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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 18h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 6h

In Redstone's case it's not cowardice. It's Zionism.

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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 10h

The E.U. is mandating the treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters.

But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are pushing back.

An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack

Earlier this year, a European Union directive mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, whi...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 16h

gulp

Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 16h

Just remembered this jaw-dropping graph by @oceansclimatecu.bsky.social showing the rate of change in CO2 during the previous two deglaciations of the Pleistocene (which, as a fun aside, featured ~400 feet of sea level rise) as compared with today

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

I'm excited to be at The University of Copenhagen's Center for Applied Ecological Thinking on the 21st!

I'll be talking about how the Trump regime manipulates the language of famous climate scientists to advance their fossil-fascist agenda.

If you're around, come out!

cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar...

The Language of Climate Politics

Talk with Genevieve Guenther followed by a discussion with Frederik Appel Olsen.

cape.ku.dk

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

hmm maybe so!

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Same in New York. In one lifetime an entire climate is gone.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

that's a great point

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego?

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

They are pasty-white and they (presumably) have penises. What more do you need?

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 2d

1/ New research @lut.fi presents the first global analysis of inter-annual storage for #100RE systems in 145 regions doi.org/10.1016/j.ap.... Strategic generation overcapacity is a significantly more cost-effective solution than building massive storage.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

The opponents of wind and solar and climate action in general sure do love permitting reform

www.eenews.net/articles/mik...

Lee hasn’t met with House Natural Resources Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), who has been helping lead the push for a permitting overhaul and amending the Endangered Species Act.

A lot of Lee’s time has gone to helping craft the Republicans’ party-line budget bill, which is expected to include provisions to promote fossil fuel production and roll back Biden-era regulations.

Lee has deemed the idea of expanding renewable energy sources like solar and wind power at the expense of gas and coal “very disturbing.”

This weekend Lee made clear he also supports the sale of some public land to build housing. He called Democratic attempts to thwart such efforts “disgraceful.”

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

About Steve: he's such gish-galloper that when we debated in this, I finally had to break protocol and say "but that's a lie!"

The moderator almost had a heart attack lol.

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The age of emergency

From the cost of living crisis to the climate crisis, the crisis in healthcare to the crisis of migration, we live in a world of seemingly relentless crises. Politicians, commentators and social media...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

wild

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 1d

About ninety percent of all global historical emissions have been produced in the lifetime of our current president.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

Love it

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

I know Fall and Winter heatwaves are less deadly than those that happen in the Summer, but there's something about it being 80 degrees out while getting dark at 6pm that feels awful and eerie.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

ha agreed

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

I know I've been glazing Denmark like crazy lately — and honestly I'm not sure how they're going to enforce this — but nevertheless I am 100% behind governments banning social media for children under the age of 15. ❤️🇩🇰

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 2d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 1d

honestly … Trump killing off carbon-capture boondoggles that Big Oil was just gonna leverage for tax writeoffs and expanded drilling is probably the least objectionable thing he's done this term

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
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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 the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

ah I can hear that now!

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

hmm, I like it but most everyone else really hates nature...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump regime is so determined to deny that climate change should be mitigated that they're willing to piss off at least one oil and gas company to sustain the fiction.

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Breaking: Heatmap has obtained a new internal DOE grant termination list that includes the two major DAC hub awards — Oxy/1PointFive's South Texas DAC Hub and Heirloom/Climeworks' Project Cypress in Louisiana.
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 the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

heatmap.news

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 2d

totally

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