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Novelist & long-lapsed organic geochemist Books: ACCIDENTALS, CARBON DREAMS, ECHOES OF LIFE https://susanmgaines.com #birds #climate #geoscience #SciComm #LitSci #booksky Novel-in-progress: #history Austrian Galicia #envhist

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · Feb 11

I use Bsky to:
- track science & history posts relevant to novel-in-progress
- keep abreast of friends and colleagues activity
- chat about science, birds, climate, and books
- #StopTheCoup #RESIST
The essay "An Anthropocene Ménage à Trois" tells all:
tinyurl.com/SciNatLit

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4h

I'm reposting personal videos from the streets because it's important to know about the #resistance and repression around the country and the news is not reporting.
I'm in Europe now, and my German friends said they had no clue there was so much resistance to the regime in the US. #Chicago

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12h

Michigan Avenue right now.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 16h

@wisarchive.bsky.social #womeninscience

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 1d

For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci
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Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the

Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. WHY only 58% disapprove of the rise of a fascist police state in America is a mystery, but IF we are to resist armed federal militias and a complicit Congress and Supreme court, backed up by billionaire funding, at least 70% of the population need to be on board.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 17h

I can't do this, because I'm not, but if you consider yourself a Christian, READ THIS THREAD and #resist

Anonymous @spartazc.bsky.social · 20h

Your objective as a resistance defender is to create any disruption possible with the regime, if that includes self-declaring as a Christian or leaning into your Christian identity then fucking do it. That means rejecting MAGA's actions or policies from a Christian perspective and voice.

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, sorry! I thought it was the Americans Abroad group in Europe! (Though, actually, I think protesting fascism is more just survival, than politics)

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 22h

I'm in #Bremen on Oct 18, dragging my apolitical German kids & friends to a protest against fascism, in solidarity with the massive resistance effort in the US that day. Join us?

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Bremen GERMANY! · No Kings

**TIMES ARE EXPRESSED IN LOCAL TIMES, NOT EDT. The rally will begin at 13 Uhr CEST in Bremen, Germany. We will meet at the Heinrich Heine Statue, which is in the park behind the Kunsthalle. Die Zeite...

www.mobilize.us

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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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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 1d

This is what fascism looks like. Let's support those brave lawyers & judges who are holding the front line against its advance #resist
www.democracydocket.com/analysis/law...

‘Stakes Are High:’ Big Law Alerts Clients on Trump’s Domestic Terrorism Order

Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

www.democracydocket.com

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Der Führer hat immer recht! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 2d

the next national PEACEFUL protest is on 18 October

WILL YOU BE THERE? or will you watch the nation collapse into tyranny? cuz it's ONE OR THE OTHER now

#politics #tyranny #FascistAmeriKKKa #PoliticalViolence #PeacefulProtest #RESIST #NoKings #18October

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, thanks for the cedar waxwings, giving Portland a little love!
#birds

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

Do you deserve more video of cedar waxwings preening on branches?! Probably not, but I'm going to give you a pass today on your misdeeds.

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 2d

They let you do an op ed in Fox News? Is that sort of, uh, hopeful or am I misinterpreting?

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 2d

I can only think: Who is that poor girl and is she conscious?

Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 3d

The land of the brave

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 2d

And what's with OCT 18?
nokingsmovement.com/pages/no-kin...

No Kings Day Protest - October 18, 2025

Reclaiming Democracy, Rejecting Authoritarianism On Saturday, October 18, 2025, people across the United States will mobilize again for No Kings, a nationwide, nonviolent day of action to defend democ...

nokingsmovement.com

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to rant, but I lived in Germany for 15 yrs. They haven't forgotten--at least the older generations haven't. And in Uruguay, where my friends suffered one of the most suffocating dictatorships of Latin America in the 1970s-80s. Different times, same playbook

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

Threatening media outlets with retribution when they report uncensored facts is FASCISM.... Detention (concentration) camps where innocent people are held for indefinite periods without recourse to lawyers or contact with outside world is FASCISM

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

Grabbing people from their homes, workplaces, off the street without arrest warrants or due cause is FASCISM. Blocking congressionally allocated funds to institutions that don't comply or show political opposition is FASCISM...

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

Let's use the right word: FASCISM. This case is still open. But retributive firings, threats, & military escalation on domestic soil, coming directly from the White House are FASCISM. $75 billion to build ICE into a domestic paramilitary (why aren't Dems in Congress contesting THIS?) is FASCISM...

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

It's a dangerous time to be a public servant upholding the rule of law in America

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 3d

And Dem "strategists'" response was to tell us we were being hysterical, "radical," and divisive if we used the word FASCIST. What's divisive is the thing itself, and what's dangerous is ignoring it

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

Yes #Portland
Civil servants, military, local officials, police are obligated by their oaths NOT TO FOLLOW unconstitutional orders, whatever their source
#donotcomply

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 4d

Spending my Sunday morning exploring this incredible #USGS synthesis map. (Prepared, of course, before budget and staff were gutted) ⚒️
ngmdb.usgs.gov/nationalgeol...

Cooperative National Geologic Map | NGMDB

Explore the Cooperative National Geologic Map, a unified view of our Nation's geology, with interactive layers and geologic data.

ngmdb.usgs.gov

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 5d

We need widespread deployment of sun and wind to limit the climate crisis
But it could limit the oligarch crisis too

Earth Agora @earthagora.bsky.social · 5d

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast.
Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With @billmckibben.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Here comes the sun! The solar energy revolution – podcast

Why might authoritarians fear the rise of green energy? With Bill McKibben

www.theguardian.com

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Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 5d

Hey, #IL vote her in!

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d

I said what I said.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 5d

IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

Susan M. Gaines @susanmgaines.bsky.social · 6d

Check out Elise Blackwell's gorgeous 2008 novel HUNGER, which is based on this same history.
(I hope it's still in print, Unbridled Books! @frederickramey.bsky.social @eliseblackwell.bsky.social )