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Geoscientist, earth lover, gardener, builder, and parent. Informed by paleoclimate and freaking out...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It simply never ends. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik issued new guidance interpreting the Endangered Species Act’s prohibition on “taking” endangered wildlife much more narrowly. Under the new interpretation, an action generally has to be intentionally
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Alarming Global Temperature Rise" | My interview this week with the wonderful @stevecurwood.bsky.social for @prx.org @livingonearthradio.bsky.social: www.loe.org/shows/segmen...
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Living on Earth: Alarming Global Temperature Rise
2026 was recorded as one of the hottest summers globally, with deadly heatwaves in Europe and catastrophic floods in Nepal. Ahead of a September meeting, the United Nations put out a report warning th...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s a good time to retire as a US scientist.
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NSF moves to overhaul funding approach in line with White House priorities
The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core sciences.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Seriously 💥
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dave Matthews 🫶
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New logo just dropped.
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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh look... #collapse cribb.substack.com/p/hothouse-e...
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Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think…
Hothouse Earth, the state of the planet in which civilisation and possibly even humans can no longer survive, is arriving much faster than predicted, according to new satellite data.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Navy may change the name of a warship to honor a brave black man who served honorably in the Pearl Harbor attack to the name of a cowardly draft dodger who is so ignorant he didn’t even know what happened at Pearl Harbor, according to his then Chief of Staff accompanying him on the visit
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/08/2026
Spoken like someone who has never taken a biology class in their life
@elonmusk
Despite its obvious misuse during Covid, mRNA has tremendous promise for curing diseases. 

Artificial RNA essentially makes curing diseases a software problem.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026
Q: Were you prepared for pushback you received, especially from Republicans, framing you as too extreme for Wisconsin? HONG: What's extreme is Rep. Tiffany has voted against interests of Wisconsinites over & over. What's extreme is that he's an election denier & continues to protect pedophiles
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Trump administration announced that power plants built exclusively to serve data centers (ones that never connect to the public grid) are now exempt from the Clean Air Act’s Acid Rain Program.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
During the Great Depression, Douglass Crockwell made several paintings for the Works Progress Administration including this work from 1932, which celebrates the industrial workers at the newspaper plant in the town of Glens Falls, New York.
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Windhorse @windhorse.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Snagged this from FB. This may make some people uncomfortable but I think it highlights just how far we've come from what's natural, from our relationship to the Earth that sustains us and our beautiful relatives we share it with.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20/07/2026
I don’t personally love this outcome, but this is how it should be done: suspending your campaign with class. Uplifting the likely nominee. I bet many Mainers are proud of Jordan Wood today.
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Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This year will be a breakpoint. The heat waves in France and the UK (in June) and the floods in China are the first signs.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/06/2026
Dismay as Trump officials move to dismantle a key ocean monitoring system [via @theguardian.com]
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Dismay as Trump officials move to dismantle a key ocean monitoring system
The Ocean Observatories Initiative, which provides crucial marine and climate data, is the administration's latest victim.
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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 03/05/2026
WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️ If you needed any more proof that the Voting Rights Act is still necessary, just look at what’s happening right now: red states rushing to wipe out Black representation the second SCOTUS gutted it. What went down this week is going to have devastating consequences. 🧵
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History Didn’t Repeat, It Continued
WE ARE UNDER-REACTING‼️
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Hey, hey, it's MAY DAY. You know what to do... No School! No Work! No Shopping! #TaxTheOligarchs
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/04/2026
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance. You have to see this.
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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"This is an important thing to think about."
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I think most people would prefer this. #Science
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
If Arizona needs a new Senator, I’m available. My resume: -I’m not in the files -I’ve never sexually harassed or assaulted anyone -I’ve never taken a dime from any dark money group -I keep my speeches brief -I genuinely care about the people of AZ -I will make it my job to impeach RFK Jr.
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Just Lynn 💙🦋✌️🇺🇦 @shoredweller7.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 12/04/2026
This seems suboptimal
Cumulative area burnt by wildfire curves for the US showing 2026 starting off massively worse than any prior year
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
GAME CHANGER: Montana just found the "exit ramp" to kill Citizens United. They aren't waiting for the Supreme Court—they’re going around them. 74% of voters are on board and corporate lawyers are PANICKING. This is how we win. 🏔️💸 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/army-secre...
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Shel Winkley @shelwinkleywx.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
OFFICIAL from @noaa.gov today: March blew the cover off the record books here in the U.S. ❗️Average temperature: 9.4° ABOVE the 20th century normal ❗️First time ANY month exceeded 9°F above average ❗️This was the ALL-TIME WARMEST March in the 132-year record A quick 🧵
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ex Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under Obama👇🏽
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/04/2026
Are any members of Congress currently on their way back to DC?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.
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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 07/04/2026
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
There is something you can do about all of this — make your plans for May 1. This country needs a united show of power, energy, and hope. indivisible.org/events/may-d...
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May Day Strong: No Work, No School, No Shopping | Indivisible
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Syracuse is named after a classical Greek city known for its practical and artistic ceramics, a city which is now in Italy. When we kill the humanities we kill self-knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/n...
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Syracuse Drops 84 Programs Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian
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GeoTreeHugger @treedefender.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
substack.com/@wethepeople... dumpty the worst
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We The People Act Now (@wethepeopleactnow)
A message from John Lithgow. #NoKings
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Bannon: Trump’s ICE airport deployment is ‘test run’ for ICE at polls
“We can use this as a test run, as a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms."
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"Back when the science community used to deny climate change... Human caused climate change was looked skeptically for decades.... then the fact driven data forced all honest science literate skeptics to concede ..." www.facebook.com/groups/96164... via The Climate Realism Community
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Kids in High School: “I don’t understand why I have to take basic science classes.  When I am ever going to use this stuff in my life?!”  As adults: “Vaccines cause autism, GMOs are unsafe, climate change is a lie, and the earth is flat.  I’ve done my research.  If you disagree with me, you’re sheep!”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Stunningly bullshit framing on this NYT story that insists that somehow renewables are a dicy unpredictable thing and downplays that they're far, far cheaper most of the time by focusing on how they're not always. As is often the case with the NYT, comments smarter than article.
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Spain Says the Sun Shields It From Rising Gas Costs. Is That True?
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
🚨 ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested
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ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested
People arrested while protesting ICE say federal agents took samples of their DNA. It's legal, but experts say the practice raises questions about what the government is doing with that genetic data.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Pretty dark
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The primary cause of the national debt is that the very wealthy don’t pay taxes. Migrants pay their share. The oligarchs Miller fronts for do not.
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