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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 11h

Do all sharks go to heaven?

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 23h

Join CAP and the America the Beautiful For All Coalition on Wednesday, October 15, for the Ocean Progress Symposium 2025 to discuss a post-2030 vision for ocean conservation rooted in justice, stewardship, and love for the ocean. https://ow.ly/Xyom50X7jva

Ocean Progress Symposium 2025: Advancing Conservation Close to Shore

Please join the Center for American Progress for an event to explore how to navigate ocean conservation in the United States for the next four years.

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Green 2.0 @green2-0.bsky.social · 20h

Join @americanprogress.bsky.social & @atb4a.bsky.social members of all expertises to discuss a post-2030 vision rooted in justice, stewardship, & love for the ocean. RSVP for Ocean Progress Symposium 2025: Advancing Conservation Close to Shore on Oct. 15th! www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean...

Ocean Progress Symposium 2025: Advancing Conservation Close to Shore

Please join the Center for American Progress for an event to explore how to navigate ocean conservation in the United States for the next four years.

www.americanprogress.org

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists and scientists in training, I encourage you to sign this letter in support of marine protected areas in the United States and stopping the Trump administration plans to open them to industrial fishing

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

U.S. Scientist Letter in Support of Marine National Monuments

On April 17, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness”, which, among other things, orders a review of all existing marine national monume...

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 1d

Help us show the Trump administration how unpopular their plans to open our protected areas to industrial fishing are

Please sign and share our petition

forms.gle/WfkshZpsqJGi...

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 2d

Please join us virtually next week for the Ocean Progress Symposium, kicking off the America the Beautiful for All fly-in

DM me if you are interested in tickets for in-person

www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean...

Ocean Progress Symposium 2025: Advancing Conservation Close to Shore

Please join the Center for American Progress for an event to explore how to navigate ocean conservation in the United States for the next four years.

www.americanprogress.org

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 3d

There are three ocean themed MLB teams and I feel like ocean conservation professionals should care more about this

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 4d

Do reporters look at maps? There are no international waters near Venezuela

These attacks are happening inside someone's exclusive economic zone

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

U.S. Military Attacked Boat Off Venezuela, Killing Four Men, Hegseth Says

www.nytimes.com

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 4d

Check out Jasmin's story

greentwopointzero.org/sharks-dont-...

Sharks Don’t Sink: My Journey as a Rogue Shark Scientist and Author – Green 2.0

Sharks Don’t Sink: My Journey as a Rogue Shark Scientist and Author By Jasmin Graham In her blog, Jasmin discusses her journey and what ultimately led her down the path of becoming an author and co-fo...

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 4d

The Republican Government Shutdown is bad for America's rivers

www.americanrivers.org/2025/10/a-sh...

A Shutdown is Bad for Our River Economy

We are once again heading into a government shutdown, which is paralyzing Washington, D.C. The last shutdown stretched a record 35 days in 2018–2019—and whether this one is brief, partial, or prolonge...

www.americanrivers.org

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 4d

I can't give you back the islands we stole because of turtles

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

Access Restricted

www.telegraph.co.uk

Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 5d

Men who publicly and loudly display homophobia are almost always hiding in the closet

www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/p...

FBI fires agent trainee who displayed Pride flag, sources say | CNN Politics

FBI Director Kash Patel has fired a longtime bureau employee who displayed a Pride flag in his workspace during a past assignment, according to multiple people familiar with the termination.

www.cnn.com

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 5d

It’s happening again ‼️ The Trump administration is trying to open up 88 million acres of public lands to development—threatening America’s oldest forests, risking wildlife habitats, and endangering drinking water for millions of people.

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 5d

Please join @americanprogress.bsky.social and @atb4a.bsky.social coalition members for our Ocean Progress Symposium on October 15

Register here: www.americanprogress.org/events/ocean...

Ocean Progress Symposium 2025: Advancing Conservation Close to Shore

Please join the Center for American Progress for an event to explore how to navigate ocean conservation in the United States for the next four years.

www.americanprogress.org

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 6d

Some refugees are eligible for Obamacare -- the Republicans are claiming refugees are illegal aliens -- which they're not -- and took away that eligibility

Some citizens would also lose Healthcare -- but none of the people are illegal or undocumented immigrants

There's lots of fact checks on this

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 6d

What's your special ocean place?

I wrote about fishing with my Dad on Obyan Beach, Tank Beach, Bird Island, and Forbidden Island on Saipan -- core memories where i learned to love the ocean

What's yours?

www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/marian...

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 6d

Buried in the last paragraph of this is it would force free tuition for biology majors if certain conditions are met

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 7d

Instagram thought that I would want to purcahse origami cat paper and the algorithm wasn't wrong

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 7d

Every week is fat bear week for me

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 7d

I was at trivia last night and I was the only person in the bar who knew what the "old trout" refers to

The quiz master asked me to explain and the college students in every corner of the bar looked at me with disbelief and disgust

Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 7d

I had a fun day talking to students and professors at Cornell today

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 7d

This is my favorite season -- I love seeing all the sad and disappointed Yankees fans

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 8d

Marine national monuments retain the integrity of vibrant, high-functioning ecosystems and keep them intact so that they may serve as living laboratories for scientific exploration and discovery.

Link in bio to take action and sign the petition.

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 9d

Trump is finally doing what he was elected to do and what his followers have been calling for for weeks and months now -- he's releasing the Amelia Earhart files

www.mvariety.com/news/local/t...

Trump orders declassification, release of all government records on Amelia Earhart

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has ordered the declassification and public release of all government records about aviator Amelia Earhart, noting that her disappeara...

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · 11d

Joe Biden is not portrayed as a nice man in this book

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