Dr. John Hickman

Dr. John Hickman

@spacepolitics.bsky.social

Father, Grandfather, Professor, Citizen Space Policy, Climate Policy, Transportation Policy, Human Rights, Elections and Electoral Systems ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John-Hickman

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Dr. John Hickman
@spacepolitics.bsky.social

Trump is being lobbied by rival foreign policy networks for wars with Venezuela or Iran. Sending troops to Portland obviously plays to a domestic audience of anti-urban conservatives while avoiding the sort of large scale interstate war that he fears going very wrong. #Portland #Venezuela #Iran

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Gordon Padelford
@gordonofseattle.bsky.social

Great news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 7.5% in August too! That's three months of solid data showing the pedestrianization pilot is good for business. Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going into the fall: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...

Gordon Padelford@gordonofseattle.bsky.social

Good news: Sales at Pike Place Market are up 6.5% in July as well! Making the street more of a welcoming place for people to enjoy, sit, and shop seems to be paying off!

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Margot
@mehes.bsky.social

Replying to @jricole.bsky.social

www.juancole.com/2025/09/assa... Here’s another thing Israel (or its enablers are doing when I posted this article on FB, it immediately disappeared!!! Tried 2 more times:same result. Deleted history!!!

juancole.comAssassinating Peace: How Bernadotte’s Murder Ended the Israel-Palestine Two-State DreamChicago (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) - The UN General Assembly has just (September 12) endorsed the New York Declaration on the two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. A day earlier...
Dr. John Hickman
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Windshield bias from a Fox affiliate: "female pedestrian was struck by a vehicle." Implicitly attributing agency to vehicles they would never attribute to firearms. www.fox5dc.com/news/pedestr...

fox5dc.comPedestrian hit, killed in early-morning Route 50 crash in Anne ArundelA pedestrian was killed in a tragic early morning crash on Route 50 in Anne Arundel County. Troopers from the Maryland State Police responded to the scene, where a preliminary investigation revealed t...
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Nepal has the attention of activists in 2025 as Bangladesh and Uganda did in 2024. Regimes around the planet have been implementing three urbanisms to protect themselves from protest turned riot since the mid-20th c. #Nepal www.researchgate.net/publication/...

researchgate.netDispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | Request PDFRequest PDF | Dispersal, isolation and surveillance: Regime survival urbanisms in the 21st century | The 21st century is witnessing massive and rapid urbanization, especially across the Global South. ...

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Steve Mouzon
@stevemouzon.bsky.social

Street design in the French Quarter breaks every rule of transportation engineering. This curb radius is about 6', and the gallery columns are about 6" from the street. It's important to study seemingly impossible things & ask "why does this work?" & "are the rules wrong?"

Dr. John Hickman
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Fun to know that a vulgar transhumanism informs the musings of the two biggest dogs of authoritarian Asia. Also unsurprising. #Putin #Xi #globalpolitics www.cbsnews.com/news/xi-puti...

cbsnews.comPutin and China's Xi heard on hot mic discussing life-prolonging organ transplants and immortality"Predictions are, in this century, it may be... possible to live to 150 years old," China's Xi Jinping mused to Vladimir Putin before a historic military parade in Beijing.
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Almost every POTUS wages war. Trump wants a war just big enough to rally public opinion. Problems: 1) keeping the war small; 2) 'Rally Round the Flag Effect' isn't quite what it used to be. #peace #Venezuela #Maduro #Trump www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

reuters.comUS builds up forces in Caribbean as officials, experts, ask whyA large buildup of U.S. naval forces in and around the Southern Caribbean has officials in Caracas and experts in the United States asking: is the move aimed at combating drug cartels, as the Trump administration has suggested, or is it for something else entirely?

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Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦
@mog7546.bsky.social

Senate Probe Uncovers 500 CREDIBLE REPORTS of Widespread Abuse in ICE Custody Led by Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers #MOG8 www.wired.com/story/senate...

wired.comSenate Probe Uncovers Allegations of Widespread Abuse in ICE CustodyLed by US senator Jon Ossoff, the investigation cites hundreds of reports since January, including accounts of miscarriages, child neglect, and sexual abuse at ICE detention centers in dozens of state...

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Jay Hightman
@jay.hightman.org

Handy to have!

Emmet @emmet987.bsky.social

Here's a handy science website to rebut global-warming disinformation. Every global-warming myth has its own page to provide factual information to effectively rebut each false claim. skepticalscience.com/argument.php 🧪

skepticalscience.comArguments from Global Warming Skeptics and what the science really saysExamines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are war...

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American Association of Geographers
@geographers.bsky.social

Call for Abstracts: The inaugural Special Issue of “GeoHumanities” invites new and emerging geographic scholarship situated at the crossroads of Solidarities, #Humanitarianism, and #Scholarship-Activism as regards the political and/or creative entanglements with wider issues of social justice. (1/2)

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David Ho
@davidho.bsky.social

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Alf Norkko@alfnorkko.bsky.social

Check out our new review paper, championed by Lydia White, "A path towards appropriate degradation experiments for assessing carbon sequestration potential of macroalgae". Read it here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @coastclim.bsky.social @tvarminne.bsky.social #mCDR

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comA path towards appropriate degradation experiments for assessing carbon sequestration potential of macroalgaeWe systematically reviewed literature on macroalgal degradation. To date, most degradation experiments are carried out in aquaria or shallow environments, span short timescales or rarely incorporate ....
Dr. John Hickman
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Unlike lawyers, scientists tend to make rather poor liars. Having more scientists in public office would be great for the country, but they begin at a disadvantage. newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/fo...

newjerseyglobe.comFormer USDA climate scientist becomes latest Dem to challenge Kean - New Jersey GlobeMegan O’Rourke, a former national science liaison for climate change at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, became the latest Democrat to announce a bid

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Gil Penalosa
@penalosag.bsky.social

How many people will be killed or severely injured in your city? Up to your elected off., & staff. A person hit by a driver w a car at 30Kph/20mph has under 10% prob. of dying. At 50Kph/30Mph over 80% Enforcing SAFE speed limits is a matter of life or death. NOT a tech or $$ issue; it's POLITICAL.

Dr. John Hickman
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This is climate denial. If there is any practical result it is that research on geoengineering will shift entirely to blue states or internationally. SRM geoengineering is inevitable given the failure of the Paris Agreement/UNFCCC. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

nbcnews.comRepublicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification'“If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”

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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social

Science is the most international endeavor in human history. This flagrantly racist administration is destroying the U.S.'s lucrative and life-saving leadership. www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-... on @thetransmitter.bsky.social

thetransmitter.orgWhat U.S. science stands to lose without international graduate students and postdoctoral researchersNeuroscience in other countries will strengthen—at the United States’ expense—as rising visa restrictions and rejections block many international students from enrolling at U.S.
Dr. John Hickman
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Paris Agreement/UNFCCC climate regime was doomed to fail in solving the crisis because its institutions guaranteed a collective action problem. Yet COPs still have political value. Every COP is the zombie international regime staggering toward another COP. www.columbian.com/news/2025/ju...

columbian.comTo host UN climate talks, Brazil chose one of its poorer cities. That’s no accidentNEW YORK (AP) — When world leaders, diplomats, business leaders, scientists and activists go to Brazil in November for the United Nations' annual climate negotiations, poverty, deforestation and