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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 12h

We often think of problems as separate buckets: disease, malnutrition, affordability or economic development. But “Climate change is not a separate bucket,” Hayhoe says. “The reason we care about climate change is that it’s the hole in every bucket.”

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 14h

Also Bessent's claims are sooo easily disproven.

The data is there.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 15h

You said "we're fucked & we're probably going to lose"

I'm not planning to lose---& a growing number of friends, neighbors, & Americans at large are working to unfuck ourselves

And not necessarily by voting

So, yeah, recognize where we are, but skip the pessimism. It does not help.

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carter’s highlight page @30thstate.bsky.social · 1d

An Air Canada flight right now

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Then why bother, buddy?

Why even try?

Just give up.

We're fucked, right? Just watch tv and hope Friends reruns keeps you sane, right?

No. No. Don't get up.

Just stay where you are. Comfortable. Someone else will handle it.

Go back to sleep.

We'll wake you when it's over.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 1d

Disagree.

Also this sounds like some weird surrender garbage.

This isn't a country of quitters.

Do better.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 1d

It's midday on a Saturday.
Chances are, you have the day off

What are you doing to fight fascism today?

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

It does around here.

As all of us know, the Repubs control 2 houses of Congress & the Presidency. It's on them

Though, if folks refuse to see that this is a pretty simple math problem, the best you can do is lead them to water & hope they drink

Keep trying. Maybe it will break thru eventually

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 3d

Kristi Noem says no US citizens have been detained by ICE.

170 US citizens detained by ICE including kids.

Release the EPSTEIN files.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

Evidence should drive blame.

Based on actions---and the very public Republican drive to ransom food and back pay in order to get Dems to help them vote away health care...while at the same time keeping Grijalva from being seated (and kick off a vote on the Epstein files)...

It's the Republicans.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

▪ MAKE SURE people in your neighborhood, especially those losing SNAP benefits, KNOW about these locations, services, and their hours of operation.

Let's go!!!!!!

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

2) ACTION:
▪ DONATE & VOLUNTEER -- but make sure that you are giving the things and services that the pantries need.

▪ ▪ NOTE that toiletries like soap, shampoo, and feminine products are also really important.

▪ ▪ For some pantries you can send items along using an Amazon wish list.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

Two things are needed right now:

1) AWARENESS:
▪ so we can donate needed items (and not things that will be thrown away)
▪ so that those in need know where these places are in our areas

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

With #SNAP benefits pulled, all of us with some level of means MUST step up and help out our local #foodpantries.

--thru food/monetary donations
--volunteering.

Be prepared. It will be a marathon and not a sprint, b/c the need will outlast the holiday season, especially this year.

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Most requested items list for local pantry in suburban Chicago, IL.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm. Mobile Fortify---which we citizens do not have access to---aces out #birth_certificates, #passports, and #State_IDs to prove citizenship?

Anyone else think that the administration just might be taking itself too goddamn seriously?

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago. We keep each other safe. 👊

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 5d

There were whistle packing events across 3 venues in Lakeview tonight and apparently it was so many people that some were turned away. Long lines outside. One organizer posted that 2,000 whistle packs were put together. Lakeview came out strong tonight.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 4d

Belated welcome!!

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MsBatsngoths 🦇🎃👻 @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 5d

Yesterday we talked a little bit about SNAP ending and how everyone who can, should give back to their communities. I'm going to spend a little time today talking about what to give.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 5d

All of us---and any future "white hat" U.S. security departments--should make the assumption that all of our nation's secrets are already compromised by this Executive Branch and its staff.

If all of the secrets, in reality, are not, then we can be pleasantly surprised when that time comes.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 5d

Stunning video of the enormous eye at the center of hurricane Melissa.

Taken by the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron “Hurricane Hunters” just before they had to abandon their mission.

Melissa is extremely dangerous, the strongest Atlantic hurricane to occur this late in the season.

US Air Force provides views from inside Hurricane Melissa

The U.S. Defense Department has released footage of views inside Hurricane Melissa. The military said a U.S.

apnews.com

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Andra Garner @andrajgarner.bsky.social · 6d

The human and social impacts of #Melissa are almost certain to be beyond devastating.

Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 6d

The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 6d

A SNAP buddy option is a fantastic idea!

Share this widely.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 7d

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 6d

Is there an exhaust port?

Say two meters wide? Approximately the size of a womprat?

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 6d

For only the second time in recorded history, an Atlantic season has produced three Category 5 hurricanes... the previous year was 2005. This puts 2025 in an elite class of hurricane seasons. It also means that nearly 7% of all known Category 5 hurricanes have occurred just in this year.
#Melissa

Melissa becomes third Category 5 hurricane of the extraordinary 2025 season

Updates and summaries on tropical Atlantic activity... including easterly waves, tropical storms, subtropical storms, and hurricanes.

bmcnoldy.blogspot.com

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