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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI: blunt messaging around what’s really necessary for better cities anywhere in the world — including the need to call out the misinformation and conspiracy theories used to attack new/old ideas. I also discuss our current Exhibition at Paris City Hall inspiring real climate action from cities.

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Aug 20

This month's guest is one of the world's TOP urbanists, Canadian @brenttoderian.bsky.social! We talk suburbs, #sprawl, #BikeLanes, why smart #CityBuilding is the common sense climate solution & the awesome responsibility of the city councils we elect. #yyc #yyccc www.podcastics.com/episode/3796...

Brent Toderian & the Common Sense of Climate Smart Cities

Why urban design is a force multiplier in the fight against climate change

www.podcastics.com

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · 7d

Just a reminder that RFK Jr shouldn't be running a lemonade stand, let alone the US healthcare system.🏥 He's not only totally unqualified, but DANGEROUSLY ignorant, pushing wild conspiracy nonsense that has no medical evidence whatsoever.⛔

MAGA laps it up, of course.🤨

www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · 7d

Justice ISN'T compromise.⚖️👀

Because those who have no use for it will lie, cheat and hurt you anyway.

A better future is created only when the majority refuse to treat with the intolerant.

Any society that tolerates racism, misogyny, bigotry or hate is doomed to fail.

Painfully.

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Thankful Thinker @thankfulthinker.bsky.social · 8d

Republicans have been taken over by a Christofascist group that intends to impose a Christian authoritarian rule on all of America. I'm shocked that America isn't fighting back harder. This is shocking & terrifying. They intend to suppress all liberal thought. If you want your freedom, FIGHT BACK.

Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · 8d

Posted about 2 hours ago
Credit: @elizaorlins.bsky.social

"eorlins: 🧊 is building a 24/7 social media surveillance machine—one that could turn your posts, photos, and location data into “intelligence” for raids and arrests."

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty much.

The goal of Project 2025 (which Trump DENIED involvement in 2024 but PRAISED last week, saying he's meeting with its founder, Russel Vought) is to create a Christofascist country ruled by Donnie and his backers, discarding any laws they don't like.

Hell on Earth for 99% of Americans.🤨

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🌱♻️Seminal Wellness💚 @seminalwellness.com · 9d

Small island nations participated in a climate-action survey. Flooding, polluted water and extreme heat are nearly daily occurrences. Belief in human-driven climate reached 100% (Marshall Islands, Turks & Caicos). Combatting climate change must be a shared effort.
www.earth.com/news/on-the-...

On the frontlines: Island nations demand global climate action

Small island nations call for urgent global climate action in a new study highlighting their deep concern and belief in human-caused change.

www.earth.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11d

History repeats.

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Essence of RBG @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 11d

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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 11d

Why is this not getting any fucking attention? 😡

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 12d

Every hot and cold beverage tested, including soft drinks, teas and coffees, contained microplastics--even drinks not sold in plastic bottles. This adds to the growing evidence that microplastics are everywhere, making their way into the human body.
www.healthday.com/health-news/...

Study Finds Microplastics in All Tested Beverages, Especially Hot Drinks

THURSDAY, Oct. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The concerning spread of microplastics — plastic fragments smaller than a grain of rice — has now been found to extend

www.healthday.com

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · 14d

Rest in peace, Dr. Goodall.😞

The legacy of your tireless advocacy for a better world will live on in the millions of people you inspired for generations. 💚

#JaneGoodall #RIP #environmentalprotection #environmentalist #inspiringwomen

Jane Goodall has passed away this morning due to natural causes.

Rest in peace, Dr. Goodall.😞

The legacy of your tireless advocacy for a better world will live on in the millions of people you inspired for generations. 💚

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · 16d

You're very welcome, it's what I do:

Helping to educate the public about climate science (among other vital topics) while also ensuring we're FULLY informed about the many ways that misinformation, disinformation and propaganda try to mislead us about important issues. 👍 😊

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ScienceNotDogma @sciencenotdogma.bsky.social · 16d

The account with that detailed thread no longer exists on X, but there's a number of detailed dives into what the Seaspiracy documentary got wrong or glossed over:

www.vox.com/2021/4/13/22...

sustainablefisheries-uw.org/science-of-s...

www.msc.org/en-au/for-te...

What Netflix’s Seaspiracy gets wrong about fishing, explained by a marine biologist

Giving up seafood isn’t the best way to save the oceans.

www.vox.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 19d

80% - 89% of the world’s population wants to see #climate action.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis

Readers who are part of the 80-89% of the population who want to see climate action tell us their ideas on how to make their voices heard

www.theguardian.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20d

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20d

Quite the headline on this @annamerlan.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social joint www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anti-vax groups struggle to explain how Tylenol fits in with their whole thing

The White House's very weird autism announcement triggers a moment of opportunity and crisis.

www.motherjones.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22d

I reckon a fossil fuel being heavily promoted at climate week is a bad thing

Natural gas is making a quiet but highly placed comeback at Climate Week. At a number of events on Tuesday, senior officials made a case for gas as essential for energy security and a buttress to renewables. Anna Bjerde, managing director of operations at the World Bank, told a small group of reporters that the lender is agnostic about which technologies it helps finance to improve access to electricity around Africa. The main focus of that work has been on solar, she said, but “gas has to be discussed and pursued” for providing baseload power. “We should be leaning in to help countries develop gas.”

That view should get a warm reception from the Trump administration, which has reportedly been pressuring the World Bank to unwind its restrictions on financing oil and gas production. And it was a view echoed in a separate briefing at the Rockefeller Foundation offices by Daniel Chapo, president of Mozambique, who said he is working to expand the country’s large hydroelectric dam while also pursuing gas production deals with Western drilling companies, and hopes to use more of that gas for domestic power plants.

In the evening, between glasses of prosecco and mini lobster rolls at a reception in a high-end Times Square hotel, Ditte Juul Jørgensen, director-general for energy at the European Commission, took the podium alongside Toby Rice, CEO of major US gas producer EQT, and lauded the security benefits of LNG. “The energy war in Ukraine has come to redefine our strategy of independence,” she said. “The energy transition will continue to be our path, but we will need gas for many years to come.”

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 24d

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Voices for Vaccines @voices4vaccines.bsky.social · 26d

Myths about the COVID vaccine spike protein abound. Don’t buy the hype.

www.voicesforvaccines.org/jtf_topics/a...

Are spike proteins attacking the brain?

Are spike proteins from mRNA vaccines attacking your brain? Anti-vaccine claims distort research. Learn why studies confirm vaccine safety and effectiveness.

www.voicesforvaccines.org

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Muriel @murielseabright.bsky.social · 27d

John Oliver explained the risks 8 years ago.

Sinclair Broadcast Group: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27d

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · Aug 29

New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye.

The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Sep 3

I cannot tell you how many capitalist climate people came after me when I warned against assuming we could reverse overshoot of 1.5C w carbon removal.

Well. It turns out that the maximum possible temperature reversal might be as little as 0.7C.

End fossil fuels now.

Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations?

In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors.

We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Aug 31

SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧

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