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RHF
@bobbyhertz.bsky.social
Dad. Climate & Disaster Resilience Advocate. Leadership Coach.

These days: Working on pre-disaster hazard mitigation to advance Indigenous sovereignty and climate justice.

Always: Troublemaking

Located on unceded Mvskoke lands, missing NOLA & NY.
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We live in the future. It's here.
'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
I will never understand why airlines still hand out these “wings” pins to kiddos. 100% a hazard. Just do stickers.
November 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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In all seriousness Mamdani has just set the bar for what we can expect of our leaders when dealing with Trump. Hold them to it.
the son he always wanted
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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“Kathy Hochul should have been riding pretty high last week… But the thing about Kathy Hochul? She doesn’t really like letting good thing last”
😂🤌👀 @hellgateny.bsky.social

hellgatenyc.com/trumps-pipel...
Trump's Pipeline Is Now Hochul's Pipeline
And other stories to start your week.
hellgatenyc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Never underestimate Schumer's ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
SCHUMER is on the floor now making this offer to end the shutdown:

Clean CR
Bipartisan "minibus" of approps bills
1-year ACA funding extension
Bipartisan cmte to negotiate on health care

"This is a reasonable offer that reopens the government, deals with health care affordability."
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Setting aside the obvious climate and water quality impacts, I don’t understand what Hochul gets from bending the knee to Trump and approving this project, politically speaking.

It’s a lose-lose for her and undermines any goodwill built in NYC endorsing Mayor-elect Mamdani.
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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building housing near where people work and hang out is climate action. helping people fix up their houses is climate action. deploying public transit is climate action. making downtowns more useful and accessible and fun is climate action. etc.
November 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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I don't think we should talk about climate change anymore, we should talk about kitchen-table issues. Like how climate change will destroy your kitchen table and everything else you have
October 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Every big disaster, i think about how Katrina touched one person in my family, destroying her home, and how it rippled out from there, and how the results of those ripples are still visible today.

"Generational" is, if anything, too small a word.
What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible.

Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Prayers up for Jamaica. This is going to be beyond devastating.
From sunrise to sunset, Hurricane Melissa is still a Category 5 storm as it starts to move northward towards Jamaica.
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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So, this crucially important state race in Georgia that I told you about? Let me offer you a frustrating update. (cc @hankgreen.bsky.social)

With 14 days to go, Dems are up by a decent margin in early voting, but Kemp -- GA's loathsome governor -- has just dumped *$500K* into TV ads on the race.
Today on Volts: hey listen up! The most important election of the year is happening in Georgia next month. Two seats on the (currently all-GOP) Public Service Commission are up & rising electricity prices are on everyone's mind. This is a bellwether for next year's governor & midterm elections!
Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025
With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.
www.volts.wtf
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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The remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area in Western Alaska hundreds of miles from the U.S. road system. More than a thousand people are displaced. n.pr/48TiQ6f
What we know about the devastating storm in Western Alaska
The remnant of Typhoon Halong slammed the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area in Western Alaska hundreds of miles from the U.S. road system. More than a thousand people are displaced.
n.pr
October 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.

This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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This FRIDAY come out & support #FEMA at our solidarity rally. Let’s send a message, hands off FEMA & more importantly support our FEMA workers who are tired & want to do their jobs effectively.

#FederalWorkers #ProtectTheMission #WeServeThePeople #Solidarity #StandUpTogether #WeShowUp #FEMARally
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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October 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...
Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
heated.world
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Fear will try to convince us to isolate, to hoard resources, to avoid community, to build the least threatening campaigns making little impact.

A grounded risk assessment will move us closer to each other, it’ll remind us of that we are millions, it’ll make our work more bold and more brave.
September 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Secretary of Energy: “Climate change, for impacting the quality of your life, is not incredibly important. In fact, if it wasn’t in the news, in the media, you wouldn’t know.”

The burning West, choking on smoke from worsening wildfires:
September 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Donald Trump threatens to impose even higher taxes on ordinary Americans unless other nations help him in his campaign to make the planet uninhabitable.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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No sanctions, no cease-fire, no security guarantee, but plenty of fossil fuel deals brew after Trump’s cringeworthy Putin-appeasement on Ukraine.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
August 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM