Rebekah Jones
@georebekah.bsky.social
Climate and disaster scientist, famed government whistleblower, and former candidate for Congress. Expertise includes climate science, natural disasters, politics, and media.
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On October 14, 2025, to mark George Floyd's birthday and honor his legacy, we will be leading a nation-wide rally against racism.
Plug into your local advocacy groups and work on making plans.
Share your plans.
We do not cede ground to white supremacy.
You would have to apply to the government, pay a $200 fee, provide fingerprints for a background check, & get permission from the government to put a rag into a bottle of high proof rum and light it on fire (Molotov cocktails).
But Billy can sell you his AR-15 off Craigslist with no checks at all.
Rape threats. Death threats. A home invasion. I won’t pretend these are abstract dangers — they’re real, and they’re aimed at people who speak out.
Don’t expect MAGA to condemn this.
My statement on yesterday's break in:
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I'm going to find the right words to talk about this, but not right now
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If you want to pitch in helping me pay for a hotel for a few days, I would appreciate it. No pressure.
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The MIT whistleblower who exposed the fraud in its Epstein- connected Ag lab needs help paying for his lawyer!
He has less than three weeks to retain councel so PLEASE donate and share!
And yes, this is related to that wild story I alluded to last week.
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I ask you to join me in rallying against racism and white supremacy on Oct. 14. That day should be spent honoring George Floyd’s legacy, not sanctifying a man whose career was built on amplifying white nationalist talking points.
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Thank you!!
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If you have friends/family joining the state-ordered mourning of that podcaster killed in Utah, be careful
They see the racism, sexism, & bigotry he espoused & think it's "moderate" because they share those ideals & don't want to admit that they're extremists
But they are. Every one of them.
My great grandfather was Antifa.
He fought fascists, too.
I'm proud to come from a family of Antifa warriors.
Conceding to fascists didn't spare anyone in Nazi Germany, and it's not going to save anyone here and now.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!
As Cheif of PR for ANTIFA™️, it's my pleasure to announce that we'll be holding a national march against racism on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025.
We ask that signs either:
1. Decry racism
2. Directly quote (with attribution) the racism we're seeing by MAGA podcasters and online
We were told you absolutely should not print out these posters and cover it in glitter.
Details to be announced tomorrow at emergency Antifa meeting, 11 am Mountain Time.
Antifa annual dues are $1 and can be paid at:
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Secret decoder rings will be sent via carrier pigeon once we figure out how to keep them from attacking the children.
Emergency Antifa meeting this Saturday.
Be at HQ at 11 am.
Emergency Antifa meeting this Saturday.
Be at HQ at 11 am.
100 million impressions in a week across my platforms.
That's got to be a personal record for me, and I've had some pretty viral stuff in the last five years.
If you're afraid of retaliation for speaking out, DM me. My platform is a megaphone for all of the righteous and suppressed voices.
Looks like I'll need to cancel my membership to Antifa, since Trump has declared it an illegal "domestic terrorist organization."
Oh wait. Almost forgot there is no mechanism for declaring an America organization as an illegal terrorist group.
Imagine firing qualified educators because they hated a white supremacist .
Fucking unreal.
Give federal civil service workers access to jury trials for violations of worker rights
That's Tom Devine's message as we lobby our senators on the hill with the Government Accountability Project.
I'm joining him to meet with our senators today about employee free speech and whistleblower rights
A special thanks to all of the fearless badasses who have had my back this past week.
The UN has concluded its investigation and determined that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians.
It took nearly two years for them to confirm what we've been watching live-streamed from Gaza.
In that time, experts estimate up to 600,000 innocent people have been slaughtered.
One side posted that they don't like white supremacists or Christian nationalists.
The other side is threatening to kill people because they said they don't like white supremacists and Christian nationalists.
Stop pretending domestic terrorists and the people they terrorize are the same.
A lot of news over the last week has been buried as the far-right continues to flood the airwaves, inciting terror online and across the news following the murder of a Christian nationalist podcaster in Utah.
Here are some of the key highlights:
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Insanity is having a global calendar that doesn't match natural planetary rhythms.
The Lakota calendar had 13 months of 28 days each plus one "out of time" day.
It matched the lunar cycle.
We could at least line up our calendars with the seasons but noooooo... that would make too much sense.
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Firing employees to appease violent mobs isn’t justice—it’s capitulation. This is McCarthyism 2.0. By caving to terror and harassment, you embolden the mob to strike again. Reinstate your staff. Apologize. Stand up for free speech.
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Hey
Firing employees to appease violent mobs isn’t justice—it’s capitulation. This is McCarthyism 2.0. By caving to terror and harassment, you embolden the mob to strike again. Reinstate your staff. Apologize. Stand up for free speech.
If Tyler Robinson had shot up an elementary school classroom, a movie theater or a daycare, MAGA wouldn't even acknowledge it.
Think about that.
To all employers considering retaliation or punishing staff in response to online harassment and threats by far-right extremists:
You should be ashamed for even considering placating troll farms and targeted harassment campaigns by domestic terrorists and foreign operatives.
Need to invoice the psychos who put me on their hitlist for expenses incurred as a result of their terrorist threats and incitement.
Seeing as this has NOT calmed down yet, the DAILY costs accruing, going on day 3:
Personal security: 500 per guard per day (4 rotating shifts per day)
Cont...
Hotel and travel cost, missed work, emotional stress for both my kids and husband, our parents, siblings and friends...
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luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
I'm donating the extra money I've made since Wednesday on X/Tiktok/Insta/Etc. to Human Rights Campaign to support queer and trans youth harmed by men like Charlie Kirk.
I'm making way more than usual from all the online harassment by violent MAGA thugs. Should go to a good cause.
A young white Christian male who was raised by Republicans and taught to use guns from a young age shot Charlie Kirk.
Not long after, a young white Christian male radicalized online by white male Christians like Charlie Kirk shot up his high school in the state next door.
#ThisIsAmerica
The guy who they believe killed Charlie Kirk is a 22 year old white Christian guy from Utah named Tyler Robinson. Reports say he's Mormon.
Will MAGA demand we round up all young white men? Will we have to make Mormonism illegal? Will the Christians be sent to camps?
Even when the truly violent and ugly side of Republicans shows up, as it always seems to do, YOU GUYS are always there to push back!!
I can't say thank you enough for all the messages and support! Thank you for all the donations!! Truly grateful!
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MAGA just published a hit list of people they're calling "Charlie's Murderers."
It's a list of about a dozen people who MAGA does not believe properly eulogized a white supremacist nationalist online.
I'm on the list.
Could use your support.
The right-wing media ecosphere has declared war on America following the murder of white supremacist and Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk.
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Y'all... one of the incel nazis on here tried to dox me by posting... the wrong phone number.
Sorry to whomever that number belongs to. 😬
Charlie Kirk weaponized culture wars to indoctrinate young people into far-right politics, promoting harmful and even deadly conspiracy theories, endangering marginalized communities, and undermining democracy, all whilst profiting off the chaos.
Save your sympathies for the innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of MAGA's violent political messaging machine.
Calling all geographers, geoscientists and earth enthusiasts!
The AAG has a list of webinars, toolkits, and guides for elevating the field, communicating science, and advocating for a geographically-literate world.
You can check it out here:
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Visiting Georgetown University tonight to catch Mehdi's screening of "Gaza: Doctors under attack."
Mehdi has done more to report on the truth of the genocide, and bring that truth to Americans than anyone else I can think of in the mainstream media.
You can support him by subscribing to Zeteo.com
If you haven't been paying attention:
Police harass, arrest & abuse nnocent people every day.
In fact, police killings are increasing at an average of 3 people a day in 2024.
ICE harasses, assaults, arrests & deports innocent people, even those w/visas, legal residents & US citizens, every day.
Murders by police each year:
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ICE detainees data:
detentionreports.com
Finally got that coveted TikTok verification.
One of the few places where verification still means something.
Yay me!
Betrayal isn’t unity. Silence isn’t solidarity. Complicity isn’t democracy. We deserve leaders who stand with the people, not against them.
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When the people being oppressed rise up against their oppressors, when they fight back against those trying to erase them, bring the violence to their occupiers, I do not celebrate but neither do I mourn the causalities.
من النهر إلى البحر
The Wired article did for liberal creators what the genocide did for the democratic party:
Exposed frauds
Revealed rifts
Showed the darkness within "our side"
Telling women to "just delete your accounts" when they're being stalked, harassed and threatened online is the equivalent of telling women "don't walk home alone at night if you don't want to be raped."
Do your job and enforce the fucking law.
Random fact to terrify you today:
The 1958 Lituya Bay (Alaska) earthquake triggered a rockslide that created a nearly 1,800 foot (524 meters) wave -- the largest wave recorded anywhere on the planet ever.
A wave as high as NYC's former World Trade Center.
This is why the world hates us.
Hell, this is why WE hate us.
People go online and see the most disgusting, racist, hate-filled shit they've ever seen, and because Xitter has no community standards, this is what most of the site is like now.
I thought it was sarcasm at first.
It was not.
My reporting yesterday:
Florida legislators tell me in exclusive interviews that Trump admin doesn't support removing vaccine mandates.
News today:
Trump admin doesn't support Florida's push to remove vaccine mandates.
Know first by subscribing today.
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The map of vaccine exemptions does not fit neatly into the well-worn patterns of poverty, politics, or culture that so often define America’s divides.
Instead, it reveals something deeper.
Read for FREE:
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I don't know why birthday cakes are trending with SNAP, but every child deserves a birthday cake no matter their parents' income status and if you don't agree you're a monster.
I'm struggling to decide what to wear to this fancy dinner party in DC two weeks from now because I don't know if it will 90 degrees F or 60 degrees F and I need reserve my rental dress ahead of time....
EXCLUSIVE:
Florida Republicans are NOT on board with the DeSantis-Ladapo plan to remove childhood vaccine mandates, they told me today. The state legislature would have to repeal current law to remove mandates for diseases like polio and measles.
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The only celebrity relationship I'm interested in is the one they have with humanity.
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Israeli’s language straight out the Jim Crow playbook
Part of me is annoyed at myself for letting this Israeli racist colonel get under my skin.
Part of me thinks we should in fact normalize telling genocidal war criminals to "fuck off" on television.
Full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A0c...
I interviewed a few legal and medical experts about Florida's newEST anti-vaccine position, and there's good news & bad news:
Good news: removing vaccine mandates would require the legislature to change the law, which means you can help stop it.
Bad news: the same thing is happening in WV, ID, TX
They got away with it during COVID.
Don't let them get away with it for polio, measles, and everything else.
We cannot discount the impact Florida's anti-health agenda will have on our country.
We learned that during COVID.
I sacrificed everything trying to stop this. Please don't throw that away.
Call your representatives and tell them to reverse course.
Please.
Lives are on the line.
There's no reward for being right when your warnings were not heard.
I'm sorry, Florida.
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There's no reward for being right when your warnings were not heard.
I'm sorry, Florida.
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If trickle-down economics concentrates wealth at the top while leaving millions behind, trickle-down democracy concentrates power in the same way.
Decisions are made at the top, access hoarded by the wealthy and well-connected, and ordinary pe...
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A few things:
The congressional committee released Epstein files that were more or less already public. Also, why hasn't anyone else been arrested in connection to this?
The United States murdered 10-11 people on a small speedboat and made a spectacle about it like it was good.
I'm one of those big influencers who you don't have to pay $5 to say FREE PALESTINE.
You also couldn't pay me NOT to say it
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In a world where information moves faster than truth, transparency is no longer optional — it’s the foundation of credibility. Read my latest post on why the Chorus trouble undermines left-leaning creators.
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UPDATE (AGAIN!) Shooter has been arrested and charged with murder!
www.khou.com/article/news...
The man seen being detained was described as a middle-aged white man with a "stockpile of weapons" in his home.
Continued...
If you shoot a child in the back, you're a cold-blooded murderer and deserve life in prison and eternal damnation.
11 years old.
And the murderer STILL hasn't been arrested.
While police have not released the shooter's name, property records show that the home was purchased with a VA loan in the last five years, but was not owner-occupied, and that the current resident is Amanda Nicole Leon.
UPDATE ON THE DING-DONG DITCH CHILD MURDER:
According to video and eye witness accounts, the shooter was a middle-aged white man.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfAS...
Still no confirmation on the identity of the child he murdered. But I can already see where this is going....
If you shoot a child in the back, you're a cold-blooded murderer and deserve life in prison and eternal damnation.
11 years old.
And the murderer STILL hasn't been arrested.
You want to know what's amazing?
If I say "J.G. Wentworth," you will not be able to stop yourself from singing the rest.
You could be on your deathbed, and if someone whispers "It's MY money and I want it NOW," your feeble body will not be able to resist the urge to say "877-CASH-NOW!"
If you shoot a child in the back, you're a cold-blooded murderer and deserve life in prison and eternal damnation.
11 years old.
And the murderer STILL hasn't been arrested.
How I approach trolls who leave me cryptic and weird messages:
In celebration of Labor Day, I'm reading The Communist Manifesto.
Enjoy.
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Trust takes time, requires consistency & proof, & necessitates transparency
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Most of the labor rights that define America today- rights that under constant attack - are owed to Fanny Perkins, the first female cabinet member in US history and the architect behind the New Deal.
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If you care about climate change, adhere to an ethical code, and agree to financial transparency, we want YOU for our new social media collab!
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and others join more than 200 newsrooms to protest against the targeting of journalists in Gaza.
Palestinian journalists must be protected and foreign press must be granted immediate, unrestricted access to Gaza.
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson just drew a line in the sand...refusing to let Trump’s troops or ICE turn his city into a staging ground. That’s not politics...that’s spine. Fire...fight...and the kind of defiance America needs right now.🔥
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"As the nation heads into the most intense months of the Atlantic hurricane season, employees worry that the agency is not prepared to face another catastrophe." New from www.wired.com/story/fema-f...
Serious question, if a democratic candidate for 2028 was absolutely adamant about banning abortion nationwide in all instances and sending those who seek them out to life in prison, would you still vote for them?
Say you agree more or less with the rest of their policies.
You can like Gavin Newsome getting under Trump's skin without supporting him for a 2028 presidential run.
Just because he's spicy online doesn't make him a good leader.
Learn to like what someone is doing without needing to rush to put them in charge of a whole fucking country.
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Hurricane Katrina began it's landfall in south Mississippi exactly twenty years ago.
If you've forgotten, never paid attention, or weren't born yet, I hope this piece helps you understand the perspective of people who were forever changed.
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See how easy that is?
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Blaming Netanyahu for the genocide is like blaming Trump for the shitshow in America. They both have the support of the people who are supposed to limit them, like the media/courts/congress/etc. They represent the evil being done, but they alone are not the architects - the american people are.
It's a cop out that democrats will use to avoid accountability for supporting a white, European colony built with our money on the bones of the people who live there. A colony actively committing war crimes almost daily. A genocide of children by a white supremacist entity that should not exist.
Tomorrow, Aug. 29, I'll be memorializing the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
You can find my work at:
12:10pm-my article comes out on substack
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1:00pm-I join Jesse Damiani LIVE on substack to discuss Katrina's legacy
Link: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
For those of us who were there on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina reaches the deepest part of our souls — more than just the professional or academic perspectives flooding the media this week.
Many of us are still there—trapped in the wind & rain that battered our stretch of the Gulf of Mexico
I don’t feel old enough to be looking back 20 years on something that still very much defines who I am. I’ve struggled talking about that day in the past.
Everyone who was there lost something. And most of us never got it back.
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What else can they do to me that they haven't already done or tried?
The Germans never rose up to stop their fascist regime. It took a global war and tens of millions of deaths to stop it.
Let's not make their mistakes.
Also, stop clinging to this idea that a real revolution can happen without violence. It cannot. It will not. Behave accordingly.
Someone royally screwed up my substack subscriber list, and it's jumping up and down like crazy.
If you follow me here, make sure you're subscribed there.
The vast majority of what I publish is free. Being a paid substiber ($5 month / $50 per year) helps me keep it that way.
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I will not be part of any political organization which not only refuses to acknowledge genocide, but actively promotes it & rejects the efforts of its own members calling for an arms embargo against the perpetrators.
Today, I officially leave the democratic party.
The democrats will not save you from Trump's fascism. They still never stop Israel.
We need a better way.
The sandwich man... beat the wrap.
I'll be here all week.
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Trump is a poor man's idea of a rich man.
Elon is dumb man's idea of a smart man.
Hegseth is a cowards idea of a brave man.
RFKJr is a brain worm's idea of a healthy man.
And right now, the USA is an evil man's idea of a just country.
D.C. is the Test, America is the Target
Read my latest piece, which I co-wrote with , about the historical context of DC’s military takeover and what you can do to prepare your city.
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“Elon Musk's xAl is constructing one of the world's largest Al supercenters in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. This mirrors a long history of environmental racism where polluting industries and hazardous developments are placed in communities with the least
political and financial power.” 🧵
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Trump fascism is loud, pungent, and in-your-face.
But he doesn't control the two-thirds of Congress needed to amend the constitution.
However, there's a Republican trifecta in 23 states and 12 states with at least part/majority GOP control.
They need 34 to amend the constitution via convention.
My dad was 10 years old when he was elected.
If we have age minimums, we need age maximums.
Cannot be over 65 on election day.
The feedback I've gotten on my article about the 20th anniversary of Katrina has been incredible. More specifically, hearing from other people who were there warms my heart.
If you were there, send me your story. I'd love to share it in the lead up to Friday..
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We knew — we knew — that hotter seas meant stronger hurricanes, that warmer air meant wetter storms, that rising seas meant higher surges. We had the science. We had the evidence. And still we chose to accelerate, to subsidize fossil fuels, to silence the truth.
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We knew — we knew — that hotter seas meant stronger hurricanes, that warmer air meant wetter storms, that rising seas meant higher surges. We had the science. We had the evidence. And still we chose to accelerate, to subsidize fossil fuels, to silence the truth.
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You're going to see a lot of content & commentary this week of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which will be August 29.
I ask that you make an effort to hear the voices of the people who were there, of the people who have helped rebuild communities, and of the people still suffering.
I was 16 years old when Katrina hit, destroyed almost everything I knew growing up, and changed my entire world view.
Everything that has happened in my life in the past 20 years has been a result of that storm.
I can say that for most of the people I know from that area.
Try to amplify those voices, not the mass marketed docuseries and political commentators who have no idea what those days were like for those of us who were there.
Leave it to the Trump admin to paint THE WRONG SIDE OF THE WALL.
The owner of cavediving.com claims they were hacked, denies responsibility, removed the contact page from his website, locked every social media account except Facebook, AND refuses to apologize.
Get em, internet.
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I published an article earlier today about some of the most critical crises in the world. I received several comments asking me why I talked so much about crises overseas when American itself is unraveling.
Here is my response (read for FREE)
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Gaza, Congo and Sudan: Viewing global conflict through the lens of climate change
Also, Hurricane Erin to scrape East Coast as Category 4 hurricane; other news from around the world
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The guy used his WORK EMAIL to send this to me.
He works for a place that trains people how to cave dive.
Can you imagine being trapped in a cave with this psycho?
Do your female clients know you hire trash like this, CaveDiving.com?
Just a regular Tuesday morning when you're checking your email as a woman in this country..
The "starving children with medical conditions is ok" crowd should be reminded that Anne Frank, and her sister, died of Typhus.