Jeanine Pfeiffer
@jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social
Ethnoecologist; Essayist; Poet
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My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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Climate change threatens at least 144 Native Alaskan villages. FEMA and EPA programs slated to assist threatened villages were cancelled by the #47 Regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
An Alaskan Village Confronts Its Changing Climate: Rebuild or Relocate?
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December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Climate change threatens at least 144 Native Alaskan villages. FEMA and EPA programs slated to assist threatened villages were cancelled by the #47 Regime. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...
“The focus on young women was intentional… young women are too often left on the sidelines of conversations surrounding our buffalo relatives and land-based practices.” 🦬🤎✋🏾https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/meet-your-prayer-halfway-women-led-bison-harvests-bring-tribal-food-sovereignty
‘Meet your prayer halfway’ | Women-Led Bison Harvests Bring Tribal Food Sovereignty
Last week, cultural educator Patti Harris-Baldes introduced herself with humility to the bison on the ground in front of her on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Her greeting extended to the crowd of peopl...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“The focus on young women was intentional… young women are too often left on the sidelines of conversations surrounding our buffalo relatives and land-based practices.” 🦬🤎✋🏾https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/meet-your-prayer-halfway-women-led-bison-harvests-bring-tribal-food-sovereignty
“The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources” • MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges
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November 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
“The philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is funneling tens of millions of dollars into tribal higher education, months after the Trump administration sought to cut one of the system’s most essential funding sources” • MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
SCIENCE!! “By about 10,000 years ago, half of all the variation that we see today was already present in dog populations,” said Carly Ameen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Exeter and one of the lead authors of the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
The Dogs of 8,000 B.C. Were Amazingly Diverse
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November 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
SCIENCE!! “By about 10,000 years ago, half of all the variation that we see today was already present in dog populations,” said Carly Ameen, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Exeter and one of the lead authors of the analysis. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/s...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid during the shutdown. Thank you, Judge John J. McConnell Jr.!
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November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid during the shutdown. Thank you, Judge John J. McConnell Jr.!
“In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing,” said Abraham Joshua Heschel, an American rabbi who opposed the Vietnam War and participated in the civil rights movement. “Some are guilty; all are responsible.”
How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
Opinion | How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country
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November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing,” said Abraham Joshua Heschel, an American rabbi who opposed the Vietnam War and participated in the civil rights movement. “Some are guilty; all are responsible.”
How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...
300+ Lakota people (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ancestors) were killed by US Army soldiers on 12/29/1890, one of the deadliest attacks by the US military. The #47Regime calls the killers heroes.
Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain
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September 27, 2025 at 10:26 PM
300+ Lakota people (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ancestors) were killed by US Army soldiers on 12/29/1890, one of the deadliest attacks by the US military. The #47Regime calls the killers heroes.
Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
Hegseth Says Honors for Soldiers in Wounded Knee Massacre Will Remain www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and other materials that state that the land once belonged to Native American tribes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
Park Service Is Ordered to Take Down Some Materials on Slavery and Tribes
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September 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and other materials that state that the land once belonged to Native American tribes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/c...
Arata ni Noni O’oanaha, the duty of past and present generations to protect the environment for future generations = the legal principle of intergenerational equity. “Climate change is undermining our ability to uphold this sacred contract.”
— Cynthia Houniuhi www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
— Cynthia Houniuhi www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law
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September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Arata ni Noni O’oanaha, the duty of past and present generations to protect the environment for future generations = the legal principle of intergenerational equity. “Climate change is undermining our ability to uphold this sacred contract.”
— Cynthia Houniuhi www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
— Cynthia Houniuhi www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
In a powerful video detailing the rise of #authoritarianism in the #USA, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, are we totally screwed or not?
See you on the streets Oct. 18th.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
See you on the streets Oct. 18th.
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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September 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In a powerful video detailing the rise of #authoritarianism in the #USA, @ezraklein.bsky.social asks, are we totally screwed or not?
See you on the streets Oct. 18th.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
See you on the streets Oct. 18th.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
The Global Sumud Flotilla departed from Genoa & Barcelona ports on 8/31 and will eventually number around 50 vessels, 500 activists, politicians + volunteers from 44 countries attempting to bring aid to Gaza in “the largest civilian-led humanitarian mission in history”. newint.org/action/2025/...
Italian Dockworkers Threaten to Shut Down Europe in Solidarity with Global Sumud Flotilla
The Gaza-bound aid vessel is the largest civilian-led humanitarian mission in history. Tommaso Gori reports.
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September 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The Global Sumud Flotilla departed from Genoa & Barcelona ports on 8/31 and will eventually number around 50 vessels, 500 activists, politicians + volunteers from 44 countries attempting to bring aid to Gaza in “the largest civilian-led humanitarian mission in history”. newint.org/action/2025/...
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Any Senators here?
I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
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I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
1/
September 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Any Senators here?
I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
1/
I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise.
RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably.
He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably.
He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably.
1/
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We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus, but we’re back—and have money to give away to 1-2 enterprising science writers!
Want to go to a conference? Learn a new skill? Applications are open for two Career Development Awards of up to $1,000 from August 29th to September 26th, 2025. 💰🤑
Want to go to a conference? Learn a new skill? Applications are open for two Career Development Awards of up to $1,000 from August 29th to September 26th, 2025. 💰🤑
2025 Career Development Awards | Northwest Science Writers Association
nwscience.org
September 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus, but we’re back—and have money to give away to 1-2 enterprising science writers!
Want to go to a conference? Learn a new skill? Applications are open for two Career Development Awards of up to $1,000 from August 29th to September 26th, 2025. 💰🤑
Want to go to a conference? Learn a new skill? Applications are open for two Career Development Awards of up to $1,000 from August 29th to September 26th, 2025. 💰🤑
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IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
September 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
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“If you think science and public health are expensive, try ignorance and pandemics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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September 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“If you think science and public health are expensive, try ignorance and pandemics.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...