Amy Brazill
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🌊 Identifying global marine climate refugia through a conservative approach to ocean biodiversity preservation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Identifying global marine climate refugia through a conservative approach to ocean biodiversity preservation - Nature Communications
Zhuang et al. define climate-resilient zones with global conservation consensus as marine climate refuges. They find that only 14% of marine protected areas and other effective area-based conservation...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM
🌊 Identifying global marine climate refugia through a conservative approach to ocean biodiversity preservation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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Jack Goldsmith is not some liberal Dem squish. He ran OLC for GWB and has what one would generally describe as a “conservative” (in its pre-Trump usage) view of a lot of constitutional provisions, but he is principled and he says flatly that these strikes are murder.
Professor Jack Goldsmith, head of George W. Bush Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC):
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
"I do not believe that even the Bondi OLC could legally justify the events the Post reported."
"There can be no conceivable legal justification for what the Washington Post reported."
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
November 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Jack Goldsmith is not some liberal Dem squish. He ran OLC for GWB and has what one would generally describe as a “conservative” (in its pre-Trump usage) view of a lot of constitutional provisions, but he is principled and he says flatly that these strikes are murder.
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Every season has it's charms #photography #amsterdam #autumn #longnights #longexposure #lightpainting #autumn
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every season has it's charms #photography #amsterdam #autumn #longnights #longexposure #lightpainting #autumn
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✨️Friends, this year, when you choose 🎁🎄holiday gifts, please take a look at my handmade items from Ukraine. My jewelry is more than just beads.
It is a little light and warmth from Ukraine that you can give to your loved ones.💙💛
Order on Etsy or DM📩
www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...
🎄🪡🧵✨️
#Christmasgifts
It is a little light and warmth from Ukraine that you can give to your loved ones.💙💛
Order on Etsy or DM📩
www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...
🎄🪡🧵✨️
#Christmasgifts
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
✨️Friends, this year, when you choose 🎁🎄holiday gifts, please take a look at my handmade items from Ukraine. My jewelry is more than just beads.
It is a little light and warmth from Ukraine that you can give to your loved ones.💙💛
Order on Etsy or DM📩
www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...
🎄🪡🧵✨️
#Christmasgifts
It is a little light and warmth from Ukraine that you can give to your loved ones.💙💛
Order on Etsy or DM📩
www.etsy.com/shop/NadiiaJ...
🎄🪡🧵✨️
#Christmasgifts
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I'm a lawyer who fights for democracy who built Democracy Docket from scratch because we need independent pro-democracy media. For $10 a month you can help it do its vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
November 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I'm a lawyer who fights for democracy who built Democracy Docket from scratch because we need independent pro-democracy media. For $10 a month you can help it do its vital work. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!
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The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.
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Thank you, Nicky
Adding the post that includes Kasparov’s righteous rant.
We need every politician to speak with this level of urgency, moral clarity, and conviction!
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Adding the post that includes Kasparov’s righteous rant.
We need every politician to speak with this level of urgency, moral clarity, and conviction!
bsky.app/profile/andr...
Kasparov nails it: Western failure to confront russia is the biggest security risk we face.
Ukraine is buying us time, and we’re wasting it.
Ukraine is buying us time, and we’re wasting it.
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Thank you, Nicky
Adding the post that includes Kasparov’s righteous rant.
We need every politician to speak with this level of urgency, moral clarity, and conviction!
bsky.app/profile/andr...
Adding the post that includes Kasparov’s righteous rant.
We need every politician to speak with this level of urgency, moral clarity, and conviction!
bsky.app/profile/andr...
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“Our findings show that when we see someone being touched, our brains quickly interpret what that touch might feel like. This fits with the idea that the brain briefly "mirrors" what it sees in others, simulating their experience as if it were our own.”
www.sciencealert.com/an-amazing-t...
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www.sciencealert.com/an-amazing-t...
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An Amazing Thing Happens in The Brain When We See Someone Touched
Touch is fundamental to how we perceive our own bodies and connect with others.
www.sciencealert.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
“Our findings show that when we see someone being touched, our brains quickly interpret what that touch might feel like. This fits with the idea that the brain briefly "mirrors" what it sees in others, simulating their experience as if it were our own.”
www.sciencealert.com/an-amazing-t...
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www.sciencealert.com/an-amazing-t...
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People forget now but for most of the 2008 campaign we had no idea that the economy was in recession, they spent much of the time talking about other things, like climate
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
People forget now but for most of the 2008 campaign we had no idea that the economy was in recession, they spent much of the time talking about other things, like climate
Importantly, a state that no longer grants its corporations the power to spend in elections also denies that power to corporations chartered in the other 49 states, if they wish to do business in that state.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Importantly, a state that no longer grants its corporations the power to spend in elections also denies that power to corporations chartered in the other 49 states, if they wish to do business in that state.
robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
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Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we eat pie.
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we eat pie.
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RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
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Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
RIP to the legend Jimmy Cliff, who has sadly left us age 81.
youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?...
youtu.be/-y9Q7ud7Or0?...
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Nurses are special people. They perform duties that most of us are unable or unwilling to do. They're overworked and underpaid. I'm in awe of their knowledge, competence, efficiency, and selflessness. They save lives and should be recognized as the professionals that they are.
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Nurses are special people. They perform duties that most of us are unable or unwilling to do. They're overworked and underpaid. I'm in awe of their knowledge, competence, efficiency, and selflessness. They save lives and should be recognized as the professionals that they are.
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THE DAY AHEAD: Ousted officials organize an effort to prevent “history from being rewritten”
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THE DAY AHEAD: Ousted officials organize an effort to prevent “history from being rewritten”
YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS
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November 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
THE DAY AHEAD: Ousted officials organize an effort to prevent “history from being rewritten”
youtube.com/shorts/UXRSo...
youtube.com/shorts/UXRSo...
But so many people offering such wildly distinct definitions of womanhood makes it difficult for the party to communicate a clear message to persuadable women voters.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
But so many people offering such wildly distinct definitions of womanhood makes it difficult for the party to communicate a clear message to persuadable women voters.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The White House doesn’t offer a plausible legal rationale because the orders are illegal.
Various lawyers wouldn’t sign off on it because the orders are illegal.
Trump flipped out at veterans saying don’t follow illegal orders because he’s giving illegal orders.
Real Occam’s razor situation here.
Various lawyers wouldn’t sign off on it because the orders are illegal.
Trump flipped out at veterans saying don’t follow illegal orders because he’s giving illegal orders.
Real Occam’s razor situation here.
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The White House doesn’t offer a plausible legal rationale because the orders are illegal.
Various lawyers wouldn’t sign off on it because the orders are illegal.
Trump flipped out at veterans saying don’t follow illegal orders because he’s giving illegal orders.
Real Occam’s razor situation here.
Various lawyers wouldn’t sign off on it because the orders are illegal.
Trump flipped out at veterans saying don’t follow illegal orders because he’s giving illegal orders.
Real Occam’s razor situation here.
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Another win!
November 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Another win!
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.