Emily Green

Emily Green

@chanceofrain.bsky.social

Gardener. Hardiness zone 7b/8a. For more go to www.chanceofrain.com

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Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

This is going to transform London. I wish I was there to see it. And I want it for Baltimore. All of Mt Vernon and much of downtown. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comWe’ve made Oxford Street traffic-free – and that’s just the start. Soon there’ll be green spaces for arts and music too | Sadiq KhanWe’ll revive the in-person shopping experience with a transformation of the area, inspired by the John Lewis and Selfridges founders who first set up there, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

1. A group formed last week called “Progressive Alliance of Wisconsin” is attacking David Crowley, the state’s Democratic nominee for governor, with hundreds of thousands in attack mailers. A Popular Information investigation has linked the effort to GOP operatives.

Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

As the Delta goes, so goes California. In Nov, a UC-led exhibit and public meetings in Walnut Grove on how to manage sea level rise and encroaching salinity will be the Just Transitions project's last public workshop. Click thru to register #cawater californiawaterblog.com/2026/10/25/j...

californiawaterblog.comJust Transitions in the Delta: Drought, Salinity and Sea Level Rise – An invitation to the Project’s Final Exhibition and Public Workshop • California WaterBlogBy Brett Milligan . . . Managing salinity in the Delta is a wicked problem. It’s far from any simple solution. It’s inseparable from many interacting phenomena and becoming more challenging with clima...

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Amanda Katz
@katzish.bsky.social

This old-timey movie poster is pretty great—some kind of multi-culti baseball romantic drama set in the Midwest?

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social

It’s the first day of early voting in Michigan, and I’m heading to Detroit for a rally to support @jocelynbenson.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, and Democrats working to create change. Make a plan to vote at MichiganDems.com/Vote.

Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

Can't escape feeling skeeved out by the did-she-didn't-she-do-it and damsel-in-distress threads of "You can see everything..." Elizabeth Holmes is a Madoff-level fraudster and cynic who was content to leave poor Americans seeking affordable medical tests with life-threatening results

Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

"...Places identified as having the most damage from a natural disaster are not necessarily the worst-hit...They’re often the places that still have the ability to communicate. This is sparsely populated Navajo and Jicarilla Apache Country..." #westwater #climate www.inkstain.net/2026/10/farm...

inkstain.netFarmington floodThe group chat among my Colorado River posse blew up again this morning as the nerds compared reservoir and stream gage readings resulting from a storm for the ages in the Four Corners. Staring at …

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Angie Nixon
@angieforfl.bsky.social

Today, I’m honored to share that President Obama is supporting our campaign for the U.S. Senate. President @barackobama.bsky.social & I both started as organizers in our communities, because we immediately understood that real changes come from regular folks joining the fight. #AngieForFlorida

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Regina Schrambling
@gastropoda.bsky.social

“Together we are stronger”

Nick Lloyd@spaincivilwartours.bsky.social

This new electoral vídeo from Pedro Sánchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

Exempted by Trump from clean air regulations: 202 facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico, including chemical manufacturers, copper smelters and coal-burning power plants. Approximately 3.3m people live within 3 miles of at least 1 affected facility. Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.
Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

Important piece. Spam fundraising is like an oil spill. It's in all of our feathers. (It's scammy, inefficient, & egregious elder abuse). I still spend, w/ time & stamps, this cycle for Sherrod & Amy. But we need money out of elections. Yesterday. newrepublic.com/article/2163... via @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.comHow the Consulting Class Is Eating the Democratic PartyFundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose—but the consulting class always wins.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social

1) This rules 2) Your dad annoying you so profoundly that you drew 478 fish is the most relatable thing I have ever seen.

HulloThere@jethroreading32.bsky.social

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

theguardian.comHeat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warnPeople succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new research suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths. Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas, the researchers found. Hot days pushed vulnerable bodies into overdrive and warm nights prevented them from recovering. Continue reading...

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Project Salt Box
@projectsaltbox.com

Because this has some traction, here's our reporting from February on the warehouse putsch.

projectsaltbox.com"Doomed to Failure”Veteran officials know the plan is unworkable. Political leadership doesn't care. And the budget has soared past $55 billion.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com

Replace "Boeing 737s" with "empty warehouses" and you've got the same play that DHS under Noem pulled. And a source on background told us in February the sales were meant to help well-connected Trump affiliates offload industrial properties that were liabilities on their books.

Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

What's $80m between friends? The idea, argue officials, is tax breaks seed development. But this one is given, observes a former Sun reporter, without requirements that the developers stick to the deal terms, or use union labor. My question: Do they even work? www.baltimorebrew.com/2026/10/22/g...

baltimorebrew.comGiving away the store with an ill-conceived tax deal for “Collegetown” | Baltimore BrewThe mayor and Board of Estimates hand out an $80 million property tax break for a downtown student dorm without a care for Baltimore’s long-term financial health. [OP-ED]
Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

I also have so many questions about $80m for a "by-the-bed" housing tower for graduate students. Graduate students are adults, often married or in committed relationships

Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

Stay classy, GOP. In 1974, Cledith Arthur, was charged with raping his biological daughter. In 1978, he was charged for raping his step-daughter, Amy Acton. After Acton's mother, fled to Pennsylvania with her daughter's rapist, she was convicted of theft in 1995 and 1996, and animal neglect in 2021.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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Charles Ornstein
@charlesornstein.bsky.social

The wildfire crisis engulfing the West presents a secondary threat that has received less attention: Entire neighborhoods could wash away in debris flows and floods that often follow. What happened in Ruidoso, NM, is a cautionary tale. @abestreep.bsky.social

propublica.orgTown Leaders Chided Residents for Warning of Flash Floods. Then, the River Took Two Children.After wildfires scarred the Sacramento Mountains above Ruidoso, New Mexico, the community was under heightened threat of catastrophic flooding. Officials were aware but continued to promote the town t...
Emily Green
@chanceofrain.bsky.social

Facebook and Cambridge Analytica gave us not only Trump, but also Brexit. The damage has been so deep and so profound it's incalculable. May the lawsuits keep coming and may Facebook rot in hell these thousand years

The Associated Press@apnews.com

A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook.

bit.lyMeta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion over Cambridge Analytica breachA judge has ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation on Facebook.