Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈

Note that Visto Pacifico would have exported natural gas fracked out of the United States and piped through Mexico for liquefaction and export to Asia.

Two more LNG export terminals remain proposed for the Gulf.

The fight to protect this marine sanctuary off the Pacific coast of Mexico goes on.

BNamericas - Sempra pulls plug on Mexico’s Vista Pacifico... Sempra has terminated the development agreement  with Mexico's CFE for the Vista Pacifico LNG export project in Sinaloa state, citing shifting priorities

BECAUSE GOOD NEWS MATTERS:

Sempea announced that it is abandoning plans for an LNG terminal in the Gulf of California—home to 39% of all marine mammal species and 8 whale species—due to “changed priorities.”

LOL. Activism killed Vista Pacifico. Onward.

www.bnamericas.com/en/news/semp...

Discovery that a family member is adopted is apparently right up there in shock value with witnessing a murder, being SAed by a family member, and finding out that grandpa had a wartime love child. Got it. Then I get to be shocked about myself too. 🧐

Screenshot of Buzzfeed list of 30 surprising family secrets

21. My cousin is actually my uncle. He was adopted by his aunt at birth and not told until he was over 30

🥚 Adoptees reading another round-up of Buzzfeed Family Secrets That Rocked Your World and noting how kept people are still freaking out about adoption like chill, bro, you are supposed to feel GRATEFUL! and also love makes a family! and genes don’t matter!

…oh wait that message is just for us…

Deadline Hochul 4.18.26 Convening organizations: Food & Water Watch, New York Communities for Change, NYPIRG, Third Act Upstate New York, Third Act NYC, Citizen Action of New York, Climate Defenders, (list developing).

We moved a (larger) weekend protest for April 18 to a weekday on March 25 to influence the Legislature to stop Hochul's attack on the climate law.

She wants to raise our energy bills, increase pollution & destroy clean energy jobs to benefit her big donors. NO!
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They never tell you that parenting comes with PTSD.

Instant freak out when I see Monopoly game board pieces, knowing firsthand that the HOTEL can fit inside the nose of a four year old.

My small children are now whole ass adults with successful writing careers and I still store plastic bags in the freezer and refer to peanuts and raisins as small chokeable objects.

As long as you are not in the ER looking at an X-ray image of your missing AirPod inside the body of your small child and signing consent forms you are doing GREAT

Right? I’m strictly an Odocoileus girl myself.

Gas Stove Emissions: Indoor air quality & health effects About 38 percent of U.S. homes use gas-fired stoves and ovens for cooking. Combustion of so-called “natural gas” — which is primarily methane — creates many toxic air...

Did you know? The air inside homes with gas stoves has smog levels (NO2) 50-400% higher than air inside homes with electric stoves — often at levels known to cause asthma in kids.

Upcoming webinar on the new scientific findings: 4/8/26. Register now!

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🧪 “For decades, this animal was known as Mazama rufina. However, recent studies showed that it does not share a close evolutionary origin with other deer in the genus, prompting researchers to propose the creation of a new taxonomic genus.”

I wrote my dissertation on deer. Shit like this is wild.

Same. Except I didn’t watch it.

Having watched Hegseth's deranged rant I have concluded that the entire world is at the mercy of psychopaths.

Colombia Identifies a New Genus of Deer: Andinocervus rufinus, a Lineage Unique in the World In Colombia, a new genus of deer has been identified: Andinocervus rufinus, a species belonging to a lineage unique in the world.

New kind of deer just dropped

This conversation gives me new appreciation for how the damaging secrecies of adoption harm even our kept siblings.

children endured

Author is @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social. Apologies for not tagging! Looking forward to learning more about this book and pre-ordering it.

Don’t know either! I feel OK about kept children telling their own stories. Sounds like the author’s mom suffered a series of mental breakdowns after losing her first child. Living with that grief could not have been easy on the second child, who had no other siblings. It’s a POV I’m interested in.

Reminder that HPV vaccine in boys prevents penile, anal, and throat cancers as well as genital warts —and protects their sexual partners. So grateful that BOTH my kids, one girl and one boy—got this vaccine series. Optimal timing is ages 11-12.

Extended follow-up of invasive cervical cancer risk after quadrivalent HPV vaccination: nationwide, register based study Objectives To evaluate the long term risk of invasive cervical cancer after receiving the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, how risk varies by time since vaccination, and to assess the ...

The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The HPV vaccine prevents cancer. The new ACIP wants to re-examine that.

Let's not forget that this highly and durably effective vaccine which is on track to eliminate cervical cancer in countries that adopted it early and have had good up take is the next target on RFK.Jr's ACIP list.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Reminder

Without getting all metaphysical: would there even be war in Iran without oil?

Jacket cover of the book, My Mother’s daughter by Tracy Clark-Flury

Description of book by Tracy Clark-Flory

🥚 New adoption memoir/social critique coming out in May from Simon & Schuster. The author, Tracy Clark-Flory—an essayist by profession—is the kept daughter of a mother who lost her first child for adoption in 1965. She found her sister through a DNA test after their mom died.

Can pre-order now.

I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities Nicknamed the father of environmental justice, Robert Bullard argues that researchers in the field have more reason than ever to back up their work with action.

"I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities." The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Southern University stands with and supports frontline communities. Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... #HBCU #HBCUalum #Justiceforshiloh

Fetterman comes to mind.

Among many others.

I condemn this latest war.

I’m so glad! Adoptees shouldn’t have to fight an entire legal system and turn over the cells of our bodies to commercial DNA labs to find out the identities of our siblings. Clearly, this knowledge has meaning. Why else would non-adoptees be so freaked out that their cousin is really their brother?

It’s completely unfair the adoptees can’t get their original birth certificate. My husband was fortunate to get his. He found 3 full siblings! They are all very close now. It has been one of the greatest gifts of his life.

We know enough to unequivocally condemn this latest war.

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