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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com

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40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · May 15

I've long found small talk is a gateway to sharing bigger ideas and building trust. The key need is to foster moments where it can happen across cultural divides. Hear my old friend @reggieharris42.bsky.social described a #BLM vs #MAGA protest standoff (full Q&A: revkin.substack.com/p/pathways-t...)

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

Make sure your climate policy includes affordable energy access for those who can't pay for a swift shift to a post-fossil energy menu. Especially important in Maine. (I've written on global warming since 1988 but also energy poverty.) Happy to discuss (as a supporter & Hancock County neighbor).

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

Western Sky on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=anEV...

Western Sky (Open C, slide, 1949 Gibson Southern Jumbo)

YouTube video by Andrew Revkin

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 1d

How I keep sane amid all... Songwriting and playing... New take on an old song of mine - "Western Sky." Slide guitar, open c tuning, the 1949 Gibson Southern Jumbo that I bought in pieces at age 17 in 1973 and put back together. revkin.bandcamp.com/track/wester... #songwriter #acousticguitar

Western Sky, by Andy Revkin

track by Andy Revkin

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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago’s @blockclubchi.bsky.social Is Ready for ICE: The independent digital startup has been on the ground covering ICE’s surge and the attacks on journalists. Listen in with host @joshuahersh.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

Funny this comes just a day after I mused to my spouse why the genres aren’t true and untrue…

Jake @tonymagoni.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry libs, but there’s only two genres: fiction and non-fiction

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

But RFK Jr.’s real logical leap is collapsing these into one neat story: some circumcised boys get Tylenol for pain, and some are later diagnosed with autism—therefore, Tylenol causes autism. That’s like saying umbrellas cause car accidents because both are more common on rainy days.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

Vaccines, Tylenol, and Circumcision?! open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

Vaccines, Tylenol, and Circumcision?!

JUST THE TIP of what’s wrong with these autism claims

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

We should all be Luddites www.brookings.edu/articles/we-...

We should all be Luddites | Brookings

Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

Very important in many ways. Recalling flower power at the Pentagon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 3d

Once again, bluesky serves as a recycling bin for conversations and news happening on X?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

Good lord.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 3d

The full announcement of Palisades Fire charges and investigation details revkin.substack.com/p/breaking-a... #sustainwhat

Breaking: Authorities Charge 29-Year-Old Man with Starting What Became the Palisades Fire

Last January, the catastrophe now known as the Palisades Fire started in brush along a hiking trail before leaping into a dense prosperous neighborhood and exploding into a self-sustaining and deadly ...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 3d

Insane angle to the #PalisadesFire arson finding: Acting US Attorney: “Among the evidence that was collected from his digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city.”

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Collie in chair has a similar vibe – last night at my mother-in-law’s place in Winter Harbor, Maine.

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Source was right winger Benny Johnson: x.com/bennyjohnson...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Yes that was a huge one. (I’m doing some reporting on this now that we’re settled in Downeast on a wooded peninsula.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Rare but catastrophic - 1947 e.g. Kind of like comparing California and Oregon seismic hazards. California has enough modest quakes to get folks' attention. Oregon has a Cascadia megaquake once every few centuries...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

And this is how Noem's DHS is playing things with made-for-tv moments created by goons with gas.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Portland anarchists assaulting ICE as Noem watches.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

War Isn't Murder - Jesse Welles x.com/Revkin/statu...

Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ on X: "Jesse Welles - War Isn't Murder https://t.co/A7iFyBGyB2 War isn't murder, good men don't die Children don't starve and all the women survive War isn't murder, that's what they say When you're fighting the Devil, murder's okay War isn't murder, they're called casualties There" / X

Jesse Welles - War Isn't Murder https://t.co/A7iFyBGyB2 War isn't murder, good men don't die Children don't starve and all the women survive War isn't murder, that's what they say When you're fighting the Devil, murder's okay War isn't murder, they're called casualties There

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

The accompanying music should be Jesse Welles' "War Isn't Murder...

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 6d

“President Trump on Sunday called the deadly U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea “an act of kindness,” claiming that the attacks had halted drug trafficking via those waters”
George Orwell, 1946: “Political language is designed to make make lies sound truthful and murder respectable”

Trump Calls Deadly Strikes on Boats in Caribbean an ‘Act of Kindness’

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

You can listen in to the highly unusual Sunday night hearing on California and Oregon's challenge to Trump's effort to end-run his appointed Federal Judge Immergut's TRO against his National Guard moves. (on hold at moment...)

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 6d

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Date Filed
Oct 5, 2025
Description
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SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00
p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-
990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980-
324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference.
For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy)
(Entered: 10/05/2025)

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

Beautiful porpoise encounter this afternoon sailing off Southwest Harbor. #marinemammals #oceanlife #mainelife

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 8d

The object belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and has an estimated diameter between 1.2 and 2.7 m (4–9 feet). It flew past Earth at a relative speed of 20.9 km/s (75 200 km/h or 46 700 mph).... The Watchers story: watchers.news/2025/10/02/a...

Asteroid 2025 TF flew just 420 km (260 miles) above Antarctica, second-closest flyby on record

A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2025 TF made an extremely close approach to Earth at 00:49 UTC on October 1, 2025, reaching a nominal distance of 0.02 LD (0.00005 AU / 6 790 km / 4 220 miles)…

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