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Dustin Mulvaney
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Professor, Environmental Studies🌎
San José State University @CalState.Bsky.social
Fellow, Payne Institute @ Colorado School of Mines, Climate & Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social, Switzer Network. www.dustinmulvaney.com
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Oct 8
Shout out to @motherjones.com for republishing this and adding the alt title.

Trump Team’s Plans to Exploit Public Lands Follow the Blueprint of Reagan’s Interior Secretary. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Trump Team's plans to exploit public lands follow the blueprint of Reagan's Interior secretary
James Watt led a similar effort to privatize natural resources for mining, energy development, logging, and sprawl.
www.motherjones.com

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 3h
Ending the year on a high note: We’ve secured new support to replace the EPA and NSF funding we lost and keep our energy-transition work at Moss Landing moving forward.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 12h
The Donner Party and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion muse.jhu.edu/article/440841

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 12h
💯 and the resulting narrative characterized innocent settlers as vulnerable, not invading dispossessors.

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Silvia Secchi

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 13h
The Donner party tragedy, while obviously a tragedy, also ginned up sympathies for settlers in a time of westward colonialism and genocide of Native Americans.
historynevada.bsky.social History:Nevada @historynevada.bsky.social · 17h
Based on John Sinclair's journal, Dec 26, 1846 was the day starving members of the Donner Party chose "either to die, or preserve life by eating the bodies of the dead; slowly and reluctantly they adopted the latter alternative." t.co/L40lvPBopW

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 13h
File under, however bad your day was today, it could have been worse.
historynevada.bsky.social History:Nevada @historynevada.bsky.social · 17h
Based on John Sinclair's journal, Dec 26, 1846 was the day starving members of the Donner Party chose "either to die, or preserve life by eating the bodies of the dead; slowly and reluctantly they adopted the latter alternative." t.co/L40lvPBopW

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 14h
Copy edits are back to Wiley as of tonight. Coming soon! (Finally)
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · Oct 24
Wiley team says final proofs are coming in January.
CRITICAL INTRODUCTIONS TO GEOGRAPHY Dustin Mulvaney Energy, Society and Environment A Critical Introduction gettyimages® Charles O'Rear WILEY Blackwell

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 14h
lol, yep, and make sure you sell the vacation home to people who live here.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 14h
<<sad trombone>>
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 14h
Shout out to an amazing editor @jessimckenzi.bsky.social who (clearly and evidently here) has work cut out when I send in a draft. *wise use
Also came up with the epic title!
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Sagebrush Rebel Revival, my piece on former Interior Secretary James Watt, the wide use agenda, and public lands under Trump made the short list!
jessimckenzi.bsky.social Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 1d
my editor told us to try to keep our "best of" lists to five or less, but i found a workaround...

the climate story of the year, imo, was attacks on science

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 14h
*Wise Use 🙄

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History:Nevada @historynevada.bsky.social · 17h
Based on John Sinclair's journal, Dec 26, 1846 was the day starving members of the Donner Party chose "either to die, or preserve life by eating the bodies of the dead; slowly and reluctantly they adopted the latter alternative." t.co/L40lvPBopW

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Dustin Mulvaney, Brian D. Galle , and 5 more

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 20h
114 mph! #CAwx bsky.app/profile/dust...
dustinmulvaney.bsky.social Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 21h
Wow, xmas morning wind gusts up to 114 mph on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose. Damaged the Lick Observatory. 🔭 🧪 bsky.app/profile/look...

Reposted by Mark A. Lemley

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 21h
Wow, xmas morning wind gusts up to 114 mph on Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose. Damaged the Lick Observatory. 🔭 🧪 bsky.app/profile/look...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 23h
A dozen or so fiberglass catamaran’s got flipped and wrecked at the Santa Cruz harbor from the wind early Christmas morning. One landed on a car. Separately, a fella living on a boat said that a neighboring boat its mast got torn off. www.ktvu.com/news/high-wi...
High winds damage boats at Santa Cruz harbor
About a dozen catamarans at Santa Cruz Harbor were damaged by the wind overnight, officials say.
www.ktvu.com

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Sagebrush Rebel Revival, my piece on former Interior Secretary James Watt, the wide use agenda, and public lands under Trump made the short list!

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 1d
"Swaths of the Permian Basin appear to be on the verge of geological malfunction."

An unfolding disaster, shielded by centrist pundits who tell us to "support America's oil & gas industry."

Here's an idea: The oil & gas industry should support America, not wreck our land, air, & water.
America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker
Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.
www.wsj.com

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, Daniel Huppmann

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 1d
my editor told us to try to keep our "best of" lists to five or less, but i found a workaround...

the climate story of the year, imo, was attacks on science
Reflecting on a year of attacks on climate science (and three other stories)
One of the defining themes of the past 11 months, and certainly one most pertinent to the climate beat, was “attacks on science and expertise,” which seem likely to continue into 2026.
thebulletin.org

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 1d
Climate editor Jessica McKenzie rounds up the best of climate change coverage for the year. One of the defining themes was “attacks on science and expertise,” which seems likely to continue into 2026.

Read more: buff.ly/jsNqQRO

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Waterspout warning, #MontereyBay
same old song 🔁 #CAwx
Marine warning for waterspout

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Aaaand we’re back, another tornado warning. 🌪️ #CAwx
Tornado warning, San Mateo coast until 615 radar indicated tornado

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney

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Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 1d
Special marine warnings > land can lead to tornado warnings if radar detected rotation retains strength, for possible tornadic activity into the 6pm hour 12/25/2025

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Seems more likely a given the rain and dampness. Cc @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
Very odd! That’s the paradise park masonic club neighborhood.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
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robmayeda.bsky.social Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 1d
Radar detected rotation w/ offshore cells nearly nonstop this evening, many special marine weather warnings ongoing #CAwx 12/25/2025

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Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 1d
Radar detected rotation w/ offshore cells nearly nonstop this evening, many special marine weather warnings ongoing #CAwx 12/25/2025

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
And note the narrow cold-frontal rainband forming behind that rotating stuff.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d
More action on waterspout alley.
#MontereyBay #CAwx
robmayeda.bsky.social Rob Mayeda NBC Bay Area @robmayeda.bsky.social · 1d
More radar detected rotation offshore with these cells with waterspout potential 12/25/2025