ACT NOW. 🔥 Fires, explosions, toxic releases — chemical disasters happen nearly every day in the US. ⚠️ The Trump Admin is trying to eliminate the only agency that investigates and prevents them. 📣 Tell Congress: Save the Chemical Safety Board ☎️ Act now: bit.ly/3Kq1Z0w

Poland: renewables overtake coal for the first time. A decade ago coal was 83% of power; in June it fell below 44%. https://f.mtr.cool/dwqfciqmse

"We aren't going to vote our way out of this. We also aren't going to _eat_ our way out of this, but I still had breakfast this morning." - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social on how voting can fit into a larger antifascist strategy.

I think this to myself at least once a week. And I think about that chapter every time my a/c kicks on, especially on days with >100° heat index + >70% humidity, which just feels like the whole summer here now. #NOLA At least it's actually raining this year...

Zohran Mamdani won his race on the back of policies widely supported by NYC voters: 78% of NYC voters support a rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments.

While everyone else is annoyed that Claiborne is closed coming into the city, I'm one of the 7 (🙄) houses without power until god knows when. After being awoken by a car hitting a utility pole at 4a. (I think everyone is ok.) So I have decamped in pursuit of caffeine and an outlet.

Trump's DEI rollbacks are pushing out Black farmers by cutting millions in critical funding. This isn't just about farming, it's about our community's survival and independence. on.thegrio.com/3ZHHbGI

Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.

So proud of my colleagues for exercising their right to collective bargaining, and to my organizational home for moving quickly on voluntary recognition! 😍 As management, I love this so much for us, and I look forward to what comes from the bargaining table to make us a healthier, stronger team ✊

Columbia University has destroyed itself. A shameful dark day. archive.ph/1elJh

Let us never, ever forget that Columbia University quickly capitulated to fascist authoritarianism. Tell your colleagues and coworkers, and your kids, niblings, grandkids, and grandniblings: Never Columbia. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

"Communities have felt intentionally marginalized, disregarded — frankly— gaslit" by oil and gas companies. New laws to hold them accountable for costs associated with climate change "are a beacon of hope" says @soopajane.bsky.social Read more in @floodlightnews.org

NOW: More than 98% of #Costco shareholders have just rejected an anti-DEI measure The attempt to force Costco to audit their #DEI work was by an anti-inclusion lobby group: "The proponent's broader agenda is not reducing risk for the Company but abolition of diversity initiatives." - Costco Board

Louisiana State meteorologist Jay Grymes said the expected winter storm will be the worst one South Louisiana has seen since the 1960s. Be prepared to stay indoors Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

"Turning human misery into big money: Gov. Jeff Landry treats homeless people like a commodity. It’s shameful, and Louisiana faith leaders should be denouncing it," new by me. robertmann.substack.com/p/turning-hu...

My hot take is that joy is good

I have art from this man's comic books tattooed on my body. 😡 And no words left. So I'll leave Lila's here.

Not only is @ADMupdates' #carboncapture project in IL leaking near the drinking water source for a million people, it doesn't even WORK! 😡 cleantechnica.com/2025/01/03/i...

AND pay a livable, comfortable wage with benefits.

It's 2025. Put the salary range on the job listing.

This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/hom...

okay I know the message makes some of y'all uncomfortable but just musically can we agree that this guy killed it (so to speak)

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you don't need to justify your reading preferences and choices to anyone. Audiobooks count as reading. Also, you don't have to finish books you don't enjoy. Don't read to impress, read for yourself. Life's too short, love yourself, ok? Signed, a librarian.

Is it unprofessional to automatically decline meeting invites that come with a Teams link? Asking for a friend.

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

See the difference? Within the trans community, even when we disagree, we all believe we deserve good quality care. We think any restrictions should show benefits. For the mainstream, restrictions are assumed to be beneficial, because being trans is perceived as worse than being cis is.

“You know what's not cool, Bobby?” “Blaming climate change on overpopulation when the the richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%”

Moreover, the racial gerrymanders of the GOP's REDMAP initiative allowed it to sabotage systems of governance over the last decade & build the resentment that has fueled their more openly fascist turn. We don't get to this point FULL STOP w/o Republican gerrymandering.

What is the most unnecessarily irritating font to you, and why is it Arial?

Hirokol Tabuchi (NYT) landed 🔥 docs from the Nat'l Assoc. for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) re: industry strategy to counter "the tide of anti-plastic sentiment." Read here: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/c... Meanwhile: huge industry turnout at #INC5 #plasticstreaty www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Also this excellent observation (because sometimes people think it's all up to the federal government).

Hickel continues: "Wage disparities are so extreme that high-skilled workers in the global South (physicists, surgeons, engineers, logistics managers, etc) receive 68% less than low-skilled labour in the global North, in terms of their command over total global output. No one should accept this."

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

I would take it a step farther: we already have a humanitarian crisis in the failure of cities to provide for the basic needs of their residents. The sudden arrival of immigrants allows the city to paint that crisis as new, acute, and driven by external forces; but it isn't.

There isn't any city or town in the USA with the civic infrastructure to handle a humanitarian crisis at scale, and refusing to build that capacity is a political choice.

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting. Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

me trying to explain to Climate Philanthropists that if they want people to have actionable climate info in their brains instead of a fact-free Lisa Frank-hued misinfo slurry, they have to first reinvent local news from first principles and commit to funding it forever

10 years ago a single bathroom bill passed in north carolina received so much pushback from all angles that the fucking NBA boycotted the state btw. that’s where we were then versus now. cool cool cool

I will not comply with bathroom bans.

For profit corporations are not good partners. They will not help communities unless they are required to by enforced legislation. "Help" that comes with acquiescence to harm is not "help". It's coercion.