MeteorBlades
@meteorblades.bsky.social
I am a longtime resident of Laniakea. Galaxy Quest tells us how to fight for progressive social & economic policies: Never give up, never surrender. #Landback! Restore Native sovereignty over the Black Hills
Hey y’all, let us know how much of a refund YOU got from the tariff payback. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/t...
Trump admin refunds $100 billion in 'liberation day' tariffs
The Trump administration has taken steps to effectively re-create the IEEPA tariff regime using other legal authorities. They already face court challenges.
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Among the places threatened by worsening wildfire: America’s natural and cultural sites.
Climate-Fueled Fires Put America’s Natural and Cultural Sites At Risk - Inside Climate News
New studies find that wildfire is a major threat to significant historical and national park sites across the United States.
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Hey y’all, let us know how much of a refund YOU got from the tariff payback. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/t...
Trump admin refunds $100 billion in 'liberation day' tariffs
The Trump administration has taken steps to effectively re-create the IEEPA tariff regime using other legal authorities. They already face court challenges.
cnbc.com
Think how many families with kids could get their Republican-eliminated SNAP benefits (née food stamps) restored with the $2.8 billion the Trump regime is paying energy companies to stop installing offshore wind turbines and instead build health-harming, climate-wrecking, dirty energy projects.
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
The spread of solar energy is finally fulfilling the dream of those of us who worked at the Solar Energy Research Institute in the late ‘70s. But even though global solar output is expected to triple by 2036, it currently only generates 7% of electricity with coal, gas & oil at 60%. Faster, please!
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
www.epi.org/deportation-... The Economic Policy Institute has released the Cost of Deportations Calculator. The tool shows how many tax dollars are paying for deportations in each state, county, and city. The calculator shows what that money could be spent on instead—such as school teachers.
The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
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The spread of solar energy is finally fulfilling the dream of those of us who worked at the Solar Energy Research Institute in the late ‘70s. But even though global solar output is expected to triple by 2036, it currently only generates 7% of electricity with coal, gas & oil at 60%. Faster, please!
Why are the devastating fires 🔥 in the Pacific NW so immense? Is it ‘just summer’? Land management issues? Climate change? In this short video we cover a ton of ground with an in-depth analysis on what the data shows. Stick around for a complete picture of the #science of these #wildfires #spokane
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
honestly if all that stuff disappeared my days would improve? I wouldn't have to navigate cryptic menus to opt out everywhere, I wouldn't see shifty chatgpt posters everywhere I wouldn't have to hear ppl say "I asked chatgpt..."
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 12h agoI have one answer.
www.epi.org/deportation-... The Economic Policy Institute has released the Cost of Deportations Calculator. The tool shows how many tax dollars are paying for deportations in each state, county, and city. The calculator shows what that money could be spent on instead—such as school teachers.
The Cost of Deportations Calculator
The Trump administration is taking billions of _your_ taxpayer dollars to pay for mass deportations. The Cost of Deportations Calculator shows what could this money be used for instead.
epi.org
They knew The fossil fuel industry knew Politicians have known Only a few GAF then & now & nothing meaningful's being done Devastated by what we are doing to this planet & the rest of the beings who had no say or choice & are suffering because of human hubris, greed, selfishness, & sadism
Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 19h agoThe Arctic is cooking and we are in serious trouble In what should be one of the coldest places on Earth Its 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), as hot as Orlando Florida Without Arctic natural air conditioning systems we are toast www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
Adaptation is our only climate hope? ”As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, temperatures will increase globally. And that will mean that these fire weather conditions will get worse and worse and worse,” says climatologist Friederike Otto. “There are hard limits to what we can adapt to.”
One thing you can't do is combine a data center with farming. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...
Virginia lays groundwork to combine more solar with farming
A new state law aims to spur agrivoltaics projects where crops or livestock thrive amid solar panels, as AI power demand booms and concerns about farmland…
canarymedia.com
One thing you can't do is combine a data center with farming. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...
Virginia lays groundwork to combine more solar with farming
A new state law aims to spur agrivoltaics projects where crops or livestock thrive amid solar panels, as AI power demand booms and concerns about farmland…
canarymedia.com
Sen. John Cornyn tells reporters that a “no” vote on Epstein-file withholder Todd Blanche’s nomination to be Atty. General won’t help the Epstein survivors. And a “yes” vote will?
As the world’s data center capital, Virginia faces a surge in energy demand that could spike power costs and lead to more polluting fossil fuel plants. At the same time, the state is seeing its farmland disappear at one of the fastest rates in the United States.🌎 www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...
Virginia lays groundwork to combine more solar with farming
A new state law aims to spur agrivoltaics projects where crops or livestock thrive amid solar panels, as AI power demand booms and concerns about farmland…
canarymedia.com
Adaptation is our only climate hope? ”As long as we keep burning fossil fuels, temperatures will increase globally. And that will mean that these fire weather conditions will get worse and worse and worse,” says climatologist Friederike Otto. “There are hard limits to what we can adapt to.”
From the Economic Policy Institute: www.epi.org/blog/in-trum...
In Trump’s economy, Black adults and their families face worsening job security and financial stability
The Trump-Vance administration inherited a strong labor market with record employment and wage gains. But after a year of the administration’s economic mismanagement, workers are feeling more vulnerab...
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In other words, going from a constitutional right (Roe) to a constitutional state by state decision (Dobbs) to a constitutional rule of no abortions. What is the DOJ/legal underpinning for that? There isn't one. Ladies & Gentlemen, your lawless soon-to-be AG. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
politico.com
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Another case of which liar to distrust the most. Trump, who once again says the Iranians reached out to him to get negotiations going again, which he says are already underway? Or the Iranian leadership, including the foreign minister, who says there's been no reaching out and no talks scheduled?
Trump is intent on wrecking Head Start, chopping regulations that makes the program the gold standard for early learning. Khari Garvin, who ran Head Start under Biden, said, “We’d have the carcass of Head Start. You might have a program that’s called Head Start, but in substance it will not be.”
apnews.com/article/trum... It looks like yet another loyalist woman is in Trump’s crosshairs. He said Monday that U.S. Atty. Jeanine Pirro had “choked” & “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against David Hearn, whom he accused of vandalism. Maybe you should start packing, Jeanie.
Trump says Pirro 'folded like an umbrella' in bid to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism charges
President Donald Trump says U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella” in moving to drop charges against a former Olympian accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflectin...
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Trump is intent on wrecking Head Start, chopping regulations that makes the program the gold standard for early learning. Khari Garvin, who ran Head Start under Biden, said, “We’d have the carcass of Head Start. You might have a program that’s called Head Start, but in substance it will not be.”
In deliberations over future Colorado River water allocations in a time of dwindling regional precipitation, tribal nations are too often treated as nuisances rather than sovereign peoples. That's one of the oldest habits in the American West. www.unchartedblue.com/colorado-riv...
Colorado River Blues: Decades of warnings sparked no serious response. Now a megadrought and the climate crisis may force gigantic water cuts
The Bureau of Reclamation announced a plan Friday for allocating river allocations to seven states through 2036. Marc Reisner warned us four decades ago in "Cadillac Desert" that this day was coming.
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