Cherice Bock
@chericebock.bsky.social
Climate policy director at 350PDX; Quaker, professor, writer. PhD, MS, environmental studies; MDiv. Views my own. she/her
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Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS.
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
Paris is getting a whole new Metro network. And it’s huge | CNN
The Grand Paris Express will add four lines, 68 stations and 200 kilometers of track to the French capital’s 120-year-old Metro system, providing vital suburban links – just not quite in time for the ...
www.cnn.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS.
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
“…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.”
#ActionStartsHere
@mayors4climate.bsky.social
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This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
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Is this the persecution of the faithful I was warned about, growing up evangelical? My nationalist co-religionists are denying it now, but these are precisely the scenarios we were breathlessly schooled on, reading stories of saints and martyrs following Jesus at all costs.
November 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Is this the persecution of the faithful I was warned about, growing up evangelical? My nationalist co-religionists are denying it now, but these are precisely the scenarios we were breathlessly schooled on, reading stories of saints and martyrs following Jesus at all costs.
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If we had the train network we ALREADY HAD 80-100 years ago, the auto industry as we know it would be decimated.
A growing number of Americans are rolling into the holidays by train with Amtrak reporting an increase in riders after federally mandated flight reductions led to thousands of delays and cancellations at major airports nationwide. NBC News' Emilie Ikeda reports.
November 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If we had the train network we ALREADY HAD 80-100 years ago, the auto industry as we know it would be decimated.
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Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Before choosing bottled water over tap water, remember it takes more than 10X the water that a bottle of water holds to make the plastic bottle and transport the water. And that’s before considering the fuel and GHGs, the 1000 year bottle life, and the RIDICULOUS amount of $ we’re paying for water.
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I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
November 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I think entirely too much about how California’s climate plan explicitly says that converting to EVs is not nearly enough to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets so we need to reduce VMT 25% by 2030, and then we do basically nothing to try to achieve that goal
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This is outrageous!
First this kid is a citizen! Second, this kid's a minor!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
First this kid is a citizen! Second, this kid's a minor!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
ICE arrests McMinnville High School student during Friday lunch period
Family told local news the 17-year-old is a U.S. citizen.
www.opb.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
This is outrageous!
First this kid is a citizen! Second, this kid's a minor!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
First this kid is a citizen! Second, this kid's a minor!
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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We live in the future. It's here.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We live in the future. It's here.
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Of all the things to condemn on the house floor… they picked socialism.
Not the genocide in Gaza.
Not the government’s eugenics plan
Not ICE
Not building camps for the homeless
Not tax cuts for the billionaires
Not pedophilia.
Socialism.
And 95 Dems supported it.
Not the genocide in Gaza.
Not the government’s eugenics plan
Not ICE
Not building camps for the homeless
Not tax cuts for the billionaires
Not pedophilia.
Socialism.
And 95 Dems supported it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Of all the things to condemn on the house floor… they picked socialism.
Not the genocide in Gaza.
Not the government’s eugenics plan
Not ICE
Not building camps for the homeless
Not tax cuts for the billionaires
Not pedophilia.
Socialism.
And 95 Dems supported it.
Not the genocide in Gaza.
Not the government’s eugenics plan
Not ICE
Not building camps for the homeless
Not tax cuts for the billionaires
Not pedophilia.
Socialism.
And 95 Dems supported it.
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Pregnancy and Cøvid aren't good companions.
@atranscendedman.bsky.social 🙏🏻
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@atranscendedman.bsky.social 🙏🏻
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Presence of SARS-CoV-2 in fetal organs via intraamniotic infection - Nature Communications
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy may result in maternal and fetal complications. Here, the authors analyze 18 fetuses following maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection and identify distribution in fet...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Pregnancy and Cøvid aren't good companions.
@atranscendedman.bsky.social 🙏🏻
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@atranscendedman.bsky.social 🙏🏻
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared. So did the air. That's because fossil fuels are massively polluting.
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared. So did the air. That's because fossil fuels are massively polluting.
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Ridership jumped, people cut back on driving and, over the summer, the city extended the program another year.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
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I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I have written a lot about the perils of poorly maintained (and leaf-filled) bike lanes. That didn’t stop me from wiping out in one just now, falling on my face and scraping up my knee pretty badly. This is a truly hazardous situation, @pbotinfo.bsky.social. When are you going to do something?
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In a rapidly warming world, heat waves will become mass mortality events. If 2003 European heat wave were to recur with 1.5 °C of warming (we're close to that today), this study predicts 17,800 excess deaths across Europe in *one week.* With 3 C of warming, the toll rises to 32,000.
📈🚨NEW: Extreme heat events are increasingly threatening to become mass mortality events. In @natclimate.nature.com today, we project tens of thousands of deaths in a single week across Europe if extreme heat domes coincide with rising global temperatures.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In a rapidly warming world, heat waves will become mass mortality events. If 2003 European heat wave were to recur with 1.5 °C of warming (we're close to that today), this study predicts 17,800 excess deaths across Europe in *one week.* With 3 C of warming, the toll rises to 32,000.
