Today, Stand.earth and local groups dropped by #PNWClimateWeek in Seattle, Washington to see @microsoft.com’s Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa, who – despite the company’s massive investments in fossil fuels – ironically served as the keynote speaker for a talk on climate targets. 🧵

We Called Out Microsoft’s Chief Sustainability Officer at PNW Climate Week

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23 zettajoules is the latest measure of excess heat into oceans caused by fossil fuel: 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules Entire human energy production = 1/2 a zettajoule.

Global ocean temperatures are entering ‘uncharted territory,’ climate scientists say

Sea surface temperatures in late June reached nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit on average, shattering records

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"Europe’s extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say" by Alexa St. John for the @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/euro...

Europe's extreme heat would be impossible without climate change, scientists say

The record-breaking heat that’s scorching Europe day and night this month would not have been possible without climate change, according to a new study.

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Across the world, communities are drawing a red line: 🛑 No airport expansion 🛬 End the most destructive flights 🌻 Build a fair and liveable future for all Sign the manifesto: stay-grounded.org/red-lines-fo... #RedLinesForAirports #StayGrounded

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

BREAKING: Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Center for Climate Integrity

Republicans Introduce Legislation to Give Fossil Fuel Companies Immunity from Any Laws or Lawsuits Seeking to Hold them Accountable for their Role in the Climate Crisis

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"Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite," write Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope of @coveringclimatenow.org

A new economic superpower could spark a global retreat from fossil fuels | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

Eighty-five countries have sought a roadmap to phasing out fossil fuels. A conference this month offers hope they could unite

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While watching YouTube isn't often a productive use of time, the @lauraflanders.org interview of @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social provides a degree of clarity for our current situation that's hard to come by. #technoFascism #XR-US

Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering “End Times Fascism”?

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Not exactly a theme song, but definitely hits the mark! #XR-US

Price of Eggs by Carsie Blanton and The Burning Hell

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SF Joins Worldwide "No Kings Day" Repudiation of Trump Crimes

SF Joins Worldwide "No Kings Day" Repudiation of Trump Crimes

Trump blasted by unions, environmentalists, medical workers, peace groups, religious groups, LGBTQ, academics, lawyers, women, political groups, nudists, patriots and many who don't usually join protests. Billionaires not so much.

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Save the Frogs! Save the People! Fascism runs on fossil fuels! #NoKings www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghsi...

XRSFBay Street Theater team at No Kings 2026, San Francisco

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Music for Rebellion!

Springsteen & Tom Morello, 30/01/26, protest concert at First Avenue, Minneapolis

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Join our bi-monthly open meeting to learn about Extinction Rebellion's work in the US!

XRUS Open House for New Activists - Saturday, February 21, 2026

XRUS Open Houses are designed for people new to XR or to climate activism, but current members of XRUS chapters are also warmly welcome. This is a 60 minute meeting, though members of XRUS will stay ...

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Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...

Exxon's Own Models Predicted Global Warming--It Ignored Them

Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation

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There destruction of humanity is being led by surprisingly few ̶m̶u̶r̶d̶e̶r̶e̶r̶s̶ public and state-owned companies: "Just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for half the global carbon dioxide emissions driving the climate crisis in 2024, down from 36 a year earlier."

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows

Critics accuse leading firms of sabotaging climate action but say data increasingly being used to hold them to account

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Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become

1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

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hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

We condemn the illegal invasion of Venezuela, and we condemn the fossil fuel corruption that led us here. Young people — once again — are the ones that oil billionaires will feed into the meatgrinder of an unjust, imperialist war.

Standing with @veteransforpeace.bsky.social and #SeattleAgainstWar to demand the release of President Maduro and freedom for the people of #Venezuela.

Help the people resist unbridled emissions from generators powering billionaires' AI projects! #XR

Emily Johnston@enjohnston.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Memphis Communities against Pollution (MCAP) needs our help fighting xAI's diesel generators! Can you phonebank next Monday or Wednesday? Please sign up! @justinjpearson.bsky.social

T-Mobile doesn't care about customers, or about how its business dealings affect our future. #boycottTMobile tmobileboycott.org

It's time to hang up on authoritarianism. It's time to hang up on T-Mobile.

TAKE THE PLEDGE TO BOYCOTT T-MOBILE

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#TeslaTakedown@teslatakedown.com · 12mo ago

We went to T-Mobile HQ to deliver 20k petition signatures incl 5k customers asking the company to cut ties with Elon and Trump. They called the cops and told us the company doesn't care what its customers think. Join the boycott: tmobileboycott.org #teslatakedown #BoycottTmobile #weaintbuyingit

And the protesters broke through! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCF...

Indigenous protesters storm COP30 climate summit in Brazil

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Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 12mo ago

Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."

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Death by a Thousand Cuts

By Aaron Glaser

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Our big #BoycottTMobile weekend kicks off November 14th, but several customers have already dropped T-Mobile! Tony A. of the @teslatakedown.com movement cut ties with T-Mobile ––refusing to support corporations who cave to authoritarianism. www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...

Defending Democracy Starts With Your Phone Plan: Why I Cut Ties With T-Mobile | Common Dreams

​The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business r...

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XR's Lamentors from 4 chapters joined other climate activists from around the country for an action Mourning the EPA and the devastation caused by Director Zeldin's destructive policies. #ExtinctionRebellion @xrglobal.bsky.social @xr-dc.bsky.social

Wells Fargo - you can't hide! WF HQ in San Francisco is shut down - every entrance blockaded by indigenous leaders from Standing Rock, Palestinian organizers, and allies. WF must stop financing Big Oil, pipelines, genocide in Gaza, & Trump's agenda. #stopbillionaires @oilgasaction.bsky.social

Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says. Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Enjoy XR Boston rebel @parkewilde.bsky.social of flyingless.org fame on "Talk of the Town," chatting about his relationship to civil disobedience, opportunities for private jet reform, and why he gave up flying for life! #NoMorePrivateJets #ClimateEmergency www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeD5...

Talk of the Town | Parke Wilde

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The BDS movement calls on supporters worldwide to join Anti-Chevron Day on Wednesday, May 21, just one week before Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting (AGM). Be a part of Anti-Chevron Day on May 21 by peacefully disrupting business as usual. Find resources & toolkits, here ➡️ loom.ly/R_GwmEU

Some creative #streetTheater by @troublemakers.bsky.social at @teslatakedown.com in #Seattle last weekend. Happy to see some #humor! youtu.be/zCuSjs3qCkE

D O G S At U-Village: a DOGE parody

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BREAKING: MASSIVE win in NYC. Our movement's direct action and pressure campaign targeting Comptroller Brad Lander has WORKED. NYC Pension funds, totaling $285 BILLION, will now be pushed to DROP money managers like BlackRock that do not meet aggressive climate criteria.