Gale Sinatra
@galesinatra.bsky.social
Climate Refugee, Distinguished Professor and Stephen H. Crocker Chair of Education & Psychology
@USCRossier, Member of National Academy of Education. Co-author of
www.sciencedenialbook.com
@USCRossier, Member of National Academy of Education. Co-author of
www.sciencedenialbook.com
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Amid the Ashes
Watching my hometown rebuild after the L.A. fires revealed a bleak truth about America's climate future
time.com
The story of my lost community is an allegory. “. . . climate disaster will strike everywhere. Whatever protection you may think you have, it’s best to think again.”
time.com/7335166/la-w...
time.com/7335166/la-w...
Why is it controversial to remind people to obey the law?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Pentagon says it will investigate Sen. Mark Kelly after controversial video
The Defense Department announced it would investigate Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) for “serious allegations of misconduct” after his participation in a viral video.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Why is it controversial to remind people to obey the law?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
What is that called again, when the govt owns the means of production? Anyone?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
$10 Billion and Counting: Trump Administration Snaps Up Stakes in Private Firms
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
What is that called again, when the govt owns the means of production? Anyone?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Public health measures have effectively doubled human life span within 150 years. Why would we want to throw out these measures?
Shameless plug:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Public health measures have effectively doubled human life span within 150 years. Why would we want to throw out these measures?
The complete disaster that was DOGE is finally over.
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The complete disaster that was DOGE is finally over.
If Iowa City can do it, so can other cities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If Iowa City can do it, so can other cities.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...
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This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals
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Rep Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.”
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Rep Jasmine Crockett on MTG quitting: “I was like, you got to be kidding. You’re on the other side of the president for one week and you can’t take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes.”
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
Greene fanned the flames of hate for years and can’t handle the monster she helped create.
We can’t go from dumb to dumber.
Report: Marjorie Taylor Greene Considering '28 Presidential Run
Report: Marjorie Taylor Greene Considering '28 Presidential Run
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has privately told allies she has considered running for president in 2028, Time magazine reported.
dlvr.it
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We can’t go from dumb to dumber.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
No surprise there.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
buff.ly
November 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
No surprise there.
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"You cannot Make America Healthy while denying food to our most vulnerable citizens,” wrote Maxwell Taylor Kennedy in a scathing op-ed.
RFK Jr.’s Brother Rips His Allegiance To Trump As A ‘Betrayal’ To Father’s Legacy
"You cannot Make America Healthy while denying food to our most vulnerable citizens,” wrote Maxwell Taylor Kennedy in a scathing op-ed.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
"You cannot Make America Healthy while denying food to our most vulnerable citizens,” wrote Maxwell Taylor Kennedy in a scathing op-ed.
The story of my lost community is an allegory. “. . . climate disaster will strike everywhere. Whatever protection you may think you have, it’s best to think again.”
time.com/7335166/la-w...
time.com/7335166/la-w...
Amid the Ashes
Watching my hometown rebuild after the L.A. fires revealed a bleak truth about America's climate future
time.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The story of my lost community is an allegory. “. . . climate disaster will strike everywhere. Whatever protection you may think you have, it’s best to think again.”
time.com/7335166/la-w...
time.com/7335166/la-w...
Not great. Not great at all.
COP30 just wrapped and the Paris Agreement turns 10 this year. Here's where we are on climate: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
5 Charts Show Climate Progress as Paris Agreement Turns 10
The 2015 Paris Agreement forged a path for the world to stave off the worst climate change scenarios. Here’s where we stand 10 years later
www.scientificamerican.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Not great. Not great at all.
You mean WHEN it falters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
The A.I. Boom Is Driving the Economy. What Happens if It Falters?
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
You mean WHEN it falters.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
Surprised MTG is out and Mamdani is Trump’s new BFF? Remember Trump has no actual political convictions.
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Surprised MTG is out and Mamdani is Trump’s new BFF? Remember Trump has no actual political convictions.
I’ve always worried that we’d go from Trump to worse so this seems possibly worse.
Ro Khanna reacts to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation: “MTG is likely to be a formidable 2028 candidate. Her stances on Epstein, on regulating AI, and anti-war are more in touch with MAGA voters than JD Vance.” (Khanna & Greene just worked together to pass the Epstein files bill.)
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I’ve always worried that we’d go from Trump to worse so this seems possibly worse.
Dropped a truth bomb.
Zohran Mamdani standing beside the President of the United States just said that the US is funding Israel's genocide and yet can't take care of its own unhoused children on live television.
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
I never thought I'd see something like that in my lifetime
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Dropped a truth bomb.
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Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
So frankly she is a pig? What does this even mean?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
Trump Calling Reporter ‘Piggy’ Was ‘Frankness,’ White House Says
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
So frankly she is a pig? What does this even mean?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...
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I wrote basically this exact piece in 2018, but good on the New Yorker for getting hip to geothermal!
Why the Time Has Finally Come for Geothermal Energy
It used to be that drawing heat from deep in the Earth was practical only in geyser-filled places such as Iceland. But new approaches may have us on the cusp of an energy revolution.
www.newyorker.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I wrote basically this exact piece in 2018, but good on the New Yorker for getting hip to geothermal!
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Kill joys.
My naturalization ceremony was a wonderful day, one of joy at choosing to become an American.
These actions make it clear that the current admin doesn’t think any immigration is legitimate.
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
These actions make it clear that the current admin doesn’t think any immigration is legitimate.
ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...
Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...
ithacavoice.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Kill joys.
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If we want people to use alternative transportation, then we need to make those easier and more accessible.
Frequent and free public transportation.
Safe and convenient bike paths.
Prioritize peds.
Look, even drivers will be happier in fewer people are in cars.
Frequent and free public transportation.
Safe and convenient bike paths.
Prioritize peds.
Look, even drivers will be happier in fewer people are in cars.
Iowa City made buses free in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions and encouraging people to take public transit.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
Now ridership is up, traffic is down, and the program is extremely popular.
So popular that the City Council has voted to extend it for another year.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If we want people to use alternative transportation, then we need to make those easier and more accessible.
Frequent and free public transportation.
Safe and convenient bike paths.
Prioritize peds.
Look, even drivers will be happier in fewer people are in cars.
Frequent and free public transportation.
Safe and convenient bike paths.
Prioritize peds.
Look, even drivers will be happier in fewer people are in cars.