Visited the empire of the dead

Hearing other Americans while traveling abroad:

This is the most detailed look inside Tyler Robinson's Discord community I've seen and yet again, it gives us absolutely no clear motivation, political in or otherwise. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

It’s only at 36 I realized the perfect pizza toppings combo: pineapple, jalapeños and mushrooms.

Good story but also people who said stuff about him are also innocent. It's not a crime bsky.app/profile/tayl...

I asked one of the most progressive city councilors in #LA to weigh in on whether the city should require A/C for renters. In 2023 #LosAngeles said A/C for all wasn't practical. But heat waves are getting longer, hotter, more dangerous for more than a million households. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward" www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Hear it a lot: China should set up green factories abroad, not ships laden with green goods So..is that happening? Our @nzpolicylab.bsky.social report on a painstakingly assembled database shows that yes, its surging since 2022 & firms are going out *everywhere* netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Low key data center in downtown Los Angeles

About two-thirds of Los Angeles' 1.48 million households are rentals. Many have no A/C. But heat waves are getting longer and hotter. I spoke with City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez about her proposal to enforce a "maximum indoor temperature" in the city: capitalandmain.com/a-c-saves-li...

Brazil locked up Bolsonaro because their political leaders were part of a generation that lived under authoritarianism. Our pundits and opposition politicians don’t have that urgency. They are Weimar or Chamberlain. The task will fall to the newer generations. bsky.app/profile/bill...

Kash Patel went on Charlie Kirk's podcast a bunch of times. They benefitted a conspiracy-fueled media ecosystem. Now Patel is fumbling Kirk's murder investigation and that ecosystem is spinning out of control.

About two-thirds of Los Angeles' 1.48 million households are rentals. Many have no A/C. But heat waves are getting longer and hotter. I spoke with City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez about her proposal to enforce a "maximum indoor temperature" in the city: capitalandmain.com/a-c-saves-li...

US Treasury-led watchdog dismantles climate advisory panels reut.rs/3JVG3du

Breaking news: Conservative activist Charlie Kirk has died at the age of 31, President Trump says. Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University.

www.levernews.com/double-agent... "Major [California] lobbying firms operating as double agents in California are raking in millions while playing both sides of the debate on PFAS, also known as 'forever chemicals.'"

Hot off the press: We can provide for the first time a systematic attribution of recent #heatwaves to the emissions of #carbon_majors. Essential new #Nature article coordinated by @yannquilcaille.bsky.social at @ethz.ch, with numerous contributors @usyseth.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Intercept says its traffic has dropped 63% over the last year due to Google AI's Overview

This classic book on feature writing is helpful, but so much has changed since it was written in the 1980s. I think this cause-and-effect chain doesn’t work as well in our super disruptive present where things unfold in a generally unstable, irrational environment (Ripped page courtesy of infant)

The Trump administration appears to be trying to make a global war on renewables. I spoke to @mkblyth.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social about the strategy of carbon dominance, how this is shaping politics not just in the US but everywhere, and what that means for the future.

So if you look Latino and live in LA, masked thugs can ask you for your papers. It might seem insignificant but the indignity this engenders is the kind of tyranny that historically incites rebellions. bsky.app/profile/chri...

🚨Hot off the press🔥 LIGHTS OUT How Trump's war on climate science is weakening the US A feature about the White House's "cluster-bomb approach" to dismantling the world's most sophisticated scientific apparatus. By @zhirji.bsky.social @blkahn.bsky.social and me 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Open-source intelligence (OSINT) tools are changing the way we can monitor the ocean. The @pulitzercenter.org is hosting a webinar on Tues, Sept 9, at 12pm US ET, for investigative journalists, environmental reporters & data enthusiasts looking to deepen their reporting using OSINT.

I love this www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Beef reut.rs/45QMYx3

“Meaningful” is actually one of the least meaningful words

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cq0... bsky.app/profile/atru...

My guess: Wouldn't be changing the name unless we were going to war, and soon. bsky.app/profile/pbsn...

Been awhile ya'll! I'm back & will be active on here again. Also on the jobs market, so if you hear about opportunities that use the combination of research and communications (could do either one, but the combo is my sweet spot) in the climate, democracy, or corporate accountability spaces (1/2)

China is building a heat-defense system enlisting hospitals and nationwide alerts, the U.S. is ending incentives for home cooling… www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-china...

The big statewide program that will soon begin installing heat pumps in low-income people's homes (the Equitable Building Decarbonization Statewide Direct Install Program) just released the list of communities it will focus on initially. See the map below: www.energy.ca.gov/programs-and...

This is why claims of gas being clean are bs. Drillers get permits to pollute nearly every time they ask. Huge amount of methane and other pollutants. And this is just at upstream drill sites (other pollution comes from many other stages of the supply chain www.propublica.org/article/texa...

“the single most important argument about the worth of writing your own words is because it is a way to respect the person who is going to read your words, and to respect yourself as someone who has something meaningful to say to other people.” robroensch.medium.com/a-letter-to-...

KP Public Affairs, Public Policy Advocates, and Fernandez Jensen Kimmelshue represent both PFAS polluters & water districts trying to clean up PFAS. This is what “double-dealing” lobbying looks like. fminus.org/chemical-con...

In the richest country in the world people are baking to death at home. Richard Chamblee died in Arizona two days after the central AC broke and the family couldn’t afford to repair it. His core temp was 108F/42C. He was just 52 years old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...