Karina Lutz
@karinalutz.bsky.social
Eco-Poet, novelist, editor, etc. Author: Preliminary Visions and Post-Catholic Midrashim. Peacenik, permie, retired enviro activist. karinalutz.wordpress.com. Ex @theRealWOTUS
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The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
The Trump administration purged 80 pages of facts about climate change — including that it's caused by humans.
dlvr.it
December 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The EPA website got the basics of climate science right. Until last week.
The call for submissions is out for the March 2026 Deep Times Journal: mailchi.mp/workthatreco...
Call for Submissions 🌀 Harvesting the Gifts of the Ancestors
mailchi.mp
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The call for submissions is out for the March 2026 Deep Times Journal: mailchi.mp/workthatreco...
#callforsubmissions for #deeptime journal
Call for Submissions 🌀 Harvesting the Gifts of the Ancestors
mailchi.mp
December 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
#callforsubmissions for #deeptime journal
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A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.
December 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A federal judge struck down Trump’s halt on approvals of all wind power projects on federal lands and waters.
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More than 50 contracts across our union include language that directly addresses artificial intelligence. Earlier this week, we released our demands #NewsNotSlop
➡️ www.newsnotslop.org/demands
We’re highlighting some of the best contract language enforcing these demands in the workplace here:
➡️ www.newsnotslop.org/demands
We’re highlighting some of the best contract language enforcing these demands in the workplace here:
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
More than 50 contracts across our union include language that directly addresses artificial intelligence. Earlier this week, we released our demands #NewsNotSlop
➡️ www.newsnotslop.org/demands
We’re highlighting some of the best contract language enforcing these demands in the workplace here:
➡️ www.newsnotslop.org/demands
We’re highlighting some of the best contract language enforcing these demands in the workplace here:
The courts saved the libraries. www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
www.ala.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The courts saved the libraries. www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
Confusion redemption. sojo.net/magazine/dec...
Billionaires Are a National Disaster
Chuck Collins on how income inequality undermines everyone’s quality of life—even the most wealthy.
sojo.net
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Confusion redemption. sojo.net/magazine/dec...
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Damn.
We're almost at the point where if we boycott every corporation who embraces this administration and constantly displays shitty behavior, we won't be giving our dollars and patronage to anyone.
And I'm cool with that.
Shop locally and with mom and pop businesses.
We're almost at the point where if we boycott every corporation who embraces this administration and constantly displays shitty behavior, we won't be giving our dollars and patronage to anyone.
And I'm cool with that.
Shop locally and with mom and pop businesses.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Damn.
We're almost at the point where if we boycott every corporation who embraces this administration and constantly displays shitty behavior, we won't be giving our dollars and patronage to anyone.
And I'm cool with that.
Shop locally and with mom and pop businesses.
We're almost at the point where if we boycott every corporation who embraces this administration and constantly displays shitty behavior, we won't be giving our dollars and patronage to anyone.
And I'm cool with that.
Shop locally and with mom and pop businesses.
You know what I hate more than turkey and pie farts under the covers? This kind of shit: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
Canada Lifts Climate Laws for Alberta Oil Sands, Planning Pipeline
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
You know what I hate more than turkey and pie farts under the covers? This kind of shit: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
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Filming ICE can expose abuses, deter violence, and provide crucial evidence, but it also comes with risks.
Downloadable tip sheet
* Your right to record
* How to center care while filming
* Best practices for capturing, storing, and sharing video evidence
library.witness.org/product/film...
Downloadable tip sheet
* Your right to record
* How to center care while filming
* Best practices for capturing, storing, and sharing video evidence
library.witness.org/product/film...
Filming Immigration Enforcement in the U.S. - Library
Tipsheet on how to use video to ethically combat abuses committed by immigration enforcement, including safety, social media, & verification tips.
library.witness.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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“Where everything else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together.”
@johannawinant.bsky.social on the real power of close reading in a growing age of austerity:
@johannawinant.bsky.social on the real power of close reading in a growing age of austerity:
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
“Where everything else felt exhausted, the classroom was overflowing, plentiful. All we needed was a poem, a few hours each week, and trust in what we could do, in what we did do, together.”
