LaUra Schmidt
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Founding Director: Good Grief Network; Author of How to Live in a Chaotic Climate Human Animal
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$200USD off before January!
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The Guardian
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Age of the âscam stateâ: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
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Age of the âscam stateâ: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
Like the narco-state, a âscam stateâ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/02/scam-state-multi-billion-dollar-industry-south-east-asia?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764642088
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"Hope is not a form of guarantee, it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in the circumstances that are very dark." âJohn Berger
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âAction on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.â â Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
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Y'all aren't gonna wanna miss this:
letsreimagine.org/76768/the-wi...
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The Wisdom of the Hive: Facing Fear and the Future Together⌠| 12.17.2025
Pain AND sweetness coexist. Discover how honeybees can lead us towards a future of greater connection to ourselves, each other, and the entire ecosys⌠| 12.17.2025
https://letsreimagine.org/76768/the-wisdom-of-the-hive-facing-fear-and-the-future-together-part-3-of-3
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Al Jazeera English
14 days ago
BREAKING: Israel has killed 20 Palestinians, including four children, and injured 83 others in the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip, according to the enclaveâs Health Ministry. đ´ LIVE updates:
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Kevin
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he never looks at JD that way
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Democracy Now!
17 days ago
Rather than working "to stabilize the climate" at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, "we are actually going to a trajectory to have an increase in temperature of 2.8 Celsius,â says Susana Muhamad, former Colombian environment minister, speaking from the
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Democracy Now!
17 days ago
Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin explains the roots of the genocide in Sudan. âThe UAE has been using the RSF militia to illegally smuggle gold out to finance the war and finance their own gold reserves.â
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Good Grief Network
24 days ago
2026 FLOW Facilitation Training: Application now live! Â Apply by 6 Jan for early bird discount ($200 OFF). 6 Jan is also the priority due date for our scholarships and work exchanges! Now is the time to apply:
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ďťż Questions? Watch our recent Informational Session:
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Truthout
19 days ago
Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced legislation to recognize Israelâs genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza and call for the U.S. to take concrete actions like an arms embargo to end the slaughter. âThe Israeli governmentâs genocide in Gaza has not ended, and it will not end until we act.â
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If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again. âRobin Wall Kimmerer
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Change is the heartbeat of social movements. But, on either side of change is loss. Reimagining the world requires that we release the parts of the systems & ways of being that are ready to die, & mourn the destructive losses that we could not control, despite our best efforts. âMalkia Devich-Cyril
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Good Grief Network
about 1 month ago
The future is not set. It's being written with each moment, each breath. Come explore how to envision a livable future:
goodgriefnetwork.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
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Cascadia Journal
about 1 month ago
Cruelty is the point.
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 1 month ago
I was interviewed by
@reemasabrina.bsky.social
about Read This When Things Fall Apart. "Fight for what is sacred to you. And if you donât know whatâs sacred to you yet, I suggest you get out there, amongst other people fighting the good fight, and I suspect youâll find it."
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A care package for activists in crisis - Chicago Reader
Read This When Things Fall Apart, edited by Kelly Hayes, features letters offering hope and advice for activist in crisis.
https://chicagoreader.com/books/book-review/read-this-when-things-fall-apart/
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Indivisible âđ
about 1 month ago
Over the next few weeks, millions of Americans are going to receive notices that their healthcare costs are set to explode in 2026. Many more will log onto online insurance marketplaces only to find that theyâve been priced out of the coverage they rely on.
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Who are my folks out there feeling big over the coral reef tipping point, food assistance being taken away from folks, crumbling democracy, multiple genocides, and worsening climateâŚ?? Itâs a lot. Youâre not alone.
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Rise and Resist
about 1 month ago
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Samantha Nye đżđŞŹ
about 1 month ago
The genocide in Sudan is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world right now and the US is currently hosting the leaders carrying it out btw
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)
about 1 month ago
A year ago this week, I delivered my TED Talk, making the case for apocalyptic optimism at the TED Countdown event in Brussels.
go.ted.com/danarfisher
Here's what's happened since:
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How to be an "apocalyptic optimist"
Dana R. Fisher calls herself an "apocalyptic optimist" based on her research as a sociologist of large social movements. Her studies suggest that ever-increasing climate disasters will get people out ...
https://go.ted.com/danarfisher
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Good Grief Network
about 1 month ago
Tonight. Tonight. Tonight.
goodgriefnetwork.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber đłď¸âđ
about 1 month ago
You know all about your emotional immature parents. But what do you know about your morally immature culture? New from our executive director, the always visionary Carolyn Raffensperger
@sehnetwork.bsky.social
:
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
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A Morally Mature Culture â The Science and Environmental Health Network
By Carolyn Raffensperger, SEHN executive director In 2009, I wrote an essay about a morally mature culture. I am revisiting the concept (and the essay) because of the looming environmental disasters...
https://www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10/23/a-morally-mature-culture
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson
about 1 month ago
Your 'doom quote' for today: "The more particles injected into the stratosphere, the greater the chance of weird side effects ... White would become the new blue."
