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NPR @npr.org · 26/06/2026

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office. n.pr/4aWVKvt

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Ex-NOAA employees re-create a valuable climate data site shut down by Trump

Former NOAA staffers have launched a new website that provides climate information. It replaces a government site that was shut down when the Trump administration took office.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 24/06/2026

For the first time on record, solar generated more electricity than coal across the entire U.S. - despite active federal policy pushing the other direction. Read more at the link below!

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The great solar-coal flip | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

Solar passes coal, super El Niño looms, and show your warming stripes Coal built the Industrial Revolution - now wind and solar are beating

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Found a slime mold today! Nature is amazing.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Two lovely sights from a morning walk: A sword fern fiddlehead makes a loop around a deer heart leaf, and pink rhododendrons in full bloom 🌱

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 22/04/2026

Too many of us are living as if we have more than one Earth's worth of resources to consume: but there's a lot more positive action out there than headlines suggest. Read on, and don't forget to share what you learn!

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1 billion people celebrating Earth Day | Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe

1 billion people celebrating Earth Day by Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe on Patreon. Join Talking Climate with Katharine Hayhoe's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Saw a spectacular number of sunflower stars this weekend while tidepooling. 🎉

Purple sunflower star on eel grass at low tide

An orange sunflower star explores the eel grass. A group of people and one dog are visible exploring the beach in the background.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11/04/2026

A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.

A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.

A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Listen, I know it's been super dry in the western U.S., but "rooting" for a strong El Nino to alleviate the dryness is not what you want to be doing. A strong El Nino will likely send global temperatures soaring to new records and will create suffering for countless people.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A few pictures from our #nokings protest in Ketchikan, Alaska. Over 200 gathered. 1/

People line the street during a no kings by the federal building in downtown Ketchikan. A snowy deer mountain is visible in the background. a sign on the left reads “ real patriots respect our constitution and rule of law”

A dog has a sign hanging from its neck that reads “ I only bite fascists”

Totem carver Lee Wallace wearing a red beanie cap holds a sign that says love is greater than hate. The heart representing the word love is painted with a Tlingit line art design.

A sign with 4 United States flags says “Trump = corruption. For more information trumpcorruptiontracker.com corruption is a betrayal of public trust for personal gain”

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

New moss books arrived, and they are fabulous! 😍

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

For botany club this week we attempted to find all 7 of the lichen forms described in Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Dust Crust Scale Leaf Club Shrub Hair ‘Twas a fun exercise.

A collage of three lichen photos:

light grey-green dust lichen coats a rock,
the pale “green fairy barf” lichen is a crustose lichen. It has pick round spore producing structures,
A light green scale-like lichen growing out of a tree trunk looks like a collection of miniature scalloped shelves

Four larger lichens are shown in this collage: a leaf-like tree pelt lichen, devil’s matchstick lichen (a club form lichen), witches hair hanging from pine branches, and reindeer lichen (a shrub form of lichen)

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I would love to share some videos of balloon launches and a short interview with a meteorologist in our geoscience class. Any Alaska weather folks interested in a zoom call and/or sharing balloon launch videos? @alaskawx.bsky.social

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

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the moon report 🌑 @seachanger.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

very cute native plant alert: azolla filiculoides. they’re a fern in ancient symbiosis with a cyanobacteria that allows them to fix nitrogen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/02/2026

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Watching moss rehydrate under the microscope is magical! Here are 4 photos of Bartramiopsis lescurri (false apple moss) taken over 10 minutes. Upper left is just before adding water. Clockwise from there shows the hydration process.

The collage of images shows a dark stem with twisted and contorted black leaves (upper left), the same stem starting to absorb water and showing hints of green (upper right), the leaves all green and starting to extend (lower right) and the leaves fully extended and completely green (lower left)

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Thought it was really cool how this afternoon’s snow was only sticking where the support beams are on the board walk. Obv a bit colder there but I’m not sure why.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

After 18 days of near-continuous rain, we saw the Sun again. The dogs were SO happy to be outside and not getting wet! #AlaskaSky

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

A selection of signs from Ketchikan’s Valentine’s Day Protest. Over 100 people came. We sang several songs, including: It’s okay to change your mind, Show us your courage, Leave this behind. Oh it’s okay to change your mind, And you can join us, Join us here anytime.

Two people hold signs. One reads “ stop protecting pedophiles.” The other sign says “ love the Neighbor, Canada.”

A woman holds a sign that says: “$10 billion heist: Trump suing IRS for failure of HIS 2018 administration.”

A woman holds a sign that says: “ roses are red, violets are blue, Trump protects pedos, if you support Trump you do too.”

