This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

If you're curious about what happened at the first-ever international convening on transitioning away from fossil fuels, please read @ninalakhani.bsky.social's excellent analysis.

If you have, or know someone, with a Yarbo robot lawn mower... they might want to read this. www.theverge.com/tech/925696/...

Americans: We can't afford rent, healthcare, or gas. Trump Admin: What about if we let people mail guns?

We at @oregoncapitalchronicle.com have for weeks sought an interview w/ Republican gov. hopeful Drazan, who has declined, opted out of most public debates and given access selectively to reporters and outlets, seemingly based on her comfort level with them. www.opb.org/article/2026...

This could be a catastrophic wildfire season. While the Trump Administration is undermining our preparedness, I’m focused on making sure Oregonians, their homes, and their livelihoods stay safe.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

With a pending moratorium on some data center tax breaks due to take effect next month, Hillsboro is signing a flurry of deals with big tech companies to extend their incentives — sometimes for decades. theoregonian.visitlink.me/kzukZ5

It’s so disheartening to watch the work of folks like my great-grandparents go up in smoke. They lived almost their entire lives as second class citizens under Jim Crow and really thought something was achieved when the Voting Rights Act was passed. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Palantir’s manifesto confirms our worst fears: the company running our surveillance state is fueled by dangerous prejudice. @wyden.senate.gov @velazquez.house.gov & I are demanding answers from DHS & ICE to reveal how this data is being used & on whom. There must be proper oversight of these tools.

Nothing else they can think of to do with our tax money. Cool.

At the closing session of the fossil fuel phase out conference in Santa Marta, Colombia, a child, age 10, brought the house down with her extemporaneous exhortation that failure is not an option. My Spanish is poor but it was the finest speech I’ve ever heard. ❤️❤️❤️

NEW: Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They're the Bad Guys Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by @wired.com, suggest a workforce in turmoil. read @makenakelly.bsky.social:

ICYMI: Oregon led a multistate lawsuit to make sure healthcare decisions stay with families and their providers, not the government, and a judge issued a written ruling in our favor. Read more: https://ow.ly/CEG850YOfMw

We asked 10 people in line to buy gas what they thought the government should focus on...

Not "if" but "how" to phase out fossil fuels. How frustration at COP stalemates inspires first global talks on phasing out fossil fuels. ‘Coalition of the willing’ gathers in Colombia to try to bypass petrostate COP blockages and chart a fresh path. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There’s almost nothing you can do in the United States, short of being filmed saying the N-word (and maybe not even that), to be racist enough for the US press to call you a racist.

"Crucially, it shows that the EU intends to make a big bet on electrification as the only way to kick its fossil-fuel addiction." Yup.

A US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was arrested for allegedly betting on that operation, netting him $400,000 in profits, according to a person familiar with the matter. www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/p...

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

A test verified by The New York Times found that clothes for some of the viral Labubu dolls contained cotton from Uyghur forced labour, which is banned in the United States www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/b...

Electricity bills are rising, customers are struggling, but guess who is doing just fine?

Yesterday, we learn of the Trump regime's criminal probe of Southern Poverty Law Center, today it's a criminal probe of a NYT reporter. Since when does the FBI investigate whether reporting might amount to stalking? When it exposes embarassing behavior of the FBI director & his girlfriend.

If the last couple of decades is any indication, Republicans are likely to leave the US economy in shambles. I hope Democrats are strategizing now about how to handle bailout requests by tech oligopolies should that contingency arise.

New gas-powered data center projects linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI could emit more greenhouse gases than entire nations, according to a @wired.com investigation from @mollytaft.com -- happy earth day, don't miss this one!

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool ADOBE: did you say AI? ME: rectangle please ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

A raging case of the flu famously makes soldiers better on the battlefield. You can't argue with history.

Trump's price spikes may well endure into next heating season, causing real pain for home heating. Helping households get off oil/propane heat *this spring/summer*, before heat demand picks up again in fall, should be a high priority. Big benefits for affordability, air quality/health, and climate.

Large BEV commercial trucks are now outselling diesel commercial trucks in China for the first time. While the world electrifies, the US is squandering resources to fight over expensive, dwindling, polluting, fossil fuels. 🧪💡🔌 ☀️💨💧🔋 www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...

"The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency" www.bbc.com/news/article...

The US government paid $1 billion to kill a wind farm just because. Just absolute idiocy in every direction heatmap.news/energy/total...

This is both (1) some of the most important SCOTUS reporting ever, and (2) far too generous to the Republican justices in framing of many pieces and omissions of Trump-era developments

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

Clean energy is the economy. Fossil fuels are a liability. On every count: affordability, health, security, job growth, and climate stability, clean energy has the advantage. It's true today and becomes more true the further you look into the future. Oregon has a roadmap. Let's go!

"My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network," says Connie Ballmer, who gave $80 million of the $113 million. n.pr/4tRK4RR

The 2019 ProPublica TurboTax investigation never gets old

Thursday's GUARDIAN: War windfall: big oil makes extra $30m every hour during conflict #TomorrowsPapersToday

Some sports betting platforms — including DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics — are pooling tens of millions of dollars into a new super PAC that is expected to focus primarily on state legislative races.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

NEW with @cplusc.bsky.social: Sixty-one percent of voters say that climate change is impacting the rising cost of living. And a strong majority of voters (70%) think it is possible to both lower costs and directly reduce emissions. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/4/...

We're hiring! 💧 OEC is seeking a Water and Rural Lands Program Director to advance policies that ensure clean, plentiful water for Oregonians and the state we love. Find all the info and apply at the link below! ✨ https://oeconline.org/ruralwater/

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time. H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social

"For Texas, this comes out to roughly 900 additional deaths per year due to climate change that occurred since the 1950s, equal to 1.7% of summertime deaths. Using a typical value of a statistical life of $10 million, this corresponds to a value of $9 billion per year due to climate change."

I know it’s crazy, but as an alternative, White House staffers could simply choose not to commit any crimes.

Constant chaos clears headlines pretty quickly. Remember this? Next time you're standing at the gas pump (or in the voting booth), think about how Trump and Republicans made it so cars and trucks burn more fuel and cost you more money. Their oil corporation donors thank you for your business.

NEW: Raised voices by the community brought back Pride flags at Boston University, for now. The people have the power! www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Last year, farmers received enough water to meet their needs for the first time in six years, but this year's abysmally low snowpack levels — about 4% of average for this time of year — means water for irrigation will be much lower than needed.