So grateful I can take @mbta-cr.bsky.social and avoid this 🚊

Herring trying and failing to traverse the Watertown Dam to spawn. This is one is the many reasons we advocate for removal of this and all outdated, defunct dams on the Charles. #CharlesRiver #FreeTheRiver #DamRemoval

The herring are running! This is the fish ladder at the Watertown Dam, where over 11K herring have come thru since mid April. (Sadly many don’t find the ladder, and species such as American shad can’t use it at all. That’s why we advocate for removing this defunct dam.) #CharlesRiver 🐟🌎🌊

90+ degree days coming to Boston in MID-MAY. This is NOT NORMAL. Or at least… it didn’t used to be. #ClimateChangeIsReal #ClimateChange

As an actual HISTORIAN says… “the United States of America was not founded as a Christian nation” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Fantastic Herring Festival yesterday in Watertown with hundreds of attendees! Excited to see support for dam removal continue to grow. Now just need @massdcr.bsky.social to act. 🌎🌊🐟

Incompetent stooges are necessary for authoritarian takeover. See: ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Around the world “nature based solutions play a crucial role in mitigating flood impacts and safeguarding vital ecosystem services like freshwater flow, soil stability, and habitat connectivity” 🌳🌎

Loved attending my first @climaterealityproject.org training at the Newton library yesterday! It was inspiring to be with a group of ppl committed enough to preserving the livability of our planet to spend 3 hours on a beautiful Saturday indoors 🌎🌳

Is the Amazon drying up? Scientists analyzing tree growth rings found that climate seasonality is reaching record levels. A combination of natural variability and human activity is pushing the basin toward more extreme droughts and floods. Learn more in this report by Luís Patriani for #Mongabay.

“…elephants belong in the wild, and …not in captivity. They may learn to endure it, but endurance is not welfare. Against criteria shaped by the captive industry, survival is too easily mistaken for thriving.” www.nonhumanrights.org/blog/why-cap...

"What is the difference between this and theft? Why not just go into Fort Knox, take the gold and give it out?" @weissmann.substack.com and @timmiller.bsky.social discuss Trump's ludicrous taxpayer-funded slush fund for allies who were "targeted by the Biden administration."

“It is impossible at this point to say how many premature deaths Zeldin’s deregulatory campaign will lead to, but the numbers could easily run to the tens of thousands.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The corruption is beyond anything we have ever seen.

Timothy Snyder on “superpower suicide” open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

“A recent study found that in simulated war games, leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons 95% of the time.”

“These grades make it clear that progress has stalled,” said Emily Norton, ED of @crwa.bsky.social “To achieve a truly clean, healthy, and swimmable Charles, we need to make the necessary investments in reducing stormwater runoff and ending sewage discharges.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

So sad. RFK fostering mistrust in medicine is leading parents to forego vitamin K shots, leading to a rise in babies dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

“Our old democracy is dead. If we don’t want Jim Crow and rule by the Klan, we’d better be willing to rip up our current institutions and make better ones.” open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

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Happy Law Day! “In a very real sense, the world no longer has a choice between force and law. If civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law.” —President Eisenhower open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

We must fight 🔥 with 🔥

This graph shows how registration rates between Black and White voters varied in Louisiana since Reconstruction. In a single image, it tells the story of political power and discrimination. Black voters had power, briefly, then it was taken from them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

More #TrumpCorruption

Doing some trash cleanup at Newtonville commuter rail stop @mbta-cr.bsky.social #NoLitter #EveryDayIsEarthDay

FINALLY. I hope they mean it. Supreme Court is supposed to interpret the law not make it! They were NOT ELECTED…our elected representatives, as flawed as they are, are supposed to make it, bc they can be tossed by the voters. Age limits, term limits, pack the court, let’s solve this bc it’s a crisis

“…we’ll be back to where we were at the time that slavery was declared illegal in this country. This country doesn’t seem to want to advance beyond that time.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

“The answer to this assault on our democracy is more democracy“—Sen Warnock 🔥🔥🔥 #VoteBlueNov2026

Thank you @figcitynews.com - it was a great night! So grateful to @redsox.com 🙏🏼🌊🌎 www.figcitynews.com/2026/04/newt...

Emperor penguins survived everything — until us www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/28/o...

Follow the money. #TrumpCorruption

For an infinitesimal amount of money Americans used to prevent suffering and death in Zambia. The Trump administration cut off the funding and now suffering and deaths is restored. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

Incredible story about the clear evidence of the danger from glyphosate yet plans to apply it to thousands of public lands across a California including near Lake Tahoe & Yosemite revealnews.org/podcast/cali...

A BILLION DOLLARS A DAY I remember when GOP used to pretend to care about fiscal responsibility We could solve a lot of actual problems with a billion dollars a day

Someone make a website we can link to when a man is announcing they've discovered that sometimes the wind doesn't blow and the sun goes down

“Today, the sewer bill is a meaningful monthly expense for Northeast Ohio households. It is, however, buying something real: a measurably cleaner lake.” Are we going to be out-greened by Ohio of all places?? CutTheCrapCharles.org #CleanWater #NoSewageDumping www.cleveland.com/news/2026/04...

100% stand by my quote about the MWRA Board voting for more sewage dumping forever "Emily Norton, executive director of the Charles River Watershed Association, called the vote “abominable and embarrassing.” lnkd.in/exEJpRr2 #CleanWater #HealthyRiver #WaterIsLife

Happy Earth Day! Let’s commemorate by ending the practice of dumping 💩 into the Charles River. Visit CutTheCrapCharles.org

Trump betrays Afghans who helped US soldiers. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

First elite women crossing mile 20! #BostonMarathon #NewtonMA

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Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

Climate change ➡️ less snow cover ➡️ darker earth ➡️ more warming absorbed ➡️ less snow cover, repeat… www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/15/m...

Tomorrow I will be cheering on the four Boston Marathon charity runners for Charles River Watershed Association and a cleaner Charles River! 🌍 🌊 🐟 Thank you Riley Cooper, Haydn Herrema, Jon Madorsky, and Chris Towle! 🏃‍➡️ 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ 🏅 (Here they are in front of a sign warning of sewage discharges 🤢)

Yes they will

Or more likely both

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom. Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org