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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 3h

Good news for Green turtles.

Not so good for Arctic seals.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

www.bbc.com

Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 3h

@theguardian.com has been covering the story.

Stay safe @mark-bray.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert leaves country a day after blocked from flying to Spain

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was told at gate his trip was cancelled after Trump threats

www.theguardian.com

Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 3h

The earth works so hard to live and heal when we get out of the way.

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 3h

'Trǫll' in the Old Norse 😊

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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 1d

Extreme heat is fueling the U.S. maternal health crisis, raising risks for preeclampsia & hospitalization. Black mothers are hit hardest. This is an immediate, urgent threat to our kids' futures. 😡😡😡

www.americanprogress.org/article/risi...

Rising Extreme Heat Compounds the U.S. Maternal Health Crisis

Policymakers must act to protect the health and safety of pregnant people—including by passing the Protecting Moms and Babies Against Climate Change Act, increasing access to indoor home cooling, and ...

www.americanprogress.org

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 5h

OMFG

Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 5h

There will be ketchup on the Whitehouse walls today.

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 12h

Critics?
"They are the actual oil industry and the think tanks that work on their behalf. "

Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 13h

Ok but they aren’t “critics” within the scientific community. They are the actual oil industry and the think tanks that work on their behalf. And “linking” refers to source and impact attribution science which quantifies human influence on extreme weather events. 1/4

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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ChristianG @mryeswecan.bsky.social · 21h

Tories 2025

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16h

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t adequately express how mystified and nauseated I am by the conversation about Trump receiving a Nobel Peace Prize that corporate media is now leading. But as a journalist, attorney, historian and Trump presidential biographer I’m now obligated to make the case *against* in full.

Here it is:

Media and MAGA Calls for Trump to Catch a Nobel Peace Prize Rather Than An ICC War Crimes Indictment Are Obscene

The second-biggest threat to global peace after Putin has earned a cell for war crimes—not a humanitarian award. That his grotesque and scammy appeal for a Nobel Peace Prize is working is terrifying.

sethabramson.substack.com

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 16h

Nice start, but smug 🤬s like Yusuf are good at this.
Hammer harder, never let them turn the conversation, and never, ever give a conceding 'ok'.

Once you buy into their line, they won the clicks and clips.
That's why he's so smug.

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 16h

TBF, Trump generates the poison himself. Miller just has to keep him 'on track'.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 1d

27. I’ll close with this. You cannot debate professional liars like Stephen Miller. You cannot find common ground. Why? Because *they are too weak to be worthy of trust*. They can only be opposed. Trump said JB Pritzker should be jailed. In reply, Pritzker said

www.rawstory.com/trump-jb-pri...

'Come and get me': Dem gov dares Trump to make good on arrest threat

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) spoke to an MSNBC reporter on the ground in Chicago for protests around the deployment of federal agents to raid the city. President Donald Trump issued a Wednesday mor...

www.rawstory.com

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 16h

And are they going to pay them?
bsky.app/profile/cory...

Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 18h

The GOP controls the government and is choosing to keep it shut down, and letting military families go without pay.

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 18h

The GOP controls the government and is choosing to keep it shut down, and letting military families go without pay.

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 16h

Johnson is the Umbridge of the House

Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 17h

"She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators

Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.”"

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 17h

The original story is in New Republic, and it's a bit thin TBH.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

DOJ Has No Clue What It’s Doing With Comey Case, Legal Expert Warns

A legal expert explained how the Department of Justice made a major slipup.

www.yahoo.com

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 17h

These are decisions that could never be undone.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 18h

Greenwashed.

"These results raise questions for those institutions and organizations continuing to engage with the fossil fuel industry on the basis that the industry is a key player in an energy transition."

Diren Kocakuşak, Ph.D. @direnkocakusak.bsky.social · 1d

A new Nature article using GEM data (@globalenergymon.bsky.social) found that the top 250 oil and gas firms own just 2% of the world's renewable power. #renewables 💡🧪

Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 18h

“This whole project has become a celebration, ... a reminder to us all of what is possible.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 1d

No sh!t

Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 1d

The E.U. is mandating the treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters.

But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, which are responsible for most of those contaminants, are pushing back.

An E.U. Plan to Slash Micropollutants in Wastewater Is Under Attack

Earlier this year, a European Union directive mandated advanced treatment of micropollutants in wastewater, with the cost to be borne by polluters. But the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, whi...

e360.yale.edu

Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 1d

"Greg Abbott is a tool..."

Tee hee

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