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01.03.2026 14:50 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0@fisherdanar.bsky.social
Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on being an Apocalyptic Optimist : go.ted.com/danarfisher
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My newest on the need to build solidarity in this deeply divided moment and why listening to my conversation with @sociologistray.bsky.social will help us all understand how it can (and should) be done from episode 2 of the pod.
danarfisher.com/2026/02/28/b...
How do we build solidarity in this deeply divided moment? Check out my conversation with @sociologistray.bsky.social about what works, what doesnβt, and how people can show up as more effective racial justice advocates right now.
cece.american.edu/apocalyptic-...
My newest on the need to build solidarity in this deeply divided moment and why listening to my conversation with @sociologistray.bsky.social will help us all understand how it can (and should) be done from episode 2 of the pod.
danarfisher.com/2026/02/28/b...
Not funny (tho, given current US policies, we're just on track to get more dirty coal)...
28.02.2026 16:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Seven-year-old Mathias Bermeo, a detainee at Dilley wrote: βIβm writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us I have been detained for 23 days with my mom and my 3-year-old sister. I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they donβt treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!β
βIβm writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they donβt treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!β
- Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
No doubt Tulsi Gabbard is drafting her resignation letter as we speak.
28.02.2026 10:42 β π 4838 π 1180 π¬ 152 π 59With the failure of efforts to limit the climate crisis, climate shocks will come more frequently and hit with more severity. This new comment in @nature.com makes a convincing case that we need a global assessment of avoidable climate change risks www.nature.com/articles/d41...
28.02.2026 15:45 β π 16 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1Waking up in LA to find out that we're at war with Iran was not on my 2026 BINGO card, but I suppose it should have been.
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Stop exporting fossil fuel @fisherdanar.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/GSV_3...
The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.
βI see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSFβs ability to fund the best science.β
Anyone watching UK politics today, this is a must listen:
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27.02.2026 11:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0The polycrisis is nigh π
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News and culture is very rapidly being dominated by administration-aligned companies. It's actually astonishing how fast this has happened. And it's not stopping.
Today will be a significant detail in the many, many textbooks that will be written about the era I fear we're still at the start of.
Well you an I both know the audience tho π
26.02.2026 20:04 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Daaamn, girl. This is a powerful rebuke. It establishes her authority as a credible truthteller and builds and builds until you feel overwhelmed with the veracity of the conclusion. Only a partisan would deny the power of this testimony.
26.02.2026 20:03 β π 225 π 59 π¬ 6 π 1Well there is also the flip side: indirects coming in from external grants (which is where my uni makes money from meβand many of those engineers Iβm sureβ¦)
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The idea that we can βovershoot now, fix laterβ is simplistic.
Overshoot relies on massive CDR, but temporary warming can trigger tipping points and long-lived changes: ice sheet loss, permafrost thaw, ecosystem shifts.
Cooling later doesnβt guarantee reversal.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
For anyone looking for more detail, my recent newsletter digs deeper: danarfisher.com/2026/02/21/w...
25.02.2026 11:21 β π 8 π 5 π¬ 2 π 0I spoke with @richard.wickedproblems.earth about the Trump Administration's investigations into climate groups, how it's connected to a broader policy of limiting free speech and assembly, and why it will backfire. Check out the full conversation (with a nice cover) here π
25.02.2026 11:21 β π 37 π 18 π¬ 2 π 0Listen to Dr. Rashawn Ray talk about how to get young Black men to buy into the political system and support them as they get engaged. Then, check out the full episode of the Apocalyptic Optimist where we discuss why building solidarity is so hard here: cece.american.edu/apocalyptic-...
25.02.2026 12:01 β π 23 π 6 π¬ 1 π 1These are βlow enrollmentβ majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
26.02.2026 02:50 β π 2662 π 852 π¬ 36 π 45I know it's been an exhausting 13 months, but EVERYONE needs to be paying attention to this (especially if you care about a woman's right to birth control)π
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25.02.2026 17:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tagging @sociologistray.bsky.social here (he's a must follow IMO) π
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