Here is the third lecture of my graduate Environmental Security course. This week covered the topic of climate and security. youtube.com/watch?v=DpoKNGNt2q8&feature=youtu.be

Yikes!

Here is the fourth lecture of my Global Environmental Governance class on the role of international treaties. youtu.be/FqLdwypd89U

You don't revoke scientific findings. You revoke those findings informing official US policy. Reality has not changed.

This should be the signal for counties to boycott the World Cup. They can’t, in good conscience, put their fans and their nationals in danger.

Endangerment displayed.

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“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

Hegemonic suicide.

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

Just discovered yet another severe harm ICE is causing: huge cutbacks at our hospitals, because patients won't come in, because ICE hangs out inside the building or by the doors and abducts people. Crushing our medical system alongside our schools and our businesses.

🚨BREAKING: The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The gallup presidential approval poll is an institution in American politics that predates world war 2. With Trump’s approval in the 30s, they’re ending it. thehill.com/homenews/med...

“Defending the homeland” against a party balloon.

BREAKING: @lizzylawrence.bsky.social reports that CBER director Vinay Prasad overruled career #FDA staff and unilaterally decided to refusal to accept #Moderna 's #flu vaccine submission. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

The FAA has halted all flights into or out of El Paso for 10 days for unspecified "special security reasons," canceling more than 1,000 flights and effectively cutting a major American city off by air. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Glad I finally canceled my subscription.

“It’s expensive, it’s outdated, and it just puts us at risk,” said Erin Sikorsky, director of the Center for Climate & Security at The Council on Strategic Risks. “Coal is just going backwards, not forwards, for the Department of Defense.”

Our tax dollars at work.

Terrible photo but nice to get to hear Bill McKibben in person. Familiar story of increasing cost competitiveness of renewables and batteries.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now. Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.

EVs now represent more than 10% of new car sales in 39 countries, including Vietnam at 38% and Indonesia at 15%. In the U.S., that figure is less than 10%. buff.ly/H5ETTBQ

This is an astounding example of the increasing intensity of rain storms. #climate #water

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship. Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

Incredible: ~2500mm (78 inches) in 20 days - 1.5X the normal yearly rainfall in Grazalema, Spain and it’s only February. How? A 5000 mile Tropical Atmospheric River lifted by terrain in Southern Spain. H/T Nahel Belgherze #europe #flood #spain #weather

For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.

Cornyn attack ad during prime-time Olympics against... *Wesley Hunt*. Someone's worried about making the runoff.

Probably have to login to give your feedback on an article rejection.

I'm just not convinced there is anyone who understands the depth of this depravity in our political class more than she does

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

We definitely don’t have money for USAID, or to buy and stabilize American crop prices, but we certainly have money in the banana stand for a Gulag Archipelago.

This is an obvious and egregious perversion of our immigration enforcement system. Among many. When public officials entrusted with the power to seize and imprison our family members are not accountable for flagrant abuses of that power, everyone in America loses. Every Conservative, every Liberal.

Good thread.

What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?

So much to unpack in it. Just on example:

Two amazing threads on the politics and culture behind Bad Bunny's superbowl performance. bsky.app/profile/beck...

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Thread.

I’m taking a Waymo for first time and it is pretty freaky.

Pretty sure it wasn’t actually Liam. But it was a clear homage.

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love” “Together, we are America”

Yep. The polling data we obtained shows that more than two thirds of young men disapprove of ICE enforcement and oppose deporting longtime residents with jobs and no criminal records:

We all know who the real loser is. Keep your mouth shut Trump and STFU. I'm rooting for our Olympians not against them.

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course