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Lawrence MacDonald
@climateboomer.bsky.social
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Working flat out to #StopTheCoup. Author of "Am I too old to save the planet? A boomer's guide to climate action." Inspired by @Indivisible, @ThirdAct, @ClimateDefiance www.climateboomer.org
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 8d
I'm helping to organize Oct. 18 “No Kings March Across Memorial Bridge to DC” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
No Kings March Across Memorial Bridge to DC · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Third Act Virginia is organizing folks to gather at the traffic circle on the Virginia side of Memorial Bridge at 11:00 AM. We will march across t...
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 1h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... A sound strategy from @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social Wisdom from the mouths of babes. And while we're at it, wouldn't it be great if US legacy media like @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com and @msnbc.com offered this kind of reporting? Go @theguardian.com !
Youth-led US climate activists widen focus to fight authoritarianism
Sunrise Movement, which led calls for a Green New Deal, will organize against Trump’s attacks on universities
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 1d
During the #VoughtShutdown, drop by Tsehay Ethiopian Restaurant in Adams Morgan for the $20 per person Shutdown Supper Club
#forkoff #freedc
The Shutdown Supper Club at Tsehay: $20/Person. Share a plate. Share a story
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Lawrence MacDonald @climateboomer.bsky.social · 5h
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Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.
We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.
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Chanting Crow 🌊🌛🌝🌜🌊 @chantingcrow.bsky.social · 6h
This is what we get in Cheeto Mussolini's America. If you're poor, middle class, you're going to drink poison water. From the same folks that during the first administration rolled back the water protections that have been in place since the year I was born... I don't know what folks expected.
EPA moves to roll back drinking water standards
The Environmental Protection Agency is looking to roll back regulatory standards for three types of PFAS chemicals in drinking water systems.
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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 4d
Distributed energy networks are far more secure for energy supply than centralised systems

Energy security in the widest sense.

What's not to like and why do the Right seem to like the more controlling centralised systems? Maybe they have shares in them!!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d
As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...
It's hard to drone a solar panel
The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 3d
Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2d
For all of the (manufactured) passion about the quality of labor statistics, Trump administration has left the BLS leaderless for months, is no closer to a replacement, and has left many of the leadership posts within the organization empty. And no-one is allowed to come to work right now, either.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
Update from the war zone in Portland.
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Third Act Maryland @thirdactmd.bsky.social · 1d
Not a new sandwich spread, PJM, an organization most people have never heard of, is the largest power grid operator in the U.S. Learn why PJM is driving up your electricity prices. Thursday, Oct. 9, 6 pm ET.
Electric Grid and Fossil Fuels: Join the webinar
I just signed up for an extremely important and interesting webinar about fossil fuels in our regional electric grid on Thursday, October 9 at 6pm ET. Join me!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.
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Eddie Deezenuts @32mbit.bsky.social · 2d
what would happen if you got like 10 people together to dress up like ICE slobs and just show up where they go and LARP with them and be a general pain in the ass to them helping people flee and shit
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d
Donny and Pete bombed so badly with the Generals this week they had to blow up another fishing boat just to feel better about themselves.
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California National Party (CNP) @votecnp.bsky.social · 4d
Oil is poison and our addiction to it is destroying our world.
Fire still burning at California Chevron refinery following explosion
No injuries reported in El Segundo, site of company’s second-biggest US refinery, which supplies jet fuel for LA airport
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
He’s foaming at the mouth to go full Gestapo.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d
Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5d
Hmm. With solar energy, the big explosions take place 93 million miles away
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d
A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 4d
As Russia is discovering, a drone can wreck an oil refinery
Not so much a solar farm, since silicon doesn't explode
billmckibben.substack.com/p/its-hard-t...
It's hard to drone a solar panel
The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues
billmckibben.substack.com
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 3d
If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
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CNN @cnn.com · 4d
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d
If a high-ranking elected official can be detained in broad daylight, no one is immune from this regime’s authoritarian overreach.

Let’s stand together against the abuses of power, cruelty, and corruption — and remind Trump and his enablers that there are NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
Chicago alderwoman arrested by ICE agents while checking on detainee at hospital in Humboldt Park
A Chicago alderwoman was arrested by ICE agents on Friday afternoon inside a hospital in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 4d
Here's our commitment to you: every week we get on the What's The Plan zoom, take your questions, and talk like real humans about all the crazy shit that's happening. We don't have all the answers and we don't pretend to, but we're gonna give you our best takes.

Join us!!!
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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 4d
@leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social's weekly calls are such a fantastic resource. Please consider signing up for What's the Plan? weekly video calls with @indivisible.org. You'll be more prepared and empowered and encouraged as we organize to stop the illegal actions of the regime
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d
We’re two weeks away from the largest day of peaceful protest in American history. No matter where you live, there’s probably a No Kings Day event happening near you to show we won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d
reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 8d
It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7d
Any spending deal must protect healthcare, reject blank checks for authoritarianism, and actually serve the people. Democrats are at the table and ready to end the shutdown and meet the demands of their constituents. It’s now up to the Republicans: Fund healthcare or keep the government shut down?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8d
A serving member of the military might be court-martialed for saying in public what Trump did here.

(The entire *point* of super-quiet submarines is that adversaries do not know where they are. Navy goes to extreme lengths to conceal any clues to their location.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
Trump: "We were a little bit threatened by Russia recently, and I sent a submarine, nuclear submarine. The most lethal weapon ever made. Number one, you can't detect it."
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