Amy Cooke

I see people sharing this, maybe as an act of shared mourning, an attempt to stir action, or confirmation that the world sucks. The death of reef ecosystems pushed me into a panic about climate change in 2013 & led to me starting the Climate Anxiety Counseling booth in 2014. So, a few things (1/5)

I want to walk my dog.

the thing is if you have a six hour day for eight hours pay & full employment you now have time to enjoy walking your dog. to cook yourself something at leisure. to enjoy taking care of your dwelling. the answer isn't magic robots. it's unions, it's workers getting the means of production

Vaccines do not cause autism.

Saving. Just in case.

Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

And it’s good to have something to look forward to.

But I’m getting there day by day!

I can’t wait to be an old person.

My eldest graduated in 2023 and we were starting to see problems but for my youngest, class of 2026, I rearranged my schedule to drive him bc I couldn’t guarantee there would be a bus in the AM and they didn’t even give him a bus option in the PM.

Road to Nowhere and (no mentioned yet) Don’t Worry About the Government. It’s so perky and absurd that it usually makes me laugh. But it might be chilling a bit rn, the more that I think about it. Hmph

No words

Screenshot of the article that reads: It’s not just children. In addition to bolstering underfunded K-12 schools and protecting the rights of kids with disabilities, the department also manages the federal financial aid process for college students. “I am not certain whether or not students will be able to get financial aid next year,” Dominique Baker, a professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, told Vox.

Screenshot of the article that reads: While students and families are the most directly impacted by changes at the Education Department, those changes have also inspired a broader concern. Some of the programs terminated by DOGE are congressionally mandated, and if the president or Musk can simply stop them, “that means that Congress no longer actually functions,” Baker said. “There are no longer checks and balances for the executive branch,” Baker said. “A significant part of this goes beyond education and speaks to a constitutional crisis that shapes the future of our country.”

Here Vox's explainer for just what is going on at the Department of Education which includes me saying I don't have faith in financial aid disbursement next year and, oh yea, I think we're in a constitutional crisis

www.vox.com/policy/40233...

Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United.

Repost if you agree.

Workers from Jamaica and Mexico are human beings...they need what has been proven to save lives: shade, water and paid rest breaks, to be safe, while performing strenuous work during dangerously high temperatures. Any suggestion otherwise is racist.

documentedny.com/2025/07/09/t...

Where they used insect / pest imagery — specifically cockroaches, I believe

@michaelhapp.bsky.social : “There’s not been a lot of clarity. Some of the money has been released, but a lot of it still hasn’t. And there’s a lot of mixed messages coming from USDA, and farmers are getting frustrated and confused, understandably.” @iatp.bsky.social

I hate this for us

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Wow

Meanwhile, I have relatives who are gloating about how awesome this is to watch. They’d vote for a third season if they could.

Who wants this

And I never picked it up when I had electricity again. The convinces me that seeing it might be as good as the soundtrack (which I have listened to)

If, like me you haven’t read/seen Les Mis this thread is an amazing recap of a bonkers plot

true story: I got it in paperback from a street vendor in Tanzania, the print was waaaaaay to small to read by camp light.

FYI: The “budget” bill now contains an amendment to sell off 2 million to 3.2 million acres of OUR public lands to pay for tax cuts for the rich.

Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed In this study, employing a detailed analysis of ocean carbonate system observations, models and biological assessments, we demonstrate that by year 2020, the average global ocean conditions had alrea...

The 2024 Planetary Boundaries report showed 6/9 boundaries breached with the 7th, Ocean Acidification, in danger. A new study shows that this too has now been crossed. The implications are huge!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#climatechange #oceanacidification #planetaryboundaries #oceans

Murderbot is the beat. I’ve been reading and listening to these novellas for the past few years on repeat. The show is so good!

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Insect mortality is being driven by multiple systems. That’s the challenge of sustainability now; to truly listen to the earth and react in the face of a modernity that won’t be switched off.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Politics Can Now Dictate Public Library Collections in Three States, Per Fifth Circuit Ruling The Fifth Circuit ruling will open the doors to rampant book censorship in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.

Seeing modern public libraries, one of America's greatest innovations and contributions to the world, be attacked, politicized, and conquered by authoritarians is too much to bear.

Declaring library books "government speech" is horrifying.

Check on your librarians, we are not okay.

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again

A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again
theonion.com/a-shatt...