Lawrence MacDonald
@climateboomer.bsky.social
Working flat out to #StopTheCoup. Author of "Am I too old to save the planet? A boomer's guide to climate action." Inspired by @Indivisible, @ThirdAct, @ClimateDefiance www.climateboomer.org
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Protestors march with homemade signs and a large No Kings banner near the Lincoln Memorial No Kings March Across Memorial Bridge To DC For No Kings Day 2, October 18,...
thirdact.org
The story behind the pictures: Why we sang God Bless America at the Memorial Bridge #NoKings March thirdact.org/virginia/202...
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In the interview he makes it clear that
* he believes that is impossible to make Trump back down, even though that happens on the daily.
* His definition of "fighting" is holding press conferences
* he believes that is impossible to make Trump back down, even though that happens on the daily.
* His definition of "fighting" is holding press conferences
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In the interview he makes it clear that
* he believes that is impossible to make Trump back down, even though that happens on the daily.
* His definition of "fighting" is holding press conferences
* he believes that is impossible to make Trump back down, even though that happens on the daily.
* His definition of "fighting" is holding press conferences
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Trump is a war criminal.
“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Trump is a war criminal.
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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Last month was the 3rd lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of October.
This was 1,140,000 km² below the 1981-2010 October average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
This was 1,140,000 km² below the 1981-2010 October average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Last month was the 3rd lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of October.
This was 1,140,000 km² below the 1981-2010 October average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
This was 1,140,000 km² below the 1981-2010 October average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
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Impossible to ignore what’s happening to #Arctic temperatures in the month of November...
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Impossible to ignore what’s happening to #Arctic temperatures in the month of November...
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.
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🧵 Looking for (polar) climate data visualizations? Start here! 📈📉🧪⚒️🌊
+ Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
+ Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
November 30, 2024 at 1:38 PM
🧵 Looking for (polar) climate data visualizations? Start here! 📈📉🧪⚒️🌊
+ Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
+ Polar climate change: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Global climate change indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
+ #Arctic sea ice extent: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ #Antarctic sea ice: zacklabe.com/antarctic-se...
Im in!
After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run.
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader.
If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Im in!
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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They’ll blame this on Biden. Meanwhile, the reason the air traffic controllers are already shortstaffed is because of the last shut down, in 2019.
They have no concept of reality.
OR!
They’re afraid of an elderly Alzheimer’s patient that shits himself and naps at his own pressers.
They have no concept of reality.
OR!
They’re afraid of an elderly Alzheimer’s patient that shits himself and naps at his own pressers.
Air Traffic Controllers Start Resigning as Shutdown Bites
Unpaid air traffic controllers are quitting their jobs altogether as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
They’ll blame this on Biden. Meanwhile, the reason the air traffic controllers are already shortstaffed is because of the last shut down, in 2019.
They have no concept of reality.
OR!
They’re afraid of an elderly Alzheimer’s patient that shits himself and naps at his own pressers.
They have no concept of reality.
OR!
They’re afraid of an elderly Alzheimer’s patient that shits himself and naps at his own pressers.
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A friendly reminder that 39% of SNAP recipients are seniors, 20% are children, and 12% are people with disabilities. 20,000 active duty soldiers, 200,000 National Guardsmen, and 1.1 million veterans are also on SNAP. Please stop saying it's just "people who need to get a job."
November 3, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A friendly reminder that 39% of SNAP recipients are seniors, 20% are children, and 12% are people with disabilities. 20,000 active duty soldiers, 200,000 National Guardsmen, and 1.1 million veterans are also on SNAP. Please stop saying it's just "people who need to get a job."
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Republicans have always said snap/food stamps were people not wanting to work.In truth many are working class people and military personnel not making a living wage. Walmart,Amazon to name a few.But these companies shareholders and CEO’s are making record profits.
BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL,RIGHT????
BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL,RIGHT????
Let's take a moment to recognize that the GOP literally begged the courts to stop feeding hungry citizens....and they won. I guess it's time to #EatTheRich
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Republicans have always said snap/food stamps were people not wanting to work.In truth many are working class people and military personnel not making a living wage. Walmart,Amazon to name a few.But these companies shareholders and CEO’s are making record profits.
BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL,RIGHT????
BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL,RIGHT????
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This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
November 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas 11/7/25. This is what Trump doesn't want you to see.
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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• Tax billionaires into millionaires
• Overturn Citizens United
• End lobbying
• Reform SCOTUS
• Rebuild what MAGA broke
• No bombs for genocide
• Universal healthcare
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Stop climate change
• NO KINGS, NO SLAVES, NO NAZIS IN AMERICA
#ReconstructionDemocrats
• Overturn Citizens United
• End lobbying
• Reform SCOTUS
• Rebuild what MAGA broke
• No bombs for genocide
• Universal healthcare
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Stop climate change
• NO KINGS, NO SLAVES, NO NAZIS IN AMERICA
#ReconstructionDemocrats
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Democrats need to propose concrete economic policies, not just spew vague platitudes: aggressively progressive tax schedule ala post WW II, living minimum wage ($25 hr?), universal health care. Own it! Yes, redistribute wealth!
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Democrats need to propose concrete economic policies, not just spew vague platitudes: aggressively progressive tax schedule ala post WW II, living minimum wage ($25 hr?), universal health care. Own it! Yes, redistribute wealth!
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November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Lots of reasons to hate Schumer. Here’s another: “Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave?” prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...
prospect.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Lots of reasons to hate Schumer. Here’s another: “Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave?” prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
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One of the most interesting energy stories of the next 25 years will be how state regulators wind down monopoly gas utilities that have legal obligations to serve remaining customers in their exclusive service territories even as their product becomes increasingly costly, polluting, and obsolete.
Germany to let local utilities close gas grids where demand declines permanently
www.cleanenergywire.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
One of the most interesting energy stories of the next 25 years will be how state regulators wind down monopoly gas utilities that have legal obligations to serve remaining customers in their exclusive service territories even as their product becomes increasingly costly, polluting, and obsolete.
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Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.
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Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Until the end of the government shutdown, our campaign will be donating $2,500 a month to a food pantry in the Ninth District.
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
And to my fellow candidates, I challenge you to do the same:
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NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 AM
NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.