Today in @thenation.com: thrilled to have @gbbranstetter.bsky.social on how this week's elections should bury once and for all the toxic myth that trans people are to blame for the Democratic Party's political failures www.thenation.com/article/poli...

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

🚨 COP 30 Thread 🚨 The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to 21th. This will be our thread to keep up with what is going on ⬇️

I know I've said this before, but from advertorials to false equivalence the media really needs to own up to its role in warping the climate issue. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Genuinely super handy resource!!

🚨Election Thread🚨 What do yesterday's elections mean for climate change, clean energy, and other environmental questions? Our partner reporters have answers. Starting with @fieseler.bsky.social on New Jersey:

In 2021, @nlanard.bsky.social came back from a hunger strike of taxi drivers and told me that a politician who had just turned 30 might be the future of politics in NYC. Here's a look back at a pivotal moment in Mamdani's rise www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Missed Sunday's newsletter? It is all about the rebirth of the Klamath River. Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

I would love to see a breakdown of how much it costs to increase police patrols in grocery stores versus how much it would cost to compensate stores to give SNAP recipients free food while benefits are suspended

NEWS: CBS News gutted its climate team as part of the big Paramount layoffs this week. These journalists had been doing incredible reporting on extreme heat, flooding, clean energy investments and more. I've got details for Climate-Colored Goggles: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/cbs-news-g...

**not traditionally peer reviewed** I am a journalist and I like being accurate: they said they did a pre-publication peer review and were keeping it anonymous for a post-publication peer review. There are limited details and lots of questions on both

I have a bad cold so sorry if this is blunt/not clear: If you are going to mention the HHS Report, you have to contextualize it properly for the reader: that it was anonymous, not peer reviewed (not normal practice), widely criticized, etc. Readers don't know the quality of research unless you say!

Missed Sunday's newsletter? It was all about @vox.com's investigation into biodiversity loss in Madagascar. Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

“When you get a storm like this that is approaching the higher echelons of what we have observed, it’s harrowing," one scientist told @mrmattsimon.bsky.social. And rapid intensification caused by warm water makes a storm like this incredibly more dangerous. Story via @grist.org / @climatedesk.org

I’m currently at the entrance to Coast Guard Island where National Guard troops and ICE agents are being housed prior to their deployment on the Bay Area. Couple hundred people are here blocking access in and out. Lots of faith leaders here who are praying at the edge of the property line.

It should genuinely concern more journalists that a single non-profit is doing the brunt of our archival work. I love the Internet Archive but does this profession not feel any ethical obligation to make stronger publicly available archives of our work?

Generally when I stage @climatedesk.org stories for republication, my read of them is pretty cursory But I really took my time reading this excellent featured by @benjij.bsky.social in @vox.com today.

Congress created the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) four years ago to solve a “chicken-and-egg situation” for climate solutions. So what did the Trump Administration do? Find out in our latest newsletter here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

I wrote a little essay about “designer vaginas” and the celeb-ification of transness transwrites.world/who-are-the-...

"He's orange!!!"

One of my favorite parts of journalism is you just get to ask everyday people what they think about something and share that. Happy to be the video guy behind stitching these responses my colleagues gathered ⬇️

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

Great context for today's #NoKings protests from the inimitable @timothypmurphy.bsky.social. cc @motherjones.com

Trump’s people are calling this a hate rally. Here’s a live shot from the hate rally.

I'll be editing videos coming in from our reporters on the ground. Let me know if you see anything interesting!

Full thread ⬇️

We just released a BIG undercover investigation…and it’s all on tape. In collaboration with @lighthousereports.com, @papertrailmedia.de, and other media partners around the world, I made this video for @motherjones.com & @revealnews.org Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfWy...

Huge shout out to @peter-berger.bsky.social for producing and editing this incredible mini-documentary!

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

Missed Sunday's weekly newsletter? Read it here: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Renewables generated more power than coal globally in the first half of 2025 — a major milestone on clean energy's path to displacing fossil fuels.

"To make the proof" shows how absurd this all is from a scientific standpoint.

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Often when you read a research study, the findings aren't something you can easily see for yourself. But I highly suggest googling any profession and looking at the image search results. My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

Scientists once predicted meat-making machines on every kitchen counter, but so far cultured meat has only been seen at a handful of restaurants. Some states have already banned it for reasons that include “global elites” and “bugs.” Why? Let's dig in 🍔

KBJ’s blunt question today about the Supreme Court’s culture war hypocrisy kind of floored me, because it’s the kind of meta-criticism that we aren’t used to hearing from the justices. It’s the second day of the term, and things are that dire already. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Very good rundown of the Chiles v Salazar oral arguments today from @mjsdc.bsky.social

Anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy is ineffective and dangerous, leading to suicidality and depression. Today, the Supreme Court will consider bringing this torturous practice back from the dustbin of history where it belonged. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s aid package to soybean farmers is expected to be in the billions of dollars. But to some farmers, that misses the point. “The American farmer, especially myself included—we don’t want any payments. We want to work."

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A year and a half ago, @hencarnell.bsky.social and I investigated the movement to resurrect conversion therapy Now, oral arguments are about to begin in a Supreme Court case, Chiles v. Salazar, that could overturn bans in 23 states. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“It is psychologically manipulative." "A place of constant, albeit quiet, torment.” “A lot of thoughts [were] placed into my head about how disturbing and gross and creepy people like me were... I internalized a lot of these projections.”

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court hears a challenge of a Colorado law that forbids licensed mental health professionals from attempting to change minors’ gender identity or sexual orientation. Experts say the practice is "can be harmful, and should not be part of behavioral health treatment.”

Nature and the great outdoors are not partisan. They shouldn't be, anyway. They are a gift to all that requires good stewardship and protection. Didn't the Bible say something like that, too?

The national parks are in deep shit—perhaps literally. Read our latest dispatch from Climate Desk Weekly, recapping what the shutdown means for National Parks: link.motherjones.com/view/647e4ef...

Tremendous reporting from @katiepalmer.bsky.social about how telehealth companies transformed from helping patients access doctors to helping companies sell drugs. www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/t...

The Supreme Court hears arguments on a conversion therapy law tomorrow. "What you have is competing visions of how states regulate medicine and whether regulation of medicine should be solely evidence-based or not,” one expert said. More here on the potential impact: www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/s...

I am OUTRAGED that Netflix has a kids show with a “nonbinary” cow. Back in my day, we had normal looking cows (boys) and cows with a tiny waist, a big long ponytail, lipstick, blush, eyelashes, a big bow in its hair and two hoop earrings (girls). Why do they keep forcing this gender stuff on us?

Day after day, the desire to understand the planet compels people all over the world to don their snowsuits, wet suits and business suits in the service of climate science. Explore their efforts in Quanta’s photo gallery: