Jane Patton
@soopajane.bsky.social
Campaigner for @cielorg.bsky.social. Louisianian. Lover. Fighter. Human. ⚜️ (climate) justice, (collective) liberation, and (unmitigated) joy for all ✊ she/her 🌸 opinions loud + always mine
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Jane Patton
@soopajane.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Hey, y'all! 👋
Come for the sass, stay for the skeets on:
💚 + 😖 for Louisiana
😍 for (climate) justice
😡 against the petro-masculine capitalist machine
✊ for the commons + the public good
🤓 shit (soooo much 🤓 shit)
Also sometimes 🐕, 🐘, and 🥧 for good measure ✌️
Come for the sass, stay for the skeets on:
💚 + 😖 for Louisiana
😍 for (climate) justice
😡 against the petro-masculine capitalist machine
✊ for the commons + the public good
🤓 shit (soooo much 🤓 shit)
Also sometimes 🐕, 🐘, and 🥧 for good measure ✌️
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shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 6:52 PM
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
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I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes, but apparently it's still possible for experienced financial journalists to write long-ish articles about exploding home insurance prices and never mention the phrase "climate change."
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Runaway Insurance Costs Bring Back Talk of Price Caps
Increasingly, insurers in both red and blue states are being told to cap prices as lawmakers come under pressure.
www.wsj.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes, but apparently it's still possible for experienced financial journalists to write long-ish articles about exploding home insurance prices and never mention the phrase "climate change."
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Are y'all still believing Big Ag's big lies?!
Check out Taylor dropping some knowledge below. ⤵️
Are you're really seeing our food system with the clear eyes needed to phase fossil fuels out of food? 🤔
Check out Taylor dropping some knowledge below. ⤵️
Are you're really seeing our food system with the clear eyes needed to phase fossil fuels out of food? 🤔
Fertilizers and plastics share a dirty secret — one that poisons our bodies and fuels climate chaos.
👇Watch to learn what Big Ag doesn't want you to know.
#GlobalFertilizerDay
👇Watch to learn what Big Ag doesn't want you to know.
#GlobalFertilizerDay
October 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Are y'all still believing Big Ag's big lies?!
Check out Taylor dropping some knowledge below. ⤵️
Are you're really seeing our food system with the clear eyes needed to phase fossil fuels out of food? 🤔
Check out Taylor dropping some knowledge below. ⤵️
Are you're really seeing our food system with the clear eyes needed to phase fossil fuels out of food? 🤔
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ACT NOW. 🔥 Fires, explosions, toxic releases — chemical disasters happen nearly every day in the US.
⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them.
📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board
☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w
⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them.
📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board
☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w
September 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
ACT NOW. 🔥 Fires, explosions, toxic releases — chemical disasters happen nearly every day in the US.
⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them.
📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board
☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w
⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them.
📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board
☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w
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Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
July 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time.
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%.
https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse
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"We aren't going to vote our way out of this. We also aren't going to _eat_ our way out of this, but I still had breakfast this morning." - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on how voting can fit into a larger antifascist strategy.
July 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"We aren't going to vote our way out of this. We also aren't going to _eat_ our way out of this, but I still had breakfast this morning." - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on how voting can fit into a larger antifascist strategy.
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I think this to myself at least once a week. And I think about that chapter every time my a/c kicks on, especially on days with >100° heat index + >70% humidity, which just feels like the whole summer here now. #NOLA
At least it's actually raining this year...
At least it's actually raining this year...
some people haven’t read the first chapter of Ministry for the Future and it shows
June 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I think this to myself at least once a week. And I think about that chapter every time my a/c kicks on, especially on days with >100° heat index + >70% humidity, which just feels like the whole summer here now. #NOLA
At least it's actually raining this year...
At least it's actually raining this year...
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Zohran Mamdani won his race on the back of policies widely supported by NYC voters:
78% of NYC voters support a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments.
78% of NYC voters support a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments.
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Zohran Mamdani won his race on the back of policies widely supported by NYC voters:
78% of NYC voters support a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments.
78% of NYC voters support a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments.
While everyone else is annoyed that Claiborne is closed coming into the city, I'm one of the 7 (🙄) houses without power until god knows when. After being awoken by a car hitting a utility pole at 4a. (I think everyone is ok.)
So I have decamped in pursuit of caffeine and an outlet.
So I have decamped in pursuit of caffeine and an outlet.
June 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
While everyone else is annoyed that Claiborne is closed coming into the city, I'm one of the 7 (🙄) houses without power until god knows when. After being awoken by a car hitting a utility pole at 4a. (I think everyone is ok.)
So I have decamped in pursuit of caffeine and an outlet.
So I have decamped in pursuit of caffeine and an outlet.
