Abbey Rhodes
@abbeyr28.bsky.social
Writer, addicted reader and climate activist, I live in San Francisco. Bluesky has helped me come to a reckoning with Trump and the 77 million Americans who voted for him. Books are my refuge, writing is my release. https://daverhodywriting.wordpress.com
Anyone denying climate change at this point deserves a punch in the face.
We proved it in Wisconsin. We proved it in New York City. We proved it in dozens of special elections over the past year. People power over money!
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 11h agoAbdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
Fact check my opinion. The Farm Bill 2.0 is basically: More subsidies and guarantees to keep the existing agribusiness and fuel system running. More of your tax money propping up an industry that drives climate catastrophe and wrecks soil and nutrition.
Abbey Rhodes@abbeyr28.bsky.social · 2d agoWake up call: The Senate will be voting on the Farm Bill later this week. Just released, Farm Bill 2.0 excludes funding for the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and adds funding for farmers to grow environmentally damaging ethanol crops. www.sciencesocieties.org/publications...
After refunding over $100 billion from his illegal tariffs, Trump is at it again. Like any addiction, his tariff obsession defies logic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US refunds $100bn of Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs
More than half of tariff income refunded after supreme court ruled Trump’s levies were illegal
theguardian.com
"The rapidly developing El Niño weather system will tip many countries over the edge, adding to the 225 million people in 45 countries currently in acute food insecurity." - UN’s World Food Program Beyond El Niño, this is the future of our climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity
theguardian.com
A federal appeals court has ruled that the EPA "acted improperly in terminating billions of dollars of green bank financing last year." It remains to be seen if SCOTUS will flip this ruling, thereby backing Trump's attacks on climate action. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cli...
Court rules against Trump EPA’s freeze of $20B in ‘green bank’ funds
A federal appeals court finds the EPA acted improperly in terminating grants to boost clean energy projects. The Trump administration may appeal to the…
canarymedia.com
“If federal prosecutors are serious about preventing the next Jeffrey Epstein, they must hold Wall Street accountable.” HCR reports that banks turned a blind eye to Epstein transactions related to human trafficking. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-4-2...
I love this painting! Happy Birthday former POTUS Barack Obama! You’re 65 today! Dig that tan suit!
This is typical Susan Collins and why Maine needs to vote her out of office.
D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · yesterday📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.
Crop failures are imminent in the coming years. We've got to plan ahead.
Serene Doomer@serenaribena.bsky.social · 2d ago'China warns of crop risks as heatwave sweeps agricultural regions. China’s corn, rice and cotton fields are at heightened risk of crop damage in the coming days as a heatwave sweeps through key agricultural regions in the country’s north and east.' www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...
Just back from my 'trash walk' - a humbling-yet-satisfying hike along the trails I adopted in Golden Gate Park some twenty years ago. I was reminded of the photo a kindred litter-picker-upper posted recently.
Wake up call: The Senate will be voting on the Farm Bill later this week. Just released, Farm Bill 2.0 excludes funding for the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research and adds funding for farmers to grow environmentally damaging ethanol crops. www.sciencesocieties.org/publications...
"Prejudices are what rule the vulgar crowd." ~ Voltaire
Note: Scotts Miracle-Gro is currently being sued by multiple environmental groups because it contains PFAS – 'forever chemicals.'
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d agoThe President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.
Carbon capture and storage is a scam on two levels: 1) Not scaleable enough to make a difference, fossil fuel companies love it as an excuse to keep drilling. 2) Captured carbon is being dumped near frontline communities. The film Sacrifice Zone explains: www.sunflower-alliance.org/benicia-film...
Nothing could make me happier than Pam Bondi being the first among many Trumpers indicted for insider trading. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
Pam Bondi Implicated in As Much As $5.5 Million in Insider Trading
But what can be done about it?
open.substack.com
'The Stink of Musk' - best title ever, Robert Reich. But as you say, "Musk’s support will backfire again this year, in race after race — if voters know about it." open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
The Stink of Musk
It should cling to any candidate he's supporting
open.substack.com
The internment of 120,000 Japanese-Americans is one of the darkest chapters of our WWII history. - a reminder from Heather Cox Richardson's 250 to 250 Looking into the photos of these children, I see the faces of my own Japanese-American family, tears in my eyes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqaV...
Ralph Carr and Japanese Internment, Narrated by Jay Kuo
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
youtube.com
Illinois bets big on its Solar for All program, and non-profits are some of the first to reap the benefits. www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
Illinois Solar for All is, at last, taking off
The state’s solar equity program has been in place for nearly a decade, but it wasn’t until recently, after years of grassroots efforts, that…
canarymedia.com
“The overwhelming majority of farmers who received solar lease payments used that income to continue or even expand farming on their land." - Cornell University study www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
New York takes on the myth that solar is swallowing farmland
As the White House and viral influencers push misleading info about solar, New York says the facts show the clean energy source and agriculture can thrive…
canarymedia.com
Missed, even by those who fully acknowledge climate change, is just how rapidly it's happening.
Met4Cast@met4cast.net · 3d agoEarth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
In his 2017 novel The Locals, Jonathan Dee captures the onset of the MAGA movement. Dee finished writing The Locals just before the 2016 presidential election, unaware that he’d captured the mood of the nation, the attitudes that led to the election of Donald Trump. In a 2018 interview, Dee said…
In his 2017 novel The Locals, Jonathan Dee captures the onset of the MAGA movement.
Dee finished writing The Locals just before the 2016 presidential election, unaware that he’d captured the mood of the nation, the attitudes that led to the election of Donald Trump. In a 2018 interview, Dee said he had no idea that what he’d described in The Locals would lead to the election of Donald J. Trump: “I was gobsmacked as nearly everyone else (Trump included) on election night.
daverhodywriting.wordpress.com
They knew they were bombing the elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing 156 people, including 120 children and 26 teachers. Listen to the report.
Lu 💙@ladyinred50.bsky.social · 3d agoThough the In-N-Out location is a coincidence, it's not lost on me that the owner of the nationwide franchise, Lynsi Synder, has donated $millions to MAGA Republicans who oppose gun control laws.
MassShootingTracker@massshootingtrk.bsky.social · 4d agoUPDATE: America's gun psychopathy continues: *326* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest: A gunman shot 10 people, 3 fatally, then killed himself in Twin Falls, Idaho: www.kens5.com/article/news...
The auto industry conspiring to scuttle mass transit plans – nothing could surprise me less.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.