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@frotharootie.bsky.social
Ohioan turned Angeleno. 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 citizen
Granny. Fan of LAKings, 70’s Rock, Democrats, Democracy
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Join UCLA's LENS and the @uclalawemmett.bsky.social for a conversation with climate journalist @sammyroth.bsky.social about why narrative matters in the fight against climate change. The Jan 9 event is a live taping of the LENS podcast. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I have been having a busy week — three new stories at Climate-Colored Goggles, my newsletter about climate and culture. Please sign up, and consider a paid subscription: climatecoloredgoggles.com
Climate-Colored Goggles | Sammy Roth | Substack
Finding climate solutions in pop culture, media and sports. Written by Sammy Roth. Click to read Climate-Colored Goggles, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Adelita Grijalva sworn in
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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In March, one of California's top lawmakers wrote to Dodgers owner Mark Walter, urging him to end all oil and gas industry sponsorships.

The team wouldn't comment publicly, but turns out they had an answer: Nope.

I just got a copy of the letter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/dodgers-wi...
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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L.A. Dodgers: Stand with the people of Los Angeles — Decline Any White House Invitation! You have always been more than a baseball team - you’re part of the spirit of who we are as a city, we need you to stand with us, on the right side of history.

Sign the petition.
www.iceoutofla.org
Open Letter to the L.A. Dodgers: Stand With the People of Los Angeles — Decline Any White House Invitation!
The Los Angeles Dodgers have always been more than a baseball team - they’re part of the spirit of who we are as a city. The team represents our neighborhoods, our families, and our shared love for…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Obvious next steps for Dodgers owner Mark Walter: Don't send the team back to the White House. And start funding public transit to Dodger Stadium — ideally electric buses.

Latest edition of my independent newsletter, Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/dodgers-wi...
The Dodgers keep winning. But Los Angeles is losing
Baseball and politics collided in 2025. Temperatures are rising, and Trump is fanning the flames.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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"Of course multibillion-dollar sports teams, with their enormous cultural and economic sway, are political enterprises. In 2025, the Dodgers put an exclamation point on that fundamental truth." -- @sammyroth.bsky.social

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/dodgers-wi...
The Dodgers keep winning. But Los Angeles is losing
Baseball and politics collided in 2025. Temperatures are rising, and Trump is fanning the flames.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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In a year that was so political, the predictable happened.

L.A. was screaming for help in 2025 after devastating fires and violent immigration raids. But the Dodgers kept doing business with Big Oil and wouldn't stand up for Latino communities: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/dodgers-wi...
The Dodgers keep winning. But Los Angeles is losing
Baseball and politics collided in 2025. Temperatures are rising, and Trump is fanning the flames.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform.

Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Spotify customer service is immediately ending conversations if you ask about them airing ICE advertisements on the platform.

Cancel your Spotify subscription.
#BoycottSpotify
October 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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So excited to see my talented former colleague @sammyroth.bsky.social set free to write important, impactful climate pieces without the constraints of corporate journalism. Please subscribe to his newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
Why I'm writing about climate and culture
I never expected to leave the Los Angeles Times and start a Substack. Then a story about Disneyland caught me by surprise.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Toyota funds more climate deniers in Congress than any other car company, and just 1.2% of its U.S. sales were EVs last year. Under pressure from @janefonda.com, Hollywood's leading environmental group is cutting ties with the Japanese automaker: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/hollywood-...
Hollywood pumps the brakes on Toyota
The entertainment industry's leading sustainability group says privately it will cut ties with its top sponsor, after critics accuse Toyota of funding climate denial.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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First edition coming tomorrow! Not too late to subscribe and get it in your inbox!
OK, here we go...

I'm excited to launch Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate and culture. I'll be writing about climate solutions in pop culture, media & sports. America's most influential storytellers need to get in the game.

Sign up here: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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My wife and I had a great time at No Kings in Bay Village, Ohio, 10-18-25! Lots of patriotic gray hair, families, American flags, honking car horns, energy, determination, and neighborly friendliness. We want to make America good again.
#HandsOff #NoKings @winnabledemraces.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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No Kings in Ironton, Ohio!

Send me photos from where you are…
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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NO KINGS in Parma, Ohio.
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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And NOW DAYTON OHIO IN DA HOUSE!!!!! NO KINGS!!!! TY OHIO
October 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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No Kings Rally in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. ❤️
October 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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No Kings Newark Ohio.
October 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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No kings 2, Youngstown, Ohio

#nokings #Youngstown
October 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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New Albany, Ohio -- home of Epstein buddy Les Wexner and the richest people in town -- showing up for No Kings. bsky.app/profile/rust...
About 400-500 at New Albany’s.
October 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

Lima Ohio. Says no Kings
October 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM