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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com

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40 years of prize-winning sustainability journalism, mostly @nytimes, #sustainwhat webcaster https://revkin.substack.com, #Anthropocene Working Group member, solution seeker, songwriter https://j.mp/revkinlinks

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · May 15

I've long found small talk is a gateway to sharing bigger ideas and building trust. The key need is to foster moments where it can happen across cultural divides. Hear my old friend @reggieharris42.bsky.social described a #BLM vs #MAGA protest standoff (full Q&A: revkin.substack.com/p/pathways-t...)

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 48m

The full announcement of Palisades Fire charges and investigation details revkin.substack.com/p/breaking-a... #sustainwhat

Breaking: Authorities Charge 29-Year-Old Man with Starting What Became the Palisades Fire

Last January, the catastrophe now known as the Palisades Fire started in brush along a hiking trail before leaping into a dense prosperous neighborhood and exploding into a self-sustaining and deadly ...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 48m

Insane angle to the #PalisadesFire arson finding: Acting US Attorney: “Among the evidence that was collected from his digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city.”

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6h

Collie in chair has a similar vibe – last night at my mother-in-law’s place in Winter Harbor, Maine.

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 15h

Source was right winger Benny Johnson: x.com/bennyjohnson...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 15h

Yes that was a huge one. (I’m doing some reporting on this now that we’re settled in Downeast on a wooded peninsula.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 15h

Rare but catastrophic - 1947 e.g. Kind of like comparing California and Oregon seismic hazards. California has enough modest quakes to get folks' attention. Oregon has a Cascadia megaquake once every few centuries...

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 15h

And this is how Noem's DHS is playing things with made-for-tv moments created by goons with gas.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 15h

Portland anarchists assaulting ICE as Noem watches.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

War Isn't Murder - Jesse Welles x.com/Revkin/statu...

Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ on X: "Jesse Welles - War Isn't Murder https://t.co/A7iFyBGyB2 War isn't murder, good men don't die Children don't starve and all the women survive War isn't murder, that's what they say When you're fighting the Devil, murder's okay War isn't murder, they're called casualties There" / X

Jesse Welles - War Isn't Murder https://t.co/A7iFyBGyB2 War isn't murder, good men don't die Children don't starve and all the women survive War isn't murder, that's what they say When you're fighting the Devil, murder's okay War isn't murder, they're called casualties There

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

The accompanying music should be Jesse Welles' "War Isn't Murder...

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 2d

“President Trump on Sunday called the deadly U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea “an act of kindness,” claiming that the attacks had halted drug trafficking via those waters”
George Orwell, 1946: “Political language is designed to make make lies sound truthful and murder respectable”

Trump Calls Deadly Strikes on Boats in Caribbean an ‘Act of Kindness’

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

You can listen in to the highly unusual Sunday night hearing on California and Oregon's challenge to Trump's effort to end-run his appointed Federal Judge Immergut's TRO against his National Guard moves. (on hold at moment...)

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Date Filed
Oct 5, 2025
Description
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SCHEDULING ORDER: This Court, having received Plaintiffs' Second Motion for Temporary Restraining Order and request for Expedited Hearing, ECF 59, sets a hearing by Telephonic Conference at 7:00
p.m. tonight, October 5, 2025, before Judge Karin J. Immergut. Access information for "LISTEN ONLY" phone number for the Hearing. Telephone Number: 1-571-353-2301 (toll-free 1-833-
990-9400); Guest Meeting ID: 812-980-
324#. Note: If dropped from the conference, please rejoin the conference.
For complete conference connection instructions and etiquette guidelines, refer to ord.uscourts.gov/cms. Ordered on 10/5/25 by Judge Karin J. Immergut. (jy)
(Entered: 10/05/2025)

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful porpoise encounter this afternoon sailing off Southwest Harbor. #marinemammals #oceanlife #mainelife

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

The object belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and has an estimated diameter between 1.2 and 2.7 m (4–9 feet). It flew past Earth at a relative speed of 20.9 km/s (75 200 km/h or 46 700 mph).... The Watchers story: watchers.news/2025/10/02/a...

Asteroid 2025 TF flew just 420 km (260 miles) above Antarctica, second-closest flyby on record

A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2025 TF made an extremely close approach to Earth at 00:49 UTC on October 1, 2025, reaching a nominal distance of 0.02 LD (0.00005 AU / 6 790 km / 4 220 miles)…

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Super close asteroid flyby... first observed at the Kitt Peak-Bok Observatory in AZ at 06:36 UTC on October 1, less than six hours after its closest approach... Moral of the story: DO Look Up (thinking of @ghostpanther.bsky.social)

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

On my #sustainwhat show @joeromm.bsky.social also urged Democrats to grab spiking #electricity costs as an issue with renewable solutions and Trump and industry origins. #energysky revkin.substack.com/p/live-at-11...

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Green hydrogen is a waste of money (@joeromm.bsky.social on #sustainwhat). Full show: revkin.substack.com/p/live-at-11...

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Why green hydrogen doesn't add up (@joeromm.bsky.social on #sustainwhat with me) 2/

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 4d

Just had a wide-ranging discussion with my old climate blogging antagonist @joeromm.bsky.social (now
@penncssm.bsky.social) and, boy, he had a message for "#cleanenergy" VC folks et al thinking of #GreenHydrogen as a climate fix... Here are some nuggets and link to the full #sustainwhat show... 1/

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 6d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

The letters came attached to a 10-page “compact” that serves as a sort of priority statement for the administration’s educational goals — the most comprehensive accounting to date of what Mr. Trump aims to achieve from an unparalleled, monthslong pressure campaign on academia.

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds.

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo: “Someone who says I’m against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro‑life. Someone who says I’m against abortion but I’m in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants… I don’t know if that’s pro‑life.”

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BREAKING: Pope Leo Defends Pro-Choice Chicago Politician, Says "Pro-Life" is More Than Abortion

After right-wing bishops attacked him, Leo backs Chicago Cardinal Cupich and widens the pro-life conversation beyond one issue

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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

Yep.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 6d

Ok because I am a glutton for punishment, I need to say that I fervently wish climate people would rejoin X.

I can't say how I know this, but you must believe me that Dem policymakers still read X to see what's happening and get new ideas.

We are ceding some important ground, and it's not helping.

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 6d

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What Connects Climate Hawk Joe Romm and Taylor Swift?

Other event by Andrew Revkin on Friday, October 3 2025