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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊

@sonaar.bsky.social

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🌏 I forecast water & climate risks. AMA☔️ 🌱Senior TED Fellow, Truman Fellow, RAND Pardee fellow, Harvard adjunct🦫 ☀️SoCal-based, MN-born, 1st gen Punjabi🥁 💧Water Canary Founder🐤 Climate is the message but #water is the medium: go.ted.com/sonaarluthra

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 2d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Diwali to all who celebrate. 🪔🎆🎇

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 5d

The little-known groundwater Los Angeles pumps in the Owens Valley, and the tribes who want it back

“I want to see the water flowing again.” @carlinstiehl.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

The little-known groundwater Los Angeles pumps in the Owens Valley, and the tribes who want it back

In the Owens Valley, Los Angeles siphons water from Sierra streams and also pumps groundwater from wells. Native tribes are calling for the city to take less water.

www.latimes.com

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 6d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 5d

Vintage comic cell of a man in bed saying “Gosh… I wish the dictators would get what they deserve!”

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 7d

"You're no Mario Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo."

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · 8d

This is such an exciting outcome and I couldn't be more thrilled that @ted.com will remain a non-profit and is being placed in such capable hands. A huge congrats to Sal Khan and Logan McClure Davda!

TED @ted.com · 9d

A new chapter for TED is beginning.

Learn more about Sal Khan's new role on our board as Vision Steward here at TED (don't worry, he's still running @khanacademy.org!) + our new CEO Logan McClure Davda in this special note from Head of TED Chris Anderson: t.ted.com/As1JesO

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James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is how I began every morning on the #Superman set, saying hello to Jolene, the Krypto stand-in.

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · Jul 23

💦🧼🛁❄️🌧🌈⛲️☵🜄🚿🚰☔️🧊🚽🌊💧 #water #wordle

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · Jul 17

Background: over much of the past year, basically by accident, @sonaar.bsky.social & I have been raising💰for a couple who arrived in the🇺🇸the day the USG suddenly lawlessly stopped fulfilling their commitments to new immigrants.

We’d planned to donate furniture but that’s not what they needed so..

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · Jul 17

It’s my birthday!

If you are able, I’d be thrilled (& since it’s my🎂, honored) if you’d donate to support an immigrant couple who are breathing new life into the American dream. www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-ke... Encouragement is also heartily encouraged—as is reposting/sharing with your network:)

Donate to Help Us Keep An American Dream Alive For An Immigrant Couple, organized by Sarah Szalavitz

My partner, Sonaar Luthra, and I are raising money for an imm… Sarah Szalavitz needs your support for Help Us Keep An American Dream Alive For An Immigrant Couple

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B. "Sunny" Willison @bwillisun.bsky.social · Jun 14

This incredibly Minnesota sign is breaking my heart.

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · Jun 14

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Jun 14

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · Jun 14

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Jun 14

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Gretchen Goldman, PhD @gretchentg.bsky.social · Jun 14

Seeing all the "last day" posts from EPA staff today is heartbreaking. You deserved so much better, my friends.

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · Jun 14

@kcrw.com @travisholcombe.bsky.social really loving this Brian Wilson / Sly alternating tribute closing out this dumpster fire of a week… love you guys more than ever 💙

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · Jun 11

Rising to the occasion.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · Jun 11

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a 'major address' in response to the Trump admin.'s actions in L.A.

"Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves, but they do not stop there," Newsom said.

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · Jun 10

LAPD’s chief just said that the President may or may not have deployed the military in Los Angeles.

In other words, the federal government and the military are not communicating—let alone coordinating—with the city, county or state…

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Sonaar Luthra 💧❄️🌧️🧊🌊 @sonaar.bsky.social · Jun 9

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · Jun 9

Back to the beginning of the protest when they reached the federal building--this is a jaw-dropping photo from the Fox11 stream, where protestors directly confronted federal police and national guard trucks and soldiers, before being pushed back by LAPD.

Almost gives Tiananmen Man vibes.

National guard trucks and soliders lined up against protestors, defending a federal building

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks to their chyron, KTLA had no choice but to start reporting that protestors are specifically burning Waymos (& not police & private vehicles), but are now claiming that Google’s privately owned & for profit surveillance robots serve the public…

Just in case: obvi it’s bad to burn vehicles!

Photo of tv with images of burning Waymo’s & a chyron reading Waymo’s set on fire during protests.

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