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#Comics for Earth: Eight New #GraphicNovels About Saving the Planet and Celebrating Wildlife • my latest for The Revelator therevelator.org/environmenta...

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Comics for Earth: Eight New Graphic Novels About Saving the Planet and Celebrating Wildlife • by @thecarollay.bsky.social @manruss.bsky.social @tomking.bsky.social @warandpeas.bsky.social & others therevelator.org/environmenta...

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I know I’ve said it before, but I am extremely proud of Traveling to Mars and feel like maybe it’s the best thing I’ve ever written. Also very proud to be on this list.

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Comics for Earth: Eight New Graphic Novels About Saving the Planet and Celebrating Wildlife • by @thecarollay.bsky.social @manruss.bsky.social @tomking.bsky.social @warandpeas.bsky.social & others therevelator.org/environmenta...

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E. Flake cartoon: "If you connect the measles it spells out "My parents are idiots."

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I don’t have words for what’s happening to my friends and colleagues at NOAA right now… absolutely reckless destruction of one of the world’s premier science-driven, public-serving organizations.

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Oh, joy.

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Probationary employees across @NOAA and the @NWS are being terminated today, including those in mission-essential roles. My own wife is among them, essential to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center's 24/7 critical mission of seismic monitoring and tsunami prediction to protect the public.

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“Oops”

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I just got fired from NWS . This email is all I know. Read if you want.

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Rep. Mike Levin grilled an Army Corp lieutenant general about why the military dumped a bunch of water from two Central Valley dams into the ground. The obvious answer was "Trump told us to," but he clearly felt he couldn't say that. Extremely uncomfortable exchange: sjvwater.org/army-corps-g...

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Awful.

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The cruelty is the point.

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This seems timely therevelator.org/life-before-...

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Protect This Place: Otay Mountain — Boon of Biodiversity on the Border • The Revelator therevelator.org/protect-otay...

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Cash for Corals: Exploiting Ecosystems on Their Way to Extinction Experts say the growing commercial trade in wild, threatened species like corals is unacceptable and irresponsible. Read the latest from @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️

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Cranes in Ukraine: Birds of Joy in a War-Torn Land therevelator.org/cranes-ukrai...

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Today on @the-revelator.bsky.social -- coral reefs face terrible pressures from climate change and pollution, and capitalism ain't making things any easier. therevelator.org/cash-for-cor...

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The Trump administration has already rolled back planned limits on PFAS chemicals, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems. #CCNow #PFAS #deregulation Paul Adepoju reports for @the-revelator.bsky.social via @coveringclimatenow.org whowhatwhy.org/science/envi...

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From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide. Check out the latest from @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️

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Mitigating the snowballing mass extinction crisis is generally neither viewed nor treated as an economic priority by leaders and voters alike, despite its indispensability to the survival of the planet's remaining species, including humans. #COP16 #TalkCollapse www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Amazing scenes. There’s a reason Trump/Elon love the executive orders and the king routine, and part of it is: they don’t have the votes to do it constitutionally.

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D'oh! JD Vance’s memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ is the latest target of book bans 19thnews.org/2025/02/book...

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When I used to cyberbully BP on Ye Olde Site, people used to tell me to lay off because they were "the better" of the oil companies. Well, what do you say to this? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Today on @the-revelator.bsky.social -- coral reefs face terrible pressures from climate change and pollution, and capitalism ain't making things any easier. therevelator.org/cash-for-cor...

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Plotting my return to the office tomorrow...

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Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

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The Pacific Lamprey is an amazing creature. We promote this species & its recovery efforts here at NPWH. Indigenous Peoples have been relying on the lamprey for thousands of years. This fish is older than dinosaurs & trees. #pacificlamprey #firstfoods #indigisky therevelator.org/bringing-bac...

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The latest in my series on #coastal restoration for @the-revelator.bsky.social #seagrass therevelator.org/seagrass-gar...

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Great reading list on gaining greater context for these times. therevelator.org/trump-books-...

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The slender-billed curlew has been declared extinct. "There was no conceivable reason to drive them to extinction. But it seems that is exactly what we have done." @johnrplatt.bsky.social @the-revelator.bsky.social therevelator.org/extinct-2024/

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I'm mostly offline this week, but here's a new conservation optimism article from The Revelator. therevelator.org/seagrass-gar...

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They’ve always been around, and they always will be. The fight against the self-serving and for freedom has always been there whether or not we knew it.

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They literally just did a search for key words and then fired everyone. This is the laziest fucking coup in history. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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So much brilliance on display... www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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The Sixth Mass Extinction is approaching the finish line as the number of species disappearing forever increases. 😔😱😢 therevelator.org/extinct-2024/

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Geniuses. Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

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The U.S. Imported Billions of Animals in Recent Decades, Fueling Global Wildlife Trade - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1402202...

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Trump White House Bans AP Indefinitely From Oval Office, Air Force One Over ‘Gulf of America’ Controversy. variety.com/2025/digital...

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Trump’s latest executive order (that was no doubt written by psychopath RFK Jr.) goes after antidepressants. As someone whose life was saved by them, you will pry my prozac from my cold dead hands. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Flash flood warning continues for the Eaton fire burn scar. Debris basins are full, and flooding is now sending rock, soil, and tree trunks down canyons and across roads.

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They removed the T and then they removed the Q and what letter are they coming for next?

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👀 “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” - Former Acting USA, SDNY Danielle Sassoon.

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"'...I don't think they understand that federal employees are no strangers to miserable conditions,' said the staffer. 'They'll need to either fire me or burn this building down to get me to leave.'" That's kinda metal. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish: The Extinct Species of 2024 therevelator.org/extinct-2024/ (a name that just kills me)

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Horrible. USAID employees detail harrowing exits from DR Congo amid violence as Trump administration dismantles agency www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/p...

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The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish: The Species We Lost in 2024. Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire. Read the latest by @johnrplatt.bsky.social for @the-revelator.bsky.social ⬇️

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