Society will continue metabolizing mass death and suffering. Moral and knowledge-based appeals for climate action are dead ends: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What percentage of Graham Platner's recruitment was because his last name sounds liked Platinum

A nest egg for my toddler, and it's called a Trump Account? Uh...

Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary,Trump wanted to erase any “disparaging” history in the national parks. We documented + visualized the vast scale of this unprecedented censorship campaign. Very proud of this months-long team effort for @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Capital & Main reporter Jeremy Lindenfeld won the prestigious Online Journalist of the Year award for impactful reporting that explores how national policy decisions ripple through the lives of ordinary people. capitalandmain.com/capital-main... @jeremotographs.bsky.social

Los Angeles-area gas appliance ban upheld by US appeals court reut.rs/3SJs2DY

Extreme heat grips much of the U.S. ahead of the July 4 weekend, with record-breaking temperatures sending residents in cities like New York and Atlanta in search of relief at cooling centers.

Sometimes you have to include an hour or two of panic into your workflow to get to the other side.

I left the U.S. for a week and when I came back I stopped caring about AI. Obviously it's unavoidable, but the degree to which it dominates political/economic/social discourse here is suffocating.

🚨 📈 NEW: In a preliminary assessment, I calculate that the June 2026 heat wave caused around 20,000 heat-related deaths in Europe. Increases in heat mortality will continue as long as fossil fuel emissions continue. zenodo.org/records/2108...

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

Globally, 84% of the heatwave days people were exposed to in 2020-24 would not have occurred without climate change. The rate of deaths associated with heat exposure increased by 23% from the 1990s, reaching 546,000 deaths annually. Look where people are dying. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

In Boyle Heights, residents — some who live just across the street from the block-long warehouse — told Capital & Main that they were struggling to breathe and access basic assistance such as home air purifiers. capitalandmain.com/as-cold-stor...

Worth 10 minutes of your time. Great info on the environmental disaster in Boyle Heights.

This has everything, finance bros, billionaires, environmental racism, prior problems. Entirely fucked up.

NEW on LA cold storage fire capitalandmain.com/as-cold-stor... -Homes awash in carcinogenic fumes -People stuck inside with no A/C in heat -Company responsible, Lineage, hired PR crisis firm -Lobbied on rooftop solar safety devices, int’l tax proposals -Cofounders are billionaires w Robin Urevich

NEW on LA cold storage fire capitalandmain.com/as-cold-stor... -Homes awash in carcinogenic fumes -People stuck inside with no A/C in heat -Company responsible, Lineage, hired PR crisis firm -Lobbied on rooftop solar safety devices, int’l tax proposals -Cofounders are billionaires w Robin Urevich

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Do any experts on the tax structure of Real Estate Investment Trusts follow me? If so, could I call you...right now, for a story? Thanks!

Do any experts on the tax structure of Real Estate Investment Trusts follow me? If so, could I call you...right now, for a story? Thanks!

Iranian long-range precision strike in the Gulf is a harbinger of serious threats to U.S. power projection not only there but also in the Indo-Pacific. Mara Karlin and I wrote a piece on this a couple weeks ago @brookings.edu linked below. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

More than 200 people may have died in Spain as a result of the record heat wave that has gripped much of Europe this week, according to data.

Celebrities at the US game are quintessential American culture. Live sports are for the wealthy. Working class people of color, who are a majority in many host cities, root for diaspora teams.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

In recent years California’s pistachio growers have profited from the virality of Dubai chocolate. Then came the Iran war

Far-right millionaire Abelardo de la Espriella wins Colombia’s presidential runoff

I cannot believe this took this long. But... I also can? Official emergency declaration for the Boyle Heights fire

This seems like a much larger area than the Watch Duty shelter in place map so just sharing the AQMD advisory www.aqmd.gov/advisory

Gigantic smoke plume over Downtown Los Angeles, may be from this: www.foxla.com/news/live-ma...

not Ezra Klein joining Peter Thiel's secret society lmao

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

Insurers are some of the world’s biggest complainers about climate damages. So why are they defending Big Oil from accountability for those same climate damages? Follow the money Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

@Reuters.com has published a database intended to help audiences and the wire’s journalists understand how climate change is impacting global temperatures anywhere in the world, on a daily basis. Check it out!

Covering the wreckage of California’s climate policy regime, this from @matthuber.bsky.social was prescient

NEW: In 2022, Bitcoin miners promised Corpus Christi millions in tax revenues in exchange for the de-annexation of their water-sucking cryptomine. Four years later, the city is in a water crisis & the mine has yielded only a minute fraction of what was promised. www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...

Chevron CEO Mike Wirth says the global energy market now may be able to absorb the Strait of Hormuz disruption until around Labor Day (early Sep). He says lower Chinese demand, ongoing inventory drawdowns, & limited “dark” tanker transits through the strait, often at night with transponders off...

Over caffeinated at 22 years old: I need a cigarette Over caffeinated at 37: I need to send audio messages to like seven different friends

So in theory we'll get to nearly 2 C of warming temporarily? "In the late 2020s, El Niño’s temporary warming influence (+0.2°C–0.4°C) will occur atop an existing (and essentially permanent) +1.4-1.5°C baseline of human-caused warming." weatherwest.com/archives/43880

Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).

Is "green pilled" a thing? Like red pilled, except not fascist and pro-environment.

"The goal is to keep attribution science out of court." www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Lee Raymond, the former head of Exxon who oversaw the biggest corporate merger in the history of the oil industry and was derided as “the Darth Vader of global warming” for his skepticism toward climate change, has died. He was 87.

Unironically, I have been saying this for almost twenty years, also to rebuild basic local community and shared understanding of place-based, everyday life, modeled on the Nicaraguan literacy brigades of 1980 youtu.be/hUdkL47SvYI

Celebrate the World Cup at these free, transit-accessible events around LA County! The fun includes watch parties, performances, open street events & more. Interactive map: gometro.la/3QywFQu All events: wp.me/pfeql1-Cf0

Unironically need a 1960s style campesino literacy for all movement everywhere at once bsky.app/profile/will...