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Kelly Chauvin

@ecologistkelly.bsky.social

Ecologist/educator. PhD. Appalachian born and raised. Residing in unceded Muwekma Ohlone territory. Trying to be a good guest. Diversity makes us resilient. Kindness is strength.

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‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

03.10.2025 11:36 — 👍 14417    🔁 7207    💬 1238    📌 756

Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country

28.08.2025 11:17 — 👍 14145    🔁 1908    💬 298    📌 67
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Grok showed up in my Tesla this morning, and started speaking to me without me trying to trigger it.

I saw a tab called "conspiracy theories", clicked it and asked Grok about climate change.

This is what Elon Musk is telling Tesla drivers about climate change.

21.08.2025 18:06 — 👍 464    🔁 250    💬 86    📌 90
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Analysis: The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change | CNN Politics Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris climate agreement over the past four presidencies.

“In his second administration, President Donald Trump is not just approaching climate science with skepticism. Instead, his administration is moving to destroy the methods by which his or any future administration can respond to climate change.“

02.08.2025 19:58 — 👍 276    🔁 136    💬 16    📌 13

This is so dumb it makes my head hurt

02.08.2025 08:00 — 👍 207    🔁 56    💬 11    📌 2

The deepest ecosystem yet discovered…so perhaps let’s have a little humility and not mine it immediately ?

01.08.2025 06:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly the fact that the ocean can just absorb so much of that energy - as if we needed another reason to love her 🌊 please stay safe and well away from the coast for anyone in the affected zones…

30.07.2025 04:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Some important clarifications for my West Coast peeps - btw, you should follow Daniel if you are interested in excellent weather reporting and analysis!

30.07.2025 02:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In my permanent top 3 since its release. I still don’t know why my dad let me rent it at Blockbuster week after week as a pre-teen…he must have never actually sat down watched it with me 😂

26.07.2025 15:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nonsense, everybody just needs to tune to you ;)

25.07.2025 14:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Haven’t watched South Park for 20 years or so but just caught the first episode of the new season- might be time to tune in again! 😂

24.07.2025 18:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Article 54 of the 1977 Geneva Convention Protocol I.

1. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited.

24.07.2025 04:05 — 👍 803    🔁 358    💬 20    📌 27
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The monitoring station on Mauna Loa provides the longest direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Trump wants to shut it down, which is like taking the batteries out of your screaming smoke alarm and pretending the house isn't on fire. #climatechange

21.07.2025 05:01 — 👍 607    🔁 238    💬 14    📌 12
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As Interest in Deep-Sea Mining Grows, Scientists Raise Alarms About the Possible Ecological Consequences — Smithsonian Magazine Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to whales. The long-term effects of these extractions remain uncertain

We’ve collapsed ecosystems on land. Now we’re prepping to do it underwater. Deep-sea mining isn’t a risk. It’s a certainty. The only question is how many ecosystems we destroy before admitting it.

apple.news/A7g0VOp1hQ4u...

21.07.2025 11:59 — 👍 35    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 4
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Why we urgently need to talk about geoengineering — New Scientist Geoengineering may be a bad idea, but the alternative could be worse

Geoengineering is the climate equivalent of launching nukes to stop wildfires. Desperate, untested, and likely to backfire—especially when global cooperation is a fantasy. When one nation goes rogue, it won’t save the world. It may finish it.

apple.news/AnpUesHFhTDm...

20.07.2025 00:49 — 👍 48    🔁 19    💬 12    📌 1

I’ll say it again: It was a huge mistake for Congress to abolish itself.

22.06.2025 00:26 — 👍 25391    🔁 4296    💬 209    📌 100
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Mr. Netanyahu made his first visit of the second Trump term to the White House on Feb. 4. He presented a gold-plated pager to Mr. Trump and a silver-plated pager to Mr. Vance - the same devices the Israelis had secretly packed with explosives and sold to unwitting Hezbollah operatives who would later be maimed and killed in a devastating remote-control attack on the Iran-backed Lebanese group. (Mr.
Trump later told an ally he was disturbed by the gift.)

Mr. Netanyahu made his first visit of the second Trump term to the White House on Feb. 4. He presented a gold-plated pager to Mr. Trump and a silver-plated pager to Mr. Vance - the same devices the Israelis had secretly packed with explosives and sold to unwitting Hezbollah operatives who would later be maimed and killed in a devastating remote-control attack on the Iran-backed Lebanese group. (Mr. Trump later told an ally he was disturbed by the gift.)

“Veep” but they’re going to kill us all.

18.06.2025 18:30 — 👍 288    🔁 31    💬 19    📌 4

All part of the plan. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

19.06.2025 11:43 — 👍 88    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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Earth set to exhaust ‘carbon budget’ within 3 years as Paris hopes fade Goal of limiting warming to 1.5C looks increasingly out of reach, study finds

Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.

Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

18.06.2025 22:25 — 👍 654    🔁 236    💬 15    📌 13

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

18.06.2025 21:44 — 👍 13822    🔁 5259    💬 253    📌 194

I wonder if there are any exceptions to this, and under what conditions might we treat a landscape as untouchable for a longer duration. I would so love to do a deep dive on environmental history laws in Europe and North America over time.

15.06.2025 02:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Anyone who dares to buy and convert these lands should never know a moment’s peace.

Unless… it’s unintentionally a massive landback opportunity?

Where’s the billionaire who wants to fund a massive return to the tribes?

14.06.2025 00:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.’

14.04.2025 03:07 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Law Enforcement Officers Respond to Reports of Unrest at Migrant Facility

“detainees were often served small cartons of expired milk for breakfast. Dinners were sometimes not served until around 11 p.m”

13.06.2025 02:59 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

We’re just watching ourselves slowly lose everything… 😔🤦🏻‍♀️

13.06.2025 02:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Senator Padilla is right. If they can do this to a sitting U.S. Senator, they can do it to anyone.

@padilla.senate.gov

13.06.2025 01:04 — 👍 1803    🔁 415    💬 107    📌 18
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"Please continue peacefully protesting": Sen. Padilla after forced removal from DHS presser

12.06.2025 21:32 — 👍 20645    🔁 5591    💬 442    📌 220

Some good news

05.06.2025 16:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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*Eagle screech* 🦅🏳️‍🌈

01.06.2025 13:21 — 👍 16243    🔁 3016    💬 203    📌 200

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