Even if we did absolutely everything we could for climate mitigation we’d need a strategy for managing the transition away from high climate risk locations for housing. Luckily, @moira.bsky.social has a framework for that in The Reconstruction Papers www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

Oh the irony. Rubio instructed diplomats to pressure countries to rebuke Cuba for “gross incompetence and massive corruption” during an upcoming UN debate on U.S. sanctions against Cuba, per reporting in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Read this thread

“Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company.” www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

The Ponca Nation just became the first Tribe in the U.S. to endorse the Fossil Fuel Treaty—a global agreement for an equitable phaseout of oil, gas & coal. 37 Indigenous nations & 18 countries have now joined.

if congo pull this off i want the british museum empty by midnight

New analysis from @publiccitizen.bsky.social & @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social shows 2025 was the property & casualty insurance industry's most profitable year in over 2 decades. Meanwhile, insurers raise rates, reduce coverage, deny claims, & fight regulatory reforms. www.citizen.org/article/insu...

Jackson.

“Financialisation doesn’t stop harm - it launders it.” “Putting a price on nature opens the door to its financialisation, not its protection” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...

Dude doesn't understand insurance. The whole point of insurance is that you might not need it, but if you do it's there.

I'm so excited to be part of this project. Stay tuned for ground-breaking policy ideas from some brilliant, innovative thinkers coming soon from @periumass.bsky.social!

Can relate

Venezuela has raised the death toll from the double earthquake last week to 1,450. And counting.

Very bad news for our democracy

Driving through the Central Valley and seeing these huge irrigation channels baking in the sun, I’ve often wondered why they’re not covered with solar panels. Turns out, they should be!

As Trump grows ever-more overtly petro-imperialist, it's imperative that journalists, especially those with limited oil backgrounds, treat the oil industry and its boosters like any other source--never take it simply at its word. Just because an oil company says something does not make it so.

Have you heard about Beto Coral, the Colombian asylum seeker that Rubio said should be deported because he criticized the far-right presidential candidate for Colombia‘s presidency that Trump favors? Beto’s supporters are asking Congress to intervene & you can help: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Israeli army committed a massacre on Saturday in the town of Qennarit, in the Saida district, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 others, including five children, according to a preliminary toll released by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. 🧵

Why I wrote my manifesto on trans rights is: This is about trans people and our futures and lives, sure, but it’s about everybody else’s too. Cis people need to wake the fuck up. whats-helping-today.beehiiv.com/p/transgende...

This is a classic authoritarian move. Initiate prosecutions based on bogus charges. You’ll likely lose in court, but in the meantime the organizers lose money, support, & capacity to focus on their organizing. I co-wrote about tools to deal with this here: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/less...

Hell yes: a Colombian community won a huge water rights victory over a Coke subsidiary that was guzzling from local reservoirs even when drought conditions led to rationing for residents. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This result is a BIG deal. As many observed in the lead up, the Bains-Villegas match up was a contest for the soul of the Democratic Party, and the young progressive side won decidedly. I’m honored to have knocked doors for Randy and know he can prevail in November. LFG!

The president has acted to remove protections for trans prisoners at risk of rape. What's it like to access these protections on the inside? Incarcerated journalist B Speaks spoke with two inmates who'd used the reporting system mandated by PREA, one cis, one trans. What he found may disturb you:

I’m very excited for this!!

New from me and @jmijin.bsky.social: the third in our series arguing for and explaining how to do a governance demonstration of public acquisition of US fossil fuel assets for managed decline. We focus on Powder River Basin (PRB) coal assets and find market value is ~$0

By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.

Cien días después del cierre del estrecho de Ormuz, publicamos «Del shock fósil a la soberanía energética», un informe preparado junto a @frenovables.bsky.social sobre cómo pasar del shock fósil en ciernes a una soberanía energética total y electrificada.

The US military has appointed itself judge, jury, and executioner. A terrible precedent will be set if there aren't serious legal consequences for everyone involved all the way up (and down) the chain of command.

So it's just plain murder.

Senators Kaine & Paul say that, according to classified briefings they’ve received, the U.S. military DOESN’T require a boat to have drugs or weapons on board to be targeted in its ongoing campaign against alleged drug smuggling vessels in the Caribbean & Pacific! foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/02/k...

Heads up, Oakland www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

Jail and prison are incredibly unsafe. There is no safe jail. The important thing to keep in mind when reading these stories is that the answer is always to let people be free (not to hire more doctors). apnews.com/article/ice-...

Today Trump endorsed the ultra-right candidate for president of Colombia, Abelardo de las Espriella, a self-described admirer of El Salvador's Bukele. Colombia's current term-limited president, Gustavo Petro, referred to the endorsement as the "death of freedom". elpais.com/america-colo...

This is good news, but it's fraught. 3 initial thoughts: 1. This means the ICE funding is back on turbo, and Dems need to be prepared. See Kogan's thread. 2. It shows some Rs are already trying to separate from T as campaigns gear up. Don't let them. 3. The audit exemption has to be killed too.

You're as likely to win a coin toss as get a claim paid by your insurance company after a weather-related disaster, WSJ finds. That's the thing about private insurers: They will ALWAYS seek to avoid payouts to help their bottom lines. www.wsj.com/finance/the-...

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

Scenes from outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey as ICE detainees entered their fifth day of hunger strike over conditions inside the facility. Protesters and federal agents faced off multiple times throughout the night as chemical irritants were repeatedly deployed into the crowd. 5/26

Paging California!!

Rep Andy Kim's thread on his attempts to check on detainees at a NJ ICE facility (run by private company GEO Group), the ICE-led violence that ensued, and what's at stake for our country.

It's incredible how much public housing can accomplish for tenants—and the climate. I'm thrilled to share our latest at @cplusc.bsky.social, "Greening Public Housing to Lower Costs, Make Homes Healthier, and Spur Market Transformation." stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/greeni...

They didn't die while serving in the military, but they died protecting our freedoms from those who would destroy them, nonetheless. Remembering these heroes on this Memorial Day.

Colombia's presidential election is next week. If the front-runner, leftist Iván Cepeda, doesn't get over 50% of the vote, he'll face of the 2nd-highest vote getter. The latest polls say it's likely to be this defender of right-wing paramilitaries and Bukele admirer.

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Imagine what he does to Palestinian prisoners when there's no cameras

It's true. Doubling them is probably not enough. Today in "marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to American democracy."

In the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, Chelsea Kirk & I write about the victory of private markets in the aftermath of the Eaton & Palisades fires, instead of what could have been: housing stabilization, tenant protections & collective disaster risk reduction. dissentmagazine.org/article/los-...

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

The American Prospect (@prospect.org) takes a deep dive into our campaign for affordable, available insurance for all. Read the full story: https://prospect.org/2026/05/14/jane-kim-candidate-pitching-single-payer-disaster-insurance-california/