Catherine Miller
@catherinemiller.bsky.social
Building climate community 🌎, Unitarian Universalist 🧡, Capital Region NY. Connecting for compassion and justice and finding joy wherever still possible. she/her
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BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.
September 4, 2025 at 9:27 PM
BREAKING, from NY Playbook PM: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid vaccines to New Yorkers who request them.
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The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
DOEresponseSite
On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
Helpful talking points, also
"Government reviewers will often lump together recycled language as a single comment. So, to have the greatest impact with your submission, we encourage you to ... reflect in your own words on how this proposed rule will affect your community and why you oppose it"
"Government reviewers will often lump together recycled language as a single comment. So, to have the greatest impact with your submission, we encourage you to ... reflect in your own words on how this proposed rule will affect your community and why you oppose it"
Join the UUSC Resistance Network – Mobilizing for Human Rights & Democracy
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August 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Helpful talking points, also
"Government reviewers will often lump together recycled language as a single comment. So, to have the greatest impact with your submission, we encourage you to ... reflect in your own words on how this proposed rule will affect your community and why you oppose it"
"Government reviewers will often lump together recycled language as a single comment. So, to have the greatest impact with your submission, we encourage you to ... reflect in your own words on how this proposed rule will affect your community and why you oppose it"
Messaging toolkit from Climate Action Campaign for opposing the repeal of the EPA endangerment finding docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CAC Message Guidance and Toolkit: The Endangerment Finding
CAC TOOLKIT: Trump’s Climate Chaos Plan Attacking the Endangerment Finding (Updated July 28, 2025) Toolkit in Spanish here. If you say one thing… Trump and Zeldin’s Climate Chaos Plan will make clima...
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August 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Messaging toolkit from Climate Action Campaign for opposing the repeal of the EPA endangerment finding docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding.
✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...
🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p...
🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!)
#31days
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding.
✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...
🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p...
🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!)
#31days
![Use and adapt our drafted comment below or write your own!
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the Endangerment Finding. The science is clear: greenhouse gases unequivocally harm our health and our environment. Weakening or repealing the Endangerment Finding will make it harder, and costlier to protect our communities from pollution and from the effects of climate change.
Optional: I care about this issue because [insert your personal reasoning here -e.g. "my father has COPD," "I recently lost my home to a devastating hurricane"]
I urge you to keep the Endangerment Finding in place and to apply science to protect our health and our environment for generations to come.
****Remember, if you want to cite research to upload the paper as a file.****](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz2kqdg6gks3tx4h4lnyvllv/bafkreiat4ert5xchrtip7jks4fbzy6o6qqpzkbanbz4pofbll4b3xngnru@jpeg)
August 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding.
✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...
🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p...
🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!)
#31days
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Day 6! Leave a public comment opposing the repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding.
✍️ Comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...
🧠 Learn more here: www.cnn.com/2025/08/03/p...
🌿 Here is a script (copy and paste alt text for ease!)
#31days
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New date, same call to action. Join us on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 at 11am as we call on state leadership to convene a special session and protect our communities from the Federal Budget Scam. We’ll be in Foley Square in NYC & East Capitol Park in Albany.
See you there!
#TaxTheRich #NY4All
See you there!
#TaxTheRich #NY4All
The Federal Budget Scam is going to make NYers sicker, hungrier, & less safe. But state leaders can convene a special session to protect us! Join us in NYC on Thurs. at 11am to tell our leaders NOW is the time to step up & stand with the people they represent.
RSVP actionnetwork.org/events/rally...
RSVP actionnetwork.org/events/rally...
August 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New date, same call to action. Join us on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 at 11am as we call on state leadership to convene a special session and protect our communities from the Federal Budget Scam. We’ll be in Foley Square in NYC & East Capitol Park in Albany.
See you there!
#TaxTheRich #NY4All
See you there!
#TaxTheRich #NY4All
From Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon about dealing with hackers on the fantastic myNoise.net - feels like it applies to so much right now.
"Let’s keep building things around us, and together, outnumber those who chose the opposite. Because in the end, building gives meaning to life. Destroying doesn’t."
"Let’s keep building things around us, and together, outnumber those who chose the opposite. Because in the end, building gives meaning to life. Destroying doesn’t."
myNoise Backstage | The Blog of myNoise ®
Behind the scenes of myNoise. Personal notes from the Stéphane, the creator of myNoise.
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July 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
From Dr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon about dealing with hackers on the fantastic myNoise.net - feels like it applies to so much right now.
"Let’s keep building things around us, and together, outnumber those who chose the opposite. Because in the end, building gives meaning to life. Destroying doesn’t."
"Let’s keep building things around us, and together, outnumber those who chose the opposite. Because in the end, building gives meaning to life. Destroying doesn’t."
"CEOs should now, this summer, this month, next week, sign a pledge not to use labor from concentration camps. It could be as simple as that: "On behalf of my firm I promise not to use labor from concentration camps nor to cooperate with any firm that does.""
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snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
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July 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
"CEOs should now, this summer, this month, next week, sign a pledge not to use labor from concentration camps. It could be as simple as that: "On behalf of my firm I promise not to use labor from concentration camps nor to cooperate with any firm that does.""
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
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We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.
