Karen Swam

Well, I’ve been on Bluesky a while but still post a lot on FB, Insta and Threads since many friends are there and lots of important info on I sat and Threads. I’m pleased I got a couple of friends who have never demonstrated to go to local rallies today. Keep on keeping on, John. ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

🚨A critical EPA report found that PFNA—a “forever chemical”—can harm development, the liver, and reproduction, lowering birth weights and testosterone levels.

It’s been done for **6 MONTHS** but still has not been released.

Administrator Zeldin is burying the report and silencing science. WHY?

🚨🚨🚨200,000 people is a statement. ✊🏼power to the people ✊🏼 1/2

YouTube video by MSNBC Sotomayor's dissent unlike anything Katyal has seen before

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Same, sister.

And 60 years later, when my dad’s PTSD skidded into dementia, he cut down all the shrubs around our house so Nazis couldn’t ambush him.

We didn’t all go through that shit for nothing.

#NoKings Hudson NY Times

Boston. Wow.

Chicago - no kings

Seeing things posted by friends all over the country getting taken down from M*ta platforms. Lots of trolls also trying to say there’s not much happening. Keep telling the truth. ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏽

Good. Lots of No Kings rallies, with friends reporting from all over but seeing some disappear from FB quickly. Please urge people to post widely and repeatedly. Namaste

Turns out protest alone was never what changed things, it was protest *plus media coverage of protests*, which prompted officials to respond to protests, which increased public awareness of protests, etc.

If the protest happens & corporate media simply ignores it ... it's inert.

Exclusive: ex-CDC director talks about why she was fired “I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details.

Powerful interview of recently fired CDC director by @maxkozlov.bsky.social . What unfolded is chilling and also sad to read in her words. The decimation of the CDC is a low point in global public health history because its impact extended beyond America.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump administration cancels largest solar project in United States The Bureau of Land Management has officially cancelled the Esmeralda 7 solar project, a Nevada-based project that would stand among the world’s largest solar power plants, large enough to power nearly...

The stupid. It burns… like the climate.

🧪

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Clean energy savings are disappearing. Here’s how to get them | CNN Time is running out for US consumers to get money back for rooftop solar installations, electric vehicles, energy efficient appliances and more after Republicans slashed clean energy out of the tax co...

Thinking about getting a new AC, furnace, or water heater soon? Install your new home appliance ASAP to take advantage of federal tax credits before they disappear. Here’s what you need to know: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/climate/clean-energy-tax-credits-savings

An 85-year record of glacier change and refined projections for Kennicott and Root Glaciers, Alaska - Nature Communications Using historical aerial photographs and new bed topography data, accelerating changes on Kennicott and Root Glaciers, Alaska since 1938 are documented. These observations inform projections showing 38...

🧊 85 years of glacier change

A new study shows that Alaska’s Kennicott and Root Glaciers are set to lose up to 63% of their mass by 2100.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #ClimateCrisis #Glaciers 🧪

‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almo...

This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater.
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
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Excerpt from the proposed 2026 NOAA Budget, showing the total funding for climate research reduced from $220 million per year to $0.

The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:

Total, Climate Research: $0

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This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public

There are many thoughtful threads posted today that explain how the latest version of the Senate's BBB kneecaps renewable energy.

But if you need just one, I recommend…👇…followed immediately by calls to your two Senators and your Congressional rep in the House

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

How QR Codes and Demonstrations Can Expand the Circle of Opposition Codes can also be used to register voters.

Just wrote a piece for The Nation on demonstrations using QR codes to engage new constituents. Place pass it on
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
#NoKings #Protests #QRCOde #Trump

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GIFFORDS (@giffords_org) on Threads One week ago, Melissa Hortman and her husband were taken from us in a horrific act of political violence. Political violence is never justified. Armed extremism is a threat to democracy. Honor Melis...

www.threads.com/@giffords_or...

Yesterday, millions of us reasserted the “We” in "We the people."

We gained strength from our solidarity. We celebrated our numbers and our power.

We will be steadfast. We will not cower to a dictator.

We will win.

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A ChatGPT analysis of the BBB. Yes, it’s scary.

Carbon dioxide levels usually peak in May, but 2025's reading was like no other A new record high for CO2 levels was set at Mauna Loa Observatory in May.

“Another year, another record” (high), reported Ralph Keeling of @scrippsocean.bsky. For the first time, the May average CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa exceeded 430 parts per million.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Trump is losing in the courts. He's fighting publicly with Musk. His “big beautiful bill” has stalled.

Trump is now left only with his vindictive rage.

And of course his money-making schemes to line his pockets.

He's likely to become even more unhinged — be warned.

An excellent video!!

In the long run, this is actually going to be the important news of the day--co2 in the atmosphere passes another grim milestone

Please take a minute to listen to Sloan speak about the meaning and quality of his life.

People like Sloan deserve to live dignified and meaningful lives. They don't deserve to just die because maga wants to take away their medicaid.

Please let the Senate hear your opposition.

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