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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pretty sure the oil and gas industry donating to the campaigns both political parities but especially the GOP and especially the billion dollars to Trump’s campaign has a lot to do with the refusal to deploy new energy technologies at scale. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Fossil Fuel Industry Donors See Major Returns in Trump’s Policies

The Trump administration’s embrace of the oil and gas industry’s agenda provides another example of how wealthy special interests shape policies.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once again: heating oil and diesel fuel are the same thing. The story of spiking fuel costs for Nebraska truckers and the story of spiking heating costs in Maine—where 1/2 of all residents burn heating oil to stay warm—are the same story. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

nytimes.com

In Maine Senate Race, Spiking Heating Oil Costs Put Susan Collins on Defensive (Gift Article)

Half of homes in Maine rely on heating oil. Rising costs driven up by President Trump’s war with Iran have become central to the state’s Senate race.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Good question! Red diesel and diesel are chemically identical and used in engines. Engines on public roads must pay excise taxes. Red diesel used in farm and construction equipment is not taxed. Heating oil is also the same and is also dyed red so…. www.eia.gov/energyexplai...

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Heating oil explained - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Heating oil is a distillate fuel and is used mainly for heating buildings.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Well…seems like that could also be true* (*because it sounds something I might say if I couldn’t think how to send up some other signal fast enough)

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

[Correction: it’s in the fuel lines, not the engine per se, where the red dye shows up during inspections and you get busted for tax evasion. Thx @vivarioarriba.bsky.social!]

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Your reminder that quitting fossil fuels altogether—via investments in heat pumps, electrified trucks and farm equipment, smart grids, and renewable energy—is the only way out of this problem and also the only way to save the climate so that agriculture still works. 😑

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And it’s still not clear to to me how this benefits farmers who are in the middle of harvest using machinery fueled by diesel never subject to those taxes in the first place. (But might help them get it to market, I guess?) Here’s more: rollcall.com/2026/10/07/r...

rollcall.com

Red-dyed diesel order unlikely to stem red ink from high prices

A White House bid to address sky high fuel prices by allowing temporary expanded use of untaxed diesel will have a limited impact on businesses and consumers feeling the pain at the pump, experts say....

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

…and most obviously, this announcement does not increase the overall supply of diesel while possibly driving up demand, which may raise costs further. Trump could have declared a ban on exporting US diesel, which would have increased supply, but the oil industry made sure that didn’t happen.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

…the purpose of the red dye is to easily catch scofflaw truckers and there are worries that the dye will linger in engines beyond the tax holiday and ALSO…

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

…the tax is deferred, not lifted. So it’s not clear if a tax bill will come due later. Also, road construction companies are now mad bc the revenue for, say, asphalt, comes from roadway fuel taxes. ALSO…

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Diesel burned on public roadways is subject to excise taxes. Not so if it is burned in your furnace, generator, tractor, combine, construction equipment. So diesel sold for all off-road purposes is dyed bright red. Allowing truckers to fill up on red diesel will save them ~24 cents/ gallon BUT

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When Trump announced in Nebraska on Monday that truckers could now drive on red dye-diesel, he also said “I don’t know what the hell it is.” Quick explainer so you don’t have be like that guy: Heating oil and diesel fuel are the same shit but taxed differently… www.nbcnews.com/business/ene...

nbcnews.com

Aiming at fuel costs, Trump opens tax-exempt ‘red dye’ diesel to all drivers

The high price of gas and everyday necessities has become a dominant issue for voters in the upcoming midterm elections.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Oh FFS those of us who research the health harms of climate change don’t even need Google. Here ya go 👇. Also did anybody check area security and ring camera feeds for the 18 days in question?

Title and citation of a 2024 study, “Effects of Heat Stress-Induced Hormone Dysregulation in Reprodcition and Growth in Male Adolescents….”

Screen shot of excerpt of abstract: “Heat stress due to climate warming can significantly affect the synthesis of sex hormones in male adolescents, which can impair the ability of the hypothalamus to secrete gonadotropin-releasing hormone on the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis, which leads to a decrease in luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone, which ultimately negatively affects spermatogenesis and testosterone synthesis.”

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Truly a life motto for our times that could be translated into the language of one’s ancestors and tattooed onto a visible body part

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm preserving my soul by stockpiling rage.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

easy: I simply do not check my email*

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Me too. Turns out that it was his (first) wife, the always-weeping Tammy Fay Bakker, who was the one who died years ago.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🥚 Jim Bakker, the 1980s prosperity gospel evangelizer and convicted fraudster caught up in sex scandals, has died and it surprises me NOT AT ALL that his survivors include 5 adopted children (from “the inner city”) who were put to work in his ministry. *barf emoji* www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...

nytimes.com

Jim Bakker, TV Evangelist Felled by Fraud and Sex Scandals, Dies

With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“…You must rectify this immediately — for the victim, for the current student body now disgraced by your leadership and for the alumni currently removing their Cornell diplomas from their walls in disgust.”

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Character is defined by how leadership responds to institutional failure. To date, you have failed miserably on every count…”

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There follows a list of 6 demands + a demand to resign. “Make the institutional punishment so severe that no student will ever entertain such behavior again, and prospective female students will not have to weigh the risk of sexual violence when deciding whether to apply to Cornell.”

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More excerpts: “A student claims she was gang-raped by individuals who remain enrolled on your campus. In what universe—scientific, legal or moral—is this tolerable? If you truly believe the University’s cowardly response under your watch was appropriate, you are dangerously unfit for leadership…”

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And here it comes: “The 50% bequest of my estate pledged to Cornell University is officially revoked. Furthermore, I am actively contacting fellow alumni to advocate for a complete, coordinated freeze on all contributions until leadership changes occur.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

cornellsun.com

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | An Open Letter to President Michael Kotlikoff Regarding the Chi Phi Lawsuit

Marco Fuentes ’85 sends an open letter to President Kotlikoff regarding the Chi Phi case, demanding his resignation and a series of steps to repair the University's reputation.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And here I just want to be famous so I can get paid six figures for the occasional public lecture…

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It would be unthinkably horrible. This incident in Staten Island didn’t eve involve a BLEVE but was so horrifying that it prompted a ban on LNG in NYS that last long enough for everyone old enough to remember it to die…. www.silive.com/news/2023/02...

silive.com

50 years ago today: LNG tank explosion kills 40 workers

The incident stands as NYC's worst industrial accident ever.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

…a fellow of infinite jest and most excellent fancy…

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Critical note in #SCOTUS Suncor & Exxon v Boulder: Big Oil fully acknowledges reality of the climate crisis: Attorney Shanmugam, representing the industry, said yesterday in court: “Climate change is certainly one of the most pressing issues” facing the country.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

LNG is a climate-wrecking commodity that is also inflationary and capital-intensive and is rapidly becoming an ill-advised investment—for both its makers and its buyers. Great thread that assembles various recent signals from around the world:

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m a scientist who deals with abstract ideas all day long. Getting an abortion in 1996—after an ultrasound showed that my first pregnancy was almost certainly not going to end happily and might well threaten my life—was the least abstract idea I ever had.

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today at the Supreme Court, my home town of Boulder, Colorado is going head-to-head against ExxonMobil in a case that could determine the future of climate litigation and holding Big Oil accountable for the toll of its harms and lies. Boulder County residents who have lost homes and health spoke.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don’t know but this post was right above yours in my feed…. I nevertheless wish all good things for your saffron crocus bulbs. bsky.app/profile/ianh...

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end? Spoiler: perhaps not A great explanation of why...and why this may be more than just a drought. www.sciencenews.org/article/unit...

sciencenews.org

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reading the whole thing doesn’t make it any better The people on my other side are seeking to defund and dox me. That’s true for every public health and climate scientist I know. Offering them intel would be neither fun nor productive. And why don’t you seem to know this?

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like it’s time once again for this old riddle: If four Nazis are sitting at a table eating lunch together and you join them, how many Nazis are sitting at the table? Five Nazis FIVE. NAZIS.

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OpenAI safety lead David Robinson resigned yesterday in an open essay: "The future depends on wisdom that Silicon Valley lacks. Wisdom about how to handle dangerous technology and, more fundamentally, wisdom about what it means to care for people." www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

theatlantic.com

I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.

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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, policy and leadership matter. Trump's policies, as greenlit by a Republican-led Congress, are the reason why your electricity & gas bills keep rising (while worsening the expensive & deadly climate crisis). Which means a change in policymakers can result in lower bills and a healthier climate.

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