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Left of the Dial Art Director at @RAN.org by day 🌎 Views are my own

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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How come no one's calling for a complete and total shutdown of all college fraternities... 'until we can figure out what's going on'.. ?
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We passed the freeway exit to “Concerning” more than 1,000 miles ago
reuters.com
Trump fires Election Assistance Commission members ahead of midterms
The terminations follow the recent Supreme Court decision that granted the president more power.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
As a graphic designer, I wholeheartedly endorse this diagnosis by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#BankingOnClimateChaos 🌎🔥
motherjones.com
Wall Street just won't stop financing the fossil fuel industry's expansion
Major lenders are all in as Big Oil pivots toward plastics, pesticides, and other petrochemicals.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
🌎🔥 We are living in a 5-alarm climate emergency, but let’s set the night sky on fire while we fiddle in Rome..
yahoo.com
Extreme heat, severe storms and wildfires highlight July Fourth weather hazards
Extreme heat in the East, severe thunderstorms in the Midwest and Northeast, and elevated wildfire danger in the West will create a wide range of weather hazards across parts of the U.S. on Independen...
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I defy you to show me true, revolutionary love does not exist 🖤♥️
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"We're going to drain the swamp!"
sfgate.com
Congratulations, the Reflecting Pool is now a swamp
"A national treasure has now become the world's dullest aquarium."
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Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
~NEW EPISODE~ Rainforest Radicals: The History of @ran.org In our latest, we talk with historian Prof. David Benac about his new book on RAN, its roots in Earth First!, international forest campaigns and Indigenous solidarity. 🎙️: bit.ly/49Og9SY
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shut up, world @thebatshitsutras.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
BREAKING: Star Wars cantina band pulls out of Freedom 250 event, saying they weren't told the hive of scum and villainy would be *this* wretched
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump’s $1.7 billion J6 insurrectionist restitution fund: “Why go to college when you can attack the capital and get $1 million for your troubles?”
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Oh look, its Dystopian Grifter Vacation with Transportation Secretary Clark W. Griswold.. 🤡
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We need less glorification of billionaires and more protection for the Amazon that all life on Earth depends..
newsweek.com
Wall Street Must Stop Financing the Destruction of the Amazon | Opinion
"We depend on the river and the land to live. When they are destroyed, we are destroyed with them."
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His photos are worth seeing, so here’s a gift link:
nytimes.com
Our Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer’s Work From Gaza
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough who turns 100 years old this week. He is someone whose words we should all stop and think about.
“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ theonion.com/supreme-court-overturn…
Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
As an appreciator / aficionado of apt metaphors that help us see the world more clearly, I found this piece stunningly accurate
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
How about GTFO Again instead?! 🦉🌲
oregonlive.com
Trump administration wants to Make Oregon Logged Again, revving up decades‑old battles over big timber
The proposal to quadruple logging on federal lands in 18 Oregon counties would raise timber harvests to levels not seen since before spotted owl protections.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
They’re pretexting the War on Gravity.. 🙃
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Resilient are the seeds of Revolution..
nytimes.com
Rainforests Can Bounce Back Much Faster Than Thought, Researchers Say
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Introducing two new terms for the political lexicon: -Vanceplaining - Pope Derangement Syndrome
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dsilsby.bsky.social @dsilsby.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I just had my coffee and I have to take a vance.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ph*ck Private Equity, Ph*ck Philz www.sfgate.com/food/article...
sfgate.com
Client Challenge
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Good 👏
independent.co.uk
Democrats draw up impeachment articles against Trump and Hegseth over Iran war
White House calls the efforts ‘pathetic’ as Democrats push JD Vance and Trump’s cabinet to declare the president unfit to serve
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
STOP SANE-WASHING THE RACIST, WAR-MONGERING PSYCOPATH!
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It's near the end of Trans Day of Visibility, but visibility doesn't end at midnight. If you showed up on 3/28, show up for trans people tomorrow and every day. This regime wants to divide and conquer us, but their fight is our fight. And we win when we treat an attack on one as an attack on all.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)
Man driving a motor scooter with a dog in his lap and smoke from bombs rising in the sky behind them
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Call this joint the Cult of MAGAste 🙏
coastsidenews.com
Pacifica yoga instructors resign after owner’s alleged hate speech
At least three instructors have resigned from Pacifica Beach Yoga in the past week after the studio’s owner, Tommy Antoon, allegedly posted hate speech using the business’s social media account.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Danger, D-A-N-G-E-R. Danger 😰 #EndFossilFuels
cnn.com
Before and after satellite images show how little snow is left in the western US | CNN
A record warm March has melted an already abysmal snowpack across the western United States, with impacts clearly visible in satellite imagery. It’s setting the stage for an especially concerning summ...
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Smoking does not cause lung cancer..." ☠️
cnbc.com
Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial
A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.
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Veronica McDonald @veronicamcdonald.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The white folks whining about standing in long TSA lines at the airport will never make the connection with black folks standing in long lines to vote.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Pic of the Year contender - "Duality of Realities" category * sidenoting the irony in which we unapologetically prefer ICE agent lazy do-nothingry to them terrorizing everyday Americans on top of just trying to get through travel inconveniences..
defector.com
ICE Agents Deployed To Nation's Swamped Airports To Stand Around And Do Nothing | Defector
The second government shutdown of the year, this one affecting only the Department of Homeland Security, went into effect on Feb. 14. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Bo...
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We're going to pay $1 billion to water to NOT help put out the fire..
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
We are destroying the climate to power data centers that produce algorithms for robotic brain rot, and now we are deploying robotic guard dog killing machines that cost more than a Kentucky Derby stallion to protect them..
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
100% WAR CRIME under Geneva Conventions btw..
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." - Howard Zinn
theguardian.com
US responsible for deadly missile strike on Iran school, preliminary inquiry says
Strike that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, reportedly the result of a targeting mistake by US military planners
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The war in Iran shows, yet again, how much better and safer a world powered by renewable energy would be. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/environmen...
ayanaelizabeth.substack.com
Environmental devastation is yet another reason war is awful.
The war in Iran shows, yet again, how much better and safer a world powered by renewable energy would be.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
When they say #GoldenAge, what they really mean is #GildedAge
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Pete Hegseth, once again proving that being anti-inclusion and being an asshole aren't mutually exclusive
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Afghanistan redux..
washingtonpost.com
Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say
The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The ouster of Kristi Noem is the result of formidable organizing by people outraged at the actions of DHS. Great investigation and reporting by the media laid bare corruption and malfeasance and demanded accountability. Democrats shut down DHS with among other demands, Noem's ouster. Trump caved.
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Their first line of defense of the truly indefensible is always to drag this rat out of the sewer to yell at us for having the audacity to care for other humans * no offense to actual 🐀s
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
I don't think it's going to be morally, legally, diplomatically, or pragmatically correct, either.
Hegseth says Iran won't be a 'politically correct' war
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
They’re instigating a war in the Middle East in order to distract us from their war against American cities..
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Toben @tobend.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Our cigarettes are part of an effort to cure cancer under his leadership..
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