The difference between Becerra and Steyer is that Steyer isn’t funneling $$ to influencers through established Dem networks. Steyer is an outsider, doing it directly, and getting called out on it. 🧵

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

Much gratitude to @costsofwar.bsky.social for publishing my newest paper, highlighting how legal tools that started as post-9/11 counterterrorism abuses are now being weaponized further for Trump's anti-immigrant agenda:

The news is out! YIMBY Action is making an official endorsement in the race for CA Governor for... 🥁 @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social! His range of housing policies set him apart. Steyer has committed to eliminating single-family zoning statewide, expanding by-right approvals and upzoning around transit.

Ballots go out today in the California governor's race. I wrote about why Tom Steyer is the obvious choice for climate voters. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/california...

Beantok is doing immense work for our climate

I miss Jamie Ding already 🧡 He brought such joy to my life for nearly two months. What a profound effect he had on me as a progressive leader, an immigrant, and a fellow faceless bureaucrat. Beyond his astounding knowledge, kindness, and warmth, I appreciated his daily stories the most.

Jamie Ding you will always be famous to me people.com/jeopardy-cha...

Why does this account only have 19 followers?

"The Supreme Court itself has shown itself to be the enemy of democracy. If and when Democrats retake control of the political branches, it will be incumbent on them not only to write new voting legislation ... they will also have to consider reform of the Supreme Court itself"

In a previous book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler identified polarization as one of "Four Threats" to American democracy. Her most recent book, "Rural vs Urban" shows that depolarizing that divide--which is surprisingly recent & contingent--is the most promising way forward. 1/x

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I get asked a lot why I'm Team Never Becerra. Answer, in two parts. SHOT

More reasons why #TomSteyer is qualified and ready to be the next CA governor. 🧵 Led the California Task Force on Business and Job Recovery under Governor Gavin Newsom, focusing on COVID-19 economic recovery.

The sudden surge in support for Becerra is big oil and health insurance funded. To avoid a GOP shutout, we need to coalesce — and it is NOT around Becerra. If you support climate policies, low cost health insurance, and reducing corruption, it’s either Steyer or Porter.

I want to talk about the CA Governor's race for a moment. We can all agree that Swalwell should obviously drop out. But that doesn't mean Becerra deserves the votes of progressives in California. Here's why. 🧵

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

On this day in 1964, Pauli Murray circulated a memo arguing that black and white women would “share a common fate of discrimination” unless Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited sex discrimination in employment as well as race discrimination. The memo helped keep the “sex amendment” in T7.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

ERA-5 data is in. March was indeed the warmest on record in the US. What’s even more astonishing is the trend. Since 1940 March in the US has warmed 7.2°F (~9° per century & accelerating). The pace is remarkable. Imagine if it continues. Thanks @climatologist49.bsky.social for the great tool!

OK I'm back home from Metro HQ. Reception in there was absolutely horrible so sorry I wasn't able to post more from in there. Phone could barely load bluesky. Here's my take on the motion:

And yes: L.A. County Supervisor @lindseyphorvath.bsky.social wants you 🫵 to get to Metro's board meeting this Thursday, Mar. 24, if you can, to speak up against attempts to block the K Line. Full details below. ↘️

Join me Thursday morning (I’ll be there at 8am) to support the staff proposed K line extension: In-Person (BEST): Thursday, March 26, 10 AM (arrive by 9am to secure a spot to make public comment) at Metro HQ, 1 Gateway Plaza, 3rd Floor, Los Angeles 90012. Sign up to comment on Item 7.

Instead of selecting one of the twelve — 12! — routes studied at the behest of Bass when Metro staff was last ready to recommend a route, 18 mos. ago, the motion calls for staff to again "propose alignment options" after "meaningful engagement" and "minimization of residential subsurface impacts."

Based on the first LA Mayoral debate, it’s clear that between Nithya Raman and Rae Huang, Raman’s progressive policies, pragmatic skills, and grounded experience put her leagues above Huang. youtu.be/7sOH8zAu_bg?...

Hoping the leftist trend makes its way to California in June

read about an alternative reality where reducing reliance on oil & gas is seen as a national security imperative👇

Bad Bunny also reminded me how energy colonialism in Puerto Rico has lined the pockets of Trump’s cronies since Hurricane Maria in 2017: - $300 million contract to Montana-based Whitefish Energy w ties to DOI Zinke. - $10 billion relief fund 3 years late to privatize PR’s grid w Luma Energy

The only thing more powerful than hate is love. This made me cry.

in a welcome surprise, “we fucking hate taxes” apparently carrying the day in the tariffs case and it looks like they’re going down I’m not used to this much good news in a row I don’t know what to do with my hands

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history. Now let’s get to work. transition2025.com

aaaaaaaaand LOOKS LIKE CLEAN ENERGY IS BACK ON THE MENU IN GEORGIA

NYC hits 2 million votes, breaking the 1989 record (1.9M) and taking us back to records set in the 1960s! (1969: 2.4M; 1965: 2.6M)

By noon, with nine hours left of voting, we've already surpassed the number of New Yorkers voting in a mayoral election going back two decades. Here's @thecity.nyc's first pass from the polls. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/n...

There's virtually no doubt left that Mamdani will finish first in the 1st-round of this primary, ahead of Cuomo.

NYC Mayoral election results are now live at NYT. LFG Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

Taps the sign👇 Direct File is live and having an incredible tax season. Taxpayers are able to successfully import info the IRS has about them and user satisfaction remains 🚀 high. The product team is predominantly in house, increasing its ability to deliver an awesome product 👏

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

18F staffers- who were summarily fired en masse overnight- issue statement expressing shock, bewilderment: "18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated."

Folks (and this thing has gone around quickly), it's still unclear *what* has been "deleted"; as many of you have noted DirectFile remains active. Part of the danger of Government-By-Unelected-Nutball is that what's actually *true* is a moving target. If you RT'd my initial post, RT this as well.

And in other news, ending DEI through reporting and monitoring efforts feels like modern day McCarthyism

Just occurred to me that Elon is likely obsessed with naming everything X because of its semblance to the swastika

FCC boss Jessica Rosenworcel announces she's stepping down in January. At no point in the statement does she communicate even the faintest sense of ideological alarm to the public that her successor intends to demolish the entirety of broadband consumer protection and all of her accomplishments

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act or IIJA is on track to increase carbon emissions by funding highway improvements t4america.org/2024/02/28/t...

Today's liveblog is up and running #COP29Baku - leaders speak after global emissions report finds 'no sign' of 'transition away' from fossil fuels www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Speaking of blue skies - we want make sure we have them. Here is a starter pack of good people including advocates, educators, writers, reporters - who have been engaging on climate change issues for year. All worth following. go.bsky.app/28npm3J

All right friends. One more stater pack before the weekend is over. Here is for all those folks who are always pushing for big, structural changes while relentlessly dreaming big and fighting hard. #WarrenDemocrats 💚 go.bsky.app/2aGDYCh

Anyway if you're a Democrat - or just care about democracy & ensuring more voter participation - you should be doing everything you can to bring mail-only voting to your state.