CGC- Cheryl

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." - Jacques Cousteau ✨

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Tough to watch & think about 🥹.

Okay ICE assholes...this IS scary.
But don't think we will cower in fear.

We will coordinate & attend MORE protests.
We will protect MORE neighbors.
We will contact MORE GOP legislators.
We will demand MORE from the inept MSM.
We will cause MORE good trouble.

Would be insane if we didn't. 🥺

Thank you Marcie for fighting and for putting this list of lovely folks together. Followed all.

As intended.

Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity A new federal report downplaying or denying climate change could drive a reversal of climate rules and expansion of executive authority.

Trump’s next climate move: Show global warming benefits humanity. A new federal report downplaying or denying climate change could drive a reversal of climate rules and expansion of executive authority. Vought is a sick POS.
They lie for a living.
www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

Thank you! Stronger together!!! bsky.app/profile/dwso...

PSA: The Chicago police will deny any FOIA requests for body-worn camera footage of incidents where they assist ICE (but make no arrests) unless a complaint is made to BIA or COPA, which flags videos to be retained.

I am sending FOIA requests Monday.

www.chicagopolice.org/file-a-compl...

One thing to bear in mind here is that the union that represents the wide majority of Chicago police earlier this year dedicated the cover and a good chunk of the inside of its magazine for members to praising Tom Homan and ICE.

Cook County Sheriff ‘Data Loophole’ Lets ICE Access Immigrant Info A clause in the county’s contract lets an information system designed for crime victims funnel sensitive data to ICE-contracted LexisNexis.

A loophole in Cook County’s contract with a data broker could allow ICE to access information related to incarcerated peoples’ immigration status, South Side Weekly reports.

If you see local law enforcement assisting ICE by arresting protesters, establishing perimeters, or otherwise responding to ICE activity, FILE A COMPLAINT and send us video/photos

City: www.chicagocopa.org/complaints/i...
County: apps.cookcountyil.gov/oiig/
State: oeig.illinois.gov/complaints/o...

Journalist Mario Guevara deported to El Salvador after judges deny his request to stay in U.S. Georgia-based journalist Mario Guevara has been deported to El Salvador after more than 100 days in detainment.

In a stunning assault on the First Amendment, the Trump regime has deported an Atlanta journalist (after holding him for more than 100 days) in direct retaliation for his reporting on immigration enforcement. www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news...

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

Experts raise red flags about concerning trend in home insurance market: 'Often an early warning sign' The cost of homeownership is becoming increasingly expensive as insurers across the nation raise their rates on policyholders.

If you live in Nebraska or Louisiana you could be paying the highest home insurance premiums in the country

Insurers have been price-gouging climate-vulnerable communities as extreme weather events worsen. And yet, they continue to insure fossil fuels. Shame! #InsureOurFuture
https://bit.ly/42jTI4s

BREAKING ❗The 16th #BankingOnClimateChaos reveals that fossil fuel financing from the world’s top 65 banks has reached $7.9 TRILLION since 2016. See how your bank is using your money at bankingonclimatechaos.org 💸🔥🌍 #DefundClimateChaos #BOCC

Right on MSNBC! 👏👏👏

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

Thank you-- 💙.

Working on a 3rd pack: super bad-ass pro-democracy resisters. Y'all are included!

Thank you Be.
Am starting to really appreciate political cartoons.
And you find great ones! 🙏🏼

Several indie media/writers added to Starter Pack II.

Welcome!
@volts.wtf
@grist.org

We need independent, pro-democracy media....and they need us.

Please consider vetting, supporting these folks and sharing these 2 starter packs. 💙

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Be sure to follow Grist's starter pack! bsky.app/starter-pack...

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why. In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.

In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

grist.org/culture/clim...

#BookSky #Climate #Capitalism #Business #Tech #Politics

How disasters change our love lives — for better and for worse Some couples broke under the pressure of Hurricane Helene. Others found something solid and surprising in each other.

Studies reinforce the toll extreme weather events can take on relationships.

Researchers suspect that surviving a life-threatening disaster can motivate people to reevaluate what’s important to them, sometimes drawing them closer, sometimes pulling them apart. grist.org/culture/how-...

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Contact the Governor | Governor of California You can contact the Governor a few different ways. The best way is through his online form.

Reminder that @governor.ca.gov is reportedly considering vetoing SB79, the best housing bill to clear the CA legislature in decades.

It would be a *disaster*, substantively & for Newsom's political future. Really hope he doesn't self-immolate.

Tell him!

Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

Do we really have such abysmal collective memory that we need to be *told* that the right has a history of censoring free speech? Have we really swallowed so much reactionary-centrist bullshit about "cancel culture" that we've forgotten that primal political truth?

'Ties together local housing, transportation, & energy policy, civic activism & the revival of democracy, new models of distributed decisionmaking enabled by tech, and the crisis of everyone being too goddamn online. All the threads come together in *places* -- real, specific, physical places.'

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

This one of many reasons that 21st century liberalism should reorient itself around *places*, namely creating places that are actually pleasant to live in, with generous public spaces that bring people's physical bodies into proximity.