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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “RAPID RESPONSE PROTEST SUPPORTING KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

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.

“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

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...

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.

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.

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!

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. 🧵

If we could have been in Nashville, we would have. @thirdacttn.bsky.social

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

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."

TENNESSEE GETTING 🔥🔥🔥’d UP!! #EldersResist #Thirdactorg #thirdacttn

"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."

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.

Get it on the calendar. Details coming soon.

BREAKING: 34,000 people have showed up in Denver, Colorado this evening to see Bernie Sanders and AOC fight oligarchy and authoritarianism.

#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-...

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...

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.

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...

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA. Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

🌟 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...

Canada will shortly have a new PM and he’s here on Bluesky ➡️ @mark-carney.bsky.social

Hope this means a more concentrated culpability makes it easier to hold offenders accountable.

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.

"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...

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

Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. grist.org/food-and-agr...

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

Reposting hard and important work about wildfires by @karinkirk.bsky.com while it’s still on the NASA website

We blink and we miss it.

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

And she did!

"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.

These major Swedish banks have stopped lending to the fossil fuel industry

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...

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

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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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...

"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...

☎️ 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