Dozens of people stand along the street holding signs. Some visible signs include:
abolish ice
In Alaska, we like our ice crushed
Prison without due process is a concentration camp

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive. It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water. Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/02/2026

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding

The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I’d like to introduce you to two of my favorite bryophytes: Tree Ruffle Liverwort, which swoops out like beautiful vegetative dragons And Neckera douglasii, which has the most beautiful crinkled leaves.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Every president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017. He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Went tidepooling in the dark tonight and saw a rose star! Also a yellow Dorid (I think) and the cutest baby leather star ever. #AlaskaSky

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Happy birthday botany club! Yesterday we celebrated with a tailgate picnic of hot chocolate, coffee, and snacks before heading out for a hike in the rain. We’ve hosted a botany-themed hike here in Ketchikan every Sunday for an entire year! 1/

9 smiling people stand in a parking lot holding mugs.

8 people and 1 poodle stand on a rainy beach. Each person is wearing a colorful rain jacket and standing in rainbow order according to the color of their rain jackets. Red on the left, followed by orange yellow, green, shades of blue, and purple.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We’ve had several storms lately with high winds. So the trails are decorated with epiphytes. So many beautiful pieces of branches covered with lichen, moss, and ferns.

A licorice fern arches across a bed of moss covering a fallen branch. A beach is visible in the background

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Today I emailed & called my senators. I hope you’ll do the same. My message: I am your constituent from Ketchikan. Please vote NO to additional ICE funding. In 2025, ICE detained over 170 US Citizens. They deported a US Veteran to South Korea. They detained thousands of LEGAL immigrants. 1/

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/01/2026

YOUR PHONE CALLS TO THE SENATE ARE WORKING. KEEP CALLING. 202–224-3121 Three Democrats who previously broke with the party and voted with the GOP are now saying they will not vote for the bill. That’s enough for the bill to be unpassable right now.

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DHS funding bill faces new Senate hurdles after another person killed in Minneapolis

Some Democrats who voted for recent funding bills said they'll vote against any DHS bill without restrictions on enforcement operations. The deadline to avert a shutdown is Friday.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

‼️Pick up the phone and CALL your senators. Tell them not to fund ICE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

You can see pretti’s hands under the pile all the way up to where gray jacket guy takes the gun. Pretti clearly never pulled it out.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Question for @brunota2003.bsky.social and @alaskawx.bsky.social and any other weather folks. Is this hoar frost or something else? Long columnar formations coating virtually everything, especially in shady areas. Seems to have grown longer over successive days. No precip. Clear skies. In KTN.

Frost growing from stick. Fingers from a gloved hand are visible for scale

Frost growing on the shaded side of a log near a frozen muskeg pond

Column-like fingers of frost grow from a branch

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Found peaceful moments this morning contemplating the frost on an icy muskeg. Such intricate and beautiful formations! #AlaskaSky

Frost forms pillars of white on the surface of a frozen pond.

A top view of hexagonal ice formations, which are white, on the dark background of a frozen pond

Host frost grows on an evergreen leaf of salal

Hoar frost coats the branches of Labrador tea and other plants in a muskeg. Conifers and sunlight and blue sky are visible in the background

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital

The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Found a most spectacular branch with hair ice this morning! This amazing formation only grows on wood infected with the fungus Exidiopsis effusa.

A thick branch has thin strands of white ice that grow out and curve from the branch like delicate white hair.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026

AOC: This is quite a bit of market concentration. Agreed? CVS HEALTH CHAIR DAVID JOYNER: No. I'd suggest it's a model that works well for the consumer AOC: It works well for CVS. Health insurance gets a cut, pharmacy benefit manager gets one, drug manufacturer gets one, & the patient gets screwed

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The National Park Service had roughly 18,000 permanent employees in January 2025. One out of every four is not there today. Let that sink in.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Last night was special

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/01/2026

SEEING IS BELIEVING DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite. 📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported. DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

My favorite video of Callahan from yesterday. The collective joy of watching this whale has been such a delight! After 5 consecutive days of bubble feeding here, it appears to have swam on to other fishing grounds. 1/

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Science Mom @thesciencemom.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Views of the Aurora from mountain point (south of Ketchikan) at 5:30 am on Jan 20. It covered the entire sky and was flickering and pulsing. Incredible 😍 #AlaskaSky

Green and pink are visible in a night sky with stars, viewed thru the beams of a navigational marker near the beach

A night sky with some stars and a pulsing mixture of purple and green aurora

The Big Dipper asterism of stars is visible in a view of the night sky with Aurora that is about half magenta pink and half tinged with purple and green

A view from mountain point looking southeast over Revilla channel. Lights from boats and homes are visible, as well as a distinct lightening of the horizon due to the approaching sunrise. In the sky above are green and purple aurora

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