ShaziaZRafi
@shaziazrafi.bsky.social
President, AirQualityAsia; former SG, PGA no not the golf association. Mom, Sing through all the darkness
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The US has seen $101B in climate damages in just 6 months. Now, the agencies tasked with warning us about hurricanes and heatwaves are being gutted. This is a direct threat to maternal and child health. We need science-based leadership! 🏛️🌡️
#NOAA #FEMA
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
#NOAA #FEMA
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‘The perfect storm’: Trump has left the US less prepared for natural disasters, experts say
Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
The US has seen $101B in climate damages in just 6 months. Now, the agencies tasked with warning us about hurricanes and heatwaves are being gutted. This is a direct threat to maternal and child health. We need science-based leadership! 🏛️🌡️
#NOAA #FEMA
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
#NOAA #FEMA
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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Happy Hanukkah to all that celebrate 🎉
December 15, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Happy Hanukkah to all that celebrate 🎉
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December 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Over half the electricity produced in both the National Electricity Market and WA's Wholesale Electricity Market came from renewable electricity in the past month.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
December 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Over half the electricity produced in both the National Electricity Market and WA's Wholesale Electricity Market came from renewable electricity in the past month.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
This is putting downwards pressure on wholesale prices.
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Air Quality is a Health Crisis! New research connects climate change to 15,000 smoke-related deaths in the US. Our kids shouldn't have to breathe this air. We have to address the root cause of these wildfires. #CleanAirNow #WildfireSmoke #AsthmaAwareness
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
Climate Change Worsens Wildfire Smoke | Climate Central
Wildfire smoke can travel far and harm health. Americans are breathing in more of it because of climate change.
www.climatecentral.org
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Air Quality is a Health Crisis! New research connects climate change to 15,000 smoke-related deaths in the US. Our kids shouldn't have to breathe this air. We have to address the root cause of these wildfires. #CleanAirNow #WildfireSmoke #AsthmaAwareness
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...
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Did you know wildfire 🔥 smoke is a cardiovascular threat, not just a lung one? Yale experts are sounding the alarm: PM2.5 in smoke can trigger heart attacks. Protect your family's heart health—learn about air purifiers and N95 masks now. #WildfireSmoke #momsky
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In California Wildfires, Climate and Health Collide
In a new report, scientists at the Yale School of Public Health warn that smoke from the California wildfires can exacerbate cardiovascular problems. They also
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November 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Did you know wildfire 🔥 smoke is a cardiovascular threat, not just a lung one? Yale experts are sounding the alarm: PM2.5 in smoke can trigger heart attacks. Protect your family's heart health—learn about air purifiers and N95 masks now. #WildfireSmoke #momsky
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The conservative Christian legal group that helped dismantle abortion rights in the United States is now exporting its playbook overseas, starting with the United Kingdom.
Alliance Defending Freedom Succeeded in Overturning Roe. Now It’s Turning to the United Kingdom.
Christian Nonprofit Alliance Defending Freedom Succeeded in Overturning Roe v Wade. Now It’s Turning to Abortion in the United Kingdom.
msmagazine.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The conservative Christian legal group that helped dismantle abortion rights in the United States is now exporting its playbook overseas, starting with the United Kingdom.
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New report indicates a growing public resistance to data centers [via @wired.com]
New report indicates a growing public resistance to data centers
The facilities suck up land, water, and power—driving up prices for all—and many locals are fed up.
www.motherjones.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New report indicates a growing public resistance to data centers [via @wired.com]
Mothers have the same force as the raging climate; have collaborated with the group since founding www.airqualityasia.org 2017
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Mothers have the same force as the raging climate; have collaborated with the group since founding www.airqualityasia.org 2017
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More Australians will soon have access to the benefits of solar power, even if they don't have solar panels themselves.
November 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
More Australians will soon have access to the benefits of solar power, even if they don't have solar panels themselves.
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😍 when your daughter says that you just melt
Young people "do not want to wear a corporate tag on their politics and that is the one ray of hope."
- @shaziazrafi.bsky.social, who has been a ray of hope all my life, on the state of progressive fightback against the global far-right womensmediacenter.com/wmclive/wmc-...
- @shaziazrafi.bsky.social, who has been a ray of hope all my life, on the state of progressive fightback against the global far-right womensmediacenter.com/wmclive/wmc-...
WMC Live #485: Elegy for The White House. (Original Airdate 11/2/2025) - Women’s Media Center
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November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
😍 when your daughter says that you just melt
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BREAKING News 🔥
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
BREAKING News 🔥
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows 😡😡😡😡
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows
Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows 😡😡😡😡
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Coal use hit a record high around the world last year despite efforts to switch to clean energy, imperilling the world’s attempts to rein in global heating. 🔥🚨🔥🚨⁉️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Coal use hit a record high around the world last year despite efforts to switch to clean energy, imperilling the world’s attempts to rein in global heating. 🔥🚨🔥🚨⁉️
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Another reason EPA shouldn’t rollback coal protections! “Kennedy himself has experienced mercury poisoning... in January, he recalled that episode. ‘The same chemicals that kill fish make people sick,’ he said.” Coal Emissions=Mercury Poisoning!
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E&E News: 2 scientists use ‘last-ditch’ gamble to stop coal rule rollback
The former government health specialists urged Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “intercede” in EPA’s effort to weaken regulations that reduce mercury and arsenic.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Another reason EPA shouldn’t rollback coal protections! “Kennedy himself has experienced mercury poisoning... in January, he recalled that episode. ‘The same chemicals that kill fish make people sick,’ he said.” Coal Emissions=Mercury Poisoning!
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October 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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👍🏼❤️👍🏼❤️❤️👍🏼
Groups Sue E.P.A. Over Canceled $7 Billion for Solar Energy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...
Groups Sue E.P.A. Over Canceled $7 Billion for Solar Energy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...
Groups Sue E.P.A. Over Canceled $7 Billion for Solar Energy
www.nytimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
👍🏼❤️👍🏼❤️❤️👍🏼
Groups Sue E.P.A. Over Canceled $7 Billion for Solar Energy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...
Groups Sue E.P.A. Over Canceled $7 Billion for Solar Energy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/c...
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Fire season used to last only a short time, but because of climate change, it’s almost year-round.
October 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Fire season used to last only a short time, but because of climate change, it’s almost year-round.
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Catch me smirking in the fall issue of @fastcompany.com - and more importantly, read about how @runforsomething.net is running the largest candidate pipeline in politics. www.fastcompany.com/91396768/run...
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Catch me smirking in the fall issue of @fastcompany.com - and more importantly, read about how @runforsomething.net is running the largest candidate pipeline in politics. www.fastcompany.com/91396768/run...
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Word from the meeting last night is that Speaker kept bringing up “health care for illegal aliens,” seemingly unaware that Medicaid and Medicare and Affordable Care coverage are by law NOT available to anyone here illegally.
September 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Word from the meeting last night is that Speaker kept bringing up “health care for illegal aliens,” seemingly unaware that Medicaid and Medicare and Affordable Care coverage are by law NOT available to anyone here illegally.