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Tierney O’Dea

@todea.bsky.social
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Science writer, ok cartographer, escaped the newsroom and moved to the mountains.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are not screwed. We can still stop the worst impacts of climate change and build a better future – if we act soon and act at scale. drawdown.org/insights/wer...
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We’re going to miss the 1.5 °C climate target. Now what?
The United Nations Environment Program released a report earlier this month saying the world – which is already experiencing roughly 1.3˚C of warming – will miss the 1.5˚C climate change target set by...
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Is this the battery that could change everything? Sodium-ion batteries promise to be cheaper, safer and more environmentally friendly than the lithium-ion cells that currently dominate technologies such as electric cars. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @floragraham.bsky.social
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Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world
Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This right here.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/06/2026
Vought holds one of the most powerful jobs in D.C., and he’s used his position to wage a quiet war to change the shape of the entire U.S. government. Here's what you should know about Trump’s shadow president. (Published Oct. 2025)
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What You Should Know About Russ Vought, Trump’s Shadow President
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who ...
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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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/05/2026
Local election officials fully expect ICE to show up to intimidate liberal voters.
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Election Officials Are Getting Ready for ICE to Show Up at the Polls
The Trump administration keeps threatening to send federal agents to oversee elections. State and local officials are preparing, and even gaming out what happens if they're arrested.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
of course I was never taught this in school. of course. but today is the day I learned this most essential bit of history: time.com/5836444/blac...
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
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Tierney O’Dea @todea.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I appreciated the part of Colbert where Neil was sucked into the worm hole and Stephen made fun of him.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/05/2026
Agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter in a massive show of force. Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. But after the cameras were gone, federal prosecutors did not charge anyone. (Published Nov. 2025)
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“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tonight: Look west after sunset for the thin crescent moon between Venus and Jupiter (the two brightest star-like objects in the sky). Over the next two weeks the two planets approach each other and pass 1.5 degrees apart on June 9!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The impasse on the appropriation for DHS is over ICE funding. And yet, you don’t hear Republicans trying to sell the importance of funding ICE. They talk about TSA, the Coast Guard, and every other agency, but never mention the one that is the source of the problem. Wonder why?
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is amazing. When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels. That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A new Annenberg poll shows Americans trust federal career scientists and independent medical groups more than in the political leaders running U.S. health agencies www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/stark-divide...
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Stark Divide: Americans More Confident in Career Scientists at U.S. Health Agencies Than Leaders | The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
When it comes to reliable health information, Americans are more confident in federal health agencies' career scientists than their leaders.
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Profolus @profolus.com · 07/03/2026
KONSYSE: The Charles de Gaulle is widely considered the crown jewel of the French military. It is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier operating outside the U.S. Navy. The carrier virtually has "unlimited" range and long-term endurance without needing frequent refueling.
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France Deploys Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier to the Mediterranean — Konsyse
France is using its biggest card as a response to the threats from the ongoing war with Iran.
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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack
No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.
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tomate 🍅 @jascha.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“If you can get the Supreme Court to rule that carbon is not a danger to public health, it will mark the point at which they have abandoned all pretense, because that’s just a flat out lie.” - @volts.wtf putting John Roberts led MAGA #scotus on the spot. / via @atrupar.com
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"Just making s**t up" — David Roberts sounds off on the EPA
"To say members of Congress didn’t anticipate a specific pollutant is just f**king comical."
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Tierney O’Dea @todea.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I tweeted when he won in 2016 that we should just make him go away immediately by putting him on Rushmore and guilding it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: Senate Democrats condemned the Trump administration for crossing a dangerous new line in its effort to seize state voter rolls, warning that the Justice Department is now using coercion and intimidation after courts rejected its legal claims. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Democratic senators accuse Trump DOJ of ‘apparent ransom’ in push to seize state voter rolls
The senators accused DOJ of abandoning legal arguments altogether in favor of coercion.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bondi’s letter to Minnesota Gov Tim Walz seeking voting records is a classic mob-style shakedown. My thoughts in Bloomberg @opinion.bloomberg.com news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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Bondi’s Offer to Minnesota Is a ‘Shakedown’: Barbara L. McQuade
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s letter to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz — offering to scale back ICE operations in exchange for the state’s compliance with her demands — is inappropriate and reads as a thi...
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
news articles about trans people based on keyword, left is cnn, right is fox. fox has  10x as many
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 27/01/2026
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody. She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care. We need to reform immigration detention.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/01/2026
Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...
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And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like.
Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is
"well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it.
This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order.
And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny.
You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely.
"Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Even former members of ICE were horrified by the killing of Renee Nicole Good. “They murdered her, plain and simple. That is all there is to it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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Conspiratorial templates @mynamehear.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This year is going to be like the final boss for optimists
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
finally, we're living through precedented times
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Tierney O’Dea @todea.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Hey everyone the Hawkins AV Club Frequency is 146.520. Get your license and a radio. See you there! #WSQK #strangerthings
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AkaSci @akasci.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Researchers using the JWST have confirmed the first supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole (~7.8 bly away) ejected by and racing away from its host galaxy at 3.43 million km/h, leaving behind a 200,000-light-year-long "contrail" of newborn stars. More at fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/1157... #Astronomy
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Attached: 1 image Researchers, using the JWST, have confirmed that a black hole, first detected in 2023 by the same team, is indeed a supersonic Runaway Supermassive Black Hole, ejected by and racing...
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 27/12/2025
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“Climate action” is just another way to say “we want our beautiful complex planet to continue to be a good place to live, and to continue to be both beautiful and complex”. So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...
Point/Counterpoint: No Blood For Oil vs. Exactly How Much Oil Are We Talking About?
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Tierney O’Dea @todea.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I interviewed Rob Reiner in his home long ago. He was the sweetest man. Made me a bagel.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/12/2025
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
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Moon-Watcher @bobsmyusername.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Who has made this 🤣
Buster from the tv show ‘Arrested Development’ holding an arm full of plushies while he looks at his mother Lucille, saying, “these are my awards, mother, from FIFA.“
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 02/12/2025
I'm so tired of measles. I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this. Show what measles looks like.
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.
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Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)
Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...
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Eric Schmeltzer @ericschmeltzer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
LOL, inside the White House today. Dude REALLY got red pilled this time!
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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’m howling.
Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph.
"The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
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Tierney O’Dea @todea.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Huh @ms.now is streaming Darth Vader’s funeral but Fox is not.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
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