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Dr. Shaina Sadai

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Climate scientist and critical physical geographer. Works on climate and sea level projections, corporate accountability, climate litigation, and climate justice. Queer, disabled, vegan🌱🌈 She/her Views expressed here are mine

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Dr. Shaina Sadai @scienceshaina.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚨New paper🚨
We attribute present day air temperature and sea level rise, as well as future projected sea level rise to the Carbon Majors, the 122 largest industrial fossil fuel and cement producers…more details below! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 1/n
🧪 #scicomm #ClimateSky #ClimateChange

Global mean temperature rise (left) and global mean sea level rise (right) compared across the control scenario (which has full historical emissions forcing) and the three counterfactuals where emissions from the Carbon Majors are removed. All counterfactual scenarios have lower temperature and sea level at present day. The 1854 and 1950 scenarios are similar and have the lowest present day temperature and sea level. Image via Sadai et al., 2025

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 10h

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11h

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 17h

The deployment of tear gas throughout the Chicago area is a growing health concern. ICE is deploying tear gas in residential neighborhoods, near children, playgrounds, stores, etc. What are the health implications on our communities?

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 15h

Great reporting on the western Alaska storm from the Alaska Public Media team. #akwx #weather #AlaskaSky

alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

A major storm is bringing dangerous flooding and hurricane-force winds to Western Alaska

The remnants of Typhoon Halong have already caused damaging flooding in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.

alaskapublic.org

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Theresa Wong @theresawong.bsky.social · 15h

'Climate action is not policy preference, but a legal obligation' - Cynthia Houniuhi of the Solomon Islands, Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change @adaptationfutures.bsky.social

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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 14h

Climate-driven hazards grow fiercer, but early action—warnings, education, preparedness—can shield lives and futures. “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters” highlights #EarlyWarningsForAll as cost-effective investments.

🔗 https://bit.ly/3J4saJO

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Erika Anderson @andersonmineral.bsky.social · 7d

It’s Geodiversity Day & Mineral Monday!! So I wanted to show you a rare mineral called carletonite, which is usually bright blue but seen here with a pink zonation. It was discovered here in Canada, at the mineral species rich Mont Saint-Hilaire. #GeodiversityDay #MineralMonday #GeoscienceBluesky ⚒️🧪

Specimen of carletonite with prisms of blue and pink all around. There is one large square crystal with a small blue square in the middle with pink on the outside on the upper right side of the specimen. It sits on a black background. At the Canadian Museum of Nature.

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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 13d

also got the story in spanish:

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/cuan...

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yessenia funes @yessfun.com · 13d

as new hurricanes swirl in the atlantic (the caribbean is likely to be hit), let's not forget a storm that changed everything last year: hurricane helene.

i wrote about the anniversary for @climateconnections.bsky.social w/ a lens on immigrants

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/when...

When Helene hit, they lost their homes. Under Trump, they could lose even more. » Yale Climate Connections

One year after massive flooding hit western North Carolina, immigrant families are rebuilding with little more than grit, neighbors, and community organizing – under an increasingly hostile government...

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15d

This person is quoted in Museum of Degenerates in the backgrounder to this drawing:

שקמה ברסלר Shikma Bressler
@ShikmaBressler
Benjamin Netanyahu does not represent me and the vast majority of Israelis.
11:52 AM · Sep 26, 2025
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https://x.com/ShikmaBressler/status/1971603892879364239

Incomplete/error-riddled paste from Preview:
Jenin
July 7, 2023
In early 2023, mass demonstrations erupted in Israel to
protest the efforts of Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coali-
tion of authoritarians, religious extremists, and avowed
terrorists to push Israel further into tyranny through
"judicial reform." Despite the protest movement's unity-
ing demands for democracv, its leadership consistentl
sidelined the small but growing anti-apartheid bloc, on
at least one occasion prohibiting it from participating in
the main demonstrations. Brandishing Israeli flags as
a symbol of patriotism against Netanyahu's assault on
Israeli
Givi
society, demonstrators repeatedly scuffled
with their anti-apartheid peers waving Palestinian flags.
The demonstrations continued throughout the yea
even as Israel escalated the dally terrors of its Illegal oc
cupation of the West bank into open wartare. In early
July, Israel launched its most expansive airstrikes on the
West Bank in two decades, sending at least 1,000 troops
into the Jenin refugee camp, killing twelve Palestinians,
wounding dozens. and at least temporarilv disDlacing
thousands in scenes that evoked visual echoes of the
Nakba. The contradictions of a movement that stood
for democracy while participating in apartheid were re-
inforced on July 3, in the midst of the assault on Jenin,
when protest leader Shikma Bressler declared that Israel
must preserve democracy in order to protect "the heroes
who are now waging war in Jenn from exposure to pros
ecution in The Hague.
This drawing, with its mass of refugees moving away
trom the reader toward no clear destination. encansulates
much of the art that precedes it. Mirroring motits of dis-
dlacement. it relterates not onlv the themes of democracv's
struggle against authoritarianism but also the ongoing
crises of ethnic cleansing, demagoguery, and the target-
ing of vulnerable communities throughout the world. The
note is ambiguous: we don't know where this is heading.
hut in the abs…

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 15d

All latitude bands were warmer than average over the last 3 months. This was particularly notable across the Antarctic around the South Pole (austral winter).

Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). GISTEMPv4 data using their 1951-1980 baseline

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the period of June-July-August 2025. All latitude bands observed above average temperature anomalies.

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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 15d

ISS astronaut Jonny Kim just shared this snap of Humberto's eye today. You can actually see the seafoam taper off between the eyewall and the eye. Amazing stuff.

Looking down Humberto's eye from the side, you can see white seafoam on the ocean surface beneath the eyewall, fading to relative calmness within the eye itself.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 18d

Good to see. Let's hope they actually reinstate this professor.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 18d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 18d

The 2025 Faculty in the South Survey asked if faculty had syllabi or curriculum choices questioned by their school. Almost 20% in Georgia said yes. That is hardly a ringing endorsement of the university system's proclaimed commitment to academic freedom. www.ajc.com/education/20...

Georgia faculty survey fairly captured concerns about academic freedom

Matthew Boedy, an associate professor at the University of North Georgia, responds to criticism of a survey of university professors in the South.

www.ajc.com

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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 18d

With the missing alt text

The court concludes that Hook spoke as a citizen and his speech was on a matter of public concern. While at home and off work, Hook made the first post on his private Facebook page. Docket 42; see Docket 4-2. Defendants note that Hook's Facebook page identified himself as a professor at the University of South Dakota, Docket 9 at 2-3, but this alone does not show that a post made on his personal Facebook account is speech that arises from Hook's duties as a professor. See McGee, 471 F.3d at 921. Hook's first post also constitutes speech on a matter of public concern. Hook's first post discussed the murder of a public figure-Charlie Kirk-and went on to question the difference in reactions between the murder of Kirk and other recent public murders and shootings. See Docket 4-2 (comparing the public reaction to Kirk's murder to the public reactions to the murders of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman, the attempted murders of Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette Hoffman, and the shootings at Evergreen High School in Colorado). This is speech that can "be fairly considered as relating to any matter of political,
social, or other concern to the community." Lane, 573 U.S. at 241. At the TRO

CONCLUSION

Based on the above, it is ORDERED:

1. Hook's motion for temporary restraining order (Docket 3) is granted. Defendants are required to temporarily set aside their determination to place Hook on administrative leave. Defendants shall reinstate Hook's position as a Professor of Art at the University of South Dakota, retroactive to September 12, 2025, to remain effective until the preliminary injunction hearing on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. in Sioux Falls Courtroom 2.

2. Defendants are not restrained from holding a personal conference with Hook on September 29, 2025.

3. This temporary restraining order shall remain in effect until October 8, 2025.

Dated September 24, 2025.

BY THE COURT:

/s/ Karen E. Schreier

KAREN E. SCHREIER

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18d

"Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece."

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla

Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday he will join Italy in sending a military warship to protect an international flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza after it was attacked by drones off Greece.

www.reuters.com

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Dr. Shaina Sadai @scienceshaina.bsky.social · 18d

"not the first time Israeli forces attacked a family that has been recently evacuated...A couple of days ago, a tent was struck, killing a family.

Despite these endless evacuation orders from Israeli forces telling Palestinians to leave Gaza City...they are still being targeted wherever they go"

Dr. Shaina Sadai @scienceshaina.bsky.social · 18d

"There has been relentless bombardment across the Gaza Strip and Israeli tanks are advancing in Gaza City. The situation is beyond anyone’s imagination, beyond what Palestinians can tolerate. And that is why we are seeing Palestinians on the move."

-Hind Khoudary

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Updates: Israel kills 85 Palestinians in Gaza strikes

These were the updates on Israel’s war on Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank for Wednesday, September 24.

www.aljazeera.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Nov 9

"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage."

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Nov 9

Regular reminder that the literal 1st full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, & that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over & above the lives of the crew.

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Dr. Shaina Sadai @scienceshaina.bsky.social · 19d

"The repeated raids on Birzeit, like the destruction of universities in Gaza, are calculated attempts to crush academic freedom, break the spirit of our students and faculty, and erase the foundations of Palestinian intellectual and cultural life."

Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 19d

Scholasticide is happening not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank:
right2edu.birzeit.edu/birzeit-univ...

Birzeit University Under Attack: Fifth Invasion Amid Ongoing Genocide and Scholasticide

At midnight of September 22, 2025, Israeli occupation forces once again stormed Birzeit University. Israeli Soldiers violently assaulted campus guards before raiding several university buildings, i…

right2edu.birzeit.edu

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 20d

Just a video of Alaa finally freed and at home with loved ones

I so needed this

www.instagram.com/reel/DO78R4c...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 20d

Now’s a great time to pick up Alaa’s book, folks. It is perfectly titled: you have not yet been defeated

Alaa was not defeated!

YOU HAVE
NOT YET BEEN
DEFEATED
ALAA ABD EL-FATTAH

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 19d

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.

bittersoutherner.com

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 19d

anyway here’s @vivmccall.bsky.social with some extremely good and extremely fucking sobering reporting on the recent surge in random hate crimes directed at trans women in Seattle. Please be careful, everyone. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

Seattle Area Trans Women Are Being Attacked by Groups of Men

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings sin...

www.thestranger.com

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