@northcoaster.bsky.social
We can and must fix this. Failure is impossible.
“You’re only dancing on this earth for a short while” - Cat Stevens
Fiat Lux, Go Bears, On Wisconsin 🎶
“You’re only dancing on this earth for a short while” - Cat Stevens
Fiat Lux, Go Bears, On Wisconsin 🎶
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“This is not the time for resignation; it’s a time of heightened urgency”
Ahead of @weforum.org annual meeting #WEF26, PIK Director Johan #Rockström & Carlos Afonso Nobre @uspoficial.bsky.social highlight the importance of the 1.5C limit, naming 4 deciding factors.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
Ahead of @weforum.org annual meeting #WEF26, PIK Director Johan #Rockström & Carlos Afonso Nobre @uspoficial.bsky.social highlight the importance of the 1.5C limit, naming 4 deciding factors.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
It’s time to put scientific guidance at the heart of climate policy
Scientific consensus indicates that global warming has reached the 1.5°C threshold, requiring climate policy to shift from commitments to the rapid, science-aligned phase-out of fossil fuels.
www.weforum.org
January 16, 2026 at 10:20 AM
“This is not the time for resignation; it’s a time of heightened urgency”
Ahead of @weforum.org annual meeting #WEF26, PIK Director Johan #Rockström & Carlos Afonso Nobre @uspoficial.bsky.social highlight the importance of the 1.5C limit, naming 4 deciding factors.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
Ahead of @weforum.org annual meeting #WEF26, PIK Director Johan #Rockström & Carlos Afonso Nobre @uspoficial.bsky.social highlight the importance of the 1.5C limit, naming 4 deciding factors.
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
Addressing misconceptions about the Insurrection Act
(“Peaceful protestors are not “insurgents”—as any court asked to rule on the matter will quickly conclude”) by Robert Hubbell.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
(“Peaceful protestors are not “insurgents”—as any court asked to rule on the matter will quickly conclude”) by Robert Hubbell.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Addressing misconceptions about the Insurrection Act
January 16, 2025
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:26 AM
Addressing misconceptions about the Insurrection Act
(“Peaceful protestors are not “insurgents”—as any court asked to rule on the matter will quickly conclude”) by Robert Hubbell.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
(“Peaceful protestors are not “insurgents”—as any court asked to rule on the matter will quickly conclude”) by Robert Hubbell.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
A moment of calm - this newsletter today. Just one topic - evidence that cats have been leaving their mark on human writing endeavors for centuries!
open.substack.com/pub/daybreak...
open.substack.com/pub/daybreak...
What the Rest of the World Accomplished While Chaos Dominated the Headlines
Plus: Trump fails to stop renewables, Amsterdam gets sculpture garden, buttons return to cars where they belong, and democracy done differently
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:10 AM
A moment of calm - this newsletter today. Just one topic - evidence that cats have been leaving their mark on human writing endeavors for centuries!
open.substack.com/pub/daybreak...
open.substack.com/pub/daybreak...
“.. get the formal leaders of America to exercise their formal leadership and power.”
How to fight back effectively against Trump and his thugs. Robert Reich: How to Mobilize America Against Fascism open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Mobilize America Against Fascism
What you can do, beyond party politics
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:09 AM
“.. get the formal leaders of America to exercise their formal leadership and power.”
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“I will be blind for life.”
ICE fired a so-called “less-lethal” round and destroyed an 21-year-old activist’s eye, fracturing their skull. Doctors removed a nickel-sized piece of plastic; metal and glass were embedded in the skull. This is ICE violence.
ICE fired a so-called “less-lethal” round and destroyed an 21-year-old activist’s eye, fracturing their skull. Doctors removed a nickel-sized piece of plastic; metal and glass were embedded in the skull. This is ICE violence.
January 15, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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You may feel helpless — a powerless observer of this hurricane of violence. Please do not succumb to helplessness, despair, or fear. You are needed — desperately. Here are some things you can do. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mobilizing-america
January 15, 2026 at 4:06 PM
You may feel helpless — a powerless observer of this hurricane of violence. Please do not succumb to helplessness, despair, or fear. You are needed — desperately. Here are some things you can do. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mobilizing-america
“Our country has had its ups and downs, but no American has lived through anything like this before.”
Dan Rather’s substack, Steady, today:
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Dan Rather’s substack, Steady, today:
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Bird Brain
A heckler, an obscene gesture, and a new low for the president
open.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
“Our country has had its ups and downs, but no American has lived through anything like this before.”
Dan Rather’s substack, Steady, today:
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Dan Rather’s substack, Steady, today:
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Simply horrifying. The whole of DHS has got to be disbanded. We did just fine without them before.
January 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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Warning: Reports indicate immigration checkpoints along major interstates in Oklahoma, with Interstate 40 most impacted.
