Evan Berry
@ecothought.bsky.social
Settler on Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh territory. Sunny, but grumpy at the same time. Academic interests: environmental humanities, religion and climate change, petroculture, religious studies in public higher education, human rights 🍉🌈🏜️🚫🧊
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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What happens if you repurpose everything, including healthcare and educational funding, for unlimited funding and zero accountability for the military and police?
Justin Ling@justinling.ca · 20h agoHoly shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
Unless we ban the use of fossil fuels for energy generation and surface transport, no company will ever leave this stuff in the ground. Why would they when they're making money hand over fist?
Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Reports 33% Profit Surge, Despite Iran War Disruptions (Gift Article)
Higher oil prices propelled a quarterly earnings jump for Saudi Arabia’s energy giant, which used pipelines to work around disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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clicking for the religious studies angle, staying for the perfectly executed y2k bullshittery
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoVampire-obsessed man detained after dumping animal corpses outside churches in New Forest
“Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine.”
John Fugelsang@johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 5d agoPope Leo and Patti Smith
Not knowing the difference between “perimeters” and “parameters” is worse than wearing a tan suit. However, this mistake would be forgivable for a leader who was not a rapist.
The @isanet.bsky.social Religion and International Relations Book Award recognizes a book that excels in originality, significance and rigor in the broadly defined field of Religion and IR. There are also awards for best graduate paper and best dissertation. www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...
Religion and International Relations Book Award
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People who think “Africa” is a country should not be trusted to make policy decisions related to African countries. www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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If 'centrist democrats' want to beat 'left flank democrats' in primary elections, they should espouse more popular policy positions.
Jake Blumgart@jblumgart.bsky.social · 5d ago"Between 2015 and 2020, conservatives fomented a national panic over the idea that left-wing college students and professors had turned universities into places of censorship and ideological intolerance." newrepublic.com/article/2135...
The Campus Free Speech Wars Are Over. MAGA Won.
The right spent years trying to convince us that campus lefties were authoritarians in waiting. But then an actual authoritarian became president.
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The 250 year old Cottonwood tree branches once stretched across the border into Mexico before the destruction began in Lochiel. Support the land defenders and protect the borderlands from further militarization and destruction.
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 7d agoBREAKING: Tree sit goes up to stop border wall construction in Arizona. The action is reportedly the first tree sit in the U.S. aimed at stopping construction of a border barrier. Land defenders on the ground are asking people to show up and support.
“Maybe if you goose stepping morons tried reading books instead of burning them” etc.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.
I have a
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Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · last wk.I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...
Do not look away. We must bear witness and tell the truth.
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
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@aweiss.bsky.social @90milesfromneedles.com givebutter.com/stop-destruc...
Protect Lochiel
Help us stop them from destroying ancient cottonwood trees and cultural sites at the border
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Andrea Hoerr@awilddre.bsky.social · last wk.🚨Last stand at Lochiel AZ for 200 year old cottonwoods - HAPPENING NOW. If you can drive down & support activists on the ground bearing witness you are most welcome. Border wall violence comes to a serene ghost town.
The Trump administration is preparing to use nearly $5 million in State Department funding to back organizations promoting anti-immigrant narratives and “Western civilizational heritage” across Europe. The program could deepen ties between Washington and Europe’s far-right movements. Read more:
State Department Plans $5 Million Push for ‘Western Civilizational Heritage’ in Europe
The Trump administration is launching a nearly $5 million State Department program to fund organizations across Europe that promote anti-immigrant narratives, Christian nationalist rhetoric, and the d...
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Since a certain movie is in the public consciousness: this obscenity — in the Greek sense of the term — is like something out of an ancient play. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...
Iran War Widow Says 'Nobody Has Reached Out' To Explain Husband's Removal From Death Toll
Jamiah Gonzalez-Swinton gave a tearful interview after her late husband, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, vanished from the Pentagon’s public casualty count.
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Exactly this: lay our bodies upon the gears of the machine so that this little guy can take a sip of water.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2w agoEverything is on fire, but I just saw one of these drinking from the pond. We cannot let the fascists destroy our world.
“Researchers, environmentalists and Indigenous leaders warn the project will cause untold damage to this fragile, remote wilderness and the animals that call it home.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
This desert oasis is a biological wonderland. Trump’s border wall threatens to destroy it
Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over plans that threaten a desert spring that’s home to rare fish and turtles and sacred to the O’odham people
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Re-reading this article from a couple of years ago to make sure it was relevant enough to assign for a class reading. Unfortunately, yes, "petro-religious nationalisms" is still a useful way of thinking about contemporary politics. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...
“The lead researcher on the paper told us he was worried it [Claude] felt able to override human decisions.”
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2w agooh my goodness we somehow lost control of our own software in a country with no functioning regulators, time for some protectionist legislation our lawyers ghost write locking consumers into enshittified walled gardens
Abolish ICE and salt the ground on which it was built www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Man killed in ICE ‘encounter’ was on vacation in US with tourist visa – reports
Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán ran into traffic and killed by semi after federal officials approached him at Florida gas station
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You guys aren't going to believe this, but ... it turns out the oil & gas industry knew that they were poisoning people (in this case, with methane) for years, and they hid it & did nothing to mitigate the harm. No, really, it's true! Incredible investigative work here from @rebleber.bsky.social:
Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest
The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.
nytimes.com
The company hopes to launch thousands of satellites by 2030, “reflecting as much light as 100 full moons.”
Sara R. Fagerlie, PhD, CHCP@cancercommunicator.com · 3w ago"the American Astronomical Society said the endeavor cannot be considered to serve the public interest and would waste taxpayer $ by wrecking the work of federally funded astronomical facilities even as it brought untold risks to people and wildlife" Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
