NEW: America’s largest gas utility is using ratepayer funds to incentivize rebuilding with fossil gas appliances after LA wildfires SoCalGas is taking advantage of “broken rules” Thank you @missionvespa.bsky.social for going down the rabbit hole with me: insideclimatenews.org/news/0312202...

On point as always

California appreciation post

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Caring for her aging father gave Michelle Cottle a firsthand look at America's caregiving crisis. "We had no idea what was coming," she writes.

GOOD NEWS ALERT: The California Public Utilities Commission just approved two programs to help get window heat pumps and 120 volt induction stoves onto store shelves across the state 🎉 earthjustice.org/press/2025/c...

One of the best books I've read all year!

This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing. Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.

What you don't talk about still can hurt you.

To the Democratic pollster and data pundit, “moral claims and exercises of imagination, claims about what is possible come with glaring asterisks. New tactics and strategies are by definition unvalidated, and in that sense they are admittedly a risk. But there are risks the other way, too.”

Great reporting as always

Huge deal! Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system

Same day. 🇺🇸

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

Protesters gathered on the road leading from Oakland to Coast Guard Island, opposing the deployment of CBP and other federal agents sent to crack down immigration enforcement in the Bay Area. 🎥: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades and Minh Connors

Can we trust the courts to uphold climate laws? Really good analysis: atmos.earth/political-la...

Cannot wait for the new lily king

Thank you @governor.ca.gov for vetoing #SB34, which would have tied Southern California air regulators’ hands and made it more difficult to our air earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...

Incredible news.

Carbon Bros is amazing

"She has hosted a weekly food pantry from her garage since 2021, stocking it with donations from local food banks, grocery stores, restaurants, bakeries, and anywhere else she can get free food for her community." civileats.com/2025/03/24/t...

....... it's so dumb ............ www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

President Donald Trump downplayed the severity of domestic violence crimes, saying that were it not for “things that take place in the home they call crime,” the administration’s deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., would have resulted in a bigger statistical reduction in crime.

I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.

Energy from the sun won’t solve every crisis we face — by itself, it won’t solve any of them. But it’s the one light flashing green, not red, the one wild card poking out of a rigged deck and begging to be played. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Why is the big swap of air conditioners for heat pumps a great idea? @missionvespa.bsky.social breaks it down 👇👇 earthjustice.org/experts/matt...

If you don’t count covid victims people won’t die. If you don’t measure carbon the temperature won’t rise. If you fudge unemployment numbers the economy will soar. Our fool is building his paradise

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity. If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

Highly recommend listening to the second season of The Retrievals all about how pain during c-sections has been entirely ignored

Motherfucking wind farms…

Hell. The 2009 finding created years of certainty for automakers, that they needed to get onboard the transition away from fossil fuels, and some of them actually were doing it.

I wrote a memorial essay in praise of the great Joanna Macy over there at my newsletter.....

welp

Times when I miss the east coast…

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

The heat dome that is scorching more than 90 million people across the U.S. this week also threatens to deliver polluted air, something that scientists say is a growing problem on a warming planet.

yet another "congestion pricing is working" story www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I started volunteering as an immigration court watcher after reading an article about Brad Lander doing it. So much respect to him and all the folks standing up to bear witness and get in the way.

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

SF showed up #NoKings

This is extremely disturbing. @padilla.senate.gov was violently removed from a public briefing for asking questions on behalf of the people he represents. Every day that goes by, Donald Trump is making our nation look more and more like a fascist state.

NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL. Thank you Senator Padilla for defending your constituents and showing exactly what Kristi Noem and this administration stand for.

@padilla.senate.gov represents the best of the Senate. The disgraceful and disrespectful conduct of DHS agents, pushing and shoving him out of a briefing like that, demands our condemnation. He will not be silenced or intimidated. His questions will be answered. I’m with Alex.

California Sen. Alex Padilla was detained and handcuffed Thursday morning by the U.S. Secret Service at Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles.

one big reason beltway journalists shouldn’t buy white house spin about los angeles is that the actual public opinion info we have doesn’t suggest the president has a winning hand here

Thousands gathered in San Francisco Monday evening to protest ICE raids across California and Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles. “We are not out here to burn shit or break shit, we are out here to show them we are not scared,” one speaker said. 📷: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades

sadsad

hmm seems like a problem

baked my first babka and I’m honestly extremely proud of myself