Emily Satterwhite
@mountainsfalling.bsky.social
Pipeline fighter in Appalachia. Holler to Holler mutual aid. Appalachian studies. United Campus Workers UCW-VA.
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Fuck that guy. He can't stop himself from grifting and poisoning Virginians.
Former Va. Gov. Terry McAuliffe has joined the pro-natural-gas group Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future as a national co-chair, saying “we must come together to secure a reliable and affordable energy future.”
virginiamercury.com/briefs/forme...
virginiamercury.com/briefs/forme...
Former Gov. McAuliffe joins pro-natural gas group as national co-chair • Virginia Mercury
Terry McAuliffe to promote natural gas as a route to long-term energy reliability as renewable energy sources are built out.
virginiamercury.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Fuck that guy. He can't stop himself from grifting and poisoning Virginians.
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Hey if you're into energy, environment, pipelines, Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, or just a habitable planet, checkout this webinar about how we can start to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains fossil capitalism. It's a great panel that happens to include me. @billmckibben.bsky.social
Join OWDM and partner organizations for a information-filled virtual event on November 18 about the steps you can take to shut down North America's most dangerous fossil fuel pipeline.
RSVP: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/big_oil_vs_b...
RSVP: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/big_oil_vs_b...
Big Oil vs. Big Water Webinar
Discover the risks associated with the threats posed by Line 5 and the proposed tunnel project.
www.oilandwaterdontmix.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Hey if you're into energy, environment, pipelines, Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, or just a habitable planet, checkout this webinar about how we can start to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains fossil capitalism. It's a great panel that happens to include me. @billmckibben.bsky.social
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Identity and publicize the identity of every single ICE agent who terrorizes people in our communities.
Put up flyers in their hometown, on FB and nextdoor, let their church groups know, tell their kid's school. We'll need this information for their war crimes trials anyway.
Put up flyers in their hometown, on FB and nextdoor, let their church groups know, tell their kid's school. We'll need this information for their war crimes trials anyway.
Video from nickdelacanal on Instagram of CBP trespassing on private property and giving up after a few attempts to entrap landscapers.
November 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Identity and publicize the identity of every single ICE agent who terrorizes people in our communities.
Put up flyers in their hometown, on FB and nextdoor, let their church groups know, tell their kid's school. We'll need this information for their war crimes trials anyway.
Put up flyers in their hometown, on FB and nextdoor, let their church groups know, tell their kid's school. We'll need this information for their war crimes trials anyway.
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A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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We’re taking the fight against Enbridge’s Line 5 Nationwide on Nov. 18th! You won’t want to miss the opportunity to hear from the folks behind the scenes and on the ground pushing for removal and discontinuation of Enbridge’s Line 5.
RSVP: secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/-AJYKA8dStwN7kyLRWAaYQ
RSVP: secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/-AJYKA8dStwN7kyLRWAaYQ
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We’re taking the fight against Enbridge’s Line 5 Nationwide on Nov. 18th! You won’t want to miss the opportunity to hear from the folks behind the scenes and on the ground pushing for removal and discontinuation of Enbridge’s Line 5.
RSVP: secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/-AJYKA8dStwN7kyLRWAaYQ
RSVP: secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/-AJYKA8dStwN7kyLRWAaYQ
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Congratulations to Delegate-Elect Lily Franklin on a well-deserved victory in HD 41! @lilyfordelegate.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Congratulations to Delegate-Elect Lily Franklin on a well-deserved victory in HD 41! @lilyfordelegate.bsky.social
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Congrats to Chuck Schumer on demonstrating pretty conclusively that his support and endorsement are completely irrelevant.
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Congrats to Chuck Schumer on demonstrating pretty conclusively that his support and endorsement are completely irrelevant.
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Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
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study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1
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Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.
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Okay, so, here's the sort of query that used to work great at that other place, like, ten years ago:
best trade nonfiction books of the past five or so years about climate/environment/energy, etc. For example Vaillant's Fire Weather, Egan's The Devil's Element. Thanks!
best trade nonfiction books of the past five or so years about climate/environment/energy, etc. For example Vaillant's Fire Weather, Egan's The Devil's Element. Thanks!
