Jim Brobeck
@localworld.bsky.social
water policy analyst. gasoline boycott.
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Violence over water is on the rise around the world. Researchers counted a record 420 water-related incidents last year.
@petergleick.bsky.social says the large increase underscores an urgent need for international attention.
Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
@petergleick.bsky.social says the large increase underscores an urgent need for international attention.
Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Violence over water is on the rise around the world. Researchers counted a record 420 water-related incidents last year.
@petergleick.bsky.social says the large increase underscores an urgent need for international attention.
Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
@petergleick.bsky.social says the large increase underscores an urgent need for international attention.
Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...
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The kids are all right.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years...
www.iowapublicradio.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The kids are all right.
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The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
The EPA has approved two new pesticides with "forever chemicals" that will be used on food.
The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.
The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
The agency has also announced plans for four additional approvals.
The approved pesticides will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli and potatoes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
This is why you always follow the money.
www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...
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Fun fact, the last person actually found guilty of sedition (seditious conspiracy) was pardoned by trump.
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Fun fact, the last person actually found guilty of sedition (seditious conspiracy) was pardoned by trump.
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Social Security is not dying. It is being starved. We need it, the rich do not. The cap that shields the wealthy from paying more is a wall made up of greed. Lift it & the system is reborn. Voters keep choosing those who serve the wealthy, then wonder why the table is empty. #ProtectSocialSecurity
November 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Social Security is not dying. It is being starved. We need it, the rich do not. The cap that shields the wealthy from paying more is a wall made up of greed. Lift it & the system is reborn. Voters keep choosing those who serve the wealthy, then wonder why the table is empty. #ProtectSocialSecurity
www.chicoer.com/2025/11/21/c... What was supposed to be nearly final proposals on key contentious issues failed to explicitly mention fossil fuels — the cause of global warming.
Nations and environmental groups slam proposals at UN climate talks, calling them too weak
A major concern: no detailed road map to phase out fossil fuels.
www.chicoer.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
www.chicoer.com/2025/11/21/c... What was supposed to be nearly final proposals on key contentious issues failed to explicitly mention fossil fuels — the cause of global warming.
River Partners acquired the Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County to conserve unprotected lands. The ranch, historically diverting over 20,000 acre-feet of water annually, will return water to the creek to support endangered salmon and native wildlife. www.actionnewsnow.com/news/battle-...
Battle Creek Ranch acquisition slated for Salmon Habitat Restoration
River Partners acquired the historic 1,721-acre Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County, marking a significant step in restoring an important salmon-bearing waterway. This was made possible through a $15....
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November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
River Partners acquired the Battle Creek Ranch in Tehama County to conserve unprotected lands. The ranch, historically diverting over 20,000 acre-feet of water annually, will return water to the creek to support endangered salmon and native wildlife. www.actionnewsnow.com/news/battle-...
An authoritarian American president has pressed what can only be described as a policy of climate-change acceleration—destroying commitments to clean energy and pushing for more oil production. It doesn’t require an oracle to see where this trajectory might lead.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
An authoritarian American president has pressed what can only be described as a policy of climate-change acceleration—destroying commitments to clean energy and pushing for more oil production. It doesn’t require an oracle to see where this trajectory might lead.
Dos asesinos cogidos de la mano
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Dos asesinos cogidos de la mano
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'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
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The whole point of something like this is to get open Nazis and racists into the coast guard
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
wapo.st
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The whole point of something like this is to get open Nazis and racists into the coast guard
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
wapo.st/3Mbd9a6
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Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Oh my.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
James Talarico is incredibly skilled in dismantling Christian Nationalists.
Get this man in the Senate.
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The US defense and intelligence community has long acknowledged that #climatechange is a threat to national security.
They still think so. They just can't say it out loud right now.
www.gleick.com/blog/censors...
They still think so. They just can't say it out loud right now.
www.gleick.com/blog/censors...
Censorship, Deletion, and Purging of US Defense and Intelligence Assessments of Environmental Threats to National Security
For many decades, US military and intelligence agencies have analyzed the threats to national security from a wide range of non-traditional social and environmental issues, includi
www.gleick.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The US defense and intelligence community has long acknowledged that #climatechange is a threat to national security.
They still think so. They just can't say it out loud right now.
www.gleick.com/blog/censors...
They still think so. They just can't say it out loud right now.
www.gleick.com/blog/censors...
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Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation
He ordered the U.S. Treasury to draft a $1 coin featuring him. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini ordered creations to glorify themselves so they’d be exalted in history. Democracies don’t do this. They memorialize their heroes only after they’ve died, and only if the public wants them commemorated.
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
He ordered the U.S. Treasury to draft a $1 coin featuring him. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini ordered creations to glorify themselves so they’d be exalted in history. Democracies don’t do this. They memorialize their heroes only after they’ve died, and only if the public wants them commemorated.
Another billion $ lie! Of course Speaker Johnson " doesn't know anything about it."
Howwwwww is this happening?
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Another billion $ lie! Of course Speaker Johnson " doesn't know anything about it."
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Great idea, @cityofvancouver.bsky.social @tomdigby1.bsky.social
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities
Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...
cm.asiae.co.kr
November 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Great idea, @cityofvancouver.bsky.social @tomdigby1.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
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We the PEOPLE, need to fire KKKrumpf and the MAGAt cult along with all followers!!
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
We the PEOPLE, need to fire KKKrumpf and the MAGAt cult along with all followers!!
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Hurricane Melissa continues to set records, with the lowest barometric pressure ever observed this late in the season in the Atlantic, 906 millibars. The picture below is of its fearsome eye
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth's strongest storm of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
A remarkable three of the Atlantic's five hurricanes this year have hit Cat 5.
yaleclimateconnections.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hurricane Melissa continues to set records, with the lowest barometric pressure ever observed this late in the season in the Atlantic, 906 millibars. The picture below is of its fearsome eye
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
"I think we are just gonna kill people who are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead." Murder as a means to invade an oil rich country is the Trump/Rubio/Hegseth policy.
Venezuela
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"I think we are just gonna kill people who are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead." Murder as a means to invade an oil rich country is the Trump/Rubio/Hegseth policy.
The East Wing of the White House has been entirely demolished, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, months after the president promised the building’s facade would remain untouched. The Vandal in chief is crushing the foundations of this nation.
October 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The East Wing of the White House has been entirely demolished, the Associated Press reported on Thursday, months after the president promised the building’s facade would remain untouched. The Vandal in chief is crushing the foundations of this nation.