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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · Aug 3

I really think that post-Trump the US should erect a statue of a naked Trump to remind themselves

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 22

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

RealClimate: National Climate Assessment links

RealClimate: For some reason, it has become hard to locate the various National Climate Assessments (NCAs) that have been produced by the USGCRP over the decades (and it's pretty hard to find the USGR...

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 7

Risk analysis now needed of relative vulnerability of these forest age groups to climate-related and other stresses, as noted by authors (e.g. Anderegg, W. R. L., et al. (2022). A climate risk analysis of Earth’s forests in the 21st century. Science, 377(6610), 1099–1103. doi.org/10.1126/scie... )

William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 6

Heather Cox Richardson's effort to put super-ICE in context: "the law pour(s) $170.7 billion into immigration enforcement—more than the military budgets of all but 15 countries... mak(ing) ICE the largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation" open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jul 6

The super-funding of T&Co.'s own paramilitary -- otherwise known as ICE -- is for me the scariest part of the BBBill. Read here for Kovensky's reporting and Skocpol's historical analysis .This story needs more & wider coverage. Please help to spread the word.

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Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy

TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Jun 23

"Teaching sustainable development" is a workshop that @alicia-harley.bsky.social and I will be running at the National Sustainability Society ( #NSS @the-nss.bsky.social) conference in October. More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

Couldn’t have said it better. | William Clark

Couldn’t have said it better. Please share your own syllabi and approaches to learning and teaching this exciting and important subect

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · May 15

Authoritative reminder that the important thing is not whether you benefit from T & Co’s actions, but rather their systematic & intentional violation of the law - not least the separation of powers in the Constitution & the protections in the Bill of Rights.
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The End of Rule of Law in America

The 47th president seems to wish he were king—and he is willing to destroy what is precious about this country to get what he wants.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 15

"Just..."?

Graham Clark @grahamcclark.bsky.social · Apr 15

More & more convinced that the Forgiveness Scene in Figaro is the exception that proves the rule that Mozart never Subverts his librettists, all the Profound Issues & Character Development that critics like to talk about in Così are already in the words, he just makes them matter

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Apr 15

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 7

This was an outstanding event, featuring some of the most cutting edge work out there in understanding the dynamics of nature-technology-society systems & harnessing that understanding to promote #sustainability. The web page has a summary of the presentations plus links to many of their slides. 🧪

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 6

Very much worth reading in its entirety on how to think about protests, protest numbers, and what is changing. Thanks!

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Apr 3

1 / Going into what’s expected to be a big weekend of protests around the US, my team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam & Chris Shay) has issued our monthly data release. TLDR: protest in the US is growing at an impressive pace. A few key highlights:

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 6

Brilliant reflections on being there and its importance for the journey ahead. Wow!

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Apr 6

My talk yesterday, interspersed with images of those more than 1200 protests nationwide. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...

Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action

I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...

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Dylan Lion @lionshue.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hands Off Protest in the Boston Common

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 5

#HandsOff rally huge, diverse, mutually supportive, fired-up.

William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Apr 5

The march from Boston Common to the City Hall Plaza were endless, fired up, and peaceful. Great support of different groups and interest by one another, and of all by Boston and MA State Police who made us feel welcome and safe.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Mar 29

Great opportunity to connect with the amazing (and surprising) amount of research going on in the greater Boston area on how the global systems for meeting human needs for food connect with health, environment, economy, security and justice🧪.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Mar 29

Prof. Selin's election as a #AAASFellow is a well deserved honor and, together with her leadership of the new MIT "Center for #Sustainability Science and Strategy," great news for efforts to bring science to bear on advancing solutions to the challenges of #sustainabledevelopment. 🧪

MIT Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy @mit-cs3.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congrats to MIT CS3 Director Noelle Selin for being elected a #AAASFellow for “world-recognized leadership in modeling the impacts of air pollution on human health, in assessing the costs and benefits of related policies, and in integrating technology dynamics into #sustainability science.”

Noelle Selin elected to 2024 class of AAAS Fellows

Noelle Selin, professor of atmospheric chemistry in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), was elected as a Fellow of...

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Mar 20

CAPACITY BUILDING TO PROMOTE #EQUITY FOR #SUSTAINABILITY

Virtual seminar on 3/26 with Nasif Khan (BRAC), Sharmila Murthy, (former Dir for Environmental Justice at White House), Grant Wilson (Earth Law Center), moderated by Alicia Harley (Harvard). 🧪

Register: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/capac...

Capacity to promote equity both within and among generations

This seminar is the fourth in a virtual bi-weekly series on Building Capacity for Sustainable Development.

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · Mar 14

Trump’s latest attack on Black communities is his dismantling of the EPA’s environmental justice offices—eliminating protections for communities poisoned by corporate pollution. @shalisemyoung.bsky.social discusses the latest public health failure.

The pernicious end of the EPA's environmental justice office

The president and his cronies have been seem to have been taking aim at Black Americans since Day 1.

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Mar 12

Out of Putin’s war and Trump’s treachery, a new Europe is being born

William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Mar 10

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Carney previously led set up the important Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures ( www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/... ) and has written a searing, deeply informative book on the links between the rise of the market society and the decline of the role of values in public life.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Mar 10

Who funds biomedical research? @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · Mar 10

This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act.

It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.

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After a 6 week review we are officially cancelling 83% of the programs at USAID.
The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States.
In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.
Thank you to DOGE and our hardworking staff who worked very long hours to achieve this overdue and historic reform.

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Mar 10

Nice statement from NAS President Marcia McNutt on the need for science based analysis for policy decisions. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03...

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William Clark ([email protected]) @wclark.bsky.social · Mar 10

Worth noting: He led set up the important Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...) and has written a searing, deeply informative book on the links between the rise of the market society and the decline of the role of values in public life.

www.bankofengland.co.uk