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Paul Paz y Miño

@paulpaz.bsky.social

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he/him Dp Dir @amazonwatch.org #Humanrights & EJ advocate w/focus on Latin America. Sued CIA w/IPS & won! @oilgasaction.bsky.social board #StarTrek #StarWars fan, #Phillies phanatic. Oakland resident since 97. #StopTrump #FireElon #DefendFreeSpeech

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 15d

Huge thank you to Alec Baldwin for having me on his podcast to discuss Chevron’s crimes in the Amazon and their #fossilfuelmoblawyers at Gibson Dunn’s efforts to make the Indigenous peoples there invisible and block their access to justice. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Paul Paz y Miño and Steven Donziger from Rainforests to Courtrooms

Podcast Episode · Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · 09/23/2025 · 45m

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The Good Phight @thegoodphight.bsky.social · 4h

PHILLIES WIN!!!

They successfully force a Game 4

The Aaron Nola-Ranger Suárez plan worked to perfection

Turner, Schwarber, and Harper went 7-13 with 5 RBI and 4 runs scored.

Schwarber homered twice. J.T. Realmuto added a solo shot that really opened the floodgates

Cristopher Sánchez tomorrow

a citizen 's bank logo that says ring the bell on it

ALT: a citizen 's bank logo that says ring the bell on it

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for giving us a #Postseason win, Phillies!

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455 FEET!!!

Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 6h

Could have let him get a couple more outs

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 6h

a fat man with a mustache is sitting on an airplane .

ALT: a fat man with a mustache is sitting on an airplane .

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10h

Oh this is not great

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 9h

Illegal mining across the Amazon is beyond crisis levels:

“We used to only see it in the Madre de Dios region but now we’re seeing it everywhere”, said MAAP’s director, Matt Finer.

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Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon

Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report finds

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 9h

Trump's fascist regime continues to work to criminalize protest, free speech, and climate activism. Will mainstream Democrats stand for what is right, or bow to their fossil fuel donors??? #EndFossilFuels www.eenews.net/articles/cra...

Crackdown on pipeline protests could get vote at markup

Environmentalists are sounding the alarm ahead of a committee vote on a bipartisan pipeline bill.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

“If I had to enact [the Insurrection Act], I’d do it,” Trump said, stating he might do so if “courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up.” There is zero evidence demonstrating that an “insurrection” is happening in either Chicago or Portland.

Trump May Invoke Insurrection Act to Override Courts That Block His National Guard Orders

“If I had to enact it, I’d do it,” Trump told reporters on Monday.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

FACT FOCUS: Republicans shut down the government to give him more time to hide the #EPSTEIN_Files.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to illegal immigrants.

FACT FOCUS: Democrats did not shut down the government to give health care to 'illegal immigrants'

This is false. Democrats say they are pushing for the inclusion of key health care provisions in the next congressional spending package.

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Christine Moretti @christine520.bsky.social · 1d

ATTN: PA VOTERS

🚨IMPORTANT🚨

VOTE YES TO RETAIN 💥DEM MAJORITY 💥 PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Christine Donohue
Kevin Dougherty
David Wecht

‼️If using mail in ballots, the Supreme Court Justices are
located on the flip side.

‼️In the voting booth, they will be located at the bottom of the screen.

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 1d

A just energy transition must begin from the principle of shared but differentiated responsibility. COP30 in Brazil will be a decisive test: will govts commit to declaring the Amazon a fossil-free region, or allow it to become a sacrifice zone? @amazonwatch.org english.elpais.com/climate/2025...

Ecuador and oil: a challenge for democracy and the Amazon

Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, more than 950,000 square kilometers have been opened for oil and gas exploration in Latin America and the Caribbean, an area larger than Venezuela

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Jane @janetea4.bsky.social · 1d

Johnson will keep the government shut down to protect a child rapist but not Democracy

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 1d

"Across the Amazon, environmental defenders are frequently targeted — Colombia has led the world in killings for several years, while Peru also ranks among the most dangerous places to speak out against illegal mining and logging." - @sjgrattan.bsky.social

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Gold demand puts Peru's Amazon at greater risk from mercury poisoning, bishop warns

A Catholic bishop in Peru’s Amazon is warning that mercury from illegal gold mining is contaminating rivers, fish and people across the region.

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 2d

My post from Oct 11, 2024:

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

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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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 2d

I said it last year - you can NOT TRUST these guys in October. You just can’t. Keep trying the same thing and they can’t get it done.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Pritzker: “The Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.”

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 2d

Daily Walkoff ⚾️
Phillies #402

🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀

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Hope this is a good sign! Cmon Phillies! #BeatLA

Daily Walkoff - A daily MLB trivia game

A new kind of MLB trivia game with 30 new puzzles each day, one for every MLB team. Can you solve them all?

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 3d

“The idea that masked men would now go to 14-year-olds and ask them to waive their rights to return to the countries that they fled is shocking.”

#AbolishICE #FuckICE

theintercept.com/2025/10/03/i...

ICE Targets Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Offering $2,500 Payment for Deportation

ICE confirmed its plan to pay unaccompanied immigrant children in exchange for their agreement to be deported.

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Jon Martin Kitchen @kitchen5203.bsky.social · 3d

THIS!

All about "Dumb and Dumber" from William Davies of 'The Guardian'...

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

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Paul Paz y Miño @paulpaz.bsky.social · 3d

Guys, first you run ads for Energy Transfer Partners (gross polluter and horrible fossil fuel company) and now you’re running ads for ICE?!? Not a good look. Cmon. Stick with pizza. 👎

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