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Ora Tor

@splitrailfence.bsky.social
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Civil War historian. Kind to nonhumans. CORE and NOW for ERA activist. Former union rep. Retired from social studies, financial analysis, small business. Traveled over 50k US miles for my research. Nature knows best & intends no ill will.

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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 7h
Zemmour called Black and Brown immigration “an invasion that is turning into colonization.” And, he said, “You cannot be French with a Muslim first name.” Muslims have lived in France for over 1,300 years.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Tuesday allowed a pro-voting challenge to Louisiana’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law to move forward, including claims that the law discriminates against voters based on national origin. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Judge greenlights challenge to Louisiana anti-voting law, citing discrimination claims
The judge found that the pro-voting plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that officials in Lafayette Parish discriminated against some registration applicants based on national origin.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 6h
Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 5h
A new ethics disclosure shows Karoline Leavitt’s family investments included stock in Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants. www.washingtonsun.com/money/karolin…
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Karoline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and Tesla
An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 5h
Stole this meme in 2022
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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 6h
Quiet Parking Lot 6”x8” Oil on cradled wood panel . Available on my website
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 5h
The Democrats can put a rider into the Appropriations Bill that: (a) renames the Office; and (b) defunds its ability to engage in third-party deportations to other countries through defunding airplane contracts.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 5h
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge
The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.
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Ora Tor @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 17h
"Anthropic filed its S-1 registration for a stock market listing that could value the company near $2 trillion ...The filing shows the company lost $8 billion last year while generating $4.6 billion in revenue, a fivefold gap between income and spending." www.indy.finance/news/anthrop...
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Will @willgtu.bsky.social · 17h
13-year-old in custody for allegedly shooting middle school teacher in 'tragic and violent act' in Hobbs, New Mexico abcnews.com/US/13-year-c...
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13-year-old in custody for allegedly shooting middle school teacher in 'tragic and violent act'
A 13-year-old boy is in custody after allegedly shooting and seriously wounding a teacher at his New Mexico middle school, authorities said.
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Lorenzo Salgado, jr. @oznezol.bsky.social · 23h
One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
vote.gov
Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 17h
"XR was built on a simple idea - that ordinary people, given the truth, and some agency, will act. Because the science then said food systems, water supplies, and ecosystems were heading for collapse and nobody in power was acting like it was true." via Extinction Rebellion UK
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17h
Russia has one enormous strategic advantage of which it is taking advantage. It can daily attack civilian targets--hospitals, universities, markets--knowing that while Ukraine can do the same, the Ukrainians are too humane to do so.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17h
The raw visceral hatred some men have for women, at least women who step out of line, is shocking. I know it sounds like some sorta "one of the good ones" ploy but I am genuinely taken aback when I see it because I think: I had a fairly normal socialisation as a man in the west, how did I miss this?
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Dr David Clampin @wwiiadvertising.bsky.social · 18h
I have created a thing for the @historyofads.bsky.social, an exhibition reflecting on the teenage consumer from 1959 to the turn of the 21st century. We are touring, last night London Gallery West, from Monday @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come along, and stay tuned for further venues as we work north.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GS: Stellar earnings growth in 2026 has led to a derating in forward PE multiples ...
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BofA: We expect the impulse from the One Big Beautiful bill to turn slightly negative in FY 2027 and FY 2028
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Julia Coronado @jc-econ.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is not the 90s part bazilion and 6--the absolute voracious consumption of resources required for the AI buildout means the GDP deflator (economy wide inflation) is running 2.75x 1999 w. equip & intellectual prop investment inflation contributing meaningfully vs the disinflation of the 90s
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
This is the investigation where Trump was trying to tie the "Russia hoax" to the Mar a Lago search to overcome the Statute of Limitations, and where Judge Cannon was going to have to decide whether to let five fired FBI agents testify about Volume II of Jack Smith's report. 2/
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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 28/09/2026
Just as a reminder, that's Linda McMahon standing next to him. If you're watching and engaging with WWE, you're contributing to the fascist attacks on the people on this country and the world by this administration.
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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Such an important point. The AI press is designed to re-write the sense of self according to the blueprint of a select few that includes only an anemic view of self agency and determination.
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V Pace @vpace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The profession most likely to domestically abuse has been given tools to make that even easier. Good job everyone.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026
This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year
theclimatebrink.com
The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño
El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My entire life republicans have made life harder, yet the ones hit the hardest just keep voting for more pain
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Expert warns new Trump law designed to choke off essential health care for Americans
New federal rules likely will force three dozen states to reduce their annual Medicaid payments to doctors and hospitals by a total of more than $50 billion — potentially shrinking the number of provi...
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Grand Theft Artaud @itskristenpaul.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am well into animism and non dual teachings for these reasons. We 100 percent need to see the earth as sacred, and each being as a reflection of the greater whole. As we have a death cult that would prefer to destroy the earth than acknowledge their shared humanity and mortality.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When people think about humanitarianism, they usually think of the aftermath of a natural disaster and the relief and aid that follow. humanitarianism is too often thought of within the bounds of the NGO industrial complex. But those systems are being targeted and dismantled right now.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 28, 1874. The U.S. military defeated the Comanche in Palo Duro Canyon, south of modern Amarillo, Texas, largely by stealing their horse herds. This made previous Comanche ways of life, including their work cultures, impossible and forced them into a reservation!
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says his office is reopening the investigation into the 2024 gang rape of a student at a Cornell University fraternity abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns Keys crops such as cereals, potatoes, sugar and oils grown in areas with moderate to very high risk www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns
Keys crops such as cereals, potatoes, sugar and oils grown in areas with moderate to very high risk
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Lois Norder @gainvestigate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This move will waste taxpayer dollars on travel and delay or cancel court proceedings, judges say. It will violate defendants' rights to a speedy trial and effective counsel, defense attorney say. And it separates families. Why is DOJ going ahead? It won't say. www.ajc.com/news/2026/09...
ajc.com
Plan to move detainees to South Georgia illogical, defense attorneys argue
Legal motions to prevent the transfer have started rolling in, with attorneys expecting to file dozens more in the coming weeks.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is touting a diesel export ban and Goldman Sachs has produced a note to say why it’s a bad idea. Initially US diesel drops by $0.25 a gallon during the week of the ban, but that then pushes gas prices ⬆️ After the ban, global prices would still be higher due to lost US refinery output.
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Commodities Research
26 September 2026 | 11:50AM EDT
OIL ANALYST
Modeling Potential US Diesel Export Restrictions
Daan Struyven
draw five conclusions.
on US diesel prices as inventories build. We estimate that, initially while storage
under 4% of the current $6.5/gallon.
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production can mean downward pressure on gasoline production, i.e. upward
• Third, restrictions on US diesel exports would add upward pressure on ex-US
with prices elsewhere, including Europe, putting upward pressure on US diesel
• Gasoline markets are tightening rapidly.
would tighten ex-US gasoline markets.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 27/09/2026
On this day in 1958, after violent resistance to integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, white residents voted to close local public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders.
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not just an escalation of the Eliza Effect, but also another stage of asking people to doubt that it matters to be human
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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Credible reporting from @IdafeMartin & Noah Barkin that France & Germany will imminently present their joint paper on how to tackle the China challenge to Brussels Per Noah, Berlin & Paris want an instrument to "allow us to cut China off from European market within 24 hours.”
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Dave Whamond @davewhamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And we still love libraries and librarians!
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Ora Tor @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Major League Baseball has approached the Trump administration about hosting a game at a national park, officials from the White House and the league confirmed ... the Trump administration has scouted locations in Grand Teton National Park, located in northwest Wyoming, to build a baseball park."
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MLB, White House discuss playing game at national park
The White House said in a statement that MLB asked the administration about hosting a game at a national park, adding that the National Park Service has not granted a permit to do so.
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Djoran Keil @djorankeil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm genuinely curious at what point people think to themselves, "Huh, I wonder if there really is something to all the people calling them Nazis?"
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
AfD bans Stolpersteine: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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German town bans stumbling stone memorials to Nazi victims
Germany's education minister has branded the ban on the small brass memorial plaques a "scandal".
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
“What I personally find so frustrating is no one is ever given an ounce of grace for the understandable ways these conversations might blur. Whereas, men who act poorly are given a delusional amount of cover & protection. They say illogical things and get polite responses.” - on sexism in AI spaces.
Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
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One dynamic to be aware of in the current discourse: I do agree that there is sometimes a motte & bailey where people are slut-shaming, only to retreat to concerns around second-order harassment. However, I would like to discuss this dynamic in a different way.
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I will get to my main point by 3). To set context: 1) it is very difficult to be heard within some EA, rationalist, & Al safety spaces when you discuss sexism, harm, and harassment. You have to use specific framings and language. You have to be
"precise." You cannot misstep.
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2) You have to spend time inspecting a number of illogical assumptions that govern these spaces, "if autistic men harass you, they do not mean itỊ(?) Distress is always reduced to
"discomfort," regardless of the inciting incident, abuse is a "norm differenceỊietc.
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3) right now, for various reasons, there is sustained & wider discourse about sexism in these spaces. This means women who have never really had their experiences taken seriously may use this as an opportunity to share.
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Frances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
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Yes, some people are doing a motte & bailey. Some people have also simply felt prompted to start discussing real harms they've been concerned about for months or years. Predictably, these two threads are colliding and blurring in a messy way.
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What I personally find so frustrating is that no one is ever given an ounce of grace for the understandable ways these conversations might blur. Whereas, men who act poorly are given a delusional amount of cover & protection. They say illogical things and get polite responses.
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Frances Lorenz @frances_lorenz
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There are people who have existed in these spaces for years and years, who have consistently and relentlessly made it difficult for any real, empathetic, productive discussion on sexism to occur.
They are doing a motte & bailey too, and they will continue to do
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They know what happens in these spaces, that there are legitimate issues, and they will take those and chuck them under slut-shaming or "women being sensitive & not liking it when men ask them out because they have no agency boo hooạỊi
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Frances Lorenz @frances_lorenz
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The thing I really want to say is: regardless of the current discourse, there are legitimate accounts of harm that the community has not reckoned with. In Al safety, I know of: a hiring manager asking out an applicant in their hiring round, while the round was still underway.
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Multiple fellowship mentors reported as consistently making women mentees uncomfortable, still returninh as a mentors. A man discussing explicit sexual content, including attending orgies, at an explicitly professional event, in front of people they'd never met.
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None of these accounts are public and more detail can't be given or they'd be identifiable. And then there are more severe accounts that are specific and cannot be shared at all, even in an anonymised or vague way, due to theirFrances Lorenz @frances__lorenz
And there are always reasons and rationalizations and no one really takes it that seriously, except for those of us who do and are disgusted. Lament about precision all you want, but the precise issues exist and they are ignored.
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Frances Lorenz @frances_lorenz
If this field is going to grow, then it will need women, and if more women come on, the field may need an actual reckoning, and that reckoning will not be about consensual sex parties.
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Frances Lorenz @frances lorenz
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At the risk of being insufferable, I am one of the few experienced event organisers operating in this space and I'm very worried about Al. I would love to just spend all my time working, hanging out with my wife & friends, & writing nice stuff, but I am worried about the girls
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Extra Fun Bonus Points for recognizing this is a rapidly changing issue and many parts of the US that are not arid/semi-arid are already stressed by overuse.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 27/09/2026
"Hitler was now the law, as Goering said." - Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich," p. 337.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Justo Betancourt was detained at Alligator Alcatraz for six and a half months. His daughter, Arianne Betancourt, tried to talk with Maria Elvira Salazar at a community event. Arianne wanted to know why Salazar never helped her dad, despite her pleading with Salazar’s office to do so.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/09/2026
One of America’s great wildlife recoveries is coming undone. Across the Chesapeake this year, Bryan Watts and his colleagues at William & Mary’s Center for Conservation Biology recorded the worst osprey breeding season they have ever documented.
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Ospreys are disappearing along the East Coast. Scientists think they know why.
At the center of a widening crisis for one of the nation's great wildlife comebacks is a fish most Americans would hardly recognize.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was released on this day 62 years ago. I have a first edition & come back to it often, including this paragraph in the chapter "Obligation to Endure." It's worth reading. "We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts."
Cover of Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonThe last paragraph in the Silent Spring chapter Obligation to Endure, reads, in part, " We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts... The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know."
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