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...

Fireworks shows spreading westward on the air quality maps.

Did you know that bills that go through the legislature only model their direct costs, NOT the anticipated benefits and savings (at least in Colorado)? That makes it really easy to say they're "too expensive" to pass.

This is the right energy to bring to fighting for democracy, just sayin'

Some of us need to fight within the system, some of us need to create new systems, some us need to tend the wounded, some of us need to stand in the way of harm, and all of us need to support the ones doing the things that is not, right now, our thing to do. Good thing there are a lot of us.

beautiful lines from @drkatemarvel.bsky.social's new book, Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet, on being a less-than-neutral climate scientist: "I need to declare a conflict of interest regarding Earth: everyone I love lives here."

showyourstripes.info/b/northameri... it's 99F today. and still probably the coolest summer my kids will ever experience.

Always read @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social. Here, her message for the left is that we need to tell a collective story about where we want to go, suggest some strategies about how to get there, and offer metrics that tell us the truth about whether the project is working.

Please, please, everyone understand: it is about power, not information. At every scale, with only occasional exceptions: it is about power.

When I talk w lawmakers about how to fight for democracy in this moment, I emphasize the need to use their physical bodies. (in the way Lander and Padilla did). Show authentic moral courage and use your physical body. Strongly worded letters & Statements mean very little given what is at stake.

Put this on a billboard.