July 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We really need to make this point over & over again. When they say, "we're going to try to be more fair & represent the right's perspective," it *sounds* (especially to them) like trying to do better journalism, but in practice, it is the opposite, because the right is built on lies.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
July 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.
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Organizing is not about convincing strangers to join your cause. It's about creating the conditions where strangers become people, seeing your lives and liberation bound up together. #UUAGA
June 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Organizing is not about convincing strangers to join your cause. It's about creating the conditions where strangers become people, seeing your lives and liberation bound up together. #UUAGA
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Sometimes, we progressives, we religious liberals, we forget that people don't join a cause. People join people. Not ideas, not institutions. People join people. #UUAGA
June 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Sometimes, we progressives, we religious liberals, we forget that people don't join a cause. People join people. Not ideas, not institutions. People join people. #UUAGA
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As someone who tested positive for Covid today, get as current on your vaccines as you can while you can. I'm only doing as well as I am because I'm vaccinated.
And mask up. Had I been masking consistently I probably wouldn't have gotten sick at all.
And mask up. Had I been masking consistently I probably wouldn't have gotten sick at all.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health secretary removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.
June 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
As someone who tested positive for Covid today, get as current on your vaccines as you can while you can. I'm only doing as well as I am because I'm vaccinated.
And mask up. Had I been masking consistently I probably wouldn't have gotten sick at all.
And mask up. Had I been masking consistently I probably wouldn't have gotten sick at all.
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If you are serious about intersectionality, about solidarity, about justice, about fighting fascism, one of the best things you can do is put a mask back on in public.
On top of the “I’m Spartacus” effect—they can’t arrest everyone if everyone is masked—you will be helping decrease risk-
On top of the “I’m Spartacus” effect—they can’t arrest everyone if everyone is masked—you will be helping decrease risk-
June 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If you are serious about intersectionality, about solidarity, about justice, about fighting fascism, one of the best things you can do is put a mask back on in public.
On top of the “I’m Spartacus” effect—they can’t arrest everyone if everyone is masked—you will be helping decrease risk-
On top of the “I’m Spartacus” effect—they can’t arrest everyone if everyone is masked—you will be helping decrease risk-
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I've agreed to talk with pupils at a local school about their climate protection projects. This has just been canceled bc the teacher now only wants to talk about democracy due to recent activities.
How long do you think democracies will survive if people don't concentrate on climate protection?
How long do you think democracies will survive if people don't concentrate on climate protection?
June 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I've agreed to talk with pupils at a local school about their climate protection projects. This has just been canceled bc the teacher now only wants to talk about democracy due to recent activities.
How long do you think democracies will survive if people don't concentrate on climate protection?
How long do you think democracies will survive if people don't concentrate on climate protection?
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Important to note that Trump’s budget bill gives the federal government the resources that they need to do across the country what they’re doing to LA.
Defeating this takeover means defeating this bill.
Defeating this takeover means defeating this bill.
June 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Important to note that Trump’s budget bill gives the federal government the resources that they need to do across the country what they’re doing to LA.
Defeating this takeover means defeating this bill.
Defeating this takeover means defeating this bill.
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If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.
📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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June 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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PSA: One of those anecdotal data points that might be useful to know—more than a quarter of my mom's ward at her nursing home has contracted Covid in the last 10 days or so.
May 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
PSA: One of those anecdotal data points that might be useful to know—more than a quarter of my mom's ward at her nursing home has contracted Covid in the last 10 days or so.
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Sounds like a great opportunity to start covering the built environment with solar panels. I would start with giant parking lots
SCOOP: The Trump administration is now targeting the solar industry, cracking down against projects sited on farmland.
To start, the administration is going to redesign a major USDA energy program — REAP — to dissuade solar projects on land suitable for farming.
Via @heatmap.news
To start, the administration is going to redesign a major USDA energy program — REAP — to dissuade solar projects on land suitable for farming.
Via @heatmap.news
Trump Targets Solar on Farmland
Anti-solar activists in agricultural areas get a powerful new ally.
heatmap.news
May 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Sounds like a great opportunity to start covering the built environment with solar panels. I would start with giant parking lots
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"Transformative change for a just and sustainable world is urgent, necessary and challenging, but possible..."
The @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment urges us to rethink how we interact with nature. A vibrant and healthy planet requires our collective actions #ForNature.
The @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment urges us to rethink how we interact with nature. A vibrant and healthy planet requires our collective actions #ForNature.
On this #BiodiversityDay, let’s remember:
Fundamental shifts in how people view and interact with the natural world are urgently needed to halt and reverse #biodiversity loss. 🌍
- @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment
Transformative change is necessary and possible! 🧪
Fundamental shifts in how people view and interact with the natural world are urgently needed to halt and reverse #biodiversity loss. 🌍
- @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment
Transformative change is necessary and possible! 🧪
May 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"Transformative change for a just and sustainable world is urgent, necessary and challenging, but possible..."
The @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment urges us to rethink how we interact with nature. A vibrant and healthy planet requires our collective actions #ForNature.
The @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment urges us to rethink how we interact with nature. A vibrant and healthy planet requires our collective actions #ForNature.
This piece felt like a gut-punch this morning. If not now, when? the.ink/p/i-was-goin...
I was going to be brave
but
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May 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
This piece felt like a gut-punch this morning. If not now, when? the.ink/p/i-was-goin...