Perhaps I should stay home next month 🫠

Two Young Boys Were Detained by ICE. Then Ms. Rachel Shared Their Stories www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

somehow a war for less oil.

One way imo to think about a midtransition war would be if an electrostate started it for the purposes of putting fossil fuels to bed but that is decidedly not what is happening like at all

Logged off from all work by 5:30 please clap

I did not make this flyer so don't yell at me, but there is a press conference tomorrow about all of the neighborhood associations and community organizations that are demanding strong action from on the CEI Hub. Tomorrow at 11 AM at Augustana Lutheran Church (2710 NE 14th Ave)

"So how do we create the resistance necessary to abolish ICE and turn the tide?" Good stuff here.

The explicit homophobia and transphobia in society in 2026 is making everything worse for the types of culture and outcomes i wrote about in 2024 when it comes to queer people working on energy issues. We're fighting to simply exist, let alone contribute to critical climate work.

Hits a particular nerve every time to see stuff like this happen

The human costs of the US war on Iran steals the future of Iranians in terms of their lives- in time they would otherwise live if not for US bombs. The carbon costs of the US war on Iran steal the future from us all. From @cplusc.bsky.social:

Critique linking big green, big tech, mining, global colonialism, global environmental justice together www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/bi...

An underrated but important job for left movement workers is inside your state's legislative analyst office. I'm big on getting folks who think institutions are important into any of these type of bureaucratic roles and this one is especially niche yet pretty critical.

Good time to re-up this Spectrum of Allies chart. You may never get someone to go from active opposition to active support on any issue in one election cycle, but it is much more plausible to move them from active opposition to passive opposition, or neutral/ don't care to passive support

Have you read any good large scale data center regulation proposals? Moratorium is a short term bandaid that I'm skeptical will do what it wants. I'm longer on something like a tightening of REIT classification and a reclassification of these things as utilities (and eventually public goods).

Gaza was/is the prototypical example of an obvious, serious crisis that the captains of your team refuse to name as such. But there are many such crises. There is much to be gained by stepping into the leadership gap and saying clearly that the old world is gone and we need to start acting like it.

Gotta say "what if the world's economic systems tied directly to the material flows of energy fall apart" vs. "what if they don't" is terrible for my mental health and for a lot of medium term organizing + research strategy certainty.

just saw a one sentence state bill that's essentially the statehouse version of an idea we've been working on for a few months...the legislator equivalent of just tweeting it out 😭

Here's reporting centering the organizers behind the data center moratorium in Tulsa, Oklahoma tulsaflyer.org/2026/03/27/n...

Some incredibly strong organizing by Indigenous leaders at Honor The Earth involved in this positive outcome www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklaho...

Changes that Republicans made to SNAP will kick a lot of people off food stamps starting April 1. If you can, please support your local food bank. www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/...

Love the incredible segment in every Rick Steves video where he just whales on the US's idiotic approach to drug use and incarceration right after the bit where he asks a local auntie how she serves cheese and sausages

Watching people openly debate whether explicit homophobia is good or bad political messaging in 2026 is blackpilling that's for sure.

Abso-lutely

whole swaths of disinformation studies and T&S research are essentially this generation's peasant studies

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Not sure what's worse, watching even ~1000 sq ft condo prices in San Francisco hit $1.5 million or seeing their HOA fees. What do you mean this condo has a $2200/month HOA fee? A rent payment on top of the mortgage payment?

Seeing some clips and streams of Pokopia gameplay and can't shake the grotesque cozy but doomy 2020 x ACNH vibes

Worked on this some more this morning and had fun wrapping my head around where LIHEAP and WAP are in conjunction with this, and what it looks like to snap forward to something new that is designed to meet the needs in society rather than self-paralyzing program design ideals.

“What we’re seeing in Corpus Christi is really not an isolated crisis,” said Shannon Marquez, a professor at Columbia Water Center, a research institute at Columbia University. “It’s very consistent with how things are going to unfold if we don’t start to plan.”

the choice is never neoliberalism or fascism. insufficiently managed and regulated economic liberalism yields social dysfunction then fascism as backlash and synthesis. they are complements, not substitutes.

"Being from electricity, I have a lot to learn from water." If this was you at AAG I wanna talk more!

Some people think they can eliminate all human life from specific places and that society can and will absorb the damage. Use up all the potable water around this oil and gas plant. Poison the air. Eliminate all workers, "AI robots can turn the valves."

We can and should build a society that meets everyone's basic needs, regardless of employment status, with no paperwork, no shame, no questions asked. Food, shelter, utilities, health care, child care, education - we can and should make these freely available to all.

Yesssssssss

"During the time between 2025 and 2026, Gaza’s power system is widely described as effectively non-functional, with electricity access fragmented, inconsistent and largely dependent on emergency solutions rather than a stable grid."

Writing about utility allowances (iykyk) and found a model developed by HUD to standardize calculation for different housing types and different states (cool!) which actually incorporated EIA RECS data (whoa, amazing!!) and it has a red warning flag on the page because it was abandoned in 2016 (🤡🫠)

He raised us… our first anti capitalist globalist text was literally animaniacs

"After No Kings, Indivisible, one of the lead organizers of the "No Kings" protest, is pivoting to building support for...May Day Strong. The May Day Strong coalition is calling for "No Work, No School, No Shopping" on May 1st." reporting by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/no-kings-org...

What's happening is having monumental human impacts and I will keep talking about that. Something about the abstraction doesn't sit right with me at all, even as I am not at all ignorant of why that's happening or what value it has and does not have at the same time.

Spoke with some comrades in India today who told me about the fuel crisis in Pakistan because of the US war on Iran. Recent reporting from @thexylom.com makes this more vivid and connects the dots about the human and ecological requirement for a just transition off fossil fuels.

I was looking at all the DSA chapter websites and why does Tucson’s look so cool

Giant protests normalize becoming political with your friends. I was a baby gay who didn't know anything except my friends were all going out and I wanted to be with them in 2012. Now my political project is about race, class, gender, climate, and collective control of our energy infrastructure.

This is terrible news. Jackie Fielder is a light in California politics and an amazing champion for the working class in San Francisco. I'm sending her so much love and support. sfstandard.com/2026/03/27/s...

how i actually feel about my own op lol

As @shastingssimon.bsky.social and I have said often: we’re not even in the mid-transition yet for oil.* Do you see transportation alternatives constraining our ability to use oil? In any case, don’t blame yet more tragedies from old, tired power struggles on the transition. *in most places

Hopped on for a minute today and wanted to share that I've got to shift down a little bit for personal health reasons. Definitely not any need to worry, but hope anyone seeing this who's also waiting on something from me will give me a little bit more time and a little more patience.

I imagine this cost is eating up the monthly payments many homeowners and landlords could have otherwise used on decarbonization budgets.

No: don't call it a mid-transition war This is not a mid-transition impact, this is the same oil shock/disruptive impact as the last however many times, moderated somewhat and for some countries because there are actually alternatives available and in some cases deployed H/t @gruberte.bsky.social

Rhiana Gunn-Wright is coming to Boulder tomorrow. Assigned my students this insightful & inspiring conversation w @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social & they loved it. You might too: hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

Something that burns me, still, every time I think about it: As soon as it became clear that COVID was mostly killing demographics we think of as the least economically productive, this country abandoned efforts to control its spread—under the guise of being “realistic” and recognizing trade-offs.