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Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
@scoccoklein.bsky.social
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Expert in climate change and children's wellbeing. Adjunct Professor of Social Policy at Hunter College. Funny IRL. Mother to wonderful humans and spoiled dogs.
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#Inequality in the US is exceptional

We are more unequal now than at any point in our history. And we are more unequal than other high-income countries.

But until recently, we could not measure WEALTH inequality

Or how it is affecting our DEMOCRACY

@schechtlm.bsky.social 👇shows it's bad
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
susiedent.com
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
mnindivisible.bsky.social
No Kings is more popular than MAGA.

Act accordingly. www.yahoo.com/news/articles/m...
Maddow Blog | Poll shows the ‘No Kings’ protest movement topping MAGA in public support
As the first year of Donald Trump's second term nears its end, 30% of Americans are aligned with MAGA, while 43% are aligned with the No Kings protest movement.
www.yahoo.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
Summing up US politics right now.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 8d
just....enjoy this
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
Let's say it one more time (so that #RFKJr and the #MAHA dipshits hear it)- correlation does not imply causation.
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
📱For all the parents struggling to keep their kids (and themselves) safe from the dangers of smartphone and social media.

🏆Bravo to @thebulwark.com for giving the platform to young people. And bravo to #NewYorkTeenTechCouncil​​​​ for their leadership
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18d
"This plan limiting smartphone use during the school day...is about recognizing that the digital environment itself has become a public-health concern."

Elle Vidra, a high school senior and New York Teen Tech Council​​​​ member:
I’m a Teenager. Here’s How We Can Protect Kids From Online Harm.
Practical suggestions for schools and families.
www.thebulwark.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
kenklippenstein.bsky.social
I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...
VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester
“Your name was brought up.”
www.kenklippenstein.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
What's it like inside your head?
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
luckytran.com
Terrifying. An Associated Press investigation found more than 420 bills attacking longstanding public health protections such as vaccines, milk safety and fluoride have been introduced in statehouses across the US so far this year. Around 30 bills in 12 states have already been enacted or adopted.
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
An interesting study for the #climatechange and #communication folks

Belief in #conspiracy theories undermines sustainability with lower support for reducing carbon emissions, investing in clean energy sources and protecting the environment.

Links as well with public health and social cohesion.
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
stone-lis.bsky.social
Two weeks! Apply by Nov. 3 to our postdoctoral scholars program. Two positions starting in Aug. 2026: one focused on #mobility and #poverty, the other on #wealth and/or wealth inequality. Learn more at the link below!
#EconSky #Sociology #PoliSciSky
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
riseandresist.bsky.social
NO KINGS NYC!
10.18.25
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF US STAND TOGETHER, PROTESTING FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE, RACIAL JUSTICE, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS, GENDER EQUALITY, FAIR WAGES, CLEAN AIR + WATER, AND MORE!

🎵 Freedom NO KINGS, by Ole No Kings

@bkindivisible.bsky.social
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October 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
📣 A call out to #urban practitioners, students and early career researchers to serve as Expert Reviewers for the #IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

A great opportunity to contribute to the next IPCC report and ensure a diverse range of perspectives!

www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...
IPCC seeks experts to review the first draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities — IPCC
www.ipcc.ch
October 15, 2025 at 3:37 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
Cowardice in Action

😱This week, Children Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) cut all funding to US nonprofits

Giving in to political harassment and legal intimidation by Trump and his enablers 🧵

thesocialchangenest.org/articles/chi...

@altusaid.altgov.info @bkindivisible.bsky.social
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) Are No Longer Funding NGOs in the U.S.
The Children's Investment Fund Foundation have stopped funding U.S nonprofits after coming under pressure from a conservative watchdog group.
thesocialchangenest.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
ezralevin.bsky.social
The fact that this coming 9 days before the largest peaceful protest in modern American history is absolutely intentional. We will not back down. Trump and Miller can lie, smear, and threaten all they want. They will lose. No Kings, No Kings, No Kings. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
🔖Climate scientists and educators, bookmark this guide!
🎯You could be targeted next for political harassment and intimidation.
csldf.org Climate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · Oct 8
While climate scientists have been under attack for years, they are facing an increasing onslaught of politically motivated attacks in the current "post-truth" political environment. Check out our Pocket Guide to Handling Political Harassment & Legal Intimidation: www.csldf.org/resource/poc...
A Pocket Guide for Scientists: Handling Political Harassment and Legal Intimidation - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
We produced this guide to educate scientists about the legal risks they may face from politically-motivated attacks.
www.csldf.org
October 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
frediotto.bsky.social
Planetary boundaries sound very abstract & high level, this year, for the first time @eraju.bsky.social & I contributed a chapter how breaching these boundaries has affected people around the world: losing lives, livelihoods, health… & for whom the limits of adaptation have been reached.
pik-potsdam.bsky.social PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · Sep 24
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
September 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
The latest nonsense about #autism from the 🧠🐛 and the 🍊🤡is hard to bear.

