Rudy Sovinee
@rudysovinee.bsky.social
Retired chemist, educator, entrepreneur living in a remote rural community. My wife and stepchildren practice permaculture in our yards while I study climate, energy and sustainability options. I'm frustrated by societal behavior that ignores best science.
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Rudy Sovinee
@rudysovinee.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Trends in November temperatures over land areas (where we live) for the last 50 years... 🔥
Data from NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)
Data from NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)
I celebrate political wins, yet caution that they won't last UNLESS they can stem the trends happening in climate.
Zack's many graphic posts point towards bigger storms, heat waves, and floods. Consequences will mount, leading to more deaths from crop failures, spread of tropical pests and diseases.
Zack's many graphic posts point towards bigger storms, heat waves, and floods. Consequences will mount, leading to more deaths from crop failures, spread of tropical pests and diseases.
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Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.
February 9, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.
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Private prison companies under contract with the U.S. government operate these detention facilities. Horrors follow
I ask you to consider what the mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died
Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.
I ask you to consider what the mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died
Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.
February 7, 2026
Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Private prison companies under contract with the U.S. government operate these detention facilities. Horrors follow
I ask you to consider what the mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died
Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.
I ask you to consider what the mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died
Because in his heart he knew, as we do, that we are all responsible for what happens in our community.
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Congress has the power to subpoena witnesses, hold public hearings, and establish an independent commission to review the Epstein files.
What remains unclear is whether lawmakers have the political will to use those tools.
What remains unclear is whether lawmakers have the political will to use those tools.
February 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Congress has the power to subpoena witnesses, hold public hearings, and establish an independent commission to review the Epstein files.
What remains unclear is whether lawmakers have the political will to use those tools.
What remains unclear is whether lawmakers have the political will to use those tools.
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There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state.
That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.
That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.
ICE Uses Disguises and Fake Plates for Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...
ground.news
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 AM
There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state.
That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.
That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.
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"In the las 50 yrs we have cut down 1/2 the world's forests & >75 million tons of topsoil have washed off these lands. Nothing in human history prepares us for the sheer speed at which the consequences of these actions are now rushing toward us." ~David Kelly (The Forest Unseen) #ForestFriday
August 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"In the las 50 yrs we have cut down 1/2 the world's forests & >75 million tons of topsoil have washed off these lands. Nothing in human history prepares us for the sheer speed at which the consequences of these actions are now rushing toward us." ~David Kelly (The Forest Unseen) #ForestFriday
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Could be the depositions he'd have to give under oath?
February 8, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Could be the depositions he'd have to give under oath?
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I don't want to hear a conservative talk about the "rule of law" ever again.
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I don't want to hear a conservative talk about the "rule of law" ever again.
This has all the hallmarks of the current administration’s broader war on publicly available information. Data.gov scrubbed of climate information. USAID websites vanishing completely (along with the agency). Government research going dark. The World Factbook is just the latest casualty of 47 policy
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 AM
This has all the hallmarks of the current administration’s broader war on publicly available information. Data.gov scrubbed of climate information. USAID websites vanishing completely (along with the agency). Government research going dark. The World Factbook is just the latest casualty of 47 policy
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Hansen 2/6/26: www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin... "The extreme warming will be a
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
February 7, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Hansen 2/6/26: www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin... "The extreme warming will be a
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
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We should focus on democracy and civil liberties as political issues "because our civil society will never recover if it can’t mobilize against an autocrat who tried to shatter the bedrock of American democracy." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ry65nB
It’s the Democracy, Stupid
It turns out voters care about rights and freedoms after all.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 AM
We should focus on democracy and civil liberties as political issues "because our civil society will never recover if it can’t mobilize against an autocrat who tried to shatter the bedrock of American democracy." lnk.thebulwark.com/4ry65nB
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From seizing voter data in Georgia to calling for federal control over state elections, Trump is escalating his attempt at political self preservation by subverting the upcoming election. Aware of growing public rejection of his cruel policies, he is focused on rewriting the rules to cling to power.
February 6, 2026 at 10:43 PM
From seizing voter data in Georgia to calling for federal control over state elections, Trump is escalating his attempt at political self preservation by subverting the upcoming election. Aware of growing public rejection of his cruel policies, he is focused on rewriting the rules to cling to power.
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SWORN TESTIMONY!!!
June 18, 2016
"I personally witnessed defendant trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to dissappear like the 12 year old female ⬛️⬛️⬛️ and that he was capable of having her whole family killed."
June 18, 2016
"I personally witnessed defendant trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to dissappear like the 12 year old female ⬛️⬛️⬛️ and that he was capable of having her whole family killed."
February 7, 2026 at 2:14 PM
SWORN TESTIMONY!!!
