I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

This is the thing about cascading consequences of climate change: When natural and human-made systems start to break down, it can be in unexpected and compounding ways.

Remember...

I really like the substance of this piece by @brianbeutler.bsky.social. It argues for clear-eyed acceptance of the situation we're in, preemptive mourning for what's being lost, and a steely resolve to rebuild when we regain power.

An accessible summary of my recent research on housing, climate risk, and insurance: www.nber.org/reporter/202...

Inside the growing field of risk management, where climate-fueled extreme weather, cyberattacks and lawsuits are all hazards to prepare for.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

Unbelievably dangerous. Creating a military force for domestic law enforcement. The opposite of the ideals on which this country was founded in every way.

@douglewin.bsky.social: "One acre of corn for ethanol = 25,000 miles in a Ford F-150. One acre of solar = 700,000 miles in an F-150 Lightning. That’s the scale of possibility Bill McKibben laid out on the Energy Capital Podcast." #alwaysbecharging www.douglewin.com/p/here-comes...

The cancellation of mRNA vaccine research is bad if you have a superficial knowledge of mRNA, and worse if you have real knowledge about it. @ryanlcooper.com drops some real knowledge: prospect.org/health/2025-...

"We are now past the point of crisis. Trump has long dreamed of presiding over a police state. He has openly admired...foreign leaders who helm one. He has now appointed people who have expressed their willingness to help him achieve one..." radleybalko.substack.com/p/trumps-tri...

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

Trump angrily barking at his aides to track down and fire the Secretaries of both Math and Causality

Sheep farming in Ireland (Slea Head, County Kerry)

On a smoky day, when AQI levels reach 100 to 200, "the exposure to the fine particulate matter, the air pollution, is similar to smoking a quarter to half a pack a day," May-Lin Wilgus, a pulmonologist and professor at UCLA, says.

“How Trump Killed Cancer Research Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of dollars being used for cancer research.” www.wired.com/story/how-tr...

Very excited to learn that @billmckibben.bsky.social's new book is now available for pre-sale. In the midst of all the darkness, here's some light, based on deep research with a world-historic perspective. Can't wait to read it! wwnorton.com/books/Here-C...

Amen, @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social. Elite opposition is extremely important and it is extremely absent.

Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police states. I think the masking symbolizes the drift of law enforcement away from democratic controls.”

NEW: Many states rely on the federal government for the vast majority of their emergency management funding. Now, local leaders are looking for clues about the money — and the future of FEMA itself. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

Good reminder of how little people hear about even massively important policy proposals.

This is the future of power everywhere and it’s really exciting.

The rule of law is a fragile and precious thing

Trump just hit a new all-time low of -11 (among adults) in our approval average. He's underwater on pretty much every issue, and in all the swing states. Underwater in Ohio, and nearly negative in Texas and Florida. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

It's officially the hottest June day ever in NYC.

It's becoming increasingly clear is that the right wing of this Supreme Court is extreme even among federal courts. The district courts and appellate courts keep appropriately halting this shit, expressing appropriate outrage, and trying to hold the line. Then SCOTUS blows it all up.

Thanks for a hell of a ride, fellas.

Appalling

Economists missed the mark on climate change. With almost a trillion dollars in climate-fueled disaster costs, the effects are more devastating than they could have imagined. From @ryanlcooper.com: https://trib.al/HKdQbSU

I hesitate posting this, @genevievedfr.bsky.social & @lageneralista.ca, but I can’t stop myself. Forgive me. bsky.app/profile/gwyl...

“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

Rainbow in Rockville earlier this evening, @capitalweather.bsky.social Also an unintentional ad for @wmata.com .

When your MAGA uncle claims that climate change is some hippie fantasy, it helps to point out that the massive corporations employing truckloads of risk analysts are all placing multi-billion dollar bets of their own money that it’s real.

We Americans are sailing our ships heedlessly into the wild dark storm of climate brittleness, and the Trump gang's answer is to smash every compass they can find.

While 90 degree days have 2X in Tampa, days with a heat index above 100 have 4X over the past 50-60 years! This is due to both warmer air and also a modest increase in dewpoints too. It's not coincidence, it's climate change! (both greenhouse forcing and urban heat island)