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Oakandfen

@oakandfen.bsky.social
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Caring for other species is caring for our own. Former director of watershed group and domestic violence shelter. Community radio host Lover of human created music and music of the natural world.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 15/03/2025
The move could leave the public more vulnerable to food-borne illnesses, particularly amid efforts to undermine regulations on food processors – via @thenewlede.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump Admin Decision to Axe Advisory Groups May Spell Trouble for Food Safety
The move comes after hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses more than doubled last year in the US.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
As human induced climate chaos continues to ratchet up, might it be advisable for evacuations prior to tornado outbreaks similar to hurricane evacuations? As of right now catastrophic damage is happening in Salem, Ms.—it might be leveled. And this is only the beginning of Saturday’s outbreak…😬
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James Spann @spann.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Timing…
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Nick Bassill @nickpbassill.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I just flew into Milwaukee, and can confirm the smoke and dust. Here's a view of the MKE skyline just now:
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Good day for escape into music! More specifically, my vinyls . Now playing: Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life❤️🎼🎶
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 15/03/2025
Today is the day, Mississippi & Alabama friends. NOAA: "A tornado outbreak is expected across the central Gulf Coast States and Deep South into the Tennessee Valley. Numerous significant tornadoes, some of which should be long-track and potentially violent, are expected this afternoon and evening."
forecast map from NOAA showing a high tornado risk for parts of Mississippi and Alabama
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James Spann @spann.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
A dangerous severe weather threat for Alabama this afternoon and tonight. Here is a detailed look at the situation on the morning briefing: www.youtube.com/live/xPJY8X6...
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James Spann's Morning Briefing - Satutday 3.15.25
YouTube video by James Spann
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Universities in the south are telling students, who are in safer locations, to return to campus Sunday or Monday due to severe weather. Human induced climate chaos unfolding in real time. This outbreak could be catastrophic for a huge swath of the u.s.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Alabama, like other states, depends on NOAA warnings for early preparedness for events like this. Early preparedness saves lives. But Trump & Musk are killing off NOAA. www.al.com/weather/2025...
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Alabama’s rare severe weather event ‘is all but certain’: Prepare now for powerful, widespread storms
"We’re absolutely going to see some kind of impactful weather, it’s just a matter of how widespread," NWS warns.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 14/03/2025
A quick update on the total climf&%kery that's taking place. Through March 11th, 2025, the monthly average global surface temperature for March, 2025 is the hottest on record. The madness of this moment is going to end horrifically for most living creatures. And that is incredibly sad.
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Joel Curzon @joelmcurzon.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Epitomizes what’s wrong with ecomodernism and what most environmental environmental NGOs have become. Should be an Onion article, and not real life.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 12/03/2025
Trump administration to roll back many EPA regulations, revisit contested water rule wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/03/12/r...
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Trump administration to roll back many EPA regulations, revisit contested water rule • Wisconsin Examiner
The Trump administration moves follow a campaign promise to encourage energy production and scrap regulations enacted to slow climate change.
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 12/03/2025
U.S.-made beer, bourbon, motorcycles and more on tariff list in Trump trade war with EU wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/03/12/r...
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U.S.-made beer, bourbon, motorcycles and more on tariff list in Trump trade war with EU • Wisconsin Examiner
The EU said countertariffs will take effect April 1 if the Trump administration does not cool the escalating trade war.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Grateful for James Taylor’s music, born on this day ❤️ Hard to pick a favorite but his cover of John Anderson’s Seminole Wind is beautiful, poignant … R.i.p. the Everglades as humans, rapacious, destructive ways continue… youtu.be/g7aIgtJi3oU?...
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Seminole Wind
YouTube video by James Taylor - Topic
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This heartbreaking story underscores the importance of keeping wildlife wild: dnr.wisconsin.gov/newsroom/rel...
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DNR Releases New Glarus Snowy Owl Necropsy Results | Wisconsin DNR
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced the necropsy results for a snowy owl recently found deceased in New Glarus.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A diseased population is easier to control and further hurts the economy, benefitting China and Russia.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trump is slashing another 1,000 jobs at NOAA. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.  Again, this isn't about efficiency.
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The US agency that monitors weather will cut another 1,000 jobs, AP sources say
Multiple sources tell The Associated Press that the Trump Administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Feeling, with each passing day, that we (in the u.s.) are living in Mordor.Washington D.C./Congress = Mount Doom. realovi.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/d...
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Donald Trump: Sauron or Gollum? By Thanos Kalamidas
The world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” is filled with complex characters that symbolize various human traits, from the embodiment of pure evil to the personificatio…
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Full throttle acceleration towards ecocide: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump orders likely to drive species’ extinction, wildlife advocates warn
In addition to layoffs and hiring freezes, a ‘God squad’ can effectively veto ESA protections for endangered species
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/03/2025
"It was the Biden administration, it was the Democratic establishment, that has created the conditions that we are now seeing taken advantage of," Palestinian scholar Noura Erakat says of Mahmoud Khalil's arrest and the Trump administration's crackdown on dissent.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 10/03/2025
100 years of February sea surface temperature anomalies through 2025. Note the long-term warming and patterns of climate variability, like from this year's La Niña (cooling in the equatorial central Pacific). Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext...
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
One of the most powerful songs I’ve heard about DT and us. Poignant, powerful, spot on: youtu.be/y7XYGLjP-58?...
