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President, AirQualityAsia; former SG, PGA no not the golf association. Mom, Sing through all the darkness

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Iran war is speeding up the shift away from fossil fuels. That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Unintended consequences of war in Iran are helping the climate
The Iran war is turbocharging global electrification. But experts say the global grid needs to roughly double in size, as infrastructure bottlenecks prevent a clean energy revolution.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 28/09/2026
A $2.3 Billion Toxic Ammonia Plant Wants to Move In Three-Quarters of a Mile From a Small Town. Would You Let It Near Your Kids? ⁉️ www.momscleanairforce.org/ammonia-p…
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The New Neighbor No One Wants: A Polluting Ammonia Plant
Developers want to build Pennsylvania’s first polluting ammonia facility in the pristine area of Karthaus Township. This is one of dozens of ammonia facilities currently being proposed across the U.S.
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms! A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨Onder v. Missouri
Learn more here.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Parton Day! 9.25 (9 to 5)
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👻boovezcocacola @buvezcocacola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seen in Virginia
A bumper sticker reads
I HEAR MIGRANT CHILDREN ALSO HAVE HEARTBEATS
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 25/09/2026
New Post! “My Young Son Developed Asthma as xAI Started Operating”: Moms Talk Data Centers at NYC Climate Week ift.tt/Y1lIF59
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“My Young Son Developed Asthma as xAI Started Operating”: Moms Talk Data Centers at NYC Climate Week
Moms' Isabel González Whitaker set the stage for a panel discussion about the environmental impacts of AI data centers at an NYC Climate Week event yesterday at The New School.
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I investigated Reliance Greens, the corporate enclave where Ambani's scandal-ridden zoo is based, for my book: cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co... The enclave is part of a wider project to use corporate "social responsibility" to promote Hindu nationalism. @newcastleucu.bsky.social my DMs are open.
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When Companies Rule | Columbia University Press
Company towns are back. From Indian oil refineries to Kenyan canned food factories to Amazon warehouses, companies today rule over the daily lives of around ... | CUP
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/09/2026
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2026 minimum on Sept. 12, tying for the 10th lowest in the satellite record. The long-term decline is clear, even though the trend has flattened since 2007. Scientists are studying why—and what it means. More: www.climate.us/news-feature... #ClimateWeekNYC
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Arctic sea ice 2026 summer minimum extent tied for 10th lowest
Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 12, 2026. At 4.60 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles), the 2026 minimum extent is statistically tied for tenth lo...
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 23/09/2026
Children’s lifetime fire risk is rising: Those born in 2025 in Europe may face up to 84% more extreme fire weather than those born in 1950, with stronger exposure in the Mediterranean. www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-next-gen...
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European children to face twice as much extreme fire weather as grandparents
A VUB study has found that young Europeans will experience years of dangerous fire weather over their lifetime as climate warms
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ShaziaZRafi @shaziazrafi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social Get Sharbat Unnab made by Hamdard available online in US. South Asian vocalists use it to protect our vocal chords as we sing for hours every day.
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My bedroom looked out on the towers. I am grateful always that @shaziazrafi.bsky.social took my sister and I from school to stay at our dad's, though they were recently divorced and it was awkward, bc she knew then what the city has now admitted: we shouldn't go home. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/n...
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The Lethal Dust of 9/11
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've posted before about a "local" 9/11, how I experienced it in lower Manhattan as a trauma of lost lives, ill health and environmental destruction and how detached I often feel from its geopolitical meaning because for those first weeks, we really weren't focused on that locally.
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ShaziaZRafi @shaziazrafi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@mayor.nyc.gov you must attend the 9/11 Memorial as Gotham's mayor. The memorial also honors Muslim-Americans who died in service of humanity like Salman Hamdani www.npr.org/2017/09/08/5...
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A Mother Remembers Her Son, A Muslim-American First Responder Who Died On Sept. 11
Talat Hamdani's son Salman died after the police cadet rushed to the fallen towers to help. The first responder was later wrongfully identified by police and the press as an accomplice in the attacks.
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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ShaziaZRafi @shaziazrafi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Did a Clean Air Pledge for @AirQualityAsia with @UChicago EPIC program led by ChristaHasenkopf. Such a challenge to decide the mid point between the world we want and the world we can achieve by 2030
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bluevoter24.bsky.social @bluevoter24.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
True that! #music #activism
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EDC🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇰🇨🇦🇦🇺🇵🇹🇩🇪🇮🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪 @simplyedc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#sustainableliving ideas that actually work in addressing #climatechange
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The Verge @theverge.com · 07/09/2026
Plug-in solar isn’t going to replace utility-scale solar farms or 10kW rooftop arrays, but it fills the missing bottom layer of the clean energy transition. Beyond the savings, I like that I’m reducing my contribution to climate change, and that feeling’s invaluable. Read more: buff.ly/q02YxWj
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John Maguire @johnmaguire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/09/2026
For nearly 60 years, Dolly Parton kept up her membership in the Nashville Association of Musicians (AFM Local 257)—a notable commitment in Tennessee, a right-to-work state with one of the nation’s lowest union participation rates.
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Here's to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally.
Community-based philanthropy and fighting for the underdog defined the superstar’s legacy.
