Emily Norton
@emnorton.bsky.social
Charles River Watershed Association Executive Director. Former Newton MA City Councilor. Mom of 3 boys & 2 cats. Opinions expressed on this platform are mine mine mine. #WaterIsLife
GOOD NEWS FOR THE CHARLES!
The MWRA has backed off, for now, thanks to the thousands of people who reached out to say HELL NO to their plan to dump MORE sewage into the river.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/m...
The fight is far from over. Please sign petition at CutTheCrapCharles.org
The MWRA has backed off, for now, thanks to the thousands of people who reached out to say HELL NO to their plan to dump MORE sewage into the river.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/m...
The fight is far from over. Please sign petition at CutTheCrapCharles.org
After an outcry from clean water advocates, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s board has tabled an upcoming vote on a proposal to allow the continued release of sewage overflows into the Charles River.
MWRA board tables vote on Charles River sewage proposal, environmental group says - The Boston Globe
Officials have worked for decades to stem the periodic release of street runoff and sewage overflows into the Charles.
trib.al
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
GOOD NEWS FOR THE CHARLES!
The MWRA has backed off, for now, thanks to the thousands of people who reached out to say HELL NO to their plan to dump MORE sewage into the river.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/m...
The fight is far from over. Please sign petition at CutTheCrapCharles.org
The MWRA has backed off, for now, thanks to the thousands of people who reached out to say HELL NO to their plan to dump MORE sewage into the river.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/14/m...
The fight is far from over. Please sign petition at CutTheCrapCharles.org
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Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Every day there are multiple instances of blatant corruption. Our government policy is for sale to the highest bidder and every bad actor in the world knows it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...
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Well, well, well. It turns out more voters blame fossil fuels than renewable energy for high electricity prices—and the most voters, correctly, blame utilities.
So if they promote more fossil fuels to lower costs, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, Dems will fail to campaign on voters' *actual* positions.
So if they promote more fossil fuels to lower costs, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, Dems will fail to campaign on voters' *actual* positions.
![Voters Most Blame Utility Companies for Higher Electric
Utility Bills
Who or what do you think is most responsible for higher electric utility bills?
Utility companies increasing profits 38%
Increased energy demand from new industries (like Al) %14
Extreme weather events causing higher energy demand 11%
Aging or inadequate energy infrastructure 10%
Foreign conflicts limiting energy supply 9%
Increased reliance on fossil fuels 8%
Increased reliance on wind and solar energy 5%
Something else [please specify] 5%
September 19-22, 2025 survey of 1,361 U.S. likely voters
DATA FOR PROGRESS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xalxqffcayyidntafmptzhta/bafkreihgf6guuz7xvkxnw6pr4e3bfyl6xwkmtmavn5pcyn7md4czj7i2qu@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Well, well, well. It turns out more voters blame fossil fuels than renewable energy for high electricity prices—and the most voters, correctly, blame utilities.
So if they promote more fossil fuels to lower costs, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, Dems will fail to campaign on voters' *actual* positions.
So if they promote more fossil fuels to lower costs, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, Dems will fail to campaign on voters' *actual* positions.
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Under Trump, America has backed away from efforts to combat climate change. For the first time in 30 years, no Americans will attend The U.N. summit on climate. Guess who is now the renewable energy leader? CHINA. So much for Making America Great Again! #Trump
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Under Trump, America has backed away from efforts to combat climate change. For the first time in 30 years, no Americans will attend The U.N. summit on climate. Guess who is now the renewable energy leader? CHINA. So much for Making America Great Again! #Trump
Happy #VeteransDay to all who served. Thank you for your service to our country 🙏🏼🇺🇸
#NewtonMA commemorating today starting at 11am
#NewtonMA commemorating today starting at 11am
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy #VeteransDay to all who served. Thank you for your service to our country 🙏🏼🇺🇸
#NewtonMA commemorating today starting at 11am
#NewtonMA commemorating today starting at 11am
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'With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy"
By @noosarowiwa.bsky.social (whose travel books are also amazing)
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
By @noosarowiwa.bsky.social (whose travel books are also amazing)
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
My father, Ken Saro-Wiwa, died fighting for a clean Nigeria. Thirty years on it’s time to stop sucking on the dirty teat of the oil cash cow | Noo Saro-Wiwa
In 1995, as one of the Ogoni Nine, he was hanged after protesting against Shell’s oil pollution. With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
'With education and a move towards renewable energy, we can honour his legacy"
By @noosarowiwa.bsky.social (whose travel books are also amazing)
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
By @noosarowiwa.bsky.social (whose travel books are also amazing)
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Horrific story of what happened to a man and his family trying to protect a rainforest in the Congo
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
DRC's mangroves park damaged by logging, smuggling and violence
Kim Rebholz tried to end illegal logging, smuggling and pollution in DRC's mangroves park, one of the world's most important forests
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Horrific story of what happened to a man and his family trying to protect a rainforest in the Congo
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
“Without intellectual humility, we’re stuck with our current knowledge, current mistakes, current misunderstandings” @bostonglobe.com
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m...
