Climate Action Mom also @exponentialGPs@mastodon.social

E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants

"Coal plants are the single largest source of mercury pollution" in the US, & now the EPA is going to let them release more of it, repealing Biden-era regulation on lignite, "an especially polluting form of coal." (Biden did a lot of good that no one noticed.)

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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/c...

Dr. Simpson nails the issue. RFK Jr's demand that all vaccines be tested against placebos reflects a complete disregard for medical ethics. Following the horrors of "Untreated Syphilis Study" at Tuskegee, researches NEVER deny care to study participants. It is immoral to do so, or to suggest it.

A potential late sequelae of measles after normal recovery.
Occurs in ~ 2/10,000. Fatal.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @nejm.org today

L: Scoop in The Telegraph yesterday boasting: “The Telegraph has learnt that the King urged his mother, Elizabeth II, to veto the appointment but his warnings that it would end in disaster were ignored”
R: Flunkey’s column from Eye 1668, three weeks ago.

Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

Fifteen feet below, in the darkness of a steep-sided pit, a lioness had been trapped for nearly 24 hours. The only way out? KWS Vet Dr Limo had to dart her — then be lowered down into the gloom to secure her. Not for the faint-hearted.

See the full rescue in images: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/n...

The perfect explanation on why RFK Jr's demand that all updated vaccines be tested via blind placebo studies is completely immoral.

PMC report for Feb 23, 2026 Heat map showing CDC levels by state PMC estimates of 1 in 58 people actively infectious (1.7% of the population) and 850,000 new daily infections.

PMC COVlD Report (2/23/26): Transmission has increased in the South, while stable across much of the U.S.

Using harmonized wastewater data, we project...
✴️18 states with High/Very High levels
✴️1 in 58 Americans actively infectious
✴️850,000 new daily infections

Link: pmc19.com/data
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Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’ Mervin Raudabaugh, an 86-year-old Pennsylvania man, is making headlines for turning down an offer of more than $15 million to sell his farmland to data center developers. He sold development rights to...

Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’

Pennsylvania farmer Mervin Raudabaugh sold development rights to a land trust for $1.9 million instead.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

Our new climate: adapting to survive – and thrive We can’t just react to crises. Strategic adaptation is vital to move from constant disaster recovery to lasting national resilience

Flooded streets, ruined crops, vanishing insurance – this is not tomorrow’s crisis.

@rupertread.bsky.social says the UK is already experiencing the early texture of climate breakdown now, and adaptation is no longer optional but essential.

Husky is slowly “shutting down” as he watches friends leave shelter “This breaks my heart," one user wrote. Another added: “PLEASE someone save this sweet boy!”

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2 year old husky mix. Really needs a home. He's shutting down at the shelter. Please please read the article below. And if you can, go adopt this poor dog.

the Valley Animal Center
3934 N Hayston Ave
Fresno, California,
(559) 233-8566

www.newsweek.com/husky-slowly...

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Source: insidestory1 on tumblr - One of the terrifying things about chronic illness is watching time slip away from you. You spend almost all of your time just surviving, and like that you watch days turn into months and months turn into years and the time you have in which to do things slip away from you. But the pain and fatigue and the shear difficulty of living won't let up enough for you to actually live your life, so you just have to keep watching it pass you by.

Source: insidestory1 on tumblr

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

Before Mzinga was one of the Nairobi Nursery's big sisters, she was a blanketed baby found alone in the Tsavo wilderness — and she's never been alone since.


She fought hard to survive her traumatic past, she is proving to be a nurturing nanny: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Almost like one guy saw an opportunity to get rich even as he took an entire country down

Grok @grok Howard Lutnick, US Commerce Secretary and architect of Trump's tariff plans, stepped down from Cantor Fitzgerald (now run by his sons) before taking office. Reports from Wired and Newsweek indicate Cantor bought tariff refund rights from importers in 2025 at 20-30 cents on the dollar, positioning for profits if tariffs were invalidated. Today's Supreme Court ruling struck down most tariffs, potentially enabling $175B+ in refunds. This could yield billions for Cantor, though they deny betting against policy. A Senate probe examines conflicts.

Howard Lutnik, the mastermind behind Trump’s tariff plan, bought the tariff refund rights through his bank at $0.25 on the dollar last year. Actively betting on his own policy to not work.

Lutnik and his bank now stand to make billions.

#Sudan: MSF treated 167 patients injured in drone strikes over two weeks.

Among them was a nine-year-old boy with a large shrapnel wound to his eye, facial fractures and amputated fingers.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-tr...

“I never thought of myself as a support group person until ME entered our lives.” Denise Lopez-Majano shared in her recent webinar Chronic Illness Caregiving for Youth, Teen, and Adult Children.

Do you know that feeling?

Resources: meaction.net/caregivers

#NationalCaregiversDay

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How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

www.ft.com/content/5207...

‼️ Exactly 12 years ago, the global security system started collapsing.

Russia's war against #Ukraine has been going on for 12 years now. February 20, 2014, marks the beginning of Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine.

Why has no GOP lawmaker (as even Grok admits) warned the public that the Save America Act wld require that every state “submit [their] complete, official list of individuals registered as eligible voters for Federal office in the State to the [DHS]”? Why has the media accepted the GOP’s framing? 1/

Rocket re-entry pollution measured in atmosphere for first time When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacuglar fireball that streaked across Europe's skies, delighting stargazers and sending a team of scien...

phys.org/news/2026-02...
The pollution caused by space debris burning up on re-entry has the potential to be the next major environmental crisis.
It’s good to see research beginning to shed some light on the effects.

Asset Manager Shares Plunge as Blue Owl Curbs Fund Redemptions Shares of alternative asset managers tumbled on Thursday after Blue Owl Capital Inc. restricted withdrawals from one of its retail-focused private credit funds, a fresh blow to a sector that’s faced h...

Do I hear a cockroach? A shadowy private credit firm is suddenly blocking investors from withdrawing their money.

The Trump Administration needs to wake up. Stop pushing these risky investments into Americans’ retirement accounts.

Say hello to Alia! This sweet little orphan was rescued in October 2025. She is shy but brave – she survived without her herd for days in the bush before rescuers found her. She's not yet two years old, and her folded-over ears mark her out from the herd: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...

Okay folks.
I have an ask.
We need your support here at World Bee Sanctuary to keep going. To keep doing what we do for #bees #nature #people and the #planet.

Please take the time to read this thread.
We need you to.
Thanks.

gofund.me/e65ad9615

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Starmer and Reeves run probably the most economically left-wing government of past five decades and yet bleeding support to its left thanks to dumb strategy www.economist.com/britain/2025...

@christapeterso got nothing done once again today so i'm pinning it all on waking up completely cured tomorrow, fingers crossed

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