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NOH8 Campaign @noh8campaign.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Trump Administration's Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, orders the State Department to freeze passport applications with the 'X' gender marker #NOH8

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 24/01/2025

Obviously the Gender Critical movement is going to welcome any and all fascism, especially when it is harming trans people Still grim they can claim that they're supporting material reality by claiming sex is determined at conception, which is unambiguously false, without any media pushback at all

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Supergirl @realsupergirl.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Boston boycott Tatte for not standing up for workers! @universalhub.com www.instagram.com/reel/DFL7KRn...

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

To the world: Please forgive the U.S. No, that's not it. Please resist and fight the U.S. government's denialism, erasure of vulnerable populations, ignorance of science, and commitments to inequality and extractive (tech) capitalism.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

MIRA's Know Your Rights webpage: miracoalition.org/news/know-yo...

"Know Your Rights" flyer in red, white and blue. Information also available at the web link in this post.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

MAGA doesn't give a fuck about anyone but billionaires.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21/01/2025

Energy EO holds up EV charging funding to states already appropriated by Congress. If fewer charging stations get built, fewer cars will drive on electricity. This will be bad for emissions, but it will also increase gasoline use, which will raise, gasoline prices. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Unleashing American Energy – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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Democracy Labs @demlabs.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Understand and protect your rights during an ICE raid: Resources in English and Spanish thedemlabs.org/2025/01/20/u... @melastorm.bsky.social @vivalavoices.bsky.social @mangata-path.bsky.social @phranklindb.bsky.social @edhirsch.bsky.social @jaynenebula.bsky.social @hardboiledblue.bsky.social

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 21/01/2025

“Trump’s announcement came just 10 days after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared 2024 Earth’s hottest year on record, one marked by life-threatening heat waves, wildfires, and flooding around the world.” grist.org/politics/tru...

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Trump unravels US climate agenda as he promises to ‘drill, baby, drill’

From declaring a “national energy emergency” to exiting the Paris Agreement, here is everything climate-related Trump did on Day 1.

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Erin 🍂 fall is fall 🐦‍⬛ @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A bracing thought: for many public servants, just continuing to do their jobs, to send out checks, to post RFPs, to interview candidates, now constitutes an act of radical faith that the US is a nation of laws, and not of men. The thing is, the more people keep doing just that, the more it's true.

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Jillian Goodman @goodjillian.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We've got four more years of Trump administration to unpack, but here's what we've got for Day One: - an end to all wind energy permits (that includes onshore) heatmap.news/politics/win...

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Trump Orders End to All Wind Energy Permits

The worst case scenario for the wind industry is here.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In addition to listening to @democracynow.org today, you might want to listen to the great 1960s protest singer Phil Ochs: youtu.be/K7fgB0m_y2I?... From 1965's "I Ain't Marching Any More" album.

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Phil Ochs - Here's to the State of Mississippi

YouTube video by Morten Landerslev

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Really recommend listening to @democracynow.org podcast today, over and over again on repeat. Coverage of #MLK, resisters at Peace March. Voices informing and inspiring us to fight back. Grateful for your work! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Democracy Now! 2025-01-20 Monday

Podcast Episode · Democracy Now! Audio · 01/20/2025 · 59m

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Happy MLK Jr. Day, my friends. In 1968, Dr. King spoke the following words, which are equally true today: "The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around.... But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars." We must find & feed the points of light.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/01/2025

‘Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.’ — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On #MLKDay, we honor his legacy by choosing love over hate, justice over injustice, and hope over fear.

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 03/01/2025

All of us can benefit from feeling included, safe, seen and valued 📣! These are simple but powerful concepts, and they are foundational for learning, mental health and well-being ❤️. #InclusiveEducation #LGBTQRights #ChildrensRights

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Southern Poverty Law Center @splcenter.org · 15/01/2025

#OTD in 1929, we celebrate Dr. King’s true birthday—separate from the later holiday. The same issues he marched against decades ago still impact our world today. Let’s remember his example of nonviolent civil disobedience and keep working to make his dream a reality.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/01/2025

My heart is full because people are listening to the audio version of Vol I of Jack Smith’s final report. The truth matters!

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The architect of Project 2025's confirmation hearing is tomorrow. We gotta get loud about this one. Send your letters to your Senators demanding they oppose Russell Vought. Let's go. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell your Senators: Oppose Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought for Director of the Office of Management and Budget

Contact Congress today!

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I'm not Lisa 💙 Donate to LaMonica McIver Defense @juliajayne.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

"At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare" -- Carole Anderson Time to re-up this article after the disturbing subservience of the GOP in Hegseth's confirmation hearing today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Will the American project survive the anger of white men? | Carol Anderson

At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Always happy to learn more about #gardening with native plants for diverse ecosystems and community growth. “Gardens of engagement” is the perfect term for what I’m hoping to achieve in urban spaces. #UrbanPastorals

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 13, 2025 – Kelly Norris on Your Natural Garden

Podcast Episode · MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN · 01/10/2025 · 28m

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

this is a case where doj should just release the material anyway. and it will be a grave mistake if they don't. she has no plausible basis for jurisdiction over this.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Rule #1 for fighting fascism: Don’t obey in advance. Rule #2: Don’t normalize fascist rhetoric, gestures or actions.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Screw them. If you shop there, stop.

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Screw them. If you eat there, stop.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. Thank you for being one of the remarkable people who demonstrated that what's often thought of as time for retirement is when some among us reach their prime. Thank you for your feminism, your advocacy for Palestinians, your hands-on Habitat for Humanity work....

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Jimmy Carter is a hero of the renewable energy revolution, and if we’d listened to him we could have gotten where we are now decades earlier.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 30/12/2024

President Biden should put solar panels back on the White House in the next two weeks and dedicate them to President Carter. 🔌💡

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Many know that President Carter put solar panels on the White House. Fewer know that he signed PURPA, the law that kick started solar energy for the entire world. That legacy alone makes him one of the greats.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Jimmy Carter was right about climate change. He was right about the Mideast conflict and apartheid in Israel and South Africa and the ongoing plagues of poverty and racism. It was he not Reagan who freed our hostages in Iran. A true man of God, he died beloved, which not many presidents do or will.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

This is the lash photograph of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyeh, taken as he walks, unflinching, towards the Israeli tanks. An absolutely harrowing image.

A man on a white lab coat walks away from the camera, surrounded by rubble. Two Israeli tanks look ahead.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/12/2024

A key international food insecurity monitor retracted a report warning of imminent famine in Israeli-sieged north Gaza after the Biden administration pressured the group to do so, new reporting finds.

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Biden Officials Pressured US-Funded Food Monitor to Retract Gaza Famine Warning

The findings of famine conditions in north Gaza have been corroborated by myriad experts and aid groups.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Sending gratitude. Eager to explore!

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ChristyCrow77 🏳️‍🌈✨🐦‍⬛ @mschristycox77.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Homelessness. 770.000 Americans are homeless and it is getting worse. Those people need help not a tax cut. Social programs work only if we fund them . Mental health needs help in this country, now .

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Tell Your Senators: Oppose Linda McMahon for Education Secretary 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Your Senators: Oppose Linda McMahon for Education Secretary

Contact Congress today!

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Send letters to Senators opposing key cabinet nominees below. Let's get to 80,000 overall today! PLEASE SHARE! Recess Appointments: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Patel: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Kennedy: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell... Gabbard: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Please personalize your letters to make them more effective. Thanks to @dworkin.bsky.social for organizing this action.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I’ll be sharing more about my own long-term project, #UrbanPastorals, in collaboration with the #Somerville Community Growing Center and the Racial Justice Collaborative, soon.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Daily listening while I recover from eye surgery. Sharing my recommendations and inciting your listening as well.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 1st segment with poet James Crews: “in order to become this beautiful evolved thing, we do have to struggle. And no one would invite that … but it is the birthright of being a human and staying alive to the world around us.”

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Episode 19: Poet James Crews, Podcast Hosts Fran Chismar, Tom Knezick and Urban Naturalist Joanna Brichetto

Podcast Episode · The WildStory: A Podcast of Poetry and Plants by The Native Plant Society of New Jersey · 12/12/2024 · 1h 45m

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Real life is not like science fiction, where the power usage required for processing rarely, if ever, factors into the plot. I still care very much about the ethics of AI usage but I really think its environmental and infrastructural impact desperately needs more exposure.

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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse

There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Spratt on why emissions are increasing even as renewables accelerate: ““The problem is that in an economy that grows and requires more energy each year, at the moment, renewable energy is supplying the energy for the growth.” Our only solution is #degrowth and a wellness economy.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... David Spratt: ““if you have a carbon budget, that's got a 50% chance of not exceeding 2 degrees, it actually has a 10% chance of getting to 4 degrees because of the shape of the probability curve. Now, 4 degrees, everybody knows is the end of human civilization.”

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Facing The World At 3-Degrees Of Warming (w/ David Spratt)

Podcast Episode · The Climate Pod · 12/26/2024 · 50m

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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Over the span of my lifetime, many daily items have been switched from cotton or paper to plastic. Now tiny bits of micro plastic are in every one of our bodies. What did we think would happen when we brew our tea in freaking plastic??? It’s not too late to stop this. www.earth.com/news/tea-bag...

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Tea bags release millions of plastic particles during brewing

Polymer tea bags release billions of plastic particles during brewing. They interact with intestinal cells, even entering the nuclei.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The environmental crisis is “also a crisis of mind and spirit.” Be kind. Reflecting on the shared root in English of kind and kin.

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Tom King @proftomking.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

“Live today what you believe.”

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