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Kathleen Kennedy
@kmkennedy6.bsky.social
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Assistant Research Professor at UMD's Center for Global Sustainability. Researching state-level decarbonization pathways in Maryland and beyond. Views my own. She/her.
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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 4d
Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls.

Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5d
In cities, street space is a really scarce (and under-valued) commodity. Increasing vehicle size costs everyone.

And vehicle weight determines your impact on the wear-and-tear of cities.

So this kind of public policy is really just common sense.
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On Sunday, #Zürich residents voted 52.8% in favor of increasing parking fees for cars according to weight.

The owner of a BMW X2 (Diesel), which weighs 1,675 kilograms, will now pay equivalent of €717 Euros per year to park on a public street. (Before, about €321.)

Direct democracy!
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Kathleen Kennedy @kmkennedy6.bsky.social · 14d
The best week of the year! #FatBearWeek
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 16d
breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind

the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work

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Trump Just Suffered His First Loss on Offshore Wind
A judge has lifted the administration’s stop-work order against Revolution Wind.
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Center for Global Sustainability @ctrglobsust.bsky.social · 14d
Just launched 📣
CGS's new flagship website on Country Climate Ambition offers critical insight for the Paris process through in-depth analyses and policy recommendations for major-emitting countries, as they set and seek to achieve ambitious 2035 #NDCs: www.country-ambition.cgs.umd.edu
A global map with colored dots indicating countries with analyses from a new CGS report. The text overlay reads: "Country Climate Ambition: High Ambition Pathways for National and Global Climate Goals; In the midst of the third round of the NDC cycle, the Center for Global Sustainability has launched a new flagship website on Country Climate Ambition, which provides in-depth analyses of plausible, high-ambition pathways and policy recommendations for 12 major-emitting countries towards 2035 and net-zero goals: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Republic of Korea, and South Africa.
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · Oct 3
A belief of mine that I’ve not only questioned but almost completely reversed is that people respond politically to their materiel conditions. Since COVID I think most people live in a world mostly mediated by what they see on TV or their phones and respond more to that than to reality
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explore.org @explore.org · 19d
She’s beauty, she’s grace, and she just won the whole Junior Villa race.

IT'S BIGGIE 🎉

We'll see you next week for the big Fat Bear Week bracket reveal.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Sep 8
Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.

She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.

The past isn’t past.
Ruby Bridges, age 6 Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With," depicting the event originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964, issue of Look magazine. Ruby Bridge talking to President Obama as they look at Rockwell's painting when it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 24d
Thinking of this quote again in light of the Korea / ICE debacle at the Georgia auto plant.
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · Jul 30
I thought this passage from Karl Polyani's "The Great Transformation" (1944) was particularly apt for our time.
"The outstanding discovery of recent historical and anthropological research is that man’s economy, as a rule, is submerged in his social relationships." 1/4
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24d
⛵️JUST IN | “The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) has begun the final leg of its historic journey to help break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza. Yesterday, 18 boats set sail from Catania, Italy.
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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 25d
One of my sources of hope and inspiration is the growing Indigenous-led buffalo rematriation movement.

It combines ecological restoration and cultural reconciliation to begin addressing the legacy of genocide to both Native cultures and the land. We can remember our way forward...
🎁🔗 #ClimateSky
In Yellowstone, Migratory Bison Reawaken a Landscape
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25d
This is all just being said out loud now on the air on Fox “News”, instead of away from the cameras like before. That’s what’s changed. They’re testing the response and normalizing the idea at the same time.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
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Kathleen Kennedy @kmkennedy6.bsky.social · 26d
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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 27d
would you believe they are DOING THIS in the Finger Lakes region of NY? because they are!

check it out: carbon “offsets” that aren’t tree planting or sketchy high tech schemes, they’re funding insulation and heat pumps for households to help them get off fossil fuels

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 27d
Today @merkley.senate.gov and I released a report on our recent trip to the Middle East.

Our inescapable conclusion: the Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Tune in as we discuss what we saw and where we go from here:
Van Hollen, Merkley Release Report Detailing Findings on Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Community-Led Restoration @globalstewards.bsky.social · 27d
New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free child care for all families regardless of income starting in November. 👶
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New Mexico to launch universal free child care in November
New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free child care for all families regardless of income starting in November. New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) joins Ana Cabrera to sha...
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 28d
NEW: The European Commission will immediately suspend €32 million ($37.5M) in bilateral funds to Israel, a Commission official told AP — part of Ursula von der Leyen’s plan to pressure Israel, the violent settlers and far-right officials. This does not require EU member state approval.
Middle East updates: EU suspends Israel payments over Gaza – DW – 09/10/2025
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc is suspending payments to Israel and proposing sanctions on "extremist" Israeli ministers. China and Russia have condemned Israel's strike in...
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explore.org @explore.org · Sep 5
Buckle up, babes, the fattening is almost upon us. Mark your calendars:

Fat Bear Junior: September 18-19
Fat Bear Week: September 23-30
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explore.org @explore.org · 28d
Floatis! I call 602 Floatis because he is the Floatato and Otis' offspring!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28d
Remember the Gaza Humanitarian Fund? The shady American nonprofit run by a Christian Nationalist that was given full control of food aid distribution sites in Gaza?

Its parent organization GH solutions hired members of an American white supremacist biker gang to run security for the all the sites.
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Sep 5
Mandla Mandela, a grandson of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, says he’ll join the Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza with an aid boat from Tunisia.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5phozp
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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · Sep 8
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 5
I’m once again working with a city writing new integrated transportation & land use policy, and we’ve been discussing whether to PRIORITIZE walking, biking and transit, or achieve “BALANCE.” This is a key conversation where I sometimes give a fast and simple answer, but the truth is more complex. 1/
Graphic is showing a highly detailed prioritization of ways to get around a city, from most sustainable and healthy to least sustainable and healthy.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

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Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 8
lol...
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Axios @axios.com · Sep 8
The lowest share of Americans ever view capitalism positively and big business rates even worse in new Gallup data released today.
Americans give capitalism its lowest ever rating in new Gallup survey
A slim majority of Americans rate capitalism positively.
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