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new metaphor just dropped

if you haven't seen any photos of what the US used to look like before the clean air/water acts, you should take 30 seconds for a quick image search

When you think about how fireworks cause serious harm to the environment, wildlife, pets, and vulnerable people but they still happen every year because most Americans value a few minutes of entertainment more than all of those things. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:

As many experience lethal, unlivable heat, it's a good time to remember that there is no such thing as a climate refugee under the law. Climate breakdown was not understood when the UN convention was written. In the US, there is one way for extreme weather to be the basis for legal status: TPS.

Let’s keep cutting CDC budgets and public health programs tho

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

To celebrate/atone for the 250, y'all should donate to Indigenous causes and/or buy stuff from Indigenous artists. I'll list some below, but if you know of any, feel free to add. Bc I'm Inupiaq, this is going to be Alaska Native heavy....

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

And bug your elderly relatives, friends, and neighbors to turn on the AC and (important) LEAVE IT ON

Can't be stated enough how much more progressive candidates are running better campaigns. Yes, that comes back to having & refusing to abandon values & convictions plus willingness to fight. But also - they're spending more time with voters because they spend less with consultants & donors.

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

It was already 85° at 9:45 llam in Mettler CA w/temps predicted to reach 97°. Farmworkers were harvesting table grapes along a vineyard row. One worker packs the grapes at a shaded packing table fitted with an umbrella, The 2nd worker brings in freshly picked fruit. #WeFeedYou

Def clocked these ads during the games 👀 If the petrostate plans to host 2034 World Cup like HOW if you keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere? Will they all go indoor?! www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

BREAKING: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled 2-1 that ICE cannot detain people under the Trump administration's massive new detention policy for more than 90 days without affording them a bond hearing. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

The US's largest wind farm, capable of powering more than a million homes, came online this month in New Mexico. The industry is facing many challenges — ranging from the Trump administration’s attack on renewable energies to inflation to local opposition. By Mark Chediak for Bloomberg Green:

The lack of overnight relief is really worrying How much suffering is enough for us to stop burning fossil fuels www.npr.org/2026/07/02/n...

“Our societies are not built to withstand what’s coming, and by any rational thinking, all countries should be uniting in a last ditch battle to save the world.”

From DC perspective, difficult to convey what a total disaster Trump-pa-looza is turning out to be -Well over 100F in the shade, and rising. -Monumental areas of DC all locked down. -No one at 'State Fair' -Caligula planning to give speech *starting* at 9:45pm. -Fireworks *starting* around 11pm

"In effect, for every $1 cut from programs for low-income Americans, the wealthiest 1% will get about $1 back in tax breaks." They also cut investments in climate resilience and tax credits for clean energy.

Rage, rage against the willful heating of our shared home

As a former newspaper editor, writing two pages of headlines six days a week: ♦️This is a headline.

Fortune Magazine: A.I. Data Centers Are So Hot Their ‘Heat Island’ Effect Is Raising Temperatures Up To 6 Miles Away fortune.com/2026/04/01/a...

cool job alert: NYC Urban Green Council is hiring a director of policy www.urbangreencouncil.org/wp-content/u...

"Analysis found European heatwave killed >20,000 people... likely more than 5,000 excess deaths in France, 4,500 in Germany, 3,000 in Spain, 2,700 in Italy, 1,070 in Poland and 862 in the UK between 22 and 28 June." #ClimateEmergency = #PublicHealth emergency www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This graph is great data communication. City budgets are amounts of $ are hard to grasp (like how do I think about millions of dollars when I'm just trying to make rent?) but this really highlights how huge the gap is between what was promised versus delivered for this essential public service.

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#OTD 1858 Alice Lee b (d 5 Oct 1939). Showing that "negative” studies can have major impact, her doctoral research demonstrated no correlation between skull volume & intelligence. As craniometry was used to “scientifically prove” male genius & female inferiority, the fallout was massive.

Re-upping the cry/consensus to name these violent heat domes after Big Oil co’s

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

GET FROSTY, NYS

NEW—'On Courage' is a new book out tomorrow by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist @juliaangwin.com and Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow @fieldsmeyer.com about the many ways regular people have dissented against autocracy. Read this EXCLUSIVE excerpt about a former HUD lawyer challenging Trump:

Extra very double plus ungood …

The largest wind farm in US history started up this month in New Mexico. It'll be America’s last landmark wind project for years, as the industry grapples with a myriad of headwinds.

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The news from Europe and the heat wave that is about to begin here in the US should be a reminder of where we are in this climate crisis (and what's coming):

A big and brutal heatwave will smother the Eastern US next week! Highs 95-100. Heat index 100-115. What really makes the #heatwave standout… the size and longevity… covering half the nation and lasting a full week for many. With all this said, the heat dome intensity will not be unprecedented.

A former colleague has birthed this super engaging comic book about animal sex. Celebrate Pride Month by learning just how gay animals are 🌈 Also fascinating is its conversation with science and interrogating it thru feminist+queer lenses, + the offering of celebrating nature despite climate grief ❤️‍🩹

NYC’s Libraries Need Your Help! Our city representatives are currently negotiating the city budget, and we need to remind them to #InvestInLibraries! Please Take a Moment to Send a Note to NYC’s Leaders. Thank You for Your Support! #LibrariesAreForEveryone queenslibrary.org/support/take...

Events at 'London Climate Action Week' are being disrupted by.... the extreme heat sweeping Europe “We haven’t addressed climate change quick enough. The reality is here—we are unprepared.” [Story by Isabella Ward]

air conditioning is good and right and a just climate future has zero emissions and also air conditioning and we should build a better world where people don’t die in heat waves

Our health-care fund is in a financial crisis. There’s an easy fix: The Times can agree to our proposal that fully funds it - but they refuse. They want us to believe it’s “not sustainable.”

Trump abruptly canceled plans to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill, derailing what was expected to be a rare moment of cooperation between Democrats and Republicans on lowering housing costs. Hours before a scheduled signing ceremony,

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

A fuel shortage in Cuba brought about by a U.S. oil blockade has created a new crisis: garbage. Ed Augustin reports that trash has been piling up on streets as trucks are missing parts for repair and fuel to run, which is also raising the risk of mosquito-borne diseases spreading across the country.

As we all know, getting a degree means you’re no longer black. The only way to count as black is if you don’t take jobs white people think only white people should be able to get bsky.app/profile/edro...

Tennessee is telling 400 families to decide between their critically ill child dying in Tennessee or dying somewhere in the deportation system. “The cruelty is the point” has become too glib to understand this stuff. Republicans in TN want kids to die because they’re not white.