Want to raise intelligent kids? Teach them humility — and this powerful phrase. - The Boston Globe
As someone with nearly two decades of teaching experience, I know speed is not always a sign of mastery.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
“Without intellectual humility, we’re stuck with our current knowledge, current mistakes, current misunderstandings” @bostonglobe.com
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/06/m...
Of course he did. Trump should have been prosecuted for insurrection, not reelected. Not too late tho! Brazil showed us how it’s done.
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Of course he did. Trump should have been prosecuted for insurrection, not reelected. Not too late tho! Brazil showed us how it’s done.
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
Very good news for Cape Cod bay and all who care about it not being radioactive. Thank you apcc.org for your advocacy! 🌊
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/b...
Holtec loses legal battle over dumping wastewater into Cape Cod Bay from Pilgrim plant - The Boston Globe
The former nuclear power plant shuttered in 2019, and Florida-based Holtec was brought in to decommission the property.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Very good news for Cape Cod bay and all who care about it not being radioactive. Thank you apcc.org for your advocacy! 🌊
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/07/b...
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We need Nuremberg trials for Trump administration officials and ICE/Border Patrol agents.
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We need Nuremberg trials for Trump administration officials and ICE/Border Patrol agents.
ICYMI… great news for those who support clean air, healthy lungs and a livable planet! MA went coal free yrs ago and now this vicious source of pollution has been banished from all of New England. Good riddance. 🌎
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/s...
New England says goodbye to coal as Merrimack Station powers down - The Boston Globe
Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H., shut down this fall years ahead of schedule, marking the end of coal-fired energy production in the region.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
ICYMI… great news for those who support clean air, healthy lungs and a livable planet! MA went coal free yrs ago and now this vicious source of pollution has been banished from all of New England. Good riddance. 🌎
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/s...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/21/s...
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ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
November 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
ICE agents in Chicago violently detain a non verbal autistic man for being “non compliant”
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
He couldn’t “comply” because of his disability…they don’t care
This is not the first time they’ve gone after a disabled person
They target the most vulnerable because it’s an easy way to meet their quota
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Murdering humans in the Caribbean Sea. Risking starvation of tens of millions of Americans. Urging abusive federal agents to use deadly force.
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
November 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Murdering humans in the Caribbean Sea. Risking starvation of tens of millions of Americans. Urging abusive federal agents to use deadly force.
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
Can Americans agree to never again elect a man who could not care less about human life, except for his own?
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A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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40 billion to Argentina.
40 billion.
40 billion.
Trump on SNAP: "Our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars -- it could be anything. We have to remain liquid. We can't give everything away."
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
40 billion to Argentina.
40 billion.
40 billion.
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The ruthless ICE raid in Allston is a blatant attack on our communities. The Trump administration is targeting and terrorizing hard-working individuals. The cruelty is the point. We will demand answers and support our neighbors.
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The ruthless ICE raid in Allston is a blatant attack on our communities. The Trump administration is targeting and terrorizing hard-working individuals. The cruelty is the point. We will demand answers and support our neighbors.
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Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
![Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo.
At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25
Then beneath it
TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5hrotody26iqi24hcusufxu/bafkreib7wnor7hl45ryvmifde4sov74rrnexa3iecbyu7zxjx6brrslsiy@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!
I know how hard you worked for this.
I know how hard you worked for this.
And I just watched House of Dynamite. Oh dear god
Trump’s America: FBI Director is taking govt jets to watch his girlfriend sing, president is in Palm Beach holding Great Gatsby balls after golf, we are murdering people in boats while refusing to show proof of guilty, govt is shut down, airports are a disaster, prices are up.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 AM
And I just watched House of Dynamite. Oh dear god
A million percent
If u watch “A House of Dynamite” on Netflix, you’ll get a chilling & stark reminder of why #FELON should not be president 🇺🇸
This is an extraordinary piece of film making. The Pentagon & White House are mighty pissed off about it. Brilliant stuff from Katherine Bigelow.
#MovieNight 🎬🍿📽️🎃
1/2🧵
This is an extraordinary piece of film making. The Pentagon & White House are mighty pissed off about it. Brilliant stuff from Katherine Bigelow.
#MovieNight 🎬🍿📽️🎃
1/2🧵
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A million percent
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Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Someday there will be a reckoning for the serial killings that the US government is engaged in on the oceans. Another admin should not refuse to extradite indicted officials to Intl Criminal Courts and senior military officers “just following orders” should not be exempted.
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Not reporting is not going to make climate change imapcts go away
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Not reporting is not going to make climate change imapcts go away