Karla Reinhardt
@velella.bsky.social
Sailor, tech writer, environmentalist
Our system is already broken. The solution isn’t to keep breaking things. Vote them out while you still can.
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Our system is already broken. The solution isn’t to keep breaking things. Vote them out while you still can.
Reposted by Karla Reinhardt
New research shows the glaciers of the Sierra Nevada have probably existed since the last Ice Age more than 11,000 years ago. The remnants of these glaciers are projected to disappear in the coming decades as temperatures continue to rise. www.latimes.com/environment/...
As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia
The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.
www.latimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New research shows the glaciers of the Sierra Nevada have probably existed since the last Ice Age more than 11,000 years ago. The remnants of these glaciers are projected to disappear in the coming decades as temperatures continue to rise. www.latimes.com/environment/...
Firefighters Race to Save a Treasured Sequoia Grove in California (gift link). I hope they’re able to save them. I was just here in July.
Firefighters Race to Save a Treasured Sequoia Grove in California
www.nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Firefighters Race to Save a Treasured Sequoia Grove in California (gift link). I hope they’re able to save them. I was just here in July.
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
Work/life balance.
April 18, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Work/life balance.
Reposted by Karla Reinhardt
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Reposted by Karla Reinhardt
“They are offering no future beyond acting out their midlife crises on the rest of us. It is demeaning to pretend that they represent something besides a logic of destruction.”
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
“They are offering no future beyond acting out their midlife crises on the rest of us. It is demeaning to pretend that they represent something besides a logic of destruction.”
Reposted by Karla Reinhardt
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.
Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
January 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Interesting timing to read this chapter on Carter’s National Day of Mourning and while LA burns. #climatechange #drought #LAfires
January 10, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Interesting timing to read this chapter on Carter’s National Day of Mourning and while LA burns. #climatechange #drought #LAfires
Reposted by Karla Reinhardt
Poignant piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social
"the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, we’re losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us."
The LA Fires and the Big Bang open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
"the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, we’re losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us."
The LA Fires and the Big Bang open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
The LA Fires and the Big Bang
The human quest for knowledge, and the descent into willful blindness
open.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Poignant piece by @billmckibben.bsky.social
"the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, we’re losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us."
The LA Fires and the Big Bang open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
"the steady loss of intelligence in our nation and our world worries me the most. Even as the stakes grow higher, we’re losing our hard-won ability to understand the world around us."
The LA Fires and the Big Bang open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
I’m thankful for some good news this week. There are so many excellent science and environment people here now. I left Twitter when Tweetbot was disabled and I couldn’t control my feed. 666 days ago!
November 10, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I’m thankful for some good news this week. There are so many excellent science and environment people here now. I left Twitter when Tweetbot was disabled and I couldn’t control my feed. 666 days ago!
I’d like to share my invite code with wildlife biologists or climate scientists. Let me know if someone needs one.
May 2, 2023 at 6:40 PM
I’d like to share my invite code with wildlife biologists or climate scientists. Let me know if someone needs one.