If only climate groups had the money and infrastructure to run a $20 million ad campaign, knock on 500,000 doors, and have 1,500 meetings with lawmakers, as right-wing groups do on just one bill to fight for fossil fuels.

TWO HOURS LATER… Car is freed with no need for my Medicare card today. I approached the job as a series of goblet squats. CrossFit training for the win. Best of all: I got to tell the mustache guy in the Trump-and-flag-bejeweled truck who stopped by with an unsolicited plow-out bid to…drive on 1/6

Do I have osteoporosis in my spine, a torn labrum in my hip, and and a Medicare card in my wallet? YES And can I box squat 100 lb, deadlift my body weight, and did I just hear an NPR story about how cussing during feats of strength improves performance? ALSO YES Let’s f-ing dig this MF-er out 🪏

Pro tip: shovel the sidewalk for the old lady who lives next door.

Pretty confident there's a commandment against idolatry, but what do I know, I just read the book at face value

This was a hit last Xmas with my two underpaid Gen Z kiddos so am reprising it: banker’s boxes (tape for scale) stuffed w coffee, olive oil, hot sauce, honey, maple syrup, protein bars, biscotti, laundry soap, dish soap, popcorn, tuna etc. First time I ever hit $500 at a supermarket checkout. 😳

Today is the annual re-enactment of my loathing for gift wrapping which I not only hate but am bad at, a failure that I attribute both to left handedness but also a DGAF attitude as evidenced by the fact that I can give a rat a tracheotomy but don’t ask me for a ribbon or a name tag on this MFer.

Why I lift, run a daily 5K, and eat kale: Project Outlive Them

Scary. Imagine you have 4 kids and all of 'em are hospitalized at the same time. Struggling to breathe, need oxygen, and have high fevers. This photo shows just 3 of the siblings. Photograph: Carrollyn Timmons

Spoiler: Everyone who is not vaccinated gets measles and some who are get breakthrough infections and they all get complicatedly sick for a long time and the people lying are the anti-vaxxers Gift link I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Me and the fact of my adoption navigated the medical system once again today. 🥚

Larger point: 45Q is arguably the most perverse energy subsidy from a climate pespective. Govt paying corporations to capture and store CO2, instead of actually reducing emissions, means incentivizing more extraction and combustion of fossil fuels because more emissions means more public $.

Indeed, Sandra. Here is Just Solutions' and Earth Track's brief on 45Q fiscal disaster. CCUS footprint grew from about 15 operations to more than 200 in the pipeline today as the subsidy rose to $85/ton under Biden and industry is now pushing for $120. justsolutionscollective.org/taxpayer-cos...

Always fun to read the Carbon Herald, esp bedtime stories about how the IRS will monitor supercritical CO2 injections into geological formations including depleted oil wells and how large sums of taxpayer money are paid out sans proof that the CO2 stays put…1/2 carbonherald.com/treasury-irs...

Currently on this week’s list of national security threats according to the White House: • Offshore wind turbines • The New York Times Not on the list: • Climate change • Russian bots acting as online chaos agents and sowers of disinformation

I wrote this earlier. "...while there are likely people in China who know how much oil they can store and how much excess storage capacity currently exists, they aren’t sharing that info and we have no real idea. We do have an idea what would happen if China stopped buying this oil next year."

"The key question for 2026 is whether China will, and can, continue to buy excess crude when prices drop, effectively providing a floor." While the US is issuing threats and tariffs to try to implement global energy policy, China has legit economic levers it controls.

Some of my stories this year included: - how the gas industry pushed state bills to redefine gas as “clean” energy - how the DOE partnered with plastics lobbyists - how Exxon is building CO2 pipelines through communities after Trump withdrew safety regs More: www.exxonknews.org/p/exxonknews...

it’s hard to overstate how much fraud has been perpetuated in intercountry #adoption. some of my mutuals have talked about being fed just these sorts of lies about their preadoptive histories.

My new year's resolution - relearn basic cellular biochemistry and metabolism. More and more relevant to my field. I've got to overcome PTSD of learning the Kreb's cycle in undergrad! 🧠🧪⚛️🤪

Make it unprofitable.

what will it take to get people to understand the forms of psychological terror that #adoption agencies and many hopeful adopters are willing to inflict on pregnant women to convince them that they do not deserve to keep their own children?

crisis pregnancy centers, which receive public funds alongside private donations, are designed to extract children from pregnant women. It’s a prolonged psyop aiming to strip their sense of self-worth to the point that they will feel totally incapable & unworthy of keeping their own children. 🥚

these foundling box programs are being designed to evade public accountability—to ensure total anonymization along the pipeline. You want *literal* infant trafficking? This is how you get it. 🥚

🥚 We live in barbarism. No abortion, health insurance, or affordable childcare for you but please feel free, young lady, to endure a pregnancy, risk your life in childbirth, and throw your baby in a box so rich people can have it. Adoption supply chain infrastructure 👇 time.com/7299476/baby...

