Scott Greacen

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Environmental advocate, coastal far Northern California (aka Baja Cascadia). Conservation Director @Friends of the Eel River. Intemperate opinions my own.

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Fight against daunting odds, because it’s the right thing to do, and because sometimes you win.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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at least it was for a stupid cause though

Gift link.

Wildlife Protections Take a Back Seat to SpaceX’s Ambitionswww.nytimes.com A New York Times investigation found that Elon Musk exploited federal agencies’ competing missions to achieve his goals for space travel.

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all those whale recordings are actually diss tracks

Hang up the hydrophone son you got a blue box well I got a blue marble

It’s starting to break through, keep talking about how batshit crazy and evil Project 2025 and the GOP are

Interview with Rep Jared Huffman, mostly about Project 2025 lostcoastoutpost.com/2024/jun/29/...

THE ECONEWS REPORT: Project 2025 and the Environmentlostcoastoutpost.com

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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Brown Pelicans diving in Humboldt County, California #birds

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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

Let the machines decide what reality is (by amplifying our fears and biases)

Well this is grim

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If you like to learn about the universe in ~5 minute videos, check out my new series!

The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1youtu.be In this episode of Cosmology 101, we dive into the concept of an expanding universe. From the first moments of the Big Bang, our cosmos has been stretching i...

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When you hate EVs and trains and bikes you’ve got Chevron Preference

We talk Chevron open.spotify.com/episode/5Mjr...

Chevron Overturned: What It Means for Our Environmentopen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from EcoNews Report on Spotify. Chevron deference is no more. What's Chevron deference you ask? Well, it was the backbone of our federal administrative state. Congress often pas...

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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler

Regardless of what you think of America there are a lot of species (and ecosystem) worth fighting for

regardless of what you think of America there are a lot of good people here worth fighting for, and that’s what I’m going to hold onto regardless of what happens in November and those people are worth celebrating

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

It's worth googling the Great Smog of London to see how far we've come. Images like this from the 1950s. It was caused in part from burning coal

Doing harm we can’t fix chasing profits they don’t need making a thing nobody wants is some Real American Genius alright. Twain would’ve roasted these fucks.

"In 2023, Google’s carbon intensity climbed to 11.4 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per million dollars of revenue. That’s up 101% since 2019, and up nearly 25% since 2022." Microsoft's "increased by 20% since 2022."

Google just released numbers on AI and emissions — and they aren’t good | Latitude Mediawww.latitudemedia.com And as the artificial intelligence arms race wages on, the company expects emissions to keep going up.

Gary Snyder, from Axe Handles

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The Helsinki library is like the apotheosis of Library As Useful Public Space. I am in awe.

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The environmental toll of AI is obscene, especially when things like Google's AI search don't create real social benefits. prospect.org/environment/...

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Matt Seybold

“Patriotism I s a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn’t a foot of land in the world which doesn’t represent the ousting & re-ousting of a long line of successive ‘owners,’ who each in turn, as ‘patriots,’ with proud swelling hearts defended it… 8/9

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We know we don't have much time left so we've been spending a lot of time with America for its last birthday. Plenty of hugs, taking pictures. My niece is in film school, and got the camera out and interviewed it about what it was like growing up, just trying to record memories while we have them.

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"Public outrage has somehow made the court more reckless. The time for wishful thinking about the power of shame, institutional legitimacy, and historical legacy is over. The time for action may well be now or never" @mjsdc.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Supreme Court Is Fully MAGA-Pilled. The Time for Action Is Now or Never.slate.com John Roberts is Donald Trump‘s handmaiden, and progressives are running out of options.

Listening to EcoNews Report (Chevron Overturned: What It Means for Our Environment) www.buzzsprout.com/722124/15358...

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ICYMI, I wrote about the terrible trap the Republicans have set up for this country. itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

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Sarah J. Jackson

(1/?) “It would be naïve to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”

Overreach signals desperation, not confidence.

It’s like we’re slow-boiling in bad faith or something I dunno

2011: Fake Birth Certificate & Fake President 2017: Fake News 2020: Fake Election 2022: Woke Marxist Education 2024: Fake Legal System This is what the fascist assault on democratic institutions looks like.