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Lindsay Luchinsky
@lindsayluchinsky.bsky.social
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climate data scientist working on adaptation @ community- and state-level

extreme heat
pop4climate
@ NYC
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bencollins.bsky.social
theonion.com/ice-raids-my...
MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.
October 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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soniashah.bsky.social
"This picture of migration is one in which all nations, rich and poor, participate in a great network of human movement, linked by cultural, economic, historical and family ties, and put into constant motion by fears and dreams, one life at a time."

Gift link

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article)
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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planetoverprofit.org
The #TeslaTakedown movement calls on us to divest from Tesla while its CEO Elon Musk slashes social services.

New York State’s pension fund owns ~3.5 million shares of Tesla stock. Sign this petition to call on Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to divest New York State’s pension fund from Tesla!
New York State: Divest from Tesla!
Tesla CEO Elon Musk donated $250 million to Trump's campaign to purchase – and tank – the federal government. He's slashing critical services. He's gutting federal agencies that protect our food and h...
actionnetwork.org
April 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Hard for me express my gratitude to my friend @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for unearthing and reanimating the deliberately suppressed history of the Jewish Labor Bund.

Listen to this magnificent talk for something adjacent to hope.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwC7...
Molly Crabapple w/ Hasia Diner: Here Where We Live is Our Country, the Jewish Labor Bund
YouTube video by Institute on Culture Religion and World Affairs (CURA)
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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democracynow.org
Medical workers have reported severe torture in Israeli prisons.

In one instance, Israeli soldiers showed an orthopedics specialist surveillance footage of his home, threatening to drone strike his family, says Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an American surgeon volunteering in Gaza.
March 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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democracynow.org
Noura Erakat: Trump's Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home
Noura Erakat: Trump’s Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home
Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat responds to the arrest of Columbia University student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and situates it in the long, bipartisan history of anti-Palestine suppression...
www.democracynow.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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sundaedivine.lol
Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.
Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.
March 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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democracynow.org
"Impeachment is a Remedy for a Runaway President": Rep. Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump's Address
“Impeachment is a Remedy for a Runaway President”: Rep. Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump’s Address
We speak with Democratic Congressmember Al Green of Texas a day after he was censured by the House of Representatives for disrupting President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress on Tuesday night....
www.democracynow.org
March 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
A new cogsci paper examining human responses to wind turbine noise, highlighting that many of the stress responses seen IRL tend to be socially mediated (eg, 'wind turbine syndrome').

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Despite their alignment with sustainable development principles, wind farms often provoke controversy and misinformation, particularly regarding the noise they produce and their potential impact on human functioning. Concerns have been raised about the possible effects of this noise on irritation levels, psychological well-being, and cognitive functioning. Yet, there is still a lack of controlled, comprehensive studies that could substantiate these concerns. Here, a cognitive neuroscience approach is proposed to experimentally and multifactorial explore wind turbine noise’s impact on various mental functions. We used recordings from an actual wind turbine to investigate its effects on the dynamics of brain waves crucial for complex cognitive tasks, as well as on sustained attention and inductive reasoning in healthy adult volunteers. We also tested the subjective evaluation of the stress induced by wind turbine noise and the annoyance it causes. Control conditions included silence and road traffic noise (participants were blind to the nature of acoustic variables). The findings of this pilot study reveal that short-term exposure to wind turbine noise with a sound pressure level corresponding to the real-world situation (i.e., 65 dB SPL) does not adversely affect any of the examined cognitive functions and is not perceived as more stressful or bothersome than road traffic noise. Furthermore, we utilized various psychological scales and found that even tendencies towards rumination or reduced capacity for reflection and ambiguity tolerance did not lead to maladaptive perceptions of wind turbine noise and, therefore, to a state that might indirectly influence mental functioning. Although these results cannot be generalized, they support the concept that the interlinkage between exposure to wind turbine noise and human cognitive functioning is not a cause-and-effect relationship. We discuss the mediating role of socially constructed beliefs about wind farms in this inte… However, these null results do not negate the potential adverse influence of such noise on human brain processes or the fact that psychological diversity plays no role here. Instead, they indicate that under the conditions proposed in our approach, which are blind to the nature of the acoustic variable and thus detached from the social meanings attributed to wind turbine noise, such effects do not occur. It should be noted that, based on the ICBEN scale results, 14 out of 15 participants exposed to wind turbine noise rated their annoyance as either 0 (n = 4), 1 (n = 3), 3 (n = 2), or 4 (n = 5), indicating minimal disturbance, even in the presence of maladaptive or neurotic psychological traits. Only one individual rated their annoyance as high (at 7), despite a low score for rumination, but with low ambiguity tolerance and reflectivity. This implies that 93% of participants did not find wind turbine noise intrusive (Clark et al., 2021; Fields et al., 2001). As per previous studies, noise would negatively impact the neural dynamics of complex cognitive processes, sustained attention, and inductive reasoning only in case of high annoyance (Astuti et al., 2023; Muller et al., 2023; Pieper et al., 2021). The low annoyance (as well as stress) ratings observed in our exploration would be attributed to the fact that participants were unaware of the nature of the sounds they were exposed to (the procedure was blind, and no volunteers identified experimental sounds as wind turbine noise). Thus, they did not evaluate the noise from the perspective of socially constructed assertions or as a consequence of wind turbine syndrome mechanisms (Clark et al., 2020; Pierpont, 2009; Schaffer et al., 2016; Smith et al., 2020). As a result, they did not experience the nocebo effect (Crichton and Petrie, 2015), and we did not observe any impact of wind turbine noise on their cognitive functioning. This suggests that the sound pressure level of the wind turbine noise used in our study, i.e…
March 4, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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grist.org
‘Like a virus’: Corruption has infected the fight against climate change.

Study shows bribery, theft, and conflicts of interest hinder climate progress and incite violence against Indigenous land defenders.

grist.org/global-indig...

#Indigenous #Climate #LandDefenders #GreenSky
'Like a virus': Corruption has infected the fight against climate change
Study shows bribery, theft, and conflicts of interest hinder climate progress and incite violence against Indigenous land defenders.
grist.org
March 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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theonion.com
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
NOAA Cuts Leave Wind Chimes As Sole Predictor Of Approaching Hurricanes
SILVER SPRING, MD—As mass firings of career experts and scientists continued to roil the federal government, officials confirmed Friday that cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...
theonion.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
Why do white supremacists fake tan?
February 10, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
youtube.com
February 10, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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jeffgoodell.bsky.social
“Those water releases had absolutely zero to do with anything to do in Los Angeles….This was a stunt purely so Trump could say that he did something and released the water.”
‘Ridiculous blunder’: Trump wades into California’s water wars – and strikes some of his strongest supporters
Billions of gallons of irrigation water were wasted under Trump’s orders in what now appears to be a political stunt
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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alerigolon.bsky.social
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
alerigolon.bsky.social Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Feb 6
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
1. Climate change 2. Greenhouse gas emissions 3. Emissions 4. Racial equity 5. Gender identity 6. Diversity, equity and inclusion 7. Environmental justice 8. Justice40 initiative
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
Musk is the culmination of a slow-moving corporate coup by the oligarch class that has been decades in the making. But that doesn't change the fact that this marks a new and unspeakably dangerous chapter.
January 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM