File under: The Laws of Thermodynamics are a B**** grist.org/oceans/hey-s...

On New Years Eve 2015-16, some friends and family created a time capsule. Ten years later, it’s time to dig it up and … we can’t find it. Have you seen the movie Holes? Feels like that.

Thanks to the good folks @earthislandjournal.bsky.social for featuring my opinion essay about Bill Gates's climate memo in their weekly newsletter! www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

This thread from a former SC staffer reads right to me.

My thoughts exactly!

“The Billionaires Won’t Save Us from the Climate Crisis" | Nice article by @jasondovemark.bsky.social for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

Perfectly captures Trump’s empathy for his fellow man.

60 years ago. Saw our future. Worth a read.

It is of course an impossible to prove counterfactual ... but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that if Mamdani had lost, this headline would be: Why Mamdani's Loss Is More Important Than You Think www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

My latest, via @earthislandjournal.bsky.social: On one point, Bill Gates and I agree. Gates writes “There is no CEO who sets the world’s climate priorities or strategies, which is exactly as it should be." Let’s take him at his word on that. www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

In which I clap back to Bill Gates: "[The Memo] is less tough talk than warmed over effective altruism — the school of utilitarian ethics that is all the rage with tech bros. Nerdy readers will detect a rehash of William Nordhaus..." www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...

I had the same thought. It's like, *why* does the Oval Office need a sign? Is POTUS getting lost on his way to work?

Um, who’s gonna tell him?

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

If I were still making editorial decisions I would 100% be assigning someone to do an explainer story: “Who was Eugene Debs?”

Enjoyed with some fava beans and a nice chianti, I imagine ... www.cbsnews.com/news/videos-...

Love This: In Louisiana, air pollution monitoring becomes an act of resistance lailluminator.com/2025/11/02/c...

Got an assignment on Friday to cover the Bill Gates memo on #climate. Banged it out this Monday morning and--yikes!--it's 2,200 words. Makes me think of the old quip, "I would've made this letter shorter if only I had had the time."

There's one tax credit Republicans didn't kill, and you can use it to update your home's heating & cooling system.

This is incredible, even for Exxon. Exxon found to have funded right-wing think tanks to spread #climate change denial across Latin America in a "coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support the UN-led climate treaty process." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At the start of the Big Dark, made a fire as a small act of resistance

As night follows day…

Bad for News www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

There’s a storm brewing in the hunter and angler ryandbusse.substack.com/p/maga-is-a-...

Garlic planted today. Cover crop nicely established. Garden pretty much tucked in for the year.

"By mid-October, a few dozen salmon had swum roughly 30 miles through Upper Klamath Lake and reached tributaries of the Klamath ... One year after the last of the dams came down, salmon are spreading throughout the uppermost reaches of the river." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

This is my Love Language

Shades of Covfefe

SHOT: EV sales are on track to face-plant to slightly less than 6 percent of new car sales in October. CHASER: China’s exports of electric vehicles doubled in September from a year earlier as its automakers expanded their reach into overseas markets. apnews.com/article/chin...

[taps mic] This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the correct pronouns for a corporation are IT and ITS

Presumably the White House is looking for some architects whose aesthetic is an echo of Albert Speer? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Only a fool—or a billionaire—would think they could insulate themselves from climate change

Hey @billgates.bsky.social: Thought you might want to read our new study:

To quote my friend @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, climate change won't make humanity extinct but we can do better than "not extinct". Raise your standards people!

Yes, the Internet is increasingly a cesspool of AI Slime, and yet ... if you surf deeply enough, you may find yourself learning about the 2025 winner of the "Farrier Beard of the Year Award" www.americanfarriers.com/articles/146...

David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic about the various ways Trump could rig the midterms. He notes that modern autocrats don’t cancel elections. They hold unfair elections to fool people into thinking they’re not living in a dictatorship. It’s called “competitive authoritarianism.” (Gift link)

Modest Proposal: A class of citizens in the district of elected US Representative Adelita Grijalva should file a lawsuit against Mike Johnson, making the claim that their constitutional rights are being violated by not having a member of Congress. (any lawyers out there want to stress test this?)

These migrating monarchs come from west of the Rockies. Tagging them to track their journey is prohibited, but a few years ago, an 11-year-old in Bend, Oregon raised and tagged one they named Flamingo… It later showed up in an overwintering grove in Santa Cruz, 550 miles away!

What I Learned from My Experience with ChatGPT OR Why I Believe AI Is a Speculative Bubble ... a short 🧵

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

Late October, and we’re still eating almost entirely out of the garden when it comes to fruit and vegetables.

Ross Douthat, Architecture critic for The Onion

I did have an "abundance" joke ready to go when Trump demolished part of the White House, but Ross Douthat is doing it for real.

In spite of the headline, there is the pesky legal matter that neither billionaires or anybody else can “give” money to “pay troops” or anything else. However, a great compromise would be for billionaires to pay more money into the general treasury through “taxes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

BAM! In a nutshell: "Because what I’ve realized — what drove me to start this newsletter — is that the climate crisis is in large part a cultural problem." from @sammyroth.bsky.social's new Substack, Climate Colored Goggles www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/why-writin...

As the federal government remains shut down, the state of Colorado will contribute money to keep two visitor centers open at Rocky Mountain National Park. Meanwhile, visitor centers at Mesa Verde, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, and Great Sand Dunes — remain closed.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

This is so unnecessary

"Authoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive. ...By silencing artists and historians, a regime seeks to control not just the present, but the past and the future as well" time.com/7327987/trum...

“Authoritarians always target art first. They do so, because art and history are enemies of the myths a regime needs to survive." From my new TIME piece on Donald Trump’s campaign to defund the arts and rewrite our history. The stakes could not be higher.