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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · Dec 10

Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...

Decolonizing Environmentalism

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 9h

I was looking forward to hear you speak on this, Rosaleen. Unfortunately, the timing conflicts with a medical appointment I had to reschedule. Please do record, if you can, @ckweatherill.bsky.social !

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 9h

Congratulations @dudleymarianna.bsky.social !

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.bsky.social · 10h

The Right Is Attacking a Franchise It Once Loved. The Reason Why Is Laughable. - @slate.com

It’s the #gamergate bros, continuing to whine about games being too woke merely for having women or Black men as leads or any hint of trans/enby characters’ or voice actors’ involvement.

The Right Is Attacking a Franchise It Once Loved. The Reason Why Is Laughable. — Slate

A new video game sparked fury and accusations of wokeness in entertainment. But we’ve played this game before—and it’s boring.

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Tanvi Misra @tanvi.bsky.social · 10h

his summer, I went to Panama and met Jharana, a 33-year-old from Nepal who had been deported there in a group of 300 others — the 1st group to be sent to a third country. I wrote about what happened to her and others over the year for
@nymag.com -->

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What Happened to The Migrants The U.S. Dumped In Panama?

Nearly 300 people were sent to a country they’d never lived in. The journey didn’t end there.

nymag.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 13h

Just astonishing how much focus there is on planting trees to hopefully create new forests for the future

And all the while the plunder and destruction of our actual, existing forests just carries on worsening

This is horrific news

‘Dismal’ health of world’s forests is threat to humanity, report warns

Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus

www.theguardian.com

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 16h

📺 Really looking forward to this event organised by the terrific by @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social team. The session will be especially useful for #ECRs in environmental research & thinking about different career pathways. It’s online and open to everyone @mybisa.bsky.social. Tune in on Friday ⬇️

Environment and Climate Politics Working Group @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social · 16h

Event this Friday, 17th Oct!

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy.

Three excellent speakers will talk about their different paths through environmental research.

Online - free - 1 til 2.30pm BST - register!

www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

Pathways for environment research: academia, activism, policy- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

www.bisa.ac.uk

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 21h

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 1d

"Vermont's Climate Superfund Law...is modeled after the federal Superfund program, which has required companies to pay for the cleanup of hazardous waste sites since the 1980s. A refrain of the law’s supporters: “If you make a mess, you clean it up.” #PolluterPays www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/13/s...

In Vermont, courts weigh who should pay for the cost of climate change - The Boston Globe

Amid the Trump administration's rollback of climate protections, Vermont has become a key battleground for climate fights in the courts.

www.bostonglobe.com

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 1d

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

In addition to my writing and editing work, I'm honoured to be a board member and treasurer for Oodenaw.com, an urban Indigenous consulting cooperative. We support education initiatives, cultural resurgence, and language revitalization.

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Oodenaw: Urban Indigenous Consulting Cooperative

aanii, tanisi, ʔəy̓ sweyəl! We are the people who make up the Urban Indigenous Consulting Cooperative known as Oodenaw. We do our heart-centred work together in hopes that we will impact good change i...

Oodenaw.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 1d

On the Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025: how should we act on Indigenous wisdom & praxis? In Decolonization Environmentalism, we celebrate the confluence of the movements of Black, Indigenous, People of Color & youth worldwide. Building cross-movement solidarities is more important than ever before. ✊🏽🌎⚖️

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · Dec 10

Decolonizing Environmentalism

We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is true and important, and also, much like confederate monuments erected as backlash to Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement, Columbus Day is about crafting a specific cultural narrative, specifically in this case, a fascist aligned one commonwealthbeacon.org/arts-and-cul...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Diana B. Greenwald @dbgreenwald.bsky.social · 1d

Israel raided prisoner family homes across five districts in the West Bank. www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-ba...

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

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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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Might be time to go after some yachts, #TeamOrca

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 2d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure what's up with the photos not showing up. Let me give this one more try. So happy for Coco Gauff's Wuhan Open win.

Coco Gauff, shown in this photo after her title win at the Wuhan Open, is the first woman to win nine consecutive hard-court titles since Serena Williams

Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 2d

Coco Gauff beat Jessica Pegula 6-4, 7-5 to win the Wuhan Open in an all-American final. 🏆 🎉

"You're the three-set queen," Gauff told Pegula...It's an honour to play you, as a friend and fellow American in the final," added a gracious Pegula." www.bbc.com/sport/tennis...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 2d

🇨🇦 Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends! 🍁

Sorry I’m not there to celebrate with you! But earlier today I did stop by your sovereign’s house to say hi.

Me wearing sunglasses and smiling in front of Buckingham Palace. The flag is flying on top of it.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

This Is Fascism

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world.

Gift link.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 3d

Right on -- the media piece is equally, if not more important.

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 3d

This document argues that building a just future requires shifting from the reigning ideology of Neoliberal Public Finance (NPF) to Democratic Public Finance (DPF).

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

moneyontheleft.org

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not saying the clean tech transition is at the root of everything, but…
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump threatens 100% China tariffs as Beijing restricts rare-earth exports

President accuses China of ‘very hostile’ moves and says additional tariffs could come on 1 November ‘or sooner’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful! Was this event recorded?