2025 was yet another unusually warm year for the United States – and another year packed with costly disasters, despite the absence of any landfalling U.S. hurricanes. @climateconnections.bsky.social @drjeffmasters.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/01/four...

The big problem with the new food pyramid is that it encourages Americans to eat more beef and dairy—two of the most environmentally destructive foods when produced at scale. You can’t build a healthy society on top of an unhealthy biosphere. Seems like something RFK Jr. should know.

#Induction stoves can boil water up to *4 minutes faster* than gas stoves. That speed comes from heating the pan directly, not the air around it—a more efficient way of cooking that eliminates toxic indoor air pollutants.

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

“Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country,” a former DHS official said. “We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening.” (Published Oct. 2025)

Federal agents have shot two people in Portland, just a day after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minnesota. Follow @alexzee.bsky.social for updates. www.opb.org/article/2026...

I'm monitoring first awful reports of two people shot in Portland by federal law enforcement. I'll keep you updated, but Trump's deployment of federal agents in my hometown is clearly inflaming violence — and must end.

“I knew it was going to start here,” said a local resident, who gave the name Aaron D., fighting back tears. “This neighborhood is deeply integrated, it’s deeply diverse.” www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

UPDATE: Portland police said Thursday that federal agents shot and injured two people in east Portland.

Breaking News Update: Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear their condition, police said in a release.

This story is a snapshot of a fossil fuel corporation without a vision for the future and how it is costing customers. State leaders and the PUC have a responsibility to protect us. NW Natural Gas must pivot its business to providing services that don't pollute and destroy the climate we depend on.

Minnesota officials say the feds have blocked them from investigating fatal ICE shooting. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3Yvf1h8

Exclusive: For the past three months, teenage migrant boys have been locked inside a juvenile prison in Pennsylvania with a publicly documented history of staff physically and sexually abusing juvenile offenders in its care, a Post investigation found.

Minneapolis public schools canceled classes officials after Roosevelt High School said armed Border Patrol officers came on school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people, handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Portland strippers, who perform at an annual fundraiser called Tatas for Toys, have raised $243,000 to buy items for patients at the children’s hospital over the last 15 years.

"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them." (Published Oct. 2025)

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Lame duck president Trump “was by a large measure the most culpable and most responsible person in this conspiracy,” Special Counsel Jack Smith reminded last month. “These crimes were committed for his benefit. The attack that happened at the Capitol, part of this case, does not happen without him.”

Trumpian imperialism in action: kidnap the head of the regime, leaving the rest of it in place so as to access the oil reserves for the US companies. Then realize the oil is actually quite expensive to extract, so go ahead and SUBSIDIZE the oil companies. Perfect. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

“This is Hillsboro, Oregon, in the year 2025. For Shirley and Jasmine, and the people they serve, it’s an era of code names, secretive deliveries, encrypted messages, and concerns about government surveillance.” From Alejandro Figueroa & @hbarth.bsky.social:

Santa's wearing shorts this year. Christmas 2025 is forecast to be the warmest mean temperature across the Contiguous U.S. in the past half century. h/t my colleague Erik Smith for the analysis: 2025 temps from GFS 06z, 1975-2024 from ERA5, area-weighted (lat) and averaged over the CONUS.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court refused to immediately allow President Trump to deploy the National Guard in Chicago, casting doubt on deployments elsewhere.

Trump promised to lower electricity prices and make life more affordable for Americans. Instead, our bills are higher than ever and Trump is focused entirely on giving handouts to his billionaire friends.

Proud to build and lead a bipartisan coalition with Rep. Jeff Hurd and @bennet.senate.gov & @hickenlooper.senate.gov — joined by more than 80 of our colleagues in the House and Senate — to protect NCAR in the FY26 NSF appropriations bill. We will not stop until NCAR is protected — period.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

The influential progressive third party announced Thursday that it was putting out a recruitment call for candidates specifically opposed to data centers. www.wired.com/story/oppose...

16 Democratic senators joined Republicans in confirming a close ally of Elon Musk as head of NASA: Baldwin Cantwell Durbin Fetterman Gallego Gillibrand Hassan Heinrich Kaine Kelly Kim King Schiff Shaheen Slotkin Warner

POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

With the latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%. It's the GUNS -Joann Duman

As life becomes more expensive under President Trump, one thing the American people certainly can’t afford is more Republican inaction on health care. It’s time for Republicans to finally find some courage and join Democrats in lowering health care costs before premiums skyrocket.

“It’s a double whammy for consumers,” writes @mattegancnn.bsky.social. The cost of methane "natural" gas is soaring as the U.S. ships more of the fossil fuel overseas and supply dwindles. For those of us stuck on the gas system, this will be felt in higher costs on both heating and electric bills.

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported? Noem: We have not deported military veterans. Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

Tatas for Toys has evolved from a small charity show to a major fundraiser that collected $38,000 last year.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

ICE officers had arrest quotas, used facial recognition in Oregon immigration dragnet, @maxbernstein.bsky.social reports:

This change will increase gas costs for US drivers, who drive an average of ~14,000 miles per year. Reducing the fuel economy requirement from 50 to 34.5 mpg will increase the annual gas costs of typical new car owners by $377 per year. That's 45% higher than under Biden rule. (Assuming $3/gallon.)

This is great reporting. To complement it, I'm reposting my post-fires analysis - rebuilding with gas puts these communities, and the communities that surround them, in multiple forms of danger. heatmap.news/ideas/la-fir...

Wow. While mass electrification of heating and transport will be costly for the distribution grid, non-wires alternatives like demand reduction, more efficient appliances, and software coordination of smart thermostats could reduce these costs by *more than two-thirds*. #electrifyeverything

If you want to know why Hegseth is panicking about reminders that there is accountably for giving or carrying out illegal orders, it’s likely because he knows he has given illegal orders to murder people.

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

When you can't count on free and fair elections, you no longer live in a democracy.

Yikes. (via @steverattner.bsky.social)

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Oregon will not back down. What's best for us is clean, affordable energy and good-paying jobs that can't be outsourced. Governor @tinakotek.bsky.social's new executive action will speed up and build out clean energy for all of us. We're here for lower bills, better health, and a safer climate.