Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein

Pull yourself up by your credit score!

Love it! I have been including this theme in my Social Policy class, and thrilled to add this update to the syllabus.

🏇Let the betting begin

❄️Is the monster #blizzard snow bomb due to #climatechange?

💲I put my stakes on YES, for the freakish amount of precipitation and rapid intensification

Understanding and addressing public resistance to ambitious climate policies The University of Bath Institute of Sustainability and Climate Change is inviting applications for the following funded PhD project commencing September 2026.

New CAST & ISCC PhD studentship at the University of Bath: "Understanding and addressing public resistance to ambitious #ClimatePolicies". 📣

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Like most liberal intellectuals, I try to avoid conspiracy theories.

And like most humanitarians, I thought that the cuts to aid were driven by ignorance at best, and disregard for human life and wellbeing at worst.

But what if the deaths are deliberate? Then it is mass murder.

As more information floods out the #Epstein files, it is becoming clearer that the men in his inner circle were deeply racist and strong supporters of eugenics.

Men who are deeply embedded or highly influential in the #Trump Administration. Like Thiel, Vance, and of course, Musk.

What if the deaths caused by US #foreignaid cuts are intentional?

@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social @pgourevitch.bsky.social

www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

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I have never had any desire to own a gun. But an RPG or rocket launcher, that's a whole different story.

A classic example of limits to adaptation.

Lawyer and politician who parades around as a political "hard man".

garbarino.house.gov/about

A two panel graphic comparing immigration enforcement activity and U.S. election results. The top panel shows a dark map of the United States overlaid with red and orange heat spots labeled “ICE Activity / 2024 Election Results,” indicating areas of higher Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity, concentrated across the South, Midwest, and parts of the Northeast and West Coast. The source is listed as icemap.dev. The bottom panel shows a standard U.S. electoral map with states colored red and blue, indicating Republican and Democratic results in the 2024 election. Most Southern and Midwestern states appear red, while parts of the West Coast, Northeast, and a few interior states appear blue.

Go figure.

Fungi mining and giant waste piles: How to get rare earths without mining rock As nations posture over access to rare earth deposits, scientists say these coveted materials are hiding in plain sight – and can be harvested without any conventional mining at all.

NEW: Rare earths are often in the news, with nations vying over access to rare earth mines.

But many countries, including the US, have many or all of the rare earths they need at home. In waste.

I wrote about how to harvest rare earths without traditional mining...

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

🔥Urgent Bill

Support the Data Center Moratorium Bill. Why?

1. The bill for these centers is being paid for by us- thru higher utility costs
2. Data centers do not create jobs; they destroy them
3. Data centers are fueling political corruption

@joannesimonbk52.bsky.social @agounardes.bsky.social

And there is already a book

What disappointing news to start the day with.

We can only hope that this awakens the #LOTR crowd.

Thank you

We protested “National Greed” aka National Grid, the gas utility, for a #GasFreeNYC!

✅ lower costs
✅ good jobs
✅ less pollution

NYC: let’s get rid of old, dirty oil/gas boilers ====>
energy efficient, modern systems

Wassup @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
@nyccouncil.bsky.social

Downtown Brooklyn ASAP!

Local Data for Equitable Communities This call for proposals invites eligible nonprofit organizations in the U.S. to apply for a grant to collect, analyze, and use data to address inequities in the physical, economic, and social conditio...

If you are a non-profit who wants to use local data to help build a safer and more climate resilient community, consider applying for a grant from @rwjf.org and the Urban Institute:

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Anyway, just a matter of time until his name pops up in the Epstein files

Don't you know- when women leave jobs and careers (they love and excel in) it is a lifestyle choice. When men do, it is a SERIOUS MATTER.

This is important (and very exciting). But just as important is the context. Why do these issues resonate there - and why now?

It’s an excellent piece. Definitely seems like a valid measure.

Also for da nerds—looks like the great @annemeng.bsky.social did methods review for the piece. Maybe 2025 has shifted Meng & @anthlittle.bsky.social toward the “yeah it’s very bad” position

You have no idea how ugly the beauty industry is.

Can Europe break with Trump? A tale of energy, defence, economic dependence Trump has angered European leaders with his Greenland ambitions and tariffs-for-all-who-oppose approach.

The US has 3 sources over Europe: defense, economy and energy

For energy, LNG, the product that would flow from the #WilliamsPipeline, is a critical resource for the UK and EU...

Which is why UK-owned @nationalgrid.bsky.social is deeply involved

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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Trump Can’t Stop Backing Down Where the bully encounters strength, he withdraws. Constantly.

Today @thebulwark.com ran an excellent piece by @monacharen.bsky.social noting that "where the bully encounters strength, he withdraws. Constantly."

#Greenland and #ICE being the two latest examples.

I couldn't agree more. But...

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-bull...

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Stop the Williams Pipeline

Connecting the dots on Trump's global bullying...and the resurrected #WilliamsPipeline in NY

Or how the fracked gas pipeline no one wants is part of Trump's plan for geopolitical dominance

@smaldo.bsky.social @350brooklyn.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social

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“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”

Bravo! Dipshit Donnie is a schoolyard bully - accompanied by a gang of sniveling cowards. Stand up and fight back together - and they back down.