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Daniel Bachman

@danielbachman.bsky.social

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Guitar, etc./Folklore & History of Virginia/Gardener Manahoac Territory Born at 353.15 ppm.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Jun 28

My new piece is about a community in the Blue Ridge who doesnt know a Helene strength storm is coming because the weather alerts have been privatized, & after losing their home, take refuge in the large camps of unhoused people living in the former National Park.

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As Time Draws Near

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Bones Hyland's Homeopathic Cold Relief @wellburrowed.bsky.social · 19h

"While rolling out the study, coalition members are being careful not to attribute blame to controversial factors like climate change or overdevelopment" okay! Then you are all agreeing to fuck yourselves up, siblings

Loudoun Now @loudounnow.org · 21h

Loudoun Groundwater Study Raises Concerns About Long-term Sustainability

A study group assembled by the Loudoun County Preservation and Conservation Coalition has published a 57-page assessment of groundwater data that is expected to generate new discussions about rural resource protections—if not alarm over declining water levels.

dlvr.it

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Karen Bearden @chickadeenc.bsky.social · 9h

“MVP’s proposed extension of its pipeline into North Carolina — MVP Southgate — is now within half a mile of another dangerous proposed pipeline, Transco SSEP, and the burden on our communities will only be compounded.”

ncnewsline.com/2025/10/06/f...

FERC analysis finds MVP Southgate natural gas project potentially redundant • NC Newsline

Another natural gas pipeline, the Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, could remove the need for Southgate, regulators say.

ncnewsline.com

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 9h

Trying to learn more about the anti fascist/anti German Evangelical Church, "Confessing Church" tonight, and this sermon from Mount Vernon Unitarian in Alexandria is one of the better vids on YT.

The Confessing Church

YouTube video by Mount Vernon Unitarian Church

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 10h

Defending the highway to the NC Outer Banks is problematic: “It’s the overwash of sand that built these islands in the first place and allows them to persist," Moore said. "By blocking that process to defend roadways and buildings, we’re starving these islands of the lifeline they need to exist.”

Why efforts to protect Highway 12 could be making flooding worse

A UNC-led study says decades of road protection efforts may be accelerating erosion and putting the Outer Banks at greater risk.

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 10h

How Indigenous people in Guatemala fought pollution themselves.
When government institutions failed to remove the fish farms that were polluting a community’s water source, citizens rallied behind Indigenous leaders and took action on their own. impakter.com/how-indigeno...

How Indigenous Guatemalans Fought Pollution Themselves - Impakter

When the authorities failed to protect their water supply, Indigenous leaders took direct action to remove the fish farms causing pollution.

impakter.com

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 11h

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Norman Finkelsteins piece on abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison refusing to condemn Nat Turner after the revolt, to the events on 10/7, was a mind changer for me. Garrison takes shit for softening after the Civil War but this stance was 100% the most violently unpopular opinion in the US in 1831.

NAT TURNER IN GAZA

Visit the post for more.

www.normanfinkelstein.com

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 11h

Radical idea, then & now.

100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 16h

Oct. 7, 1925: Lord Willingdon, the former British governor of Bombay, warns a council of the Church of England that ideas of "color superiority" are damaging to the West. "The white races must realize the necessity of treating all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality."

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 11h

Unreal . . . blame the people impacted by poor air quality instead of the accelerating US fossil fuel industry building production sites in high population areas. ☠️

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds. https://cnn.it/4pWQMoh

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 12h

This was wonderful Jane, thank you.

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 12h

Aldonas homemade udon noodles with a butternut squash curry tonight 😮‍💨

A small bowl of noodles held atop a large pot of thick Japanese curry.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 13h

@michaelmann.bsky.social on PBS Newshour calling the USA a petrostate, made my day. ❤️‍🔥🫡

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 3d

#Charlottesville Visibility Brigade. #Indivisible Virginia
#VisibilityBrigade

Sign on overpass saying: Fund Healthcare End MAGA shutdown.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 15h

Is this the pepper ball gun?

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16h

With apologies, because it’s scary, because it really is scary: latest in my project of messing with stills from ICE vids. Stylizing them to sharpen the focus on the aesthetic project of fascist terror. Chicago today, aiming at a protester named Jess, for documenting him.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 17h

Took the whole day off to really catch up in the garden after a long family visit that left things pretty neglected. Second round of starts art struggling but I gave them some food & water & hoping they will mostly rebound. Spinach is up, 20’ of carrots sowed, garden still pumping out peppers. 🌶️ 🫑

Our garden beds with two areas turned and composted ready for planting among the last of the summer stuff.

Mustard, kales, and broccoli, with young starts still coming back to life in the middle row under some bug netting.

A bottle of pelleted carrot seed, it looks like an old pill bottle.

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 20h

Periodic reminder that Unite the Right in Cville was a gathering to rally around a monument of R E Lee erected during this era (1924).

Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 23h

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 22h

It’s always been a way to put off fossil fuel extraction. 🔥☠️

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Woodo @woodo.bsky.social · 1d

Oh my God this.

You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

What an awesome night watching the moonrise. A thin fog settled in the river bottom and the first big V of geese I’ve heard this year flew across the moon. Hope everyone is having a good one out there. 🌝❤️‍🔥

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

Very last of the katydids out tonight too. Fall is creeping in.

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

Agreed. Really hard to beat this era of Ralph…this whole channel is cool tbh dude…

Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 1d

Full Harvest Supermoon 🌝

Our three sisters garden with our home in the background Feith a huge moon rising above the building.

Our cat Little Baby dramatically lit from the inside window.

Moon bathing in the field. The camera captures the light of the moon.

The moon rising above our field with a path cutting through the brushy undergrowth.

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