Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

It's been almost four years since publishing my book on the history of Dutch cycling, and it's been great to see all the exciting work on global cycling history that has come out since. Such an underrated mode of transport in so many contexts, it's finally getting its due. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

This is about way more than Covid boosters. “Monarez said Kennedy asked her to meet with Aaron Siri, a trial attorney who specializes in vaccine lawsuits and who has worked closely with Kennedy. Siri has called for the Food and Drug Administration to revoke approval for the polio vaccine.”

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

good morning, if you live in Georgia I highly recommend double checking your voter registration today!! mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ (they sent out a bunch notices over the summer & if you didn't login, it auto moved to you over to being inactive and you won't be able to vote in upcoming elections)

This is super gross. The Breakthrough Institute, aligned with the Abundance Faction, apparently bought a Google ad tagged to the Substack post they posted last year, which lied about my book to attack my credibility, in order to keep the post high in the search results for my name. 1/n

American soybean farmers don’t have a single order from China as they head into harvest season. China usually buys 25% of the entire crop. Crisis looms for the farmers and there’s only one man responsible.

🚨📈 Over the last 6 months a series of papers has advanced our understanding of the culpability of fossil fuel firms for climate change impacts. In April, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I showed that economic damages from rising extreme heat can be linked to companies like Exxon and Chevron. rdcu.be/ei0T5

We thought No Kings Day in June would be a good protest. We did not know it would break records, with 2,169 protests in every state and 27 countries. We need your help to make October 18 even bigger: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

The climate case by municipalities of Puerto Rico that made RICO claims against oil companies to hold them responsible for Hurricane Maria has been dismissed. @nytimes.com gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/c...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state. (📸 Igor Bobic)

CHICAGO SHOWS HOW ITS DONE www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...

The EPA move follows news the administration wants to scrap the satellites that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. If you can't measure it and don't know where it's coming from, it becomes very difficult to reduce or eliminate it (or hold anybody accountable for damages). Gift link.

Chicago River becomes eco-friendly again, and is about to welcome swimmers back into its course for the FIRST TIME IN OVER 100 YEARS! It took over 40 years to clean.

For some reason when we posted this same video on LinkedIn on the Bellingcat account it was removed "for misinformation" with no further explanation.

doubt it convinces anyone but i like the pro-solar framing that it's better at converting energy than corn. fuck corn, we're kicking corn's ass now

Bravo the Italian dock workers. Heroes wear all different kinds of helmets.

BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants. People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” This is authoritarian control in real time.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Three of mine and several articles.

You can start a monthly contribution to @chisholmlegacy.bsky.social here today. Jacqui and her crew do some of the nation's best organizing around intersecting climate, gender, and racial justice needs. thechisholmlegacyproject.networkforgood.com/projects/205...

I know I said I was logging off and I am but let me say that I have heard about environmental organizations and their budget cuts and then I have heard about environmental justice organizations and THEIR budget cuts. And they could not be more different. We will lose Black founded and led orgs soon.

This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary

Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."

excited to share the call for the workshop EXTRACTIVE NATURES / NATURES OF EXTRACTION happening at @uobrisceh.bsky.social on 6-7 Nov 2025, 
made possible by the @britishacademy.bsky.social deadline: 10 September! full call below ⤵ #envhist #envhum

Voluntary #CarbonMarket systems are fragile. Although buyer activity has grown since the 2015 #ParisAgreement, oversight remains inconsistent, writes Wendy Chen ( @yunimpact.bsky.social ‬) www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/it-remains-i...

meme authoritarianism in action!

"the real violence in Chicago - like across america - is not the violence of the streets but the violence of policy: underfunded schools, disappearing jobs, healthcare deserts, food apartheid, and a criminal justice system that treats poverty like a capital offense." spiritual leadership 9-2-25

supreme irony that the party of lincoln is now the party of taney

man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Terrifying

Genius. Energy storage via a big insulated bucket of sand, with 90% efficiency and months of storage time. Finland is also the country that was recycling on an industrial scale in, like, the 60s

Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.

Just when you think you know a lot about sea otters, you learn about *echinochromicity* — the propensity of urchins to turn their predators’ bones and teeth purple. From @helenscales.bsky.social’s WHAT THE WILD SEA CAN BE.

I literally had that discussion with a colleague the other day after a workshop. ME: We should build relationships with and care for our students. COLLEAGUE: How do we do that at scale? ME: The number of instructors is scalable. COLLEAGUE: But that will never happen! ME: Doesn't mean I'm wrong.

My job now is to go school to school, university to university trying to help them sort through the challenge of teaching in a world with AI and the first thing I recommend to improve the teaching of writing is cut the number of students per instructor in half. No one is going to do that, though.

Back in the day I used to sub at the school down the street from here. The community don't deserve this.

Every word of this 1000 times

Good for her, and Lisa Cook, and anyone else who plants their feet, digs in, and says "Fuck you; make me."

If somebody builds a robot that tells my kid how to kill himself and tells him not to seek help from loved ones and drafts his suicide note and your answer is “that’s all speech therefore nothing wrong happened” I’m gonna say your answer fucking sucks.

“The idea that all of this happened because, like, twelve professors at Berkeley used “Latinx” on their syllabi is just detached from reality, from my point of view.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social In full form www.thedriftmag.com/politics-is-...

let's fucking go

🚨BREAKING: In a landmark victory for voters, a Utah judge struck down the state Legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map and reinstated the citizen-led redistricting reforms voters approved in 2018. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Not that anyone is still on this topic, but I worked (it was not insignificant work) w/ my uni’s general counsel to appeal cancellation of my NSF grant. The appeal has been denied. Not a surprise and I’m sure 1000s of others are in the same boat but, hey, we all really wanted to do just do the work.

Climate change is altering the natural world’s soundscape, with declining bird, insect, and amphibian populations leading to quieter environments. This “sensory extinction” is exacerbated by noise pollution from human activities. Listen to these recordings in this article from @sabs.bsky.social!