Y'ALL. Do not miss a @leahstokes.bsky.social book. ESPECIALLY THIS ONE. Leah went to heroic lengths for the climate to lock in as much good as fast as possible against impossible odds and in the midst of severe personal difficulties (SHE HAD TWINS DURING ALL THIS). Get her book, it will be so good

Wow. When you zoom in you get a real feeling for what is now at risk. New map highlights mining threat associated with controversial Conservation Amendment Bill  www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

I feel like all I do lately is read about shrinking science and climate change newsrooms. Very sad and discouraging.

[Founder's briefs] Recent droughts, El Niño cycles, and rising fire risks show how degraded forests lose the ability to withstand climate stress. Restoring these areas is critical, as agricultural zones across South America depend directly on moisture generated by the Amazon. By Rhett Ayers Butler.

Source: www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

My comparatively tiny experience of Chinese science agrees with this most-cited-in-the world #climate scientist: Chinese science has fully caught up to the best science elsewhere, but they reflexively hide data sets. interactive.carbonbrief.org/cosmos/inter...

💯 not everyone lives in a home that is actually that comfortable in a heatwave, and not everyone can take time off work or work from home so easily

They blew up her home - a bright orange, hard-to-make-a-mistake house and conservation centre.

A conservative nonprofit funneled money to boost candidates viewed as weaker opponents.

With Keir Starmer expected to fall on his sword shortly, here is my take on the conundrum facing Andy Burnham, indeed any and every British PM. www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2026/06/22/e...

A happy painting for Sunday! "Thoughts Adrift III" acrylic painting by Nick Flook. Happy Summer Solstice! Longest Day of the Year. #summer #solstice #acrylic #painting #artwork #cover #coverart #book #music #nature #flooko

Krystal Ball: "Israel is the biggest terrorist in the region. We funded a genocide. Okay. So, I'm not really feeling too confident in our ability to moralize about really any regime in the entire world." Ball & Tim Miller discuss the US-Iran deal. @krystalball.bsky.social | @timmiller.bsky.social

Republicans are doing everything they can to silence voters and entrench minority rule. Overcoming that to win the midterms is going to require an unprecedented level of organizing across the country. Our movement was built for this moment.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

“The scandal of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is such a complete encapsulation—and such a perfect metaphor—of incompetence and corruption that it deserves to be both a long-remembered failure and a final straw for a restless, angry nation.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/what-does-...

Friday, June 19th, 2026 SAY THEIR NAMES! This evening, as we do every Friday evening at 5PM, people Rise and Resist gather at 96th St & Bwy to announce the names of those murdered by I.C.E. or those who’ve died in their custody since Trump took office in Jan 2025. Join us!

Love this one! @frost.house.gov brings some incredibly cool Florida history!

To be clear, the EU replacing Palantir with their own homegrown technologies is a small victory at best. Anyone building "software defined warfare" is fascist and they deserve to be banished from society. EU-based AI warfare is not going to be some woke thing created by the o.g. imperialist powers

Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom, resilience, and the ongoing fight for justice. Today, we honor the generations who fought for liberation and recognize that the work of building a more equitable future continues. Freedom and dignity belong to everyone.

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy has proposed eliminating the U.S. Forest Service’s airworthiness inspections for aircraft that fight wildfires. The idea itself could benefit Sheehy personally.

ICYMI — Trump admits he was manipulating the stock market with fake news about Iran

Before Trump paused Jay Clayton’s nomination, Democrats thought they were on a “glide path” to renewing FISA. Now the president wants to tie domestic surveillance to voter suppression. interc.pt/4aW6JoR

Enten: "With independents, Trump is 55 points underwater. My goodness gracious! This was a political disaster. No wonder he wants to move on from it. There was no president ever before that had any poll in which he was 50 point underwater inflation. The Iran war absolutely drove Trump to new lows."

The implication of this "New York Times" headline is that "goy" is simply a slang term used by Generation Z now, no longer attached to antisemitic implications. I think this is not only wrong, but rather dangerous for the newspaper to be printing.

Congo miners seek delay to 5% worker equity rule before July deadline, sources say reut.rs/3SPBs0D

NEW: Meta is testing facial recognition for its smart glasses using software built by a Pentagon and police surveillance vendor with deep ties to the US intelligence community. My latest w/ @dmehro.bsky.social

On DACA’s 14th anniversary, we celebrate Dreamers. They have gone to school, built families and lives, and contributed enormously to our communities. They belong here.

Educators across every academic field are struggling to contain AI-assisted cheating. Our charts illustrate which students are the heaviest users of such tools

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It happened and they cheered. #KennedyCenter

NEW: In a Time op-ed, @rweingarten.bsky.social makes the case for raising teacher pay and describes challenges members are facing affording basic necessities. Underfunding public education and attacking collective bargaining are making teaching a profession people cannot afford to enter or stay in.

We need to talk about Black women and uterine cancer

"Pastor Russell Johnson keeps pushing and provoking, claiming any unhappy reactions to his activities attest to the soundness of his strategy...Triggering the libs, you might say, here becomes the mandate of heaven." A longread and must-read from Dominick Bonny:

A Dallas company quietly bought a site in Lexington, KY for $29M and assumed the city would roll over. The city council voted unanimously to stop them cold. Not here. Not like this. 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-whi...

I love when KBJ just calls it like it is www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The race, already set to be one of the most competitive and highly-watched in the nation, has garnered even more attention recently amid a series of personal scandals and controversies surrounding Platner and comments he made online, as well as recent reporting around past relationships.

“I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is." ‘A Crock of Shit’: Amid Misconduct Allegations, Broadview Six Transcripts Offer Rare Window into Grand Jury talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-crock...

At a time much of the planet is broiling in unseasonable heat, NPR’s climate desk was shuttered after Congress voted last year to eliminate federal subsidies for public media. Nevertheless, it’s hard not to conclude that NPR saw dedicated climate expertise as nonessential. trib.al/5oU0sfC

Trump froze Medicare enrollments for home health and hospice providers — immediately, no warning. Seniors and disabled Americans needing care at home are now blocked from getting it. Ht @nickknudsenus.bsky.social

The Trump DOJ Grand Jury Scandal Transcript is Out

The rot is bipartisan . . . If enacted, the provision could mark a significant change in one of the world’s closest military relationships, shifting the two countries from a partnership centred largely on US military aid towards one in which their defence industries are more deeply intertwined.

There’s a lot of news about this administration buying stuff high and selling it low. DHS warehouses, luxury jets. I can’t help but wonder whether Trump is using the treasury to launder money or skim off the top.

A single hand-labeled image per glacier, plus smart priors, was enough for an AI model to track 145 glacier calving fronts.

From reining in the Iran war to pushing back on Trump’s slush fund, Congress appears to be reasserting its constitutional authority, but as we recommend in our new report, to fully reclaim its power, it must take further steps to strengthen itself as an institution. bit.ly/4ev01Zg

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has, as a very interim step, blocked Stanford children's hospital (LPCH) from turning over patient records responsive to the N.D. Texas trans care grand jury subpoena and barred DOJ from taking any action to enforce it while he considers a new TRO request.

DOGE dismantles disease control efforts, and just like that, diseases come back and destroy livestock. prospect.org/2026/06/09/w...

Banks and stablecoins are growing parts of the Treasury market. But not by enough to fill the gap

The 42-year-old celebrity, whom Trump praised as “a big MAGA person,” was the latest reality TV star to attempt to parlay his years of television antics into a political career.

If you have $50 million to parachute in during the midterms you had much more you could have invested in between so these elections are a lot easier to win. But democrats don’t do strategy, they waste millions of dollars. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/u...