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NVIDIA’s emissions doubled last year and all everyone can say is "ooo, world’s most valuable company"? & their GPUs are so power thirsty that entire data centres are waiting to get hooked up with electricity, as local grids can’t supply enough 😩 bettertech.blog/2025/11/14/u... cc @ketanjoshi.co
Understanding AI’s true – and ever-increasing – impacts
87%. That’s how much the emissions of NVIDIA (worth 5 trillion dollars) increased in 2024, as an article from TruthDig is one of the only sources in the world to point out. This means it became the…
bettertech.blog
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
NVIDIA’s emissions doubled last year and all everyone can say is "ooo, world’s most valuable company"? & their GPUs are so power thirsty that entire data centres are waiting to get hooked up with electricity, as local grids can’t supply enough 😩 bettertech.blog/2025/11/14/u... cc @ketanjoshi.co
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New Report Finds Deep-Sea Mining Has No Clear Economic or Strategic Justification
www.oceanprotectioncoalition.org/dsmfeasibility
www.oceanprotectioncoalition.org/dsmfeasibility
DSM Technical/Economic Feasibility Report — NOPC - National Ocean Protection Coalition
www.oceanprotectioncoalition.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New Report Finds Deep-Sea Mining Has No Clear Economic or Strategic Justification
www.oceanprotectioncoalition.org/dsmfeasibility
www.oceanprotectioncoalition.org/dsmfeasibility
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Oof. This is gorgeous piece of writing.
"Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss. Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible. It says, 'We existed.' It says, 'We tried.'"
"Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss. Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible. It says, 'We existed.' It says, 'We tried.'"
Alphabets on the Sand
In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.
jewishcurrents.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Oof. This is gorgeous piece of writing.
"Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss. Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible. It says, 'We existed.' It says, 'We tried.'"
"Words cannot keep up with what happens here. Language always follows loss. Still, I write, because forgetting is another kind of death. Writing does not save anyone; it only makes absence visible. It says, 'We existed.' It says, 'We tried.'"
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By the end of this decade, U.S. data centers could consume as much water as 10 million Americans and produce as much carbon dioxide as 10 million cars, a study finds. via @insideclimatenews.org
U.S. Data Centers Could Consume as Much Water as 10 Million Americans by Decade's End
e360.yale.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
By the end of this decade, U.S. data centers could consume as much water as 10 million Americans and produce as much carbon dioxide as 10 million cars, a study finds. via @insideclimatenews.org
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🚨Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate actions
In a new preprint, @colognaviktoria.bsky.social, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social & I examine techno-optimism among 9,199 scientists and how it relates to their civic engagement and lifestyle choices🧵
🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/hh94huzv
In a new preprint, @colognaviktoria.bsky.social, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social & I examine techno-optimism among 9,199 scientists and how it relates to their civic engagement and lifestyle choices🧵
🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/hh94huzv
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🚨Techno-optimistic scientists take fewer climate actions
In a new preprint, @colognaviktoria.bsky.social, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social & I examine techno-optimism among 9,199 scientists and how it relates to their civic engagement and lifestyle choices🧵
🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/hh94huzv
In a new preprint, @colognaviktoria.bsky.social, @maiensachis.bsky.social, @jmbh.bsky.social & I examine techno-optimism among 9,199 scientists and how it relates to their civic engagement and lifestyle choices🧵
🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/hh94huzv
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a new direct-to-camera video of prelates reading from their new statement decrying various aspects of the Trump administration's mass deportation policy.
Interesting to see a more organized, sophisticated push here: www.instagram.com/reels/DQ_uiq...
Interesting to see a more organized, sophisticated push here: www.instagram.com/reels/DQ_uiq...
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Instagram: "“We as Catholic bishops love our country and pray for its peace and prosperity. For this very reason, we feel compelled now in this environment to ra...
In a special message, US Catholic bishops address concerns surrounding immigrants and advocate for human dignity, highlighting the need for compassion and support in the face of evolving immigration p...
www.instagram.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a new direct-to-camera video of prelates reading from their new statement decrying various aspects of the Trump administration's mass deportation policy.
Interesting to see a more organized, sophisticated push here: www.instagram.com/reels/DQ_uiq...
Interesting to see a more organized, sophisticated push here: www.instagram.com/reels/DQ_uiq...
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Flying is the most carbon polluting way to travel but on the eve of #COP30, the UN’s aviation body said it expected passenger flight numbers to *triple* by 2050, to 12.4 billion a year
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 live: calls for ‘just transition’ plan grow as report warns world on track for 2.6C of heating
Climate Action Tracker report finds pledges made in past year have not cut the forecast for global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Flying is the most carbon polluting way to travel but on the eve of #COP30, the UN’s aviation body said it expected passenger flight numbers to *triple* by 2050, to 12.4 billion a year
Post by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Post by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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At #COP30, Greenpeace urges Toyota to end its greenwashing of biofuel vehicles. These misleading claims distract from the urgent need for true electrification in the fight against the climate crisis. Our planet can't afford false solutions! 🌏 Read more: www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/pre...
Greenpeace calls on Toyota to stop greenwashing biofuel vehicles - Greenpeace East Asia
As the world converges at COP30 to confront the climate crisis, Greenpeace has condemned Toyota’s misleading promotion of biofuel-powered prototype vehicles as a decarbonisation solution.
www.greenpeace.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 AM
At #COP30, Greenpeace urges Toyota to end its greenwashing of biofuel vehicles. These misleading claims distract from the urgent need for true electrification in the fight against the climate crisis. Our planet can't afford false solutions! 🌏 Read more: www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/pre...
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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Good news: The Michigan Public Service Commission agreed with us that Consumers Energy needs to better protect customers from the high costs of serving data centers. We demonstrated that without further protections, serving data centers could raise household electricity rates by more than 9%.
Michigan regulators move to protect Consumers Energy customers from some data center costs
The Michigan Public Service Commission approves rules to shield Consumers Energy ratepayers from data center costs, while environmentalists seek stronger protections.
planetdetroit.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Good news: The Michigan Public Service Commission agreed with us that Consumers Energy needs to better protect customers from the high costs of serving data centers. We demonstrated that without further protections, serving data centers could raise household electricity rates by more than 9%.
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We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.
This concentration camp was opened at Fort Bliss, the site of a former Japanese internment camp.
It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift.
shorturl.at/qhuSc
It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift.
shorturl.at/qhuSc
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.