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Climate communicator. Writer/editor/producer. Musician. Dad. Seattle Sounders fan.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
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When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
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ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose โtargetsโ
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/13/ice-agent-court-testimony-oregon
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Hey, US Menโs Hockey: Congrats on the win. But fuck you for showing up to the
#SOTU
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A hero, indeed. Rest in power.
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Michael Mazengarb
3 months ago
We (Climate Integrity) are about to drop our analysis of the fossil fuel industry donations to the major parties ahead of the 2025 federal election. As a small spoiler - there's still a lot of dirty money flowing in politics.
transparency.aec.gov.au/ClientEntity...
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Robert Reich
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Steve Peers
3 months ago
An Italian court has recognised refugee status for an EU citizen - a Hungarian national who faces persecution for being Roma and transgender Analysis by Chiara Scissa:
eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutu...
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Mutual trust does not supersede human rights! Italian judges unprecedently recognize the refugee status to an EU citizen
Dr. Chiara Scissa * Photo credit : Bologna Tribunal, photo by Alex Sirac via Wikimedia Commons * Research fellow in EU law at the Uni...
https://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/mutual-trust-does-not-supersede-human.html
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onion person
4 months ago
thankfully donald trump is speedrunning administration and political movement suicide. this should be extremely bad for him and his movement long term. democrats please stand against this the world is begging for you to stand strong against imperialism
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Josh Marshall
4 months ago
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
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Megan Wachspress
5 months ago
I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A ๐งต
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/sierra-club-social-justice.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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Blackfulness
6 months ago
Fishback should have asked Target.
#epstein
#blacksky
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Judy Stone
6 months ago
Please ask
#Maine
friends to Vote NO on Ballot 1: absentee ballots:
boltsmag.org/maine-questi...
and
#Pennsylvania
friends to vote YES to retain judges. It's critical the Dems keep the Supreme Court
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A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts
Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.
https://boltsmag.org/maine-question-1-in-november-2025-mail-voting/
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treekisser
6 months ago
DHS is funneling $10B through the US Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of concentration camps across the US
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
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Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics
The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/navy-building-ice-detention-facilities
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Brian Tang
6 months ago
It appears the earlier secondary eyewall merged with the primary eyewall quickly, similar what happened in Hurricane Milton. That merger may have paused intensification, but Melissa appears to be making its move to Cat. 5 tonight. Certainly has that look. Next set of recon. missions will be telling.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
6 months ago
zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Get Out The Vote for Zohran | Zohran for NYC
We need YOU to get your neighbors out to vote for Zohran! Our movement has to win big on November 4th to have the strength to pass our affordability agenda. Sign up for our final stretch shifts now an...
https://zohranfornyc.com/gotv
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Robert Reich
6 months ago
The Supreme Court is on the verge of gutting the Voting Rights Act's equal opportunity protections for minority voters โ 12 years after they first rolled back its safeguards against voter suppression.
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ProPublica
6 months ago
NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally โ almost certainly incomplete โ includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. Theyโve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally โ almost certainly incomplete โ includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Rick Perlstein
6 months ago
Thereโs always more, and itโs always worse. But itโs never new.... 1965:
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Reyhan Harmanci
6 months ago
We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So
@zoeschiffer.bsky.social
went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!)
www.wired.com/story/owning...
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David Roberts
7 months ago
I've really come to think that many people recoil from climate politics, as they did from Covid politics, not *in spite* of the fact that the problem obviously calls for (can only be solved by) solidarity & cooperation, but *because* of it.
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PIK_climate
7 months ago
๐บ In this video, Johan Rockstrรถm explains the key findings of the 2025 Planetary Health Check:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndPV...
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Official Planetary Health Check 2025 with Johan Rockstrรถm
YouTube video by Planetary Boundaries Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndPVcg6uSZc
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PIK_climate
7 months ago
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached โ ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockstrรถm presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today.
#PlanetaryBoundaries
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www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Bluesky
9 months ago
PSA on links: On Bluesky, thereโs no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts ๐
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David Ho
9 months ago
Motherfucking wind farmsโฆ
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Kyle Cheney
9 months ago
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop.
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Shaktari
9 months ago
READ the CONSTITUTION & OUR LAWS DHS is urging police to consider a wide range of normal activities as violent tactics, including riding a bike & livestreaming a senior ACLU atty says the gov has no business treating constitutionally protected activities as threats
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Skateboards and Livestreams: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are โViolent Tacticsโ
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/
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Nancy Levine Stearns
9 months ago
๐ฅ NEW AfroTech: "Shareholders at 30 of the largest U.S. companies just delivered a powerful counterpunch to the anti-DEI movement. During the 2025 proxy season, every single one of the anti-DEI proposals filed at these corporationsโ shareholder meetings was rejected"
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Shareholders Across 30 Major US Companies Unanimously Reject Anti-DEI Proposals - AfroTech
https://afrotech.com/shareholders-across-major-companies-reject-anti-dei-proposals
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Chris Hayes
10 months ago
The Peace Candidate.
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Nancy Levine Stearns
10 months ago
๐ฅ Shareholders of 30 of the world's largest corporations are about to run the table -- voting unanimously to reject anti-DEI proposals in 2025. Mastercard shareholders will vote on an anti-DEI proposal on Tuesday. MA Board urges shareholders to vote to reject.
www.impactivize.org/2025-shareho...
