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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Golly it must be fun to be off the charts clever and get to write about the mind-boggling antics of Andy Ogles set before the backdrop of my surreal little hometown, Nashville, TN. I chortled throughout this piece from the Scene. #BetsyPhillips #nashville
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Noem’s road show in Nashville includes this: a presser where she hypes the criminality of immigrants, berates our mayor, Freddie O’Connell, for not having ICE’s backs, and levels threats to Belmont, a local private Christian college who apparently sees DEI as a Christian tradition.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Kristi Noem’s staff asked TN Rep. Justin Jones to leave BNA ahead of her presser after being granted permission by BNA and the Secret Service to attend her event. Jones had intended to ask some hard hitting questions about recent ICE operations in his district, questions Noem meant to avoid.
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Tennessee Democrat Justin Jones Asked to Leave Nashville Airport Ahead of Visit from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem - Tennessee Star
Tennessee State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) said he was asked to leave Nashville International Airport (BNA) on Thursday.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
In Nashville the Good Trouble action is Sat. July 19, joining forces with the Annual Rep John Lewis march. The march begins at 8am at the corner of Jefferson and Rosa Parks Blvd, ending at the Nashville Museum of African American Music followed by a sidewalk protest on Commerce. Hydrate, people!
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The 3rd rally outside the Federal Courthouse in Nashville for due process and justice for Kilmar Abrego Garcia took place July 16 as another hearing took place to decide on next steps for the wrongfully deported man now accused of crimes without evidence.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Wrongfully deported Kilmar Garcia, back in the US thanks to court orders, faces charges that emerged from a past TN traffic stop that bore zero consequences at the time. A soothing salve for a presidential ego? Join us for his arraignment at the fed courthouse in N’ville to ensure justice.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “RAPID RESPONSE PROTEST SUPPORTING KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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RAPID RESPONSE PROTEST SUPPORTING KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA · Indivisible
!!RAPID RESPONSE!! A group of local organizations are calling for a RAPID RESPONSE protest to support the Constitutional rights of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Garcia was in this country legally but was ille...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/05/2025
Climate scientist Jeff Masters explains how our new Energy Secretary Chris Wright is using numbers selectively plucked from IPCC reports to mislead Americans about climate change.
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How to deny climate change using the IPCC report » Yale Climate Connections
The new Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, claims that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says there has been no increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or ...
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“It is time to turn the corner from corn & soy monocultures to the sesames, prickly pear cactus, garbanzos, millets and mulberries of the world that desert dwellers have eaten in delicious dishes for millennia.” Gary Nabhan's interesting new op-ed for @foodtank.bsky.social w/ hints of #agroforestry
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Desert Farmers and Chefs Can Guide Us in a Braised New World
It is time to radically redirect our food system to better adapt to a hotter, drier world.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Nashville, TN! You have a solidarity and sign making gathering on May 1st at 4pm CT. AND a downtown march on May 3rd from noon to 2pm CT. For info on both events uvotn.org/hq/may3/ To register for the May 3rd march www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2025
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared
Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 22/04/2025
Good news for Earth Day! Nine U.S. states have set goals to conserve 30% of their land by 2030-and MD got there first. This story is part of a NYT series, "50 States, 50 Fixes." Tune into NPR at 10AM eastern this morning to hear from authors @carabuckley.bsky.social, @catrineinhorn.bsky.social & I.
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How Maryland Hit Its 30x30 Goal (Gift Article)
Nine states have set goals to conserve 30 percent of their land by 2030. Maryland got there first.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 22/04/2025
Soot from wildfires across Western North America have had a similar impact, accelerating Greenland melting as well. We live on a round planet, and everything is connected!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 22/04/2025
The majority of people —56% in the US!—are worried about climate change, but not activated. Why not? Most feel helpless, hopeless, and don't know what to do. So more fear won't activate them. Rather, knowing what to do—and being invited to do it—will. Where to start? With a conversation today. 🧵
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Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
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🇺🇦🗽 @cynholt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
If we could have been in Nashville, we would have. @thirdacttn.bsky.social
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Eric Holthaus @ericholthaus.com · 03/04/2025
Never, ever a good thing when 1937 starts coming up in your flood comparisons. The Ohio River valley is about to have a really bad week. water.noaa.gov/gauges/PTRI3
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White River (IN) at Petersburg
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The authors see some "genuinely promising technological advances" on the supply side. "On the demand side, the psychological barriers to behavior change will not be resolved without confronting the drivers that ‘create’ air travel consumption and artificially accelerate demand."
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
TENNESSEE GETTING 🔥🔥🔥’d UP!! #EldersResist #Thirdactorg #thirdacttn
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"The 'radical flank effect' shows that when radical activists push boundaries, they often make moderate voices in the same movement appear more reasonable. Recent research found that even when JSO provoked public anger, support for moderate organisations such as Friends of the Earth increased."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 26/03/2025
Most of yesterday's intelligence hearing focused on Signal. Something else not to be missed: this exchange between Sen. King (ME-I) Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. King asked why the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment did not mention climate change, after doing so for 11 years.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Get it on the calendar. Details coming soon.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
#FactoryFarming and #IndustrialAgriculture are at the centre of our broken #FoodSystem. They have to go, to be replaced by #agroecology and #CropDiversity - legumes, vegetable and fruit; healthy nutrition not empty calories unherd.com/2025/03/why-...
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Why we're running out of eggs
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Shutting down Mauna Loa CO₂ observations while atmospheric CO₂ keeps skyrocketing is like turning off a fire alarm because you don’t like the noise www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/c...
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Mauna Loa Observatory’s Lease May End Because of NOAA Cuts
NOAA, the nation’s leading climate science agency, may lose dozens of offices, including one that is key to the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Up in northern MN, I’m old enough to remember mercury in our waters & acid rain on our forests. There were regular alerts to avoid eating fish from certain lakes and rivers due to mercury levels. We need to get rid of this regime ASAP, before they have the time to kill us all, one way or another.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/03/2025
Head of EPA, Lee Zeldin: “Today is the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history. Today the green new scam ends, as the E.P.A. does its part to usher in a golden age of American success.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
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E.P.A. Declares ‘Greatest Day of Deregulation Our Nation Has Seen’ (Gift Article)
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, reframed his agency’s mission, saying it is to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 13/03/2025
This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA. Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
Illegal dumping grounds off the New Jersey turnpike across from Manhattan in the 1970sSmog rolling on over Manhattan in the 1970s
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Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🌟 All-In Call – March 19! Join us for our quarterly community gathering, where we come together to celebrate, get inspired, and gear up for what’s next. 🎤 Special Guests: ✨ @ezralevin.bsky.social of Indivisible Project ✨ Antonique Smith of Climate Revival RSVP here: thirdact.org/events/third...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/03/2025
Canada will shortly have a new PM and he’s here on Bluesky ➡️ @mark-carney.bsky.social
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Liberal leadership race: Mark Carney elected in a landslide | CBC
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Hope this means a more concentrated culpability makes it easier to hold offenders accountable.
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Just 36 Companies Drove Half the World’s Climate-Altering Emissions in 2023: New Report
Companies and states most responsible for climate change are also those working hardest to prevent climate action, new Carbon Majors report finds.
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A so far quiet situation in Memphis, Tennessee that has it all, environmental injustice, systemic racism, climate crisis exacerbation, oligarchy, a terrifying breech of personal data along with unheard of power in an AI system in the hands of (guess who?) Elon Musk. This isn’t going to fade away.
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Colossus, and why Tennesseans need to pay attention
What do Tennesseans need to know about Colossus? A data center is a physical facility that houses IT infrastructure for building, running and delivering applications and services. Elon Musk’s Colossus...
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries". It seems pretty obvious, yet no country has yet adopted a degrowth path to reduce its environmental footprint. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we expl...
