Coretta Anderson

Coretta Anderson

@coretta.bsky.social

creative & strategic partnerships @earthjustice. board of directors @one earth philanthropy. no climate justice without racial justice. occasional❤️‍🔥sports takes. my mother’s daughter. dog mama to Bowie. she|her. thoughts shared are mine. PFB: Freedom Quilt

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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
@lexmcmenamin.com

in July, bystander video of another police killing in broad daylight went viral. 6 years since 2020's movement to defund and abolish police, killings have risen—now including Corey Ruiz. organizers place his killing in a long backlash to it, which began immediately: police budgets went up by 2022

theguardian.comKilling of Corey Ruiz revives calls to shift power from police to communitiesCommunity organizers demand systemic changes after police killed a 38-year-old Black man in Wisconsin

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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social

It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.

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Reuters
@reuters.com

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Charles Ornstein
@charlesornstein.bsky.social

Must-read story by @drilledmedia.bsky.social and @propublica.org. Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study @themadstone.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social @katieworth.bsky.social

propublica.orgBeyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate StudyBP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.

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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

reuters.comTrump administration must restore history, science materials at parks, US judge rulesA federal judge ordered the ​Trump administration on ‌Friday to reinstall exhibits and signs touching on ​topics like slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationw...
Coretta Anderson
@coretta.bsky.social

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The New York Groove@nygroove.nyc

"I'm gonna fly out and I'm gonna go to a game, and my kids asked ‘Can we go?’ and I said, ‘You haven't suffered enough, you don't have enough equity to earn this trip.’” @davecolon.bsky.social talked to Knicks loyalists about the sweet unfamiliar smell of success nygroove.nyc/diehard-knic...

nygroove.nycThese Knicks fans who refused to defect to the Nets are on top of the worldSeven years after the lowest moment in franchise history, Knicks fans who saw a better, competent team nearby stuck it out anyway. Look at 'em now.
Coretta Anderson
@coretta.bsky.social

A beautiful and important 🧵 Worth your time today

Jeanne Theoharis@jeannetheoharis.bsky.social

It’s time to reckon with the full activist life & legacy of Coretta Scott King. And particularly on Memorial Day, we need to see her as the antiwar leader that she was, leading her husband & the nation. She had that global perspective and anti-militarism when she and MLK met in 1952. A month-long 🧵

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Will Bunch
@willbunch.bsky.social

Louisiana's SCOTUS-enabled racial gerrymandering will bring the tyranny of toxicity without representation to the mostly Black folks of heavily polluted 'Cancer Alley,' who'll lose a seat in Congress Voting rights die, environmental racism thrives. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/raci...

inquirer.comFor La.’s ‘Cancer Alley,’ Black voting struggle is a fight to breathe | Will BunchFor disadvantaged Black residents of the most heavily polluted region in America, racial redistricting is a life-or-death matter.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

propublica.orgTrump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...
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@coretta.bsky.social

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NBA@nba.com

After the Knicks Game 3 win, Jalen Brunson became their franchise leader for most 30+ PTS, 5+ REB, 5+ AST playoff games 👏 Jalen Brunson — 7 Walt Frazier — 6 Patrick Ewing — 5

Coretta Anderson
@coretta.bsky.social

Joy is defiance, a reclamation of power and our collective humanity in the face of all that’s unfolding around us. Indeed, Joy is an act of resistance. Beautiful reflections below worth your time today. ♥️

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Lisa Snowden
@lisasnowden.bsky.social

Today marks 11 years since the death of Freddie Gray. Last year, we documented the ways everyday people in Baltimore came together to create change.

Baltimore Beat@baltimorebeat.bsky.social

From emergency response to sustained resistance: How Baltimore Action Legal Team endured after the Uprising baltimorebeat.com/from-emergen...

baltimorebeat.comFrom emergency response to sustained resistance: How Baltimore Action Legal Team endured after the UprisingAs day turned to night in Baltimore on April 27, 2015, the number of arrests for disorderly conduct, failure to obey, and destruction of property ticked upward. What began as street protests over the…

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northerngala.bsky.social
@northerngala.bsky.social

US House Republicans have cleared the way for Chilean mining giant Antofagasta to engage in copper-sulfide mining - which produces sulfuric acid - above the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, which 165,00 Americans visit each year.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social

April 16, 2026

heathercoxrichardson.substack.comApril 16, 2026Congress is back in session, and there is a frantic feel in the air.