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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com

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40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · May 15

I've long found small talk is a gateway to sharing bigger ideas and building trust. The key need is to foster moments where it can happen across cultural divides. Hear my old friend @reggieharris42.bsky.social described a #BLM vs #MAGA protest standoff (full Q&A: revkin.substack.com/p/pathways-t...)

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 54m

He spoke for 25 minutes, almost all on healthcare. I have most of the stump speech taped and can post it.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 5h

Glad this climate and energy conversation is up and running.

PatrickTBrown31.bsky.social @patricktbrown31.bsky.social · 7h

I was recently on two episodes of the PBS show Energy Switch, hosted by Scott Tinker, alongside @revkin.bsky.social. The topic was extreme weather, disasters, and climate change.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 5h

I presume you don’t live here in Maine, which has political realities that require tradeoffs. Our District 2 Representative @golden.house.gov is another case in point (District 2 has been won consistently by Trump). If you’re seeking perfect alignment with liberal policy, don’t move here.

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 7h

My kind of #hurricane track. Thanks @nhc-atlantic.extwitter.link #lorenzo

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, wonder where Shellenberger is on weakening the MMPA… I tried to prod him awhile back on his wind power trip. revkin.substack.com/p/michael-sh...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 22h

Next time they make up some thing about offshore wind and whales, ask about this.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 12h

Many of us in Maine are disgusted, especially with reports that Chuck Schumer pushed Mills. Graham Platner is the real deal. I shot this scene that one of his early meet and greets. youtube.com/shorts/FqpdN...

A Boy Asks Graham Platner, Vying for Susan Collins' Maine Senate Seat, a Key Question

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 12h

A Boy Asks Graham Platner, Vying for Susan Collins' Maine Senate Seat, a Key Question

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 21h

Love the thought. Discussed the social side tonight! Musical activism is having a moment. Cathy Fink discusses her viral tunes including “It Ain’t Gonna Go Away” on the Epstein files. revkin.substack.com/p/making-goo...

Making Good Musical Trouble with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer

What a musical gift this was. Watch and share!

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

LIVE now with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer on #fastfolk music in these dark times.

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Making Good Musical Trouble with Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

Yep! Wish I know who shot it. Tim O’Leary - the ultimate rocker.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

(The other fish species were left to recover.) The lake’s bass population is now thriving in greater numbers than ever.

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

This strategy let them reproduce before the scientists’ specially equipped boat took its twice-yearly lake cruise, electrically stunning all fish within several feet so the team could toss the bass into a cooler....

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

Life finds a way... > The invasive—and drastically overpopulating—species prevailed over the scientists’ 20-year electric culling campaign by evolving to grow faster and spawn younger... 1/3

Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 1d

Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

Well holy shite, Peter! Such a very very long time since our Jack Abbott and the Bad Habit J-school band days. You seen this image?

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

Make sure your climate policy includes affordable energy access for those who can't pay for a swift shift to a post-fossil energy menu. Especially important in Maine. (I've written on global warming since 1988 but also energy poverty.) Happy to discuss (as a supporter & Hancock County neighbor).

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

Western Sky on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEV...

Western Sky (Open C, slide, 1949 Gibson Southern Jumbo)

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

How I keep sane amid all... Songwriting and playing... New take on an old song of mine - "Western Sky." Slide guitar, open c tuning, the 1949 Gibson Southern Jumbo that I bought in pieces at age 17 in 1973 and put back together. revkin.bandcamp.com/track/wester... #songwriter #acousticguitar

Western Sky, by Andy Revkin

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago’s @blockclubchi.bsky.social Is Ready for ICE: The independent digital startup has been on the ground covering ICE’s surge and the attacks on journalists. Listen in with host @joshuahersh.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 3d

Funny this comes just a day after I mused to my spouse why the genres aren’t true and untrue…

Jake @tonymagoni.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry libs, but there’s only two genres: fiction and non-fiction

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 3d

But RFK Jr.’s real logical leap is collapsing these into one neat story: some circumcised boys get Tylenol for pain, and some are later diagnosed with autism—therefore, Tylenol causes autism. That’s like saying umbrellas cause car accidents because both are more common on rainy days.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 3d

Vaccines, Tylenol, and Circumcision?! open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

Vaccines, Tylenol, and Circumcision?!

JUST THE TIP of what’s wrong with these autism claims

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