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Nathaniel Hoffman
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#climate #migration #democracy / @amorandexile author / sometimes hunter/gatherer / perpetual hack
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juanescalante.com
Ah yes, the face of the man who doesn’t know how to pronounce Yosemite
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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knownforms.bsky.social
If you can, give to @haitianbridge.bsky.social
juanescalante.com Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 9h
DHS has announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians.

The decision, effective Feb. 3, 2026, affects up to more than a half million Haitians. They now face returning to a country plagued by criminal gangs that control all major roads into the capital Port-au-Prince.
Trump says Haiti no longer meets requirements for TPS. Haitians have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said TPS for Haiti ends Feb. 3, 2026, affecting over half a million people who may face return to gang-controlled Port-au-Prince.
amp.miamiherald.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This is heartbreakingly cruel and hypocritical. The same admin that has redefined refugee status to cover white South Africans is now going to drown thousands of refugees already approved for their status in red tape, potentially even seeking to strip some of their status and deport them.
bruzzone.bsky.social Mario Bruzzone @bruzzone.bsky.social · 2d
Trump Admin planning a rule to re-decide whether *every* refugee who entered under Biden meets their criteria for a refugee. That’s 230,000 people! And no appeals!

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
paleomedia.bsky.social
"Just the threat of this is unspeakably cruel. … To threaten refugees with taking away their status would be re-traumatizing and a vicious misuse of taxpayer money." Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS

www.cnn.com/2025/11/24/p...
Trump administration moves to reinterview refugees admitted to US under Biden | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is moving to reinterview certain refugees who were admitted to the United States under former President Joe Biden as part of a comprehensive review of their cases, according t...
www.cnn.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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sanho.bsky.social
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say
According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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jackjenkins.me
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
paleomedia.bsky.social
Interesting take on Gates' take: "This is the framework that matters most immediately to those most vulnerable to a rapidly heating world: how to endure, recover, and build more stable lives. For decades, they have been saying the same thing—but few listened."
sarahlsax.bsky.social Sarah Sax @sarahlsax.bsky.social · 14d
Wading into this belatedly but look: there was a whole LOT Gates got wrong and many reasons to question his motives. But there were some uncomfortable truths I think a lot of people glossed over
www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
Bill Gates Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
The world’s strategy for addressing climate change is not serving those most vulnerable to it.
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
paleomedia.bsky.social
Plot of latest Southpark
russcontreras.bsky.social Russell Contreras @russcontreras.bsky.social · 12d
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the playbook for crime, from cheap deepfake scams and AI-written ransomware to mass identity hijacks and critical-infrastructure hacks www.axios.com/2025/11/14/a... #ai
AI is reinventing crime and cops aren't ready
AI-powered crimes surge as law enforcement lags.
www.axios.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
paleomedia.bsky.social
Oh, Helsinki had ZERO traffic deaths in 2019, mostly by slowing down.

Ojo, #Boise.

www.not-ship.com/huh-apparent...
Huh. Apparently cars don't have to kill people.
For a fast way to reduce traffic deaths: Just slow down.
www.not-ship.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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kagrox.bsky.social
Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”

Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
paleomedia.bsky.social
Hide the salami, indeed.

This is the whole grift tho. Fake "emergency" to shift money to contractor friends.
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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brianpjcronin.bsky.social
For the love of god, bring back public editors.
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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climatebrad.hillheat.com
Who is fueling Israel's genocide? @oilchange.bsky.social reveals the 25 countries who have shipped over 21 million tons of petro-fuel to Israel in the last two years
oilchange.bsky.social Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 13d
🚨NEW @PriceofOil report launched at #COP30: Behind the Barrel: An Update on the Origins of Israel’s Fuel Supply. Between Nov 2023–Oct 2025, 25 countries shipped 21.2M tonnes of oil + fuel to Israel, including military jet fuel. 🔗 behindthebarrel.org
#BehindTheBarrel #StopFuelingGenocide
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
paleomedia.bsky.social
Las tierras públicas pertenecen al pueblo, no a firmas privadas de seguridad ni a bases de datos biométricos de ICE/CBP.

La mayoría queremos parques seguros y comunidades seguras. 🌴🪻

Lee cómo MAGA está armando tierras públicas y por qué debemos frenarlo bit.ly/4p01I3o via @greenlatinos.org
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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tusk81.bsky.social
“ … our faith does not allow us to remain silent while war has been declared on the men, women and the children of our city,” said Father Pfleger. “This admin of an incompetent, narcissistic, wannabe dictator has chosen to invoke fear, pain and terror on the city of Chicago and its citizens.”
tusk81.bsky.social Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14d
“In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after faith leaders were denied entry to the building for the third time on Friday.”
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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frediotto.bsky.social
If we do not seriously move away from burning fossil fuels, hurricanes like Melissa will only become worse. Already today Melissa tested the limits of what preparedness and adaptation can do. These limits are very real for everyone in the Caribbean. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
The wettest 5-day period in each location between 19-29 October 2025, which is related to the passage of Melissa. The track of Hurricane Melissa at 12 hour intervals is shown as a series of pink points. Data from MSWX
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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apnews.com
An analysis from World Weather Attribution reports human-caused climate change intensified the winds and rainfall unleashed by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean.
Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds
An analysis from World Weather Attribution reports human-caused climate change intensified the winds and rainfall unleashed by Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jackjenkins.me
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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niemanlab.org
It quickly became apparent that @hellgatenyc.com had figured out how to translate its signature voice — irreverent yet deeply knowledgeable — into video. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/hell...
Hell Gate took on the New York City mayoral election with a livestream and watch parties
At 28 bars across the city, the worker-owned news site became the broadcaster of choice.
www.niemanlab.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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jacqueline321.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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atrupar.com
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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johnffarrell.bsky.social
Warning to utility commissioners who mindlessly pass utility rate increases onto customers: FAFO.

georgiarecorder.com/2025/11/04/d...
Democrats flip two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission • Georgia Recorder
Democrats have flipped two seats on the Georgia Public Service Commission, which is currently an all-GOP panel. The PSC regulates Georgia utilities.
georgiarecorder.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
paleomedia.bsky.social
Ahmed, who I met last year at NY Climate Week, left Bangladesh as an emissary for his community after a series of massive storms and floods, fueled by the climate crisis, made village life untenable.

He now organizes in NYC with other climate displaced leaders: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVlW...
Dignity for Climate Displaced People: Ahmed's story
YouTube video by npnewamericans
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM