Robin Stanton
@robinstanton.bsky.social
Retired. Seattle. Pro nature, pro water, pro planet. Pacific Northwest of the contiguous United States is my home
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Listened to this @volts.wtf banger this last night and it's wild just how incredible the rate of return is for improving indoor air quality in schools.
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Listened to this @volts.wtf banger this last night and it's wild just how incredible the rate of return is for improving indoor air quality in schools.
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
Where is California at with this? Do we have policy levers we can pull at the state level?
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“The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don’t know if I accept everything even now. I don’t know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there’s defiance in that, too.”
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
November 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don’t know if I accept everything even now. I don’t know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there’s defiance in that, too.”
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
— @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
The whole planet is now AREA X.
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it's uncomfortable to recognize how much of the american liberal/progressive tradition is intertwined with white supremacy and the genocide of native americans but it absolutely was, and just because jackson was not a progressive in the modern racial justice sense doesnt change what he represented
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it's uncomfortable to recognize how much of the american liberal/progressive tradition is intertwined with white supremacy and the genocide of native americans but it absolutely was, and just because jackson was not a progressive in the modern racial justice sense doesnt change what he represented
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Rev. Bates-Chamberlain: Once ICE came in on their rampage, you literally had mass agents kidnapping people off the streets. It felt like you were in a horror movie, but this was a real occurrence happening in the United States in 2025.
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Rev. Bates-Chamberlain: Once ICE came in on their rampage, you literally had mass agents kidnapping people off the streets. It felt like you were in a horror movie, but this was a real occurrence happening in the United States in 2025.
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This would have been a great idea, but the White House theater was located in the East Wing…and alas, it’s gone.
The White House needs to screen the new film Nuremberg for Donald.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This would have been a great idea, but the White House theater was located in the East Wing…and alas, it’s gone.
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Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
November 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.
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Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Remember a few weeks ago when Trump brought in a couple bulldozers and demolished about a third of the White House? That was weird.
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Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
The Trump Admin’s War on Data Is Compromising Major Health Advancements for Black Americans
Thanks to a 2009 medical breakthrough, researchers could be on the precipice...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Really important article about how the White House's anti-DEI crusade is cutting off data for new potential breakthroughs for African-Americans who disproportionately suffer from end-stage kidney disease. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
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Chat the team behind this are my friends and we’ve been working to produce a cultural outcry about children abducted by russia, written as a traditional Ukrainian mother’s lullaby to a child who is no longer with her
November 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Chat the team behind this are my friends and we’ve been working to produce a cultural outcry about children abducted by russia, written as a traditional Ukrainian mother’s lullaby to a child who is no longer with her
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Also I must mention that during the production our office got hit with a missile and we were working without windows which only added to the atmosphere
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Also I must mention that during the production our office got hit with a missile and we were working without windows which only added to the atmosphere
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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This is QUITE a big-if-true. While I'm pretty sure that Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche hate Martin and Pulte, the big guy loves them. But it would be really funny if Trump turned against Pulte for getting him to propose 50-year mortgages, which was universally panned.
www.ms.now/news/grand-j...
www.ms.now/news/grand-j...
Grand jury investigating potential misconduct in probes of Trump critics
A federal grand jury is investigating whether Bill Pulte and Ed Martin improperly appointed unauthorized people to help in mortgage fraud investigations of President Donald Trump’s critics.
www.ms.now
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This is QUITE a big-if-true. While I'm pretty sure that Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche hate Martin and Pulte, the big guy loves them. But it would be really funny if Trump turned against Pulte for getting him to propose 50-year mortgages, which was universally panned.
www.ms.now/news/grand-j...
www.ms.now/news/grand-j...
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Write like no one will read it.
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
November 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Write like no one will read it.
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
Edit like everyone will quote it.
You'll be unstoppable! 🚀
#WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmEditing #BookSky #WriteSky
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Anyway, back to cats.
President Dr. Doolitle, Calvin Coolidge, gave the president of the National Press Club his bird because it was friends with the NPC president's cat.
loc.gov/item/2016862...
President Dr. Doolitle, Calvin Coolidge, gave the president of the National Press Club his bird because it was friends with the NPC president's cat.
loc.gov/item/2016862...
TIMMONS, MRS. BASCOM N.
1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller | Photograph shows a cat named Timmie owned by Bascom N. Timmons, journalist and president of the National Press Club; with a canary named Caruso which belon...
loc.gov
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Researchers recently discovered that Lead Poisoning may have hastened the decline of the Roman Empire and led to a 2 to 3 point drop in IQ over the next 2 centuries throughout Europe. Romans came into contact via mining for lead, smelting lead for Silver, and lining their pots, coins and water pipes
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Researchers recently discovered that Lead Poisoning may have hastened the decline of the Roman Empire and led to a 2 to 3 point drop in IQ over the next 2 centuries throughout Europe. Romans came into contact via mining for lead, smelting lead for Silver, and lining their pots, coins and water pipes
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Traces of saffron have been found in cave paintings in Iran dated 50,000 years ago, meaning they were growing / harvesting crocus flowers at least that long ago. (!)
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Traces of saffron have been found in cave paintings in Iran dated 50,000 years ago, meaning they were growing / harvesting crocus flowers at least that long ago. (!)
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My favorite bit of trivia is this, and if you already know it, I find it’s always great to hear it again. As a child in rural France, Andre the Giant was too big to fit on the little country school bus. So his neighbor, Samuel Becket!!!, would take Andre to school in his pick-up truck!
November 21, 2025 at 2:58 AM
My favorite bit of trivia is this, and if you already know it, I find it’s always great to hear it again. As a child in rural France, Andre the Giant was too big to fit on the little country school bus. So his neighbor, Samuel Becket!!!, would take Andre to school in his pick-up truck!
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Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
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Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
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New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell”
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks
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Elephant brain scans have suggested that they think we humans are cute in the same way we react to a puppy or kitten.
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Elephant brain scans have suggested that they think we humans are cute in the same way we react to a puppy or kitten.
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by the washington post editorial board 👇
“The HHS secretary pulls the CDC website into his fantasyland.”
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | RFK Jr. breaks yet another promise
The HHS secretary pulls the CDC website into his fantasyland.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
by the washington post editorial board 👇
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The cost. 1 of 2/
In Ternopil Olena Unolt, mother of two daughters, a hairdresser, was killed in the russian missile strike on the city on November 19, 2025.
Her daughters, Adriana (7th grade) and Eva (10th grade), are in intensive care in critical condition.
Her daughters, Adriana (7th grade) and Eva (10th grade), are in intensive care in critical condition.
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The cost. 1 of 2/