Susan Hinton
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I believe in the campground rule: Leave the world in a better state than found. #climate #global #heat #plastic #outdoors #life #bio #diversity #diversity #diversity
Newsom channels GOP vibes Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 954, a measure by Senator Catherine Blakespear that would have tightened California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements and rolled back broad industrial exemptions passed under previous budget legislation.
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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What’s wrong with the following statement: “We are grateful to share that JP Morgan Chase has awarded [a nonprofit] a significant 2 year grant that will uplift our Community Roots Collaborative program.”
For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis.
False Promises: The “Solution” to the Climate Crisis That Won’t Work
As global leaders look to tech advances to solve climate change, one leading idea involves capturing carbon pollution from the air and burying it underground forever. While carbon capture may sound pr...
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Not. Entirely tongue in cheek. Can individual U.S. states become E.U. associate members? For example, California?
Dear People. Full stop. If there are no people then there is no electric grid or internet. If there is no electricity there is no A.I. Maybe A.I. will care about that …
Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · last wk.“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” -HAL 9000
Paragraph in today’s NY Times. Notice the word ‘sympathetic’. “Right now, because the A.I. works so fast, researchers need A.I. to monitor it. But that doesn’t always work, because the A.I. monitors can appear to be more sympathetic to other A.I. systems than to the humans setting the rules.”
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
Too bad they can’t drive -through- the convention halls. I bet there’d be a nifty echo.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2w agoGenius. (Sound on 🔉) @nonewdatacenters.bsky.social
As the planet heats up, tundras are thawing, wetlands are fermenting, and forests are succumbing to larger and more frequent wildfires. A new study finds the breakdown of natural systems could amplify human-driven warming by 20 to 30 percent.
The Breakdown of Natural Systems Could Intensify Warming by 30 Percent
As the planet heats up, tundras are thawing, wetlands are fermenting, and forests are succumbing to larger and more frequent wildfires. The breakdown of these natural systems is unleashing huge volumes of emissions, further intensifying warming from the burning of fossil fuels. According to new research, such feedback loops could amplify human-driven warming by 20 to 30 percent.
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PSA: Election officials in California, Oregon, Washington and elsewhere are telling voters if you can, return your ballot through an official ballot drop box rather than trusting it to the mail.
Oscar winning filmmaker Laura Poitras & Minneapolis-based filmmaker & journalist Rachel Lauren Mueller document ICE. The result is showing at the Venice Film Festival, being held now. Forward to time 3:15 minutes: “I want to ask you about this web of resistance in Minneapolis …. “
Interview: Laura Poitras & Rachel Lauren Mueller - THEY'RE HERE | Venezia 83
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So $17,700,000 to $89,744, or 197 times as much. “NEW YORK (AP) — The typical CEO compensation package rose nearly 6% in 2025 to $17.7 million, as company boards rewarded … executives … The median employee at companies in the S&P 500 earned $89,744 …” Associated Press apnews.com/article/ceo-...
Success! On 9/4/2026 the Olympic Club withdrew its MOU to cover Westlake Park with plastic!
Sierra Club Loma Prieta Chapter@sierraclublp.bsky.social · 3w ago📣 "According to documents on City web pages, at less than 1 acre of public park per 1000 residents, Daly City has considerably less than the state prescribed percentage of 3 park acres per 1000 residents; Daly City needs to triple its acreage to meet state standards." 📑 tinyurl.com/3aj36bse
Oil companies & global warming “My livelihood is directly dependent on the environment,” he said. “Increasingly inconsistent weather patterns — including hotter summers, mild winters & a lack of summer moisture — make an already dynamic and complex job more unpredictable & difficult to navigate.”
Global warming is ruining their way of life. These Colorado ranchers demand accountability
Colorado ranchers struggling with severe drought and heat have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a climate case that soon will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Does anyone else think that John Cena playing the evil ACME lawyer Buddy Crane looks sorta like Hegseth but hella smarter?
Trump is criminal, fronting a criminal organization.
Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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“Contractors would hold people in vans at …arrests. They… drive them more than a million miles a year across … states. They would house them … in private [buildings] call[ed] ‘the federal facility’ … “
Deborah E@deborahe.bsky.social · 4w agoMeanwhile… “‘When you see the carcasses of penguins on beaches, that is an indication that the El Niño is really, really strong,’ Dr. Zavalaga said.”
Inside One of Peru’s Most Vulnerable Penguin Colonies (Gift Article)
Scientists worry about the penguins’ future amid changing temperatures and warming waters this year.
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Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: After cheating to win he takes a boat full of men the wrong way home.
“Dr Hungria [is a] proponent of biological nitrogen fixation … in which crops form a mutually beneficial association with soil bacteria that provides nitrogen, an essential nutrient for plant growth. At the outset … little research existed on microbiology as a solution for soil fertility.”
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19)@covid19disease.bsky.social · 4w ago🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
Newsom's attempt to exempt coastal development in Santa Monica from environmental regulations will have major consequences for coastal protection and public access. The Governor should be protecting California's coasts, not giving hand outs to donors. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: A coastal development exemption in Santa Monica? Shame on Gov. Newsom
Gov. Newsom is pushing a bill that would exempt a donor-developer from normal project review.
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🫁 Research recently published in Nature, Communications Earth and Environment indicates that about 4% of particulates found in urban air, in Leipzig, Germany, comes from plastic. Of those particulates, 65% comes from tire wear. tinyurl.com/5n82dsh6 🫀 Join our Plastic Pollution Prevention Committee.
The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)
A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care.
U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...
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Apparently billionaires -have- figured out people don’t like their polluting projects, so instead of listening they are acting in bad faith.
Lisa Song@lisalsong.bsky.social · 4w ago"The E.P.A. has also proposed another sweeping change that would let developers start building data centers before their permits are approved." Um...Data centers are already super contentious. What do you think will happen if people wake up to a surprise data center being built across the street?
Billionaires continue to not understand why populace doesn’t love their self-serving money-gobbling responsibility-shedding infrastructure projects. (It’s not just data-centers.) BTW, Gov. Newsom originated this legislation. Why doesn’t he move to Texas where his legislation would be more welcome?
Solano supervisors say no to a shipyard deal for billionaire-backed California Forever
In a surprise vote, Solano County supervisors rejected a plan to clear the way for California Forever's shipbuilding facility
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90,000 displaced. Climate migration is here. “A fast-growing wildfire destroying homes in … Reno … on Sunday was human-caused & uncontained, authorities said, as they encouraged some 90,000 people to evacuate … On Saturday … 15 new fires popped up across Nevada.“ www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
