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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Global sea levels have already risen by over 10cm between 1993 and 2024 There was an unexpectedly fast rising of the global sea level in 2024 Scientists were anticipating a rise of 0.43 centimetres, but instead recorded a rate of 0.59cm. www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

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Sea level rise: Everything you need to know

The climate crisis is causing sea level rise at unprecedented rates. Where are sea levels rising fastest, and what can coastal communities do to adapt?

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our oceans are dying right in front of our eyes "Warmer waters hold less oxygen, leading to mass fish die-offs such as those seen in Tuscany in 2024. And, as fish dive deeper to escape the heat on surface, they can’t be reached by seabirds, then die off in their masses, too" Awaken up people

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and rate has doubled in 20 years Burning coal, oil gas has added more than 2 trillion tonnes of c02 and other greenhouse gases to atmosphere These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...

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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Trump to remove protections from nearly 59 million acres of the National Forest System, including most of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, one of world’s last remaining temperate rainforests, storing vast amounts of carbon in its centuries-old trees. www.dailyclimate.org/trump-admini...

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Trump administration moves to reopen 59 million acres of protected national forests to logging

The Trump administration announced it will begin dismantling a rule that has preserved tens of millions of acres of roadless national forest from logging and roadbuilding for over two decades.Anna Phi...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Context note: DOJ doesn’t turn over evidence to Congress if they have a viable investigation in the works.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/06/2025

The Trump admin has launched another assault on science, targeting over $30B of funding. This is a wide-sweeping crisis - a direct assault on Congress, the law, AND public science. This fight for science is just as much a fight for democracy. #StandUpForScience zurl.co/NA6BY

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White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding, Targeting NSF, EPA

The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and other agencies

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A report on ending deforestation is now being used to justify more deforestation in Brazil. Industry will distort anything—studies, science, policy—to keep the extraction machine running. Collapse isn’t a bug. It’s the business model. insideclimatenews.org/news/3006201...

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US Forest Report May Fuel More Deforestation in Brazil - Inside Climate News

Brazilian agribusiness interests are igniting a firestorm in their national Congress that may end up eroding a vital rainforest protection law, and for tinder, they’re using a months-old report writte...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

These RFK Jr hires have MASSIVE conflicts of interest. Kulldorf, and all the Great Barrington people, took money from anti-science anti-vax billionaires through AIER, which is the rightwing billionaire thinktank that hosted the GBR. @aoc.bsky.social should skewer RFK Jr. on this.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12/06/2025

A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Climate.gov being purged: The purge spared two web developers, which Di Liberto says is a concerning sign. The contractor said: “My bigger worry, long-term, is I would hate to see it turn into a propaganda website for this administration, because that’s not at all what it was.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/06/2025

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I think Trump wants violence.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.

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General Strike US - Oregon Chapter @generalstrikeor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

From "Let This Radicalize You" by Hayes+Kaba Food for thought on the issues with how violence vs peace/obedience/order is framed by the state and why we should not thoughtlessly let them define it for us. We need to be able to explain the issues with their definitions and provide our own.

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Great Lakes Now @greatlakesnow.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Microplastics are turning up everywhere, especially the Great Lakes. Ripples of Plastic is a documentary that investigates how plastic pollution enters the lakes and what it’s doing do wildlife, water and people. www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/06/how-...

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How much plastic is in the Great Lakes? | Great Lakes Now

A new documentary explores the impact of microplastics in the Great Lakes.

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

'At 4C scientists predict 90% of the world’s population could die. We’re on track to hit 4C within our childrens’ lifetimes. 7,000,000,000+ avoidable deaths. Waiting for a journalist to ask a politician about this.' via Climate Dad [X] #GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #Collapse #Extinction

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Collisions with wind turbines in USA killed about 1.17 million birds in 2021 Wind farms in South Africa already kill an average of 3.8 endangered black harriers per year Through new tech and painting parts of blade black, these numbers can be reduced e360.yale.edu/features/win...

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Birds vs. Wind Turbines: New Research Aims to Prevent Deaths

Window collisions and cats kill more birds than wind farms do, but ornithologists say turbine impacts must be taken seriously. Scientists are testing a range of technologies to reduce bird strikes — f...

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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Am I the only one that finds it absolutely wild that the US would rather tear it's country apart & destroy democracy than accept basic human right & basic science that have been around since the 50's? Absolutely wild.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 08/06/2025

First they illegally deport citizens. Then they unleash ICE to terrorize communities. Now they’ve got the National Guard in L.A. to silence protestors. This ain’t about law and order. This is what authoritarianism looks like.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/06/2025

Before landing at DHS, Fugate worked on the Trump campaign and interned at The Heritage Foundation. According to his LinkedIn profile, the bulk of his leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club. By @hannahallam.bsky.social‬

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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention

One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating…

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/06/2025

This thread from @bxroberts.org is worth your time 👇👇

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Scientists are stunned that Earth’s energy imbalance is rising faster than expected. Maybe it’s time we admit: we don’t understand what we’re doing—and we never did. Only our arrogance is constant. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

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Earth's energy balance is rising much faster than scientists predicted, and we have no idea why

For reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Now, scientists are calling for long-term investment in monitoring capability, so that they can m...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If a Muslim in the US publicly called for a missile strike on a famous celebrity activist onboard a civilian ship or plane, the FBI would be investigating them for terrorism. But a rich white guy gets to incite violence without any consequences 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Dozens of companies who sponsored Pride marches last year have pulled out this year, including: Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Nissan Citi Corporate Pride was always a hoax. popular.info/p/pride-and-prejudice-…

For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

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NPR @npr.org · 04/06/2025

UP FIRST: Tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are doubling today. Here's how it could impact your wallets. And, Trump has asked Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting.

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Steel tariffs double. And, Congress asked to eliminate public broadcasting funds

Tariffs on imported steel and aluminum are doubling today. Here's how it could impact your wallets. And, Trump has asked Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting.

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation @dec.ny.gov · 30/05/2025

Congratulations to Amanda Lefton upon her confirmation by the New York State Senate as the 16th Commissioner of DEC!

DEC Commissioner Amanda Lefton at a recent press event.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 30/05/2025

ummmmm...fake sources, mischaracterization of findings, made up research studies doesn't sound like "Gold Standard Science" to us. But what do we know? We are just a lowly, grassroots community of the world's leading scientists. 🐸☕ #foolsgoldscience #standupforsciece www.notus.org/health-scien...

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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 28/05/2025

Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

100% true. And evidence-based decision-making depends on consensus of the scientific community. The way we know COVID protections save lives is scientists agree on that. And the way the right attacks us is to create doubt about it— the “merchants of doubt” strategy.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Targeting a private educational institute because it won’t conform its governance and curriculum to what the state wants is…communist.

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New York State Department of Environmental Conservation @dec.ny.gov · 26/05/2025

Today DEC honors all who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving our nation. Thank you. 🇺🇸 #MemorialDay

A bald eagle lands on a tree with the United States flag waving on a flag pole in the background.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/05/2025

🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨 Stay tuned for rapid response action! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 23/05/2025

1/ 🚨 Friends...IT'S CONTEST TIME!! Trauma queen Russ Vought is quietly gutting the federal government. Let’s make sure his name is *loudly* — and *unfondly* — remembered. Contest: redefine “Vought”: noun, verb, adjective — whatever hits. Eternal bragging rights await. 👇 #NaughtyVoughty #RussVoughted

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A Project 2025 author carries out his vision for mass federal layoffs

The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 23/05/2025

FEMA’s new acting chief just scrapped the agency’s strategic plan—the one staff called its “organizational backbone.” No replacement. No clear direction. And hurricane season starts in less than two weeks. But that’s not all…. (1/2) www.cbsnews.com/news/fema-re...

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FEMA rescinds strategic plan less than 2 weeks before hurricane season

One FEMA official described the strategic plan as the agency's "organizational backbone," saying, "Without it, there are just a bunch of offices doing whatever they feel like doing."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

As House Republicans pass a budget bill that takes from the poor to finance tax cuts predominantly for the rich, Trump is hosting a dinner for investors in his crypto business who spent a total of $394 million to gain access to him. It's clear who they really serve.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

You have seen how trawling is obliterating the ocean But its happening in the Amazon forest too Known as correntão where a thick chain is attached to two tractors uprooting and obliterating the Amazon forest at fastest rate possible Lungs of the Earth annihilated www.youtube.com/shorts/bDYml...

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The absolute scum bags Alaska gold exploration threatens Cook Inlet's last 331 beluga whales and pristine Alaskan waterways Cook Inlet's belugas are already teetering on the brink of extinction. Once 1,300 strong, the population has crashed to 331 www.courthousenews.com/environmenta...

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Environmentalists blast Alaska goldmine plan as threat to beluga whales

Environmentalists say gold exploration threatens Cook Inlet's last 331 beluga whales and pristine Alaskan waterways.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

16 Democrats joined Republicans to advance crypto regulation that's been rubber stamped by the industry — as Trump profits off his own memecoin. Why? Crypto corporations have shelled out huge campaign contributions to both parties. Big Money has corrupted the system.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

They survived every extinction event so far but not humans World’s insect population collapsing,with more than 40% of all insect species facing extinction Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction cause of large population declines in wild bees www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

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Climate Change And Land Use Changes Combine To Threaten Native Bees

Warming temperatures at night combined with habitat destruction are the cause of large population declines in wild native bee populations.

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