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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 8h

The Halloween banana costume could be the most underrated of the ridiculous food costumes.

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 10h

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 9h

The most important news story in the country is happening in Chicago right now with the ongoing Trump deportation raids.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14h

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 1d

🎶corn is a shitty solar panel🎵

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 4d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 1d

DO NOT normalize:

👉ICE arresting US citizens

👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate

👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 20h

Several U.S. citizens have been detained unjustly and unnecessarily since this rule change.

This is a #class_action_lawsuit against the government in the making.

SherriSays 🌊 @dcnative.bsky.social · 20h

This is on SCOTUS who ok'd racial profiling. Miranda, US born, was assaulted & kidnapped. The criminals need to be apprehended, tried, convicted, & jailed.

U.S. Citizen Detained And Held At ICE Building In Portland For Hours Before Release, Lawyer Says
www.huffpost.com/entry/united...

U.S. Citizen Detained And Held At ICE Building In Portland For Hours Before Release, Lawyer Says

“Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans," Democratic U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum said.

www.huffpost.com

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 2d

Mixed-bag early responses on the WH trapping bellwether schools into its weird #funding_ransom "compact"

---placing them at the mercy of the prez's anti-intellectual, maga whims

▪ MIT will not be bullied 🎉
▪ UT-Austin seems open to it

Additional context: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

* The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence

* UT Austin, on the other hand, has indicated enthusiasm for the proposal

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

In a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon Friday, MIT President Sally Kornbluth said the proposal—called the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”— would restrict freedom of expression and MIT’s independence.

www.wsj.com

JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

Dear Nobel Prize committee,

There are multiple wonderful Peace Prize candidates --- and one really, really bad one.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

Solar panels are just better.

Kevin JC has the goods in his analysis thread.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 3d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, but--serious question that everyone is asking--why did things happen this way?

Given:
Emerging La Nina
Warm Gulf of Mexico
Yet the North Pacific was super warm this year.

Does the weather community have any ideas on this yet?

JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 4d

If this is indeed what's going on, it parallels the Star Trek (original series) episode "Patterns of Force" from 1968.

Part of the plot includes a drugged figurehead manipulated by villainous underlings.

Many GenXers caught this one back in the 1970s and 1980s.

reactormag.com/star-trek-th...

Scene from "Patterns of Force" a Star Trek episode from 1968 in which the Enterprise lands on a planet whose leadership is patterned after Nazi Germany.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 4d

Translation: Extremely well-resourced feds in #body_armor are helpless against the onslaught of librarians & baristas in animal costumes.

Stephen Miller wrote this "Antifa-led hellfire" statement, right?

#inflatable_frog_costume
#Resist

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks.

JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 4d

Is there a time and date on these X posts (the screen grab)?

I left the platform awhile ago--they used to have them, but when people post stuff from X without dates (in the screen grab), it makes me suspicious.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 6d

This week, we lost one of the world’s greatest advocates for people and nature. Even in her final days, Dr. Jane Goodall was urging us not to give up, and now her legacy lives on through the countless voices she inspired.

Read on Mailchimp: shorturl.at/lDxXk
Read on LinkedIn: shorturl.at/VOiPa

Jane Goodall's final lesson

Honoring Jane Goodall's life, Pope Leo's first climate address, and finding hope in action

www.talkingclimate.ca

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 5d

This is the way.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov - Please inform Illinois State Police and municipal police forces that they are to be as PROACTIVE as this officer in protecting protestors, as well as civilians.

We need you to step up and lead, J.B.

#protests

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 6d

Around 78% of the world has seen all-time maximum monthly temperature records set since the year 2000, with 38% set in past five years alone. In a new analysis over at The Climate Brink I take a look at where and when records were set: www.theclimatebrink....

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Nature @nature.com · 7d

Obituary: Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists

go.nature.com/48aWjRU

Jane Goodall obituary: pioneer primatologist who inspired generations of scientists

She was a tireless advocate for conservation, the welfare of captive chimpanzees and the protection of habitats.

go.nature.com

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 7d

THIS.

ALL DAY.

Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 7d

Fighting with each other whether the Trump administration is/is not fascist/totalitarian seems kind of pointless. Labels aside, it is not a fully consolidated dictatorshp, whatever we want to call it and we need to work together to get them out.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 7d

Greta is Nobel-Peace-Prize worthy.

Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 7d

Especially considering how quickly the media ignored/turned on her when she got more pointed in her politics. If she just wanted fame and money, she would have pulled back.
But instead, she's using her notoriety in the most powerful ways. Whatta legend.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7d

I have so much respect for Greta Thunberg because she easily could have coasted on speaking gigs and Davos appearances for the rest of her life

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 7d

Again, Seth, instead of doomerism to drive engagement, please provide solutions

I'm all ears.

Strikes?
Massive protests?
What?

And how?

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 7d

What's the solution to put the fire out?

Strikes?
Converging on Washington?

Seriously, we need advice on what to work toward---and how to do it.

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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 7d

Do I need to answer the question?

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