November 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Okay, so, here's the sort of query that used to work great at that other place, like, ten years ago:
best trade nonfiction books of the past five or so years about climate/environment/energy, etc. For example Vaillant's Fire Weather, Egan's The Devil's Element. Thanks!
best trade nonfiction books of the past five or so years about climate/environment/energy, etc. For example Vaillant's Fire Weather, Egan's The Devil's Element. Thanks!
Matt Royer’s take on Deciding to Win—what it gets right and how it’s way off base—is an important read. @bytheballot.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bythebal...
A Welcomed(?) Response
Thoughts on Welcome’s Deciding to Win
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Matt Royer’s take on Deciding to Win—what it gets right and how it’s way off base—is an important read. @bytheballot.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bythebal...
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Out trick or treating and I was confused by why my toddler has been saying happy birthday instead of trick or treat. Turns out he thinks today is the birthday party for monsters. I am now adopting this cosmology as canonical.
November 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Out trick or treating and I was confused by why my toddler has been saying happy birthday instead of trick or treat. Turns out he thinks today is the birthday party for monsters. I am now adopting this cosmology as canonical.
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“Here we go again,” is what Crystal Mello, an organizer for @powhr.org, says she said to herself when she learned that #MVP was planning a new compressor station in Elliston, VA. https://appvoices.org/2025/10/29/seasoned-mvp-fighters-prepare-for-another-battle/
In Montgomery County, Virginia, Seasoned Mountain Valley Pipeline Fighters Prepare for Another Battle
“Here we go again,” is what Crystal Mello, an organizer for the Preserve Our Water Heritage, Rights Coalition, says she said to herself when she learned that Mountain Valley Pipeline was planning a new compressor station in Elliston, Virginia, as part of a project to send even more gas through the massive 42-inch pipeline.
appvoices.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“Here we go again,” is what Crystal Mello, an organizer for @powhr.org, says she said to herself when she learned that #MVP was planning a new compressor station in Elliston, VA. https://appvoices.org/2025/10/29/seasoned-mvp-fighters-prepare-for-another-battle/
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If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...
Home
Columbia University demand letter, March 13, 2025, and resolution agreement, July 23, 2025.
Harvard University demand letter, April 11, 2025.
University of Pennsylvania resolution agreement, July 1, ...
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October 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...
Unions’ “clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms. It seems plausible, even likely, that faculty unions will have some success building power off of the growing resentment of ubiquitous AI and its slop products.”
This is a fabulous and important essay.
"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to."
"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge they’d already walked themselves up to."
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Unions’ “clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms. It seems plausible, even likely, that faculty unions will have some success building power off of the growing resentment of ubiquitous AI and its slop products.”
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Virginia ranks #4 in the U.S. for total student loan debt — with Virginians holding nearly $45 billion in federal student loans against an average of $40,000+ per borrower. 📚
virginiamercury.com/2025/10/09/v...
virginiamercury.com/2025/10/09/v...
Virginia is No. 4 in student loan debt • Virginia Mercury
Debt-burdened Virginians in limbo with new payment plans, government shutdown
virginiamercury.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Virginia ranks #4 in the U.S. for total student loan debt — with Virginians holding nearly $45 billion in federal student loans against an average of $40,000+ per borrower. 📚
virginiamercury.com/2025/10/09/v...
virginiamercury.com/2025/10/09/v...
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"And it’s worked exactly how the politicians and business lobbies wanted it to. It’s driven down wages, busted unions and kept Virginia at the bottom when it comes to worker protections."
Labor leader: It’s time to repeal so-called ‘right-to-work’ in Virginia
“Right-to-work” isn’t about freedom or choice. It’s a corporate scam dressed up in red, white and blue.
cardinalnews.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"And it’s worked exactly how the politicians and business lobbies wanted it to. It’s driven down wages, busted unions and kept Virginia at the bottom when it comes to worker protections."
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is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”
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Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.
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We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!
theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
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If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.
Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.
Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.
Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.
Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.