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Professor - Environments, Humans, Governance, Politics, Peace. 🏳️‍🌈 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=veizRrAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Stacy D. VanDeveer is an American academic and international relations scholar. He is Professor, Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the McCormack Graduate School at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was Chair of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. He has also taught courses with Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School, and been a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Brown University's Transatlantic Academy, UMASS, and UNH London Program. VanDeveer has authored and co-authored over 90 articles, book chapters, reports and six co-edited books on his specialties. His research interests include international relations, comparative politics, LGBT rights, EU and transatlantic politics, humanitarian degradation and connections between environmental and security issues. .. more

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · Jun 5

Concerned about #Deep #Sea #Mining?
Check out the many false promises.
#UNOceansConference #UNOC #UNOC3 #SDG14 @justinalger.bsky.social #OOSC @revkin.bsky.social #criticalminerals @cturnerlang.bsky.social @geoffdabelko.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The false promise of deep-sea mining - npj Ocean Sustainability

npj Ocean Sustainability - The false promise of deep-sea mining

www.nature.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re getting whipped cream and caramel syrup on top of your coffee order, just go to a Baskin Robbins already

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

At least Trump got a free jet and a $5.5 billion golf resort in Qatar, so there’s that.

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 19h

👏👏🔥🔥

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 19h

The father of a family in our apartment complex has been kidnapped by ICE.

My daughter found out when she went to walk our dog and heard one of the children crying from the hallway.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 19h

UNREAL

Democratic Whip Notice: The House GOP Leadership have made the following change to the House Floor schedule:

Members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the House on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

Pending Senate action on FY26 Funding, Members will receive 48 hours' notice prior to any potential votes in the House. Further information regarding the Floor schedule will be provided as soon as it becomes available.

This is a change from the House GOP Leadership's previously announced schedule.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 20h

📌 Canks isn't gonna be happy

This may stop his heart 🤭🤣🐥

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 22h

Listen!

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22h

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 22h

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22h

"He’d be right—except that, for those keeping count at home, Reid is the second Republican to be engulfed in a Nazi porn scandal in just over a year." newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified

Meet John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia. There’s a lot to learn.

newrepublic.com

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 22h

Another loss declared. Sad indeed.

Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 22h

And then there were none: Australia's only shrew declared extinct
->The Conversation | #Extinction | More from Lil' Dr Glen at BigEarthData.ai

And then there were none: Australia's only shrew declared extinct

It’s official: the only Australian shrew is no more. The latest edition of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List, the world’s most comprehensive global inventory on extinction risk, has declared the Christmas Island shrew is extinct...

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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 22h

And then there were none: Australia's only shrew declared extinct
->The Conversation | #Extinction | More from Lil' Dr Glen at BigEarthData.ai

And then there were none: Australia's only shrew declared extinct

theconversation.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

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Earth Negotiations Bulletin @enb.iisd.org · 1d

#IUCNcongress In a deep dive session, participants receive an advance glimpse of the forthcoming Explanatory Guide to the #BBNJ Agreement, to support the understanding and implementation of the High Seas Treaty.

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s roll!

Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

#Renewables deliver ‘hidden saving’ by cutting electricity prices by up to 1/4.
#climate
eciu.net/analysis/rep...

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.

eciu.net

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Auke Hoekstra @aukehoekstra.bsky.social · 1d

If you want an explanation of why China is kicking the EU car industry to the curb, look no further than the criminally knuckle dragging EU car makers demanding new loopholes so they don't have to meet any meaningful low emission targets for cars in the EU.
www.ft.com/cIfontent/5a...

Carmakers demand EU eases ‘rigid’ 2035 petrol car ban

Environmental groups say carmakers’ demands risk halving electric vehicle sales in Europe

www.ft.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The ‘Iron Lady’ of Venezuela Threatens to Unseat Its Autocrat (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

#Renewables deliver ‘hidden saving’ by cutting electricity prices by up to 1/4.
#climate
eciu.net/analysis/rep...

Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and…

Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.

eciu.net

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

IEA: #Renewables have cut #fossilfuel imports for more than 100 countries
#climate
www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewabl...

IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries - Carbon Brief

More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports and saved hundreds of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in renewables

www.carbonbrief.org

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Like a canary in coal mine…

More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Post this everywhere‼️
-and-

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 1d

Corrupt ghoul, as has long been clear

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

www.propublica.org

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

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

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