Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I feel like this sums up democratic governance. We're always inventing new strings with which we try to constrain power. But at the end of the day, it's about trust and reciprocity. We trust each other not to "cut the string and open the box."

This is not an excuse. These issues pop up all over the country and DTE is consistently the least prepared and least effective at dealing with them. They just don’t want to pony up their profits to bury power lines and make fixes that actually have impact.

The Spectacular Regrowth of New England’s Forests insideclimatenews.org/news/0407202...

A single black woman surrounded by hooded white supremacists is certainly a chilling image.

Hotter and hotter and hotter www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Climate change is literally canceling US independence Day celebrations. The July 4 parade in Philadelphia, the birthplace of American independence, has been canceled due to extreme heat. Heat waves aren’t new - what’s new is that climate change is making them hotter and more dangerous.

Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the Northeast and eastern Canada before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday.

Consider just how big the liability of owning these dams is if Consumers is willing to pay a quarter billion just to get them off their books. Remove dams. Restore rivers.

We must document every single rule and norm that Trump has violated — that is not illegal but should be — and pass it into law. We cannot have someone else come in and abuse this office the way that Donald Trump has ever again.

When I was 17 I jumped out of a barn loft about 15 feet high during a game of tag, performed a perfect superhero landing, and took off on a dead sprint without losing a beat. I now have to be careful stepping out of the shower because an awkward slip of 2 cm in any direction will ruin the day

I've said for years the Trump era is the Confederacy's revenge. It really is.

"The Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

This is absolutely insane. I bought this 2TB drive in 2021 for around $200 bucks. It's now (*rubs eyes*) $750!! What the hell are we doing here.

SCOTUS overturned a jury award for a man who claimed Roundup caused his cancer, a decision expected to block thousands of similar lawsuits. EPA says Roundup is safe but the International Association on Research on Cancer labels glyphosate a probable human carcinogen linked to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The Supreme Court sided with corporate polluters over the health of the American people. This decision to protect Bayer and Monsanto puts corporate immunity above accountability. Americans deserve transparency about cancer-linked chemicals and the ability to hold corporations accountable.

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and SUVs. The vehicles on roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians. There are two reasons bigger vehicles are deadlier: They have taller hoods and larger blind zones. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @nytimes.com

"...67% of American voters said they think global warming is affecting the cost of living in the United States, while 64% said it is affecting their own cost of living, pointing to increasing costs of home utility bills, groceries, and home insurance, among other things." time.com/article/2026...

An administrative judge encourages rejection of the Consumers' Dams sale. It's unusual for such a strong statement from a judge in this type of situation. It speaks to just how big of a scam Consumers and Confluence are trying to pull off.

Caught a sunset with the drone tonight as storms approached from two sides. #photography

It’s alarming how brazenly unethical Meta has become. Stories like this are dropping all the time now. Bond villain type stuff. What’s the endgame here? For the tech company oligarchs to use an AI-powered surveillance state and rule the world from a Hawaiian fortress?

"There's no democracy without journalism." Scott Pelley is the best of us. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

George Santos called me after my story revealing federal investigations into his suspected market manipulation on Kalshi. And he said: "This story is going to get you a gun in your face." Then he lied about it. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

Let me add a shout-out to Nutella: the “you can have chocolate frosting for breakfast” loophole

A grad student at Lesley College evaluated one of my climate change lectures for use to public audiences and a lot of what's here was what she told me as well. Some of these are esoteric scientific words we use often, like "emissions." Phrases like "climate justice" are coded, polarizing terms

The old joke that "facts have a liberal bias" was funny because it was true. But the sad part is that it didn't have to be. The GOP turned away from objective reality a long time ago. It didn't work, so now MAGA and their tech oligarchs are institutionalizing their far-right fantasy.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Sometimes redditors get the response right on the first try

Took my vehicle in for an inspection. Attendant: Everything looks good. Brakes look perfect. Me: Yeah, I drive like a grandma to save gas. Attendant: (*chuckles) Funny what we do in our old age, isn't it? Me:

For those in #AnnArbor, be warned that DTE is flooding ad markets with misinformation in the hopes to derail Ann Arbor's public utility plans. Remember that DTE is one of the least reliable utilities in the country, with one of the worst environmental records, but has the highest profit/customer.

OK, here is a thing that happened on Tues 26 May 2026 at one of the longest-lived weather stations on planet Earth.

Donald Trump is a rapist and this is a brazen abuse of power.

The guy bragging about how many breathalyzer tests he’s passed

All joking aside, this seems like a gaping information vulnerability. I tried similar nonsense questions about myself, my wife, and a well known colleague with pretty crazy results. AI really just tells you whatever you want to hear.

I agree. The discussion on this has been disappointing. There are several very important points in this thread. Everyone should read it.

Why Michigan is emerging as one of America’s worst-hit climate states

"Once you know that (it) exists, it’s hard not to think about it every time you see a sudden flood of enthusiastic posts about a famous person’s new project or haircut or outfit or relationship or face." web.archive.org/web/20260515...

Something I realized today that is true but feels untrue: New York City is farther south than Omaha, Nebraska.

Hard to read this @defaultfriend.bsky.social column (“We are Sliding Back Into the Middle Ages”) without thinking about Carl Sagan’s 1996 book “A Demon Haunted World” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o... Sagan: archive.org/details/demo...

Many folks in our neck of the woods helped get this through. Big thanks. The Bradford Pear is the emblem of a sleazy tactic to sell houses. They were bred to be cheap, grow fast, and bloom around the May 1 real estate season kickoff. But they harm ecosystems and fall apart after about 20 years.

The EPA’s proposed rollbacks pose a nationwide threat to the health of up to 105 million people, whose water has been contaminated by toxic PFAS “forever chemicals.” Exposure to PFAS has been linked to serious health effects, from cancer to reduced fertility.

Lotta folks in Minneapolis could have an “I am Spartacus” moment here

All else aside, I am constantly stunned by Silicon Valley's inability to read the room on this.

Of course it's not the only factor, but 64% of Americans are not wrong ... www.eenews.net/articles/64-...

The word “exploiting” here feels tilted. China is acting like a flawed but responsible and predictable adult while the U.S. is acting like spoiled brat.

Cool to see 19 new wind turbines generate as much electricity as 400 (!) old turbines in CA's Altamont Pass. The U.S. could more than double its onshore wind capacity with no new land via repowering, per a Stanford study: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-... via @justingerdes.bsky.social

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

It’s amazing what you can do when you’re not bought and paid for by corporate overlords.

A Michigan appeals court largely upheld the contentious solar permitting law, but limited interpretations of some elements.