peregrine kate (she/her)
@peregrinekate.bsky.social
cat lady, Democratic PD, gardener, birder, mother, grandmother, recovering academic (UMich Am Cult PhD), TNG-CWA member, climate justice activist, local TEC admin, Third Act MI co-fac (roles not ranked). #ShutDownLine5 #WaterIsLife #OldAndBold
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If Americans had confidence in federal law enforcement, people would be unlikely to kick and scream and fight when they are seized, because they'd be confident that all would be sorted out soon. But instead we have been taught to never, ever get in the kidnapper's car.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If Americans had confidence in federal law enforcement, people would be unlikely to kick and scream and fight when they are seized, because they'd be confident that all would be sorted out soon. But instead we have been taught to never, ever get in the kidnapper's car.
Good suggestion, thanks.
Thx Im planning on contacting Ford & Stellantis & others & asking if their CEOs agree with the racist comments spoken by Trump when they were standing behind him in the Oval Office today.
www.ford.com/help/contact...
secure.ethicspoint.eu/domain/media...
@indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
www.ford.com/help/contact...
secure.ethicspoint.eu/domain/media...
@indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Good suggestion, thanks.
For SHAME that all of the witnesses remained silent while Trump spewed this vile racism.
OK I’ve put together the list. Shame on all of them:
Ford CEO Jim Farley
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
General Motors plant manager John Urbanic
National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota
Transportation Sec Sean Duffy
Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury
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Ford CEO Jim Farley
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa
General Motors plant manager John Urbanic
National Auto Dealers Association Chairman Tom Castriota
Transportation Sec Sean Duffy
Deputy transportation Sec Steven Bradbury
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December 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
For SHAME that all of the witnesses remained silent while Trump spewed this vile racism.
Horrific! What proactive defenses can be implemented?
For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Horrific! What proactive defenses can be implemented?
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"U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List," "Leaked memo reveals US veterans affairs officials vetting non-citizen workers," "Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP benefits from blue states over immigration data," and more must-read #immigration news.
Immigration Reform News December 3, 2025 - America's Voice
English The New York Times U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List By Hamed Aleaziz and Jazmine Ulloa December 02, 2025 NPR Trump administration halts immigration applicat...
americasvoice.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"U.S. Pauses Immigration Applications From Nations on Travel Ban List," "Leaked memo reveals US veterans affairs officials vetting non-citizen workers," "Trump administration threatens to withhold SNAP benefits from blue states over immigration data," and more must-read #immigration news.
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
Thoughtful thread featuring impressive and important work. Many thanks to all involved!
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Thoughtful thread featuring impressive and important work. Many thanks to all involved!
Best thing I’ve seen in days
This is Mr. Paworotti. His favorite Christmas song is Howl-lelujah. If you'll excuse him, his solo is coming up. 13/10 (TT: therealpaworotti)
December 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Best thing I’ve seen in days
Awesome! Solidarity & welcome! ✊
BREAKING: 500 workers for the Environmental Defense Fund are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social @newsguild.org @wbng.org.
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Awesome! Solidarity & welcome! ✊
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The extractive use of public lands is another manifest destiny outcome. By the end of the 19thC, it was apparent that the complete privatization of Western land was not possible: land wasn't productive enough. Yet, public lands, forests included, were used in unsustainable ways, and still are today.
This is a another great piece from @highcountrynews.org and @propublica.org (and not just because I am quoted in it).
Grazing fees on public lands are ludicrously low: the disfunction of our ag sector extends to public lands both in environmental terms and in favoring the richest "farmers".
Grazing fees on public lands are ludicrously low: the disfunction of our ag sector extends to public lands both in environmental terms and in favoring the richest "farmers".
The wealthy profit from public lands, and taxpayers pick up the tab - High Country News
Roughly two-thirds of grazing on Bureau of Land Management land is controlled by just 10% of permit holders.
www.hcn.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The extractive use of public lands is another manifest destiny outcome. By the end of the 19thC, it was apparent that the complete privatization of Western land was not possible: land wasn't productive enough. Yet, public lands, forests included, were used in unsustainable ways, and still are today.
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Time to take grandpa's car keys away.
A pity we can't trust the kids either.
A pity we can't trust the kids either.
December 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Time to take grandpa's car keys away.
A pity we can't trust the kids either.
A pity we can't trust the kids either.
Oh what a terrible regression this would be! MAGA GOP are a racist, sexist, eugenicist death cult and we must block them.
Happening *this week*:
A vote by ACIP members against universal hep B vaccination at birth will be a vote for pediatric death and disease.
A vote by ACIP members against universal hep B vaccination at birth will be a vote for pediatric death and disease.
