ShaziaZRafi
@shaziazrafi.bsky.social
President, AirQualityAsia; former SG, PGA no not the golf association. Mom, Sing through all the darkness
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The Iran war is speeding up the shift away from fossil fuels.
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Unintended consequences of war in Iran are helping the climate
The Iran war is turbocharging global electrification. But experts say the global grid needs to roughly double in size, as infrastructure bottlenecks prevent a clean energy revolution.
www.abc.net.au
October 5, 2026 at 7:25 AM
The Iran war is speeding up the shift away from fossil fuels.
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
That's one reason I'm hopeful about electrification. I told @news.abc.net.au why, in a piece alongside Fatih Birol @iea.org and António Guterres. 🧵
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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A $2.3 Billion Toxic Ammonia Plant Wants to Move In Three-Quarters of a Mile From a Small Town. Would You Let It Near Your Kids? ⁉️
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/ammonia-plant-boom/
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/ammonia-plant-boom/
The New Neighbor No One Wants: A Polluting Ammonia Plant
Developers want to build Pennsylvania’s first polluting ammonia facility in the pristine area of Karthaus Township. This is one of dozens of ammonia facilities currently being proposed across the U.S.
www.momscleanairforce.org
September 28, 2026 at 10:10 PM
A $2.3 Billion Toxic Ammonia Plant Wants to Move In Three-Quarters of a Mile From a Small Town. Would You Let It Near Your Kids? ⁉️
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/ammonia-plant-boom/
https://www.momscleanairforce.org/ammonia-plant-boom/
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Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
September 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
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🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms!
A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
🚨Onder v. Missouri
Learn more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 25, 2026 at 10:11 PM
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms!
A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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Happy Dolly Parton Day! 9.25 (9 to 5)
September 25, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Happy Dolly Parton Day! 9.25 (9 to 5)
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Seen in Virginia
September 24, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Seen in Virginia
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New Post! “My Young Son Developed Asthma as xAI Started Operating”: Moms Talk Data Centers at NYC Climate Week ift.tt/Y1lIF59
“My Young Son Developed Asthma as xAI Started Operating”: Moms Talk Data Centers at NYC Climate Week
Moms' Isabel González Whitaker set the stage for a panel discussion about the environmental impacts of AI data centers at an NYC Climate Week event yesterday at The New School.
ift.tt
September 25, 2026 at 2:08 PM
New Post! “My Young Son Developed Asthma as xAI Started Operating”: Moms Talk Data Centers at NYC Climate Week ift.tt/Y1lIF59
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I investigated Reliance Greens, the corporate enclave where Ambani's scandal-ridden zoo is based, for my book: cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co... The enclave is part of a wider project to use corporate "social responsibility" to promote Hindu nationalism.
@newcastleucu.bsky.social my DMs are open.
@newcastleucu.bsky.social my DMs are open.
September 24, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I investigated Reliance Greens, the corporate enclave where Ambani's scandal-ridden zoo is based, for my book: cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co... The enclave is part of a wider project to use corporate "social responsibility" to promote Hindu nationalism.
@newcastleucu.bsky.social my DMs are open.
@newcastleucu.bsky.social my DMs are open.
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We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
www.motherjones.com
September 24, 2026 at 5:02 PM
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2026 minimum on Sept. 12, tying for the 10th lowest in the satellite record. The long-term decline is clear, even though the trend has flattened since 2007. Scientists are studying why—and what it means. More: www.climate.us/news-feature... #ClimateWeekNYC
Arctic sea ice 2026 summer minimum extent tied for 10th lowest
Arctic sea ice likely reached its annual minimum extent on September 12, 2026. At 4.60 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles), the 2026 minimum extent is statistically tied for tenth lo...
www.climate.us
September 23, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Arctic sea ice likely reached its 2026 minimum on Sept. 12, tying for the 10th lowest in the satellite record. The long-term decline is clear, even though the trend has flattened since 2007. Scientists are studying why—and what it means. More: www.climate.us/news-feature... #ClimateWeekNYC
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Children’s lifetime fire risk is rising: Those born in 2025 in Europe may face up to 84% more extreme fire weather than those born in 1950, with stronger exposure in the Mediterranean.
www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-next-gen...
www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-next-gen...
European children to face twice as much extreme fire weather as grandparents
A VUB study has found that young Europeans will experience years of dangerous fire weather over their lifetime as climate warms
www.innovationnewsnetwork.com
September 23, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Children’s lifetime fire risk is rising: Those born in 2025 in Europe may face up to 84% more extreme fire weather than those born in 1950, with stronger exposure in the Mediterranean.
www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-next-gen...
www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-next-gen...
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social Get Sharbat Unnab made by Hamdard available online in US. South Asian vocalists use it to protect our vocal chords as we sing for hours every day.
September 19, 2026 at 4:57 PM
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social Get Sharbat Unnab made by Hamdard available online in US. South Asian vocalists use it to protect our vocal chords as we sing for hours every day.
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My bedroom looked out on the towers. I am grateful always that @shaziazrafi.bsky.social took my sister and I from school to stay at our dad's, though they were recently divorced and it was awkward, bc she knew then what the city has now admitted: we shouldn't go home. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/n...
The Lethal Dust of 9/11
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
My bedroom looked out on the towers. I am grateful always that @shaziazrafi.bsky.social took my sister and I from school to stay at our dad's, though they were recently divorced and it was awkward, bc she knew then what the city has now admitted: we shouldn't go home. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/n...
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I've posted before about a "local" 9/11, how I experienced it in lower Manhattan as a trauma of lost lives, ill health and environmental destruction and how detached I often feel from its geopolitical meaning because for those first weeks, we really weren't focused on that locally.
September 11, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I've posted before about a "local" 9/11, how I experienced it in lower Manhattan as a trauma of lost lives, ill health and environmental destruction and how detached I often feel from its geopolitical meaning because for those first weeks, we really weren't focused on that locally.
@mayor.nyc.gov you must attend the 9/11 Memorial as Gotham's mayor. The memorial also honors Muslim-Americans who died in service of humanity like Salman Hamdani www.npr.org/2017/09/08/5...
A Mother Remembers Her Son, A Muslim-American First Responder Who Died On Sept. 11
Talat Hamdani's son Salman died after the police cadet rushed to the fallen towers to help. The first responder was later wrongfully identified by police and the press as an accomplice in the attacks.
www.npr.org
September 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
@mayor.nyc.gov you must attend the 9/11 Memorial as Gotham's mayor. The memorial also honors Muslim-Americans who died in service of humanity like Salman Hamdani www.npr.org/2017/09/08/5...
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I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
September 8, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Did a Clean Air Pledge for @AirQualityAsia
with @UChicago EPIC program led by ChristaHasenkopf. Such a challenge to decide the mid point between the world we want and the world we can achieve by 2030
with @UChicago EPIC program led by ChristaHasenkopf. Such a challenge to decide the mid point between the world we want and the world we can achieve by 2030
September 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Did a Clean Air Pledge for @AirQualityAsia
with @UChicago EPIC program led by ChristaHasenkopf. Such a challenge to decide the mid point between the world we want and the world we can achieve by 2030
with @UChicago EPIC program led by ChristaHasenkopf. Such a challenge to decide the mid point between the world we want and the world we can achieve by 2030
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September 7, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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#sustainableliving ideas that actually work in addressing #climatechange
September 7, 2026 at 6:52 PM
#sustainableliving ideas that actually work in addressing #climatechange
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Plug-in solar isn’t going to replace utility-scale solar farms or 10kW rooftop arrays, but it fills the missing bottom layer of the clean energy transition.
Beyond the savings, I like that I’m reducing my contribution to climate change, and that feeling’s invaluable.
Read more: buff.ly/q02YxWj
Beyond the savings, I like that I’m reducing my contribution to climate change, and that feeling’s invaluable.
Read more: buff.ly/q02YxWj
September 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Plug-in solar isn’t going to replace utility-scale solar farms or 10kW rooftop arrays, but it fills the missing bottom layer of the clean energy transition.
Beyond the savings, I like that I’m reducing my contribution to climate change, and that feeling’s invaluable.
Read more: buff.ly/q02YxWj
Beyond the savings, I like that I’m reducing my contribution to climate change, and that feeling’s invaluable.
Read more: buff.ly/q02YxWj
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Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.
September 7, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Data centres should pay ten times the consumer rate for energy. They should subsidise us, and not the other way around.
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For nearly 60 years, Dolly Parton kept up her membership in the Nashville Association of Musicians (AFM Local 257)—a notable commitment in Tennessee, a right-to-work state with one of the nation’s lowest union participation rates.
Here's to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally.
Community-based philanthropy and fighting for the underdog defined the superstar’s legacy.
www.motherjones.com
September 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
For nearly 60 years, Dolly Parton kept up her membership in the Nashville Association of Musicians (AFM Local 257)—a notable commitment in Tennessee, a right-to-work state with one of the nation’s lowest union participation rates.
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With today's filing in the Supreme Court, Elias Law Group is now litigating 90 voting and election cases.
Elias Law Group is currently litigating 89 voting and election cases in 42 states plus the District of Columbia: AL, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI.
September 7, 2026 at 7:56 PM
With today's filing in the Supreme Court, Elias Law Group is now litigating 90 voting and election cases.