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Trump's DEI rollbacks are pushing out Black farmers by cutting millions in critical funding. This isn't just about farming, it's about our community's survival and independence.
on.thegrio.com/3ZHHbGI
on.thegrio.com/3ZHHbGI
Trump's DEI rollbacks are starving Black farmers like never before
"Now we're back to before the civil rights bill passed, in my definition," said John Boyd, founder of the National Black Farmers Association.
on.thegrio.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Trump's DEI rollbacks are pushing out Black farmers by cutting millions in critical funding. This isn't just about farming, it's about our community's survival and independence.
on.thegrio.com/3ZHHbGI
on.thegrio.com/3ZHHbGI
So proud of my colleagues for exercising their right to collective bargaining, and to my organizational home for moving quickly on voluntary recognition! 😍
As management, I love this so much for us, and I look forward to what comes from the bargaining table to make us a healthier, stronger team ✊
As management, I love this so much for us, and I look forward to what comes from the bargaining table to make us a healthier, stronger team ✊
📣 📣 📣 📣 NEW 📣 📣 📣 📣
Workers of the @cielorg.bsky.social have come together to form and announce a union with @wbng.org.
Members of CIEL Unite are thrilled to be able to exercise their right to unionize and form a better workplace for current and future staff. ✊
Workers of the @cielorg.bsky.social have come together to form and announce a union with @wbng.org.
Members of CIEL Unite are thrilled to be able to exercise their right to unionize and form a better workplace for current and future staff. ✊
March 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So proud of my colleagues for exercising their right to collective bargaining, and to my organizational home for moving quickly on voluntary recognition! 😍
As management, I love this so much for us, and I look forward to what comes from the bargaining table to make us a healthier, stronger team ✊
As management, I love this so much for us, and I look forward to what comes from the bargaining table to make us a healthier, stronger team ✊
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March 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Let us never, ever forget that Columbia University quickly capitulated to fascist authoritarianism.
Tell your colleagues and coworkers, and your kids, niblings, grandkids, and grandniblings: Never Columbia.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Tell your colleagues and coworkers, and your kids, niblings, grandkids, and grandniblings: Never Columbia.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
March 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Let us never, ever forget that Columbia University quickly capitulated to fascist authoritarianism.
Tell your colleagues and coworkers, and your kids, niblings, grandkids, and grandniblings: Never Columbia.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
Tell your colleagues and coworkers, and your kids, niblings, grandkids, and grandniblings: Never Columbia.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...
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everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky
💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky
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"Communities have felt intentionally marginalized, disregarded — frankly— gaslit" by oil and gas companies. New laws to hold them accountable for costs associated with climate change "are a beacon of hope" says @soopajane.bsky.social
Read more in @floodlightnews.org
Read more in @floodlightnews.org
‘Superfund’ laws aim to make Big Oil pay for climate damage
News laws to hold oil and gas responsible for costs associated with climate change provide ‘hope’ for activists — and a legal target for the industry
floodlightnews.org
February 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Communities have felt intentionally marginalized, disregarded — frankly— gaslit" by oil and gas companies. New laws to hold them accountable for costs associated with climate change "are a beacon of hope" says @soopajane.bsky.social
Read more in @floodlightnews.org
Read more in @floodlightnews.org
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NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure
The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:
"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board
The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group:
"The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board
January 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Louisiana State meteorologist Jay Grymes said the expected winter storm will be the worst one South Louisiana has seen since the 1960s. Be prepared to stay indoors Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
January 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Louisiana State meteorologist Jay Grymes said the expected winter storm will be the worst one South Louisiana has seen since the 1960s. Be prepared to stay indoors Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
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“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
January 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley
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It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care a book by Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba, Harsha Walia, et al.
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building powe...
bookshop.org
January 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.
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"Turning human misery into big money: Gov. Jeff Landry treats homeless people like a commodity. It’s shameful, and Louisiana faith leaders should be denouncing it," new by me. robertmann.substack.com/p/turning-hu...
Turning human misery into big money
Gov. Jeff Landry treats homeless people like a commodity. It’s shameful, and Louisiana faith leaders should be denouncing it
robertmann.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
"Turning human misery into big money: Gov. Jeff Landry treats homeless people like a commodity. It’s shameful, and Louisiana faith leaders should be denouncing it," new by me. robertmann.substack.com/p/turning-hu...
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My hot take is that joy is good
January 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
My hot take is that joy is good
I have art from this man's comic books tattooed on my body. 😡
And no words left. So I'll leave Lila's here.
And no words left. So I'll leave Lila's here.
I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
www.vulture.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I have art from this man's comic books tattooed on my body. 😡
And no words left. So I'll leave Lila's here.
And no words left. So I'll leave Lila's here.
Not only is @ADMupdates' #carboncapture project in IL leaking near the drinking water source for a million people, it doesn't even WORK! 😡
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
Illinois Carbon Capture Project Captures Almost No Carbon - CleanTechnica
Carbon capture holds tremendous promise -- if it works. But in the real world, it doesn't and is costing taxpayers billions.
cleantechnica.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Not only is @ADMupdates' #carboncapture project in IL leaking near the drinking water source for a million people, it doesn't even WORK! 😡
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...
cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...