Benjamin Scherrer
@floodpedagogy.bsky.social
scied/interdiciplinarity/childhood studies/thinking with floods/asst prof cuny lehman college
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A powerful winter storm has unleashed torrential rain across Southern California, triggering flash flooding and prompting evacuation orders.
Authorities have declared a state of emergency in six counties and warn the dangerous conditions could continue through Christmas Day.
Authorities have declared a state of emergency in six counties and warn the dangerous conditions could continue through Christmas Day.
December 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A powerful winter storm has unleashed torrential rain across Southern California, triggering flash flooding and prompting evacuation orders.
Authorities have declared a state of emergency in six counties and warn the dangerous conditions could continue through Christmas Day.
Authorities have declared a state of emergency in six counties and warn the dangerous conditions could continue through Christmas Day.
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This petition is up to 230 signatories. I bet we can get it to their goal of 400 over the next few days! Are you in, friends in NYC???
Reposting this petition for NYC people interested in pushing back rather than partnering up:
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...
December 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This petition is up to 230 signatories. I bet we can get it to their goal of 400 over the next few days! Are you in, friends in NYC???
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I still tell students to go to the library, look up the book that seems right and then step back and look over the whole shelf too.
December 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I still tell students to go to the library, look up the book that seems right and then step back and look over the whole shelf too.
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The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research.
Listen here:
Listen here:
Trump moves to dismantle a ‘global mothership’ of climate research : Here & Now Anytime
The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist at the Nature Co...
www.npr.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research.
Listen here:
Listen here:
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It doesn’t really matter if they’re just trolling or really feel like this is what Christmas is about or whatever because they’re doing it
December 19, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It doesn’t really matter if they’re just trolling or really feel like this is what Christmas is about or whatever because they’re doing it
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. It’s not real. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
May 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An epidemiologist at Columbia had to issue a statement saying the research article RFK Jr. cited with her name is FAKE. It’s not real. The paper itself doesn’t EXIST.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
Yall this is fascism. FAKE scientific articles used by the government to influence policy is FASCISM. This is horrifying.
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I missed this. Congratulations to Lehman students. abc7ny.com/post/mackenz...
MacKenzie Scott donates $50 million to support student success at CUNY's Lehman College
The gift from the MacKenzie Scott Foundation was announced at the Lehman College Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx on Thursday morning.
abc7ny.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I missed this. Congratulations to Lehman students. abc7ny.com/post/mackenz...
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A desperately needed paper on the power of fossil capital to repress civil liberties around the world.
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 14, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A desperately needed paper on the power of fossil capital to repress civil liberties around the world.
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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Catastrophic flooding in Washington state sees 100,000 people told to evacuate
Evacuation orders in Washington state as unprecedented floods strike
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Catastrophic flooding in Washington state sees 100,000 people told to evacuate
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Thank you, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social. I am proud to have your endorsement as we work to deliver for working families.
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Thank you, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social. I am proud to have your endorsement as we work to deliver for working families.
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Been saying for years that reviving the freedom schools at scale is a viable strategy.
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Been saying for years that reviving the freedom schools at scale is a viable strategy.
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After COP30, Indigenous advocates celebrate gains while warning of unfinished work
After COP30, Indigenous advocates celebrate gains while warning of unfinished work
“They can’t decide for us without us.”
dlvr.it
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
After COP30, Indigenous advocates celebrate gains while warning of unfinished work
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How EPA grant cancellations are affecting 3 low-income communities - E&E News by POLITICO - www.eenews.net/articles/how...
How EPA grant cancellations are affecting 3 low-income communities
Lost nationwide: $1.6 billion for building emergency shelters, treating drinking water and adapting to a changing climate.
www.eenews.net
December 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
How EPA grant cancellations are affecting 3 low-income communities - E&E News by POLITICO - www.eenews.net/articles/how...
