Erik Ness — The Lemonadist
@lemonadist.bsky.social
Thinking and writing about climate, environmental change, paddling canoes.
Bernie Sanders: "I know conservative parents want to raise their kids to be honest, not to be bullies, not to lie and cheat all of the time. If we want to raise our kids to be honest, not to be narcissists who think the world revolves around them, then we need to hold Donald Trump accountable."
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...
I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves (U.S. National Park Service)
I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves
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The Native Americans’ National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers pinpoint the poison pill in the BAAJA. www.nathpo.org/permitting-r...
Permitting Reform, BAAJA, & Tribal Historic Preservation
Permitting Reform, BAAJA, & Tribal Historic Preservation Congress is considering major changes to federal permitting laws through the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA), S....
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Republican 2018 Criminal Election Fraud Is Happening Again. bsky.app/profile/papo...
Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only@papootx.bsky.social · 4w agoThe Voting Machine Issue Texas Early Voting October 2018 Votes Flipped From Beto To Cruz Large city voters reported that Hart eSlate voting machines flipped their straight-ticket Democratic selections to Ted Cruz The Voter didn't select any Republican candidate. How? www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
Fantastic @craigtimes.bsky.social column on the history and status of wildlife crossings in Florida for panthers, turtles, and other critters, featuring an extended cameo by America’s favorite #roadecology book. floridaphoenix.com/2026/10/22/t...
Commentary: To avoid becoming roadkill, Florida panthers need critter crossings • Florida Phoenix
One of my favorite cartoons, drawn by a Pensacola artist named Jem Sullivan, shows a flock of sad-looking chickens gathered around a casket. The chicken minister delivering the eulogy says, “And thoug...
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There is simply no aspect of government function, history, fact, or science that the Trump administration and its sycophants aren't actively breaking. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...
Hegseth’s Staff Broke Eisenhower’s Globe Trying To Move It To His Office
There is a large hold in the globe and it became detached from its mounting.
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I will hang a portrait of the dem politician who takes down Carr in my house. Not the bedroom, not the living room, but also not the bathroom
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · last wk.In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)
You, the taxpayer, own this. He uses your tax money to fund GOP ad buys, has stolen all of your most sensitive data through DOGE, has been directly responsible for many deaths in Ukraine because of Starlink and also indirectly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths by destroying USAID
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.BREAKING WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade version of Starlink that Ukraine relied on.
This new tool, the Carbon Impacts Tracer, which translates carbon emissions into real-world climate impacts like heat exposure and coral bleaching, looks super useful. ➡️ carbonimpactstracer.com
New tool directly links carbon emissions to amount of environmental and economic damage caused
Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production
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This is barbaric. Medieval . What is this country turning into? Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed apnews.com/article/fort...
Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be “public.”
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"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.
Frontiers | The problem with polarization research in an age of extremism
"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...
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lmfao Andrew Tate looks like a raccoon that all the other raccoons have exiled to live alone and haunted in a failing açaí place’s recycling bin
Dr Dean Burnett@drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4w agoUnless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
tbh i still can't wrap my head around even *this* supreme court allowing the trump regime to deport individuals to third countries where they lack cxn, can be subject to abuse, & lack any guarantee against non-refoulement. it is just so blatantly illegal & at scale such a crime against humanity.
"Three billionaires gave more than 90 percent of the money raised by Representative Tom Tiffany, the Republican nominee for governor of Wisconsin" Tom Tiffany is the most bought and paid for candidate we've ever seen in Wisconsin. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
3 Billionaires Have Largely Funded Republican Nominee for Wisconsin Governor (Gift Article)
Under its current rules, Wisconsin has not had a race in which a small number of donors have made up such a large share of a campaign’s funding.
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A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear.
The Independent@the-independent.com · last mo.An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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New OS game unlocked: finding the obscure settings to turn off the AI "tools." Apple, please stop.
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Wowww. A federal prosecutor in Minnesota was going to bring charges against ICE agent Castro for shooting Sosa-Celis, but Blanche’s DOJ blocked it. Castro was let out of prison by Gov. Abbott last week in defiance of state prosecutors extradition warrant. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections
A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...
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The top priority is to repeatedly send the message loud and clear that ICE agents can gun down anyone they like with complete impunity. So whenever Trump calls upon them as his personal militia, they don’t hesitate. And so everyone else lives in fear of this fact.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2mo agoWowww. A federal prosecutor in Minnesota was going to bring charges against ICE agent Castro for shooting Sosa-Celis, but Blanche’s DOJ blocked it. Castro was let out of prison by Gov. Abbott last week in defiance of state prosecutors extradition warrant. www.propublica.org/article/doj-...
30 million acres of corn for ethanol, much carved out of forests. Also, solar with good land stewardship has native plants that hold soils in place, provide habitat for pollinators and other critters and does not require chemicals as does ag. It also results in less soil loss and water pollution.
The link between Iowa corn and the dead zone in the Gulf » Yale Climate Connections
The Mississippi River carries fertilizer runoff from the Midwest to the Gulf – and increasingly extreme rain is making the problem more urgent.
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