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One of the biggest sources of paralysis I've found for new learners thinking about how to engage with climate change is the perception that we're starting at zero. David's point is a good one. We aren't. And when people see that their work is having an impact they are more likely to push harder.

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Waging war is the hallmark strategy of declining extractive and oppressive regimes as they grasp to maintain relevance and control in a world that increasingly is ready to do away with them

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My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.

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I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

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Hey @chronicle.com, when literally hundreds of researchers have been pointing out the corporate capture and exploitation of academic publishing for a decade at least, you really don’t have to “hand it” to the antivax eugenecist who doesn’t believe in germ theory www.chronicle.com/article/what... l

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Never forgot how much harder centrists are willing to fight against progressives than against MAGA

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Progressivism is way more popular than modern centrist liberalism, it’s just that the liberals have a shit ton of money that they would rather spend to stay in power than simply sharing it with other human beings.

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1000%

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Remember that Juneteenth commemorates a beginning as much as it does an end. There is still so much to do to end racial oppression in this country.

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This admission should be headline news. This is still avoidable but not if we let powerful people continue to deceive the public and profit off the destruction of our planet

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Rick Steves is the best of us

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We are more or less at the “state abandonment of social contract and overall veneer of legitimacy” that created the Batman.

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So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

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How in the world does anyone paying attention still think the GOP is a conservative party? Im at #SRI2025 in Chicago. Panelist right now talking about how conserving the environment is by definition a conservative value and we just need to remind conservatives of this point.

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New 📰| The future Prairie Pothole Region: scenarios of change 🏞️ buff.ly/D4PPo5V Authors hope the presented scenarios will help support dialogue over desirable future changes, and how to achieve them in the prairie pothole region. @philiploring.com 📷 facets-2024-0278

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There are many more people out there like you and me trying to make the world a better place one small change at a time than there are people like them trying to tear it down. They just happen to have the stage right now. Doesn’t mean they aren’t tremendously and overwhelmingly outnumbered.

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I just landed in Chicago for a conference and I’m shocked how vulnerable I feel here. Brand new target on it from Trump, and now the escalations in Iran… part of me wants to change my flight and turn right around

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Wow things feel pretty batshit out of control right now. It’s like we are driving fast, too fast, down a windy road, the trees and turns whipping by. Find a way to focus on the landscape in the distance, the place you want to be, the world oh so bigger than all this.

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A mighty little No Kings protest at Kings Beach, California!

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Senator Alex Padilla was dragged out of a Department of Homeland Security press conference, forced to the ground, and handcuffed by members of the FBI after attempting to ask DHS Secretary Kristi Noem a question.

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Why is everyone walking in American pharmaceutical commercials? Where are they all going? It’s like something out of a @chuckwendig.bsky.social novel

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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

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Catching up on S2 of Andor and Ep 8 hits extra hard given what’s happening in LA right now.

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Skunt? Seriously? These can't be real companies.

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URGENT please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign TODAY in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

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Scientists standing up not just for science but for all of us 🧪 🙏

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My take on the “Bluesky needs more ideological diversity” thing: 1) ideological diversity is great! I think there are many viewpoints here but wish more Brown, Black, Queer, and Indigenous folks felt welcome and safe. (1/n)

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Someone buy Mark a copy of @juliusgoat.bsky.social s Very Fine People.

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Not only is the ten foot Trump banner down from the house at the end of my street, their flag is hung in distress

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California is the next Harvard. Trump is going to go hard and I don’t think enough people realize how hard.

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I had the pleasure of giving the commencement address to this year's @climatebase.bsky.social cohort, 700 professionals from around the world who spent 12 weeks together to become climate champions in a wide range of sectors. Here's what I told them, conservechange.medium.com/power-comes-...

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My doctor: you’ve got to eat less cheese if you want to bring those LDL levels down to within a good range Me: what if it’s gay cheese?

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The Abundance discourse and the MAHA discourse are cut from the same cloth medium.com/age-of-aware...

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Stopping for some on the way home just because. 🌈🧀

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Remember: Elon Musk is no ally of human rights and decency, no matter how much fun it is to see him spatting with Trump and his allies medium.com/age-of-aware...

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Step 1: propose wildly unpopular policy Step 2: create artificial rift in party to distract from the reasons the policy is wildly unpopular Step 3: pass wildly unpopular bill as a show of “coming together despite differences”

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Mainstream media to wrongly conflate this with a rise in antisemitism in 3… 2… 1…

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