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Otto ⚛️ @noacttoosmall.com · 20/09/2026
Memorial Circle #ArchWatch: Susan D. lays it all out in 30 seconds. Stand watch with us Sept. 21–25, 4–6 PM. This is no boutique struggle over a statue. This is a struggle for the heart and soul of democracy. Join us. There’s a place for you. #ThirdActDMV #NoActTooSmall
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ungated: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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Trump Air Force One Photos Fuel Kennedy Center Demolition Speculation (Gift Article)
Images captured through the windows of Air Force One showed President Trump reviewing a poster with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.”
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Ross Macfarlane @rossmacfarlane.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This arch would have fit right in with Albert Speer's plans for Hitler's Germany, BTW. 2/
Photograph of Hitler and Nazi officials admiring model of planned triumphal arch.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
www.linkedin.com/pulse/nepal-...
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Is Nepal a Turning Point in Climate Coverage?
It’s been slow coming, but news coverage of climate change may at last be turning a corner. For years, reporting on climate-related disasters — the super-storm Hurricane Helene that blasted the southe...
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What's Actions Lab? Find out by dropping in to our Virtual Cafe! thirdact.org/actions-lab/...
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Actions Lab Virtual Cafe
Whether you are a new or long-time member, this is your open invitation to learn who we are, see what we’re working on, and discover how to get plugged in....
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Actions Lab September Meeting: Data Center Moratorium Campaign
Please join us for our September Actions Lab general meeting, where we will host special guest Michael Richardson, Campaigns Director from Third Act. Michael will join us to discuss the...
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 13/08/2026
It really is remarkable that we’ve seen 35°C reached in 4 consecutive months, May, June, July, August, the previous record was 2. We’ve also now beaten 1995 for most days >30°C ever recorded. No other year since records began matches summer 2026. 🥵
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the Trump administration is objectively pro-sexual abuse and domestic violence
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/08/2026
Thanks to fossil-fuel pollution relentlessly heating the planet, Spokane is burning. 10,000 acres have burned, 65,000 residents evacuated, more than 700 structures destroyed. #climatechanged
Residents mourn as they place the remains of dogs into body bags at a burned home in Spokane, Washington, on August 4, 2026.Blazing hillside in a residential neighborhood. Stevens County Fire District 1Aftermath of the Spokane wildfires. City of Spokane Fire Department
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 05/08/2026
First, the Trump Administration tried to eliminate Head Start altogether. When that failed, they apparently decided to make it worse instead.
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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/08/2026
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social is usually great but this is a tired, tired NYT trope: "These results are likely to panic Democrats who were already anxious about El-Sayed’s electability." The "worried Democrats" riff is *such* a pathetic cliché. It's a NYT crutch.
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Opinion | Abdul El-Sayed Thinks Progressives Have a Way to Win. I Hope He’s Right.
He’s quick, magnetic, overflowing with infectious confidence. But he also has a blind spot endemic to his movement.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/08/2026
it is freakin' awesome that @donavanmckinney.bsky.social is headed to Congress. He is a fearless Green New Dealer. www.donavanforcongress.com/priorities
Environmental & Climate Justice
Our district is the poster child for communities in need of the Green New Deal. It’s no secret to every person in this district that we have lead in our water and some of the most polluted air in the country. No one can be expected to raise a family without clean air & water. My grandmother, my mother, my brother, and I all have the same asthmatic cough that is all too common for anyone who grew up in the shadow of our city’s smokestacks and factories. I’m not willing to let another generation of my family or yours suffer the same fate that we have while the fossil fuel companies who are driving this crisis — like DTE and Consumers Energy — raise our utility prices, make record profits year after year, and buy our politicians’ inaction. 