NEW: In an interview w/ me, new chair of ACIP says they are planning to vote on ending practice of vaccinating all newborns for hepatitis B and to examine whether childhood immunization schedule is behind rise of allergies and autoimmune disorders.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh what a terrible regression this would be! MAGA GOP are a racist, sexist, eugenicist death cult and we must block them.
Good news for us
Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?
A most important question on the Sept. 2 double-tap strike is who had "target engagement authority" (TEA).
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
Wall Street Journal:
"A Defense Department official ... said Hegseth was the 'target engagement authority,' the key figure who authorized the strike."
www.wsj.com/politics/whi...
December 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Good news for us
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This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
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Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Private equity is looting our malls, doctors' offices, and nursing homes.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
Heck, you name it, and private equity has probably already bought it.
Their scheme spares no one. I’m fighting to stop it.
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Found the square for my cousin, John Arnn. He played organ and piano (as did my grandmother, his mom's sister), and taught at Rutgers. I remember he was friends with Dustin Hoffman...he met him through a private party piano gig. As a kid, I was in awe. He'd be 82 now if he'd lived.
December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Found the square for my cousin, John Arnn. He played organ and piano (as did my grandmother, his mom's sister), and taught at Rutgers. I remember he was friends with Dustin Hoffman...he met him through a private party piano gig. As a kid, I was in awe. He'd be 82 now if he'd lived.
Let’s force the issue, how about? House isn’t doing anything else useful!
"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor of the House of Representatives, and we know that's the case."
This is a flat-out 100% lie from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and he knows it. Impeachment resolutions are privileged, they can force a vote at any time.
This is a flat-out 100% lie from @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and he knows it. Impeachment resolutions are privileged, they can force a vote at any time.
For some reason Democratic leaders seem to prefer telling voters what they won’t be able to do, rather than what they’d like to do.
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
If Hegseth ordered a war crime and lied about it, shouldn’t Ds try for impeachment? Put Rs on the spot. They might get a few defections.
www.axios.com/2025/12/01/j...
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Let’s force the issue, how about? House isn’t doing anything else useful!
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COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
December 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
COVID isn’t acting like the viruses most of us grew up with, and treating it like “just a cold” is putting people at real risk. David Brasure breaks down why SARS-CoV-2 is fundamentally different, how it causes long-term damage, and what we can do to protect ourselves.
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Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
lpeproject.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
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November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Staggering. Dangerous.
“Labeled as ‘domestic terrorists’ by the administration, these targets include anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them — all of them part of a supposed left-wing conspiracy to violently oppose the president’s agenda.”
The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Staggering. Dangerous.
“Don’t let the Democratic leadership tell us that there’s nothing that can be done!”
This to INFINITY. We have DOZENS of senators who must have some idea of what they can do. And what they can encourage US to do.
This to INFINITY. We have DOZENS of senators who must have some idea of what they can do. And what they can encourage US to do.
What can Senators do, some say. Ack.
Don’t let the Democratic leadership tell us that there’s nothing that can be done!
Just listen to these ten Senators, who know that much more fight and action can be brought, but Schumer and Gillibrand in the Senate and Jeffries in the House are killing action.
Don’t let the Democratic leadership tell us that there’s nothing that can be done!
Just listen to these ten Senators, who know that much more fight and action can be brought, but Schumer and Gillibrand in the Senate and Jeffries in the House are killing action.
It's time for Chuck to go (and take Kirsten and Hakeem with him). Fight, Fight Club, fight.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
December 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“Don’t let the Democratic leadership tell us that there’s nothing that can be done!”
This to INFINITY. We have DOZENS of senators who must have some idea of what they can do. And what they can encourage US to do.
This to INFINITY. We have DOZENS of senators who must have some idea of what they can do. And what they can encourage US to do.
Foundational. So, lfg.
People do not use information to determine their social identities; they use their social identities to determine what counts as information. The climate fight is, and has always been, an identity fight. Gonna talk with @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about this soon.
The Problem is Epistemic. The Solution is Not. | Blog of the APA
Doubts about the wisdom of the masses are as old as philosophy itself. Yet interest in democracy’s “epistemic” merits has surged in the last decade—and it is no mystery why. Democracy is collapsing ar...
blog.apaonline.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Foundational. So, lfg.
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Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.
All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
From Vietnam to the Balkans, Donald Trump’s family has launched a global dealmaking blitz since his re-election
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Trump isn't doing anything to lower costs for your family, but he is using the full force of the presidency to make himself and his family very, very, very, very rich.
Anti-corruption! Anti-scam! Anti-grift! Pro-freedom! Pro-fairness!
And this is so obnoxious because actual-politics is kind of a fucking layup right now.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
Your opponents are running a historically corrupt government.
Be anti-corruption. Run on fixing the shit they broke, holding assholes accountable, and improving people’s lives.
Duh.
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Anti-corruption! Anti-scam! Anti-grift! Pro-freedom! Pro-fairness!