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Chicana Italiana vegana chingona, low waste maker, baker, wild fermenter, native plant gardener, compost lover, total liberation ecofeminist artist, author, former professor of art and photography luchando for all animals 💚 linktr.ee/eyelarocca

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Jan 18

Please request this book at your local library. Everyone should know about this secretive industry. ISBN 978-1590567364
We don't have to depend on governments and corporations. We have the power to address the most pressing problems of our day every day with our choice of what we consume!
#vegan

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 1d

Barbaric. Criminal. My heart hurts for these beings. This must stop!!!

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 2d

We can't depend on governments and corporations! We have the power to make a better world several times a day with our choice of what we consume! Take the 30-Day Plant-Powered Challenge and win a Vitamix ! Best for your health, the planet, and all animals!
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I’m taking part in the Species Unite 30-Day Plant-Powered Challenge this October. Will you join me? #ChooseKindness’

From October 1, 2025, we’ll guide you through simple, delicious ways to eat plant-powered for the animals, the planet, and your own wellbeing. For 30 days, you’ll receive recipes, tips, and resources...

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 3d

Gracias Gente!!!

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 3d

The Oglala Sioux Tribe boldly banned Gov. Kristi Noem from Pine Ridge, standing up against her harmful rhetoric linking reservations to cartels. Eight of nine tribes followed—sending a clear, proud message of protecting their communities with courage and dignity.
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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 3d

Megalomaniacal profiteering billionaires are destroying the planet

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 3d

A federal judge greenlit Holtec to dump 45,000 gallons of radioactive water from Indian Point into the Hudson, sparking outrage. New York officials and environmentalists warn this reckless move could undo decades of river restoration.
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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 3d

We are there people. The US is an authoritarian State. Resist!
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Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago suburb after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents shot a woman in Broadview, Illinois, after they said they were rammed and boxed in by cars Saturday.

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 3d

More waste, fraud, and abuse

jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 4d

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Relentless Overspending Pushes the National Debt Up by $2 Trillion in the Last Year Alone (The New York Sun)

The federal government just accumulated an additional $2 trillion in debt over the last 12 months. That’s the kind of debt surge America usually racks up in ...

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 3d

Authoritarian playbook: create divisions to make themselves richer and more powerful

Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 3d

eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 3d

Yet another analysis outlines a pathway to health, equity, and a liveable planet: a plant-based diet! For the planet, for human health, for all animals boycott animal agriculture!!! #vegan

goveganworld.bsky.social @goveganworld.bsky.social · 3d

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New landmark EAT-Lancet Commission warns food systems breach planetary limits - EAT

The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission today released its Report on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, presenting the most comprehensive global scientific evaluation of food systems to date.

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 6d

Please participate if you can!!!!

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7d

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 10d

The most effective actions an individual can take to mitigate climate change - staying childfree, veganism - are seriously taboo. And yet humans somehow believe we are the most intelligent species. In fact, we are the most delusional.

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I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right. I found that antinatalism is seriously taboo | Bri Lee

Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 12d

Boycott animal agriculture! Eat plants yo

Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 12d

Reaping the Benefits of PlantRich Diets

"A 2023 study concluded that 'plant-based diets produce 75% less heat-trapping gas, generate 75% less water pollution & use 75% less land than meat-rich diets.

More on co-benefits of diet shifts & ways to promote them:
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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 12d

Listen up! It's all connected.
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“Little Red Barns”: Author Will Potter on How Industrial Animal Agriculture Breeds Authoritarianism

We continue our conversation with Will Potter, the author of Little Red Barns, an investigation into the state repression of journalists, environmentalists and animal rights activists who attempt to e...

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 22d

It's so glaringly obvious that a plant-based diet is the way to go from multiple reasons. And yet...

Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 22d

"Scientists tracked the eating habits of >23,000 people in the UK over two decades: the people most closely following a plant-based diet had a 32% lower incidence of type 2 diabetes than those with the least adherence, as well as 18% lower GHG emissions linked to their diets."
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Study recommends ‘planetary diet’ to cut diabetes risk and emissions

Researchers say dietary changes are crucial part of effort to tackle global heating

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 22d

Feliz día de la independencia de México! Grítenlo: que viva México! Pintura de Rufino Tamayo

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · 24d

This is what happens when sentient animals are mere commodities.
Former Lab Director Stanley Formally Terminated by UK share.google/82oy7oBQP91C...

Former Lab Director Stanley Formally Terminated by UK

The University of Kentucky has terminated the employment of former lab director Scott Scanley following what they call “a serious breach of ethics and policy violations related to misconduct and misma...

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Sep 5

We don't have to depend on governments and corporations! We have the power everyday several times a day with our choice of what we consume!

Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · Sep 4

A little reminder:
The land freed by a global adoption of a plant-based diet would be the size of the US, China, the EU and Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 could be removed each year.

(every plant-based meal helps)

h/t @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social)
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 29

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 29

This Labor Day, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest.

We must continue standing together to show Trump that we, the people, have the power – not his billionaire buddies and corporate cronies. bit.ly/4lMgKaR

eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 29

Get meta out of your camera roll!

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Aug 29

Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll. Here's how to check and turn it off 👀

eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 28

It's an evil rotten business. Boycott animal agriculture!
JBS pressures instructors to falsify safety trainings, lawsuit alleges share.google/aoVCIj2R5wy8...

Meat processor JBS pushed Greeley instructors to falsify safety trainings, whistleblower says

Salima Jandali alleges JBS engages in “systematic workplace discrimination” and retaliated against her after she refused to engage in “illegal, dangerous and exploitative practice…

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 23

what is this yellow blooming loveliness in my garden? Evening primrose (Oenothera biennis), native to eastern and central N. America and host to moths, bees, butterflies, and birds! Please plant natives! #veganic

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 20

Criminal that all this organic matter is wasted and causes more pollution (vicious cycle) rather than closing the loop (virtuous cycle)!!!

eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 16

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 16

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eyelarocca @eyelarocca.bsky.social · Aug 16

He can't be trusted no matter what