Something folks can do in the coming weeks is to organize Ice Watch Training in your communities. There's an excellent resource that can help you to do this: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - Get five people together in person or virtually and get skilled up together.

I’m a sexual violence researcher. And one of the main threads in abuse research is that normalization is crucial for long-term, sustainable violence. It’s the only thing that gives the appearance of legitimacy. (Because violence is actually an illegitimate and unstable way to seek power.)

What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?

The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.) (Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Indigenous and rural communities in Ecuador’s Amazon condemned a ruling ordering Ecuador to pay $220M+ to Chevron over the historic Texaco pollution case. Groups say it forces the public to compensate a company responsible for massive environmental harm.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The only way to get back on track to the Paris Accords — which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2.0 C — is to pull the “Emergency Brake” climate solutions. Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some perspectives from our community on what NCAR means to weather and climate researchers: "NCAR is quite literally our global mothership" @katharinehayhoe.com "I came to the US over 10 years ago for a postdoc at NCAR. It changed my life..." @climateflavors.bsky.social #SaveNCAR

Some autumn smoky gold is good for the soul.

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Of the many problems with this phenomenally stupid argument is that "good information" has been available to anyone who wants to access it for a solid 25 years now, and we are getting collectively dumber at finding, understanding, critiquing, and communicating info and arguments. AI can't fix that/

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

I am SO EXCITED about this! Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths. Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers. jointheshift.earth

I got my Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccine today. It is the first time I've gotten a vaccine partially out of spite.

Wildland fire veterans are seething at a claim made by federal officials that two crews raided by immigration agents at the scene of a wildfire in Washington state were “NOT firefighters.” ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/08/r...

On one hand, we're investing $8+ billion a year in longevity research. On the other hand... www.wired.com/story/your-b...

Coming soon to a hospital near you...surgeons being snatched mid-surgery. www.firerescue1.com/police/feder...

Reminder that bog restoration is not just good for nature and good for climate. They make good fences when your neighbor to the east wants to invade your country. Time for a green Maginot Line. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

A good time to re-up this article from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Yes. Once you start seeing this (Institution X probably wanted do this conservative thing anyway but now can blame it on Trump), it's everywhere. It's not capitulation, it's agreement. "We can stop doing this thing we started doing from 2014-2020 because of woke/progressive/anti-racist pressure."

🎵I threw the sandwich But I did not throw the bag of chips🎵

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

Well this is alarming.

I drive an EV at my workplace and love driving it. I think this clip explains why.

IEA's mid-year electricity review is out. Some highlights below: First time in 100 years, renewables are set to overtake coal in global electricity production as soon as this year (or latest next year). Wind + Solar contribution to global grid mix will reach 20% by 2026, up from 4% in 2016. 🧵

I interviewed neuroscientist Nicholas Wright about his upcoming book WarHead on brains & conflict. He said something that struck me. We didn’t stop Nazis by changing their minds. We oppressed them. We occupied Germany. We tied their hands. It was a generation before Germany agreed Nazis were wrong.

It’s the inversion of Gibson’s famous quote “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.” The past is still here, just unevenly remembered.

I'm mostly speechless, but I can't even imagine losing your supply line when you are face to face with a wildfire with no food, fuel, or medical supplies. A Polaski is versatile, but not that versatile.

"Nearly 25 million naturalized citizens live in the U.S., and we are accustomed to extra scrutiny...But I had never doubted that my U.S. citizenship was permanent, and that I was guaranteed the same rights of speech, assembly, and due process as natural-born Americans. Now I’m not so sure."

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

NEW: Of the 230+ Venezuelans deported to El Salvador: • Almost half had immigration cases that were not yet decided • More than 60 had pending asylum claims, some just days away from final hearings These men had followed U.S. immigration procedures. Then Trump changed the rules.

Donald Trump's crude drawing of a naked woman raises new questions about Joe Biden's artistic abilities.

As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...

Yall don’t get it. You don’t. Get. It. It’s so sad. You don’t see us and never have. And until you do, you’re doomed too. It’s not “at first they came for us.” It’s that they’re still coming for us, and have, since 1492.

When it comes to discussions of race, white people continue to fail the assignment.

Is the media going to do its job and tell Americans the SSA email breaks government rules, is likely illegal under the Hatch Act, and is packed with lies? Or are we just normalizing state propaganda because it’s coming in serif font from a .gov address?

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

The editor in chief of Christianity Today is warning that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right, to the point that even Jesus’s teachings are considered “weak” now.

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

Here is the official Harvard University website! www.harvard.edu Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!! +1 617-495-1000 The link to the Free Government courses is ... pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.