Our California healthcare provider just announced they were giving free COVID vaccines to all members 6 months old and older.
Viva la revolution.
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Peter Gleick
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Our California healthcare provider just announced they were giving free COVID vaccines to all members 6 months old and older. -
A Republican is somebody who couldn't enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry.A Republican is somebody who couldn't enjoy eating unless he knew somebody else was hungry.
(From Mary Karr's The Liars' Club.)
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Got my flu vaccination yesterday.Got my flu vaccination yesterday.
Felt like an act of political defiance.
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In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate ch...In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate change.
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The full name is Trump's Department of War CrimesThe full name is Trump's Department of War Crimes
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Department of War?Department of War? Let's do them all.
Dept of Agribusiness
Dept of Ignorance
Dept of Industry
Dept of Fossil Fuels
Dept of Human Disease
Homeland Gestapo
Dept of Private Parks
Dept of Unpaid Labor
Dept of State Control
Dept of SUVs & Trucks
Dept of Bankrupt Treasury
Dept of Veterans Abuse
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The graph shows what happened when the #polio vaccine became available.The graph shows what happened when the #polio vaccine became available. Deaths and illness stopped. People begged to get it when it became available.
Reversing this is what Florida just announced it intends to do.
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If they can no longer use Alligator Auschwitz as a concentration camp, maybe they can use it for the iron lung facility after polio returns to Florida.If they can no longer use Alligator Auschwitz as a concentration camp, maybe they can use it for the iron lung facility after polio returns to Florida.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/florida-vaccine-mandate
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Hey, my book on the #bottledwater industry is available from Island Press -- still current and still a challenge, especially given the growing concerns about #plastics and privatization of #water.Hey, my book on the #bottledwater industry is available from Island Press -- still current and still a challenge, especially given the growing concerns about #plastics and privatization of #water.
Here it is!
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This is unconscionable -- an action that will explicitly kill and injure thousands of children (and adults) and contribute to explosive disease outbreaks across the country.This is unconscionable -- an action that will explicitly kill and injure thousands of children (and adults) and contribute to explosive disease outbreaks across the country.
[And I wonder what's going thru the head of this guy, in the back right of this picture.]
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The stupid, it burns.The stupid, it burns.
This guy is US Secretary of Energy and blithely puts certifiably and grossly and embarrassingly incorrect statements on social media. -
Because you wanted to see a squirrel taking a nap in my plum tree.Because you wanted to see a squirrel taking a nap in my plum tree.
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Why the Trump/MAGA/GOP aggressive assault on facts?Why the Trump/MAGA/GOP aggressive assault on facts? Because facts contradict every ideological policy they're trying to impose.
Yes, #climate change is real.
Yes, #vaccines are effective and safe.
Yes, it's the #guns.
Yes, Trump economics is destroying jobs and the economy.
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Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change.Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change.
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Everyone around that Cabinet table with Trump is either insane, a true fascist, or has sold their soul just to be at that table.Everyone around that Cabinet table with Trump is either insane, a true fascist, or has sold their soul just to be at that table. They're just the worst people.
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Sure.Sure. So she wasn't in the room? And remember, she's in jail precisely because what she considers "appropriate sexual behavior" is illegal. Also, she lies under oath.
"Ghislaine Maxwell denied to the DOJ witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump."
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My family (and likely yours) alone paid more in federal tax in 2023 than these corporations, each of which reported more than a billion dollars in income.My family (and likely yours) alone paid more in federal tax in 2023 than these corporations, each of which reported more than a billion dollars in income.
Tesla, Airbnb, Aptiv, PG&E, Palo Alto Networks, FMC, Pfizer, Gen Digital, & certainly many others.
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Here's another fact about #water you may not know.the rivers, lakes, accessible groundwater, and rain/snow. And that water is unevenly distributed in space and time, contributing to scarcity, #water poverty, and conflict. 2/2
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Here's another fact about #water you may not know.Here's another fact about #water you may not know.
More than 97% of Earth's water is saltwater — too salty to drink or use for agriculture.
Most of the rest, the freshwater, is locked up in ice caps on Antarctic and Greenland or in deep groundwater.
Only a tiny fraction is available to us in ... 1/2