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Sheila Foster

@sheilarose.bsky.social

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Detroit/Miami girl turned New Yorker. Prof, Columbia U. Climate, Law, Environmental and Climate Justice, The City as a Commons, Co-Cities sheilarfoster.com

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Sheila Rose Foster is a legal scholar, and an author. She is a tenured Professor of Climate at the Columbia Climate School.

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Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thank you for this wonderful video lifting up the work I do with so many wonderful colleagues and collaborators.

Columbia Climate School @climate.columbia.edu · Apr 14

In our new Science for the Planet video, @columbiaclimate.bsky.social professor of climate @sheilarose.bsky.social shares how she works with frontline communities on effective, equitable climate adaptation strategies. Via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/04/11/s...

Professor Sheila Foster stands on a balcony overlooking an urban street scene.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 7h

NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

@adamlmahoney.bsky.social @capitalb.bsky.social

From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

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NPR @npr.org · 18h

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. climate and energy federalism at work!
www.eenews.net/articles/col...

Colorado bolsters EV rebates after federal pullback

Electric vehicles are key to Colorado’s climate targets. Gov. Jared Polis (D) told potential EV buyers: "Get out there right now."

www.eenews.net

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 1d

"You're here for a reason. Find the reason and do your bit."

Dr. Jane knew what her reason was. And she did her part. Do you know your reason? Are you doing your part?

You can help move forward the work that Dr. Jane started: JaneGoodall.ca/RememberingJane.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 9d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11d

This is a video summary of www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... about what has halted collapses of Democracy before. Via @bwyble.bsky.social by @marinanord.bsky.social (of @hertieschool.bsky.social, coincidentally!) @fabioangiolillo.bsky.social @silindberg.bsky.social & al.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 12d

The EPA is attempting to deny climate change and rollback critical scientific findings.

Unlike our federal government, I know climate change is real and I'm taking action to fight back.

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Reposted by Anna O. Law, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 6 more Anna O. Law, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Diane Ravitch, Scott A. Imberman, Steven S. Taylor, Timothy D. McBride, Sheila R. Foster, Carissa Byrne Hessick

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13d

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 13d

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

🚨 Center for Coalfield Justice v. Washington County Board of Elections

Learn more.

www.democracydocket.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 13d

It's remarkable that Mamdani has successfully courted the establishment and broadened his voting base without moving right on policy. His platform remains in tact. He has backtracked from language he used in the past, but not given policy concessions to centrists. newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Zohran Mamdani Is Threading One of the Trickiest Needles in Politics

For the general election, Mamdani has managed to expand his base while staying basically true to his primary-season beliefs. There’s a lesson in there for all Democrats.

newrepublic.com

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Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social · 15d

To our national democratic leaders, please take note. Let's embrace and not run from the next gen of leaders.🙏🏾

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/n...

Kamala Harris Reinforces Support for Zohran Mamdani in Phone Call

www.nytimes.com

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 15d

Climate change refers to long-term temperature & weather shifts, which can occur naturally but have been mainly driven by human activity since the 1800s.

Follow the #ClimateSummit as countries discuss the future of our planet and get the latest facts: www.un.org/en/climatech...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15d

Jimmy Kimmel: “Maybe most of all, I want to thank the people who don’t support my show and what I believe, but support my right to share those beliefs anyway. People I never would have imagined, like Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candace Owens, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul. Even my old pal Ted Cruz.”

Jimmy Kimmel Chokes Up After Returning From Suspension: ‘It Was Never My Intention to Make Light of the Murder of a Young Man’

An emotional Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night stage on Tuesday and spoke out for the first time about his six-day suspension from ABC. Kimmel opened the program with clips from different news o...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants.
The grants were suspended over allegations of campus antisemitism, use of race in admissions, and recognition of transgender identities.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17d

Hours after we sent a letter signed by over 450 artists and 40K others defending free speech, ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel will return to air.

Other companies should heed this warning: We the people are watching.

Before Jimmy Kimmel's reinstatement, talk show hosts and ACLU added to outcry over suspension

Bill Maher, John Oliver, the hosts of 'The View' and 400 artists who joined the ACLU have spoken out about Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, which has now been lifted.

www.latimes.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17d

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."

Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Jimmy Kimmel Returns: ABC Ends Suspension Starting Tuesday

Jimmy Kimmel will return to late night on Tuesday

variety.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20d

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 20d

@tamu.bsky.social President Steps Down Under Pressure

Mark Welsh resigned Thursday after state lawmakers accused the university of pushing “leftist DEI and transgender indoctrination” on his watch. https://bit.ly/3I8PaHf

#AcaemicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Mark Welsh in jacket and tie in front of Texas A&M sign

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 20d

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year:
“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23d

Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice!

“virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”

Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour

Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...

www.nature.com

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Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social · 25d

This is huge. Among other reasons the Gov is endorsing him, she says: "...[I]n light of the abhorrent and destructive policies coming out of Washington every day, I needed to know the next mayor will not be someone who would surrender one inch to President Trump."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 29d

Gift Link: Read article without a subscription. A National Guard report accidentally emailed to the Washington Post says veterans and active-duty troops view the D.C. deployment with "shame." wapo.st/45Yk0vl

National Guard documents show public ‘fear,’ troops’ ‘shame’ over D.C. presence

Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.

wapo.st

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Columbia Climate School @climate.columbia.edu · Sep 9

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, Climate Week NYC 2025, rising threat to NYC food system, distinguished fellows program, glacial ice loss, chat with Professor @sheilarose.bsky.social, new faculty, more from Columbia Climate School and State of the Planet! ➡️ us8.campaign-archive.com?e=17f790cedd...

Flooded neighborhood on September 4, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. Credit: Jocelyn Augustino, FEMA

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · Sep 7

Couldn’t have said it better myself…

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Gennifer Hutchison @gennhutchison.bsky.social · Sep 5

I really, REALLY wish people would internalize the absolute stranglehold voter suppression and gerrymandering have over many red states with high BIPOC populations (who reliably vote blue) before consistently writing off these entire states and saying shit like “they deserved it”.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Supreme Court is taking on a case that challenges part of the Voting Rights Act. It ensures voters of color can elect representatives of their choice.

I'm leading a group of AGs to defend this law and protect voting rights for everyone in our country.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Sep 5

A devastating review of "Abundance" (the book) in @nybooks.com. I mean, whew!

The evidentiary core of each chapter consists of a summary of the academic work of a few experts, usually economists, with frequent and lengthy quotations, as well as the occasional interview, whose conclusions are repeated uncritically. (To take one example, they quote without scrutiny the claim of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan that he is requiring employees to work in person in order to foster trust, rather than to impose discipline or to recoup the costs of commercial real estate. They give no sense of the unruly literatures on their subjects, the ranges of disagreement, the difficult problems and mutually exclusive solutions. They claim to set an agenda for a new liberal political order, but what they have done is read some economists and argue, again, for deregulation.

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Sheila Foster @sheilarose.bsky.social · Sep 4

Having taught at two Jesuit universities (Fordham and Georgetown), I am happy to see this Op-Ed that aligns DEI with Jesuit values. From my former Dean at both places, William Treanor.

www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

At Jesuit universities, the government’s D.E.I. crackdown is an attack on religious freedom

Now more than ever, it is urgent to stand up for our university’s autonomy to make curricular decisions based on its Jesuit mission.

www.americamagazine.org

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