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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 5d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

“When streets became calmer & safer, more people felt comfortable trying a bike commute for the first time. Families began pedaling to the park…Local businesses saw new life…And cycling stopped feeling like a niche activity—it became part of everyday Parisian life.”

Via @momentummag.bsky.social

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution

Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

momentummag.com

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 3d

FFS, that is the opposite of what we should be doing. This administration is complicit in genocide and ecocide at this point.

John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 3d

"The White House is offering 'concierge, white glove service' to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while simultaneously slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects."

White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says

Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 3d

This. Time to put grandpa in a home. Just tell him the padded walls are there to protect the gold and that it’s part of the stupid White House ball room he’s so excited for.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

I’m pretty sure if we designed an assisted living facility to look like the WH and put lots of gold all over it and a ballroom with his late 70s playlist on a loop we could coax him in there and he wouldn’t know the difference. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 6d

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) went on Fox News and explained the consequences of Trump’s government shutdown in one minute.

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kristen g @nomadpdx.bsky.social · 4d

Ohhh, you think you can call in the 82nd Airborne to quell this uprising?

Here’s a duck, a frog, and a capybara. Checkmate. The line for bbq is over there.

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Grem, of 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏 🔜 MCAtlanta! @gremlin.world · 6d

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

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Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social · 3d

Portland small business boosters, it’s time to embrace the inflatable animal costume economy. The people are willing to shell out cash for these and we need as much variety as we can get!!!

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 4d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

And we have made is beautiful, inclusive and kind. We do not need ICE, we do not need the National Guard, the only thing we need is to continue making Portland the weird and wonderful place it is.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 4d

'Many, especially women, speak of a sense of suffocation and dread; fearing their bodies won’t cope or that a loved one will collapse' - the brutal reality for people enduring climate-driven extreme heat:

share.google/zBYUeSC7k0tY...

How extreme temperatures strain minds and bodies: a Karachi case study

Sleeplessness, anxiety and invisible care work show why extreme heat is a public-health emergency.

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

Oh wow, I totally assumed the sign was an original, she did a good job! And yeah, wiring and attic work is not the most fun stuff.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 4d

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 5d

Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.

A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.

#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability

Urban Cooling: Table of Contents

A Quick Reference Guide to Past and Future Articles

urbancooling.substack.com

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

The Tiffany lamps really complete the look. Well done!

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 28d

Every crisis of 2025 in a nutshell.

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

Close your account and move your money to a local credit union.

Noam "Free Link" Law-msky @noamlaw.bsky.social · 4d

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how

Mama Murphy☘️ @mamamurphy.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s how you can close your account:

Call 1-800-TO-WELLS (1-800-869-3557)
Visit a Wells Fargo branch near you.
You can close most accounts immediately when:

The account has a positive or zero balance.
All deposits, outstanding and pending items are posted.

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

Of course he is, even though DAC has proven problematic and difficult, it was worth trying, especially in one of the most polluted places in the world: the petrochemical hubs along the Texas and Louisiana coast.

Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana

A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

heatmap.news

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

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A few yards away from Schiffman, Finn Cervino of Queens was defacing a poster with a Sharpie. He included a web address for a website predicting the future of AI and wrote “This is not science fiction. This is reality.”

“We’re living in a world where you got friends that are computers — that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” Cervino said. “They’re destroying the world for the dumbest invention I’ve ever seen in my life.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

That’s my goal! To help guide more cities to implement these solutions. It helps with the urban heat island effect, with biodiversity, public health, happiness, placemaking, traffic calming, climate change adaptation and mitigation, etc. I write all about it at urbancooling.substack.com

Urban Cooling | Adam L Tate | Substack

Welcome to the Urban Cooling Institute. Here we explore design strategies and technologies for combating the Urban Heat Island effect. A how to guide on ways to make our cities cool and make our citie...

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

It fascinates me how Australia can get some things so right, and some things so wrong when it comes to this sort of stuff. Not surprised to hear Melbourne and Yarra are doing it right. Any city that gave birth to the Lucksmiths has to have some fundamental goodness to it.

Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a good point, thank you Finn!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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Adam L Tate @altate.bsky.social · 5d

Want to learn about design and policy ideas to address the Urban Heat Island Effect? Start here.

A helpful guide to all past and future articles on the Urban Cooling site, neatly organized into seven categories.

#urbandesign
#climatechange
#urbanheatislandeffect
#cityplanning
#sustainability

Urban Cooling: Table of Contents

A Quick Reference Guide to Past and Future Articles

urbancooling.substack.com

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