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Sharon 🫶🏻💙🇺🇸🦋🍿 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 20h

Jenn Hill @jmhill926.bsky.social · 1d

Today 4 types of sparrows feasted in the goldenrod between compost pile and large lilac - Chipping, White-crowned, White-throated and Fox. Migration!

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · Aug 26

And it is never stingy. Like my neglected gardens, there's a lot of needy spaces in the world, gaps vacated by systems that are faltering or being deconstructed intentionally. May we be scrappy, a little bit assertive, and brilliantly generous, as we explore what is possible there.

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 1d

In northern Thailand’s Ban Pong village, a group of women has spent nearly two decades restoring and guarding their community forest to prevent dry-season wildfires. From the restored forest, residents now harvest forest products to sell in markets and feed some of Ban Pong’s 7,100 residents.

Women firefighters in Thailand restore community forest

In northern Thailand’s Ban Pong village, a group of women has spent nearly two decades restoring and guarding their community forest to prevent dry-season wildfires. From the restored forest,…

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RuralOrganizing.org @ruralorganizing.bsky.social · 1d

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free!

—Louisiana increases Medicaid payments to doctors
—EPA sued over cancellation of $7 billion Solar for All program
—Nurses are in high demand. Why can’t nursing schools keep up?

Rural News Clips, Oct. 8, 2025

Louisiana increases Medicaid payments to doctors; EPA sued over cancellation of $7 billion Solar for All program; Nurses are in high demand. Why can’t nursing schools keep up?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Wish we had a press corp that would actually ask something like “where are you getting this information from?”

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Jenn Hill @jmhill926.bsky.social · 2d

Not sustainable

Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 2d

I'm feeling this more than ever since I moved to SLO. I'm a civil engineering professor with a good salary, and the rent on my modest (and slightly dated) 2br condo is FORTY percent of my take-home pay. And that's before utilities. How most people survive, esp single parents, is beyond me.

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2d

There are now two Americas when it comes to housing:

In one, people work multiple jobs and still can't afford a home.

In the other, housing isn't a place to live but a portfolio to grow.

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Uwe Edelheid feat. mariazielenbach @mariazielenbach.bsky.social · 3d

Dutch "zonder" 'without' is cognate to German "sondern" 'rather, but'. Both come from a Proto-Germanic root meaning 'separate, apart'. English are "sunder", "asunder" etc. are cognate as well.
#LessObviousDutchGermanCognates

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Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 2d

Yep! Which is why the work of Solarcycle is so vital. www.solarcycle.us

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 3d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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Jenn Hill @jmhill926.bsky.social · 3d

Let the sun shine in

Peter Sinclair @peterwsinclair.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA or Markets? Who will win the war on Solar?
thinc.blog/2025/10/06/m...

MAGA or Markets? Who Will Win the War on Solar ?

Scientific American: Renewable energy doesn’t need subsidies to compete with fossil fuels when it comes to building new power plants. That’s a key takeaway in Lazard’s annua…

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 3d

27 million pounds of chicken

2 million gallons of milk

67 million eggs

That’s how much food grown by American farmers never made it to hungry families because of the administration’s decision to cancel deliveries to food banks.

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 3d

Each thing helps people hold on just a little harder for just a little bit longer. And that’s the entire point right now. Who can hold on longer.

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🇲🇽 rustbelt rebel 🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 3d

Looooooove this so much!!!! There is a place for ALL of us right now- be the person that writes the song! Be the person that makes the sign!! (Shout out to whoever made the awesome folding sign, lol) be the person that leads the sing along! Or the person that helps clean up afterwards!

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 3d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Jenn Hill @jmhill926.bsky.social · 3d

I’m lucky to live in a place where I can see stars on my back deck.

Night sky looking south off my back deck. Black pointed triangle shadows of spruce and maple trees at the bottom. At center are the stars of the Orion constellation.

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Jason Peringer 🧉 @jasonperinger.bsky.social · 3d

On this day in 1958, American Express issued its first charge card, stepping into a young market pioneered by Diners Club eight years earlier. The move was in large part a defensive play, with Amex looking to protect its lucrative traveler's checks business from Diners Club's growing popularity.

a man in a suit and tie is talking to a man and a woman .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to a man and a woman .

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent reporting from @kenzabryan.ft.com all round.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 3d

On the other hand, a powerful quote from Lucie Pinson @reclaimfinance.org: "Its purpose was never to take real action, but to create the illusion of measures in order to ward off the risk of regulation ... the institutions genuinely committed to containing global warming will continue to act."

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Jenn Hill @jmhill926.bsky.social · 4d

The people who live on the farms would like to have a word. To keep their farms, raise food and sustain the soil. #energySky www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tv2...

Farmers, Property Rights, and Clean Energy

YouTube video by greenmanbucket

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Lyndal Rowlands @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social · 4d

The new season of The Morning Show on Apple TV has an even more explicit climate change story line, including covering repression of protests and how greenwashing/disinformation works

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Jenn Hill @jmhill926.bsky.social · 4d

Great story.
Thank you!

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 4d

They took down the Klan.

FBI cuts ties with Southern Poverty Law Center after MAGA push

The SPLC is the second civil rights group to lose its affiliation with the agency this week.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 4d

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012.

The infant was less than two months old and was not old enough to receive the pertussis vaccine.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

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