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EnviroDisaster
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Environmental law professor interested in environmental policy, nature pics, and long-winded fantasy books.
The media blitz & outsized police response to the United Healthcare CEO assassination is nagging at me.

Other victims don't get this level of attention or police response. What makes this guy's life more valuable than theirs?
December 6, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Anyone want to do a #booksky #bookclub? I’m half way through How to Stop Time (Matt Haig) and then moving on to Wolf Hall (Simon Slater). Want to read with me? ❤️📚
December 1, 2024 at 10:47 PM
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Today, the right-wing media sets the news agenda in this country... Even the mighty New York Times follows in its wake, aping the tone they set disturbingly often.

newrepublic.com/post/188197/...
Why Does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won?
It wasn’t the economy. It wasn’t inflation, or anything else. It was how people perceive those things, which points to one overpowering answer.
newrepublic.com
December 1, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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“What does it mean, for a city, to make sober decent terms with death? It means living in reality. It means doing whatever it can to postpone the inevitable. It means settling for the best of bad options. But it does not mean blindly submitting to fate.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/o...
Opinion | New Orleans’ Striking Advantage in the Age of Climate Change
Unlike the other major cities that appear on lists of unsafe places, New Orleans has a striking competitive advantage.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (13/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
November 27, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (12/20) #BookSky
#Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
November 26, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.
Books We Love
Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 25, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20)
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
November 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (10/20) #BookSky
#Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
November 24, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (9/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
November 23, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (8/20) #BookSky
#Books #BookChallenge 💙📚
November 22, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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The state of Georgia has fired every member of a health care committee tasked with investigating maternal deaths after their report of 2 women who likely died due to abortion ban was leaked to the public. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Georgia Fires Entire Committee on Maternal Mortality Over Leaked Report on Abortion Ban Deaths
The heartbreaking story of Amber Thurman was first reported in ProPublica earlier this year
open.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (7/20)
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 📚💙
November 22, 2024 at 2:00 AM
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☠️🤣😂🤣😂🤣
If you've already watched a cow stealing shoes today, then just keep scrolling 😂🤣
November 21, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (6/20)
#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 📚💙
November 21, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky
November 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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🚨 How did an 80-20 Trump county in rural Kentucky also turn out to be the most anti-school voucher county in the state?

I drove there to find out. 🛻

And the lessons I learned go way beyond the enormous value of public schools in rural communities.

A 🧵 you’ll want to read….
November 20, 2024 at 6:11 PM
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Periodic reminder that not all activism takes place online in casual and exposed places where you can observe and judge it. Before you decide someone isn't loud enough about a Thing, consider whether they've gone to ground to get the work done. Consider doing the same.
November 20, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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I'm not saying Don't Recycle

I'm saying we need to remove the social/commercial license from these people, block them from policymaking arenas

And we need to stop them selling a proposed solution (Recycle!) that is orders of magnitude too small to fix a problem they created (forever production)
The People Who Make The Things You Buy with the justification that you can recycle those things are making 1000x more of those things than you could ever recycle, and at some point I think we should ask why They think that's OK www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up’
Five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from environment accused of producing 132m tonnes of it
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (5/20)
#BookSky 📚💙
#Books #BookChallenge
November 20, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Anyone else a fan of #TheNib? They had the best political cartoons - witty and artistic. I miss them. 😞
November 20, 2024 at 3:07 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge #Books 💙📚
November 19, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚
Day 4
#BookSky
#Books
November 18, 2024 at 9:09 PM