neuroscientist at @alleninstitute , climate activist with @citizensclimate, leaving twitter for bluesky: @alexpiet.bsky.social
Seattle, WA
Joined August 2011
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You’ve legalized recreational marijuana, passed universal background checks for guns, expanded LGBTQ protections, tuition-free college for low incomes, free school breakfast and lunch.
Tim Walz: What a monster! Kids have full bellies so they can learn.
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The Harris-Walz campaign just dropped their first Tim Walz video, introducing him to America.
Please watch and share widely!!
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Fifteen years minus one day between these photos. Taken at the Rhone glacier in Switzerland today.
Not gonna lie, it made me cry.
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when they call tim walz “far left” they mean “provided school children with food”
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"I didn’t know he was Orange until a number of years ago, when he happened to turn Orange. I respect either one, but he obviously doesn’t because all of a sudden he made a turn and he went – he became an Orange person. I think somebody should look into that."
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since 1994, our planet has lost an average of 1 trillion tons of ice each year... equivalent each year with a cube of ice that is 10 km on a side.
HT @CopernicusEU @ESA_EO
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To all the wonderful young people I know:
Please join me in seizing the precious opportunity we now have to save our democracy, our planet, and our right to make choices about our own bodies, by supporting the new Democratic nominee. To those of you who (like me)...
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This isn't even a dog-whistle: This is centuries' worth of antisemitic propaganda being blasted to at least 190 million people by the world's richest man
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On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country.
I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.
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During the last ice age as recently as 20k years before present, sea level was 100 m lower from ice storage on land. Climate warming from elevated atmospheric carbon has baked in a coastline of the future that can also be radically changed, this time moving inland.
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“She prosecuted sexual predators.”
“He is one.”
Boom. Right out of the gate.
The Anti-Trump.
#Harris #AntiTrump
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Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States. I pledge my full support to ensure her victory in November.
Now more than ever, it is crucial that our party and country swiftly unite to defeat Donald Trump and the threat to American democracy.
Let’s get to work.
If you live in Washington state, be aware initative-2117 will be on the ballot in November. It will roll back investments across the state in clean air, water, transportation, and energy infrastructure. Consider getting involved in the "No" campaign: no2117.com/
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Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is donating $45 million a month to the Trump campaign.
If democracy is to survive in the US, we need to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.
We need a government that represents all, not just billionaires.
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If you’re a “senior Democrat” that feels this way, you should absolutely retire and make space for true leadership that refuses to resign themselves to fascism.
This kind of leadership is functionally useless to the American people. Retire.
A senior House Democrat tells Axios: "We've all resigned ourselves to a second Trump presidency." axios.com/2024/07/14/house-d…
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Just so we're all clear, I've added Judith Curry's 2014 "hiatus" (no additional warming) prediction on this graph showing what's actually happened since:
(h/t @25_cycle)
