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CNN @cnn.com · Sep 10

For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of extreme weather event research in multiple surprising ways.

Scientists trace heat waves back to individual fossil fuel companies, with potentially sweeping courtroom implications | CNN

For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of ex...

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’d like someone to “connect the dots for me” and explain this analogy… but also
BULLSHIT UNFOUNDED ‘RHETORIC’ DOESNT MERIT DISCUSSION OR DEBATE.
It’s just flat out wrong.

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Sep 3

I feel an amalgamation of anger, fear, worthlessness, etc. when I compare these ideologies to the thousands of hours of painstaking review to try to teach students about rhetoric and valid claims backed by evidence.
But sure- vaccines are slavery.
#DontGiveUpDoubleDown !!!

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Sep 3

As if it weren’t already my vision of waking #hellscape…
Watch- In less than 12 months they will be scrambling for federal intervention to “save them” from their own stupidity.
Oh #florida.
#PeopleWillDie
You’re like a geographic representation of ‘hold my beer’

CNN @cnn.com · Sep 3

Florida plans to end all vaccine mandates, which would make it the first state to remove all vaccine requirements for schoolchildren https://cnn.it/4p6Rwa5

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Axios @axios.com · Sep 3

Epstein survivors float release of unofficial client list

Epstein survivors may release unofficial client list if Justice Department stalls

Pressure is mounting after a House panel released 33,000 heavily redacted DOJ documents.

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NPR @npr.org · Sep 2

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

Dozens of scientists find errors in a new Energy Department climate report

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · Aug 24

Point of no return

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 24

There are only two emotions: fear and love.
What will you choose?
#loveISresistance
#chooseLove

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 23

Ps: anyone who thinks Vonnegut should be banned is OBVIOUSLY too stupid to understand anything Vonnegut ever wrote.

Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 23

Your Fall reading list just dropped.
Fuckin Not-sees.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 23

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read

From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 22

Someone ask her to define “appropriate”
She has a skewed view of morality

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CNN @cnn.com · Aug 22

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard members patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, to begin carrying their service weapons as they fulfill President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown in the nation’s capital, according to a US defense official.

Hegseth orders National Guard troops in DC to carry weapons | CNN Politics

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard members patrolling the streets of Washington, DC, to begin carrying their service weapons as they fulfill President Donald Trump’s crime crack...

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 22

“If we THINK” is not grounds for charges. Evidence; evidence is what leads to charges.
Jfc.

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🇨🇦Greg Stefan aka Fella Dogfather 🇨🇦 @ih8handles.bsky.social · Aug 22

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 22

lol. I needed this.

Tammy E @butterflyhg.bsky.social · Aug 22

Smart squirrel!

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s crazy to me that all this cruelty, all this horror, all of it- is based in some individual’s denial and fear of their mortality.
You can’t force/coerce or otherwise bargain or buy your way out.
We all die someday.
The goal while you’re here?
#love
#LoveIsResistance
#resist

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Piyush Mittal @piyushmittal.bsky.social · Aug 21

National Guardsman speaks up against his colleagues who are working with ICE and following illegal orders

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · Aug 21

Cost of public college tuition:
Sweden: $0
Norway: $0
Finland: $0
Denmark: $0
United States: $9,596

When Republicans say it's OK to give billions in tax breaks to the top 1%, don't tell me we can't afford to make public college available for free.

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 21

a raccoon is standing in the grass with its arms outstretched and says " sending you a big hug " .

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 20

I just want to thank CNN for making the empathic choice to use a photo of tRump from the back. I appreciate anytime I don’t have to see his pig-anus face.

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 20

I would just like someone to be able to “see” and “hear” I side my neuro-spicy brain…
But…. I don’t want it this way.
☹️

NPR @npr.org · Aug 20

Brain-implanted devices that allow paralyzed people to speak can also decode words they imagine, but don't intend to share. n.pr/3V85XNd

These brain implants speak your mind — even when you don't want to

Brain-implanted devices that allow paralyzed people to speak can also decode words they imagine, but don't intend to share.

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 20

Will we ever be able to repay what women of color do to protect us all?
#democracy

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 19

On Monday, Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows ordered that the returning lawmakers could only leave the House floor with written permission and a 24-hour police escort until the House reconvened on Wednesday.

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier stood her ground.

Texas Democrat forced to sleep in Capitol after refusing 24-hour police escort

Rep. Nicole Collier has sued the state legislature for unlawful imprisonment.

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Kate Pond (she/her) @katepond.bsky.social · Aug 20

Woke=reliable and valid presentation of events/ideas

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