Last night, Illinois passed two of the biggest pro-climate laws of 2025 In the final day of session, lawmakers voted for $1.5B in annual transit funding and passed the Clean & Reliable Grid Act By passing these pro-affordability, pro-climate bills, they've shown what’s possible when states lead 🧵

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission. A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis. To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning. 🧵 https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

Governor Newsom has a bill on his desk to hold utilities accountable, and get them to stop passing along their dark money campaigns to everyday Californians. Is he going to side with utilities, or side with the public and help lower electricity rates? energyandpolicy.org/california-l...

I didn’t realize there were still people advocating for a federal carbon tax…?

This man spouts the most unfathomably vile, genocidal rhetoric without a peep from his colleagues, meanwhile the only Palestinian-American in Congress was censured for "promoting false narratives" about Gaza

So much horrific news. But also yesterday, the oaks were leafing out and the grass was maximum green. The Bay Area dresses up in drag as Ireland this time every year, and happy St. Patrick's to all you anticolonialists and arborists.

I have no choice but to stan.