Laura Hollister
@xenolith.bsky.social
Mother, Wife, Geoscientist, Feminist, & Educator. NAGT-TED Past President, 2009 OEST Recipient. BS /MS Env. Geoscience
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For decades, Kathy Jefferson Bancroft pushed agencies to see Owens Lake as a living place, not a technical problem.
Her work in California’s Owens Valley protected sacred sites and reframed water as something with memory, limits, and consequence.
Her work in California’s Owens Valley protected sacred sites and reframed water as something with memory, limits, and consequence.
Kathy Jefferson Bancroft, guardian of a stolen lake
In California’s interior, a long, straight aqueduct carries snowmelt south to a city that grew as if water were a birthright. Along the way it passes a valley that was once defined by water and…
news.mongabay.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
For decades, Kathy Jefferson Bancroft pushed agencies to see Owens Lake as a living place, not a technical problem.
Her work in California’s Owens Valley protected sacred sites and reframed water as something with memory, limits, and consequence.
Her work in California’s Owens Valley protected sacred sites and reframed water as something with memory, limits, and consequence.
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Segment with brave survivor Dani Bensky on the cover-up.
What keeps getting lost is how the decades of cover-up of Epstein's crimes is the experience of so many CSA and SA survivors--in that way it is not exceptional at all. Lifetimes of justice denied and perpetrators not held accountable. 🧵
What keeps getting lost is how the decades of cover-up of Epstein's crimes is the experience of so many CSA and SA survivors--in that way it is not exceptional at all. Lifetimes of justice denied and perpetrators not held accountable. 🧵
‘Incompetence is the strategy’: Epstein Survivor slams Justice Department over Epstein Files case
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Segment with brave survivor Dani Bensky on the cover-up.
What keeps getting lost is how the decades of cover-up of Epstein's crimes is the experience of so many CSA and SA survivors--in that way it is not exceptional at all. Lifetimes of justice denied and perpetrators not held accountable. 🧵
What keeps getting lost is how the decades of cover-up of Epstein's crimes is the experience of so many CSA and SA survivors--in that way it is not exceptional at all. Lifetimes of justice denied and perpetrators not held accountable. 🧵
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A new report reveals Trump's policies resulted in canceled investments and significant job losses, impacting economic stability and growth.
The United States sacrificed $35 billion in clean energy projects last year
A new report reveals Trump's policies resulted in canceled investments and significant job losses, impacting economic stability and growth.
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:33 PM
A new report reveals Trump's policies resulted in canceled investments and significant job losses, impacting economic stability and growth.
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i think they’re being overly optimistic regarding the canine literacy rate
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
i think they’re being overly optimistic regarding the canine literacy rate
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To celebrate Bookshop.org (US) now selling paperbacks & ebooks from trad & indie authors (& profit sharing w. indie stores😉)...
Authors: drop your book blurb, graphic & bookshop.org link! Affiliate links are welcome.
(If your ebooks via D2D aren't on Bookshop yet, bookmark this 🧵& add them later!)
Authors: drop your book blurb, graphic & bookshop.org link! Affiliate links are welcome.
(If your ebooks via D2D aren't on Bookshop yet, bookmark this 🧵& add them later!)
February 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
To celebrate Bookshop.org (US) now selling paperbacks & ebooks from trad & indie authors (& profit sharing w. indie stores😉)...
Authors: drop your book blurb, graphic & bookshop.org link! Affiliate links are welcome.
(If your ebooks via D2D aren't on Bookshop yet, bookmark this 🧵& add them later!)
Authors: drop your book blurb, graphic & bookshop.org link! Affiliate links are welcome.
(If your ebooks via D2D aren't on Bookshop yet, bookmark this 🧵& add them later!)
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1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
All the flags. ❤️
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM
All the flags. ❤️
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Good.
February 9, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Good.
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If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico
The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.
slate.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:59 AM
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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COVID literally makes people more stupid. How is this not still an emergency?
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
COVID infections are causing drops in IQ and years of brain aging, studies suggest | CBC Radio
Researchers are trying to understand the profound effects of COVID-19 on the brain, looking at how it disrupts the blood-brain barrier, how it affects brain volume, and showing that even a mild case o...
www.cbc.ca
February 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
COVID literally makes people more stupid. How is this not still an emergency?