June 18, 2016
"I personally witnessed defendant trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to dissappear like the 12 year old female ⬛️⬛️⬛️ and that he was capable of having her whole family killed."
June 18, 2016
"I personally witnessed defendant trump telling the plaintiff that she shouldn't ever say anything if she didn't want to dissappear like the 12 year old female ⬛️⬛️⬛️ and that he was capable of having her whole family killed."
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A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade
The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.
www.democracydocket.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:59 PM
A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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NBC is editing out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post just laid off 300 journalists.
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February 7, 2026 at 2:24 PM
NBC is editing out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post just laid off 300 journalists.
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It's up to WE the People to stop this, the MAGA GOP Congress has given in to Trump. Fire them, ALL of them.
February 6, 2026 at 7:25 PM
It's up to WE the People to stop this, the MAGA GOP Congress has given in to Trump. Fire them, ALL of them.
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Arctic sea ice volume is at a record low for the time of year, as it has been for well over a year. The image shows Arctic sea ice volume through February 6, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/horr...
February 7, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Arctic sea ice volume is at a record low for the time of year, as it has been for well over a year. The image shows Arctic sea ice volume through February 6, 2026. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/horr...
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I Fully Support This Message…
February 6, 2026 at 3:03 AM
I Fully Support This Message…
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hansen 2/6/26: www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin... "The extreme warming will be a
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
February 7, 2026 at 5:21 AM
Hansen 2/6/26: www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailin... "The extreme warming will be a
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
result mainly of high climate sensitivity and a recent increase of the net global climate forcing" ... the observed acceleration
"implies that 2°C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury."
WP Motto: "Democracy Dies in Darkness" now happening
I've seen outrage expressed as reported by several commentators on corporate media. The independent voice of Democracy Now shares how callously Bezos fired 1/3 of his paper.
Thread below also shows how much media he, Musk, and Zuckerberg control.
I've seen outrage expressed as reported by several commentators on corporate media. The independent voice of Democracy Now shares how callously Bezos fired 1/3 of his paper.
Thread below also shows how much media he, Musk, and Zuckerberg control.
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM
WP Motto: "Democracy Dies in Darkness" now happening
I've seen outrage expressed as reported by several commentators on corporate media. The independent voice of Democracy Now shares how callously Bezos fired 1/3 of his paper.
Thread below also shows how much media he, Musk, and Zuckerberg control.
I've seen outrage expressed as reported by several commentators on corporate media. The independent voice of Democracy Now shares how callously Bezos fired 1/3 of his paper.
Thread below also shows how much media he, Musk, and Zuckerberg control.
New files show a 56 page draft sex trafficking indictment once readied, then discarded. Ari assembles it as a timeline.
The DOJ redacted more than the Epstein law demanded. A House Committee starts seeing the unredacted files next week. What will happen once these files are viewed by politicians?
The DOJ redacted more than the Epstein law demanded. A House Committee starts seeing the unredacted files next week. What will happen once these files are viewed by politicians?
February 7, 2026 at 2:27 AM
New files show a 56 page draft sex trafficking indictment once readied, then discarded. Ari assembles it as a timeline.
The DOJ redacted more than the Epstein law demanded. A House Committee starts seeing the unredacted files next week. What will happen once these files are viewed by politicians?
The DOJ redacted more than the Epstein law demanded. A House Committee starts seeing the unredacted files next week. What will happen once these files are viewed by politicians?
The US NE is in an extended winter blast. Lake Erie is 95% covered in ice. 100% ice hasn't been seen since 1996.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/vid...
Warmer weather is already in the western states and arriving in the eastern states this week.
Global temps still averaging warmer, despite US NE experience.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/vid...
Warmer weather is already in the western states and arriving in the eastern states this week.
Global temps still averaging warmer, despite US NE experience.
February 7, 2026 at 1:26 AM
The US NE is in an extended winter blast. Lake Erie is 95% covered in ice. 100% ice hasn't been seen since 1996.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/vid...
Warmer weather is already in the western states and arriving in the eastern states this week.
Global temps still averaging warmer, despite US NE experience.
abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/vid...
Warmer weather is already in the western states and arriving in the eastern states this week.
Global temps still averaging warmer, despite US NE experience.
Besides Marc's battles support states rights before the elections, there are mounting reports / comments/ leaks surrounding what Trump is planning during the election. He says he wants to federalize them, he wants to send ICE to the polls (explicitly illegal) ... and now this leak:
February 7, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Besides Marc's battles support states rights before the elections, there are mounting reports / comments/ leaks surrounding what Trump is planning during the election. He says he wants to federalize them, he wants to send ICE to the polls (explicitly illegal) ... and now this leak: