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peregrine kate (she/her)
@peregrinekate.bsky.social
cat lady, Democratic PD, gardener, birder, mother, grandmother, recovering academic (UMich Am Cult PhD), TNG-CWA member, climate justice activist, local TEC admin, Third Act MI co-fac (roles not ranked). #ShutDownLine5 #WaterIsLife #OldAndBold
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
For folks in #Michigan We have a great opportunity to intervene in this vicious cycle! Petition signers & circulators are needed urgently; see website for how to participate.

MopUpMichigan.org
@michiganmop.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I love this for them.
Isn't it so weird to deeply know in your bones something obvious with no equivocation, for years and years, and then to one day see articles about people wondering if maybe the incredibly obvious thing you've known this whole time might be happening, as if the media is discovering it now??
“This is total armageddon for the online right. It’s looking like half of their large accounts were foreigners posing as Americans all along.”
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Drought is climate change's greatest threat. An attribution study by www.worldweatherattribution.org found this year's Iran drought was a 1-in-10-year event; this would have been a 1-in-50 to 1-in-100-year event without human-caused climate change. President of Iran says they will move the capital.
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yeah!
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A notable example of this regime’s intent to act as a racist, sexist, eugenicist death cult—whose harmful work continues.
The thing about DOGE is it accomplished neither its ostensible nor actual goals but did manage to cause a couple of holocausts worth of deaths internationally.

And the media finds none of those three things particularly notable.
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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To Kennedy, we’re the disease and he’s the cure.

He *knows vaccines don’t cause autism*, but he also knows he needs a rationale for pursuing the goal of “purifying” the nation.

A THREAD.
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
💯💯💯💯💯 Pure pillage. It did what it was intended to do. There is honestly no punishment commensurate with the harm this regime has caused in every arena. But we had better try, regardless, to hold them all accountable.
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Short-term disappearances necessarily precede long-term ones. They are also still enforced disappearances, because the definition does not Include a temporal element. Here’s the legal definition below. We all need to start calling things what they are.
November 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Scandalous misrepresentation
And yet again, the NYT editors choose to whitewash what's happening. "Reshape" environmental policy, indeed.
While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
November 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Latest comic: Climate Silence
November 22, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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This is fantastic news for the people of Alabama.

@dougjones.bsky.social is a special kind of person. He will fight for his constituents . Alabama will be fortunate to have him as their Governor .

He helped take on one of the biggest insurance companies in the country . Story for another time.
Breaking: Doug Jones is officially running for Governor of Alabama — confirmed today on The V today!
November 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Some things remain timely! Thanks to YDL staff @ Michigan Avenue, especially Aaron Smith, for making this happen. ☀️ @third-act-michigan.bsky.social
☀️ Some bright ideas deserve their moment in the sun! From practical solar solutions to climate science deep-dives, this display at our downtown branch (created with Third Act Michigan) proves that every day is a good day to power up your environmental knowledge.
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Lovely
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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To give you an idea about just how eventful the end of COP30 was, I wrote and rewrote this entire 2000 story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social three times over a period of about six hours as it was all happening.
COP-tastrophe: How the COP of Implementation, Truth, Forests, and Indigenous Peoples Failed on All Counts
COP30 began full of promise but ended as yet another reminder that the mechanism for global climate governance is broken.
drilled.media
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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As @mzjacobson.bsky.social says, there are no miracles needed. We have almost all the tech required to address human-caused climate change. But @doctorvive.bsky.social is right. We need the courage to deploy those technologies as rapidly as possible. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.iea.org/reports/worl...
Setting the scene – World Energy Outlook 2025 – Analysis - IEA
World Energy Outlook 2025 - Analysis and key findings. A report by the International Energy Agency.
www.iea.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 Not easy, no. But the solutions are more political than technical.
Btw food systems are the #2 driver of climate change, fix food and fix fuel and we are good on multiple fronts
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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As many of the ppl as possible doing these atrocities need to be utterly ruined, if we want to still have a goddamn country.

I mean *ruined*. Felony convictions. In cases like this, charges for abusing a minor. Finances destroyed.

We lay waste to ppl like this, or they will bring ruin upon *you*.
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Ay Yai Yai.
“the scale of suffering is still very much up to us. We still have the ability to minimise overshoot. The best science can offer today, is a future where peak warming reaches 1.7°C before returning to within 1.5°C in 75 years”
Your 'moment of doom' for Nov. 22, 2025 ~ And I am telling you.

"This translates to existential risks for billions of people. Not far in the future, but within the next few years for extreme events, and within decades for tipping points."

theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Consequences to the max in acknowledgment of the *many thousands* of lives lost due to their malfeasance! The MAGA GOP and the DOGE project they supported are a racist, sexist, eugenicist death cult.
This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law.

There must be consequences.
Some incredible details in this piece
*one DOGE faction was planning the future of the US government at a venture capital firm
*illegally communicating on Signal to avoid transparency laws was deeply embedded into organizational culture to be taken for granted
November 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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For those of us participating in the #WeAintBuyingIt boycott of Amazon, Home Depot, and Target, in addition to the ongoing boycotts of #TMobile and #Tesla, here are some ideas for places to get great gifts from independent businesses.

1) We Ain't Buying It.

weaintbuyingit.com#get-involved
We Ain’t Buying It! - Economic Pressure on Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday - We Ain’t Buying It!
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power.
weaintbuyingit.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM