Jen Sinkler (she/her)

Jen Sinkler (she/her)

@jensinkler.bsky.social

Make art, make change. Queer, neurodivergent. Writer, creative director at Progress Iowa. (Views mine.) For, in, and from Iowa. Formerly Philly, MN, & forever women’s rugby.🌎🌍🌏🌈

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5 months ago
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Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side Imagine a field where solar panels and crops coexist—with no trade-off. It sounds like science fiction, but that's precisely what researchers from Aarhus University have now documented in a full-scale...

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner!

“The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

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Spotted in South Philly 👀

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6 months ago

This has got to be the best time in 60 years to be organizing labor and tenants. Got to be. Got. To. Be.

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6 months ago

starting to think the MAHA movement only makes sense relationally...
beyond a thin veneer of healthiness-as-beauty (thanks @tressiemcphd.bsky.social), their vision of health is only relative advantage over less-healthy poor people.
See below where I apply this to schools.
bsky.app/profile/loui...

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Shuler: This is the choice working Americans have been given: chaos, or the same broken status quo.

We wanted cheaper groceries—and we got tanks in our streets.

We wanted affordable health care—and instead, 16 million Americans are about to be kicked off their coverage

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DOEresponseSite On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

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7 months ago
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Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it

Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US. The ‘big, beautiful’ bill will cut more than $1tn from the health plan, with rural hospitals feeling the brunt of it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/25/climate/heat-speed-up-biological-aging

“Prolonged exposure to soaring temperatures can cause a deterioration in our cells and tissues and speed up biological aging, according to a new and growing body of research.”

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7 months ago
Illustration of an adult human standing in the country next to a 30-foot tall pole. a sign reads "San Joaquin Valley, California subsidence 1925-2025"

At the bottom of the pole is a 2025 marker, indicating the current surface level. As the pole goes up there are markers for the surface levels in 2000, 1975, 1950 and at the very top 1925.

As you pump all the fresh water out of underground aquifers, the ground above it can sink. It's happening all around the world.

Take the surface of California’s Central Valley, which is now nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago.

www.propublica.org/article/wate...

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7 months ago

PMS also post-menopausal syndrome or why am I crying about/watching The O.C., lmao

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7 months ago

Shark skin is made of lots of little teeth called dermal denticles!

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7 months ago
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Exclusive: US diplomats asked if non-whites qualify for Trump refugee program for South Africans In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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7 months ago
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Trump tells Israel to ‘finish the job’ against Hamas weeks after suggesting ceasefire deal in sight | CNN Politics Only a few weeks ago, President Donald Trump seemed confident a deal was days away that would end the fighting in Gaza, secure the release of hostages and allow aid to flow into an enclave where peopl...

"...his words suggested he would do little to pressure Israel to pull back on its 21-month-long military campaign in Gaza, despite a growing humanitarian crisis that led one UN official this week to label Gazans “walking corpses.”

www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/p...

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7 months ago
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

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The centrists and leftists can argue policy and ideological positioning all day long, but at its core this is a media environment and brand problem. Voters prefer Dem policies generally, but the brand itself is in the toilet.

The only way to fix this is with new leaders and new rhetoric.

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7 months ago
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Travelling to the U.S.? Here's a guide to locking down phones and other devices Worried about your electronics being checked when travelling into the United States? Here’s how to protect yourself.

“Data copied from devices during advanced searches at entry points into the U.S. gets saved for 15 years in a database searchable by thousands of CBP employees without a warrant.” o.canada.com/travel/us-tr...

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7 months ago

In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” the author describes “inevitablism” as a tactic companies use to stop conversation about the amount of our private lives they are commodifying and selling.

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7 months ago
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Ladies and Labubus Vibe Check · Episode

This week on VIBE CHECK, we try to make sense of MAGA’s Epstein saga and we go all-in on James Gunn’s #Superman. I loved it! @zachstafford.bsky.social liked it. @samsanders.bsky.social has some notes. Listen here:

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8 months ago
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Thousands of Philadelphia city workers are officially on strike More than 9,000 city employees are on strike after contract talks fell apart between AFSCME District Council 33 and Mayor Parker’s administration, the first major city worker strike since 1986.

Philly’s AFSCME DC 33 is officially ON STRIKE!

Over 9,000 blue collar city workers who run our streets, libraries, sanitation, and more have refused the city’s lowball offers. They make an average of $46K while our mayor enriches herself, her cronies, and the cops www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

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9 months ago
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NO KINGS Des Moines-Central Iowa · No Kings Details still coming together- respond via email if you want to be a part of planning! **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization...

No Kings. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

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🚨 🚨 🚨 If any of this sounds repugnant to you the US Capital Switchboard 202.224.3121. If you hesitate it will be too late. Let others know what is on the line.

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9 months ago

#Iowa
#HandsOffMedicaid

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10 months ago
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The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

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10 months ago

How is this making us healthier?

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10 months ago

As DOGE sucks up government data that Americans thought was confidential, RFK Jr. says people's privacy will be "protected" in his autism registry.
I remember when Republicans pretended to be against big government. In fact, they just wanted it to be *their* big government.

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10 months ago

Tariffs are taxation without representation. We wrote a whole Declaration of Independence about it. Threw tea in the harbor and everything.

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Autistic people have always existed and always will.

With increased awareness and improved screening, autism has been better diagnosed.

This is a POSITIVE development that should be met with expanded resources and opportunities for all!🧡

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10 months ago

But most importantly, there's no profit motive here. It's all about what's in the public interest. As the Trump administration impounds funds for key institutions and we all must look to alternative funding sources to stay afloat, let's think about how the power of the purse can be distributed.

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11 months ago

Yesterday's remarkable NYT piece by Larry Summers backs up my argument for wealthy universities to backstop Trump's cuts with their endowments. You can read it here.
@epopppp.bsky.social @jeisinger.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

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