Did you know the most powerful force for climate action is LOVE—for our children, their future, and the world they’ll inherit? That's right! Research shows this message moves hearts 12x more than jobs and 2x more than extreme weather. Source: potentialenergycoalition.org/guides-and-r...

Need something to help hold you up right now? Maybe some stories/ideas in this week's newsletter will help. And there's a bonus beaver story, too. Thanks to @wildernesspriest.bsky.social and @jimantal.bsky.social for key contributions! refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Gaslighting is the entire GOP playbook. From ‘biggest crowd ever’ to ‘normal tourist visit,’ they’re betting you’ll ignore reality. If we allow them to keep rewriting history, they’ll keep burning the truth to the ground.

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Not by Gandhi but still very appropriate in these times.

NEW: Trump’s anti-wind order does *not* just apply to offshore wind. That’s because all wind projects need federal permits, even if they’re not on federal property. Lobbyists believe that Trump’s order could hit “more than half” of wind farms now under development. heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

CARTOON OF THE DAY

From what a friend and federal employee just told me, it sounds like nobody really knows. If you have DEI/A in your job title or work for an office that does, you’re probably going on paid leave. Beyond that, it seems like the language was left intentionally vague in order to instill fear.

Wonderful reflections from Rev. @jimantal.bsky.social of @thirdactorg.bsky.social's faith working group on how congregations can help each other through this stretch thirdact.org/faith/2025/0...

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Johnson is a religious extremist and a traitor. 'nough said. www.salon.com/2025/01/07/w...

When the song of the angels is stilled...the work of Christmas begins: To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among others, To make music in the heart. - Howard Thurman

YES! Please!!!

Happy Birthday Dr.Fauci and thank you for saving us! 💙

Fox happiness, no need caption. #FoxOfTheDay #fox 📸 Credit: Unknown/Dm me

Yep - your really owned us libs

"Bad information is breaking the energy transition – and the fake news is only getting more powerful." Welcome to a special year-end edition of THE FIGHT newsletter. This week, @jael.bsky.social spotlights the biggest threat facing renewables: misinformation. Read more below.

Good news: if you lab test lithium-ion batteries the way they are actually used in real-world vehicles (lots of stop & start), you find out ... they last about 40% longer than previously estimated! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Experts fear the incoming Trump administration will try to delete #climate data that refute his policies. But scientists are ready and have backups: “Even if Trump tries to disappear all the data that undermines his policies, he can’t do it.” @sejorg www.sej.org/publications... #climatechange

What I like most about this platform: No need for a "universe please send me" offering to placate the all-powerful Threads algorithm deity, hardly any trolls, shorter posts than LinkedIn--and best of all the search function WORKS and it lets you find all the people, starter packs, & feeds you want!

RESIST

Can't we ditch the drivers of all this hared and acrimony and take care of each other??

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

My fortnightly newsletter. I sum up the climate news with a faith angle so you can get the overview. I try to explain the good, bad, complicated--and then provide a gorgeous shot of Lake Michigan or a story about, say, gophers. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Thank you. I will not bow down to Trump. @democracydocket.com will not obey.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is enlisting associates with close ties to anti-vaccine organizations to help vet and interview candidates for senior roles at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Salmon are back! therevelator.org/salmon-klama...

🧪 re-upping this. Mark and I are lead signatories on this scientist letter to CA Gov Newsom calling on him to #ShutDownAlisoCanyon Fellow scientists, please join us!

An observation that seems most timely

Starter pack for those working on misinfo, disinfo, information integrity, digital authoritarianism, propaganda etc. Definitely a work in progress, reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/V4Po9wB

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not a “skeptic” of vaccines. He has said there are no safe or effective vaccines. He is a foe of vaccines.

I just talked about how great Bluesky is on MSNBC

Really lovely interview with Katharine Hayhoe about fighting fear, working together: insideclimatenews.org/news/1211202... #climatechange #hope