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Strange to think that an embryo can lose its rights if it develops into a female
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
With today's filing in the Supreme Court, Elias Law Group is now litigating 90 voting and election cases.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026
We now know harmful “forever chemicals” are likely in the bodies of most people on Earth. Decades ago, 3M knew that these chemicals had seeped into the public’s blood, but they kept that a secret. One 3M scientist helped reporter Sharon Lerner understand how they kept it quiet for so long:
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How the Planet-Altering Disaster of “Forever Chemicals” Was Kept Secret
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
These religious leaders were arrested for protesting ICE. Looks like fascism to me. This was in Vermont
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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If we are going to allow cybercabs with no steering wheels or pedals to shuttle people around, why not just build trains? They are safer than car accidents
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ShaziaZRafi @shaziazrafi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just gutted.. @womensmediacenter.bsky.social post on passing of my friend, first editor @TheRobinMorgan So many memories of discussions on politics, life, poetry and always laughter, much laughter. My last collab on her radio show womensmediacenter.com/wmclive/wmc-...
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WMC Live #485: Elegy for The White House. (Original Airdate 11/2/2025) - Women’s Media Center
Robin mourns the destruction of the East Wing by Trump. Special Guest Shazia Rafi plots an alternative "states' rights" campaign to save democracy.
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ShaziaZRafi @shaziazrafi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
no words 4 what #GloriaSteinem created in feminist activism - 4 peace, 4 inclusion and 4 empowerment. Fortunate to have written my first article in the US for @msmagazine.com followed by many more for @womensmediacenter.bsky.social and having worked for WAA - all created by this one life force
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Alex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Follow the money. Since 2015. Global oil investment has fallen 37% Renewable investment has grown 88%. That’s not a prediction about the energy transition. The capital already moving. Math always wins. #Renewables #EnergyTransition #ESG www.iea.org/reports/worl...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/08/2026
We uncovered a massive archive of phone numbers and geolocation data. It revealed a phone-tracking empire that has been used to target everyone from the former prime minister of Qatar to actor Jared Leto to a softball coach in Hawaii.
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A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 25/08/2026
We are heartbroken by the loss of American icon Dolly Parton, who passed away at 80. Dolly was an extraordinary role model whose music, generosity, and spirit will inspire generations to come. ​
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: TWO Australian Scientists, Stacey Edwards & Juliet French, Have Discovered Cancer-Fighting RNA Molecules That Could Lead to a New Generation of Breast Cancer Treatments
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/08/2026
A growing number of Native American community leaders from across California say the government’s spraying of the controversial herbicide glyphosate is poisoning their ancestral lands and infringing on their cultural and religious practices.
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Native American leaders denounce record glyphosate spraying on national forests
“It's kind of like killing our tribe again.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: The US Postal Service announced late Friday night that it intends to move forward with its final rule on changing how mail voting is administered. The new rule was created to enact Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to restrict mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes final rule on restricting mail voting forward
The federal postal service acknowledges the new rule will impose burdens on states, but says its necessary to help law enforcement hunt for voter fraud.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/08/2026
“Wealth is increasingly concentrated in a single industry, consumed by a singular purpose. The American oligarchy is an AI oligarchy,” writes our Tim Murphy.
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How the American oligarchy went hyperscale
The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires--and forcing a reckoning.
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 22/08/2026
😡 The climate crisis is hitting families across the U.S. with deadly extreme weather. While Trump makes matters worse by stalling clean energy projects and propping up fossil fuels, @momscleanairforce.org is calling on Congress to step up and take action. Join us. app.sosha.ai/s/ZMsOjRDm
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Tell Congress: The Climate Clock Is Ticking. Act Now for Our Kids’ Future.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NASA released clearest view of surface of Mars!!!
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Nate @nateduty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Toyota is developing a solid-state battery that targets a 1,200 km (750 miles) range, and charge in 10 minutes or less. This technology is not yet on sale; Toyota aims to commercialize it around 2027 or 2028. It's on my Christmas list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5ap...
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Toyota Just Dropped a Bombshell: A $17,999 Car Will Shakes The Entire EV Industry!
YouTube video by cfuentescerda
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ShaziaZRafi @shaziazrafi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Remembering Ben Ferenz today as the Nuremberg Principles enshrined by the International Law Commission are under assault. Ben, your legacy endures, the strength of international law does not wither, it was a honor to have worked with you for the cause of international justice
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 18/08/2026
Extreme heat 🔥 more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought ift.tt/0kwZRPc
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Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought
Study finds older adults could face harmful heat stress at just 1.5C of warming above preindustrial levels
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/08/2026
NEW: Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs. In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Measles Used to Be in Our Rearview Mirror. Now Cases Are Reaching Record Highs.
In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children.
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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are building our fuel security now and in the future. Between 2013 and 2022, four out of our six refineries closed and our fuel reserves were held in Texas.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I simply do not understand the mentality of people who prefer oil and gas and "drill baby drill" to the cost of the Earth and our pockets... to those of us who want clean, cheap, renewable energy. How brainwashed by big oil and its (often) paid advocates do you have to be? How gullible.
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
London Blackfriars station led the way with solar in January 2014. 4,400 photovoltaic panels covering 6,000 square meters, generating roughly 900,000 kWh of electricity annually to supply half the station's energy.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
California will NOT be bullied to stay stuck in the past. www.yahoo.com/news/science...
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California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record
New batteries to store solar electricity and low demand in May both contributed to high percentage of electricity that came from solar.
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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dear government, don’t send startling, high-pitched alerts about wildfires to ordinary people's phones. Send them to the CEOs of fossil fuel companies and make them impossible to switch off until they stop the destructive plunder that's contributing to climate change.
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#datacentres #datacenters
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