Douglas Main @dmain.bsky.social

Environmental journalist, writer, artist, naturalist. Bylines: The Guardian, The Atlantic, NYT, Tech Review. Former senior editor/writer at Nat Geo.
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New weirdo plant just dropped.

Merry Christmas!

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/science/fairly-lantern-parasitic-flower-malaysia.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U8.SPki.kR5A2R8nq75_&smid=url-share
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.
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Incredible video of a juvenile jaguar ... eh, just watch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOHAJwAdLks
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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social
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There is no McTry.
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Should we keep carpeting the world in plastic? Check out my deep dive on synthetic turf for @technologyreview.com

www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/09/1135092/astroturf-fake-grass-artificial-heated-debates/
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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it's really so beside the point by now, but i cannot believe people gave this psychotic motherfucker a second chance.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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Tucker Carlson issued a more direct and clear repudiation than 98% of elected Democrats.
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Trump’s threat to extinguish a “whole civilization” meets the “very definition of terrorism — to seek to achieve political ends through violence or threats of violence directed at civilians.”

Jameel Jaffer, human rights lawyer, lecturer, Columbia Univ.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/07/trump-iran-bombing-civilization-war-crime/
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.
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Kelly Askins @kellyaskins.bsky.social
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Yes, it’s a real map.

30 day departure from normal max temperature

www.drought.gov/
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social
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The President is threatening genocide and possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran.

It’s clear the President has continued to decline and is not fit to lead. The members of his Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment immediately.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social
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The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office.

The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.
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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social
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It's so incredibly jarring to have someone threatening to destroy a whole civilization in the language of someone promoting a reality television finale. What the fuck is happening. Get him out of power and put him in the fucking Hague.
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International law - the whole edifice; all of diplomacy; and every comma in the American constitution are failing in this abject and absolute triumph of necropolitics with impunity.

Every last sinew of diplomacy must now be strained. UK airspace must be closed to US military. Immediately.
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Does anybody have a running tally of MOC who have publicly called for the 25th?
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
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It's only impossible up until it becomes possible. www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-trump-needs-to-be-removed?r=bb6o8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov
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Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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Imagine being a moderate Republican and getting outflanked on decency, morality, and basic humanity by these four nutters
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stop what you're doing and read this story now

via @reveleth.com

rarehistoricalphotos.com/ming-the-tiger/
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
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People say Trump has no war strategy, but his strategy is quite clearly a criminal one of destroying Iran's civilian infrastructure (and killing a bunch of people in the process) unless they capitulate. We -- the United States of America -- are a rogue state and global pariah.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com
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This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)
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No we wanted somebody to BUILD bridges, not bomb them
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social
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Well, this is simply infuriating. Someone's got to fight this in court. BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethanjustparks/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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!!!

open.substack.com/pub/morethanjustparks/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Exciting what we can accomplish when we work together
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
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Artemis II lifts off
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Cyclone Narelle hit Australia in four different areas, taking a very unusual path, powered by global heating.

“Narelle’s taken almost the exact opposite path [as usual] moving from east to west,” said a historian who studies cyclones

www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/27/tracing-tropical-cyclone-narelles-very-unusual-path-to-hit-australia-on-three-coastlines
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social
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Manufacturing-related construction spending is down -15.0% from a year ago.
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Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all.

This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.
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Komodo Dad @komododad.bsky.social
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What has happened to our country??
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