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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 10h

So many lies. So many lies! My god.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 16h

Good lord this brought tears to my eyes this morning.

Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 16h

Here in Seattle, furloughed NOAA employees were out in the pouring rain cleaning up beaches yesterday, part of a national week of service organized by federal workers who can't do their jobs due to the shutdown.

Story by @heyjohnryan.bsky.social at KUOW, our federally defunded public radio station.

Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public

Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattle’s Golden Gardens Park on Friday.

www.kuow.org

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3d

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, thank god this is not gone by the wayside. These data are essential.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 4d

Wow this is so baffling. What a portrait of incompetence.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 7d

Y’all here is a fun fact: Portland has a brand new volunteer organization called “operation inflation” that allows people to borrow inflatable costumes for protests. They just started a couple weeks ago and have like a 160 costume library (and counting because people keep donating).

OPERATION INFLATION

www.operationinflation.com

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 9d

Experts like: pediatricians, ER nurses, air traffic controllers, earthquake scientists, climate scientists, meteorologists, epidemiologists, gun violence experts, food safety experts and on and on and on.

All the people who keep and care for the safety of others and their broader community.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 10d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 10d

Disgusting.
Across the rubicon again and again.

This should be a career ending moment for Mike Davis. May he seek solace in a merciful god who can receive him as a deeply, profoundly broken human being.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 10d

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you so much Jane. We all have loved you and benefited from you presence on this earth.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 25d

Duty, Honor, Integrity, Truth: what will you do today to uphold them?

How will you teach your children about what is right and just in this world?

How will you respect yourself and your ancestors in this crucible?

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · 25d

100% The willingness of elite, wealthy people to debase themselves for a paycheck is astounding.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 25d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 25d

Fuckin yikes, man

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Sep 18

Praying for a politic that can see one another as simply, elementally children of God. We are not enemies, we are the human family. We are wasting so much capital and energy on fighting and hating one another.

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We Hold These Truths @weholdtruths.bsky.social · Sep 17

We’re putting democracy in print. On Constitution Day, We Hold These Truths is running full-page ads in the @wsj.com & @financialtimes.com — reminding the nation that our freedoms only survive if we defend them. Sign the pledge at weholdtruths.org.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Sep 17

On #ConstitutionDay, we're clear: No one is above the law.

Government power must be checked by due process, judicial independence, and accountability – values enshrined in our founding document.

Join us to protect the Constitution, and the people it serves: weholdtruths.org.

Image of the scales of justice on red books, with the following text: “We Hold This Truth that…The Rule of Law Protects us All. No one is above the law. Government power must be checked by due process, judicial independence, and accountability. Democracy endures only with transparency, integrity, and leaders answerable to the people. Join us. Share the truths. Protect our democracy.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Sep 12

Two legends. Many thanks to you both.

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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · Sep 2

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

DOEresponseSite

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Aug 29

💯 Also, Hi Shirley ❤️

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Aug 29

You can’t control other people, only yourself. And you’ve got to lead with love and not take personally the shortcomings or gaps you perceive in others strategy and communication. Erasure is bad, so are purity tests. In the end, we have to be on each others side.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Aug 29

Y’all, public health and aid distribution are servants of the same goal: helping and protecting people. We can move towards that goal through many different paths, but we are all worse off with lateral contempt and the undermining of parallel strategies. Don’t turn against one another.

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Rep. Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @organizewithshaun.bsky.social · Aug 28

Washington fire crews - already operating with fewer resources after the State Legislature cut $60m from its Wildfire Response Account this year - are now suffering border patrol raids.

We all lose when local austerity echoes authoritarianism. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

www.seattletimes.com

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you for this!

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thanks to you and your colleagues for this work.

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Yes. An amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. And these days it requires a whole lot of heart and courage to boot.

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Aug 28

Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report.
This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Example: refuting one sentence.

DOE CWG STATEMENT (second paragraph of section 2.1.1, page 3): “Piao et al. (2020) noted
that greening was even observable in the Arctic.”
COMMENT: This statement implies that the Arctic greening signal was caused by elevated CO2
,
however that is not the scientific consensus. Piao et al. (2020) attribute the greening trend in the
Arctic predominantly to growing season length driven by warmer temperatures (see also Y.
Zhang et al., 2022). Piao et al. (2020) also note that this positive impact of increasing
temperatures appears to have weakened over the past four decades, “suggesting a possible
saturation of future greening in response to warmer temperature” (see also comment on
greenness trends related to Section 2.1.1, first sentence of Page 4). It is also important to put
Arctic greening more broadly into the context of the carbon cycle and other impacts. While
above-ground plants may have displayed more leaf area over the past decades, rising
temperatures also thaw permafrost and drive accelerated decomposition in highly carbon rich
soils (Turetsky et al., 2020), a process which is expected to accelerate as climate continues to
warm (Miner et al., 2022). Thus even with Arctic greening, high latitude terrestrial systems may
become net carbon sources to the atmosphere, causing an amplifying feedback (Braghiere et
al., 2023). Other risks to the Arctic linked to higher CO2

levels and rising temperatures are not
mentioned in this report (Virkkala et al., 2025). The Arctic is warming at a rate of 2 to 3 times the
global average, leading to thawing of permanently frozen soils (permafrost), with downstream
impacts including loss of structural support for buildings and subsidence, threatening
communities, roads, runways, and other assets across Alaska (Manos et al., 2025; University of
Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering US Army Corps of Engineers Alaska District
& Laboratory, 2019).

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Sarah E Myhre PhD @sarahmyhre.bsky.social · Aug 28

A devastation of a day.

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