“Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed. And how some media are no longer just covering the far right but helping it speak.”

“We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as ‘normal’— and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just ‘necessary’.” The “Framing Game” via @katjadiehl.bsky.social.

Water companies currently address PFAS contamination in drinking water sources by diluting the contaminated supply with uncontaminated water. Privately, many water company insiders tell us it's getting harder to find uncontaminated water to use for this: share.google/wBmHBnxDUO6g...

"One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care," new Gallup polls show. Yet Trump calls affordability a "Democrat hoax."

Texas might be on its way to becoming a blue state yet. Abbott govt is building strong case for getting kicked out of office. EIA forecasts TX data centers could drive huge increase in electricity prices.

Some like it slow! I've been thinking about celebrity animals-- especially Jackie and Shadow -- and why so many love watching them on livestreams. So I dove into the rise of "slow TV." It makes intuitive sense: in an anxious world, nature's rhythm can be a salve. www.latimes.com/environment/...

How much clearer can it get that the fossil fuel industy must be stopped? They're now committing fraud against citizens to stop limiting air pollution! Add this to their endless attacks on real renewables (solar, wind), climate change, any form of environmental protection, etc., etc.

Solar & wind are clearly the future of US energy needs and resilience. Don't let Tramp or tech billionaires tell anyone differently. Solar, wind & storage accounted for 92% of all new generation capacity in 2025. Fossil fuels, including "natural" gas, are far more costly, unhealthy, and dangerous.

Rare good stuff from the Senate: “You are undoubtedly aware that your local air pollutants...will pollute the air surrounding the project, creating health issues for your neighbors, including asthma, heart attacks, stroke, reproductive issues, & cancer." TEN TIMES the size of normal gas plants...

It's not just on farms, the economic impact of ICE raids on restaurants, bars, and the entire food and drink industry has "been brutal." #ICEout https://seiu.co/4cKN90F

This is a stat from 2023 - I genuinely wonder, is it still true? I would guess that it is but wondering about the latest figures @colinmckerracher.bsky.social @akshatrathi.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

62/ Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope

This is just what I needed to see today. E-bikes take cars off the road and that's really important. They also give people freedom, independence, and access to the world without a car. But they're also fun as hell. And bikes *should* be fun!

Painted bike lanes fail by design. If safety relies on driver compliance rather than physical barriers, it's not a bike lane, it's a loading zone. Protection induces demand. Paint does not.

The right's attacks on James Talarico reveal the "ever-stronger fusion between extremist right-wing Christianity and the Republican Party." Great from @aselrod.bsky.social. Really underscores importance of his campaign as an antidote to Christian nationalism: www.liberalcurrents.com/right-wing-a...

And so the American experiment with democracy is transformed from Lincoln's "the last best hope of earth...The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just—a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless..." ...becomes "We are really good at killing people." Tech brain.

It looks like nature's engineers might finally catch a dam break! Conservation groups joined state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Sen. Cathy Kipp and Sen. Lisa Cutter to introduce a first-of-its-kind bill to protect #beavers on #PublicLands 🦫🦫 Learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4rrmycJ

Never forget, if you’re seeing commercial after commercial bombarding the airwaves, supporting a political candidate and relentlessly attacking their political opponent, that’s a billionaire trying to buy an election. #VOTE

While Mark Zuckerberg was testifying in an LA courtroom last month about whether Meta's products addict teens, I spent most of the day talking with parents who didn't get a seat in the courtroom about why they came so far, just for a glimpse at the CEO (gift link) www.theverge.com/policy/89393...

Here is a direct link to the first full draft of the National Nature Assessment on the state of America’s land, water and wildlife that was started under the Biden administration but canceled by Trump before it could be published. 🌎 naturerecord.org/chapters

A new study published in December examines the question of how climate change affects wildlife species’ ranges through the lens of state birds and finds that tens of millions of Americans could lose the chance to experience their state birds in the decades to come.🌎

As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.

Sadly this headline could be from ten years ago.

Utility bills are far from the only issue driving resistance to hyperscale data center projects across the country. "Overwhelmingly, the energy infrastructure powering the tech industry's rapid build-out of power-hungry data centers is dirty." - @ruddock.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

the standard line is that we counter lies with more speech; but when the right owns all the major news outlets & social media platforms, the idea that the truth will magically overcome their lies is not serious. We need to remake the system @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

Yes, this is an excellent piece of investigation, narration, and accountability, by Mike Baker and Steven Rich in @nytimes.com Very much worth going back to read.

Thailand’s rapid data center boom is sparking urgent concerns over water security and air pollution, as more than 70 projects are planned or underway. Many of these facilities are clustered in a region already grappling with industrial impacts. “Very few know about these data centers.”

Standard economic frameworks treat culture as peripheral—something to fund when budgets allow, cut when times are tight. Brazil and London's Notting Hill Carnivals, demonstrate why this is wrong. Culture creates dynamic public value that conventional metrics systematically miss.

“Multifamily housing is for young renters and the poor while single family homes are for established adults with children” is a really pernicious folk theory about how housing markets should work that I think is foundational to so much bad housing policy at all levels of government.

During the pandemic, a lot of hippie and yoga people were observed becoming much more right-wing, but this was not an act of transformation, it was just the many conservative aspects of the 1960s counterculture becoming more prominent. @etvpod.bsky.social and I did a deep-dive on the history

“Investments in heat early warning systems, cooling infrastructure, & protections for older adults & outdoor workers in the most affected regions are urgent. However, these local investments are not substitutes for the fundamental need to limit global warming.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'The answer is clear: reduce demand through electric vehicles & better public transit... we need to open up California’s gasoline market & break apart the political stranglehold of the state’s oil industry. We don’t need half-baked answers that ignore the research and the data.'

Look at these charts. TransUnion and Experian, two of the three major credit bureaus, have started dismissing a larger share of consumer complaints without help. The timing coincides with the Trump administration’s dismantling of the CFPB. www.propublica.org/article/cred... @joeljacobs.bsky.social

you mean like what we had under Biden? Peace, rising employment, investment in a more stable & non-fossil fuel electricity grid, expansion of medicare subsidies, actual price controls on (some) drugs, no masked thugs kidnapping people on the streets and at schools? that world?

"DOGE" = greatest data heist in history. Anyone who attempts to analtze it as a well-intentioned but failed attempt to achieve government efficiency is either lying to you or is too stupid to live. And it was obvious at the time to anyone who understood Silicon Valley. bsky.app/profile/naha...

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

A new report reveals the “nature gap” in the U.S.: Environmental degradation and climate risks disproportionately affect communities of color and low-income areas, worsening health disparities and economic inequality. insideclimatenews.org/news/2302202...

This is a really important @katiesurma.bsky.social piece on the strategic state silencing of land & water defenders in Ecuador—including colleagues of mine—as Noboa’s gov. moves to intensify mining & drilling (Trump playbook). Please share widely. insideclimatenews.org/news/1003202...

the amount of Chinese investment in green manufacturing plants around the developing world is mind boggling. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Far too many institutional investors make their work all about stock-picking and engaging on company-level risks. But systemic risks like the decline of the rule of law–and rising GHG emissions–require systems-level strategies.

This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US. US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing. x.com/SStapczynski...

Tell me again why we don’t need a professional, non-partisan foreign service and respected nuclear experts in the government.

According to @status.news, another senior journalist, reporter Scott Macfarlane, has quit CBS rather than head in the direction Bari Weiss wants to go. A big factor: the network's meek treatment of January 6th. www.status.news/p/scott-macf... MacFarlane covered the Justice Department.

MAGA hates the most essential parts of America. Dems should say so without caveat or qualificaiton.

Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...

Dow is down, gas is way up (up 50 cents here from yesterday). Gulf allies are under attack. This was clearly foreseeable by any student in any Introduction to International Relations class but somehow a huge surprise to the people running this country.

War in Iran exposed that Europe failed to stand up to a business lobby that slowed decarbonisation It committed a "strategic error of slowing a transformation necessary for security & independence....truth is that rearguard action on fossil dependence is bad for business" www.ft.com/content/a6be...

BREAKING: A federal judge dismissed Trump’s challenge to New York’s congestion pricing program, writing, “It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here.” Here’s @emilypont.bsky.social with the backstory: heatmap.news/sparks/conge...