Two Democratic state lawmakers from Las Cruces urged New Mexico environment officials to hold a public hearing in Doña Ana County on air quality permits from the controversial data center Project Jupiter.

Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office. Read more: https://propub.li/4rBUJOV

"Black women ...comprise 6 percent of the overall U.S. labor force and 12 percent of the federal labor force. But of the almost 300,000 federal jobs slashed in 2025, Black women were a stunning 33 percent of those cuts."

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Holy shit. These people must be stopped. "By the end of 2025, an estimated 39% of the gas power capacity being developed in the US was designed to serve data centers...up from 5% at the end of 2024."

accurate. but, *Third Reconstruction.

excellent thread! read it!

Call me an alarmist, but these trends are not good! www.pbump.net/o/visualizin...

Resolution Copper now owns Oak Flat, a sacred Indigenous site in Arizona, and has begun exploratory drilling for a massive copper mine: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l... via @debkrol.bsky.social

Trump is interested in fraud as a device to attack safety net programs and immigrants. He is completely uninterested in reducing actual fraud and corruption. For example, he pardoned someone who had engaged in massive Medicare fraud, part of the cash-for-pardons industry Trump has created.

This is insane.

damn, this is so good.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

41 people have died in ICE detention since January 2025. Twelve since January 1 alone, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I built a beta of an interactive map of detained deaths using ICE's own press releases. 🧵

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

"The signature policy of the New Deal wasn't really Social Security. It was the payroll tax that funded Social Security ...If you want a broad set of middle class benefits, you need a broad-based middle class tax." Sharp @jamellebouie.net response to Dem tax plans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZv...

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Jeff Bezos is clearly trying to kill the Post. There’s no other possible explanation for the recent chain of decisions. Even colossal ignorance couldn’t account for it. Maybe it’s a two-fer: a tax write-off AND a way to further hamstring journalism in the US.

Norway is at ~100% EVs for new sales, but 7 out of every 10km driven in 2024 was reliant on fossil fuels. Cars stick around for decades - so change is slow. Protecting ppl from fossil fuel crises means EVs, yes, but *fast deep cuts* means huge $$ in public and active transport. Speed matters!

When economists say the president can't really do much to change gas prices, what they mean is he can't do much to *reduce* gas prices. Turns out they can do a lot to raise them www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-iran...

The U.S. war on Iran is good for plans to revive the Keystone XL pipeline, according to the CEO of South Bow (the new KXL owner) “Those realities are a great backdrop for us to provide maybe a solution.” energynow.ca/2026/03/sout...

A concrete look at how the Trump’s attack on the Consumer Bureau (CFPB) harms everyone—as big tech, big bank, student loan servicers and auto lenders continue unsupervised due to Russell Vought’s assault on our finances. A wonderful @newyorker.com piece by E. Tammy Kim:

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out. It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness. Let's take stock of where we are.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire. That and more in this week’s newsletter. Read! Free! www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Former top DOGE official in his mid-twenties named head of Pentagon AI efforts. "Kliger, in ‌social ⁠media posts between October 2024 and January 2025, has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes ​and self-described ​misogynist ⁠Andrew Tate."

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services

Can Republicans win the midterms with 40 percent support? See adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/midterms

Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).

Such a fantastic Tiny Desk performance by Buddy Guy. We're so fortunate to still have him. If you haven't had the chance to see him, go see him live. I'm so glad Sinners introduced him to a new audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Xx...

Analysis of 261 bird species over 34 yrs shows continental decline of abundance of all birds, w/decline hotspots in southern warm parts of NAmerica & accelerating declines in Midatlantic, Midwest & California MATCHING PATTERNS OF AGRICULTURAL INTENSITY. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The government is poisoning you. Or at any rate making it easier for other people to poison you www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

Explosive, exclusive article in Wall Street Journal, documenting some of 1st results of Trump rollbacks: U.S. Power-Plant Pollution Rose Sharply in 2025. Rising emissions coincide with Trump administration’s push for coal use & rollback of Biden-era climate regulations. www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

🚨 The LCV Scorecard is here! Tracking votes on the most important environmental issues, we give each member of Congress a score from 0-100% based on how often they are voting in favor of people and the planet. Please repost and share!

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Brought to you by the Admin who says “it’s not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein” … a document manifest showing 4 interviews the FBI conducted with a woman who accused the President of sexual abuse as a minor. If there’s nothing to hide, why are they hiding these documents? ⬇️

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS ruling

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

love to read the phrase "surprise military plans"

Today Dems in the New Mexico state Senate voted to gut in-service training requirements for law enforcement in the state and voted down a climate bill. Speechless.

Scoop: The Interior Department directed all its bureaus and offices to delete non-English content from their websites by the end of the day Tuesday, according to an internal notice from its IT shop. federalnewsnetwork.com/technology-m...

political malpractice that this chart hasnt been seared into the brains of every single american through advertising and social media

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.