 10/08/2026
It's worth mentioning that EQT wants MVP Boost in order to cash in on data center sprawl while also freeing up supply for more LNG exports. Those are excellent reasons for the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors to hold the line and reject the Swann Compressor station.
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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · 12/08/2026
A few observations, since this is circulating again. These people are multi-millionaires who were invested in oil funds. Starbucks mostly sells milk. One fewer trip back in March would have covered roughly one gallon of gas. The cost of the war is 10,724,637,681 trips to Starbucks. Give or take.
people.com
GOP Senate Candidate Urges People to Be 'Patriots' About Trump's War and 'Take 1 Less Trip to Starbucks' to Offset Rising Costs
Michele Tafoya, a former NFL sideline reporter and the frontrunner in Minnesota's Republican Senate primary, suggested Americans pull back on spending to get through the rising prices associated with ...
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hey btw, while everyone is paying attention to Michigan for just one night may i point out that for about a decade now a bunch of us have been trying to protect the Great Lakes from a menacing oil pipeline? Learn all about here: thecurrentowdm.substack.com
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
The Current | Oil & Water Don't Mix | Substack
The currents are swirling about us - will we listen to them before it's too late? Click to read The Current, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It's Morgan Griffith and he is my representative. I invite all of Bluesky to let him know what you think.
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Congratulations to Great Lakes protectors 🎉
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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · 01/08/2026
Shout out to rural organizers winning data center fights in your communities. You are protecting your health and the the lives of people you might never meet.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
DoorDash has been silent as its delivery drivers are hunted and killed by federal agents. Now, the company is backing #HR9720, a bill attacking DC Home Rule. We are calling on everyone to #DeleteDoordash. Let us know you've deleted your account and share your reasons why: deletedoordash.com
deletedoordash.com
Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New Oil Change report: Trump admin’s energy + AI “dominance” policies + hostility to renewables = higher bills
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
hey if you ever run into one of the anti-fossil fuel tree hugging lib types, just ask them if they drive a car or heat their homes. that'll really get 'em! they just crumble under the weight of their exposed hypocrisy!
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Happy anniversary! It was on this day, July 25, 2010, that Enbridge's Line 6B ruptured in Michigan. But don't worry, it was only 17 full hours before they realized it so just a million gallons of diluted bitumen spilled into the Kalamazoo River.
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Line 5 “tunnel has always been an absurdly backward-looking idea, a 20th-century plan for a 21st-century world. The last thing a planet on fire needs is a billion-dollar investment in fossil fuel infrastructure.” Governor Whitmer doubles down on 1953. Let’s review what that looked like.
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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Great piece on the wildfires this week (they are of course terrible for the Great Lakes). Pleased also to see a little shout-out to my recent essay on Line 5 in here.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
cbc.ca
'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · 15/07/2026
RVA: People are organizing against the Dominion/NextEra merger. It would be the largest electric utility merger in American history, and it would hand NextEra control over which data centers get connected to the grid, and how fast. NextEra also owns a big chunk of Mountain Valley Pipeline.
actionnetwork.org
Rally & Press Conference: Virginians Say No to the Utility Merger
Virginia families are about to get stuck with the bill for an out-of-state corporate takeover. NextEra wants regulators to approve its acquisition of Dominion Energy, and ratepayers like you will be...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I talk to a lot of folks in real life about data centers. I have never run into even one who supports them, aside from the folks sent to our towns to sell them to us. Dems should lean into this. The Rs are generally in favor of letting corporations steal our water and power and quality of life.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Institutional autonomy and academic freedom can be shored up by Collective Bargaining. Give faculty and graduate students a chance to fight for our institutions! @abigailspanberger.com @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @aaupmason.bsky.social @ucwva.bsky.social
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It’s worth noting that Spanberger justifies keeping the data center tax break by an appeal to “keeping one’s word,” but has no problem breaking her commitment to support the expansion collective bargaining
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gary s broderick (he/him) @garybroderick.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Not before Virginia House Democratic leadership cut the applicability of the bill by 50% by removing public sector higher education workers.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 06/06/2026
I do think we're moving into a moment where deep reading, thinking, and writing are luxury experiences. And that seems very bad.
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Does anyone live near a data center in Virginia? I’m going to start collecting audio from really noisy sites this summer. Get in touch!
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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · 28/05/2026
Colorado Connecticut Maine Maryland New Hampshire New York Utah Virginia
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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This statement about higher ed, co-authored by AAUP and AFT, is absolutely worth reading. It sets out a vision education workers should embrace. Question is how we will win it! www.highereddive.com/news/higher-...
highereddive.com
Higher education must be rebuilt to restore public trust. Here’s how.
The heads of the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers lay out their vision for overhauling the sector.
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm working part time as a grant reviewer and its so clear how many worthy projects deserve funding and more opportunities. I feel like there is a real trend to dismiss creative labor as something actually worth funding, & a living wage as a pipe dream. We would all be richer with more public arts.
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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I guess my only real problem with AI is that it doesn't work, uses all the water, makes the worst people who ever slime-trailed across this green earth richer, gives monsters cover to crater organizations, destroys lives in both obvious & subtle ways & also isn't even AI. Besides that, I'm for it.
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“If a system is designed or used in a way that treats some lives as less worthy, or excludes them without the possibility of appeal, then it is not merely a tool ‘to be used well,’ since it has already introduced criteria that contradict the inalienable dignity of the human person.”
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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bigger, better batteries are going to make gas obsolete. www.ft.com/content/b5c5...
ft.com
The dawn of 24/7 solar power
Falling battery costs drive the economics of round-the-clock renewables
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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day. www.nationalbailout.org
nationalbailout.org
National Bail Out | Join the Movement Today
National Bail Out is a Black-led and centered collective of abolitionist organizers, lawyers, and activists building a community-based movement to support Black communities entangled in the criminal p...
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Appalachian Voices @appvoices.org · 02/05/2026
Residents of Pound, Virginia, are invited to attend an interest meeting on forming a community association in Pound! Swing by the Pound Town Hall at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 5, for more information! Stipends will be provided. loom.ly/G4i7zf8
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AAUP @aaup.org · 23/04/2026
On Earth Day, the AAUP & @aft.org requested a meeting with TIAA to discuss an immediate moratorium on all new investments in fossil fuels extraction, processing, & power generation. We need to reinvest these funds in renewable energy & climate solutions for frontline workers & communities. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
aaup.org
AAUP, AFT Call on TIAA to Divest from Fossil Fuels
On Earth Day, the presidents of the AAUP and the AFT wrote to TIAA to request a meeting regarding TIAA’s continued investments in fossil fuel companies.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 25/04/2026
Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.
sltrib.com
‘Hyperscale’ data center project in Utah — expected to generate and consume more power than entire state — nears final approval
Led by "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary, a massive data center project is near final approval in Utah — including tax deals aimed at helping it “lure the hyperscalers” like Amazon, Microsoft and Google to the state.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/04/2026
As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the country, the death toll of people in ICE custody is rising, reaching a record high in over two decades. At least 17 immigrants are reported to have died in ICE custody since January.
buff.ly
Deaths in ICE Custody Surge in 2026, Averaging 1 Every Week
Advocate Setareh Ghandehari says rampant medical neglect and abuse are largely responsible for the rise in deaths.
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Emma Kelly @evkelly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
If you were around the KY/VA border  on HWY 23 last Friday, you might have heard the sounds of an Appalachian shindig in downtown Pound. Pound, usually known for having almost lost its charter because of widespread corruption, is now showing up as a leader in true community-led revitalization. 1/5
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Higher Ed Needs Collective Bargaining: Restore All Higher Education Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/hi...
actionnetwork.org
Higher Ed Needs Collective Bargaining: Restore All Higher Education Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights
The Conference Committee on the Collective Bargaining Bills (HB1263 and SB378) has proposed excluding many higher education workers—everyone except "service workers"—from collective bargaining. We kno...
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Among the real enduring questions of that moment that we should be working toward answering are 1) why did university leaders go along with repressing their own students' rights and ruining some of their lives for a genocide. And 2) Why did rank-and-file administrators who know better help them?
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"Concentration camps exist to support and expand the power of an authoritarian regime. They make everyone afraid of being treated like the current targets of the regime. ... [C]oncentration camps accelerate the process of dehumanizing groups of people in the public imagination."
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Activate Virginia @activateva.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
"But then the data center turned on, along with the eight natural gas turbines powering it. Now her home is barraged by a high-pitch whine that she says has made her newly screened-in porch unusable."
politico.com
A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine.
Getting data centers to generate their own electricity may ease one obstacle to public acceptance of data centers. But it creates new hurdles.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 13/03/2026
Absolutely awful result in the "antifa terrorism" trial against the Prairieland noise demonstrators. Innocent people convicted under conspiracy statutes because they had zines at home, or wore black, or were in a Signal chat — even those who did not actually participate in the demonstration.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 11/03/2026
BREAKING: 18 Senate Dems confirm Trump's NSA Director: Baldwin Coons Cortez Masto Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Hirono Kelly King Peters Reed Rosen Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner Whitehouse Idk what needs to happen for corporate Dems to be the opposition party—not fascism is OK party😐
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LL Cool Beans @chadlavin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
300 families contributed 20% of all federal campaign donations in 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
nytimes.com
Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America
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isaac @sevier.io · 09/03/2026
TPUSA is teaming up with Google and NextEra in both municipal and statewide races in Arizona, in part to control the future of a gigantic, publicly owned water and power utility, the Salt River Project. Note the coalition here. Masks are coming off at the utility and energy intersection.
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Charlottesville's a Union Town: Collective Bargaining For All Town Hall. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/blacks...
actionnetwork.org
Charlottesville's a Union Town: Collective Bargaining For All Town Hall
Public Sector Collective Bargaining builds stronger connections between public service workers and the communities we serve. Right now, our university presidents and legislators are trying to divide u...
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Matthew Gillikin @mtgillikin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I think it’s helpful to keep in mind that the main purpose of public university boards in Virginia is political patronage, not quality leadership of higher education institutions.
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Emily Satterwhite @mountainsfalling.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“The absence of a case holding that warrantless, non-exigent, anonymous civil seizures…violate the 4A does not mean the Constitution permits them. It means the practice is new enough, and brazen enough, that no court has yet been required to state the obvious. This court is now required to say it.”
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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