For all the #neurodivergent people out there, know that you are not a problem to be fixed. You are beautiful. You are valued. You are the future.

autismspectrumnews.org/cultural-aut...
Cultural Autism Studies at Yale: A Revolution
Autistic voices lead a global cultural revolution in understanding and inclusivity at the Cultural Autism Studies at Yale.
autismspectrumnews.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
😡 Frustrated over US foreign aid cuts, inaction on Gaza, and all the other nightmares consuming our country?

🗽Do you live in Lower #Manhattan or Brownstone #Brooklyn.

#CongressmanDanGoldman is holding a virtual townhall Tues 9/16

Register in advance
goldman.house.gov/about/events...
Rep. Goldman to Host Virtual Constituent Townhall
Join Representative Goldman for a September town hall to discuss the Trump Administration’s policies and orders that have continued to impact nonprofits, education, citizenship, immigration, health ca...
goldman.house.gov
September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
robertmannbooks.com
This is one of the many, many reasons we should all condemn the celebration of political violence, as Kirk did here: You often don't get to decide when to dismount the tiger. It eats you first.
September 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
Great opportunity for students and recent grads to gain hands-on experience in climate work

The Constellation Fellowship has 45 positions across a range of areas (tech, communication, community engagement)

But hurry! The deadline is Sept 7!

www.globalwarmingmitigationproject.org/constellatio...
Constellation Fellowship Positions
www.globalwarmingmitigationproject.org
September 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
climate.us
Thanks to the Guardian for covering our efforts.
Read more here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Follow us, support the mission, and help keep climate truth alive.
August 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein
goodgriefnetwork.bsky.social
Join us for our joint screening of these climate documentary films, "Good Grief: The 10-Steps" and "Healing Lahiana" on Wednesday September 24th at 3pm at The Climate Imaginarium in NYC!
Register for free here: luma.com/5h6k54y3
Stills from the films "Good Grief: The 10-Steps" and "Healing Lahaina" as the background. Top text, "Climate Week New York" "CFF Partner Event" Title text, "Hope & Healing Climate Grief Film Screenings". Body text, "Double Screening of Good Grief: The 10-Steps & Healing Lahaina". Bottom text, "Climate Films Grounding Exercises Plant-based Snacks Networking". Underneath reads, "RSVP: bit.ly/climategriefscreen Wed. Sept 24th Doors @ 3pm The Climate Imaginarium". Good Grief Network, Waterspirit, Broadway Climate Summit, Human Impacts Institute, Here on Earth, Climate Film Festival Partner Events, and Stranded Astronaut logos in the bottom middle of the image. Still from film "Good Grief: The 10-Steps" as the background. Top text, "Climate Week New York" "CFF Partner Event" and the Good Grief Network logo in the middle. In the bottom middle of the screen in white title text reads, "Good Grief: The 10-Steps". Below in white body text reads, "Wed. Sept 24th Doors @ 3pm" "The Climate Imaginarium". Still from film "Healing Lahaina" as the background. Top text, "Climate Week New York" "CFF Partner Event" and the Stranded Astronaut Productions logo in the middle. In the bottom middle of the screen in white title text reads, "Healing Lahaina". Below in white body text reads, "Wed. Sept 24th Doors @ 3pm" "The Climate Imaginarium".
September 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen!

I am joking. (But maybe not.) As someone who compulsively runs risk likelihoods through my head, it sure is satisfying.

Just wished they had included shark attacks🦈
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Sep 2
The chance of a >140 m asteroid hitting the Earth (hello 🦕) is more likely than you being trampled by an elephant, but much less likely than you being struck by a car.

doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...
Figure 1. The chance of a >140 m NEO impacting Earth placed in context with the chance that other preventable events may happen to an individual. Individual event frequency and fatality chances are taken from peer-reviewed studies on particular regions over specific time intervals; these are broad averages, and individual risks vary widely. We expect most readers to be able to identify some events that are relevant to their lives, and some that are not. Readers interested in their own chances are encouraged to consider the events most relevant to their demographics, geographic region, and hobbies. Section 3.2 has a further discussion of details and caveats. This figure is intended to contextualize the > 140 m NEO impact frequency with events people may be familiar with, such as flu sickness and lightning strikes. The x-axis is the chance of the rare event happening to the planet (NEO impact) or an individual (all other events) over an average human lifetime. The y-axis shows the chance of fatality to an individual if the event occurs. The chance of fatality from a > 140 m impact is dependent on a large range of variables, such as impactor size (140 m to > 10 km) and impact location (populated city to middle of a large ocean). An impact could result in no fatalities (less likely) some fatalities (more likely), or mass extinction (very unlikely, but possible; see Section 1.2); this is represented by large error bars (blue). The placement of the impact symbol on the y-axis is in the visual center to avoid the pitfalls of averaging discussed in Section 1.2.
September 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
scoccoklein.bsky.social
How much tax do US #billionaires pay? The data and analysis is in - and the answer is "NOT ENOUGH".

Just 24% of economic income compared to the average of 30% paid by most Americans.

#Inequality #Taxtherich
nber.org NBER @nber.org · Sep 2
Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170
September 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM