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Dr. Orna Izakson

@orna.bsky.social

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Climate, polycrisis, mental health, functional medicine, 🌱🌲🌻🌼. Pro-science licensed naturopathic dr (OR/AK), herbalist, ex environmental journalist. Love 🥾and 📷 wild places. 💔 about 🌎. 1st-gen US, 🇮🇱 fam. Born 320ppm. #Angret. She/her/doctor. NDClimate.org

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · Nov 14

For the past year I’ve been gathering resources on the climate crisis and its effects on health, mental health, food and herbal medicines. Find those resources here: ndclimate.org

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#ClimateCrisis #NaturopathicClimateAlliance #ClimateMentalHealth #HerbalMedicine

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 12h

A hero can be anyone. Even someone doing something as simple and reassuring as making ICE stormtroopers look like pathetic little bitches by dancing around Portland in an inflatable frog costume.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 13h

And btw, we know 45/47 was asked to sign off on this post, so someone else is doing the weird capitalizations.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 13h

Please may it be so.

Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: President Donald Trump has announced that Israel and Hamas have signed a ceasefire agreement, and Israeli hostages will be released soon.

We've all been waiting for this moment for so long.

Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 13h

Looking for street signs so I can tell you there are better options nearby…

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13h

Gov. JB Pritzker on Trump: "He likes to pretend to be a tough guy. Come and get me."

"What kind of a country are we living in where the President of the United States is targeting his political opponents?"

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 14h

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 14h

Well, there is plywood on the first floor of the ice facility. But I can confirm that we do have store with windows.

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 15h

I wish these numbers were a lot higher.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h

New Reuters/Ipsos poll: Around 58% of Americans — including seven in 10 Democrats and half of Republicans — feel that the president should only deploy armed troops to "face external threats."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

Flagging Trump this afternoon:

"We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 15h

Obviously, if it’s one or the other, the broader one is better. But isn’t the argument functionally the same? Or did they ditch the first TRO because it was redundant?

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 16h

//Eliminating PFAS in cookware would reduce the spread of contamination, protect future generations and, as a bonus, allow us to rediscover how to actually cook.//

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Opinion | Relax, America, There Is Life After Nonstick Pans

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 16h

I love going low-tech with my cooking. There are no real reasons to do otherwise — and excellent reasons to avoid PFAS-coated cookware.

All my stovetop vessels are stainless steel or cast iron, and I’ve had most of them for 3+ decades. I use stainless or glass in the oven.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 21h

This is not normal, this is fascism. Never let it become normal.

Reuter headline "Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment"

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Jonathan Taylor SwiftBoaty McBoatFace-Heel Turn @erinksaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Claims of urban decay have been greatly…

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…inflated.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 2d

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

The picture from
The article with a picture of an armed men standing in front of a burning donut shop. You must click through to read the caption “
Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992.
The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city.”

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 8d

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity"

Gift link from @bloomberg.com

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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PJ Manney @pjmanney.bsky.social · 1d

Surprise, surprise. /s/

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Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, Study Finds

A new study in Nature reveals that people who use AI tend to be more dishonest compared to when they don't use AI for tasks.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"