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Hermit Thrush

@hermitthrush24.bsky.social

extinction rebellion; book editor in heart of indigenous N. California; reparations; universal health rights; voting rts; songbirds, forests, lichens, art, poetry, óran na h’eala, Lo Jai, plant acorns. Awake. Free Palestine. Resist fascisti. Dump AI & ice

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Hermit Thrush@hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 2d ago

Next: Election defense.🧵 NoKings online Wed 10/21, 8pm ET / 5pm PT--talk about the final push for voter turnout & what happens post-election: how we're preparing for election enforcement, how you can start to plan now to be ready to protect the results of the election www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

No Kings: Vote Early: What's Next After 10/17? Election Defense · No Kings

Following the October 17 No Kings: Vote Early mass day of activations, gather with the No Kings movement online on Wednesday 10/21 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT to talk about the final push for voter turnout, as...

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Lyn Heideman@heidelyn.bsky.social · 3d ago

Land exchanges are legal, but recent swaps bypass process to favor the wealthy and well-connected. For example: Yosemite in CA, Lower Rio Grande Valley SpaceX facility in TX, Prince William Forest Park data center in VA, Resolution Copper mine in AZ. More: www.americanprogress.org/article/publ...? 🌎

Public Land Swaps for Private Gain: How the Trump Administration Is Trading Away Public Lands for Corporate Benefit

From a private resort road through Yosemite to a SpaceX facility on a Texas wildlife refuge, land exchanges are an emerging threat to public lands and a potential jackpot for wealthy and well-connecte...

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Hermit Thrush@hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 3d ago

anyone checking on malevolent manipulators in the US? 'According to Lula's party, some of his posts appeared w/out a ​share button, suffered ​reduced reach, & ⁠had stories that prevented reactions and sharing, in addition to appearing without audio...' www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil election, Folha reports

Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during the country's election, newsp...

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Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 5d ago

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 5d ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Hermit Thrush@hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 4d ago

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza & a trace of rodenticide: California Dept of Fish & Wildlife w/ San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance & Ojai Raptor Ctr released necropsy results following the death of Patient 26-519, the bald eagle from Big Bear Valley known as Jackie wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive... 🧵

CDFW News | Necropsy Provides New Information About Beloved Bald Eagle Known as Jackie

Necropsy results provide new details on what led to the passing of the beloved Bald Eagle known as Jackie

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Lyn Heideman@heidelyn.bsky.social · 5d ago

and scientific institutions. For repeal? Concentrated among extractive industries, trade associations, and local gov'ts seeking greater flexibility over how national forests are managed. Summary: morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/we-examine.... Analysis: morethanjustparks.com/news/reports.... 🌎

We Examined Who Actually Supported Repealing the Roadless Rule. The Results Tell a Remarkable Story.

We dug through hundreds of organizational filings to find out who wanted one of America’s most important forest protections eliminated.

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Mincepies@mincepies8888.bsky.social · 6d ago

USA Vote: URGENT Registration ends: 13th - DC, MD, NJ, OR, WV 14th - WI 16th - NE 19th - AL, DE, SD, WY, PA, CA 23rd - ID, UT, VA,TX 24th - MS, TN, NY Help/Info: www.votefromabroad.org Citizens abroad request ballot by e mail. Pls copy/paste everywhere to remind other Americans. Vote! Vote! Vote!

Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org

Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · last wk.

PMC COVlD Update, Oct 12, 2026 🔸Levels revised upward for a double-peak 🔸39-state outbreak (see ALT) 🔸PMC estimates 750,000 new daily infections, & 1 in 65 people actively infectious 🔸1st time starting Oct w/rising levels since 2020 Interactive map (best on computer): pmc19.com/map 1/🧵

States with observed outbreaks include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming. Additional states with poor monitoring likely have outbreaks based on high levels in bordering counties in adjacent states.
Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m doing a 5K on October 18th to support cancer research. I wanted to do something fun, so in addition to wearing an N95, I will wear an additional N95 on my person for every $50 donated (runsignup.com/mask). Thanks for a reshare or any contribution. Even a penny would help! Details in ALT text.

