The Most Interesting Part of Trump’s Prayer Rally Was the Crowd, not the Speakers Onstage This anti-democratic movement of the Christian right says America was founded as a Christian nation which historians say is a misunderstanding of the American Revolution. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

From On the Brink The Top Ten Coal-Burning States Texas leads the list of carbon dioxide polluters from burning coal by a wide margin. open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

America Has Never Been a City on a Hill Jason Stanley, U of Toronto, says "American democracy has always been a sham; in particular, the American southern states have never really been democratic." open.substack.com/pub/jasonsta... #authoritarianism #autocracy

From On the Brink The Ten Worst Carbon Dioxide Polluting 2026 Cars and Pickup Trucks Despite worsening climate change the automotive industry is still producing gas guzzlers for Americans to buy. open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

National Mall Madness Steve Schmidt says "What happened on the National Mall yesterday — called “rededication of our country as One Nation under God” — was a constitutional abomination wrapped in layers of blasphemy and demagoguery...profoundly un-American." open.substack.com/pub/stevesch...

A Very Authoritarian Semiquincentennial Celebration How the White House’s Freedom 250 program is desecrating our remembrance of the nation’s founding. We are being asked to settle for a festival of corruption, lies, bigotry, and divisiveness. newrepublic.com/article/2103... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Administration Pushes False Narrative of Christian Founding at Rally An historian says "the idea that the founders saw America as an explicitly Christian nation is “nonsensical” and “dead wrong,” “...a falsification of the meaning of the American Revolution.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/u...

From On the Brink Two New Research Studies Deliver Bad News about the Fate of a Critical Atlantic Current Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current would be catastrophic and could occur earlier than has been believed. open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

How a ‘Model’ for Climate Migration Became a Cautionary Tale The residents of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana found safety after moving to higher ground. But the experience left some of them warning others facing relocation: ‘Don’t do it.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/c... #ClimateChange

From On the Brink Scientists, Conservationists, and Indigenous People Say Meeting Climate Targets Requires a “Nature Positive” Approach to Climate Change Climate progress requires efforts to increase biodiversity, protect ecosystems, and reverse ecological damage open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming, is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes. Heat alone already kills more than 500,000 annually. insideclimatenews.org/news/1205202...

How climate change could help hantavirus find more hosts Experts say extreme weather is boosting the odds that the pathogens carried by rodents will spill over into human populations. grist.org/health/how-c... #hantavirus #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

Climate change is driving a tick boom. MAHA is blaming Bill Gates. The conspiracists are right about one thing, that ticks are getting worse. grist.org/health/as-ti... #ticks #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

The Hantavirus Is Also a Climate Warning Rising global temperatures and the impacts they trigger—harsher heat waves, stronger storms, and wider spread of infectious diseases—endanger human health in myriad ways. newrepublic.com/article/2104... via @newrepublic.com #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

From On the Brink Does Global Warming Need to be Limited to Only 1°C above Preindustrial Levels? Scientists call for lower temperature target than 1.5°C or 2°C. open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

Here’s How Democrats Should Talk About Climate Change Democrats—who mostly aren’t talking about climate change—are continuing to debate whether they should talk about climate change. newrepublic.com/article/2103... via @newrepublic.com #ClimateChange

How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Power The movement has set its sights on the biggest environmental issue of all—climate change—but it has done so as if the planet’s climate is unrelated to its wild places. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... #environmentalism

MAGA Is Winning Its War Against American Elections In many ways, MAGA has already won its war against American elections. Confidence that a person’s state or local government will run a free and fair election is slipping. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

As the World Heats Up More Shade Is Needed A book on shade emphasizes the importance of shade as the global average temperature increases. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

Foreign countries, including Russia, have nothing to do with the rise of Trumpism Jason Stanley, from the University of Toronto, says in the present moment, we are witnessing the victory of the Confederacy. open.substack.com/pub/jasonsta...

The solution to urban heat is much, much simpler than you think. Trees. Tree cover can cancel half of the heat island effect. grist.org/cities/the-s...

The White House Is Hosting a Massive Christian Nationalist Festival The foundations of the U.S. weren't built on Christian values as Christian Nationalists contend but largely on values from the Enlightenment. newrepublic.com/post/210378/... via @newrepublic.com

From On the Brink The Top Ten Coal-Burning States Texas leads the list of carbon dioxide polluters from burning coal by a wide margin. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

From On the Brink The Ten Worst Carbon Dioxide Polluting 2026 Cars and Pickup Trucks The automotive industry is still producing gas guzzlers for Americans to buy. Some vehicles barely get over 10 mpg combined city and highway driving. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

On one April day, all of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities were in just one country Every single one of the planet’s top 50 hottest cities was in India. www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/c...

The Hole in the Ice at the End of the Earth Sometime in the coming decades, Thwaites Glacier could give out entirely, causing so much ice to heave into the ocean over several centuries that it might raise global sea levels by more than 15 feet. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/c...

From On the Brink Two New Research Studies Deliver Bad News about the Fate of a Critical Atlantic Current Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current would be catastrophic and could occur earlier than has been believed. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

‘Point of no return’: New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century, authors say. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

From On the Brink Scientific Article Written by Scientists, Conservationists, and Indigenous People Says Meeting Climate Targets Requires a “Nature Positive” Approach to Climate Change open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

The New York Times determined the real damage to U.S. military bases in the Middle East It appears the U.S. government has tried to conceal the extent of damage to its military bases, damage which runs into the billions of dollars. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

From On the Brink The ‘Greenlandification’ of Antarctica Antarctica’s outlet glaciers are retreating and surface melt seasons have lengthened which is contrary to what scientists predicted for this polar region which was stability. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

From On the Brink Potentially Dangerous New Global Warming Positive Feedback Mechanism May Be Developing in the Arctic Carbon-rich peatlands are spreading north as the Arctic warms about four times as fast as the rest of the planet. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

The Church Is the State Now The Trump regime’s use of overtly religious imagery sends a chilling message. Trump’s Jesus photo was just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the questionable usage of overt religious words and imagery through the government. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The Great Antifa Hoax Antifa is only a threat to neo-Nazis, but that’s all the excuse the Trump administration needs to turn the machinery of federal law enforcement loose on anyone with “dangerous” ideas. An article by Eric Alterman. newrepublic.com/article/2088... via @newrepublic.com

The World Is About to Get a Preview of Life in 2035 A climate monster is growing right now in the Pacific Ocean, perhaps the most fearsome El Niño since before scientists even began modeling them. Could be the most intense since the epochal El Niño of 1877. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

From On the Brink The Dirty Dozen States in Annual CO2 Emissions per capita All twelve dirty dozen states voted for Trump in 2024. Eleven of the 12 states with the lowest annual per capita emissions voted for Harris. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

Judicial Supremacy Has Arrived Last week’s Supreme Court decision didn’t just undermine the Voting Rights Act. It foreclosed the possibility of any new Voting Rights Act in the future, too. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A New Climate Democracy Is Taking On the Petrostates Nearly 60 countries gathered in Santa Marta, Colombia to chart a path away from fossil fuels—even as oil shocks tighten their grip on the global economy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From On the Brink The Ten Worst Carbon Dioxide Polluting 2026 Cars and Pickup Trucks Despite worsening climate change the automotive industry is still producing gas guzzlers for Americans to buy. open.substack.com/pub/robertli...

The Mirage in the Mojave The architects of Trump's deportation machine tried to hide their mega-prisons in the desert. The Save America Movement set out to expose them. open.substack.com/pub/saveamer...

Algorithms turn nuanced articles into rage bait that helps fuel political violence. Michael Scherer, a staff writer at The Atlantic, describes what can happen when his articles wind up generating comments of social media. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

For Ibram X. Kendi, It’s Nazis All the Way Down Gale Beckerman, a staff writer for The Atlantic, says Kendi correctly calls the “Great Replacement” theory...“the most dominant political theory of our time.” www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0... #GreatReplacementTheory #neo-Nazism #fascism

From On the Brink Two New Research Studies Deliver Bad News about the Fate of a Critical Atlantic Current Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current would be catastrophic and could occur earlier than has been believed. open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

A Strong El Niño May Be Coming. Global Warming Is Changing Its Effects As the planet warms, past episodes of the natural weather phenomenon may no longer be a reliable guide of how the next one plays out. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/c... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

From On the Brink Scientific Article Written by Scientists, Conservationists, and Indigenous People Says Meeting Climate Targets Requires a “Nature Positive” Approach to Climate Change open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

From On the Brink Climate Change Is Increasing the Breakdown Rate of the Greenhouse Gas Nitrous Oxide in the Atmosphere Acceleration of the breakdown rate of nitrous oxide increases uncertainties in projections of global warming open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

From On the Brink Scientists Obtain Longest Sediment Core Ever Obtained by Far from Below West Antarctica Ice The sediment core should reveal what happened to West Antarctica ice during periods of global warming millions of years ago. open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #ClimateChange

From On the Brink UN’s Climate Report for 2025 Reflects Failure of Efforts So Far to Reduce Emissions Globally For the first time energy imbalance has been included in the report. open.substack.com/pub/robertli... #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

The Supreme Court’s Racist Rerun Nadine Smith, president and CEO of Color of Change says if you read history, not the sanitized version that describes enslaved Africans as “workers,” this should sound familiar. open.substack.com/pub/contrari... #racism #WhiteSupremacy #SupremeCourt

Elections as Tools of Autocracy and White Supremacy Ruth Ben-Ghiat says elections are often the last democratic institution standing in countries where the judiciary, bureaucracy, and security forces have been captured and made tools of the executive. open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/... #autocracy