Definitely going to contact my Alameda County supervisor about this!

In Colombia a few decades ago, when rates of political violence were extremely high, judges heard cases anonymously. This helped protect them and their families, but also has consequences for accountability (see, eg., the impact of “Kavanaugh Stops”).

Incredible irony here.

You can very clearly see why someone whose job it is to protect war criminals would need this pulled from the airwaves: It’s visible proof the Trump administration is operating concentration camps.

DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.” But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises. My story:

Fascinating insight here: the US trade deficit is correlated with corporate profits, and the admin’s efforts to exempt US corporations from the global minimum corporate tax regime only exacerbates this.

DENTRO DEL CECOT (ENLACE DE REGALO) El informe del Washington Post sobre la prisión salvadoreña a la que la administración Trump envió a migrantes deportados de los Estados Unidos, basado en entrevistas con 16 exdetenidos wapo.st/3MPEeA6

Seeing some binary thinking in the feed so just noting that to stop the worst effects of climate change we need to get fossil emissions to zero ASAP *and* we need to get land emissions below zero ASAP, which includes minimizing ag emissions and land use, ending deforestation, & restoring ecosystems.

Speaking as someone who stopped breathing last night because the power went out, we are NOT equipped for the disablity impacts of our failing power infrastructure. Great read from @juliametraux.bsky.social

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Here's a good example of how we can talk about inequality, climate, and affordability all at the same time

Oh cool Oakland city council just voted to approve a Flock contract

Scientist at #AGU25 are speaking out to #SaveNCAR. Join more than 2000 of your colleagues to call or email your members of Congress to ask them to support NCAR today: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...

I'm not linking to Matt Yglesias' piece in @nytopinion.nytimes.com here, but no, Democrats should NOT embrace oil and gas and kick climate under the bus. Instead, Ds should continue to run on energy affordability, clean energy jobs, and stand against fossil fuel oligarchs stealing our future. 🧵1/

These findings would seem to undermine the argument that risk-based premium pricing is an effective way to achieve risk reduction. If households just forego the insurance when premiums rise, no flood risk is reduced AND those households are exposed to greater risk of financial catastrophe.

Tax the rich

It's wild to see the reflexive attacks from the abundance/yimby crowd on a brief mention of a public disaster insurance proposal for CA with critiques that ignore: a) they have no idea what risk reduction components the proposal includes, b) that risk-based pricing is HIGHLY regressive 1/3

The excellent @moira.bsky.social and @aaronregunberg.bsky.social point out that insurance policy is a climate and affordability layup newrepublic.com/article/2044...

Don't listen to centrist pundits who are urging Democrats to stop talking about climate and clean energy. Instead, center messaging on these issues in themes about affordability and the harms that communities are experiencing when oligarchs put profits over people.

Dems are ISO a populist affordability message, huh? How about fighting one of the primary drivers of higher housing costs: home insurance rates that are spiking due to climate change. @aaronregunberg.bsky.social @moira.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2044...

Some pundits claim replacing climate with affordability messages is the way for Dems to win. But climate is driving unaffordability (like with home insurance), voters trust Dems on climate, & solution exist that center people not CEOs. That’s a layup. @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2044...

Beautiful story of communities providing support for their neighbors.

Tax the rich.

My senators @schiff.senate.gov $ @padilla.senate.gov better be voting no on this bill!

It must be very sad and lovely to have lost all capacity for empathy.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

This is not good

Israeli bulldozer crushing a wounded child exemplifies horrific killing pattern in Gaza countercurrents.org/2025/12/isra...

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Very important to hate fascists more than you hate liberals.

It's great when volunteers step up to help their communities. But this in no way can replace government action -- as the organizers of these volunteer groups themselves make clear Yet the White House still insists that gutting FEMA is a good idea.

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

We can and should hold people to ethical and moral standards. But “criminality” isn’t that. When Democrats started called Trump a “felon,” I think that was a losing strategy both bc it alienated ppl who don’t like the criminal system and bc it just reverse-uno’ed Trump’s strategy of police state.

“it turns out that insurance is utterly mesmerizing, and that’s in part because insurers quantify emotions like fear, hope, and mourning. They can offer an almost transparent window into the affective logic of capitalism.

Fixating on energy in isolation is thus a weapon to subordinate ecological & community values to the interests of elite investor, extractive, & corporate elites who seek to preserve the dominant political & economic system.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The amount of corruption & profiteering in insurance is why in CA we desperately need: 1) an insurance commissioner who's principled & visionary 2) a new policy approach to home insurance that prioritizes protection over profits, like the Housing Resilience Agency proposed by @cplusc.bsky.social

This is great reporting. To complement it, I'm reposting my post-fires analysis - rebuilding with gas puts these communities, and the communities that surround them, in multiple forms of danger. heatmap.news/ideas/la-fir...

External to what?

Icymi: A week before Thanksgiving, the Trump administration deleted the Federal Report on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women The ‘Not One More’ report recorded indigenous deaths and disappearances, and provided resources and policy suggestions to address the crisis www.jezebel.com/trump-admin-...

When my friend Jen was killed, we knew she would want us to do things differently when it came to how the legal system would treat the people involved. This Snap Judgment episode tells some of that story in much of its complexity. Love you, Jen. 💔 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Glad to see a more balanced take on the Zillow climate risk story than most commentary, which simply wants a return to black-box models for individual use. As @madisoncondon.bsky.social wrote, "There needs to be a broader institutional solution to this problem." www.linkedin.com/posts/madiso...

In the 2000s, Colombian drug trafficking paramilitary leaders fought tooth and nail to avoid extradition to the US cuz they thought they'd receive much harsher punishment here than at home. No longer.

JOH was not only a drug trafficker; his administration was responsible for state violence, blatant corruption, and election tampering. Sound familiar? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Are we living in an episode of The Diplomat?

Billionaires, while building their own luxury bunkers for “apocalypse insurance," are funding groups telling Dems to forget about climate action. We just published a memo laying out why that'd be a huge political mistake. aaronregunberg.substack.com/p/this-data-...

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

It’s not a great deal if you don’t need it. And especially this year, others really need support. So for all of us who have enough, let’s refuse to get sucked into the holiday shopping frenzy and share instead of shop. We don’t need more stuff, we need communities where all our neighbors are safe.