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
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There are so many moments in a teaching day where you can either dart to your desk to try and tackle a long list of to-do's OR you can intentionally move through the classroom to check-in and build rapport.
The latter makes a real difference over time, but of course there is that to-do list still..
The latter makes a real difference over time, but of course there is that to-do list still..
February 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
There are so many moments in a teaching day where you can either dart to your desk to try and tackle a long list of to-do's OR you can intentionally move through the classroom to check-in and build rapport.
The latter makes a real difference over time, but of course there is that to-do list still..
The latter makes a real difference over time, but of course there is that to-do list still..
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Here is the spirit of the “neighborism” that is resisting Trumpism: Solidarity with those targeted by the regime is imperative. For we bear responsibility. We are not just all at risk. We are all implicated.
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Here is the spirit of the “neighborism” that is resisting Trumpism: Solidarity with those targeted by the regime is imperative. For we bear responsibility. We are not just all at risk. We are all implicated.
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
Outside a city council meeting, a woman held up a sign:
“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.”
Muppet theme song Academia Style! Read below. ☺️🤣
🎶It’s time to question methods
It’s time for petty fights🎶
It’s time for petty fights🎶
February 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Muppet theme song Academia Style! Read below. ☺️🤣
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Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!
February 8, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!
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Schiff on the SAVE Act: "Jonathan, what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud, and shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law?"
February 8, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Schiff on the SAVE Act: "Jonathan, what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud, and shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law?"
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This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10
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Sociology is the enemy of the powerful. That's why authoritarians always come for it.
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 7, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Sociology is the enemy of the powerful. That's why authoritarians always come for it.
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Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
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She simply refused to say anything else.
Ok, so what you're saying is you agree w/ the vilest things he says & does, & you think your silence will protect you.
Sorry. It doesn't.
We can have differences in actual political policy, not in human rights, especially when we can't even talk about it.
Ok, so what you're saying is you agree w/ the vilest things he says & does, & you think your silence will protect you.
Sorry. It doesn't.
We can have differences in actual political policy, not in human rights, especially when we can't even talk about it.
February 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
She simply refused to say anything else.
Ok, so what you're saying is you agree w/ the vilest things he says & does, & you think your silence will protect you.
Sorry. It doesn't.
We can have differences in actual political policy, not in human rights, especially when we can't even talk about it.
Ok, so what you're saying is you agree w/ the vilest things he says & does, & you think your silence will protect you.
Sorry. It doesn't.
We can have differences in actual political policy, not in human rights, especially when we can't even talk about it.
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I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s picks for a key autism panel include members who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.” One doesn't know why she was chosen. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include Advocates for Bizarre Theories
Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”
www.wired.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s picks for a key autism panel include members who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.” One doesn't know why she was chosen. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...
What a fun phenomena to use in teaching!
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February 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
What a fun phenomena to use in teaching!
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The end-goal of all of this is new Court ruling(s) requiring states to fund religious education if they fund secular public education (as all do).
They have the money to throw multiple cases and different legal theories at the Court.
Goal is first “may,” then “‘must.”
They have the money to throw multiple cases and different legal theories at the Court.
Goal is first “may,” then “‘must.”
Religious Charter Schools Push New Cases Toward Supreme Court: Advocates seeking to establish publicly funded religious schools in three states.
Religious Charter Schools Push New Cases Toward Supreme Court
Advocates seeking to establish publicly funded religious schools in three states.
www.edweek.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:30 PM
The end-goal of all of this is new Court ruling(s) requiring states to fund religious education if they fund secular public education (as all do).
They have the money to throw multiple cases and different legal theories at the Court.
Goal is first “may,” then “‘must.”
They have the money to throw multiple cases and different legal theories at the Court.
Goal is first “may,” then “‘must.”
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...
Under Trump, EPA’s Enforcement of Environmental Laws Collapses, Report Finds - Inside Climate News
Analysis of federal data by a nonprofit watchdog group found that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.
insideclimatenews.org
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...