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Cherice Bock
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Climate policy director at 350PDX; Quaker, professor, writer. PhD, MS, environmental studies; MDiv. Views my own. she/her
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climateeconomics.bsky.social
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Friday announced the state would analyze how much climate change has cost the state — reviving questions about shifting those costs onto fossil fuel companies through a “climate superfund” law...
www.eenews.net/articles/mar...
Maryland decides to study a ‘climate superfund’ after all
Gov. Wes Moore announced a bid to analyze emissions costs and whether companies should compensate the state for climate impacts.
www.eenews.net
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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stevesilberman.bsky.social
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
A menorah in a window across the street from a building displaying a Nazi flag.
December 8, 2023 at 1:50 AM
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victorerikray.bsky.social
Racism.

The answer is racism.
Screenshot of the New York Times Opinion podcast INTERESTING TIMES The headline reads: Is Anything Holding MAGA Together?
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:

“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”
We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot
The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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climateintegrity.org
NEW: For 25 years, four oil giants sold false climate promises through deceptive ad campaigns.

Our report examined 300+ ads from BP, Chevron, Exxon, and Shell from 2000-2025.

Together they push a false narrative that Big Oil is leading climate solutions. In reality, they're fueling catastrophe.
Big Oil’s Deceptive Climate Ads | Center for Climate Integrity
How Four Oil Majors Sold False Promises from 2000-2025
climateintegrity.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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lauragmitchell.com
This.

I’m so grateful to be in community with so many neighbors & caregivers at my kids’ public school to help organize around keeping families safe as they get to/from school, but so upset that this is the reality we live in.

We keep us safe.
mnorthstar82.bsky.social Adam @mnorthstar82.bsky.social · 7d
In a functioning society parents wouldn’t need to organize volunteer guard shifts at their kids’ immigrant-run daycare to prevent the federal government from abducting teachers and staff because they’re brown but that’s where we are now.

My first shift starts Wednesday afternoon.

Fuck ICE.
December 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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islingtonxr.bsky.social
"We are hurtling toward #climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now"

2025 state of the climate report | BioScience | Oxford Academic share.google/wXClWHFPDzQw...
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer
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December 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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hushuo.bsky.social
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.

"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11d
A few important points here

- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false

- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE

media.licdn.com/dms/document...
Data center investment is growing quickly Construction spending on data centers (millions of dollars) SAL,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 ChatGPT launch 21,000 15,000 10200 1,000 Jan 14 Jan 16 Jun 18 Jan 20 Jan 22 J24 In just three years, spending on data centers in the US has gone from $13.8 billion to $41.2 billion per year. Construction spending on data centers has grown by 200% since the launch of ChatGPT. rising data centre forecasts data center growth Data centers are being built very, very quickly Satellite images of OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas • A year ago, Stargate was a plot of dirt in Texas. Today it is home to 100k Nvidia chips using 200 MW. • In another year, the data center will use 1.2 GW of power. • For reference, El Paso Electric has a peak load of 2.4 GW and serves 465,000 customers.
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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bikeportland.org
Yay it's fully open all the way to W Burnside!

Thanks PBOT. Good to know we can actually have nice things.

Don't miss my video on this project from a few weeks back -> youtu.be/j2zVoAf_ins?...
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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volts.wtf
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.

Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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gregk.co.uk
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ", and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly.
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS.

“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”

#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. And it’s huge | CNN
The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for the ...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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genuinemichael.bsky.social
Is this the persecution of the faithful I was warned about, growing up evangelical? My nationalist co-religionists are denying it now, but these are precisely the scenarios we were breathlessly schooled on, reading stories of saints and martyrs following Jesus at all costs.
helenkennedy.bsky.social Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · Nov 15
ICE vs the clergy
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times. Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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americanfietser.bsky.social
If we had the train network we ALREADY HAD 80-100 years ago, the auto industry as we know it would be decimated.
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25d
A growing number of Americans are rolling into the holidays by train with Amtrak reporting an increase in riders after federally mandated flight reductions led to thousands of delays and cancellations at major airports nationwide. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda reports.
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.
A boat being rowed through a mass of plastic bottles
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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zachlipton.com
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
Strategies for Achieving Success • Achieve a per capita VMT reduction of at least 25 percent below 2019 levels by 2030 and 30 percent below 2019 levels by 2045. 339 Reimagine new roadway projects that decrease VT in a way that meets community needs and reduces the need to drive. • Invest in making public transit a viable alternative to driving by increasing affordability, reliability, coverage, service frequency, and consumer experience. 340 • Implement equitable roadway pricing strategies based on local context and need, reallocating revenues to improve transit, bicycling, and other sustainable transportation choices. 341 • Expand and complete planned networks of high-quality active transportation infrastructure.342 • Channel the deployment of autonomous vehicles, ride-hailing services, and other new mobility options toward high passenger-occupancy and low VT-impact service models that complement transit and ensure equitable access for priority populations. • Streamline access to public transportation through programs such as the California Integrated Travel Project. • Ensure alignment of land use, housing, transportation, and conservation planning in adopted regional plans, such as regional transportation plans (RTP)/ sustainable communities strategies (SCS), regional housing needs assessments (RHNA), and local plans (e.g., general plans, zoning, and local transportation plans), and develop tools to support implementation of these plans. 2.1 Zero-emission vehicles are not enough to solve the climate crisis. Contrary to popular belief, zero-emission vehicles (ZEV) alone are not enough to solve the climate crisis. The 2022 Scoping Plan illustrates that despite cleaner vehicles and low-carbon fuels, the path to carbon neutrality by 2045 also depends on reducing per capita VMT (the total passenger vehicle miles driven by an average person in California on any given day). To meet the carbon neutrality goal, the Scoping Plan proposes reducing VMT from 24.6 miles per day in 2019 to 18.4 miles by 2030 (a 25 percent reduction) and to 17.2 miles per day by 2045 (a 30 percent reduction). Approximately 30 percent of light-duty vehicles on the road in 2045 will still burn fossil fuels even with all new car sales being ZEVs by 2035 through implementation of CARB's Advanced Clean Cars Il regulations.? Additionally, driving, regardless of vehicle technology, will also continue to produce particulate emissions from brake and tire wear. Figure W depicts the reduction in VT identified by the Scoping Plan as necessary to help achieve the State's GHG reduction goals (green solid line), accompanied by a ' For more information on progress made toward achieving climate goals under SB 375 see: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/tracking-progress 2 For more information on the Advanced Clean Cars Il regulations adopted by CARB's board on August 25, 2022, see: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/advanced-clean-cars-program/advanced-clean-cars- 4 California Air Resources Board 2022 Scoping Plan November 2022 trajectory whereby average per capita daily driving continues to increase at its historic average growth rate (red line with dashes and dots) The blue dotted line shows a trajectory where average per capita daily driving remains unchanged from 2019 levels. Substantial and immediate action is needed to reverse current trends in order to reduce VMT to support achieving carbon neutrality by 2045. Figure W. VMT tra…
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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salinas.house.gov
This is outrageous!

First this kid is a citizen! Second, this kid's a minor!

www.opb.org/article/2025...
ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period
Family told local news the 17-year-old is a U.S. citizen.
www.opb.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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wesinjapan.bsky.social
We live in the future. It's here.
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 24d
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Of all the things to condemn on the house floor… they picked socialism.

Not the genocide in Gaza.
Not the government’s eugenics plan
Not ICE
Not building camps for the homeless
Not tax cuts for the billionaires
Not pedophilia.

Socialism.

And 95 Dems supported it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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davidjoffe64.bsky.social
Pregnancy and Cøvid aren't good companions.

@atranscendedman.bsky.social 🙏🏻

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 in fetal organs via intraamniotic infection - Nature Communications
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy may result in maternal and fetal complications. Here, the authors analyze 18 fetuses following maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and identify distribution in fet...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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antoniajuhasz.bsky.social
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared. So did the air. That's because fossil fuels are massively polluting.
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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taylorgriggs.bsky.social
I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?
Leaves piled up in Portland bike lane
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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jeffgoodell.bsky.social
In a rapidly warming world, heat waves will become mass mortality events. If 2003 European heat wave were to recur with 1.5 °C of warming (we're close to that today), this study predicts 17,800 excess deaths across Europe in *one week.* With 3 C of warming, the toll rises to 32,000.
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM