Rudy Sovinee
@rudysovinee.bsky.social
Retired chemist, educator, entrepreneur living in a remote rural community. My wife and stepchildren practice permaculture in our yards while I study climate, energy and sustainability options. I'm frustrated by societal behavior that ignores best science.
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Trends in November temperatures over land areas (where we live) for the last 50 years... 🔥
Data from NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)
Data from NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...)
I celebrate political wins, yet caution that they won't last UNLESS they can stem the trends happening in climate.
Zack's many graphic posts point towards bigger storms, heat waves, and floods. Consequences will mount, leading to more deaths from crop failures, spread of tropical pests and diseases.
Zack's many graphic posts point towards bigger storms, heat waves, and floods. Consequences will mount, leading to more deaths from crop failures, spread of tropical pests and diseases.
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Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
I've been a Bernie supporter for well over a decade. He, AOC and progressives like Mamdani articulate well why and how populist politics are needed and can win in America. Centrist Democrats consistently undercut those opportunities.
@sanders.senate.gov: "We have already had 15 Republicans in the Senate defy Trump and say, 'Release the SNAP funds.' So I think that if we had held firm, it would be the Republicans who would yield. That was not the position of these 8 Democrats."
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I've been a Bernie supporter for well over a decade. He, AOC and progressives like Mamdani articulate well why and how populist politics are needed and can win in America. Centrist Democrats consistently undercut those opportunities.
I'm not happy BUT I respect O'Donnell and heed his views.
He defends Schumer (an unpopular stand) by stating pressure he's seen... leading when needs differ.
He points to how Mike Johnson now faces swearing in the 218th vote, so “the Epstein files come back to life in the House of Representatives."
He defends Schumer (an unpopular stand) by stating pressure he's seen... leading when needs differ.
He points to how Mike Johnson now faces swearing in the 218th vote, so “the Epstein files come back to life in the House of Representatives."
Lawrence: With Trump's shutdown ending, Dems are closer than ever to forcing Epstein files release
YouTube video by MSNBC
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November 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I'm not happy BUT I respect O'Donnell and heed his views.
He defends Schumer (an unpopular stand) by stating pressure he's seen... leading when needs differ.
He points to how Mike Johnson now faces swearing in the 218th vote, so “the Epstein files come back to life in the House of Representatives."
He defends Schumer (an unpopular stand) by stating pressure he's seen... leading when needs differ.
He points to how Mike Johnson now faces swearing in the 218th vote, so “the Epstein files come back to life in the House of Representatives."
This smells of coddling a felon to prevent testimony that would affect people of wealth and power. Examining who authorized what action would normally embarrass, but in this pardon prone administration - it seems just a holding pattern.
November 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This smells of coddling a felon to prevent testimony that would affect people of wealth and power. Examining who authorized what action would normally embarrass, but in this pardon prone administration - it seems just a holding pattern.
Sean Casten's right. BTW, the fraud is the idea that Republicans are committed to making healthcare affordable.
If they were they'd support expanding Medicare for all. America's insertion of private healthcare middlemen primarily functions to make corporate profits, not a healthier nation.
If they were they'd support expanding Medicare for all. America's insertion of private healthcare middlemen primarily functions to make corporate profits, not a healthier nation.
My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Sean Casten's right. BTW, the fraud is the idea that Republicans are committed to making healthcare affordable.
If they were they'd support expanding Medicare for all. America's insertion of private healthcare middlemen primarily functions to make corporate profits, not a healthier nation.
If they were they'd support expanding Medicare for all. America's insertion of private healthcare middlemen primarily functions to make corporate profits, not a healthier nation.
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📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling.
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📣 We just released a new free resource at @climatecentral.org - a 72-slide deck introducing key facts about climate change, including its causes, impacts, and solutions. It also comes with speaker notes and links for local storytelling.
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
➡️ www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt... (English & Spanish)
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@aftynbehn.bsky.social She needs your vote TN!!! switch this to blue!
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
@aftynbehn.bsky.social She needs your vote TN!!! switch this to blue!
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If the Senate vote passes tonight it will mean 20-30 million Americans lose their healthcare immediately. For Dems to surrender after 41 days is unbelievable. But somewhat expected. Call your Senators and tell them to vote no. This is a 5 alarm fire. #ProudBlue
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
If the Senate vote passes tonight it will mean 20-30 million Americans lose their healthcare immediately. For Dems to surrender after 41 days is unbelievable. But somewhat expected. Call your Senators and tell them to vote no. This is a 5 alarm fire. #ProudBlue
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Democrats swept elections less than a week ago. We made our voice loud and clear. But once again Senate Democrats are tone deaf as to the mood of the country. We want Dems to fight for the American people. Not surrender for a “promise“ of a non binding hearing on ACA credits. Do Not Cave #ProudBlue
November 10, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Democrats swept elections less than a week ago. We made our voice loud and clear. But once again Senate Democrats are tone deaf as to the mood of the country. We want Dems to fight for the American people. Not surrender for a “promise“ of a non binding hearing on ACA credits. Do Not Cave #ProudBlue
8 Senators fail!
Promises from POTUS & MAGA GOP are worthless. Caving only encourages worse behavior ahead. The pressure was on the GOP majority to say yes to healthcare. It was growing as people saw their 2026 ACA premiums, and those without private jets get flights cancelled ahead of Thanksgiving.
Promises from POTUS & MAGA GOP are worthless. Caving only encourages worse behavior ahead. The pressure was on the GOP majority to say yes to healthcare. It was growing as people saw their 2026 ACA premiums, and those without private jets get flights cancelled ahead of Thanksgiving.
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
8 Senators fail!
Promises from POTUS & MAGA GOP are worthless. Caving only encourages worse behavior ahead. The pressure was on the GOP majority to say yes to healthcare. It was growing as people saw their 2026 ACA premiums, and those without private jets get flights cancelled ahead of Thanksgiving.
Promises from POTUS & MAGA GOP are worthless. Caving only encourages worse behavior ahead. The pressure was on the GOP majority to say yes to healthcare. It was growing as people saw their 2026 ACA premiums, and those without private jets get flights cancelled ahead of Thanksgiving.
Twice the cost yet we rank 15th and 69th among countries with the best healthcare in the world, according to two major studies. Yes … 69th! Maybe one bright spot in this healthcare subsidy-fueled government shutdown is that we take a hard look in the mirror and agree that big changes need to happen.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Better than generic single payer, much better than “Obamacare”, incomparably better than just leaving it to markets.
Better than generic single payer, much better than “Obamacare”, incomparably better than just leaving it to markets.
I’m as capitalist as they get but Medicare for all is the best hope for US healthcare | Gene Marks
With the US government shut down over impending rises to insurance premiums it’s clear the status quo cannot continue
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Twice the cost yet we rank 15th and 69th among countries with the best healthcare in the world, according to two major studies. Yes … 69th! Maybe one bright spot in this healthcare subsidy-fueled government shutdown is that we take a hard look in the mirror and agree that big changes need to happen.
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Mapped: Where Redistricting Battles Are Unfolding Nationwide. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/liv...
Live Redistricting Tracker: All the Republican Gerrymanders — and Democrats’ Counter-Moves
Facing increasingly dire polls, President Donald Trump is determined to prevent Democrats from reclaiming the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm elections. So he’s pressuring Republican-controlled states ...
www.democracydocket.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Mapped: Where Redistricting Battles Are Unfolding Nationwide. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/liv...
By keeping the case for herself Justice Jackson was able to directly influence the timing in both the First Circuit and the Supreme Court, at least for now. She tied her colleagues’ hands—by having her administrative stay expire 48 hours after the First Circuit rules, forcing quick action.
Informative!
Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 AM
By keeping the case for herself Justice Jackson was able to directly influence the timing in both the First Circuit and the Supreme Court, at least for now. She tied her colleagues’ hands—by having her administrative stay expire 48 hours after the First Circuit rules, forcing quick action.
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History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
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Collectively, Homo Sapiens is not sapient (wise.) Society is a superorganism that acts to continue its life of extraction, consumption, and polluting waste streams without constraints. Authoritarians support the superorganism by promising solutions. They gain political power, but accelerate collapse
In case you missed it, wide-ranging and insightful.
"there's actually a connection between global heating and the rise of fascism ... this like general sense of fear that things aren't going well, which makes a populace susceptible to authoritarianism"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGeT...
"there's actually a connection between global heating and the rise of fascism ... this like general sense of fear that things aren't going well, which makes a populace susceptible to authoritarianism"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGeT...
Billions of People Will Die | NASA Climate Scientist Warning
YouTube video by Science Talk
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Collectively, Homo Sapiens is not sapient (wise.) Society is a superorganism that acts to continue its life of extraction, consumption, and polluting waste streams without constraints. Authoritarians support the superorganism by promising solutions. They gain political power, but accelerate collapse
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Before the disgusting GOP cut SNAP and are now fighting court orders ordering them to quit their psychosis & feed Americans, they cut USAID which has already *starved 100’s of 1000’s of human beings worldwide to death.*
Barbaric isn’t enough to describe such depravity.
*Well* past “politics.”
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Barbaric isn’t enough to describe such depravity.
*Well* past “politics.”
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November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Before the disgusting GOP cut SNAP and are now fighting court orders ordering them to quit their psychosis & feed Americans, they cut USAID which has already *starved 100’s of 1000’s of human beings worldwide to death.*
Barbaric isn’t enough to describe such depravity.
*Well* past “politics.”
🆘🇺🇸
Barbaric isn’t enough to describe such depravity.
*Well* past “politics.”
🆘🇺🇸
IMPORTANT NEWS! Past models did not include these details. Expect improved model predictions of ice melt rates & sea level rise, which affect rate changes to expect in the strength of the AMOC.
A weaker AMOC means less, maybe much less heat distributed from the tropics to Iceland & Northern Europe.
A weaker AMOC means less, maybe much less heat distributed from the tropics to Iceland & Northern Europe.
Finally out! The outcome of a virtual workshop in Feb 2024 with modelers and observationalists to put together data and protocols to include historical changes in ice sheet/ice shelf discharge in CMIP models. Hopefully not too late for some CMIP7 runs!
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Datasets and protocols for including anomalous freshwater from melting ice sheets in climate simulations
Abstract. Anomalous freshwater fluxes from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and ice shelves are impacting the surrounding oceans, and we need to be able to account for these effects in climate m...
gmd.copernicus.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
IMPORTANT NEWS! Past models did not include these details. Expect improved model predictions of ice melt rates & sea level rise, which affect rate changes to expect in the strength of the AMOC.
A weaker AMOC means less, maybe much less heat distributed from the tropics to Iceland & Northern Europe.
A weaker AMOC means less, maybe much less heat distributed from the tropics to Iceland & Northern Europe.
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In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄
The link in Sam's blog using CDAS data points to models that support the current forecast of an El Niño as shared in this graph from Berkeley Earth. It takes time, but it trends for El Niño to return during July-September.
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The link in Sam's blog using CDAS data points to models that support the current forecast of an El Niño as shared in this graph from Berkeley Earth. It takes time, but it trends for El Niño to return during July-September.
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🚨BREAKING: Alabama Republicans are pushing a new law that would let the state redo its primaries if the U.S. Supreme Court weakens protections against racial gerrymandering — a move that would open the door for politicians to throw out election results after voters have already spoken.
Alabama GOP Wants Do-Over Elections if SCOTUS Weakens Protections for Black Voters
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
🚨BREAKING: Alabama Republicans are pushing a new law that would let the state redo its primaries if the U.S. Supreme Court weakens protections against racial gerrymandering — a move that would open the door for politicians to throw out election results after voters have already spoken.
Another SHAME on the MAGA GOP.
Senate GOP Kills Bill That Would Block Trump Boat Bombings and War on Venezuela www.commondreams.org/news/senate-...
Senate GOP Kills Bill That Would Block Trump Boat Bombings and War on Venezuela | Common Dreams
"Shame on the Republicans who continue to shirk their duty and deny their constituents a voice," said one retired US Army general.
www.commondreams.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Another SHAME on the MAGA GOP.
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Trump appointed Judge Immergut:
“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments,which were objected to by OR’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building,exceeded the president’s authority.”
Hold the line.
✊🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments,which were objected to by OR’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building,exceeded the president’s authority.”
Hold the line.
✊🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Trump appointed Judge Immergut:
“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments,which were objected to by OR’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building,exceeded the president’s authority.”
Hold the line.
✊🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments,which were objected to by OR’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building,exceeded the president’s authority.”
Hold the line.
✊🏼
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Is it a great deal? Maybe. But Trump makes it seem grocery prices are down since a year ago. and that is just false. Nicolle Wallace does an early shopper's review
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
This from the Wallmart promo offer:
corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/10...
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
This from the Wallmart promo offer:
corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/10...
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Is it a great deal? Maybe. But Trump makes it seem grocery prices are down since a year ago. and that is just false. Nicolle Wallace does an early shopper's review
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
This from the Wallmart promo offer:
corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/10...
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
This from the Wallmart promo offer:
corporate.walmart.com/news/2025/10...