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It's never been easier to quietly and carefully teach yourself material that you never learned. Youtube is full of lectures and the internet is full of notes.
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE CHATGPT YOUR TEACHER
Pick human teachers & when I say learn, I mean to do things yourself, not to prompt wolfram alpha
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE CHATGPT YOUR TEACHER
Pick human teachers & when I say learn, I mean to do things yourself, not to prompt wolfram alpha
December 4, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It's never been easier to quietly and carefully teach yourself material that you never learned. Youtube is full of lectures and the internet is full of notes.
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE CHATGPT YOUR TEACHER
Pick human teachers & when I say learn, I mean to do things yourself, not to prompt wolfram alpha
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE CHATGPT YOUR TEACHER
Pick human teachers & when I say learn, I mean to do things yourself, not to prompt wolfram alpha
www.youtube.com/live/9Bk5lqr... while we don’t have a lot to celebrate in higher ed funding at the moment, this is important to recognize. CUNY Lehman College just provided with a 50 million unrestricted gift from the Mackenzie Scott Foundation! Proud to be a lightning bug!
Lehman College News Conference Livestream
YouTube video by LehmanCollege
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
www.youtube.com/live/9Bk5lqr... while we don’t have a lot to celebrate in higher ed funding at the moment, this is important to recognize. CUNY Lehman College just provided with a 50 million unrestricted gift from the Mackenzie Scott Foundation! Proud to be a lightning bug!
When the dude making your bagel sandwich at the bodega says, “I made this with love” when handing it to you. It did taste that good.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
When the dude making your bagel sandwich at the bodega says, “I made this with love” when handing it to you. It did taste that good.
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I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
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"He draws on texts by authors ranging from Olaudah Equiano and Herman Melville to Otis Redding and August Wilson to present a vision of blackness as an ongoing inhabitation of the deep that originates with and persists beyond Middle Passage."
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"He draws on texts by authors ranging from Olaudah Equiano and Herman Melville to Otis Redding and August Wilson to present a vision of blackness as an ongoing inhabitation of the deep that originates with and persists beyond Middle Passage."
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
And love the Calida Rawles painting on the cover.
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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I'm excited to be hosting this urgent, deeply necessary conversation.
Andreas, Wim, and Thea are three of the best thinkers we've got on the climate crisis and the left - and not just the "climate left." Climate catastrophe won't be siloed.
Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for pulling it together.
Andreas, Wim, and Thea are three of the best thinkers we've got on the climate crisis and the left - and not just the "climate left." Climate catastrophe won't be siloed.
Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for pulling it together.
Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton,
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
December 3, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I'm excited to be hosting this urgent, deeply necessary conversation.
Andreas, Wim, and Thea are three of the best thinkers we've got on the climate crisis and the left - and not just the "climate left." Climate catastrophe won't be siloed.
Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for pulling it together.
Andreas, Wim, and Thea are three of the best thinkers we've got on the climate crisis and the left - and not just the "climate left." Climate catastrophe won't be siloed.
Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for pulling it together.
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STILL MISSING!!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
December 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
STILL MISSING!!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
The first grader has been separated from his dad for almost a week, following ICE abducting them for the third time this year! ICE refuses to disclose the 6 yr old’s location.
WHERE IS YUANXIN?
Call your Reps & ask them to pressure ICE/DHS to reunite Fei & Yuanxin & release them!
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Climate education is going digital — but not always in the ways we imagine. Read our preliminary findings from mapping #ClimateEducation digital resources👇https://open.substack.com/pub/edforplanetaryfutures/p/mapping-climate-educations-digital?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Mapping Climate Education’s Digital Landscape: What We Learned from Educators and Youth (Preliminary Findings)
“Most of my education about climate has been online.”
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Climate education is going digital — but not always in the ways we imagine. Read our preliminary findings from mapping #ClimateEducation digital resources👇https://open.substack.com/pub/edforplanetaryfutures/p/mapping-climate-educations-digital?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web