Re-upping this 2024 @bloomberg.com explainer: Why Older Adults Are Uniquely Vulnerable to Extreme Heat www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Big win in LA! In November, Angelenos will get the chance to let aspiring citizens vote! Huge S/O to @hugoforcd13.bsky.social for spearheading this effort! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-06-17/measure-to-give-non-citizens-right-to-vote-in-la-elections-headed-for-nov-3-ballot

NEW: This week, Seattle become the biggest city in the U.S. to pass a moratorium on new large-scale AI data centers, calling it a “moral imperative” to put people and our planet above tech profits. Olivia Rosane in @commondreams.org:

Voters are heading to the polls for this year’s midterms, but the electoral maps are shifting under their feet in real time. SCOTUS's gutting of the VRA has supercharged a redistricting fight that began when Trump urged states to change their maps to mitigate possible losses in Congress.

In Sept 2020, historian and leftist activist Umar Khalid was jailed amid a wider crackdown on those defying Modi's India. He remains imprisoned. Join @jamhoor.org and @equatormag.bsky.social for this event, featuring Banojyotsna Lahiri and @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Authorities in Southern California on Friday were racing to figure out how to prevent the explosion of a storage tank that has been leaking a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts, as some 40,000 people were under evacuation orders in the area.

See y'all in Louisville this fall! Can't wait to share more soon.

Excellent point. Here's the AQI right now. (The World Cup matches will be played at SoFi stadium in Inglewood, near LAX.) bsky.app/profile/awal...

How does the idea of #landscape help us understand wartime harm to people and the environment? Our new post with the Center for Earth Ethics explores land, damage, loss and longing, explaining why people must be at the heart of post-conflict environmental recovery: ceobs.org/landscape-a-...

Across the country, the world’s largest corporations are pushing to build massive data centers, promising benefits such as tax revenue and jobs. But while their outlook is rosy, the reality is far more dire. Check out our new resource: https://localprog.org/DataCenters101

Imagine if everyone had the healthcare, housing, food, education needed to thrive. We have enough to make that a reality. NEW TODAY: a resource from us & @itep.org on how local electeds can tax the ultrawealthy to fund public goods and vital programs. localprog.org/taxtherichfu...

If my (re)emergence on BlueSky means more doses of @theferocity.bsky.social in my daily life… habibi, I am here 👏🏽 for 👏🏽 it 👏🏽. Also, same ⬇️ 🤓

The Great Displacement is a gripping read on the silent & loud ways that people across the US are increasingly forced to migrate after climate-intensified disasters & how our systems need to shift to better adapt to this constantly changing future. Spoiler alert: Housing needs to be a human right.

“Hormuz does not yet signal the end of this hydrocarbon dollar complex, which has always been a combustible mix of power and volatility. But it does reveal the structural changes that would be needed for a hegemonic transition.” www.equator.org/articles/the...

You might have noticed the centrality of the welfare state to Operation Metro Surge. In this essay I show how the Trump administration has turned our social safety net into an infrastructure of mass deportation.

David Wolf, thank you for introducing me to @equatormag.bsky.social. I haven't stopped reading this magazine since this edition of the SLR. They are consistently producing incredible writing & reporting the most interesting stories I'm reading in (digital) print right now.

Data centers are spreading across the country. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.

California wildfire season starts up to 2.5 months earlier than in 1990. UCLA research shows climate change is responsible for as much as a 1.5 months of that. theconversation.com/wildfire-sea...

🦋 New platform, new opportunities. Better World Group is an environmental, energy, climate, and conservation policy and advocacy firm headquartered in Los Angeles. We're here to make connections, share insights, and stay curious. Learn more about our work: www.betterworldgroup.com

new place, same face. 👋 @bsky.app