“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

FIFA remain the world champs of corruption. Truly masters of the art

The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.

The definitive account of the Watergate-style coverup Dick Cheney orchestrated after shooting that one guy in the face. www.salon.com/2006/02/15/c...

Air monitors installed at some industrial facilities showed FAR higher emissions than the estimates, records viewed by @lisalsong.bsky.social @propublica.org show. That's key b/c the Trump admin has halted rules requiring 130+ plants to install such air monitors. www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Apropos of nothing, ofc, "Dems moved too far left since 2012" is a take only possible if your baseline for judging that shift is a peer group of political operatives. The issues of the day among non-politicos were gay marriage, weed legalization, corp bailouts-on all, Dems were right of the country!

Purdue University, where I work, does great research on climate but has no clear plan for decarbonizing its own campus. My friend Mike Johnston and the Purdue Climate Action Collective have advocated for a climate action plan for years. Mike and I wrote about how that effort is going. #AcademicSky

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Navy Took 11 Months to Alert SF to Airborne Plutonium at Hunters Point Shipyard “It’s not the 1st time that the Navy has done something that is unacceptable & demonstrates their lack of concern for Bayview residents Bayview” @kqedscience.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org www.kqed.org/science/1999...

Nevada regulators have accused Elon Musk’s Boring Co. of nearly 800 environmental violations in the last two years as it digs a sprawling tunnel network beneath Las Vegas for its Tesla-powered “people mover.” By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

To be clear, the US govt already shoulders the vast majority of the risk of nuclear power. The Price-Anderson Act of 1957 - which civil developers including Bechtel lobbied to create! - makes the federal government responsible for most liability in case of a nuclear disaster. Now they want more...

Old enough to remember when LADWP had committed to closing its in-basin gas plants, not preserving them on the promise of hypothetical future technological advances. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

"However, the approved plan contains no specifics about where the hydrogen will come from or how it will get to the site. “The green hydrogen that would supply the proposed project has not yet been identified,” the environmental report says." www.latimes.com/environment/...

Simply reducing beef and lamb consumption to one serving a week -- as recommended by EAT-Lancet -- could reduce emissions by almost 3 billion tons CO2-eq. The equivalent of all of Russia's annual emissions. Thanks to @melinawalling.bsky.social for including my thoughts in this article.

This is what happened to my Grandfather in Frankfurt, Germany on 9th November 1938, commonly known as Kristallnacht.

$2bn is a lot of money! There are strict limits on how this money could be spent instead, but with a bit of creativity there are tons of better uses: 24-hr clean energy for airport operations? Yes Transmission upgrades to facilitate that? Probably Condensing parking to free land for housing? Yes

It's fun and restorative and empowering to think big with friends about the futures we want to see!

“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.” - Wole Soyinka Keep writing, keep reading, keep speaking, keep protesting. These are our hard won democratic rights. @justprotest.bsky.social

"In practice, entire neighborhoods are being reconstituted as comfortable spaces for those of means to go about their lives with as little friction as possible." This is a beautiful little essay www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...

I still have an SF YIMBY coffee mug from when I was a member, with the former slogan, "Legalize Housing." So much for that. Every SF YIMBY–endorsed member of the Board of Supervisors voted for this cruel RV ban with tacit YIMBY approval, criminalizing people's homes and banishing them from the city.

One of the benefits of having mandatory environmental review processes is that having a default pathway enables the creation of alternative pathways. Without the default, there is no incentive to do the alternative.

I do not want a "hauntingly good deal" from the rental car company I've unsubscribed from a dozen times, I want to revitalize the consumer-protection movement of the 1970s.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"In practice, entire neighborhoods are being reconstituted as comfortable spaces for those of means to go about their lives with as little friction as possible." This is a beautiful little essay www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/m...

Strongly agree that this project is a pointless and counterproductive mistake - but why it's happening has as much to do with state and federal law as LAX governance. Contra comments that this money would be better spent elsewhere, it's actually illegal to use this money outside of the airport!

It is just completely implausible to me that the data center power rush isn't coming with systematic violations of air pollution laws. Time to bring back the militant state clean-air enforcement of the mid-20th century. Shut them down and prosecute them.

Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Some big New York State climate news: Court orders the Dept of Envtl Conservation to issue the regs that would establish a New York Cap & Invest program by 2/6/26 -- unless the legislature intercedes. The opinion is short and very clear. Good reading for lawyers and non-lawyers alike.

hot take to rile up my followers on a Friday: political types like to obsess over the New Deal's infrastructure programs, but it was the Federal Writers Project that truly strengthened American democracy. For half the cost of Hoover Dam, we built a political foundation that lasted generations.

Knowing the past is both very difficult, and building a shared social conception of the past that can serve as the foundation of a politics of progress requires constant effort.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

California will spend $31 billion on transportation this year with about 3% of that budgeted for support for transit agencies. lao.ca.gov/Publications...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

sometimes Spineless just doesn't capture the gelatinous, pink-slime cowardice of the moment.

Organizing means you have to work with people you don’t agree with and serious people do not contest this. But, building power requires trust. I can disagree with you but if I trust you, we can organize. All you big tent & purity test people, how are those imperfect people who stab you working out?

This rapid response guide for reporting ICE is specific to San Francisco. For the other counties in the bay area, the second post on this thread links to a list of hotlines and resources. To read more: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

I reminded the engineers of several canons of the code of ethics for civil engineers. Many actions of the Administration are in direct opposition to these.

Looks like we are about to see a significant increase in snatch-and-grab operations around the Bay Area 408-290-1144 is the hotline for the Palo Alto/Mountain View area www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

This is terrible and also a predictable consequence of our failure to build mitigation and adaptation measures into post-disaster recovery. The path forward is advance planning: clear, pre-established rules for how we rebuild. Participated in a great panel on this at YELC last weekend - onwards!

this is really not The Most Important Thing but the White House demolition is flouting building recycling. The grotesque waste obvious in those photos - the smashed windows, the shattered beams - is illegal in many cities. But it's an extremely common crime, and rarely enforced against.

I found a threads post about it: www.threads.com/@cameronasin...

Behold: Republican permitting reform.

Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.

Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg: Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits. 🎁 Gift link below.

An important paper - just out in @natureportfolio.nature.com documenting a decline in net C uptake by Australian rainforests. Eventually the same will occur in other rainforests - a reminder that we need to get to net zero ASAP. @biologyanu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Who should benefit from the energy transition? Communities? Workers? Billionaires? As federal posture toward a clean energy supply chain shifts rapidly, our new report shows that communities are turning to community benefit agreements (CBAs) to gain control over their futures. 👇

There’s a lot of great stuff in here one thing that we wrote about is the California Energy Commission’s Opt-In siting process, which requires the community benefits agreement, in exchange for expedited environmental review. The largest solar + storage project in the US was just approved via Opt-In.