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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Jun 28

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 27

Under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, America's poorest families lose about $1600 per year.

The richest households gain about $12,000 per year.

It's Reverse Robin Hood. (Via CBO)

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Jun 27

We need an investment in the NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation so it can develop modern regs to turn off the tap on toxics, especially given the huge challenge of #PFAS. www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...
Until then, we need product bans. In 2025 the Assembly again missed the mark. #nontoxicny

NY Lawmakers play PFAS ‘Whac-a-Mole’

The Legislature tabled several bills that would have put piecemeal regulations on the toxic “forever chemicals.”

www.timesunion.com

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PfoaProject NY @pfoaprojectny.bsky.social · Jun 19

@bobbiwilding.bsky.social @kate-donovan.bsky.social @cpferrante.bsky.social @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social @weact4ej.bsky.social @nrdc.org @greenwatchdogny.bsky.social @amannakelles.bsky.social @deborahjglick.bsky.social

PfoaProject NY @pfoaprojectny.bsky.social · Jun 19

1/2 Huge public support & Senate passage,
‪@nyassemblymajority.bsky.social‬ refused to bring floor votes (2nd yr) on all but 1 #PFAS ban bills. Another yr of needless exposure despite plethora of science/health harm & further gut punch to already exposed communities 🤬
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Advocates Decry NYS Assembly Leadership Inaction to “Turn off the Tap” on Toxics to Protect New Yorkers’ Health

Senate passage of key bills left hanging, health care and cleanup costs hang over municipalities and residents.

www.nrdc.org

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Jun 27

If there is no birthright citizenship there are no citizens. If citizenship is required for the constitution to apply, the constitution has no meaning, and no one has rights. If you're not an immigrant, how are you a citizen except by birth in a country? WTH is the Supreme Court doing?!

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Jun 19

A beautiful, devastating piece about a small Swedish town grappling with severe forever chemical contamination. It’s heartbreaking to watch variations of this story play out over and over. #PFAS www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination

The long read: When a small Swedish town discovered their drinking water contained extremely high levels of Pfas, they had no idea what it would mean for their health and their children’s future

www.theguardian.com

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Jun 14

An alarming sign of this moment: political assassinations and use of police costume

Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · Jun 14

“We’re here today because an unspeakable tragedy has unfolded in Minnesota. My good friend and colleague Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed earlier this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination,” Gov. Tim Walz said in a press conference.

Minnesota officials react to the fatal shooting of Rep. Melissa Hortman, targeted shooting of Sen. John Hoffman

Gov. Tim Walz said there were targeted shootings in both Brooklyn Park and Champlin on Saturday.

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Jun 14

1984 is the book of our time

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · May 30

A colleague asked me for this old gif. It seems apropos as the NYS legislature considers a bill on packaging that has restrictions on #toxics. I took the Ellen McArthur Fdn circular economy chart & showed that if you put toxics in... you get toxics out, over and over and over and over and over....

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · May 26

We just have a few weeks to go in the NYS legislative session - plenty of time for the @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social and @nysenate.bsky.social to pass bills that ban #pfas #foreverchemicals in common products most of us use daily. #pfasfreeny #nontoxicny
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

Clean+Healthy talks bills regulating products with ‘forever chemicals’

Environmental advocates are specifically calling for the passage of two bills that would ban the sale of products containing PFAS.

ny1.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · May 19

🧫 Microplastics & early-onset cancer?

A new perspective links rising cases of colorectal cancer in young people to microplastic exposure – suggesting a gut–environment connection worth urgent attention.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ans....

#SciComm #Microplastics #Cancer 🧪

Microplastics and the Rising Tide of Early‐Onset Colorectal Cancer: Exploring the Environmental Gut Connection

Click on the article title to read more.

doi.org

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WE ACT for Environmental Justice @weact4ej.bsky.social · May 16

Join us and Consumer Reports & @cleanhealthyny.bsky.social and learn how you can help get #ToxicChemicals out of #Beauty products harming people of color. Friday, May 23 at 5 PM at Bronx Community Board 12, 4101 White Plains Road in the Bronx. RSVP: action.consumerreports.org/community_co...

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Safer States @saferstates.bsky.social · May 16

“Recycled” packaging? Not quite.

This new Grist piece breaks down how "chemical recycling" and fuzzy math are being used to greenwash plastic.

We need safer, non-toxic, reusable packaging—not more plastic and misleading claims. #SaferSolutions

grist.org/accountabili...

The misleading accounting behind your ‘recycled’ plastic

A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works.

grist.org

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · Apr 22

Does no one remember the Swill Milk Scandal? 8000 babies died in New York State in one year. EIGHT THOUSAND BABIES.

They don't want us to learn history. Or science. Then it's easier to get away with cutting consumer protections to increase their profit margins by selling contaminated food.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Apr 22

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Apr 22

Never too late for an uprising. It's only over when everyone gives up on it continuing.

Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Apr 16

It's not just a cat door...

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Jodi @2bgreener.bsky.social · Apr 13

Post, repost, comment. Why this factual hugely beneficial result doesn’t sway our approaches in the USA is beyond me.
People can’t thrive when they have noplace to lay their head, get clean, feel whole.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Apr 13

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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looseligaments.bsky.social @looseligaments.bsky.social · Apr 14

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Apr 5

This was made by a former board member of mine!

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is no surprise. It doesn't matter how marginally profitable to billionaires deregulation or firing public servants is, even compared to the devastating harm that causes - This administration is clearly committed to extracting everything it can for the very few who already have too much.

Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · Apr 5

Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’

Huge news here. Despite attempts to reverse the ban in darkness, we now see the Trump presidency for what it is.

#PFAS
#Trump

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’

EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants

www.theguardian.com

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Apr 5

We're in there somewhere! #HandsOff #nofascism

k8tjaxbillsmafia @k8tjax.bsky.social · Apr 5

Albany NY #handsoff protest earlier today

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Apr 3

Lost power and Internet this afternoon when a tree in our yard fell on the lines. Also we'll now but ...

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Bobbi Wilding @bobbiwilding.bsky.social · Apr 3

So much for lower prices day 1.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Mar 30

JD Vance slams Demark for not doing enough for its citizens, when it provides universal healthcare for all of them when the US does not, and they're ranked the "Happiest Country In the World." The US ranks at the bottom of that list.

America is a delusional country that got high on its own supply.

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