Amy McKendry
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Amy McKendry
@amck9.bsky.social
Editor, writer; former teacher, wilderness ranger, scientific field assistant
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Voters upheld the Climate Commitment Act by a landslide last year.

Today, the Supreme Court shot down a legal challenge.

As the federal government is abandoning critical climate protections, Washington's leadership is needed now more than ever. This is an important win.
Supreme Court shoots down challenge to WA carbon market
A natural gas power plant in Grays Harbor County had sued over the state's keystone climate policy.
www.seattletimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I always like her work. This one just resonates more.
September 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...
Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture
Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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For those following the gas industry's attacks on zero-emission standards, here's some good news. Late on Friday, we won our case helping defend South Coast Air Quality Management District's ZE standard for large commercial and small industrial equipment. Big ups to @earthjustice.org who rep'd us!
Court Upholds Landmark Rule to Advance Zero-Emissions Water Heaters & Boilers
Southern California standard is nation’s first to electrify industrial boilers, cutting smog-forming pollution by a staggering 5.6 tons per day
earthjustice.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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URGENT ACTION FOR NSF GRANTEES.

For current & recent (since 2020) awards, archive your award history this afternoon/tonight. Screenshot/download/print your work in research.gov & alert your partners.

We have credible threats to integrity of awards tracking systems (via @jeremymberg.bsky.social)
April 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
March 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Being a park ranger was Sam's dream job—and he was great at it.

Elon fired him for no reason, anyway.

Firing people like Sam means trails will close, overflowing toilets and trash cans at our parks, and longer wait times.

Stand up for our park rangers.

Save our public lands.
March 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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The Bay Area weather radar (KMUX) has been out of service for more than 24 hours now. An expensive broken part needs to be replaced and specially ordered, but that may not be possible due to ongoing freeze on government credit card spending, I’ve been told.
March 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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The OECD released a report last year, Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity, detailing some of the education responses to this issue, which helps give us some guidance on a way forward www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Facts not Fakes: Tackling Disinformation, Strengthening Information Integrity
Rising disinformation has far-reaching consequences in many policy areas ranging from public health to national security. It can cast doubt on factual evidence, jeopardise the implementation of public...
www.oecd.org
March 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Something to bookmark:

Potash is essential for modern agriculture.

**Eighty percent** of the potash used on American farms comes from mines in *Saskatchewan*.

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Trump won’t admit it, but Canadian potash fuels American agriculture
More than 80 per cent of the potash used by U.S. farmers comes from Canadian mines, and the costs could skyrocket should tariffs happen
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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More and more Republicans in Congress are starting to push back against Elon Musk’s reckless cuts, mass firings, and senseless attacks on the federal government.
February 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns.

100% of his salary is paid by WA state.

Elon fired him. Share his story.
February 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Greatly looking forward to this––published Thursday.
Sebald's essays on Kafka, Roth, Stifter, Handke, Roth & others, superbly edited, translated & introduced by Jo Catling.
Sebald as critic; Sebald tracing in others the patterns & preoccupations that animate his own extraordinary 'prose fictions'.
Silent Catastrophes
‘We have become suspicious, rightly, of claims for literary greatness, but in Sebald’s case the claim was triumphantly justified. He was, he is, the real thing’ John Banville, Guardian From acclaimed...
www.penguin.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM