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Rainforest Conservation, Cacao Agroforestry, Biodiversity, Nature is not your Carbon Sink. Projects in Amazon and Indonesia IG: @conservationcacao

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · Nov 19

Cacao comes originally from the Amazon Basin. It grows under shade trees. Out on agricultural frontiers in the Tropics, where rainforest is being lost, cacao in agroforestry can be a barrier to deforestation. The alternatives, cattle, Oil Palm, mean farmers cutting down all their trees.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1h

🇲🇽 Floods caused by torrential rains have killed at least 28 people in Mexico this week and left behind a trail of destruction, local authorities across the country said.
➡️ u.afp.com/Smb7

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 2h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3h

The CDC official who was leading the measles response and was RIFd has more than 28 yrs experience as the senior USG official leading outbreaks on Ebola, Marburg virus, and mpox. 2/4

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1h

Did you not check your 401K yesterday?

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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 1h

#Anthropology #Archaeology 🍺

Psychedelic beer may have helped pre-Inca empire in Peru schmooze elite outsiders and consolidate power

The Wari used beer mixed with psychedelics to help build an empire in Peru around 1,200 years ago, a new study suggests.

www.livescience.com

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 23h

There's no hidden gems anywhere there, just watch the good ones again, he did plenty.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 23h

Names please! What ICE official? We need all their names, the whole chain of command. They all need to see, just maybe, someday, there will be accountability.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

The Trump administration is attempting to undermine elections. Efforts have included rewriting election rules to burden voters, threatening to prosecute election officials, and supporting election deniers. Keep track and learn more with our new interactive timeline:

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

www.brennancenter.org

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado is well deserved. When will the world give her and Venezuelans the backing they need to finally oust Maduro's corrupt dictatorship? Now would be a good time.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

VIDEO: 🇺🇸 Hundreds protest against National Guard deployment in Chicago

US President Donald Trump sent the National Guard to the Democrat-led city to aid ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents as they carry out immigration raids as part of Trump's mass deportation campaign

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

A powerful magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings in the Asian nation as well as neighbouring Indonesia and Palau

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

Another president falls in Perú. Difficult to know at times if Peruvians despise more their president or their congress. Democracy captured by corruption for years.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

BREAKING Peru lawmakers vote to impeach president Dina Boluarte

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Philippine seismologists say an offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 has hit off a southern province.

7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes offshore from southern Philippines

An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit off a southern Philippine province Friday morning, seismologists said.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

When exactly does it start getting good? I broke down and tried episode one and it was an unremitting slog.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

That she give a full account of her conversation with Biden when he was going to step aside without immediately endorsing her. What did she say to him? She wants everyone to think the nomination was thrust upon her when that's not what happened.

Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

Please report back on what got longest sustained laughter during THE GENERAL.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d

The precursor to the Insurrection Act, which President Washington invoked to call up militia during the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, required concurrence of a Supreme Court Justice that an insurrection was occurring.

Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 1d

DOJ is basically arguing in Court that if the President "determines" that literal martians have landed from Mars and are attacking the United States, Trump can invoke any emergency power he wants and the judiciary can't question it.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 1d

Read some select works of criticism that have different approaches. Anatomy of Criticism, Frye; Mimesis, Auerbach; S/Z, Barthes; Art in Theory, 1900-2000.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

Indicting political opponents & critics because they are political opponents & critics is terrifying.

It's completely inconsistent with the rule of law & democracy.

It should scare everyone - and (hopefully) will get people to realize that we all need to stand against this.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Steve Bergin 🌎 @stevebergin.bsky.social · 2d

Who the fuck wrote this?

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Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2d

The Senate has defeated an effort to use the War Powers act to block President Trump's use of military force against drug boats in the Caribbean. Fetterman D-PA voted 'No.' R's Paul & Murkowski votes 'Yes'

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking: The judge has set a trial date of Jan. 5.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

Breaking:

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Former FBI Director James Comey pleads not guilty to Trump Justice Department case accusing him of lying to Congress.

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