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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 8m

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 4h

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1h

Phenomenal show by Chris Thile at UGA performing art center!

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 5h

Let me take a minute to remind folks that Christopher Columbus did NOT discover new lands. These lands were already home to Indigenous peoples since time immemorial, they were never wild or in need of taming. We had language, culture and even a spiritual connection to Creator.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · 4h

Portland doing as Portland does

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 4h

If you follow me you know my bike also carried a maple chèvre danish this morning. Ditch the car yall.

John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 6h

I like carrying weird things by bike. Today a sample of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.

See next photo, but now strapped to my bike.

Urchins and crabs and octocorals and whelks and tunicates and sponges and more, in a Tupperware.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 5h

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Jeff Warren (@jeffwarren)

The essence of self-regulation is... taking breaks. It's about interrupting the cumulative flow of stress with clear demarcated time-outs. If we wait for these moments to happen by themselves, they wo...

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 5h

If so my scallop would be dead right now

John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 5h

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 5h

I did indeed have “wasting”
On the echinaster but best I know I’m also vibrio free

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 5h

lol shipping damage!

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 5h

It survived my care for a week so I guess I’m not covered in ciliates

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 5h

How insanely outdated that we can really only call our congresspersons office between 9-5. I should be able to drunk dial them 24/7 to say how much I despise what they are doing.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 6h

I like carrying weird things by bike. Today a sample of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 10h

the folks who run our HPCC are so good and helpful but all it takes is drafting an email to them to try to fix something and then you start feeling guilty so you check paths yourself and figure out what dumb thing you were doing. the power of guilt.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 10h

Take a cue from the Weather Channel, send a reporter to stand in the middle of Portland and gesticulate wildly about

Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

Trump says a major US city is a war zone that is burning to the ground and our incurious media are not providing live coverage of this unfolding catastrophe

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 11h

Great episode about federal funding cuts to pedestrian, cycling, and transit infrastructure. To the current administration, projects “hostile to cars” don’t just include those that take space away from cars. Any transport money not going to cars is seen as a taking from cars due to motor normativity

The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 2d

New episode up! We talk with @whereisted.bsky.social of @bloomberg.com about the Trump Administration's attack on street safety & bike lane projects. You could call it the war on the war on cars... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The War on the War on Cars with Ted Mann

Podcast Episode · The War on Cars · 10/07/2025 · 38m

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 10h

corruption all the way down.

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 14h

Life gives you lemons, try a maple chèvre danish

A maple chèvre danish overlooking the boring landscaping around STEM buildings. I tried to save the big tree out my window. Bummer.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 22h

Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

Talk fine, too much need to cut 10%, didn’t know zoom was password protected so a good friend/colleague frustrated at me for goofing that, beer time.

John Wares @johnwares.bsky.social · 1d

The academic “seminar” - just shy of an hour - is ancient comms tradition bound by busy schedules and isn’t half as good as having a few pints with that same colleague and a pad of paper

Anyway my talk is at 4 and I have too much to say.

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