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USAF veteran ('72-'78) embracing reason, rational thinking, education, facts, and objective truth; insatiably curious; exploring climate science, cosmology, photography, and whatever cats dream about all day.

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David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · Dec 3

"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." - Dr. Paul Farmer

David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 14h

"2 + 2 = 5”

"That this is false would be apparent to most first graders. Yet this is, in effect, what Donald Trump wants us to believe when he tells us that the United States is in the midst of an “insurrection” and that there is an “invasion from within” that requires US troops to quell."

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15h

The Trump administration is aggressively attempting to use every legal artifice it can to exert authoritarian control.

Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resi...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15h

The Trump administration is aggressively attempting to use every legal artifice it can to exert authoritarian control.

Trump’s Orwellian Militarization of American Cities

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resi...

www.democracynow.org

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h

The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay.

Troops will miss paychecks next week without action on the government shutdown

The federal government shutdown is raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19h

One of world’s biggest wind farm developers to cut quarter of workforce

One of world’s biggest wind farm developers to cut quarter of workforce

Ørsted plans to shrink company after Trump administration causes share price to plunge to all-time low One of the world’s biggest windfarm developers will cut its workforce by a quarter in the next two years after a series of setbacks for the industry. Danish wind giant Ørsted plans to remove about 2,000 positions from its 8,000-strong workforce by the end of 2027 through a combination of redundancies, natural attrition and selling off parts of its business. Continue reading...

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22h

President Trump's push for a Gaza ceasefire deal comes out of his desire for a Nobel Peace Prize. Will he get one?

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

“‘We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale,’ said Stephen Lezak, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Smith School. ‘We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.’” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

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Nature @nature.com · 2d

Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years

go.nature.com/42x5KHD

The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts

Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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amandaunderwood.bsky.social @amandaunderwood.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder to those who wonder at the cruelty, lack of moral justice & steely determination of the current administration that their methods come from a deeply religious zealotry.

Trying to attribute reason to their behaviour is pointless. They believe they are right.

Opus Dei and Project 2025

The relationship between religion and politics has been and continues to be a toxic and dangerous relationship. A key U.S. player in that relationship today is Kevin Roberts and his Heritage Founda…

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David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 3d

“And if America continues down this path of anti-science, constituting an existential threat to the rest of the world, then other nations will have to make difficult decisions about what they choose to do about this..." - Prof. Michael Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social

‘US anti-science stance poses global existential threat’ - Research Professional News

Author of Science Under Siege warns that disinformation around science puts humanity at risk

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 3d

October has observed some of the largest warming trends in the #Arctic. This is greatest over areas with a lack of sea ice cover (nearly all of the Siberian Arctic). Arctic amplification is largest in the boreal fall.

Data: doi.org/10.24381/cds.... Info: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS....

Polar stereographic map of 2-m temperature trends in units of °C per decade over the Arctic for the month of October. Trends are calculated over the 1979 to 2024 period using ERA5. The largest warming is an areas of open water that were previously sea ice covered along the Siberian side of the Arctic. These trends exceed 2°C/decade in these areas.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 4d

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d

"The Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World" | My interview about @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & my new book, #ScienceUnderSiege, with the legendary Ralph Nader on the #RalphNaderRadioHour: www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/the-five-m...

The Five Most Powerful Forces That Threaten Our World

Ralph welcomes Michael Mann, Professor in the “Department of Earth and Environmental Science” at the University of Pennsylvania and author along with Dr.

www.ralphnaderradiohour.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 4d

Happy October! 🍂 Like other times of year, our planet is heating up this month… but some regions warm faster than others. Arctic amplification especially ramps up in October.

Maps show the changes in October temperature over the last 4 decades. Data used from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5.

Four global maps showing near-surface air temperature anomalies for the month of October in 1985-1994, 1995-2004, 2005-2014, and 2015-2024. Most all areas are observing long-term warming, which is largest over the Arctic region and Asia. Anomalies are calculated relative to 1951-1980 from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis.

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David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 5d

"Discrediting science and scientists is an essential first step for authoritarian regimes to discredit any other forms of learning and truth and destabilize societies to keep them under control."

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

"Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have" | Nice review of #ScienceUnderSiege by #SpotMedia: spotmedia.ro/en/news/soci...

Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have

Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

"Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have" | Nice review of #ScienceUnderSiege by #SpotMedia: spotmedia.ro/en/news/soci...

Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have

Who is leading the war against science and what interest do they have

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 5d

@UNESCO.org has designated 26 new biosphere reserves, including forests, savannahs, and estuaries, in 21 countries, and instituted a 10-year strategic action plan that includes studying the effects of climate change in the reserves... by @tjwebber.bsky.social

UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves amid biodiversity challenges and climate change

The UN cultural agency UNESCO has designated 785 sites in 142 countries, since 1971 — that are “home to some of the planet’s richest and most fragile ecosystems.”

David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 6d

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David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 6d

"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." - Dr. Paul Farmer

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” a neighbor told @isabelaalhadeff. “Pretty despicable.”

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

www.motherjones.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d

"To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead..."
-Thomas Paine.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 6d

Wanna know whose shutdown this is?

Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 6d

Julius Caesar was the first Roman to put his own living face on coins, weeks before his death. It is one of the deepest cultural signifiers of something autocracies do and republics do not.

“Render unto Caesar.” A practice so notoriously arrogant Jesus himself dunked on it with snarky wordplay.

Treasury Department Has Plans To Mint Dollar Coin Featuring Donald Trump's Likeness | Defector

The United States Department of the Treasury has developed, to the brink of production, a dollar coin that features the face and likeness of President Donald Trump, according to a source within the Tr...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

“He takes food and health care from the neediest and tries to, in his words, traumatize people—then he calls himself a Christian,” a neighbor told @isabelaalhadeff. “Pretty despicable.”

Russ Vought is Trump’s shutdown hero. His neighbors think his work is "abhorrent."

The people living near Trump's "grim reaper" of government cuts have put up signs letting him know they stand with federal workers.

www.motherjones.com

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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 6d

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Stunning image captured, at Arches National Park in Utah, by photographer Zach Cooley on 28 October 2020 when the Moon was in waxing gibbous phase with an illumination of 91%.

Precisely, 91% was the percentage illuminated by the Sun.

➡️ www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

🔭 🧪 #science #sciart

The photo shows the Moon in waxing gibbous phase with an illumination of 91%, captured at Arches National Park in Utah, on 28 October 2020. The Moon creates the effect of a giant eye as it passes behind a rock arch.

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 6d

Watching this makes it clear. They are gaslighting America over pennies while immigrants pay billions they’ll never use. It’s a distraction from the Epstein files, job losses, shrinking GDP and the widening trade deficit.

Don’t get distracted. Stay focused.
#EpsteinFiles #TrumpsShutdown

David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Ignorance fueled by arrogance is the cancer Americans must defeat.

David Johnson @infpwriter.bsky.social · 6d

"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." - George Orwell

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 7d

This is the moment Republicans have been dreaming about…🤢

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7d

A government shutdown raises new questions about how the EPA can carry out its founding mission of protecting America’s health and environment with little more than skeletal staff and funding. https://to.pbs.org/42m01Eu

How a shutdown affects the EPA's effort to protect America's air, water and land

Former EPA officials express concerns that polluters may exploit the situation with an agency that has already seen massive staff cuts and dramatic shifts in policy.

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Judith Gardener @earther.bsky.social · 7d

(where I live)

"What makes the Climate Commitment Act central to the state’s climate strategy is that it forces polluters to fund the energy transition.... It is designed to cut statewide emissions by 95 percent below 1990 levels by 2050...."

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@nickengelfried.bsky.social

Will Washington’s Groundbreaking Climate Law Inspire Other States?

The Evergreen State is creating a road map for phasing out fossil fuels while boosting renewable energy