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Impactivize Shareholder Scorecardโข -
2025 Anti-DEI Proposals and Shareholder Voting Results
https://www.impactivize.org/2025-shareholder-proposals/
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Bruce Herbert, aif
10 months ago
Shareholders understand what right-wing ideologues donโt: DEI policies arenโt just good for humanity, theyโre good for business.
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Climate Tracker
11 months ago
Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years
#Climate
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Global temperatures could break heat record in next five years
Data also shows small but โshockingโ likelihood of year 2C hotter than preindustrial era before 2030
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/global-temperatures-break-annual-heat-record-next-five-years-world-meteorological-organization
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Rogue Citizen One
11 months ago
๐จ ICE agents in masks and no uniforms abducting people from a Phoenix immigration court - no ID, no explanation, no due process. This is not law enforcement. This is authoritarianism. Demand accountability. Stay loud. Stay informed. Stay safe.
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Bruce Herbert, aif
11 months ago
Alec Baldwin moves shareholder proposal #7 at Chevron's 2025 annual meeting, on Newground's behalf. The proposal requests a lower threshold to call special meetings, so shareholders can address lapses in oversight of the company's environmental and human rights practices.
vimeo.com/1088158263
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Alec Baldwin Speaks to Chevron
Alec Baldwin will address Chevron shareholders during the company's 2025 annual meeting on May 28, 2025. The actor will deliver a short speech to move shareholderโฆ
https://vimeo.com/1088158263?share=copy#t=0
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Brent Toderian
11 months ago
โA developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.โ โ Former Bogotรก Mayor Enrique Peรฑalosa.
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Iโm not pregnant! Phew!๐ 4th bout with C done. Thank god for Paxlovid.
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Bruce Herbert, aif
12 months ago
Celebrating the new American Pope!
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Josh Marshall
about 1 year ago
This is a big deal. Spread the word. But itโs tiny compared to the totality of whatโs happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimerโs, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. Itโs all getting burned to the ground but the news isnโt getting out. The new cures wonโt be there for you.
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It was a glorious scene in Seattle yesterday.
#HandsOff
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US Weather Agency Websites Set to Vanish With Contract Cuts
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/us-weather-agency-websites-to-vanish-under-planned-contract-cuts?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0Mzc2OTY3NSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ0Mzc0NDc1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVTVSUjNEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDODQyRERFMUM0RDI0OUVDQUQ5REU4NDhDQkZGNUNBOCJ9.KhuNHt0rx-q0VZLGRQ1omrvtoGxAQGWJBCpRXr8eY5c&leadSource=uverify%20wall
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Serena Larkin
about 1 year ago
Seattle pals! ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
about 1 year ago
What if youโre so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?
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Robinson Meyer
about 1 year ago
People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and thatโs partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.
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Patrick Reinsborough โ๐
about 1 year ago
Call it the Reichstag fire Trump-version where the wanna-be dictator is too lazy to even burn the building and instead just declares a fake "national emergency" and counts on the media and politicians to just submit to his blatant attack on reality.
#StopTheCoup
#HandsOff
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Declares National Emergency to Increase our Competitive Edge, Protect our Sovereignty, and Strengthen our National and Economic Security
PURSUING RECIPROCITY TO REBUILD THE ECONOMY AND RESTORE NATIONAL AND ECONOMIC SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that foreign trade and
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-declares-national-emergency-to-increase-our-competitive-edge-protect-our-sovereignty-and-strengthen-our-national-and-economic-security/
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Joshua Holland
about 1 year ago
Domestic politics will make it difficult for other countries' leaders to cut deals with Trump, even if they see that as the way to go.
bsky.app/profile/josh...
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Carl Quintanilla
about 1 year ago
So good. ๐คก
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ICCR
about 1 year ago
Americans for Financial Reform's Meron Lemmi recaps an ICCR webinar on opportunities for investors to push back against efforts to weaken sensible guardrails on corporate conduct, erode the shareholder proposal process, and further deregulate private markets:
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Blog: What Now? Investorsโ Role in Fighting Financial Deregulation - Americans for Financial Reform
This presidential administration is poised to roll back financial regulations that protect long-term, diversified investors. Both public and private markets face a wave of deregulatory efforts that wo...
https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2025/03/blog-what-now-investors-role-in-fighting-financial-deregulation/
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Bill McKibben
about 1 year ago
If you're embarrassed by America's treatment of Canada, one small way to show it is to buy some Canadian stuff.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Want to Fight Trump's Trade War? Visit Canada
Donald Trump's trade war is roiling relations between the U.S. and Canada. Frustrated Americans should considering visiting their neighbors up north.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/fight-trump-trade-war-visit-canada-1235298943/
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Troublemakers
about 1 year ago
"You can stop supporting the world's richest man and his quest to remake the government in his own image. You might just stop him in his tracks entirely in the process. If you were waiting for a sign, this is it. Itโs time to sell."
#TeslaTakedown
#MuskMustFall
insideevs.com/features/755...
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The Pragmatic And Moral Case To Sell Your Tesla
If you were waiting for a sign, this is it. Itโs time to sell.
https://insideevs.com/features/755057/tesla-sell-victoria-scott-musk/
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