January 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Warning: Reports indicate immigration checkpoints along major interstates in Oklahoma, with Interstate 40 most impacted.
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I'm being subtle on the bus
January 14, 2026 at 8:57 AM
I'm being subtle on the bus
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NEW: The Bureau of Prisons won't explain why Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred to a cushy facility after she met with Deputy AG Todd Blanche. So we filed a FOIA request for documents on this—and now we're suing (thanks to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—@rcfp.org).
Mother Jones sues the Bureau of Prisons for Ghislaine Maxwell records
Why was Jeffrey Epstein's procurer transferred to a cushy prison?
www.motherjones.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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Since the dumbasses in Washington think Greenland is bigger than it really is, it seems appropriate to re-post this:
xkcd.com/977/
xkcd.com/977/
Map Projections
xkcd.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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A federal judge overturned an Interior Department order halting construction of a $6.2 billion offshore wind project serving New England on Monday, dealing a setback to King Trump’s attempts to shut down coastal wind projects.
Judge reverses Trump order halting Revolution Wind
Suspending the lease for the Orsted project off Connecticut and Rhode Island was "unreasonable," the federal judge ruled Monday.
www.politico.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
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The minority party does have power. And dems are not doing everything they could be doing.
This is a scholar and professor or resistance history, an author, and a previous staffer of the house and senate. Hes an expert in this area.
We need to demand more.
youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0?...
This is a scholar and professor or resistance history, an author, and a previous staffer of the house and senate. Hes an expert in this area.
We need to demand more.
youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0?...
Democrats say they can’t do anything because Republicans control Congress. Is that true?
YouTube video by Tad Stoermer
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 4:37 AM
The minority party does have power. And dems are not doing everything they could be doing.
This is a scholar and professor or resistance history, an author, and a previous staffer of the house and senate. Hes an expert in this area.
We need to demand more.
youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0?...
This is a scholar and professor or resistance history, an author, and a previous staffer of the house and senate. Hes an expert in this area.
We need to demand more.
youtu.be/1PwmiG7ABl0?...
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Please call your reps and tell them NOT to fund this government
Any Democratic votes to fund DHS later this month as Minneapolis is being terrorized by DHS is going to be a major slap in the face to Americans living here. Demand major reforms or shut the government down.
January 13, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Please call your reps and tell them NOT to fund this government
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Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now.
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
This Has Happened Before
Viola Liuzzo was 39 years old when she was murdered. It was March 25, 1965.
geneweingarten.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now.
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
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The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
January 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
The issue with ICE is not training, the issue with ICE is that it fundamentally should not exist. The violence is the purpose
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As a retired reading specialist I hear you loud and clear. It is much worse today than it was then.
21% of Americans are functionally illiterate, 54% can't read above the 6th grade level, 20% above 5th grade. It's part of why MAGA prevails.
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
21% of Americans are functionally illiterate, 54% can't read above the 6th grade level, 20% above 5th grade. It's part of why MAGA prevails.
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
As a retired reading specialist I hear you loud and clear. It is much worse today than it was then.
21% of Americans are functionally illiterate, 54% can't read above the 6th grade level, 20% above 5th grade. It's part of why MAGA prevails.
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
21% of Americans are functionally illiterate, 54% can't read above the 6th grade level, 20% above 5th grade. It's part of why MAGA prevails.
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
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Can’t write much about what I’m reading till we’re done on the judging of @womensprize.bsky.social for non fiction - but here’s something I wrote on Substack. The process helped me make sense of how much of my reading, and my life, has been shaped.
open.substack.com/pub/thangamd...
open.substack.com/pub/thangamd...
Why I can’t walk past a tiny second-hand bookshop: a romance
The first one set the template for this romance.
open.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Can’t write much about what I’m reading till we’re done on the judging of @womensprize.bsky.social for non fiction - but here’s something I wrote on Substack. The process helped me make sense of how much of my reading, and my life, has been shaped.
open.substack.com/pub/thangamd...
open.substack.com/pub/thangamd...
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“A crowd of hundreds also gathered at Ocean Beach in San Francisco to form a human banner spelling ‘IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT.’” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... #ICEOutForGood
January 10, 2026 at 11:02 PM
“A crowd of hundreds also gathered at Ocean Beach in San Francisco to form a human banner spelling ‘IT WAS MURDER — ICE OUT.’” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti... #ICEOutForGood
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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June 2025)
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June 2025)
Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...
www.propublica.org
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June 2025)
She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
(Published June 2025)
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We need to realize that we've been dropped into 1933 Germany and our challenge is to fight back and make it turn out differently this time.
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
We need to realize that we've been dropped into 1933 Germany and our challenge is to fight back and make it turn out differently this time.