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thomsec.bsky.social
Geographer. Happiness, climate change, human rights. “What appears to be coming at you is really coming from you.”
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First of all, incredible concept for a rom com. Second of all, HELL YES. This guy has been begging to star in a RomCom for ages. He is an adorable person. This is gonna be great I’m so happy for him.

The U.S. Senate has removed the provision in the budget reconciliation bill that would have forced the sale of 2 million acres over the next two years (& made 250 million acres more eligible for sale). @wilderness.org mapped these vulnerable parcels. buff.ly/P76MEnQ #geosky #public #land

I was wondering how long it was gonna take them to do this. And I think this is actually a very really danger.

I think it's the first time I've seen a @tomflood.bsky.social creation (other than a T-shirt) in the wild - glad to have other folks in my neighborhood spreading the message!

oh, so the folks who wear masks and complain about doxxing are in fact doxxing everyone

Brutal setbacks today for Senate Republicans on their Medicaid plans as the Parliamentarian has found many of the GOP savings plans run afoul of the Byrd Rule, and must be stripped from the Big Beautiful Bill. Makes it even more difficult to lash this bill together and get it done by next week.

Big Oil "knew ‪decades ago that burning fossil fuels would cause, in its own words, 'globally catastrophic' harm." What did the industry do with that knowledge? "It actively lied and deceived people," said @darkush.bsky.social of @publiccitizen.bsky.social The public deserves accountability!

As Paul Krugman says in today's post, it is time for Democrats to unite behind Zohran Mamdani, in the same way that when centrist candidates win primaries the centrists demand that the left must unite behind their candidate. It works both ways, friends.

The liberal New York Times

Re Zohran’s grocery store plans- the government already runs discount grocery stores ALL OVER THE WORLD. They are called commissaries and they are on every US military base. No one has ever had a problem with their existence

#Florida is moving forward with a controversial plan to build a $450 million immigration detention center, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz", in the environmentally sensitive #Everglades. Read more and subscribe in the top-left corner for more #news in #maps: us10.campaign-archive.com?u=023a4ebf81...

Some people think this is an exaggeration but I will say that if I were HHS Secretary and my goal were to kill as many children as possible, it would be difficult to distinguish the actions I would take from those that Kennedy has taken.

learning that the tallest tree in the world has to have its location kept secret because of all the people who were going there and fucking it up has radicalised me in a way I did not expect

I do believe some of these people are genuinely worried. I also believe it's OK to say "Your worries are not valid, because they are not based in reality and we don't have to humor you." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

This is virtually Watergate-level criminality.

Let's see, could it be space lasers, illegal immigrants, the Union representing cats and dogs who don't want to be eaten, the Radical Left, etc etc. Def nothing to do with climate change

I disagree. They're governing in exact right way to get the results they want. It's great for business and the wealthy, yet terrible for the public, by design. It's not incompetence; it's malevolence.

Outdoor Afro tells me they received 300 applications overnight following this post! People are learning how to swim

Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist

New project! I've always felt climate projections were a bit too abstract. To make them more concrete, I identified North American cities that already experience the projected temperature and precipitation of Canadian cities. And the result is... 😳 Link in the comments! 👇 #dataviz #climate

I wonder if Mitch McConnell assumed Americans who lost their healthcare would "get over it" because they will be dead.

man I'm loving this whole 1950s renaissance thing the NYT got goin on

this is why people were excited about walz for a sec, why people like JB, why people like AOC, why people like bernie. they're all very different places on the socialist-to-centrist scale but they do all clearly believe in what they're saying, and have signature progressive policies they fight for

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I’ve had a license to practice law for 36 years and I am morally certain that I’ve never met a lawyer who couldn’t truthfully, emphatically, and categorically deny ever having counseled anyone to say “fuck you” to a court.

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

"he's going to compete directly against minority-owned bodegas" is the line they cooked up for that one and its delightful if you imagine it being workshopped in a luxurious wood-paneled office with a fireplace and a discrete bar

Incredibly important. Harvard is about to fail the Lando test, opening itself, the rest of higher education, and all of civil society up to further illegal and unconstitutional authoritarian exertion. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Something that I think about all of the time is how deeply uninformed so many of us are & how that contributes to putting ceilings on our brains and imaginations. De Blasio told his appointees to freeze the rent 3 times in 2015, 2016, and 2020!

Does journalism school teach that you can never, ever ask a question like “why are you lying?,” you must always act like a government official is telling the truth, no matter how confident you are that they’re blatantly lying right to your face? Or is that a cultural thing they pick up on the job?

Zohran’s campaign was laser-focused on affordability. But take a closer look at the policy proposals and nearly all of them do double duty, targeting both cost of living crisis and climate crisis in one fell swoop. This is “green abundance for the many” @batul.bsky.social @jacobinmag.bsky.social

Ready for NYC to feel more like Paris 👩🏻‍🎨🌳🌳🏘️🚸

Free bus fare Baby baskets to newborns $30 minimum wage Hot commie summer Look do you want to beat this guy or continue to make him sound cool as hell?

Another example where USFS is violating some of primary tenets of ecologically-based forest mgmt under the auspices of "restoration" -- proposes ~17,000 acres of commercial thinning (logging) and 96 mi of road construction on Tahoe NF just west of Lake Tahoe. 🌏 www.calwild.org/protect-lake...

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

Oh, won't someone PLEASE think of Andrew Cuomo's chastity!!!

Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics. The Colorado DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement. boltsmag.org/colorad...

“Geology, it turns out, may have foiled one of the most audacious American air operations in recent memory.”

It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

“Because peace isn’t the absence of war. It’s the presence of an American war.” Banger.

10 years ago today, we dropped a thing that people still ask me about regularly. The question "What's Really Warming the World?" still has the same answer. With Blacki Migliozzi, in conversation with NASA GISS geniuses @climateofgavin.bsky.social and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social 🎁🔗

hey this sounds like pretty good stuff here fox news thank u for the summary