I’m doing a 5K on October 18th to support research at the Tulane Cancer Center, here in the Deep South. I wanted to do something fun, so in addition to wearing an N95, I will wear an additional N95 on my person for every $50 donated (http://runsignup.com/mask). $50 = 1 N95 $500 = 10 N95s $5,000 = 100 N95s $50,000 = 1,000 N95s Any partial donation would help. $10 would add an additional mask for 1K of the race. A penny would add 1 meter with an additional mask. I’ll sum partial donations and round up in the end. Even a penny🪙 or reshare🔁 would help. FAQs World Record 🔹There does not presently appear to be a Guinness World Record for most N95s on an individual in a 5K. 🔹This year, I will go for an informal record. Guinness has not yet responded to my request to go for an official record, but there is always next year. Good Health, Safety, and Environmental Modeling 🔹I will mask properly. Extra masks will not be worn on top of my mask. 🔹All masks will be individually-wrapped N95s. I will eventually wear them or donate them, if someone wants them. Caveats 🔹It’s a fun run. All donations are final, even if weather or an injury strikes. Inclusivity 🔹There are many ways to support health and health justice. Please also contribute to your local mask bloc or engage in advocacy in other ways too. There are many great causes. 🔹Many people with chronic and serious illnesses are housebound or cannot run or could run but would then crash for days or weeks after. This is no endorsement of the primacy of exercise-based activities. How Your Donation Helps 🔹Your donation supports the fight against cancer and normalizes masking. 🔹Funds support the Tulane Cancer Center. Last year’s funds went toward a project to reduce the chances of bone metastases in the context of breast cancer. 🔹I avoid financial conflicts of interest like the plague, so I will not accept any payments or apply for any funds. Please help spread the word!
Hermit Thrush@hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 2w ago

My great aunt was born in the late 1880s. I'm really not so old, I remember when there were far more songbirds & wildflowers. Just pull the plug on this crap. Vote in the US midterms, vote the monsters & their arrogant sycophants out, rein in tech, teach civics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots

A Princeton researcher found that publicly available election records could be combined with AI to link voters to their ballots

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Hermit Thrush@hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 2w ago

May the good ire of 1M comments to preserve the Roadless Rule to protect forests & watersheds bloom into enough million blue wave votes ahead. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...?

California, 16 states join forces to try to save the Roadless Rule

California is denouncing Trump’s plan to repeal the government’s “Roadless Rule” and allow roadbuilding, logging and possibly oil drilling on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land.

sfchronicle.com

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 2w ago

Masked federal agents apparently posing as construction workers attempted to arrest 28-year-old Oscar Belgal in New York on Thursday.

“Abolish ICE”: Protests Erupt in NYC After ICE Agents Shoot Father with 5-Year-Old Son in Car

Protests have erupted in New York City after a federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man in the Bronx on Thursday afternoon. As masked agents reportedly posing as construction workers attempted to arrest 28-year-old Oscar Belgal, they opened fire...

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Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 2w ago

Navi Pillay’s career in international human rights law includes work as a defense lawyer for anti-apartheid activists, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a former judge at the International Criminal Court and the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights from 2008 to 2014.

Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Wins Nobel Peace Prize in “Stinging Rebuke to Donald Trump”

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist who led the United Nations commission of inquiry that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in ...

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Lyn Heideman@heidelyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last chance to speak up for Ospreys. Up and down the East Coast, Osprey chicks are starving and nests failing for lack of menhaden. A nutrient-rich fish, menhaden are scooped up by corporations to make fish oil, etc. There's hope. The ASMFC, which determines how Atlantic fish are managed,...

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2w ago

ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.

NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government. "No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says. At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane. He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted. The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." "Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. n.pr/4hzvA5M

Hermit Thrush@hermitthrush24.bsky.social · 2w ago

May the good ire of 1M comments to preserve the Roadless Rule to protect forests & watersheds bloom into enough million blue wave votes ahead. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...?

California, 16 states join forces to try to save the Roadless Rule

California is denouncing Trump’s plan to repeal the government’s “Roadless Rule” and allow roadbuilding, logging and possibly oil drilling on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land.

sfchronicle.com

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2w ago

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Antonia Juhasz@antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 3w ago

"The ocean is a fine-tuned orchestra of processes organic and inorganic, and the temperature changes are devastating, turning its symphonies into discord and destruction." - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-starve-a-...

To Starve a Whale: Letter from a Hot Planet

I've gotten tough or resilient or case-hardened to the ugly things I read up on daily as part of my writing and civic life. Some of them, the amoral destructiveness of the tech industry and the Trump ...

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