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Broken Truth - Tim Grimm
YouTube video by Tim Grimm
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
While centrist Dems keep asking me for money via email, Bernie is on the ground fighting, mobilizing thousands. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gsG...
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LIVE from Warren, MI: Fighting Oligarchy in America
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Thousands of people showing up for Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin and Michigan. He’s not running for anything. He has no celebrities…no Bruce Springsteen, no Beyoncé just local leaders and his powerful messages that he has imparted for decades. Massive enthusiasm. Wake up centrist Dems!
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
And 3/7/25: 430.60 Almost threw up when I saw that number.🤯😩
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
In the end, I’ll die knowing so very little about nature…….but learning the little I know makes life worth living.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Still fighting the good fight!! www.youtube.com/live/6eG0aV-...
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Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Kenosha (LIVE at 7:30PM ET)
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The cost of greed and anthropocentrism: Millions of wild birds are dying of H5N1–including critically endangered birds.😢 Are we all critically endangered? phys.org/news/2025-03...
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A looming global threat: H5N1 virus decimates wildlife, disrupts ecosystems and endangers human health
We live in an era when human activities are negatively modifying the world at alarming rates. We are experiencing a massive species extinction due to environmental damage caused by human land use chan...
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 07/03/2025
A senior meteorologist at a @nws.noaa.gov office in tornado alley told me that even though Trump's cuts have now left them short-staffed, "we will do whatever it takes" to continue issuing warnings and protecting public safety. Federal workers are heroes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump layoffs have hollowed out key weather monitoring staff amid storm season
The National Weather Service has lost about 10% of its staff, hitting offices prone to severe weather hardest
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
In case you missed it, this special live session was recorded live and is now available at the link below!
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 07/03/2025
If the trend continues, we're about a week away from global sea-ice extent re-entering "Gobsmacking Bananas" territory. Stay tuned!
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
How can we stop them? www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/pier...
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The Low Road | Marge Piercy
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Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 05/03/2025
"Al Green stood up. Would like to see more people stand up," wrote Ezra Levin, the co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible. www.commondreams.org/news/al-gree...
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He 'Understood the Assignment': Support for Al Green Pours In After Disruption of Trump Speech | Common Dreams
"Al Green stood up. Would like to see more people stand up," wrote Ezra Levin, the co-founder of the progressive group Indivisible.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“A Declaration of War Against the American People”: Ralph Nader on Trump’s Address to Congress, www.democracynow.org/2025/3/5/ral...
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Ralph Nader on Trump’s Address: “Declaration of War” Against U.S. Public
President Donald Trump delivered the longest presidential address to a joint session of Congress in modern history Tuesday night, laying out his vision for the next four years as he defended his many ...
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Here we go … www.bbc.com/news/article...
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China says it is ready for 'any type of war' with US
The comments come in response to US tariffs and as Beijing boosts defence spending by 7.2%.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Helpful article, for older folks,about how to protect yourself against measles: www.healthline.com/health-news/...
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Yes, Some Adults Do Need to Be Revaccinated Against Measles
A new measles outbreak — along with a population improperly vaccinated in the 1960s — has many Baby Boomers wondering if they need to be revaccinated.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Love this man!!! Thank you, Bernie for continuing to fight! www.commondreams.org/news/is-the-...
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Working-Class Unity Key to Defeating Oligarchy, Says Sanders in Response to Trump SOTU | Common Dreams
In his powerful response to Trump's State of the Union, Bernie Sanders exposes the billionaire class running the government. He calls on working people to unite against Trump's agenda that benefits th...
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“Drill, baby, drill”, followed by ear piercing cheers by ecocidal maniacs. In the meantime CO2 levels 3/4/25: 428.02 ppm CO2.earth
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CO2.Earth connects the general public with the latest data and information for stabilizing earth's atmosphere, climate and living environments.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
SOTU reminded me why the Romans organized gladiator fights in the Colosseum. Distract the plebs. Give them some entertainment and they'll complain less about their living conditions. It still works to this day.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Can you picture the republicans quietly holding up cute little silent auction type signs of objection if the most progressive actins possible were being ramrodded by a Dem POTUS? Now is not the time to be silent! They continue to fail us.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I watched tonight. Historically significant as it is fascism taking hold of the u.s. in real time. The worst part for me was the ear splitting cheers for further raping and pillaging of our life support system: 🌏 As it is, ecosystems are barely hanging on and these fascist cretins are cheering☠️
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
After being removed from the chamber, Rep. Al Green told the White House press pool: "It's worth it to let people know that there are some people who are going to stand up" to Trump.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Slotkin says she is a “student of history” and brought up Ronald Reagan! 🤬
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I honestly don’t understand how the Democrats can sit there and listen to Trump’s lies and gaslighting. Their silence is humiliating.
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pcsoltis.bsky.social @pcsoltis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I don’t know what’s sucking the life out of the room more - the felon and his lies, the sycophants applauding him or the Democrats sitting there doing nothing.
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Oakandfen @oakandfen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
There were countless times the Dems should have been loud and vocally pushed back against the lies tonight. They should have pushed it until they were forced to leave. But to not react to the racist Pocahontas slur omfg….🤬🤯😤
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
BREAKING: First Florida Measles Case Confirmed in Miami High School Senior Every State Could Be Next.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we won't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS
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