Cathy Cowan Becker
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I just want to use whatever time I've got left on Earth to help save this beautiful planet from those who want to do it harm.
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Nobody Wants This. Non rom com version.
Nearly 9 in 10 US voters oppose taking Greenland by military force -- including over two-thirds of Republicans
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January 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Nobody Wants This. Non rom com version.
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You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 PM
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
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New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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The Companies Behind ICE
Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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January 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.
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Sometimes you learn more by asking the right questions than by getting immediate answers. Jay Shakur @wcpo9news.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qm7i1c
Kudos to Wilmington residents asking those questions.
@wvxu.org @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @healthylakes.org
Kudos to Wilmington residents asking those questions.
@wvxu.org @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @healthylakes.org
Wilmington planning commission tables Amazon Data Center proposal after company reps fail to answer questions
Dozens of residents attended Tuesday's meeting to voice concerns about the proposed facility, which would be located off U.S. 68 near the Timber Glen subdivision if approved.
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January 10, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Sometimes you learn more by asking the right questions than by getting immediate answers. Jay Shakur @wcpo9news.bsky.social: bit.ly/4qm7i1c
Kudos to Wilmington residents asking those questions.
@wvxu.org @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @healthylakes.org
Kudos to Wilmington residents asking those questions.
@wvxu.org @ccbecker271.bsky.social @drpeggy70.bsky.social @healthylakes.org
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The near record high tide/storm surge on Monterey Bay took out decent chunk of west cliff.
January 6, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The near record high tide/storm surge on Monterey Bay took out decent chunk of west cliff.
This is the first time in 3 years this commission is allowing citizens to speak at one of their meetings. If you are in Ohio and can make it on 1/12 at 1pm, please sign up at the link in the article. If you can't make it, you can submit a written comment. These are our parks and public lands!
The Oil and Gas Land Management Commission will allow public comments at its Jan. 12 meeting-- extending frack leases from 3 to 5 years. Lenn Black @ccbecker271.bsky.social Simply Living: bit.ly/497jdd5
@columbusfreepress.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @peacedominicans.bsky.social
@columbusfreepress.bsky.social @commoncauseohio.bsky.social @peacedominicans.bsky.social
Save Ohio Parks and Wildlife Areas - Simply Living
Guest Blog by Cathy Cowan Becker Ohio is blessed with 76 state parks and over 750,000 acres of wildlife land managed by the Department of Natural Resources. You’ve likely visited some of them – Ohioan...
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January 5, 2026 at 3:38 PM
This is the first time in 3 years this commission is allowing citizens to speak at one of their meetings. If you are in Ohio and can make it on 1/12 at 1pm, please sign up at the link in the article. If you can't make it, you can submit a written comment. These are our parks and public lands!
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Happy New Year. Start it off right. Tell Ohio EPA to do its job and protect Ohio water quality.
Comment by Jan. 16 on data centers allowed to discharge wastewater into our rivers and streams, lowering our water quality. bit.ly/3KLuDK8
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
Comment by Jan. 16 on data centers allowed to discharge wastewater into our rivers and streams, lowering our water quality. bit.ly/3KLuDK8
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
Tell Ohio EPA: No general wastewater permits for Ohio data centers
The Ohio EPA's draft proposal would fast-track wastewater permits for data centers without reviews needed to ensure public health and safety.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Happy New Year. Start it off right. Tell Ohio EPA to do its job and protect Ohio water quality.
Comment by Jan. 16 on data centers allowed to discharge wastewater into our rivers and streams, lowering our water quality. bit.ly/3KLuDK8
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
Comment by Jan. 16 on data centers allowed to discharge wastewater into our rivers and streams, lowering our water quality. bit.ly/3KLuDK8
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social
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A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised "autopsy" from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign.
“The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised “autopsy” from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democ...
www.democracynow.org
December 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A new report from the grassroots organization RootsAction aims to do what a promised "autopsy" from the Democratic National Committee ultimately did not: publicly reckon with the failures of the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign.
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@alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social: Great Lakes region is unprepared to manage overlapping, competing demands leading to more water conflict-- from industries like data centers and semiconductor chip manufacturing. bit.ly/4sClfcX
@cleveland.com @toledoblade.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
@cleveland.com @toledoblade.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
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December 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@alliancegreatlakes.bsky.social: Great Lakes region is unprepared to manage overlapping, competing demands leading to more water conflict-- from industries like data centers and semiconductor chip manufacturing. bit.ly/4sClfcX
@cleveland.com @toledoblade.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
@cleveland.com @toledoblade.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
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It's 6:28 p.m. EST.
I have two fans on in my living room.
No heat on.
Wearing capris and a summer hoodie.
In Northern Indiana.
With a tornado warning in effect til 9 tonight, and a severe thunderstorm warning in effect til then too.
Only to flash freeze by morning.
#SheShed
I have two fans on in my living room.
No heat on.
Wearing capris and a summer hoodie.
In Northern Indiana.
With a tornado warning in effect til 9 tonight, and a severe thunderstorm warning in effect til then too.
Only to flash freeze by morning.
#SheShed
December 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
It's 6:28 p.m. EST.
I have two fans on in my living room.
No heat on.
Wearing capris and a summer hoodie.
In Northern Indiana.
With a tornado warning in effect til 9 tonight, and a severe thunderstorm warning in effect til then too.
Only to flash freeze by morning.
#SheShed
I have two fans on in my living room.
No heat on.
Wearing capris and a summer hoodie.
In Northern Indiana.
With a tornado warning in effect til 9 tonight, and a severe thunderstorm warning in effect til then too.
Only to flash freeze by morning.
#SheShed
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Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
December 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Immigrant-hating Stephen Miller talks about Americans being "first to harness the atom." But the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was conducted by a team led by Italian immigrant Enrico Fermi, who didn't become a U.S. citizen until a year and a half later.
Beautiful music ahead ...
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Beautiful music ahead ...
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This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
Absolutely right.
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there.
Let me illustrate …
Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.
December 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
This thread perfectly explains why AI has little value for qualitative research.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
Yes, large language models can find patterns in qualitative data. But, they're trained on what we already know. So, they won't find anything surprising. And, surprise is qualitative research's primary value-add.
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Very fancy potato bear postcard from my collection, unsent and date unknown.
December 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Very fancy potato bear postcard from my collection, unsent and date unknown.
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1/4) China is already generating, in 2025, from wind-water-solar (WWS) alone, 54% of all end-use energy the U.S. needs for all purposes (electricity, transport, buildings, industry) & 61% of the end-use energy India needs for all purposes in 2050.
Paper
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Paper
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December 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
1/4) China is already generating, in 2025, from wind-water-solar (WWS) alone, 54% of all end-use energy the U.S. needs for all purposes (electricity, transport, buildings, industry) & 61% of the end-use energy India needs for all purposes in 2050.
Paper
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This is so sad and so unnecessary. They were trying to plug an orphan well. There are somewhere between 20,000 and 60,000 orphan wells in Ohio, a product of the oil and gas industry.
Solar panels don't explode.
Solar panels don't explode.
A second death announced following August orphan well-plugging explosion in Wayne National Forest. Eric Bevin News and Sentinel: bit.ly/3KVZtzL
And BLM and U.S. Forest Service claim there will be "no significant impact" from fracking the Wayne...
@buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
And BLM and U.S. Forest Service claim there will be "no significant impact" from fracking the Wayne...
@buckeyeenviro.bsky.social @ccbecker271.bsky.social
2 injured in Washington County well explosion have died
PARKERSBURG – Two people have died since being injured in an orphan well explosion in Washington County in August — the most recent on Dec. 14. Chris Pinkerton, 48, of Woodsfield, was an employee of M...
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December 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is so sad and so unnecessary. They were trying to plug an orphan well. There are somewhere between 20,000 and 60,000 orphan wells in Ohio, a product of the oil and gas industry.
Solar panels don't explode.
Solar panels don't explode.
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The Trump administration has wasted no time gutting fuel efficiency standards and consumer protections in the auto industry, thanks to strong lobbying support from the National Automobile Dealers Association.
The Lobbying Behemoth Vying to Pollute the Air and Scam the Public | Revolving Door Project
The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has spent millions opposing emissions regulations, consumer protections, and more.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The Trump administration has wasted no time gutting fuel efficiency standards and consumer protections in the auto industry, thanks to strong lobbying support from the National Automobile Dealers Association.
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The leader you are looking for is you.
Connect with those who know how to navigate protecting clean air, clean water, great soils and pristine Ohio state parks and public lands.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @healthylakes.org @psrpennsylvania.bsky.social
Connect with those who know how to navigate protecting clean air, clean water, great soils and pristine Ohio state parks and public lands.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @healthylakes.org @psrpennsylvania.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The leader you are looking for is you.
Connect with those who know how to navigate protecting clean air, clean water, great soils and pristine Ohio state parks and public lands.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @healthylakes.org @psrpennsylvania.bsky.social
Connect with those who know how to navigate protecting clean air, clean water, great soils and pristine Ohio state parks and public lands.
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @healthylakes.org @psrpennsylvania.bsky.social
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once again thinking about how DC has 200k more people living in it than the entire state of wyoming, but doesn’t have any actual representation in congress
December 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
once again thinking about how DC has 200k more people living in it than the entire state of wyoming, but doesn’t have any actual representation in congress
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Public records over the last 10 years show the oil and gas industry in Ohio has an accident or incident every 1.5 days.
Meanwhile, a solar spill is called a nice day.
Meanwhile, a solar spill is called a nice day.
EOG Resources fracking well pad explodes and burns at Malvern in Carroll County. @cleveland19.com: bit.ly/4jclkj1
No one hurt, but there's always more to the story. Will lax Ohio DNR investigate, or brush it off?
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @fractracker.bsky.social
No one hurt, but there's always more to the story. Will lax Ohio DNR investigate, or brush it off?
@ccbecker271.bsky.social @fractracker.bsky.social
Fire causes explosion at oil well in Carroll County
An oil well pad exploded Tuesday morning in Carroll County, sending thick black smoke into the sky.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Public records over the last 10 years show the oil and gas industry in Ohio has an accident or incident every 1.5 days.
Meanwhile, a solar spill is called a nice day.
Meanwhile, a solar spill is called a nice day.
BlackRock is losing business because it is backpedaling on its climate commitments. And they should lose business until they start using their financial power to make our world more climate safe.
🎊 WIN! Pension fund PME breaks with polluting asset giant BlackRock – thanks to the pressure of our movement.
✍️ Now it's time for ABP to break with BlackRock as well. Over 5.000 people have already signed our petition. Will you add your name? www.breekmetblackrock.nl
✍️ Now it's time for ABP to break with BlackRock as well. Over 5.000 people have already signed our petition. Will you add your name? www.breekmetblackrock.nl
December 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
BlackRock is losing business because it is backpedaling on its climate commitments. And they should lose business until they start using their financial power to make our world more climate safe.