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Beth Elder
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Care for our earth 🌍🌎🌏 and everything on it.
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MASS WORLD PROTESTS THREAD:👇🧵

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

While 90% of media (owned by 6 billionaires) were focusing on getting teachers fired for calling Kirk a nazi… there were mass protests all over the world!

Did you hear about any of them?

I dug up some videos:👇🧵
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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The rampant rise in free-speech censorship, fueled by Trump, should alarm all Americans, no matter their politics. Jen Rubin offers seven concrete ways to push back against this assault on the First Amendment.
Talking Points Won’t Cut It
How to respond to a massive campaign of censorship and oppression
contrarian.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.
The Future Is Coming and It's (Literally) Sunny: Notes on the Solar Revolution
I drove home to San Francisco from New Mexico last weekend, and in the western Mojave desert of California I passed in quick succession three vast renewable energy sites: the first was three solar con...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Trump's insane beef with clean energy is going to wreck both planet and economy
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
How Long Will Trump Be Able to Deny Reality with His Energy Policy?
The Administration’s irrational dislike of solar and wind energy imperils both the environment and the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The White House is set to allocate 75% of refugee admissions to white South Africans.

The only way to understand this is through the lens that American segregation, South African apartheid, and Nazism are interconnected—white supremacists learn and evolve, and now they occupy the U.S. government.
White House Reportedly Set To Allocate 75% Of All Refugee Admissions To White South Africans
The White House is expected to prioritize white South Africans when allocating refugee admissions, according to a new report
www.latintimes.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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It's monday... the start of a new week. You gotta send at least 1 letter. This one is great. Its gonna take 15 seconds for you to DO SOMETHING today!
🖋️ “Protect our National Parks” hit 1,000 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PRVMCQ to 50409
Protect our National Parks
Text SIGN PRVMCQ to 50409 — Our nation's public lands are an irreplaceable treasure that must be fiercely protected for current and future generations. However, Congress is failing in its duty, proposing reckless budget cuts that would slash over $176 million from the National Park Service's already diminished funding. This is unacceptable. The parks' very existence is now imperiled by dilapidated infrastructure, insufficient staffing of rangers and scientists, and a crippling inability to address environmental threats like wildfires and invasive species. Shrinking budgets have forced an alarming shift towards mere façade management, with dwindling resources diverted to superficial visitor amenities while critical conservation work grinds to a halt. Yellowstone's famous thermal features are being neglected. Joshua Tree's iconic trees are dying at accelerated rates. Yosemite's very geology is buckling under increased visitor traffic. These crown jewels of our national heritage are deteriorating before our eyes. Congress must realize that budgetary bandaids will not suffice - a complete reversal of these self-destructive policies is urgently required. Fully restore NPS funding to allow robust environmental protections, scientific research, infrastructure maintenance, and adequate staffing levels before catastrophic damage is inflicted upon our nation's most treasured natural wonders.
resist.bot
August 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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An energy revolution is underway in this century, though it’s unfolded in ways slow enough and technical enough for most people not to notice (and I assume it’s nowhere near finished). It is astonishing – a powerful solution to the climate crisis... [Wrote it a while ago; came out yesterday.]
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology | Rebecca Solnit
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Trump is laying the groundwork for a pardon of Ghislaine Maxwell, pretending that she's a reliable informant on Epstein and not his literal partner-in-crime, so it's probably worth recirculating the facts:

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of federal sex trafficking charges for role in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses
The jury weighed evidence from about 30 witnesses over 3 weeks who alleged the British socialite played a pivotal part in recruiting teenage girls for sex with Epstein.
www.nbcnews.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.
July 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Not funny, but true: All tyrants eventually fall. But after that happens, the people and institutions that bowed down to them will never regain their reputations.
July 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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After the Paramount-Skydance merger, CBS will now officially become state media for the Trump regime.

Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FCC, said the government is placing “an ombudsman in place for two years,” which he described as “basically a bias monitor that will report directly to the President.”
FCC to Appoint a Babysitter to Make Sure CBS Isn't Anti-Trump
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr says CBS will have a
gizmodo.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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bsky.app/profile/hcri...

Emmett Till was born 84 years ago today. He was 14 when he was murdered—his killers walked free.

In 2025, ICE agents tased a man and said, “We’re gonna end up shooting some of them.” They arrested the teen who filmed it.

Not again. Not here. Not in our name.
July 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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🖋️ “Senate vote July 28, vote no for Emil Bove, disbar him instead” hit 100 signers!

💬 Text SIGN PNMEZJ to 50409
Senate vote July 28, vote no for Emil Bove, disbar him instead
Text SIGN PNMEZJ to 50409 — Emil Bove's nomination as a federal appeals court judge should be rejected due to his disturbing track record of unethical conduct and blatant disregard for the rule of law. As acting deputy attorney general, Bove weaponized the Department of Justice for political retaliation, ordering the firing of Jan. 6 prosecutors and threatening to purge the FBI when they challenged the Trump administration's unlawful agenda. Even more egregiously, the New York Times reported that Bove directed DOJ officials to "ignore" court orders interfering with the administration's policy of deporting immigrants to foreign prisons - a flagrant violation of judicial authority. Bove's complicity in defying court rulings and enabling the Trump administration's unconstitutional overreach demonstrates his unfitness to serve on the federal bench. Over 900 former DOJ lawyers have penned a letter opposing Bove's confirmation precisely because his actions contradict the integrity expected of federal judges. Granting Bove a lifetime appointment would only further erode public trust in an independent judiciary upholding equality under the law. The Senate must uphold its constitutional duty as a co-equal branch of government and block this unacceptable nomination. Confirming an individual so overtly disdainful of judicial oversight would be an endorsement of authoritarianism over democratic values. Bove's conduct has clearly shown he lacks the impartiality and commitment to justice required of federal judges. I urge you to vote against his confirmation when it comes before the full Senate on July 28th.
resist.bot
July 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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POV: You see right through the BS and know Abbott is too scared to stand up to Trump—so instead, he’s trying to hand Texas over on a silver platter by rigging the maps to keep his party in power.
July 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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When you strip away humanity
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Zohran Mamdani stunned former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded the New York City mayoral primary race to the 33-year-old state lawmaker. trib.al/KfNebEQ
June 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Where did all the Jan. 6 criminals end up? ICE ICE Baby. They are ready to smash some faces now they have badges on.
June 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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GOP proposes surrendering future to China

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/c...
A Clean Energy Boom Was Just Starting. Now, a Republican Bill Aims to End It.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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At @thirdactorg.bsky.social some of us are old enough to remember when Richard Nixon almost lost his job as veep for a $16,000 slush fund and the gift of a cocker spaniel puppy. I guess with inflation we’ve gotten to a $400 million plane…
May 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Of course all the Cardinals and priests are men, but it is more insidious than the Catholics.
Gender of Divinity
Anti-feminine bias is hard-coded into cultural concepts of God, even in AI art.
open.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM