Edward Alexander
@gwandaii.bsky.social
I never saw a wild muskrat feel sorry for itself.
Americans are surprised to learn that racist, xenophobic gulags are bad for business. More at 11.
The Hyundai arrests “could significantly impact future direct investment in the U.S.,” said South Korea’s President.
South Korean companies “can’t help hesitating a lot” about making new investments .. if their workers are liable to end up in detention ..”
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South Korean companies “can’t help hesitating a lot” about making new investments .. if their workers are liable to end up in detention ..”
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September 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Americans are surprised to learn that racist, xenophobic gulags are bad for business. More at 11.
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Analysis of #CopernicusAtmosphere fire emissions for EU🇪🇺+UK🇬🇧 shows that 2025 (up to 19 August) has the highest annual total of the past 23 years driven by the, still increasing, scale of the devastating #wildfires in Spain & Portugal over the past two weeks. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
August 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Analysis of #CopernicusAtmosphere fire emissions for EU🇪🇺+UK🇬🇧 shows that 2025 (up to 19 August) has the highest annual total of the past 23 years driven by the, still increasing, scale of the devastating #wildfires in Spain & Portugal over the past two weeks. @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
Stephen Miller accidentally summons the nation's hippies to take to the streets.
Stephen Miller: "All these demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been ... we're gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they're all over 90 years old."
August 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Stephen Miller accidentally summons the nation's hippies to take to the streets.
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If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
August 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
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Folks with the University of Alaska Fairbanks contributed mightily to the American Meteorological Society's 2024 State of the Climate Arctic Chapter. #akwx #Climate #AlaskaSky @arcticgoddess.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social
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State of the climate continues to track global change
The American Meteorological Society released its annual State of the Climate report this week, providing a comprehensive overview of global conditions in 2024. University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist...
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August 14, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Folks with the University of Alaska Fairbanks contributed mightily to the American Meteorological Society's 2024 State of the Climate Arctic Chapter. #akwx #Climate #AlaskaSky @arcticgoddess.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social
www.uaf.edu/news/state-o...
www.uaf.edu/news/state-o...
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Northern North America wildfire area burned updated to Sunday. Area burned is higher than last year at this point in the season. Alaska has burned about 42 percent more area, Yukon Territory about 17 percent more and the Northwest Territories about 4 percent more. #akwx #ytwx #ntwx #Wildfire2025
July 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Northern North America wildfire area burned updated to Sunday. Area burned is higher than last year at this point in the season. Alaska has burned about 42 percent more area, Yukon Territory about 17 percent more and the Northwest Territories about 4 percent more. #akwx #ytwx #ntwx #Wildfire2025
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For Woodwell’s Dr. Kayla Mathes, community perspectives have driven home the need for fire suppression as a tool to protect people and climate.
Read her essay at www.woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppres...
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Read her essay at www.woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppres...
@permafrostpathways.bsky.social
Fire suppression in the boreal: "There's too much fire now" - Woodwell Climate
In boreal forests, which are experiencing intensifying fires, fire suppression offers a way to protect both people and carbon-rich permafrost
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July 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
For Woodwell’s Dr. Kayla Mathes, community perspectives have driven home the need for fire suppression as a tool to protect people and climate.
Read her essay at www.woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppres...
@permafrostpathways.bsky.social
Read her essay at www.woodwellclimate.org/fire-suppres...
@permafrostpathways.bsky.social
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Saskatchewan & Manitoba have already surpassed their previous highest annual total #wildfire emissions with Ontario amongst the highest in the 23-year #CopernicusAtmosphere dataset. Further west, British Columbia is comparable to 2023 & 2024 for the same time of year.
July 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Saskatchewan & Manitoba have already surpassed their previous highest annual total #wildfire emissions with Ontario amongst the highest in the 23-year #CopernicusAtmosphere dataset. Further west, British Columbia is comparable to 2023 & 2024 for the same time of year.
If you're interested in wildland fire data, you have to follow my friend Mark Parrington who "brings the heat" in his posts!
Total estimated emissions from Canadian #wildfires continue to increase rapidly with 2025 already 3rd highest year, after 2023 & 2024, as of 13 July. #CopernicusAtmosphere GFAS data based on MODIS🛰️ active fire obs ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/datasets/cam... @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social @ecmwf.int
July 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
If you're interested in wildland fire data, you have to follow my friend Mark Parrington who "brings the heat" in his posts!
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Smoke from wildfires evident in the available PM2.5 air quality reports in Alaska and the Yukon Territory early Monday. AQI improved in the Fairbanks area but remains poor at Coldfoot and surely much of the rest of the northern Interior. Graphic courtesy PurpleAir. #akwx #ytwx #Smoke #Summer2025
July 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Smoke from wildfires evident in the available PM2.5 air quality reports in Alaska and the Yukon Territory early Monday. AQI improved in the Fairbanks area but remains poor at Coldfoot and surely much of the rest of the northern Interior. Graphic courtesy PurpleAir. #akwx #ytwx #Smoke #Summer2025
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Wildfire area burned in northern North America to July 14 is ahead of last year at this time in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Similar area burned now compared to last year mid-July in the Northwest Territories. Graphic from the NASA FIRMS website. #akwx #Wildfire #Summer2025 #Canada #Alaska
July 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Wildfire area burned in northern North America to July 14 is ahead of last year at this time in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Similar area burned now compared to last year mid-July in the Northwest Territories. Graphic from the NASA FIRMS website. #akwx #Wildfire #Summer2025 #Canada #Alaska
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I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
July 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.
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The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for.
UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families.
Our full statement below. ⬇️
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Canada's reward for being America's truest, most stalwart ally of the last 150 years is an unjustified trade war and 35% tariffs. There are battlefields the world over where Canada's finest lost blood on our behalf, little did they know we would stick the knife in their back at home. #shameful
July 11, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Canada's reward for being America's truest, most stalwart ally of the last 150 years is an unjustified trade war and 35% tariffs. There are battlefields the world over where Canada's finest lost blood on our behalf, little did they know we would stick the knife in their back at home. #shameful
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The budget for ICE in the BBB will exceed the budget for the Marine Corps. The BBB is poised to pass. This is increasing their budget by a factor of 10. Ramping up for WWII levels of increase.
Except, the enemy is the public.
We are seeing the birth of a new police state.
Except, the enemy is the public.
We are seeing the birth of a new police state.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The budget for ICE in the BBB will exceed the budget for the Marine Corps. The BBB is poised to pass. This is increasing their budget by a factor of 10. Ramping up for WWII levels of increase.
Except, the enemy is the public.
We are seeing the birth of a new police state.
Except, the enemy is the public.
We are seeing the birth of a new police state.
One of these days a branch of the US Government will do the right thing and it will really, really, take me by surprise.
June 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
One of these days a branch of the US Government will do the right thing and it will really, really, take me by surprise.
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Wildfire area burned in northern North America is ahead of this time in 2024. Largest increase is in the Yukon Territory. However, the last days of June 2024 saw rapid wildfire growth in Alaska and the YT, so this will look different at the end of the month. #akwx #ytwx #ntwx #Wildfire #Arctic
June 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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NOAA collapse continues. Another sad day. #NOAA
Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
June 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
NOAA collapse continues. Another sad day. #NOAA
When we as Americans abandon the people of the world to starvation, war, poverty, unjust incarceration, the climate crisis unmet with a will towards a livable world, for the unchecked greed of our wealthy, it's not "America First" it's "America Only" and it feels like "America the Ugly."
June 28, 2025 at 10:20 AM
When we as Americans abandon the people of the world to starvation, war, poverty, unjust incarceration, the climate crisis unmet with a will towards a livable world, for the unchecked greed of our wealthy, it's not "America First" it's "America Only" and it feels like "America the Ugly."
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First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
First look at preprint of the AMAP Arctic Climate Change Update 2024 report www.amap.no/documents/do... and Chapter 4 on #Arctic & high-latitude #wildfires with thanks to co-authors @jmccartygeo.bsky.social Juha Aalto @morganahcrowley.bsky.social @queenofpeat.bsky.social & @mikeflannigan.bsky.social
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For the next four months, every day without wildfire smoke is a perfect weather day.
May 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
For the next four months, every day without wildfire smoke is a perfect weather day.
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In 2024, wildfire carbon emissions from high northern latitudes registered sixth highest in the 22-year satellite record. Wildfire carbon emissions from the sub-Arctic and Arctic regions reached an estimated 151 million tonnes. #ESOTC2024 #C3S🔥 bit.ly/3XWrOJw
May 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In 2024, wildfire carbon emissions from high northern latitudes registered sixth highest in the 22-year satellite record. Wildfire carbon emissions from the sub-Arctic and Arctic regions reached an estimated 151 million tonnes. #ESOTC2024 #C3S🔥 bit.ly/3XWrOJw
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The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
May 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Rules Committee meets at 1 AM on Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning to ram through this disastrous bill. Why? Because they don't want you to see them ripping healthcare from millions of Americans.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
You do not hold a hearing for a bill at 1 AM unless you're completely ashamed of it.
Thank you @permafrostpathways.bsky.social ! I am very excited that this special issue is out there with articles from RedFire, Community Wildfire Protection Plans from AVF, articles on the Wildland Fire Initiative, the upcoming Expert Group, just a ton of great contributors here.
Congratulations to Edward Alexander @gwandaii.bsky.social for developing this special Arctic issue of #Wildfire magazine in partnership with the #ArcticCouncil and the International Association of Wildland Fire. Sue Natali and Brendan Rogers also authored an article on wildfire and #permafrost thaw.
Wildfire Magazine - Special Issue
Wildfire Magazine - official publication of the International Association of Wildland Fire. IAWF partnered with the Arctic Counci to bring you this special issue - Wildfire In the Arctic
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May 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Thank you @permafrostpathways.bsky.social ! I am very excited that this special issue is out there with articles from RedFire, Community Wildfire Protection Plans from AVF, articles on the Wildland Fire Initiative, the upcoming Expert Group, just a ton of great contributors here.