"The MAHA movement is less an unstoppable powerhouse than a dysfunctional governing coalition, doing considerable damage to faith in vaccines and public health but incapable of staging even superficially persuasive vaccine-advisory meetings..." Excellent stuff here 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

“The CDC peddled pseudo science in the middle of a pandemic,” Bhattacharya wrote on X in 2024, criticizing agency leaders’ past claim that widespread masking could end the coronavirus outbreak. 🎁🔗⤵️ wapo.st/4cw4Wsk

NYT: Methane emissions from wetlands are rising faster than those from industrial sources, prompting concerns about a climate feedback loop. #TimeCapsule2076

"So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity." www.reuters.com/world/allega...

An interesting interpretation of George Washington that changes how we see him. He was an amazing personal creation. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-u...

"[...] he offered a vision of unity based on a misty idea of inherited “Western civilization”—Dante, Shakespeare, the Sistine Chapel, the Beatles—which would fight against the real enemies: not Russia, not China, but rather migration, the “climate cult,” and other forms of modern degeneracy."

America’s hard turn against renewables and climate action won’t be decisive for the climate future as long as other countries continue to move ahead...all MAGA will do is help make the United States backward, poorer, sicker and irrelevant" - @paulkrugman bluevirginia.us/2026/02/mond...

On the second anniversary of his murder by Putin, reupping this tribute to Navalny: Goodbye to my fearless friend, Alexei Navalny wapo.st/4alxEL3

Russia poisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny with a toxin from a poison dart frog, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom said today.

Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath. The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.

Excellent, but lost the punchline: slowing clean energy drives the grid to fossil; higher-cost fossil drives money from customers to Trump donors.

Higher electricity costs for consumers is on purpose — paying back Trump’s big donors with your money. They hope you won’t see their game.

Especially important in light of today's EPA news. On how the privatization of climate data is creating a world where the best understanding of risk lives inside corporations, while the institutions of democracy increasingly struggle to insist upon full data and understanding. Essential reading.

“Should the Arctic be refrozen?” (Gift article) economist.com/science-and-...

“The move could leave American automakers even more dominated by gas-guzzling trucks and sport utility vehicles…as China and other nations continue to shift toward cleaner electric cars. That could leave them at a competitive disadvantage in coming years. “Our automakers are not going to survive,”

“We’re not continuing on the same path we had before,” said Robert Rohde, chief scientist at Berkeley Earth. “Something has changed.” 🎁🔗⤵️ wapo.st/4abXa5w

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Colorado plays a linchpin role in weather and climate research. Weather and climate research are inseparable—climate is essentially the long-term statistics of weather. Unfortunately, the first step to dismantle NCAR seems to be underway...

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

Great piece out today in Physics Today on historical origins, contemporary relevance, & fundamental irreplaceability of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which remains at imminent risk of dismantling for partisan political reasons.

This was one of the most important stories of the day -- and one of the most underplayed. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/30eddef...

Trump and his enablers in the Republican Congress are slowing climate progress. The result will be real damage and loss of life from coastal inundation from rising sea levels, intensifying storms, more destructive wildfires and searing heat waves. But it won’t put a stop to global climate action.

NYT: The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them. #TimeCapsule2076 #KidsGaze 🎁🔗⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

This shameful abdication—an economic, moral, and political failure—will harm Americans’ health, homes, and economic well-being. It ignores scientific fact and common-sense observations to serve big political donors.

Hey folks: This morning’s podcast episode on Contempt and Power—and the many ways that folks in power are showing contempt for We the People. www.youtube.com/live/Vl1vsCu...

It is literally zero surprise that they knew their hand-picked climate deniers weren’t putting out real science. Their nonsense has never been real, but part of a fraudulent propaganda campaign, designed by fossil fuel to protect its “free-to-pollute” business model.

It’s not at all an accident that the first two updates in this note are 1) coal industry leaders and Trump pushing junk science at the White House and 2) the Michigan billionaire who successfully lobbied the WH earlier in the week to block the publicly-owned competitor to his own bridge

A professor once summed up Jean-Paul Sartre's essay w/ a bicycle motif (one pedal goes up only by pushing down the other). Wikipedia: David Nirenberg in citing this essay and its salient observation that "if the Jew did not exist, the anti-semite would invent him." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Se...

#KidsGaze #TimeCapsule2076

“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.” Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter: "The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

@billmckibben.bsky.social: "I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional." billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

Trump just blew up the endangerment finding behind climate regulation. Now what? | Vox 🎁🔗⤵️ www.vox.com/climate/4789...

Even as elites abandon any pretense of giving a shit ... climate change is accelerating.

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Trump orders Pentagon to buy coal power as the polluting fuel struggles to survive 🎁🔗⤵️ wapo.st/4aHbN0J

“[AMOC collapse] is a scenario of global tumult, driven by countries with large populations pushed from the climate regime they're used to. It’s a recipe for serious, persistent global destabilisation” Great talking with @chicoharlan.bsky.social for this piece www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Endangerment finding, and greenhouse gas standards for vehicles, officially repealed. Story @bloomberg.com, with more updates coming: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"There is greater acceptance now that there is a detectable acceleration of warming". Great article by John Muyskens and Shannon Osaka in today's Washington Post: www.washingtonpost.c...

What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on #Climate Regulation 🎁🔗⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c... “The basic science on greenhouse gases from fossil fuels as a driver of climate change has been clear for well over a century,” Robert Howarth, a professor at Cornell University

Gift link to @joshtpm.bsky.social take here. Great minds and all that... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/remem...

#TimeCapsule2076 #KidsGaze

📣The opposite of #ClimateAction‼️ Bill Gates charity trust’s holdings in #FossilFuel firms rise despite divestment claims Trust had $254m invested in companies such as Chevron, BP and Shell in 2024, a nine-year record, analysis shows Via Guardian: 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"And it appears to shelve a powerful tool, known as the value of a statistical life, that agencies have used for decades in the cost-benefit analyses that justify new regulations." 1/2 #KidsGaze #TimeCapsule2076 🎁🔗⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...

#MartinLutherKing and the Minnesota Protests - The Atlantic 🎁🔗⤵️ www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Wildfires in Chile rage for third day, entire towns wiped out u.afp.com/SB5w

“The right to vote is a central goal of our freedom movement,” she’d say. “Without it, we will continue to be oppressed. But with it, we can help change our society and make America better for everyone.” 🎁🔗⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

"While U.S. investment in clean energy has boomed in recent years...many large corporations have gone silent on climate change. On company earnings calls, mentions of words like climate & sustainability have plunged by 75% over the past year, according to Bloomberg" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/c...

Unprecedented presidency-ending corruption for anyone from Truman to Obama.

Ronald Reagan introduced the requirement for cost-benefit analyses in 1981, which led the EPA to asses the value of human lives and health outcomes. This is about to end and that's expected to make it easier to pollute.🎁🔗