barrett83.bsky.social
@barrett83.bsky.social
I’m a historian and history teacher
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Greenhouse gas data is finally rolling in again, and my dashboard is back up-to-date. Unfortunately, the story hasn’t changed... 📈

More climate change indicator graphics at zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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"It’s being called the GREAT Trust. A glossy plan for Gaza’s ​“redevelopment” that includes...an Elon Musk-branded ​'Smart Manufacturing Zone.' But, as analysts have suggested, it only works if the people of Gaza are gone." #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
This Is What Genocide Looks Like When Silicon Valley Writes the Brochure
Corporate, tech oligarchs are providing the infrastructure for and profiting off genocide in Gaza. But accountability is closer than you think.
inthesetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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For more details, see my @carbonbrief.org article with Global Carbon Budget lead @pfriedling.bsky.social: www.carbonbrief.org/...

And the new Global Carbon Budget paper: essd.copernicus.org/...
Analysis: Fossil-fuel CO2 emissions to set new record in 2025, as land sink ‘recovers’ - Carbon Brief
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels and cement will rise around 1.1% in 2025,...
www.carbonbrief.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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Sign the petition if you agree:
Schumer: Step Down as Minority Leader!
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
sign.moveon.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Now is the time to fight, not surrender. 🗣️

Schumer must step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
Progressive group MoveOn calls on Schumer to step aside
"Inexplicably, some Senate Democrats, under Leader Schumer's watch, decided to surrender."
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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There are some Democrats who are weak, performative, and have repeatedly shown us that they’re practically GOP-lite. They talk progressive when it’s convenient, but when power and accountability are on the line, they fold every mthrfcking time.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Dick Cheney, who died at the age of 84 on Monday, never addressed the worst transgression of his decades in politics and government: his deployment of lies to grease the way to the Iraq invasion that led to the deaths of more than 4,400 US soldiers and 200,000 or so Iraqi civilians.
Dick Cheney and the big lie that should never be forgotten
It led to 4,400 dead US troops and 200,000 or so dead Iraqi civilians.
www.motherjones.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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And while I do agree with some specific points therein, the memo overall conveys a poor understanding of climate science, a poor understanding of the societal & economic impacts of extreme events, and cleans on multiple false dichotomies to come to its flawed conclusions. [18/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Is all of this just a matter of semantics? Definitely not, because this memo is already being championed by those seeking to misinform and sow doubt about climate change and delay climate progress--up to and including the executive branch of the United States government. [16/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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In fact, the preponderance of scientific evidence in recent years points increasingly toward each increment of warming being MORE consequential, and harmful to both human systems and societies and ecosystems, than previously believed--not less. [7/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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After death threats for his work on antifascism, Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor, fled the United States.

“It’s too late for preventative antifascism,” he said. “I think we’re in a new era.”
He studies fascism. Is he now living through it?
After death threats for his work on antifascism, a Rutgers University professor fled the United States. "It's too late for preventative antifascism," he said. "I think we're in a new era."
www.motherjones.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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"Most people want to come to a national park and leave with that warm, fuzzy feeling with an ice cream cone. Mount Rushmore can’t do that if you do it the right way. If you do it the right way people are going to be leaving pissed.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘The Rushmore story is hard to tell’: how an Indigenous park leader revealed the monument’s dark side
As memorial marks 100 years, Gerard Baker, park’s Native American ex-superintendent believes if Rushmore’s story is told the right way, ‘people are going to be leaving pissed’
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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From a crewmember on yesterday's Teal 74 mission into now-Category 5 Hurricane #Melissa. As clear of an eye as you will see in the Atlantic basin.
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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New Weather West post out this evening: "Following a cool and wet October, a much warmer and drier November to come across California." I'll talk more about this in Monday's YT livestream, in addition to Hurricane #Melissa. #CAwx #CAfire
Following a cool and wet October, a much warmer and drier November to come across California - Weather West
A notably wet (and also cool) October across nearly all of California and much of the Southwest 2025 has been a decidedly strange weather year in California--starting with January's devastating Los Angeles-region firestorms amid a record-dry 6-9 period (and following near-record wet conditions over the 1-2 years prior). The spring and early summer were notably
weatherwest.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I can't emphasize this too much. Scientists who may be well intentioned and favor solar geoengineering research because "it's just research" and do not approve of deployment will not be the ones who decide whether to deploy whatever ... www.gravityisgone.com/letting-sili...
Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
www.gravityisgone.com
October 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Before detaining community advocate Leonardo, ICE was caught on film rear-ending his truck, and L.A. TACO is sharing the dash cam footage for the first time.

The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-dash-...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares and Izzy Ramirez
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Fuck yeah. Let’s do this. Nation wide. Let’s go.
October 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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This is so cool. We spent spring break in Klamath Falls a few years back and explored all of these areas the Salmon are now returning to. I can’t imagine how happy the tribes must be.
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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For the first time in more than 100 years, Chinook salmon have been spotted at the confluence of the Sprague and Williamson rivers in Chiloquin, the government seat of the Klamath Tribes in Southern Oregon.

Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM