So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."

Stopped here for al pastor last time I was in town & it was legitimately some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever had in Seattle, a town infamous for lacking good Mexican food. Street food is one of the things that makes cities great. Vested interests &bureaucracy keep Seattle from doing the basics.

Federal judge in Oregon sides with state and city of Portland in suit against Trump over attempted Guard deployment. Finds Trump violated U.S. code and Constitution. Feds likely to appeal: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71481...

So the story goes: 1-Trump sees high beef prices 2-Decides to quadruple Argentine imports 3-Gets condemned by ranchers saying that's not the problem 4-after being dogwalked, decides to do what the Biden admin was already doing on meatpackers (there's an active lawsuit)

this week has made me the most optimistic that I've been since the election that we're going to get out of this intact, or some vague approximation thereof (whether we can successfully rebuild from there, I am more skeptical about, but first things first) a thread

More and more people are saying, Lina Khan Was Right All Along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

This is an excellent thread that largely tracks my own experience from my time at the Club (granted, I left right before Jealous started). There is just no scenario where attempting to reckon with the organization's history and build a more inclusive vision of environmentalism was the problem.

I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

DEMOCRATS GET ON TELEVISION AND TAKE CREDIT FOR SAVING THANKSGIVING RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD

Exxon is — again — asking the Supreme Court to help the oil giant escape trials over its climate lies. Several justices have "past or present financial or familial ties to the oil industry that could raise questions about their impartiality," @hannahstoryb.bsky.social reports in @prospect.org.

You (a fool): The LLM is an all-knowing oracle, on its way to godlike intelligence Me (dumber): The LLM is Indra’s Net, each fundamentally empty token a multifaceted jewel in whose surfaces the reflections of every other jewel arise in mutual interdependence The LLM: You can eat that rock

I'll keep repeating this truth. There are few industries that understand the complex realities of how climate change is affecting the world today more than insurance. Physical risk. Non-physical risk. Liability risk. Reputational risk. Etc. We see it. www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/brea...

Let's go! The City of Cleveland - home to a public power utility - is one of the first in the nation i've heard of so far banning shutoffs during this federal shutdown crisis. Public power can lead the nation in showing what democratic institutions can do to make our lives better.

Good to see @capitalandmain.bsky.social defending itself against a brazenly anti-First Amendment lawsuit from Pennsylvania natural gas producer CNX. capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania...

your hard-earned tax dollars are paying for a White House social media account that calls duty elected senators "demented losers." it's totally unacceptable and a disgrace.

Electricity prices have persuaded voters to toss out candidates who support never ending rate hikes and other power grabs. Democrats could see their way back into offices all over the country if they’re willing to address those concerns. From @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/vlTuGss

we’re going to live in a world where this is true, and a country where it isn’t

Hear me out: instead of letting climate change slowly but surely destroy the American home insurance and housing markets, we make the fossil fuel companies that knowingly caused the problem pay for the consequences. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ne...

Nice article from @apnews.com about how climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa's destructive winds and rain, analysis finds apnews.com/article/hurr...

People will be mad at me for saying this, but I think we have to do it. Nothing is more important for the future of this country, and indeed humanity, than the app that makes you schizophrenic and helps you forget how to learn. The juice is worth the squeeze.

Starbucks Wows Investors By Closing All Stores: tinyurl.com/3anhtzdn

The cost of living crisis IS the climate crisis. (See: rising rates of home insurance due to extreme weather disasters.) Lucky for all of us, thereʻs solutions available to address both simultaneously. climateintegrity.org/news/view/ne...

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

For the love of god can we build housing instead?

All hail America’s new leaders.

This is a good analysis by Seattle local & NYT writer Mike Baker of how past Seattle elections have seen large swings as later votes are counted. Once all the votes are counted, the Seattle mayor's race might be quite close.

Pennsylvania Gas Producer Sues Capital & Main Over Its Reporting on Health Risks Capital & Main stands by its reporting and vows to fight the suit. capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania...

As we debate building a new generation of fossil fuel infrastructure for data centers and LNG exports, it's helpful to understand how the last generation's infrastructure is faring. Answer: the fossil fuel industry (and now the fed gov't) has left it behind to poison our communities.

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

People Angry, Say Experts

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

really important element of this basically total victory is that it puts the fear of god in republican incumbents and may bring the redistricting push to a total halt

A massive result: Maine voters have rejected Question 1, a ballot measure that would have restricted mail voting and put into place strict new voter ID requirements. This outcome was no sure thing heading into tonight. The measure’s failure preserves current voter access in Maine, as 2026 looms.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

The Biden administration worked hard to accomplish this new free IRS filing system. It’s astounding that one should have to pay fees in order to pay their taxes. But this rent seeking is entirely consistent with the economic policies of the current administration that benefit the most wealthy.

This is a straight up nuisance lawsuit designed to silence Capital and Main.

whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win

Big news showing that electricity costs are a top-tier issue right now

“Absent Big Oil’s fraud, it’s likely that the West could have achieved these clean energy milestones decades earlier, giving humanity more than enough time to transition off fossil fuels before we hit the apocalyptic tipping points we are currently hurtling toward.” @aaronregunberg.bsky.social

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

After this all falls apart, Dems are going to wish that they came out against Big Tech and the financial fraud behind the AI bubble. People are going to get financially hurt and outside of a few people the party will not have a leg to stand on when the blame game starts.

POST A GAME YOU REMEMBER THAT NOBODY ELSE REMEMBERS Mount St. Helens text game 1981 Commodore you are on Mount St. Helens during the volcanic eruption. To get to safety you must select your action from available choices. Picking the wrong choices on each screen will result in an untimely death.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

This is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