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Musician and writer working on climate and coastal issues in the Ocean State.

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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It's because they want to privatize weather. They tried doing it under his last administration but many people didn't really notice beyond the weird hurricane drawing he did. It's also why they cut (or at least tried to it's been a minute since I read that stuff) a bunch of NASA Earth's funding too

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Trump’s Pick to Lead Weather Agency Spent 30 Years Fighting Itwww.bloomberg.com Who owns the weather?

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Fitting tribute to a remarkable man.

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86

Tuskegee syphilis study whistleblower Peter Buxtun has died at age 86www.seattletimes.com The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86.

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From America's hardest-hitting investigative journalists at @teenvogue.bsky.social, a BEAUTY of an introductory piece (I've gifted annual subscriptions to random small-town libraries; you can, too!) www.teenvogue.com/story/everyt...

Every Gen Z Issue JD Vance Is Againstwww.teenvogue.com From guns, and climate change to abortion and LGBTQ rights, the Republican VP is being called “Anti-Gen Z.”

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“Heat pumps don’t work when it’s cold.” I often read in articles written by people who never had a heat pump. How come that most heat pumps per capita are installed in coldest countries? Hint: the claim is incorrect. My article for @carbonbrief.org here👇 www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18...

If you are also an Old Millennial, perhaps you'd prefer this playlist of songs released in 1994 over today's news cycle open.spotify.com/playlist/3Ob...

I'm talkin' 1994open.spotify.com I'm talkin' 1994 · Playlist · 68 songs · 5 likes

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This is Sylvia Gonzalez. At age 72, she won an upset victory for city council after campaigning to oust the city manager. The mayor didn't like that. So he had her arrested & jailed. The Supreme Court is about to hear her case, which has largely gone unnoticed. A thread.

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Hurricane Beryl hit Houston hard. This neighborhood-run organization, built after Hurricane Harvey, is now gathering funds for a just recovery from yet another storm. www.weststreetrecovery.org/donate

Donate - West Street Recoverywww.weststreetrecovery.org Support Our work Four years since Harvey, we have grown into a year-round organization with full time staff. We have ongoing home repair, research, and organizing projects and are proud to have grown ...

Smdh RI making everything about themselves again 🙄😂

My "Pennsylvania shooter has no connection to Rhode Island" press release has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my press release

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The way forward is mutual aid. Feel lost, lonely, scared? There is a free fridge project or pantry near you. Make some sandwiches. I am absolutely not kidding about this. “Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake” is not terrible advice if you give it away.

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All of this still applies.

Take a Deep Breath and Think About What You Need to Doorganizingmythoughts.org How powerful will we choose to become as the world falls down and what will we have the potential to build?

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it's important for outlets to explain that when we talk about AI "posing a threat to humanity," we're talking about the rushed implementation of half-cooked automation killing your grandma with an auto-rejection of her medicare claims, not sentient industrialized planet-scouring murderbots (for now)

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit allegesarstechnica.com For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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talked to a centerpoint exec who feels great about how things are going in Houston www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

CenterPoint Energy Executive Is “Very Proud Of and Impressed By” the Company’s Beryl Responsewww.texasmonthly.com While Houston residents and Texas politicians take aim at the electricity provider’s reaction to the storm, a senior vice president defended the response.

Dan u maniac

thank you to my editors at @texasmonthly.bsky.social for letting me publish whatever this is www.texasmonthly.com/food/2024-st...

A Postapocalyptic Guide to the 2024 State Fair’s Big Tex Choice Awards Semifinalistswww.texasmonthly.com Imagine wandering through what was once Dallas after the Collapse and stumbling upon the State Fair’s 2024 Big Tex Choice Awards semifinalists.

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you're waiting for the climate catastrophe, here it is. grids downed in cities with infrastructures gutted by corporate greed and overtaxed by rising temperatures. people boiling alive in their homes. we'll probably never know how many people die in Houston over this next month due to this hurricane

Personally, I hate tech because in 2010 shared a table with a dev at Epoch in Austin who a) was reading a book on hypnotism, b) told me he doesn't tip baristas because "they don't do anything" and c) asked for my number immediately after I said "if you can't tip, make your own coffee at home"

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OMG.

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PLS, 4 UR ENJOYMENT, TAKE A LIL LOOK @ THIS VIDEO EXPLAINER OF WET BULB TEMPS www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCG2...

WTF IS A WET BULB TEMPERATURE NEWAYS? EXPLAINEDwww.youtube.com YouTube video by WEATHER IS HAPPENING

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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Some thoughts on how to navigate this moment.

Take a Deep Breath and Think About What You Need to Doorganizingmythoughts.org How powerful will we choose to become as the world falls down and what will we have the potential to build?

EPA Climate Change Indicators in the U.S. 5e dropped: www.epa.gov/climate-indi...

Had my day of despair today, but I also got to see the unveiling of the new in-line charging station for RIPTA's R Line. I wonder when the right people will note the connection between high ridership and frequency (R has the highest ridership in the state and allegedly arrives every 10 minutes 🤔)

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Join For the People Leftist Library Project on August 1st for an event co-hosted by Run For Something. We’ll start by covering how public libraries work and then dive into specific ways you can get involved in strengthening and transforming them. www.mobilize.us/runforsometh...

Love Is Not Enough: How We Can Strengthen & Expand Public Libraries · Run for Somethingwww.mobilize.us Most public libraries are governed by elected and appointed officials on library boards. And even if you love your public library, odds are you might be in the dark about how your local library board ...

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We have our first Cat 5 #hurricane of the season and the earliest on record. Pressure at 948 mb and wind speeds near 160 mph. #Beryl

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BERYL IS THE EARLIEST LEVEL FOUR *&* LEVEL FIVE HORRORBLOB IN UR ATLANTIC OCEAN EVER

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Comrade card for 7/1/2024. (Words by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social)

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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what

I hope we all enjoyed our last Pride month in the US. Project 2025 will put an end to it

Last week, I visited a certain island community in my state, to meet with people who deal with the consequences of sea level rise there. The fact that only a community activist would openly discuss the need to move further inland was unsurprising.

“California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey have the most critical infrastructure that needs to be made more flood resilient – or be relocated to safer ground.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rising sea levels will disrupt millions of Americans’ lives by 2050, study findswww.theguardian.com Floods could leave coastal communities in states like Florida and California unlivable in two decades

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Give yourself permission to attend to other ways of shifting our conditions. There are many.