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Meade Krosby

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Climate impacts and adaptation for nature and people. Senior Scientist @ Climate Impacts Group & Univ. Director @ NW Climate Adaptation Science Center, U of Washington. Surfer/paddler. Settler on Coast Salish land. She/her. Personal account - views mine.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Sep 15

Since I haven't seen one yet, here's a starter pack of scientists actively working in the climate adaptation and resilience space, including researchers as well as climate service providers! 🌎🧪

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 5h

I was a diplomat kid in Soviet Bulgaria and have deep affection for Ladas.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 7h

I just listened to this on my drive home from the coast today. A great listen and such helpful historical context for the pushback against Mamdani.

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 8h

This shouldn't happen to any child regardless of status.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

My husband was there and said after the game Humpy stood next to Rick Rizzs while everybody cheered and yelled, "We love you Humpy!" Definitely not a coincidence.

Humpy the salmon at Mariners stadium with announcer Rick Rizzs and cheering fans

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Ladies and gentlemen, the Mariners.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out listening to baseball on AM radio can be riveting.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Ha!

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

The husband, meanwhile, is actually at the game, losing his mind.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

I give my husband a hard time for listening to AM sports radio, but here I am, out on the coast without TV, listening to the Mariners on the trusty AM. What a game.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Godspeed.

AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 2d

America's unions will see you in court.

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

The attacks on federal workers hit particularly hard, because these are folks who've devoted their careers to serving the public good. And that's exactly why the administration is targeting them - service is anathema to their zero sum ideology.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

bit.ly

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Timeline cleanse: a year ago today (Olympic Peninsula, WA).

The aurora borealis lights up the sky with greens and pinks over the silhouette of a stand of Douglas fir.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

"We decided to come join our friend...It only made sense that more frogs would join in this fight." 💚

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

"As stewards of these American treasures, we urge you to prioritize both conservation and visitor safety and protect our national parks during a potential shutdown, and into the future. If sufficient staff aren’t there, visitors shouldn’t be either."

The letter:

Former NPS Superintendents Urge Secretary Burgum To Close National Parks if Government Shuts Down – The Coalition To Protect America's National Parks

protectnps.org

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

This is why dozens of former national park superintendents wrote a letter begging Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to keep parks closed during the shutdown.

Squatters, illegal BASE jumpers invade Yosemite amid federal shutdown

"It's the Wild Wild West."

www.sfgate.com

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

So glad to hear this. Safe travels!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

Agreed, and preferably with an excellent sound system. (Yes, I saw it twice in the theater)

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah. I have nothing but respect for the hawk but I really was excited to see those robins. I've been worried about them.

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

It felt decidedly inauspicious tbh but I'm trying not to read into it. Hawks gotta eat. 🤷‍♀️

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

Save Sinners for a larger screen.

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