Tory Stephens
@torystephens.bsky.social
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Climate Storytelling | Husband, Dad, Hopeful Wu-Tang Clan Member 🤞🏾 | Publishing and curating climate fiction stories @grist.org Former @HealthPolicyHub / Community Catalyst
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🔥 The 2025 @grist.org 50 list just dropped! 50 bold leaders proving climate solutions & justice are alive and thriving. From art to science to local action — meet the changemakers shaping our future. 🌍✨

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#Climate #Policy #Media #Arts #Food #Business #Culture #Energy
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This climate fiction romance story is so good!

Meet Me Under the Molokhia

A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.

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#Fiction #Climate #Beirut #Romance #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction
Meet Me Under the Molokhia
Climate fiction: A seed researcher meets a mysterious spirit in the field, leaving both with a choice about where they will call home.
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From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary
Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.

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#Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction #BookSky #Afrofuturism #Solarpunk
From Afrofuturism to ecotopia: A climate-fiction glossary
Find the climate-fiction genre that inspires you.
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"As is often the case in the AI industry, Nvidia came to the rescue, announcing a $100 billion investment in OpenAI. Now OpenAI has the money to send to Oracle to build data centers, which Oracle will fill with Nvidia GPUs. So wait—is Nvidia just paying itself?" prospect.org/power/2025-1...
The AI Ouroboros
Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.
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carnage4life.bsky.social
America is spending $20B of your tax dollars to ensure Argentina continues to have free healthcare while the US government is shutdown because it can’t afford to give you a discount on healthcare premiums?

Make it make sense.
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Still time to sign up! 😁
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Join me Friday, October 17th for a virtual screening of my roller derby thriller, VALENTINE CRUSH 💥🛼

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO REGISTER, and if you do so by the 10th, you're in the drawing for a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl!

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#Scriptsky #Filmsky
Join us for a virtual movie night with a screening of VALENTINE CRUSH on Friday, October 17th at 8pm cst. Q&A session to follow
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POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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adriennebuller.bsky.social
"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."

Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!

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A Green Cold War
In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.
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In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies.

What one doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.

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#PublicHealth #Health #Fever #AZ #Arizona
In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
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Feodosia: the oil depot burns again

Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the “Marine Oil Terminal” in Feodosia for the second time, damaging 16 fuel tanks and sparking a large fire. The site is a key logistics hub for Russian fuel supplies, with a capacity of up to 193,000 m³. 👇
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Lithuanian National Defence Minister Dovilė Šakalienė:

For Russia,strategic dilemmas are its tools,its weapons…Until Russia feels that it will suffer consequences of its war of aggression that would impair its ability to expand its military power, everything else is just talk.
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To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
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New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule.

Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.

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#Coal #Energy #Solar #Wind #Climate
New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule
Poor economics drove the aging New Hampshire plant offline three years early, even as the Trump administration pushes to revitalize coal.
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Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’.

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. But it's not too late to save what remains.

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#Ocean #Coral #Heat #Science #Environment
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’
A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.
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anamariecox.bsky.social
This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
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NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...
The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.
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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/
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As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy.

Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two new reports.

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#Solar #Wind #Climate #Renewables #Energy
As Trump champions fossil fuels, the world is betting on renewable energy
Despite a U.S. retreat, solar and wind are overtaking fossil fuels globally, according to two reports published this week.
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On the Tibetan Plateau, nearly 10,000 feet high, solar panels stretch to the horizon and cover an area seven times the size of Manhattan

*GIFT ARTICLE *

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

#Energy #Solar #China #Tibet #Wind
Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau
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