@johannawinant.bsky.social on the real power of close reading in a growing age of austerity:
@johannawinant.bsky.social on the real power of close reading in a growing age of austerity:
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Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
In the olden days, when i was an advocate, when the Repugnants were in power federally, we'd make all our climate progress on the state level. This year is different. commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/we-wi...
‘We will fill the State House’: Advocates gird for a showdown over House plan to dial back climate commitments - CommonWealth Beacon
The effort is bound to divide the Democratic supermajority on Beacon Hill and test officials’ willingness to defend the state’s climate policies just as winter hits and Healey mounts a reelection bid.
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In the olden days, when i was an advocate, when the Repugnants were in power federally, we'd make all our climate progress on the state level. This year is different. commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/we-wi...
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I know food and health care and housing are more important, but let's not take our public libraries for granted. We should all have access to all. It's not asking too much. nwmd.social/s/copylink/5...
Send an Email to Congress
We built this petition to help you let your representatives know that libraries continue to be an integral part of a healthy American community.
nwmd.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I know food and health care and housing are more important, but let's not take our public libraries for granted. We should all have access to all. It's not asking too much. nwmd.social/s/copylink/5...
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Scientists and scholars from around the globe gathered in Hiroshima and demanded, in a joint declaration Wednesday, that nuclear powers never use the weapons of mass destruction.
Scientists gathered in Hiroshima call for abolition of nuclear weapons
The declaration wrapped up the five-day 63rd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs in the atomic-bombed city.
ebx.sh
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Scientists and scholars from around the globe gathered in Hiroshima and demanded, in a joint declaration Wednesday, that nuclear powers never use the weapons of mass destruction.
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HOW CAN WE AFFORD TO INVADE VENEZUELA IF THERE'S NO MONEY FOR SNAP???
October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
HOW CAN WE AFFORD TO INVADE VENEZUELA IF THERE'S NO MONEY FOR SNAP???
Somebody read his George Lakoff.
October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Somebody read his George Lakoff.
Turn off AI.
October 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Turn off AI.
Verklempt, almost kvelling to see so many signatories to this letter. As my daughter says, NYC is probably the safest place in the world for Jews. Let's keep it that way. No, let's make it safer, and for Muslims, and everybody.
October 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Verklempt, almost kvelling to see so many signatories to this letter. As my daughter says, NYC is probably the safest place in the world for Jews. Let's keep it that way. No, let's make it safer, and for Muslims, and everybody.
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NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
CBS News just gutted its climate team
Paramount and Bari Weiss aren't off to a great start. Here's why David Ellison should change course.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:55 AM
NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more.
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...
Except it's still on Kaiser's website: www.kff.org/affordable-c...
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Except it's still on Kaiser's website: www.kff.org/affordable-c...
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Crimes against humanity.
The EPA is picking and choosing who gets to work during the shutdown: "virtually everyone who is working to undo marquee Biden-era regulations for air pollution, climate change and
water quality is still on the job."
This is, to put it mildly, not normal.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
water quality is still on the job."
This is, to put it mildly, not normal.
www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
EPA flush with cash for ‘priority’ staff
The agency is taking an unprecedented approach to furloughs during this latest government shutdown.
www.eenews.net
October 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Crimes against humanity.
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I didn't even know about this guy, and suddenly I see this video about how my lab group has been attacked by an anti-wind group and their right-wing anti-environmental lawyers. 2 minutes to tell the story; and he's got a longer version with stuff about ID-ing misinfo.
youtube.com/shorts/3FgnQ...
youtube.com/shorts/3FgnQ...
Meet the lawyers blocking offshore wind
YouTube video by Simon Clark
youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I didn't even know about this guy, and suddenly I see this video about how my lab group has been attacked by an anti-wind group and their right-wing anti-environmental lawyers. 2 minutes to tell the story; and he's got a longer version with stuff about ID-ing misinfo.
youtube.com/shorts/3FgnQ...
youtube.com/shorts/3FgnQ...