Scott Mattoon
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Scott Mattoon
@dwnstrm.bsky.social
Asking: What happens downstream?
Standing for rugged collectivism
Geospatial-California Naturalist
Sierra Club Volunteer Leader
Former Salesforce/Sun/NeXT
It's all here, just not evenly distributed
Imagine congress undoing the 22nd amendment’s presidential term limit, and then Obama runs. 🎶
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A sane DOJ would say it intends to fully comply with the law regarding the exercise of First Amendment rights.

This DOJ is not sane.
November 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Wouldn’t it be easier to make federal law enforcement take off their masks and follow the law?
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
It's no coincidence that the Rights of Nature fight over the Klamath was also an Indigenous Rights struggle. Water protectors everywhere have a long deep connection to their local waters.
October 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Fish were the catalyst to undam. In 2002 a devastating kill off of Chinook salmon woke up a movement to say *no more* ignoring the failing health of the Klamath because of the dams.
October 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Groundwater is not just an ag input. It's also necessary for wetland habitat, insurance against drought, and a buoy that keeps towns out of flood zones.
October 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposted by Scott Mattoon
Consumer-facing "A.i." makes up lies, reproduces the bigotry of its inputs, degrades the cognitive abilities of its users, and can be manipulated by its billionaire owners to reflect their biases. It's also based on theft and destroys the environment. It should have NO role in the classroom.
July 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Reposted by Scott Mattoon
I've listened to folks for years now go on about how 'the government is going take away everyone's gun'. The irony is that those same folks always assumed that it would be the Democrats when the reality is that an authoritarian Republican party was always the more likely to do so.
October 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The molecules may be safe for human health at doses used on crops, but this BigAg PR piece ignores the serious problem of control exerted over the world’s food system by Bayer, which ruthlessly enforces its hegemony over farmers forever trapped on the Roundup treadmill.
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM