Christopher Greffin
@christopherg41.bsky.social
American activist and global citizen. Human rights and environmental protections are non-negotiable, no matter how much fossil fuels, AIPAC, Elon Musk or anyone else choose to spend against them.
Breaking a five-year trend, state legislatures in 2025 enacted more laws restricting voting access than expanding it. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... @brennancenter.org #Democracy #Elections #Voting #VoterSuppression #UnitedStates
State Voting Laws Roundup: 2025 in Review
Breaking a five-year trend, state legislatures in 2025 enacted more laws restricting voting access than expanding it.
www.brennancenter.org
February 3, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Breaking a five-year trend, state legislatures in 2025 enacted more laws restricting voting access than expanding it. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... @brennancenter.org #Democracy #Elections #Voting #VoterSuppression #UnitedStates
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units: The Backbone of U.S. Wildlife Conservation
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Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units: The Backbone of U.S. Wildlife Conservation - The National Wildlife Federation Blog
Cooperative Research Units bring together federal experts, university researchers, & state wildlife managers to provide crucial information.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units: The Backbone of U.S. Wildlife Conservation
blog.nwf.org/2026/01/coop... @nationalwildlife.bsky.social #Wildlife #Conservation
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RFK, Jr. and Sec. Rollins just released the 2025–2030 DGAs, but amid some positive advice is guidance that is confusing at best and harmful at worst.
CSPI has created our own #UncompromisedDGAs that people like you can use to guide public health policy and inform your own individual decisions! 👇
CSPI has created our own #UncompromisedDGAs that people like you can use to guide public health policy and inform your own individual decisions! 👇
2025-2030 Uncompromised DGA
CSPI and the Center for Biological Diversity's Uncompromised Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) demonstrate what the Guidelines for healthy dietary patterns could have looked like if the Trump adm...
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January 7, 2026 at 7:55 PM
RFK, Jr. and Sec. Rollins just released the 2025–2030 DGAs, but amid some positive advice is guidance that is confusing at best and harmful at worst.
CSPI has created our own #UncompromisedDGAs that people like you can use to guide public health policy and inform your own individual decisions! 👇
CSPI has created our own #UncompromisedDGAs that people like you can use to guide public health policy and inform your own individual decisions! 👇
5 Species From 2025: Meet some newly discovered ocean creatures. oceana.org/blog/5-speci... @oceana.bsky.social #Ocean #OceanLife #NewSpecies
5 Species From 2025: Meet some of the newest discovered ocean creatures | Oceana
Each year, scientists uncover new species that remind us how much more we have to learn. See five newly discovered ocean creatures from 2025.
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January 17, 2026 at 7:42 AM
5 Species From 2025: Meet some newly discovered ocean creatures. oceana.org/blog/5-speci... @oceana.bsky.social #Ocean #OceanLife #NewSpecies
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It was Barack Obama who first appointed Tom Homan as an associate director of ICE and even gave him an award. And as recently as June 2025, 75 Democrats in the House voted for a resolution to show “gratitude" to ICE. Are they still grateful now?
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The Only “Domestic Terrorists” On Our Streets Are ICE Agents
Renee Nicole Good is only the latest victim of this gang of masked thugs. The whole agency has to go.
www.currentaffairs.org
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 AM
It was Barack Obama who first appointed Tom Homan as an associate director of ICE and even gave him an award. And as recently as June 2025, 75 Democrats in the House voted for a resolution to show “gratitude" to ICE. Are they still grateful now?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-onl...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-onl...
The top 10 crises the world can’t ignore in 2026 www.rescue.org/article/top-... @rescue.org #Sudan #Gaza #SouthSudan #Ethiopia #Haiti #Myanmar #DRCongo #Mali #BurkinaFaso #Lebanon
The top 10 crises the world can’t ignore in 2026 | The IRC
Learn more about the top 10 countries the world can’t ignore in 2026 and find out how you can help.
www.rescue.org
January 3, 2026 at 5:42 AM
The top 10 crises the world can’t ignore in 2026 www.rescue.org/article/top-... @rescue.org #Sudan #Gaza #SouthSudan #Ethiopia #Haiti #Myanmar #DRCongo #Mali #BurkinaFaso #Lebanon
As ICE operations continue, immigrant parents look to make arrangements for their children www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1... @mprnews.org #Immigrants #Minnesota #Children #AbolishIce
As ICE operations continue, immigrant parents look to make arrangements for their children
A 7-year-old child was recently separated from their parents in an operation carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Burnsville. Advocates are helping parents make caretaker ...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:58 AM
As ICE operations continue, immigrant parents look to make arrangements for their children www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1... @mprnews.org #Immigrants #Minnesota #Children #AbolishIce
Big Ag’s COP30 greenwashing: ‘Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction www.greenpeace.org/internationa... @greenpeace.org #COP30 #Agriculture #BigAg #Greenwashing #ClimateCrisis
Big Ag’s COP30 greenwashing: ‘Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction - Greenpeace International
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists have participated at this year’s UN climate talks taking place in the Brazilian Amazon. At COP30 we urgently need effective action that not just halts, b...
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November 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Big Ag’s COP30 greenwashing: ‘Tropical Agriculture’ hides Amazon destruction www.greenpeace.org/internationa... @greenpeace.org #COP30 #Agriculture #BigAg #Greenwashing #ClimateCrisis
The MAGA War on City Dwellers Is Backfiring
www.thenation.com/article/poli... @thenation.com #Cities #MAGA
www.thenation.com/article/poli... @thenation.com #Cities #MAGA
The MAGA War on City Dwellers Is Backfiring
Last week's elections showed that the GOP can't afford to keep demonizing urban America.
www.thenation.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The MAGA War on City Dwellers Is Backfiring
www.thenation.com/article/poli... @thenation.com #Cities #MAGA
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Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks.
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
buff.ly
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks.
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
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RICO and the Comstock Act could create a one-two punch for abortion funds and providers.
“It’s about punishing the infrastructure of abortion access,” one lawyer said of the emerging legal strategies to criminalize abortion care networks.
“It’s about punishing the infrastructure of abortion access,” one lawyer said of the emerging legal strategies to criminalize abortion care networks.
How RICO Could Be Weaponized Against Abortion Providers and Funds
Anti-abortion groups and public officials are citing the law, along with the Comstock Act, to target abortion care networks.
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
RICO and the Comstock Act could create a one-two punch for abortion funds and providers.
“It’s about punishing the infrastructure of abortion access,” one lawyer said of the emerging legal strategies to criminalize abortion care networks.
“It’s about punishing the infrastructure of abortion access,” one lawyer said of the emerging legal strategies to criminalize abortion care networks.
The U.S.-Born labor force will shrink over the next decade: Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained www.epi.org/publication/... @epi.org #Immigration #Immigrants #GDP
The U.S.-Born labor force will shrink over the next decade: Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained
Introduction It is often underrecognized how much population aging is currently reducing the growth rate of the U.S. labor force and will continue to pull it down in coming decades. The share of the p...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The U.S.-Born labor force will shrink over the next decade: Achieving historically ‘normal’ GDP growth rates will be impossible, unless immigration flows are sustained www.epi.org/publication/... @epi.org #Immigration #Immigrants #GDP
6 months of shakedowns from America’s extortionist-in-chief www.peoplefor.org/6-months-sha... @peoplefor.bsky.social
6 months of shakedowns from America’s extortionist-in-chief
In this op-ed for The Hill, People For President Svante Myrick discusses the absurdity of Trump's actions.
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September 3, 2025 at 4:57 AM
6 months of shakedowns from America’s extortionist-in-chief www.peoplefor.org/6-months-sha... @peoplefor.bsky.social
From @amnesty.org: New Testimonies Provide Compelling Evidence that Israel’s Starvation of Palestinians in Gaza Is a Deliberate Policy www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas... #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Starvation #IsraeliWarCrimes
Israel/OPT: New Testimonies Provide Compelling Evidence that Israel’s Starvation of Palestinians in Gaza Is a Deliberate Policy
Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life.
www.amnestyusa.org
August 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
From @amnesty.org: New Testimonies Provide Compelling Evidence that Israel’s Starvation of Palestinians in Gaza Is a Deliberate Policy www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas... #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Starvation #IsraeliWarCrimes
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Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is.
What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.
What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.
In Prison, She Changed Constitutional Law. Meet the Trans Woman Behind the Case.
Farmer v. Brennan is one of the most cited Supreme Court cases of all time. Few people know just how revolutionary Dee Farmer was.
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July 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Every jailhouse lawyer knows Dee Farmer’s name, even if they don’t know who she is.
What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.
What most of them don’t know is that the person who paved the road for them was a transgender woman who filed her suit from a federal prison cell, in an era when her gender identity was considered a mental illness.
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Two experts talked to Al Jazeera about how the genocide in Gaza carries echoes of Srebrenica 30 years ago.
From Srebrenica to Gaza, why ‘never again’ keeps failing
Two experts talked to Al Jazeera about how the genocide in Gaza carries echoes of Srebrenica 30 years ago.
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July 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Two experts talked to Al Jazeera about how the genocide in Gaza carries echoes of Srebrenica 30 years ago.
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A new UN report has received a lot of media attention, with claims that low fertility rates present a “crisis,” & that people are having fewer children than they desire. This unfortunate framing obscures a far more serious crisis: #unintendedpregnancies
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The “real fertility crisis”? Still unintended pregnancy and forced birth
A new UN report has received a lot of media attention, with headlines claiming that low fertility rates present a “crisis." This unfortunate framing obscures a far more serious problem.
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June 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A new UN report has received a lot of media attention, with claims that low fertility rates present a “crisis,” & that people are having fewer children than they desire. This unfortunate framing obscures a far more serious crisis: #unintendedpregnancies
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Palestinians say Israeli forces killed scores of people trying to reach food aid in Khan Younis on Tuesday in the deadliest attack of recent weeks on hungry crowds attempting to get food in Gaza.
As Israel turns its focus to Iran, the death toll mounts in Gaza -- and hunger deepens
Palestinians say Israeli forces killed scores of people trying to reach food aid in Khan Younis on Tuesday in the deadliest attack of recent weeks on hungry crowds attempting to get food in Gaza.
n.pr
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Palestinians say Israeli forces killed scores of people trying to reach food aid in Khan Younis on Tuesday in the deadliest attack of recent weeks on hungry crowds attempting to get food in Gaza.
A recent article about the Red Cross field hospital in south Gaza, where right now they are treating many injured due Israel's criminal massacre of starving people. End the genocide now. www.icrc.org/en/article/r...
The Red Cross Field Hospital one year on: A lifeline and a stark reminder in Gaza
Gaza: One year of emergency surgeries, births, and survival at the Red Cross Field Hospital.
www.icrc.org
June 2, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A recent article about the Red Cross field hospital in south Gaza, where right now they are treating many injured due Israel's criminal massacre of starving people. End the genocide now. www.icrc.org/en/article/r...
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“The community is required to preserve the balance of nature,” Astawa says. If someone is caught hunting the birds, “his photo is put up in the village office to embarrass him.” therevelator.org/bali-myna/
To Save This Critically Endangered Bird, It Takes a Village • The Revelator
The Bali myna once faced extinction from the illegal wildlife trade. An unusual approach may have helped save them.
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April 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
“The community is required to preserve the balance of nature,” Astawa says. If someone is caught hunting the birds, “his photo is put up in the village office to embarrass him.” therevelator.org/bali-myna/
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Activists call for UAE boycott over its backing for the RSF in Sudan. The UAE is the world’s second-largest exporter of gold, much of which is believed to have been extracted from Sudan, where several mines are controlled by the RSF.
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Activists call for UAE boycott over its backing for the RSF in Sudan
Mackelmore cancelling his Dubai gig an eye-catching victory though Sudanese say large hurdles remain
www.middleeasteye.net
April 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Activists call for UAE boycott over its backing for the RSF in Sudan. The UAE is the world’s second-largest exporter of gold, much of which is believed to have been extracted from Sudan, where several mines are controlled by the RSF.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/activis...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/activis...