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Third Act Maine @thirdactmaine.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
3rd Act is the largest org of progressive elders in the US. Our expertise centers on safeguarding climate & democracy, but we speak out on other issues when conscience demands. The new administration’s relentless attacks on transgender Americans, especially youth, is such an occasion. #mepolitics
Photo shows a large crowd of protesters marching down a paved road behind a colorful banner reading "TRANS SOLIDARITY against transphobia, SOLIDARITY for justice". It is summer, you can see leafy green trees in the background. Image courtesy of Ted Eytan/Flickr, taken from Third Act's website (link to statement follows)
Not all of us were parents, but most of us were, and if not parents, we have been caretakers in other ways: aunts and uncles, teachers—we have, cumulatively, millions of years of experience raising children. We know that they thrive when treated with love and acceptance, and that they wither when they are rejected and scorned. The new policies announced by the president are bullying, and they will damage minds and hearts.
If there’s one hope most of us had for our children when they were born, it’s that they would grow up to be kind. That we are now run by an administration that celebrates cruelty is regrettable; we are determined to do what we can to make sure they don’t damage the generations that will follow.
Third Actors will continue to stand up for oppressed families and communities, even if these families and communities are not their own. It’s the right thing to do. Below, you can find some organizations devoted to transgender rights and safety; we encourage you to support them.
https://thirdact.org/blog/third-act-statement-on-transgender-attacks/
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Grist @grist.org · 28/02/2025
Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. grist.org/food-and-agr...
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Farmers depend on climate data. They're suing the USDA for deleting it.
Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 09/02/2025
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Reposting hard and important work about wildfires by @karinkirk.bsky.com while it’s still on the NASA website
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Emily Cathcart @emcat-heart.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We blink and we miss it.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Third Act Tennessee @thirdacttn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
And she did!
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 11/02/2025
"He seems determined to undermine, roll back, and impair the transition to clean energy in almost every way his administration can think of," writes @paulwaldman.bsky.social of Trump's war on renewables.
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Trump’s All-Out War on Renewables
The new president is annihilating his predecessor’s energy policy.
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Nick Hedley @nickhedley.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
These major Swedish banks have stopped lending to the fossil fuel industry
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These major Swedish banks have stopped lending to the fossil fuel industry
The country's largest bank by assets, Handelsbanken, has not approved any new loans or underwriting to fossil fuel companies since 2019.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Exxon is quietly planning a massive new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas The world is drowning plastic Micro plastic is in our food water and air and in our lungs blood and brain But profit is all that matters grist.org/accountabili...
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Exxon is quietly planning a new $8.6 billion plastics plant in Texas
Exxon's proposal for a plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
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Jeff St John @jeffstjohn.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The Trump administration has ordered states to rework their plans for using $5B in federal NEVI funds to build public fast-charging sites along highways across the country, putting hundreds of projects in limbo. Experts say that’s illegal: www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-... #energysky
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Trump moves to halt $5B EV charging program
The administration ordered states to rework plans for using federal EV charging money, putting hundreds of projects in limbo. Experts say that’s illegal.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/02/2025
Your 'doom quote' for today: "We are sleepwalking towards a world where the climate will kill millions, and the only question is whether we wake up in time to stop it." www.amazon.com/Carbon-War-G...
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Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era
Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era [Leggett, Jeremy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Tweet of the Night 🏆
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Third Act Upstate New York @thirdactupstateny.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Do you insure your home or car with a major insurance company? Some of your premiums might be insuring or financing fossil fuel projects. Learn how to find companies that don't finance those projects. For more information and to register: thirdact.org/upstate-ny/e...
Align Your Money with Your Values
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Home and Auto Insurance
February 18, 5:30 pm EST
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lani ritter hall @laniritterhall.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
"Maybe one good thing that will come of this crisis is that we will all recognize how much we need each other and how important it is to care for each other." kathleensullivan.substack.com/p/week-3-tra...
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Week 3: Traumatized?
Some thoughts on reclaiming your mind.
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Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
☎️ Join Third Act’s Welcome Call this Monday, Feb 10, at 7:30 PM ET! This is a chance to meet Third Act volunteers, connect with fellow seasoned Americans, and get involved in climate & democracy initiatives. 👉 RSVP here: thirdact.org/events/welco... #Eldersinaction #ClimateAction #ThirdActOrg
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