It’s time to break the cycle and understand that we need a solution as large as the climate crisis itself. A Green New Deal transitioning to 100% clean and renewable energy, would  protect our planet’s future and create millions of good-paying green union jobs in Michigan. It’s also a more efficient and sustainable source of energy that will lower energy requirements and consumer costs, while improving our community’s health and cleaning our air & water. And one critical aspect of that for us in metro Detroit is investment to build and expand public transit, so people have the freedom and mobility to get to work, go to the supermarket, and pick up their kids without having to buy a car and pay some of the highest car insurance rates in the country. We deserve choices that corporations won’t let us have. We’re paying the price for this crisis built by greedy CEOs — but they’re the ones who should be paying to fix it.
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you read and share only one piece of post-primary analysis, let it be this. @climatebrad.hillheat.com nails it. So refreshing to see national politics through a #climate lens. Especially when there’s good news! @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Climate-Fueled Fires Put America’s Natural and Cultural Sites At Risk - Inside Climate News
New studies find that wildfire is a major threat to significant historical and national park sites across the United States.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Last night's political earthquake in Michigan should make one thing very clear: it's time for Democrats to grow a spine and stop bending the knee to corporate donors.
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The Failures of “Centrism”
By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#DataCenters are the new fault line in the Democratic Party. Corporate Dems are on the defensive. www.eenews.net/articles/dat...
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Data center foes win big in Tuesday’s primaries
Winners this week either want to crack down on new data centers or enact a moratorium.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This article about UK climate activism is more than a year old but nonetheless instructive www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What next for climate activism now Just Stop Oil is ‘hanging up the hi-vis’?
After three years, thousands of arrests and a state crackdown on protests, the group is ending direct action after a polarising campaign
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Smoke will cover half the US today from the devastating Pacific NW fires. Here’s where we stand: 2.4 Million Acres burned in Washington, Oregon, & Idaho - 16X the size of #Chicago. 700 structures lost. Countless lives changed forever. One unsustainably warming planet. 🌍 #smoke #fire #spokane
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Brutal conditions with over 50C daytime and over 35C nightime continues. Widespread records allover the area. Some of the most extreme MINIMUMS tonight in the EMIRATES: 38.5 Swiehan 36.8 Al Ain Next days,we might see some MINIMUMS of 40C. Absolutely brutal
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yet more records of hot nights in JAPAN 15 more Highest Minimums records fell yesterday In 3 weeks Japan has totalized almost 1000 records and many more are on the way. Humidity often drives heat indexes to deadly levels as high as 50C. A heat wave like no other.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Even as wildfires are raging, fossil fuel companies are raking in record profits...Fossil fuel companies are now pushing for immunity from legal and financial accountability for the climate damages they have caused. Tell Congress: No Immunity for Big Oil! secure.ucs.org/a/2025-congr...
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Tell Congress: No Immunity for Big Oil
Big Oil must not be let off the hook for its decades of deception and climate harms. Tell Congress to stand up to the Trump administration’s corporate giveaways.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Nailed it.
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Kyle Ruggles 🇨🇦 @kyleruggles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Uh huh!
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Jon Green @modestholdings.com · 04/08/2026
Forgive me mom for the blasphemy, but this is a goddamn murder-for-hire machine. At scale.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Got that right. We must connect the dots between #climate, #migration, and #petrostate lies.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#ExxonKnew
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#ExxonKnew #fossil fuel CEOs are criminals who deserve life sentences without parole
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gripyoldman.bsky.social @gripyoldman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I have friends who scoffed at climate change. They didn’t cause it nor could they have stopped it. There is no joy in telling them, again, how stupid and brainwashed they were
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Every news story on the Spokane fires should do what @commondreams.org does - connect the dots with #fossilfuels How about it @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social and @nytimes.com and @msnowreports.bsky.social do you have the guts to do this?
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John steffen @john-steffen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This means the warmer water melted the mass below water till it was less that the top. Global warming
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Climate change makes disease worse.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What could possibly go wrong? interestingengineering.com/space/first-...
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First 'space mirror' satellite gets green light to deliver sunlight
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officially granted California-based startup Reflect Orbital the license to launch and operate Eärendil-1, its first-ever demonstration "space mirror" satell...
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Third Act Upstate New York @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A reason for hope! "...[Heat pumps] substantially reduce fossil fuel use relative to gas boilers even if the electricity for the heat pumps comes from burning fossil fuels. In grids with renewables...heat pumps reduce gas demand, and the accompanying emissions, correspondingly further."
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Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope, July 24, 2026
U.S. heat pump progress!
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Third Act Georgia @thirdactga.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
GEORGIANS! “For the first time in my life I will be voting Democrat,” said a construction worker named Scott who has lived in Effingham County for seven years. “Commissioners need to remember that they work for us, not for themselves.” www.wabe.org/20b-openai-d...
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$20B OpenAI data center project sparks outrage among Coastal Georgia residents
Nearly 1,000 people confronted OpenAI and Effingham County officials Thursday about the $20 billion data center project that had been negotiated for months but announced, without any public comment or...
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Third Act Georgia @thirdactga.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
GEORGIANS! Congratulations! We won! www.ajc.com/news/2026/07...
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Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is now a UNESCO World Heritage site
The Okefenokee is the first natural site in the U.S. to be added to the World Heritage List in more than 30 years.
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Third Act Georgia @thirdactga.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
GEORGIANS! THIRD ACT GEORGIA HAS OFFICIALLY ENDORSED DANIELLE BELL FOR GA HOUSE DISTRICT 44! Come and meet Danielle and lots of other folks from the Georgia State House and State Senate as we prepare for the critical midterm elections.
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Third Act Upstate New York @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Good article covering a range of energy-related topics, including data centers. www.adirondackexplorer.org/environment/...
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Inside New York’s energy transition
Why New York is having such a hard time breaking its fossil fuel addiction and transitioning its power grid to renewable sources.
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Third Act Maryland @thirdactmd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"The smoke is here to stay." "there’s nothing we can do to stop wildfire smoke from blanketing cities for a few days every summer — and it’s going to continue for decades to come." "Toronto and other cities are going to have to start preparing for smoke like a regular weather event"
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Our smoke-filled future: How Canada must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer — for the rest of our lives
The wildfires will get bigger, stronger and more frequent — but that’s not to say there’s nothing we can do.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
U.S. taxpayers spend about $2 billion every year on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees, subsidizing the companies that refuse to adequately pay hundreds of thousands of workers, or give them healthcare. /1
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Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart employees
American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
www.democracynow.org/2026/7/27/fi...
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“Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America
France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spai...
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump to impose fresh wave of tariffs on more than 80 countries
New tariffs to replace 10% global duty set to expire on Friday as administration cites concerns over ‘forced labor’
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Deeply important work. Thanks to @rebleber.bsky.social and team
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Third Act NYC @thirdactnyc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Republicans have introduced federal legislation that would prevent Americans from ever suing Big Oil executives for anything, ever again. Email your Member of Congress today and demand they reject Big Oil’s request for legal immunity. share.nwmd.social/s/wo4TSQCu
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Tell Congress: No Immunity for Big Oil
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Third Act Maine @thirdactmaine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Urgent! This is yet another bad faith strategy from the fossil fuel industry to escape accountability for the climate crisis! Please reach out to your members of Congress and kindly ask them to sign on to the amicus brief by Friday, July 24, 10am ET? actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell your members of Congress to sign the Suncor v Boulder Congressional amicus brief!
Please email your representatives and senators ASAP! We have an urgent call to action regarding Big Oil’s attempt to escape accountability via the Supreme Court. Can you email your democratic represe...
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Third Act Maine @thirdactmaine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🎁link - read it for yourself. Big oil and gas knew, they lied, they continue to profit off environmental destruction and climate change - we all pay the costs.
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Third Act Actions Lab @thirdactactionslab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack
OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees
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Third Act Maryland @thirdactmd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“It’s the entirety of the federal grant-making process. Healthcare, education, social services, environmental protections – it’s way, way beyond just research.”
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