-The people who say it is about government brutality (ICE) and rights are right. -People who say it is about affordability are also right. The convergence between them is urgency of drastic reforms, INCLUDING tearing down agencies that are corrupt and unaccountable. Big moment for Dems to seize.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

not to hand it to NSF, but I actually think this is pretty smart climate politics: don't say EPA has stopped using VSL, say they've decided VSL isn't $7m, it's $0

Friends & activists from Denver, Greeley & around the state, would love for you to join them at the next protest against the proposed ICE detention facility in Hudson Colorado. Organized by #IndivisibleND2B #NOCCC #COIPT

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

“We are at the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel economy. The U.S. is betting on the wrong horse.” The perfect kicker quote for this important front-page @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c... [gift link]

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...

(Goodbye and) Thank you, Coal bigpivots.com/thank-you-co...

"On Saturday, 6 December, Dames was added to the Quakers' prison and court register, begun in the 1600s to document Quakers prosecuted for acting on conscience and resistance."

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inspired by the "modern seinfeld" instagram account: Kramer’s podcast becomes popular in the manosphere; Elaine’s boyfriend becomes a fan and she begins to worry that he is a January 6 insurrectionist. George and Kramer pose the same questions to ChatGPT, which responds in very different ways.

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

How I Became a Populist newrepublic.com/article/2011... via @newrepublic.com

A Buddhist, a Quaker, and a Jew walk into a bar... I mean, the library! If you're in Greeley, Colorado, come listen to a panel of speakers discussing climate change and climate action from a variety of religious perspectives. Wednesday 11/19, 6-7:30, LINC Library (downtown Greeley)

“Authoritarians don’t stop because you’re reasonable. They stop when you make the cost of continuing too high.”

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

😢 "Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

"When we think of climate anxiety, it tends to be focused on an individual, psychological viewpoint. Our results point to a collective dimension with implications for climate politics." -Holly Jean Buck

Food lines were 2X normal this morning at the Weld Food Bank, which told me 2/3rds of their visitors said they were impacted by the SNAP food benefit freeze. Our microgiving campaign has raised $50,000 for Weld Food Bank so far. Even $5 helps: weldfoodbank.org/wordofthanks/

If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really! It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line. And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.

Let's argue about whether it's more effective to fight hunger and poverty or climate pollution once we have exhausted the many ways to fight both at once.

@merriam-webster.com, might i suggest "synecdoche" as a word of the day?

Today I learned that animal agriculture mouthpieces who aim to delay climate action fear calls to individual action. Why? While individual action to burn less fossil fuel is fairly constrained by infrastructure - e.g. car-dependent cities - choosing to eat less meat and dairy is much more effective.

"36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters."

The President lives and dies by the numbers. All his claims are about numbers. Suddenly, @nytimes.com is focused on content, not numbers? Seems like maybe the protest numbers are not things this administration wants us to hear. Sometimes you just have to report the numbers.

has anyone used graphic novels to teach on climate change and environmental justice? i've used excerpts from derrick jensen and stephanie mcmillan's "as the world burns: 50 simple things you can do to stay in denial" but i'm looking for more!

In personal news, my homeowners insurance is up 47% this year, in northern Colorado. My insurance broker blamed it on "heavy catastrophic losses" and post-pandemic inflation. undark.org/2025/09/30/c...

It is foolish to contend that we can somehow avoid the hard politics of climate action by rendering the challenge into a bloodless infrastructure problem somehow immune to the power & influence of the fossil fuel industry.

Headed to #AAG2026 and have something to say about discretion in natural resource management and environmental governance? Check out this CFP (Adrianne Kroepsch, Jill Harrison, and me): docs.google.com/document/d/1... @cape-aag.bsky.social @politicalgeography.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to invest in wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables (unless on-site). But what critics conveniently forget is the huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Wickett, Texas. 👇

What's new is old . . . (-1916-) #EnergyTransition

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

"Our measurements show that wheat and grass-clover mixtures grow just as well between vertical solar panels as in open fields. At the same time, the panels produce electricity in a daily pattern that better matches energy demand. It's a win-win," Get these to Kansas ASAP

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

this is incredibly true and tracks with a basic dynamic we've seen all along: the people who were cowed into submission by Trump's win were elites. regular people have never given an inch

Fossil fuels are harmful in a million different ways, but the immediate impacts they have has been broadly understated If climate change were a hoax their severe, deadly health impacts would alone be enough justification to still get rid of them climateandhealthalliance.org/wp-content/u...

"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."

"It's an absolute fact that the fossil fuel industry has had a very sophisticated and expensive PR campaign for probably 3 decades convincing us that the climate crisis is a suicide—rather than a homicide—and we bought it. And now we all blame ourselves." youtu.be/6sXzCkPKhV8?...

my semi-wild town

We need an "In Bed" rule for extreme weather headlines, except add "Thanks to Big Oil's Avoidable Pollution." ‘We’re being cooked alive:’ Europe burns as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Thanks to Big Oil's Avoidable Pollution:

Thinking about the phrase “bringing a fact check to a culture war” today (unhappily)

growing meat + dairy allergies because of ticks on martha's vineyard www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/dining/marthas-vineyard-alpha-gal-tick-bites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk8.mc3D.TiYTXzUkDGdK&smid=bs-share

When i first came into climate, i sort of absorbed that some people had decided to divide this up -- even if it wasn't explicit -- you over there stop the bad, we'll start the new, someone will (maybe) change the rules. I think we need a tighter & interlinked strategy & action plan than that.

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought. Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.

Motherfucking wind farms…

“The question we should be asking is not whether we favor growth, but how and for whom the economy is to be structured and directed, how growth is to be harnessed to serve social needs.” ~Bayard Rustin (1976)

Crucially, decarbonising power so rapidly means that decarbonisation of transport and heat is so much easier through electrification...