Colleen Garrity
@planetlove.bsky.social
I’m a geographer specializing in climate and geospatial analysis techniques. Generally interested in maintaining a habitable planet.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
August 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
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Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed
The “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.
www.motherjones.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.
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Happy 4th of July. 🍦
July 4, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Happy 4th of July. 🍦
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Update on our trip to Alligator Alcatraz. We are being denied access.
July 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Update on our trip to Alligator Alcatraz. We are being denied access.
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Trump's crypto holdings can be tough to track (I know, it's my job)—
💥 Tokens!
💥 Stablecoins!
💥 Memecoins!
💥 NFTs!
💥 Crypto reserves!
💥 Oh my!
Thanks so much to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for having me on this afternoon to break it down!
💥 Tokens!
💥 Stablecoins!
💥 Memecoins!
💥 NFTs!
💥 Crypto reserves!
💥 Oh my!
Thanks so much to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for having me on this afternoon to break it down!
American Conversations: Cryptocurrency in Politics with Zach Everson
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Trump's crypto holdings can be tough to track (I know, it's my job)—
💥 Tokens!
💥 Stablecoins!
💥 Memecoins!
💥 NFTs!
💥 Crypto reserves!
💥 Oh my!
Thanks so much to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for having me on this afternoon to break it down!
💥 Tokens!
💥 Stablecoins!
💥 Memecoins!
💥 NFTs!
💥 Crypto reserves!
💥 Oh my!
Thanks so much to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for having me on this afternoon to break it down!
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If. Soil. Dies. We. All. Die.
Treating this complex ecosystem like literal dirt is on track to be the deadliest mistake in the history of our species.
Treating this complex ecosystem like literal dirt is on track to be the deadliest mistake in the history of our species.
European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming
Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK
www.theguardian.com
May 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
If. Soil. Dies. We. All. Die.
Treating this complex ecosystem like literal dirt is on track to be the deadliest mistake in the history of our species.
Treating this complex ecosystem like literal dirt is on track to be the deadliest mistake in the history of our species.
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Peter Krékó, quoted here, has been doing great work.
Since 2011 or so, Hungary has been what is known as a “hybrid regime”—not a totalitarian dictatorship, but not a real democracy, either. Is the same thing happening in the U.S.?
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May 8, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Peter Krékó, quoted here, has been doing great work.
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I’ve seen this image for years but one thing it misses is white people don’t empathize with Black people either. To empathize you need to do perspective taking and see things from an angle that is not yours but that of the other regardless of if you agree with them and acknowledge them to 1/
May 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’ve seen this image for years but one thing it misses is white people don’t empathize with Black people either. To empathize you need to do perspective taking and see things from an angle that is not yours but that of the other regardless of if you agree with them and acknowledge them to 1/
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public health.
Former CDC staff warn of "a five alarm fire"
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public health.
www.npr.org
May 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has laid off thousands of workers since January. Current and former CDC staff are grappling with uncertainty about both their futures and public health.
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“You can’t fix what you don’t measure,” said Erin Sikorsky, the director of The Center for Climate and Security.
Thx @rdzombak.bsky.social for covering this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...
Thx @rdzombak.bsky.social for covering this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...
U.S. Government to Stop Tracking the Costs of Extreme Weather
www.nytimes.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“You can’t fix what you don’t measure,” said Erin Sikorsky, the director of The Center for Climate and Security.
Thx @rdzombak.bsky.social for covering this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...
Thx @rdzombak.bsky.social for covering this story.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...
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This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is horrible. I don't even know what to say. Some of our most key polar data.
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
"As a result, the level of services for affected products below will be reduced to Basic—meaning they will remain accessible but may not be actively maintained, updated, or fully supported."
nsidc.org/data/user-re...
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Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
May 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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Donold, you can’t be pope. The job requires humility, grace... and literacy skills.
May 3, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Donold, you can’t be pope. The job requires humility, grace... and literacy skills.
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“Do not mock us.”
May 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“Do not mock us.”
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GOOD RIDDANCE,,, well ya boy had The Time of His Life this weekend introducing Green Day for their headlining set at Coachella,!!!
April 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
GOOD RIDDANCE,,, well ya boy had The Time of His Life this weekend introducing Green Day for their headlining set at Coachella,!!!
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Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
www.npr.org
April 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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Forgotten but crucial history: “The members of Congress who wrote and passed the Clean Air Act were well aware of carbon dioxide, and they understood that it was a pollutant.” – Naomi Oreskes, historian of science at Harvard
The drafters of the Clean Air Act saw CO2 as a pollutant » Yale Climate Connections
Climate change and carbon dioxide came up regularly in ‘60s-era Congressional hearings, a team of Harvard historians has found.
yaleclimateconnections.org
April 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Forgotten but crucial history: “The members of Congress who wrote and passed the Clean Air Act were well aware of carbon dioxide, and they understood that it was a pollutant.” – Naomi Oreskes, historian of science at Harvard
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Geography lesson at today’s Pro-Due-Process rally.
April 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Geography lesson at today’s Pro-Due-Process rally.
Snake oil salesmen of the tramp regime.
This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.
The CFPB Has Been Gutted
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.
www.wired.com
April 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Snake oil salesmen of the tramp regime.
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
What a complete ass.
Corporate sponsors for the usually apolitical event held on the White House South Lawn include tech giants Meta, YouTube and Amazon.
White House solicits corporate sponsors for its Easter Egg Roll event
Corporate sponsors for the usually apolitical event held on the White House South Lawn include tech giants Meta, YouTube and Amazon.
www.npr.org
April 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What a complete ass.
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"Effective today, sources tell Science, NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff to program officers who oversaw the initial review. In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."
April 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"Effective today, sources tell Science, NSF’s division of grants & awards is returning all grant proposals previously approved for funding and awaiting final signoff to program officers who oversaw the initial review. In the meantime, according to those sources, NSF will not make any new awards."
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"For at least 600 yrs, residents marked the depth of winter by celebrating a natural phenomenon revered as the trail of a wandering god. But ...for the past 7 winters, the Miwatari has failed to appear because the lake didn’t freeze. This has happened only once before, half a millennium ago."
In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning (Gift Article)
For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"For at least 600 yrs, residents marked the depth of winter by celebrating a natural phenomenon revered as the trail of a wandering god. But ...for the past 7 winters, the Miwatari has failed to appear because the lake didn’t freeze. This has happened only once before, half a millennium ago."