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Patrick Waeber
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Scientist, conservationist, and activist exploring the intersections of nature, society, and sustainability. Passionate about diversity, complexity, and the beauty of change. Big fan of forests and their untold stories. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡²πŸ‡¬πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ .. more

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 15h
Bravo
'This is about racism': Texas Rep. Ann Johnson's blunt message to GOP over redistricting
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Patrick O. Waeber, W Grant , and 1 more

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Β· 1d
Martin Luther King Jr. understood better than almost anyone that racial justice and economic justice are inextricably intertwined. Watch his powerful call to end poverty from his final Sunday Sermon.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 2d
Wonderful

#Nature
#Wildlife
#Diversity
Week in wildlife: monkey spa day, a frisky kākāpō and a camouflaged owl
This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world
www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 2d
FIFA worrying about human rights now? Please. Corruption loves power, power loves impunity.
Perfect match with the Trump regime.

Bonus: ICE will completely short-circuit when stadiums suddenly fill with actual global diversity.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 2d
The mask slipped.

This is what contempt for democracy sounds like.

Sickening.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 2d
Undermining vaccines from inside government is not debate.
It’s institutionalized irresponsibility.
Dangerous. Reckless. Familiar.

#1933
#Gleichschaltung #ScienceUnderAuthoritarianism
#TrumpRegime
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of β€œquestionable research practices” asΒ RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a β€œfunding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 2d
"Sunday thought: It's time again for good trouble"
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought: It's time again for good trouble
Time to take action against Trump's mayhem
open.substack.com

Reposted by Marc Gopin, Patrick O. Waeber, Deborah M. Kolb

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George Conway βš–οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ @gtconway.bsky.social Β· 2d

Reposted by Patrick O. Waeber

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Β· 3d
Everyone with authority must speak out now against Trump's depravity and lawlessness.

Every Democratic leader.

Every university, professional association, charity, and foundation head.

Every CEO.

Every religious leader.

If they don't, history will condemn their cowardice and complicity.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
This isn’t a capacity problem. It’s a choice.
They can fix the insurance crisis they caused. They don’t want to.
Foreign adventures distract from domestic failure and protect interests that profit from the status quo.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
uff!

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Key point, and it matters:
Vladimir Putin doesn’t need Americans to agree with him.
He just needs them to turn on each other and lose faith in shared rules.

Reposted by Patrick A. Jansen, Anne Norton, Patrick O. Waeber , and 1 more

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Β· 11d
Masked government agents are killing people in the streets, abducting people from their homes in the middle of the night, and arresting those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Yes, the real tragedy here is clearly the pronouns. Not the killing. Glad we cleared that up.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Yup. Impunity for the powerful. Force for everyone else.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
This is why documentation matters now. Document everything. Names, timelines, footage, witnesses, vantage points. Even if there is no accountability today. Regimes end. Records remain. Justice, healing, and legitimacy begin with evidence. #AugeSeiWachsam #NieWieder
They Didn’t Come to Protect Minneapolis. They Came to Provoke It.
A woman is dead after an encounter with ICE agents in Minneapolis, and the rush to justify it tells us everything about where this country is headed β€” toward provocation, federalized force, and invest
open.substack.com

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
As an outsider, voting is the only real lever I can point to.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Agreed. Voting is leverage. Protest is pressure. Narrative is power. Use all three.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Then vote. That’s how this ends. I’m not from the US. I can only watch, and it’s deeply troubling.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
It’s lawless precisely because they claim to be the law. Legislature bootlicks. Executive brutalizes. Judiciary looks away. That’s not rule of law. It’s its collapse.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
this is exactly the problem with this regime. incompetence trumps everything. sycophants acting to push the presidents agenda. authocracy chapter 2: spin your narrative. dominate the narrative.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 12d
Walz: "It's beyond me that apparently from the federal government, the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person who, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. We're not living in a normal world."

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Federal agents. Masked. Unmarked. Brutal.
Could be Russia. Could be Uzbekistan. Could be Iran. Could be China. Could be Angola.
That’s the problem.
#ICE #Autocracy

Reposted by Richard F. Catalano, Patrick O. Waeber

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 11d
Really good video breakdown of the shooting of Renee Good illustrating that yes, this was cold blooded murder by an ICE agent.
Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
An analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire.
www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBA1...
'The truth matters here': Minneapolis mayor REJECTS Trump narrative on deadly ICE shooting
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
vote vote vote vote them out!

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Yes. And. Abolish the Trump regime. Its sycophants. Its spineless enablers. Its cynical profiteers. Nothing less.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
....and the distorting of facts is underway

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
Ice receding is not climate change. It is a geopolitical threat.

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Patrick Waeber @powaeber.bsky.social Β· 11d
From outside the US, I am appalled and disgusted. This regime shows open contempt for democratic values. For people. Citizens must vote it out entirely, and fast. Democracy cannot wait. #Venezuela #ICE #DefendDemocracy #RuleOfLaw #VoteThemOut

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Charles W. Smith, Patrick O. Waeber , and 1 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Β· 12d
Walz: "It's beyond me that apparently from the federal government, the Homeland Security director herself, has already determined who this person who, what their motive was, and they hadn't even been taken out of the vehicle. We're not living in a normal world."