@nancyfriel.bsky.social
Retired public service therapist. Like to keep informed and participate in the public square. Biggest concerns: climate change, autocracy, the police state, civil/human rights. No DMs thank you.
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all #Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says - Guardian
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all #Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says - Guardian
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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Now: Thousands of people in Charlotte have gathered to let Border Patrol & ICE know they’re not welcome here. We will not bow down in the face of Trump’s terror tactics. When our communities are under attack we stand up and fight back!
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
📍Hygge
(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
📍Hygge
(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
November 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Now: Thousands of people in Charlotte have gathered to let Border Patrol & ICE know they’re not welcome here. We will not bow down in the face of Trump’s terror tactics. When our communities are under attack we stand up and fight back!
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
📍Hygge
(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
📆 Sun Nov 16
🕜 3:00-5:00 PM
📍Hygge
(1026 Jay St, Charlotte) 🙏🏻
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you don’t get to indulge in whataboutism as an excuse to not do anything.
stop insisting COVID-aware folk want you to shut down the world. we’re asking you to open it up—for everyone.
so be a big boy/girl: wear a mask, and it you want to help disabled people, take a cue from the late alice wong:
stop insisting COVID-aware folk want you to shut down the world. we’re asking you to open it up—for everyone.
so be a big boy/girl: wear a mask, and it you want to help disabled people, take a cue from the late alice wong:
November 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
you don’t get to indulge in whataboutism as an excuse to not do anything.
stop insisting COVID-aware folk want you to shut down the world. we’re asking you to open it up—for everyone.
so be a big boy/girl: wear a mask, and it you want to help disabled people, take a cue from the late alice wong:
stop insisting COVID-aware folk want you to shut down the world. we’re asking you to open it up—for everyone.
so be a big boy/girl: wear a mask, and it you want to help disabled people, take a cue from the late alice wong:
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I have some bad news for you about scores & scores of esteemed Harvard professors…
Harvard disgraces itself every day it continues to bestow the "University Professor" title on Summers
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I have some bad news for you about scores & scores of esteemed Harvard professors…
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"I Want You to Understand Chicago"
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I Want You to Understand Chicago
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November 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"I Want You to Understand Chicago"
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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Something centre-right journalists absolutely love is the "enrages environmentalists" framing
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Something centre-right journalists absolutely love is the "enrages environmentalists" framing
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
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Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...
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No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
November 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
No one should have to face such threats.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
It would’ve been nice if Greene had realized this before she amplified and endorsed calls for executing Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama.
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The Trump administration isn’t the only US entity that declined to send a delegation to COP30. “Not one of the US TV networks have sent cameras or reporters to Belem to cover COP30,” notes CCNow’s Mark Herstgaard. By @jonathan-watts.bsky.social:
Agenda for Cop30 agreed as crucial climate talks begin – as it happened
Ministers and high-ranking officials from nearly 200 countries have gathered in the Amazonian city of Belem, with Brazil insisting this will be ‘the Cop of implementation’
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November 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Trump administration isn’t the only US entity that declined to send a delegation to COP30. “Not one of the US TV networks have sent cameras or reporters to Belem to cover COP30,” notes CCNow’s Mark Herstgaard. By @jonathan-watts.bsky.social:
"The solution to climate hushing is climate amplification". www.theframelab.org/when-bill-ga...
When Bill Gates Yelled At Me About Climate Change
David Fenton recalls Bill Gates yelling at him in 2010 about climate change. 15 years later, Gates still gets it wrong and he's not alone.
www.theframelab.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"The solution to climate hushing is climate amplification". www.theframelab.org/when-bill-ga...
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Lots of great non-Starbucks options for your coffee! Pay them a visit until the greedy Starbucks owners decide to treat their workers with dignity.
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Lots of great non-Starbucks options for your coffee! Pay them a visit until the greedy Starbucks owners decide to treat their workers with dignity.
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This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
Trump re-pardons a Jan. 6 defendant to erase unrelated gun conviction
The new pardon ends a legal clash over the limits of Trump’s sweeping Day One clemency for those who stormed the Capitol.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This is so so disturbing. Trump is now pardoning January 6th rioters for unrelated crimes, just to reward them for their violence to keep him in power.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
The Republican Party is in the full time business of endorsing and incentivizing political violence. So scary.
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So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
A viral arrest, a drunken brawl and an overdose: the last days of a notorious Border Patrol agent
We obtained hours of body-camera video that give the fullest — and perhaps last — glimpse of Agent Isaiah Hodgson’s mindset when he became a flashpoint in the fight over immigration raids.
lbpost.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
So… A BP agent filmed in LA in June kidnapping someone from a Walmart got arrested by Long Beach cops after drunkenly flashing his service pistol in a women’s restroom. He demanded they call BP Commander Bovino. After making bail he died of a drug OD at his parents house. lbpost.com/news/isaiah-...
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Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
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“Portlanders have exercised great restraint in the face of significant provocation,” U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said. “And they did it with joy and whimsy.”
An Oregon senator urged ICE protesters not to take Trump’s bait. It’s worked, so far
“Portlanders have exercised great restraint in the face of significant provocation,” U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said. “And they did it with joy and whimsy.”
www.oregonlive.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
“Portlanders have exercised great restraint in the face of significant provocation,” U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley said. “And they did it with joy and whimsy.”
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
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“A since-deleted video from 2019 shows MTG harassing @AOC's office through a locked door. Calling her ‘crazy eyes’ and telling her through the office's mailbox slot to ‘get rid of your diaper’ while telling the office to open the door and come out.” h/t @kfile.bsky.social … 1/
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November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“A since-deleted video from 2019 shows MTG harassing @AOC's office through a locked door. Calling her ‘crazy eyes’ and telling her through the office's mailbox slot to ‘get rid of your diaper’ while telling the office to open the door and come out.” h/t @kfile.bsky.social … 1/
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A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched more than 1,000 square miles of tree canopy.
2021 heat dome left Rhode Island-sized damage in Oregon’s, Washington’s western forests
A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched more than 1,000 square miles of tree canopy.
www.oregonlive.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 AM
A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched more than 1,000 square miles of tree canopy.
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News of clandestine book banning at Yosemite national Park. Against what else? A book about ecological decline with California waterways. Because this is somehow what the current admin opposes people learning about?
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Trump admin to ban book from Yosemite National Park, says author
The Trump administration's censorship directive has reportedly targeted Obi Kaufmann.
www.sfgate.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
News of clandestine book banning at Yosemite national Park. Against what else? A book about ecological decline with California waterways. Because this is somehow what the current admin opposes people learning about?
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
They’re all just looting the treasury now
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Release the Trump-Epstein files.
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Release the Trump-Epstein files.
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DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...