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Anne MB
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Due 9-2, DOE & GHG: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/01/2025-14519/notice-of-availability-a-critical-review-of-impacts-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-on-the-us-climate 9-15: https://www.regulations.gov/document/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0093
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · Sep 3
From a hearing in June. Dr Schrier, from WA and AAP member, asks Kennedy how many kids with measles or meningitis or pertussis he has treated. It’s epic. #pedsky
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Schrier says RFK Jr. should be held responsible for 'every death from a vaccine-preventable illness'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Climate Cabinet Action @climatecabinet.org · 23h
🎉 Peter Hubbard just scored a home run with his win for Georgia PSC! ⚡️Time to knock affordable energy and good jobs investment out of the park! 🌟
Climate Cabinet endorsed Peter Hubbard has won his Georgia Public Service Commission race. This is a victory graphic celebrating his win.
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Climate Cabinet Action @climatecabinet.org · 23h
🏆 Victory! Alicia Johnson just brought home the win for clean energy and lower costs. Let’s keep building a brighter future at the Georgia PSC! 🌞
Climate Cabinet endorsed candidate Alicia Johnson won her election! This is a photo of her victory graphic.
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 3d
See for yourself what health damages are happening due to CDC losing 1/3 of it's workforce and >150 programs.
firedbutfighting.bsky.social Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 4d
National Public Health Coalition released new data showing impacts of illegal firings across CDC since Jan 2025. CDC has lost one-third of its civil-service workforce & over 150 programs. Explore an interactive dashboard. See how cuts are undermining public health nationwide.
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The National Public Health Coalition (NPHC) released new data revealing that since January 2025, CDC has lost one-third of its workforce. CDCDataProject.org The dashboard details the impact on 150 CDC programs, threatening outbreak responses, disease prevention efforts, and community health funding to name a few. NPHC warns these cuts severely harm public health nationwide. press release Oct 30, 2025
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 5d
“We’re fighting for our lives” in Gloster, Curtis Harris told the Mississippi Free Press at the hearing on Oct. 14. “When I came from Chicago, I was in good health. And (then) I came down here, and everything changed.”
Gloster Biomass Plant Gets OK to Increase Emissions
Mississippi regulators approved new permits for Drax’s biomass plant in Gloster, Mississippi, reversing a decision from earlier this year.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 6d
I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.

Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇
Donald J. Trump & @realDonald Trump I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue. It took courage to do so, and for that we are all grateful. MAGA!!! 475 ReTruths 1.67k Likes Oct 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 6d
Also the Gates memo totally ignores non-climate health harms from fossil fuels, including 91,000 deaths per year due to extraction, transport, processing, and use. Also many more serious but not deadly health problems: COPD, CVD, strokes, preterm birth, dementia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States
Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 6d
With it being so rare, it would be hard to prove anything, including if it was service related - even when there was serious toxin exposure that is a likely cause.
Also being rare, this won't save them a lot of $$. It will just traumatize more vets.
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 6d
Summary: let my industry keep killing people with air pollution and GHG, and then we can use our immense profits to focus on alleviating the suffering we caused.
He needs to watch that margarine commercial from the 70s again: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7d
(1/2) It's election season! 🗳️
Georgia friends, are you concerned about intensifying climate change? Familiar with the PSC? Here's an opportunity to provide a check on GA Power and help determine if rates increase along with intensified climate change impact. #vote
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- Georgians for Affordable Energy
Georgians for Affordable Energy is a nonprofit seeking utility reform to end the trio of Georgia Power’s high bills, high shutoff rates, and obscene profits.
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 8d
Also 💉 stops measles outbreaks very quickly.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 9d
Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations.

It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 9d
Excess electricity is generated by this system and is sent to low-and moderate-income households through Community Solar program.

How cool is that?

You can learn more from my host, Sustainable Westchester. 3/3

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Solar + Storage at our Mount Kisco Headquarters! - Sustainable Westchester
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 9d
I really think we should do a whole series about facts like this:

Have you noticed that poison ivy seems worse and itchier?

It's not your imagination. It's Climate Change.

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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 9d
For them to leave a storm early due to severe turbulence is major, because they're used to flying through hurricanes and getting lots of turbulence.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 10d
Parts of Jamaica may see more than 30 inches of rain from Hurricane Melissa

This is the mark of an overheated earth, and the damage it causes will be terrifying. Please be prepared to help those providing aid
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10d
"Maria" harvests olives in the Reedley, CA area without a union contract. She tells us she earns $5 per bucket. In 8–9 hours she picks 15–18 buckets, which isn't even minimum wage. She knows the law says she should get minimum wage, but the law isn't enforced. #WeFeedYou
Worker harvesting olives on a 16 foot ladder
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 10d
London LEZ and ULEZ have reduced use of sick leave by 18%, there are 10% fewer respiratory illnesses and people overall feel better and more satisfied.
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“And Breathe Normally”: Impacts of low emission zones on sick leave and mental well-being
Air pollution poses a global concern due to its detrimental effects on climate, healthcare, and human capital accumulation. However, there is limited …
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 10d
Yesterday, the Associated Press published a story about anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers that illustrates perfectly how traditional notions of journalistic objectivity and “both sides” coverage fail to meet the current moment—and even facilitate the spread of disinformation.
The Associated Press Does Free PR for Crisis Pregnancy Centers
A recent story is a glaring example of how traditional journalistic “objectivity" is far from unbiased, and can even facilitate the spread of disinformation.
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 10d
Are the labs and personnel that do the STIs certified and inspected? Do they do routine QA measures? If the CPCs are providing more and more medical care, do the have the appropriate licensing and certifications from state health regulators?
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Grace R @candidkitten.bsky.social · 11d
Happy World Polio Day! For fucks sake, keep vaccinating
candidkitten.bsky.social Grace R @candidkitten.bsky.social · Nov 10
Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...
I’m a Polio Survivor. I Don’t Want You to Get It.
Polio is once again a public health threat in the United States. Grace is disappointed, though not surprised.
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 11d
This is a good news zine about repordu issues.
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 12d
I have one from a few years ago, I haven't seen them lately. My dentist gave them out with his name on them for awhile in 2020-21.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 12d
The right weaponizes Dr. King's legacy against social justice organizing.

Counter that misrepresentation with King's longstanding, radical critiques of Northern racism.

Join us for class on Monday, 7pm ET with @sifill.bsky.social,
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King of the North: Part Two
Historian Jeanne Theoharis returns to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South in conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill. This session is part of the...
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CDC Mutual Aid Network @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks to generous donations from people like you, CDC Mutual Aid has raised more than $60,000.

And as of this week we've passed another big milestone: We've given more than $50K to help fired/RIFed CDC employees. 👏

Check out the latest numbers (updated weekly): www.cdcresourceportal.org/donate
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Anne MB @annemellbird.bsky.social · 13d
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