“The answer for humanists, as for the rest of the academy and the rest of civil society, is to organize.”

“Solar, wind power and batteries are set to make life a misery for the liquefied natural gas market.”

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My only real hope is that Youngkin pisses off Spanberger enough by the 17th that she removes most or all of his appointments to university boards across the state, not just UVA. My assumption, tho, is that she won't, because of etiquette nonsense.

LNG exports from US up 22% over a year ago, when US was already largest exporter in the world. This is a significant cause of energy inflation costs in US. insideclimatenews.org/news/17122025/liquefied-natural-gas-exports-driving-up-energy-bills/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=8b44c2acfb

20. So this goes back to point 10. When we are a net exporter, decisions to produce more help producers and hurt consumers. And in this case, are ALSO bad for the climate. It's lose / lose all around.

10. In other words, in 2012 new production benefited domestic producers AND consumers. But today, new production only benefits producers. That's a fundamentally different policy and political environment. And note also that domestic consumption is basically flat for the last 20 yrs.

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“People already have health issues down there, are already fighting cancers and lung diseases. They don’t need more,” Mello said.

Revealing that the closest strike isn't within 1,000 miles of the US border in Miami.

And three Democrats

Republicans have hit a new & disgusting low with Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill that would put parents & doctors in jail for providing gender affirming healthcare. Trans kids deserve support, love, & care that affirms their needs, not cruel, despicable attacks on their existence.

…I'm so goddam tired. Ppl are increasingly in their city halls about "AI" data centers making their water & power bills & air quality worse, & literally all Dems would have to do sew up up that bloc is *Vibe With That Energy.* It's affordability & billionaire overreach all in one package you dorks!

Again, we don't have an Opposition Party, not even close; these people are a dangerous fucking joke, the lowest bar possible. We have a room full of people who are "colleagues" with fascists, who protect their capital at all cost & do the bare minimum to gaslight enough people to get reelected.

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and finally address Appalachia’s devastating black lung crisis—has been under continued assault by coal bosses and the Trump admin. Now, it looks like it’s off the table entirely. New for @inthesetimes.com: inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

An excellent article detailing how battery storage, combined with additional technology, will make gas-fired powerplants unnecessary, and the LNP nuclear option completely obsolete. Assuming this is not your doppelganger, great research insights Prof. 👏👍😎 @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au

A year after the MT Supreme Court upheld a landmark trial court ruling recognizing young Montanans right to a stable climate, the youth are turning back to this court seeking to enforce the judgment & quash new laws restricting environmental protections www.climateinthecourts.com/youth-activi...

kind of funny that "you are not allowed to criticize the democrats for any reason" isn't seen as the highest expression of "purity politics."

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NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health. Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Fuck that guy. He can't stop himself from grifting and poisoning Virginians.

Hey if you're into energy, environment, pipelines, Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, or just a habitable planet, checkout this webinar about how we can start to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains fossil capitalism. It's a great panel that happens to include me. @billmckibben.bsky.social

Identity and publicize the identity of every single ICE agent who terrorizes people in our communities. Put up flyers in their hometown, on FB and nextdoor, let their church groups know, tell their kid's school. We'll need this information for their war crimes trials anyway.

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Congratulations to Delegate-Elect Lily Franklin on a well-deserved victory in HD 41! @lilyfordelegate.bsky.social

Congrats to Chuck Schumer on demonstrating pretty conclusively that his support and endorsement are completely irrelevant.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.

Okay, so, here's the sort of query that used to work great at that other place, like, ten years ago: best trade nonfiction books of the past five or so years about climate/environment/energy, etc. For example Vaillant's Fire Weather, Egan's The Devil's Element. Thanks!

Matt Royer’s take on Deciding to Win—what it gets right and how it’s way off base—is an important read. @bytheballot.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/bythebal...

Out trick or treating and I was confused by why my toddler has been saying happy birthday instead of trick or treat. Turns out he thinks today is the birthday party for monsters. I am now adopting this cosmology as canonical.

“Here we go again,” is what Crystal Mello, an organizer for @powhr.org, says she said to herself when she learned that #MVP was planning a new compressor station in Elliston, VA. https://appvoices.org/2025/10/29/seasoned-mvp-fighters-prepare-for-another-battle/

If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...

Unions’ “clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms. It seems plausible, even likely, that faculty unions will have some success building power off of the growing resentment of ubiquitous AI and its slop products.”

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Virginia ranks #4 in the U.S. for total student loan debt — with Virginians holding nearly $45 billion in federal student loans against an average of $40,000+ per borrower. 📚 virginiamercury.com/2025/10/09/v...

"And it’s worked exactly how the politicians and business lobbies wanted it to. It’s driven down wages, busted unions and kept Virginia at the bottom when it comes to worker protections."

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway We don't even have a word or a phrase for this! theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20. Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

Northern Virginia is ground zero for data center buildout.

Look up Friends of Coal and "coal culture" for one of the clearest examples of this.