How are the plastic and fossil fuel industries connected? This week on Possibly, we’re taking a closer look at how plastics have given the fossil fuel industry a new business platform — with hardly anyone noticing they’re even in the market.

Oped: Arresting journalists is fascism's logical next step: It will only silence us if we let it A protest that no one hears about is like the tree that falls silently in the forest. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/oped-arres...

If ICE is emboldened to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizens in broad daylight, imagine what's happening to the tens of thousands of people being held in makeshift detention camps across the US without cameras, attorneys and organizers

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

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Rhode Island Energy has withdrawn a proposal that, if approved by state regulators, would have provided its electric and gas customers some savings on their bills over the next two winters. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/19/m...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

My friend Lina Prestwood produced this audio piece which (and I don't usually say this), you absolutely have to listen to. It's a poem about what it is to grow up in Gaza, written by someone (who is remaining anonymous) from Gaza. It's called 1001 Stabs. An incredible piece of writing and audio

Had a lot of fun reporting this piece about the Endeavor, a ship that has facilitated a TON of research (a boatload of research if you will?) in the Atlantic, especially, the Gulf Stream!

Devastating piece by the inimitable @ninalakhani.bsky.social about the rising climate crisis death toll www.theguardian.com/environment/...

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency @heatmap.news

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

This map rocks!!

if you’re not calling bullshit on obvious lies what is the point of being a journalist

This morning in East Somerville, MA masked agents who told bystanders they were from Homeland Security abducted a man who lives in the neighborhood while he was on his way to do laundry. Video shared directly with me of the moments after he was detained and put in an unmarked vehicle:

Last month the Department of the Interior stopped construction on a Rhode Island wind farm that was 80% complete. This week on Possibly we break down what the order means for Rhode Islanders: our clean energy, jobs, and utility bills. thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

It’s like buying a car “and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas,” said David Crisp, a former scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

“Most of us are Trump voters, and we still believe in a leader who builds. That’s why we’re asking President Trump to reverse the stop-work order issued to Revolution Wind by Interior.”

A Trump administration official said the federal government may try to take over Boston's South Station "for more security and cleanliness." Commuters there said they aren't on board with that idea.

Say her name @apnews.com - Maryam Abu Daqqa risked her life working for you, yet now you refuse to say her name while spouting the same old IDF lies. Shame on the AP and all the mainstream media silent amid the slaughter of >250 Palestinian journalists - that's more than 20 colleagues each month.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Part three of my series on the Big Beautiful Bill and the clean energy transition is out now. The short of it is if you're considering an EV, solar panels, heat pump, etc, you still have time to get a big tax credit, but not much time!

First story in a series I reported about what Trump's de facto repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act will mean for New England consumers is out now. This week solar and wind, next week we tackle EVs

Florida is committing "enforced disappearance," a very serious violation of international human rights law. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i... www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

What many of us warned, & what is unavoidably clear now, is that there is no privileged sphere of "real life" that is sheltered, separate from the information environment. It's narratives all the way down -- even to the point that they shape *how people experience their own material circumstances*.

“She said, ‘I think this is going to be the last time I get to visit you,’” Öztürk’s friend recalled. “I told her, ‘No, no, you’re going to be able to come again, don’t worry, and I’m going to come visit you.’ That all turned out to be wrong.” By @hannahallam.bsky.social

Listen to the final episode of our series on home insurance and the climate crisis to hear from US Senator @whitehouse.senate.gov, @cadavejones.bsky.social and Professor Ishita Sen about what we can do about this looming crisis. thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

Home insurance is supposed to help us recover from natural disasters, but climate change is disrupting the industry, causing higher rates and non-renewals. Regulation of the industry falls on the states. Learn how they're responding in our latest: Featuring Ishita Sen & @cadavejones.bsky.social

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

In this week's episode of Possibly, Juliana Merullo and Nat Hardy spoke with @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social's @cadavejones.bsky.social to explain how, and why, the insurance industry is responding to climate change. Listen now: thepublicsradio.org/possibly-pod...

Top Wall Street institutions are prepping for global warming that blows past the Paris Agreement. "We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote, a scenario in which harvest failures are widespread and sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

Super proud of @fitzprov.bsky.social and producer Megan Hall for winning first place (again!) for best podcast at the New England Newspaper and Press Association. If you’ve never listened, the RI Report podcast is stellar. And free! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

This isn't just systemic racism denial, which is what the anti CRT crusade was all about - this is an EO asserting the racist falsehood that RACE IS BIOLOGICAL, not socially constructed. This is the centerpiece of the disproven race science; what nazi and colonizers used to justify horrors.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

A short audio doc I made called "On Its Way to Spoonhood" was featured in @phoebemcindoe.bsky.social's Small Audio Art series about wooden spoons. Phoebe's made a really special place for audio artists, and I'm so glad to be involved! Listen to spoons: welcome2myhome.squarespace.com/home-2/3-woo...

In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

This may be the biggest free speech crisis in living memory. The president now bragging about detaining a lawful permanent resident and smearing him as 'pro Hamas', no outlining any specific crimes he is accused of or charged with. This is what a fascist takeover looks like.

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

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Has anyone found a good replacement for CrowdTangle yet? Not having that tool has been such a huge loss

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

Talking about ISOs is becoming a bit of a recurring theme for me lately! New episode of Possibly about our changing electric grids is out now:

Can't let MLK Day end without sharing my favorite quote, which is sadly more relevant today than ever. drilled.media/news/Trump2

Trump has ordered the government to stop all permits for wind energy heatmap.news/sparks/wind-...

With Trump's second term just one week away, we wanted to check in on President Biden's defining climate legislation: the Inflation Reduction Act. What’s happened since it passed? Who has been implementing it? And what does its future look like under Trump? Listen to our latest episode now:

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

It's New Year's Eve! Which means it's time for a Possibly tradition: our New Year's Resolutions episode. 🪩🎊 Every year the Possibly team looks back at the episodes we reported and thinks about how those episodes can inspire our resolutions for 2025. Listen to what the team had to say: