@greenspotlight
I care/write/post about: preserving a life-sustaining climate & planet, clean air & water, the wild, democracy, human rights, civil/voting/women's rights, health, animal rights, truth, justice, freedom, equality, nonviolence, empathy, dignity.
8/ It's yet another example of how dismantling EPA’s independent research paves the way for deregulation that harms our health. EPA has rolled back limits for PFAS in drinking water at the same time they're cancelling millions of dollars in grants for research on the health effects of PFAS exposure.
👉79% of homeowners report rising home insurance premiums.
👉66% of voters see a connection between Big Oil, extreme weather, and rising insurance costs.
👉61% of voters support legislation that would empower states to sue Big Oil companies to recover insurance-related costs from climate disasters.
Unfortunately this article that @saragoud.bsky.social and I wrote last year is newly relevant again.
War sucks. It's bad for people, bad for the environment, bad for the climate.
“That’s why anyone who thinks about the environment or cares about the environment should also care about peace.”
Some nuclear safety orgs to follow:
@livableworld.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social @nti.org @nukesofhazard.bsky.social @backfrombrink.bsky.social @thebulletin.org @ucs.org @psr.org @nirsnet.bsky.social @mothersforpeace.bsky.social @outrider.org
#nuclear #nukes #war
Some nuclear safety orgs to follow:
@livableworld.bsky.social @nuclearban.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social @nti.org @nukesofhazard.bsky.social @backfrombrink.bsky.social @thebulletin.org @ucs.org @psr.org @nirsnet.bsky.social @mothersforpeace.bsky.social @outrider.org
#nuclear #nukes #war
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
The humanities, literature and reading supposedly aren’t important….
but the synthetic word salad maker ingested fiction and nonfiction alike, indifferently, to generate its word predictions shaping life and death decisions in war, medicine, science, at home, etc. etc.
I can’t get over this.
"Journalists covering the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran should be telling their audiences not only what they know but what they were prevented from finding out, and by whom."
I just called my US senators and told them to publicly call for Tim Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting and apparently breaking the hand of a Marine today.
You can call your Senators, too.
Find them here: reps.fyi
The human, economic, social & political, and environmental (including non-human animal) costs of war:
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/enviro...
#war #destruction #suffering #AntiLife
The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.
2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.
Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.
My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”
#IdeasAtWork
A month in hospital costs: $30,100
Month in prison: $9,400
Month in shelter: $6,800
Supportive housing per month: $3,800
@uhn.ca's Dr. Andrew Boozary
h/t @urbantruth.bsky.social
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?
NOEM: Yes
WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?
NOEM: No.
Listen to the people who know the most about war (and its horrors) from first-hand experience: veterans.
@votevets.org @vetsforrl.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social @vetsaboutface.bsky.social @veteransforpeace.bsky.social
@democrats-veterans.house.gov
“This is carpet-bombing, which has struck everything from playgrounds, to an emergency services HQ, schools, media buildings, and medical facilities,” said one observer.
A billion-dollar company poisoned their town, then moved on. Now people are dying.
New from me @therealnews.com
therealnews.com/a-billion-do...
They robbed us blind and told us that our neighbors were the enemy. All that culture war garbage was a diversion to distract us from the largest wealth transfer in history.
#TaxBillionaires
So the State Department is forcing everyone to immediately leave the region but is also refusing to help people leave the region.
The strike itself is illegal and disastrous but their lack of readiness for what comes next is unforgivable as well.
Incompetence everywhere.
Bird Losses Are Accelerating, New Study Finds - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/c...
New: Bernie Sanders to unveil $4.4 trillion tax on America's ~1,000 billionaires, saying it would pay for:
— Medicare to cover dental/vision/hearing
— Teacher pay at $60K/yr min.
— $3K/person checks (under $150K/yr)
— Universal childcare
— Housing expansion
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
It's a Republican tradition.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Maj. Gen. Randy Manner (Ret.): "It's a little bit disheartening to hear that the UK govt is arranging transport for the British citizens, whereas here as Americans we feel abandoned. The State Dept is in survival mode because as we know the administration reduced their budget by almost half."
Like everything else he’s done since returning to power, Trump’s war with Iran is incredibly unpopular.
Congress has a constitutional obligation to assert its war powers immediately and block any further military action. Our elected officials must hear from us: act.indivisible.org/sign/no-iran...
Listen to the people who know the most about war (and its horrors) from first-hand experience: veterans.
@votevets.org @vetsforrl.bsky.social @commondefense.bsky.social @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social @vetsaboutface.bsky.social @veteransforpeace.bsky.social
@democrats-veterans.house.gov
Groups for peace, human rights, and nonviolence:
thegreenspotlight.com/2025/01/huma...
#peace #NoWar #humanrights #NoWarCrimes
I got my MMR shots as a kid in the '70s and '80s and it kept me from getting measles, but now, in my 50s, my titers showed waning/inadequate immunity to measles. So I got the MMR vaccine again. Same for many friends in my age group. Don't risk getting (or spreading) super-contagious measles!
