"Four of the five known emperor penguin breeding sites in the Bellingshausen Sea collapsed in 2022, with the loss of thousands of chicks." God, this is so grim. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

"Perhaps the problem is that you don't like how humans perceive you." Oh boy. I'm so glad I didn't have this line from @marisakabas.bsky.social in my head yet during some recent convos. The temptation to haul it out and drop it like a live snake into a tea party would have been *huge.*

"U.S. Customs& Border Protection have awarded a contract to build 34 miles of border wall through the Rio Grande Valley, including the National Butterfly Center, and other areas that previously had been exempted by Congress..." www.valleycentral.com/border-repor...

"Ohio has seen a 58% rise in the firearm death rate, which was 2.6 per 100,000 children between 2015 and 2019, then rose to 4.1 per 100,000 children between 2020 and 2024."

also, the idea phase is the most fun part of the work and the most rewarding. Why would you give up the greatest reward of the work? "Hell yeah, here's the machine that gets massages for me and eats ice cream for me and watches the sunrise for me, and in exchange it destroys the earth"

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Today's Politico poll (www.politico.com/news/2026/03...) confirms what Jane Black outlined in a prescient piece for @newrepublic.com & @thefern.org last month: MAHA votes are up for grabs in 2026. Dems could peel away a vital segment of the Trump coalition. newrepublic.com/article/2065...

I've seen it argued that personal how-to guides distract from the need for policy reform. BUT this particular one is so overwhelming it's practically a political rallying cry. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

The earnings gap between men and women slightly widened last year, according to a new analysis published Thursday showing women last year earned 18.6% less than men per hour on average ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/23/r...

I wrote about James Talarico's blasphemy against meat and barbeque revival on the Texas campaign trail. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

NEWS: The rumors are true, @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports 👇 The National Park Service is removing a popular section of the 15th Street NW protected bike lane, saying that it will cause more traffic during cherry blossom season.

Call me naive, but I genuinely didn't expect the Epstein cameo in this one.

The timeline of MAGA pro-solar statements is pretty weird. So I took a look at state-by-state solar development numbers. newrepublic.com/post/207978/...

NEW: To dramatically increase the amount of energy available to power artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is rewriting thousands of pages of nuclear power regulations while downplaying safety issues and focusing on industry incentives.

Paging all toddlers-at-heart... this thread is wild.

Big Oil is no longer trying to convince us they want to preserve a safe & stable climate Now, they're focused on convincing us that the world is only safe & stable if they're in charge That's the thesis of a new @cleancreatives.bsky.social report analyzing 2000 oil ads, exclusively in HEATED today

"There’s no crisis in the world that causes me as much existential anguish as this one, and yet I barely ever speak about it, post about it, write about it." @aaronregunberg.bsky.social writes about the experience of watching Hoppers with his animal-loving kid newrepublic.com/article/2078...

“At four schools studied, the program decreased overall vehicle use for drop-offs and pick-ups by 35 per cent, vehicle emissions by 31 per cent and related ambient air pollution in school boundaries by 93 per cent." - @utoronto.ca h/t @greencommunities.bsky.social www.utoronto.ca/news/do-scho...

In trying to educate myself about how the advent of these products change my professional life, I've been 'shadowing' my work, particularly using Gemini and Claude, and it has been..........instructive. newrepublic.com/article/2076...

"Unlike OpenAI, which wields sycophancy to the extent of inducing deadly parasocial relationships, Claude seems to use the tone of a shameful, coy intern, unnervingly well-calibrated for the ego of Gen X and millennial professionals." 🎯 from @ketanjoshi.co newrepublic.com/article/2076...

"These workers are required to stare at horrific content for many hours straight with few mental health resources, are largely managed by opaque algorithms, and, crucially, are the workers powering the runaway valuations of some of the richest and most powerful companies in the world."

A bill that would have required recreational crabbers to add terrapin by-catch devices onto their pots to prevent accidental drownings of the reptiles failed to pass out of the Virginia Senate, stalling the measure for the year. virginiamercury.com/2026/03/13/v...

The city’s transition away from the car, tho fantastically chaotic, has become a global role model. Under mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social, Paris was “the most influential city in the world”, says Canadian urbanist Brent Toderian. Hidalgo, stepping down after 12 yrs, exulted: “The bike beat the car.”

Trump-era FEMA "dodged a bullet" last year, with no U.S. hurricane landfalls, said former FEMA deputy administrator Tim Manning. "I and most of the emergency management community have great concerns for FEMA’s readiness." newrepublic.com/post/207650/...

just uh. re upping this bc the fertilizer situation is getting Worse

"In Georgia, some watermelon growers report they can no longer afford to plant a crop because of fertilizer prices."

YIKES. This, too, is wild: "Handheld X-ray devices can establish the composition of seafood tissue by identifying chemical markers unique to certain environments, while MRI technology can analyze water molecules to verify if a product has ever been frozen."

FYI the 1970s oil crisis was the impetus for Copenhagen turning into a cycling city

[checks gas prices, insurance prices, howls of rage from rush-hour traffic] Believable.

This is such an important interview. (Heated's new podcast is really worth your time.)

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

"In other visits, she has seen 'people so stressed out they pulled the hair out of their skull.' She said she met a mother who’d been rationing her child’s seizure medicine despite the child having experienced 'one seizure after another.'"

and finally: yes, using less nitrogen fertilizer is a good idea for the environment — that's a shift that needs to happen over the long term, however. this is an immediate shock! which isn't great

couple qualifications on this ~ - the shortage is not affecting potash right now, but diff fertilizers serve diff purposes. corn, for instance, needs both nitrogen AND potash - piece focuses not on food *shortages* but how this will affect big cash crops ie corn, soybeans

"The top 1 percent now control $55.8 trillion in assets — more than the G.D.P. of the United States and China combined." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric). "AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled." doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

“I guess what shocked me the most is the deliberate way that they built this world that we live in. They understood the impact, the consequences, and they saw the profit that it offered and that overrode everything else.”

What is "democratic hedonism"? What does it mean in the food reform context? An excerpt from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social's and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's new book: newrepublic.com/article/2067...

BlueSky users who do not buy my book about shark conservation could be left behind, says shark conservation book author Dr. David Shiffman www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

What if people aren't apathetic? What if they just want something to DO? Insightful stuff from @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social about the data center backlash and the mechanisms of political change.

Without even clicking I guessed that there was an 80% chance this happened at a multi-lane, unsignalized crosswalk. And sure enough. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

The Washington Post editorial board claims the benefits of reducing climate pollution are "modest" Who wrote this, exactly?

NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I called up Nixon last week and he told me how Haitians are feeling terrified, targeted, isolated. But when I asked if I could quote him by name in this story, even if it might put him in greater danger, he said of course. He wants people to hear. newrepublic.com/article/2062...

“I am very worried for myself, for my wife, for my kids. ... If they can do it to white people in Minnesota, they can do it to anyone.” Gut punch of a piece from @melodyschreiber.com newrepublic.com/article/2062...

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I love freelancing but this is true. There are stories I simply cannot do without a newsroom behind me. There are also practical reasons some people can't just freelance, like needing health insurance or paid time off.

"The planned hyperscale facilities of north and west Texas, if fully built out, could be among the largest emissions sources in both the country and the world, Bird said" “I’d be hard-pressed to think of a bigger emitter"

"We systematically overlook the costs (mortgages, commuting, maintenance) while dramatically undervaluing intangible benefits that actually dictate our happiness (seeing our kids at night, hanging with friends, knowing our neighbors and walking places)."