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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
@ayanaeliza.bsky.social
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Marine biologist, writer, policy nerd. Co-founder Urban Ocean Lab, think tank for the future of coastal cities. In love with climate solutions.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · Feb 2
What a horrifying doozy these first two weeks of the Trump administration have been. YOWZA. I’ve been pacing myself by focusing on climate policy, since it’s nearly impossible to keep up with everything. Here, in @rollingstone.com, is what I’m thinking so far:

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What Now for Climate Under Trump? Act Locally
Trump is working to sabotage climate solutions — but there’s a lot regular people can do to push cities and states to fill the growing federal void.
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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 8h
Mom of two children with disabilities here —

There are no words for this cruelty.

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Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 6h
Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h
Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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Robynne Limoges @robynne-limoges.bsky.social · 4d
We can never get enough of Goodall’s voice and her wisdom. Thank you.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 5d
In 2021, I was a guest on Jane Goodall’s podcast. Today, I’m re-airing that conversation to share her voice, her wisdom, her abundant soft power, with you.

🐒 🌿🕊️ Listen here (wherever you get your pods): www.getitright.earth/podcast
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 1d
Janet Mills, please don’t run. We’ve got a good thing going here, with momentum.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d
“In the battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, Senate candidate Graham Platner might be the perfect soldier: The virile, earthy working man many male politicians wish they were, with the committed lefty beliefs many voters are now demanding.”
A GQ headline: Marine Turned Oysterman Graham Platner Is Ready to Fight Trump. Will MAGA Men Join Him?
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d
650 people in Brewer, Maine — ready to set off a political earthquake.

As Maine goes, so goes the nation. And that’s exactly why the politicians in Washington, D.C. are so scared.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · Aug 19
My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country.

I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 2d
And for every episode, context and pics in my Substack newsletter: ayanaelizabeth.substack.com
WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | Substack
Forward-looking musings on climate & culture from a scientist and policy nerd. Click to read "WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT?", by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of su...
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 2d
Today on my podcast, food policy nerd Sam Kass on what our last supper might be missing (spoiler:☕️🍫🍷), stories from the White House (the organic vegetable garden with Michelle Obama), and climate solutions.

Listen wherever you get your pods! open.spotify.com/episode/6JQF...
Climate Change vs. Coffee, Wine, and Chocolate ☕️🍷🍫 with Sam Kass
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d
The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d
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

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 5d
In 2021, I was a guest on Jane Goodall’s podcast. Today, I’m re-airing that conversation to share her voice, her wisdom, her abundant soft power, with you.

🐒 🌿🕊️ Listen here (wherever you get your pods): www.getitright.earth/podcast
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Sempervirens Fund @sempervirensfund.bsky.social · 5d
There’s still some tickets left for this amazing event! Join us for an uplifting evening with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, author of The New York Times bestseller, What if We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures. @ayanaeliza.bsky.social

Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/under-the-...
Promotional poster for a live event titled "Under the Redwoods" with the Sempervirens Fund, featuring Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. The image includes a person sitting by a tree, smiling, in a natural wooded setting. Details of the event are on the poster, scheduled for Wednesday, October 8.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 5d
In 2021, I was a guest on Jane Goodall’s podcast. Today, I’m re-airing that conversation to share her voice, her wisdom, her abundant soft power, with you.

🐒 🌿🕊️ Listen here (wherever you get your pods): www.getitright.earth/podcast
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 5d
Et voila! Listen here. Www.Getitright.Earth/podcast
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 5d
Aw, Bill 🥰
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 6d
Recording a special Jane Goodall episode for the What If We Get It Right? podcast. Coming your way tomorrow — subscribe wherever you get your pods 🎙️ www.getitright.earth/podcast
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 6d
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.
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Nono Gigsta @nonogigsta.bsky.social · 7d
"...the future is not yet written. (...) We can choose a path of abundance, of justice, and of regeneration. And to make that future real, we need not only science and policy, but also culture and imagination."

@ayanaeliza.bsky.social for @atmosmag.bsky.social

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Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Why the Ocean Is a Very Big Deal | Atmos
The marine biologist co-hosted Atmos’ Blue Renaissance event during Climate Week NYC. She adapted her remarks for the op-ed below.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 7d
I always try to keep scale in mind with political action. This is about 3% of Italy's population. A U.S. equivalent would be ~10 million people.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 8d
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 8d
If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
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CNN @cnn.com · 8d
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d
In the spring, the Trump administration abruptly cut $500 million from an emergency food assistance program that delivered meat, dairy, eggs and produce to food banks across the country.

Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources @natureatcal.bsky.social · 9d
There's still time to register for next Monday's Albright Lecture in Conservation. Marine biologist @ayanaeliza.bsky.social will discuss her new book “What If We Get It Right?" and speak with Dean David Ackerly and ASUC senator Bella Santos. events.berkeley.edu/RausserColle...
A portrait of Ayana Elizabeth Johnson The cover of Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's book, "What if We Get it Right?"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9d
According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10d
I knew, knew I had read something about finding away around this a month or two ago

" The RECOURSE Act would let the state withhold payments to the federal government only after it withholds funding for New York programs. "
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