Mitch Seymour
@emseymour.bsky.social
Scientist, naturalist, birder, fisherman, martial artist, crafter. Currently invested in local action on carbon capture, food security, and pollinator advocacy. Champion for microgrants and mentorship to empower people+possibility. Go Irish!☘️
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Vought helped pen Project 2025 & brought chaos to communities all over this country w/ spending freeze! This is the leadership we need on all nominations of incompetents & extremists who let billionaires raid the public pantry, while people struggle to pay for eggs, rent or worry about health care.
I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
February 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Vought helped pen Project 2025 & brought chaos to communities all over this country w/ spending freeze! This is the leadership we need on all nominations of incompetents & extremists who let billionaires raid the public pantry, while people struggle to pay for eggs, rent or worry about health care.
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ICYMI yesterday 2/5.
February 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
ICYMI yesterday 2/5.
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Court orders Musk out of the Treasury computer payment systems until it can sort out whether the DOGE is a legal government entity.
BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!
February 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Court orders Musk out of the Treasury computer payment systems until it can sort out whether the DOGE is a legal government entity.
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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
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It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office.
Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
February 3, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office.
Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
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A 'disappointingly low' 1% of Ireland is natural, native forest
Only Iceland has less Trees than #Ireland
This may soon be reduced to virtually zero as major campaign launched to cut down remaining native Trees using more powerful storms as an excuse
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-tree...
Only Iceland has less Trees than #Ireland
This may soon be reduced to virtually zero as major campaign launched to cut down remaining native Trees using more powerful storms as an excuse
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-tree...
A 'disappointingly low' 1 per cent of Ireland is natural, native forest, first study finds
The research also found native, natural forest is highly fragmented.
www.thejournal.ie
February 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
A 'disappointingly low' 1% of Ireland is natural, native forest
Only Iceland has less Trees than #Ireland
This may soon be reduced to virtually zero as major campaign launched to cut down remaining native Trees using more powerful storms as an excuse
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-tree...
Only Iceland has less Trees than #Ireland
This may soon be reduced to virtually zero as major campaign launched to cut down remaining native Trees using more powerful storms as an excuse
www.thejournal.ie/ireland-tree...
Guaranteed income...more of these pilots, please! www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
Guaranteed income helping Ann Arbor cook chase dream of starting food truck
Marie Codrington is one of 100 entrepreneurs and gig workers chosen to participate in Ann Arbor's new guaranteed income program and she says it's already helped in big ways.
www.mlive.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Guaranteed income...more of these pilots, please! www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
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Conservatives yell “socialism” at every initiative designed to help people.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Socialism Fear-mongering is Bananas | Robert Reich
Medicare for All - “That’s socialism!”Social Security - “That’s socialism!”Debt free education - “That’s socialism!”$886 billion defense budget - “That’s jus...
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November 29, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Conservatives yell “socialism” at every initiative designed to help people.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
Maybe you've heard the word a few times already today.
But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic.
A functioning government requires pooling resources for the common good. Let me explain.
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"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’
www.scotsman.com
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 AM
"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
Read that again: **116** times.
Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...
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Project 2025 is trumps agenda and the fact that anyone thought otherwise is insane
November 23, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Project 2025 is trumps agenda and the fact that anyone thought otherwise is insane
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Enough isn't being made of this
October 14, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Enough isn't being made of this
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Join a union. When 70% of US Labor was unionized, our middle class was the envy of the world.
Want a course correction on wealth disparity? Unionization is the path
Want a course correction on wealth disparity? Unionization is the path
"The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor."
A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph
August 7, 2024 at 6:21 PM
Join a union. When 70% of US Labor was unionized, our middle class was the envy of the world.
Want a course correction on wealth disparity? Unionization is the path
Want a course correction on wealth disparity? Unionization is the path
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Poverty is a policy choice. Mass incarceration is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. Insulin rationing is a policy choice. Climate disintegration is a policy choice. Billionaire tax loopholes are a policy choice.
Make no mistake: We have the power to change things.
Make no mistake: We have the power to change things.
August 7, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Mass incarceration is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. Insulin rationing is a policy choice. Climate disintegration is a policy choice. Billionaire tax loopholes are a policy choice.
Make no mistake: We have the power to change things.
Make no mistake: We have the power to change things.
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The DOT regulated junk fees. Airlines sued.
The CFPB capped credit card fees. Banks sued.
Medicare is negotiating Rx prices. Big Pharma sued.
The FTC banned noncompetes. Business groups sued.
Corporate America can't stand how the Biden-Harris admin is working for the people.
The CFPB capped credit card fees. Banks sued.
Medicare is negotiating Rx prices. Big Pharma sued.
The FTC banned noncompetes. Business groups sued.
Corporate America can't stand how the Biden-Harris admin is working for the people.
July 29, 2024 at 10:35 PM
The DOT regulated junk fees. Airlines sued.
The CFPB capped credit card fees. Banks sued.
Medicare is negotiating Rx prices. Big Pharma sued.
The FTC banned noncompetes. Business groups sued.
Corporate America can't stand how the Biden-Harris admin is working for the people.
The CFPB capped credit card fees. Banks sued.
Medicare is negotiating Rx prices. Big Pharma sued.
The FTC banned noncompetes. Business groups sued.
Corporate America can't stand how the Biden-Harris admin is working for the people.
Guess what? Sex and gender are distinct in many areas of neurological function. #whodathunkit
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Functional brain networks are associated with both sex and gender in children
Shared and unique functional brain networks underlie individual variability related to sex and gender in children.
www.science.org
July 12, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Guess what? Sex and gender are distinct in many areas of neurological function. #whodathunkit
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Keep finding myself randomly intoning "VERGOGNA!" to myself in my head like a jingle and chuckling.
June 11, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Keep finding myself randomly intoning "VERGOGNA!" to myself in my head like a jingle and chuckling.
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Just came here to say the same thing!
"When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote. But in the last six months... “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”🪶
"When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote. But in the last six months... “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”🪶
cannot overstate how strongly this essay by @edyong209.bsky.social resonates with me. birding has fundamentally changed the way i move through the world and has made me a calmer, more conscientious, and happier person. gift link so the 🪶 feed can read without a sub
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/03/30/o...
Opinion | When I Became a Birder, Almost Everything Else Fell Into Place
To find the birds, you have to know them.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Just came here to say the same thing!
"When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote. But in the last six months... “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”🪶
"When I started birding, I remember thinking that I’d never see most of the species in my field guide. I had internalized the idea of nature as distant and remote. But in the last six months... “I’ll never see that” has turned into “Where can I find that?”🪶
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Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional.
This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.
Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.
This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.
Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.
March 24, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional.
This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.
Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.
This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.
Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.
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Today, the paperback edition of 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest' goes on sale. So far, about 20k copies of the hardback have sold: fantastic for an 'Irish nature book'!
We're seeing a real revolution in attitudes towards the natural world in Ireland, and there's NO going back. 🌍
We're seeing a real revolution in attitudes towards the natural world in Ireland, and there's NO going back. 🌍
February 15, 2024 at 6:16 AM
Today, the paperback edition of 'An Irish Atlantic Rainforest' goes on sale. So far, about 20k copies of the hardback have sold: fantastic for an 'Irish nature book'!
We're seeing a real revolution in attitudes towards the natural world in Ireland, and there's NO going back. 🌍
We're seeing a real revolution in attitudes towards the natural world in Ireland, and there's NO going back. 🌍
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🪸 THIS JUST IN 🪸
For the first time, scientists have finished mapping the worlds coral reefs. Why this is important:
🌍 Facilitates global collaboration
📚 Improves understanding of reefs
🌊 Catalyses global conservation actions
💡 Provides insights for decision-making
For the first time, scientists have finished mapping the worlds coral reefs. Why this is important:
🌍 Facilitates global collaboration
📚 Improves understanding of reefs
🌊 Catalyses global conservation actions
💡 Provides insights for decision-making
February 14, 2024 at 2:03 PM
🪸 THIS JUST IN 🪸
For the first time, scientists have finished mapping the worlds coral reefs. Why this is important:
🌍 Facilitates global collaboration
📚 Improves understanding of reefs
🌊 Catalyses global conservation actions
💡 Provides insights for decision-making
For the first time, scientists have finished mapping the worlds coral reefs. Why this is important:
🌍 Facilitates global collaboration
📚 Improves understanding of reefs
🌊 Catalyses global conservation actions
💡 Provides insights for decision-making
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A rainbow's neon arcs down out of a dark winter sky into an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
Won't be long now before a million wildflowers start to light up the woodland floor in similar colours. 🌎
Won't be long now before a million wildflowers start to light up the woodland floor in similar colours. 🌎
February 18, 2024 at 7:14 AM
A rainbow's neon arcs down out of a dark winter sky into an Irish Atlantic rainforest.
Won't be long now before a million wildflowers start to light up the woodland floor in similar colours. 🌎
Won't be long now before a million wildflowers start to light up the woodland floor in similar colours. 🌎
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There have been three major waves of opposition to transgender health care in the past century, including today's. Each wave has used pseudoscience to justify its hostility to trans people, including today's. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/pseu...
Pseudoscience Has Long Been Used to Oppress Transgender People
Three major waves of opposition to transgender health care in the past century have cited faulty science to justify hostility
www.scientificamerican.com
February 12, 2024 at 10:24 PM
There have been three major waves of opposition to transgender health care in the past century, including today's. Each wave has used pseudoscience to justify its hostility to trans people, including today's. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/pseu...
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