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617060...
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Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert: 9780593136287 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠The Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanityâs transformative impact on the environment, now asking: After doing so much damage,...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/617060/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert/
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)
about 1 month ago
đ¨đ¨New Paper Alert! Our article comparing climate activists to the general population regarding their perspectives on social movement tactics is up at Environmental Research Letters (w/ Arman Azedi
@magnoliae.bsky.social
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@chrisjayko.bsky.social
Details to come!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
Priorities.
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God
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Emily Baker-White
about 2 months ago
hell yes
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Good Grief Network
about 2 months ago
Join Good Grief Network founders LaUra Schmidt and Aimee Lewis-Reau online in conversation Rob Hopkins, about his new book, How to Fall in Love with the Future. Monday 10 November 2025 12pm -1.30pm EST | 9am - 11.30am PST | 5pm - 6.30pm GMT Free or by donation, register here,
bit.ly/3IyoKyz
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ACLU
about 2 months ago
Weâre taking to the streets today to defend: âď¸ Immigrants' rights âď¸ Free speech âď¸ Racial justice âď¸ LGBTQ rights âď¸ Trans justice âď¸ Democracy And more. We are not backing down.
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Democracy Now!
about 2 months ago
Rutgers professor Mark Bray has fled the country after Turning Point USA launched a concerted online campaign that dubbed him âDr. Antifa.â
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Jennifer Berry Hawes
about 2 months ago
Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...
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Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/climate/kupnik-alaska-typhoon-trump-epa-flood.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Common Dreams
about 2 months ago
â"Israel is working extremely hard to blow up this ceasefire,â" said one observer after IDF troops shot dead Palestinians trying to return to their homes in the largely flattened strip.
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'You Cease, I Fire': Israel Kills At Least 9 in Gaza, Says It Will Break Truce Aid Terms
"Israel is working extremely hard to blow up this ceasefire," said one observer after IDF troops shot dead Palestinians trying to return to their homes in the largely flattened strip.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-violates-ceasefire?share_id=9010442
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Some autumnal beauty:
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Jon Cooper
about 2 months ago
Be there. Saturday, October 18th.
www.nokings.org
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David Tomkins
about 2 months ago
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis
#tippingpoint
#auspol
www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
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âNew realityâ as world reaches first climate tipping point
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/5861/new-reality-as-world-reaches-first-climate-tipping-point
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Good Grief Network
about 2 months ago
Join us on Thursday for our monthly digital drop-in Collective Grieving Space, with LaUra Schmidt and Claritta Martin. Bring your curiosity, openness, and a journal. 16 October 2025, then every third Thursday of the month, at 1-3pm ET | 10am-12pm PT. Sign up here:
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Indivisible âđ
about 2 months ago
Republicans are lying about the peaceful No Kings Day protests because theyâre desperate â the GOP is losing the shutdown fight while Americans reject Trumpâs authoritarian takeover in huge numbers. âThese are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.â -
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Al Jazeera English
about 2 months ago
Video shows rescuers pulling a Palestinian boy from the rubble of his home in Gaza City. Israeli forces attacked the house on Thursday after the approval of a ceasefire agreement with Hamas.
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Senate Judiciary Democrats đşđ¸
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.
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Such a great time at NYC Climate Week
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Good Grief Network
about 2 months ago
Just in time for Halloween, join us for this online experiential workshop with existential psychologist and terror management expert, Dr Devin Guthrie. Donât Fear the Reaper: Learning to Live with Death & Eco-Anxiety Monday 27 October 2025 | 7pm ET | 4pm PT Sign up here:
bit.ly/4pBKhHj
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Christopher Webb
about 2 months ago
ICE getting tailed like itâs a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.
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Al Jazeera English
2 months ago
BREAKING: At least 60 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 37 people in Gaza City, medical sources in the besieged enclave told Al Jazeera. đ´ LIVE updates:
aje.io/ofj8ow
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Last 10 step of the year. Need some additional support? Tips and tools about how to meet this moment? A sense of community? Join us.
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Al Jazeera English
2 months ago
Hundreds of thousands federal employees to be furloughed while others, including FBI, CIA agents, will work without pay.
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The US government has shut down â what happens now?
Hundreds of thousands federal employees to be furloughed while others, including FBI, CIA agents, will work without pay.
https://bit.ly/3ISF5hP
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Dr Charlie Gardner
2 months ago
You would think that no-one has a greater interest in maintaining fish stocks than the industrial fisheries who depend on them But guess who will be lobbying governments to ignore the expert advice?
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Will Bunch
2 months ago
This needs to become a huge story
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