peregrine kate (she/her)
@peregrinekate.bsky.social
cat lady, Democratic PD, gardener, birder, mother, grandmother, recovering academic (UMich Am Cult PhD), TNG-CWA member, climate justice activist, local TEC admin, Third Act MI co-fac (roles not ranked). #ShutDownLine5 #WaterIsLife #OldAndBold
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
Profoundly broken, illegitimate system.
There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.
Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court
More than a dozen undocumented minors were forced to make their case in front of an immigration judge as the Trump administration ramps up removal proceedings.
coppercourier.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Profoundly broken, illegitimate system.
This is an incredibly grave threat. We must prepare.
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This is an incredibly grave threat. We must prepare.
You won’t believe it. So funny! And amazing.
This is neither here nor there, but because this came up in a random conversation yesterday, and sometimes I think everyone could use a distraction of something fun and entertaining mixed in with your doomscrolling, here is the best card trick ever performed on TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Kc...
Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.)
YouTube video by dani daortiz
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
You won’t believe it. So funny! And amazing.
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As an anti-Trump voter, the only critique of the Democratic Party that I am interested in right now is that they are not doing absolutely everything possible to put themselves between this regime and the people harmed by it
Take that “crossover” appeal and shove it where the sun don’t shine
Take that “crossover” appeal and shove it where the sun don’t shine
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
As an anti-Trump voter, the only critique of the Democratic Party that I am interested in right now is that they are not doing absolutely everything possible to put themselves between this regime and the people harmed by it
Take that “crossover” appeal and shove it where the sun don’t shine
Take that “crossover” appeal and shove it where the sun don’t shine
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Today, December 6th, is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the event that precipitated its creation, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary. buttondown.com/metafoundry/...
thirty-six years later
Engineering Cairn, UBC (December 3, 2025) I wrote and first shared this piece in December 2014. It’s been lightly edited and updated, including new links for...
buttondown.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Today, December 6th, is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the event that precipitated its creation, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary. buttondown.com/metafoundry/...
Absolutely. And they’re intent on desecrating the symbols as well as the precepts.
america has our saints, our scriptures, our holy sites, even our pilgrimages. go to the national mall in dc and understand that, first and foremost, dc is a temple city, and the people there are making a pilgrimage to the holy tombs of the martyrs
December 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Absolutely. And they’re intent on desecrating the symbols as well as the precepts.
Vile petty man will never assuage his bottomless need for attention, because his insecurity is immense.
Needy Amin strikes again.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Vile petty man will never assuage his bottomless need for attention, because his insecurity is immense.
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The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation.
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Constitution is very straightforward on birthright citizenship. There's no ambiguity in the language, no other plausible interpretation.
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
The fact that this is a public discussion at all, and that the Supreme Court is taking it up, is on its own anti-constitutional bullshit.
Read the text👇
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Great visualization about how warming in the Arctic (like we're having right now) is leading to colder winters with more snowfall 👇
How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...
The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters - WhoWhatWhy
If the cold weather makes it harder for you to argue with climate change deniers about the existence of global warming, this story is for you.
whowhatwhy.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Great visualization about how warming in the Arctic (like we're having right now) is leading to colder winters with more snowfall 👇
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@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 5, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@npr it’s not a principle. It is a constitutional guarantee.
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Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.
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You know, one of the good things about the Trump administration is it really illustrates how much racism is a death cult.
December 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
You know, one of the good things about the Trump administration is it really illustrates how much racism is a death cult.
Props to @shrithanedar.bsky.social for taking a principled stand here
"Every day he serves in this role, he puts American service members and their families in danger. He gave direct, unlawful orders to kill every single person on a civilian boat from Venezuela, violating the Defense Dept’s Law of War Manual."
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Detroit) in articles of impeachment
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Detroit) in articles of impeachment
December 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Props to @shrithanedar.bsky.social for taking a principled stand here
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Come to think of it, Pete Hegseth just admitted openly that they're committing extrajudicial murders in international waters partly in order to please MAGA influencers that want retribution for political attacks on Pete Hegseth:
Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:
December 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Come to think of it, Pete Hegseth just admitted openly that they're committing extrajudicial murders in international waters partly in order to please MAGA influencers that want retribution for political attacks on Pete Hegseth:
Hard to resist being stunned by revulsion every damn day. I seek to stay focused on their depravity and their glee from causing suffering. Stopping them from doing those harms will stop this petty self-aggrandizement too.
Saw this story fly by amongst all of the American warlord coverage yesterday and kind of thought it can't be real. But it is very real. Not to go all, "Imagine if Obama..." but seriously, imagine it!
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hard to resist being stunned by revulsion every damn day. I seek to stay focused on their depravity and their glee from causing suffering. Stopping them from doing those harms will stop this petty self-aggrandizement too.
Yes, Cassidy should be far more proactive here.
Do what I did: call his Washington DC office and ask why Cassidy is not leading an effort to impeach RFK Je. because of all the damage he is doing. 202-224-5824.
December 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Yes, Cassidy should be far more proactive here.
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"According to our analysis, reasoning models use, on average, 100 times more energy than models with no reasoning capabilities (or with reasoning turned off)"
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
AI Energy Score v2: Refreshed Leaderboard, now with Reasoning 🧠
A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face
huggingface.co
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
"According to our analysis, reasoning models use, on average, 100 times more energy than models with no reasoning capabilities (or with reasoning turned off)"
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
Good new analysis of how 'reasoning' mode in chatbots consumes a fairly massive amount more energy than normal mode
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
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the US is abandoning green energy at precisely the moment it is becoming not just a climate neccesity but also like a strategically important industry
December 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
the US is abandoning green energy at precisely the moment it is becoming not just a climate neccesity but also like a strategically important industry
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This is what they've done.
New from me: The DOJ plans to dismantle protections for trans and intersex people in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities, according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is what they've done.
Definitely. I'm going to check the list of signers to look for my own rep. and senator. Many others spoke eloquently, too.
🙏🏼 @sueshink.bsky.social for standing up for the people with your letter to the MPSC and tonight at the MPSC hearing. Having you and your colleagues back us means the world as our fight for transparency, protection, and truth continues.
a black background with the words thank you so much in white letters
ALT: a black background with the words thank you so much in white letters
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Definitely. I'm going to check the list of signers to look for my own rep. and senator. Many others spoke eloquently, too.
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I reviewed a great book!
"Every few years a book comes out that tries to explain what’s happening in the labor movement & maybe cheer us up from the bad news of union decline. Dave Kamper’s new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions, does the job"
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
"Every few years a book comes out that tries to explain what’s happening in the labor movement & maybe cheer us up from the bad news of union decline. Dave Kamper’s new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions, does the job"
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
Review: Who’s Got the Power: Hope for Troubled Times | Labor Notes
labornotes.org
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I reviewed a great book!
"Every few years a book comes out that tries to explain what’s happening in the labor movement & maybe cheer us up from the bad news of union decline. Dave Kamper’s new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions, does the job"
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
"Every few years a book comes out that tries to explain what’s happening in the labor movement & maybe cheer us up from the bad news of union decline. Dave Kamper’s new book, Who’s Got the Power: The Resurgence of American Unions, does the job"
labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
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Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS
Spotify: Wrapped in complicity
app.sosha.ai
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Social media feeds are full of people sharing their Spotify Wrapped, but Spotify is full of ICE recruitment ads. Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops helping ICE terrorize our communities. app.sosha.ai/s/T7ngbtyS