This is fabulous. Now my go to referral for anyone who brings up CCS. I wonder if our 🇨🇦 government has seen this. “CCS is an unnecessary, expensive, wasteful diversion away from a modern, efficient renewable-powered economy with good jobs for all.” — Peter Montague

Great resource! 🌍 Carbon capture is a hot topic. As Asimov said, "Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable." How do you see the future of this tech? 🪐📚 #SciFi #CarbonCapture

Proposal: a nationally televised debate regarding AI’s demand of for 1,300 human sacrifices. With a follow-up panel discussion re: conscripts vs volunteers and yes or no on kids.

@debbiedingell.house.gov Among many grievous harms to science and the public interest, this would be one of the worst.

Counterpoint: no we don’t need to do this. (Exactly nobody needs to explain to me how entropy works but if someone wants to chime in on how growing up in a shitty town with shitty schools is connected to shame more than outrage, I pass the torch to you.)

4:15 pm on the year’s shortest day. Welcome to winter. And more light.

Co-sign. We need some bone density out there in the streets.

Happy winter solstice, friends! At 10:03 am this morning, Earth paused and reversed its path (see also, axial tilt). Today is the day with the least and most slanted daylight. It gets brighter from here. We know all this because science. “You want it darker/We kill the flame.” Leonard Cohen

The yin yang of Sunday mornings: sprint to CrossFit, throw around a bunch of heavy weights to the thump of “Thunderstruck,” race home, shower, eat protein, jog down to Quaker meeting, and sit in worshipful motionless silence with many kind, brave, spiritual souls. It’s all resistance training.

Exxon has a new plan to sell more fossil fuels: stick carbon capture on massive gas-fired power plants for AI and brand them as climate friendly. Critics say that's a dangerous fiction. Thrilled to have @emorwee.bsky.social as my editor on this one! www.exxonknews.org/p/exxon-prom...

What a nice treat: a holiday card/lomakortti from family in Finland!! Getting to know my distant biological relatives since 2023 has been one of the best gifts in my life. That makes it all the more frustrating to me millions of US adoptees are denied their original vital records by state laws.

The correct position on this false solution does not depend on your opinion of AI: gas+CCS for power is not and has never been a good climate tech. It is also vaporware, but would be bullshit even if it weren't.

this is fascinating. the summer after i graduated hs i was one of the students my bio teacher hired to come work for his side gig as a bat surveyor. i had to get preventative rabies shots (series of 3) because we would come into close and frequent contact with bats

Remembering that at-wits-end Xmas break when I read a book about how to talk to teenagers and it advised making observations followed by calmly stating how you feel. IRL… Me: I see dishes in the sink. I can’t make dinner. I feel frustrated. Teen: Sounds like a you problem [slams bedroom door] 1/3

🧪🧵Holiday tip from a biologist Scour the cardboard flowing into your house rn for a piece both stiff and thin. Cut into a 5x7 and put it in your junk drawer. It’s for sliding under the glass in which you’ve trapped a spider or wasp. Release that beauty outside. www.webpronews.com/rapid-insect...

In celebration of NY Gov Hochul ending a public subsidy to the gas industry by signing a bill that rescinds the dumb 100 foot rule, let’s all turn and face east where our friends in Massachusetts are in the process of doing the same thing. Carry on, Massholes. www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...

lol lol lol Somehow, on the same day, Elise Stefanik called on Governor Hochul to continue an old rule that subsidizes gas pipelines in new buildings—but then the Governor rescinded it—AND THEN she says she’s resigning BOTH from Congress AND the governor’s race. northcountrynow.com/stories/stef...

Congrats to @renewableheat.bsky.social for relentless, organizing, brilliant political leadership, and spot-on messaging that helped END a compulsory subsidy for fracked gas that we all had to pay. Namely the cost of building the last 100 feet of gas pipelines. Some voices from last week’s rally:

I’m happy about this so gonna keep posting about it for a li’l while… So many worked so hard to get this bill passed and and signed. And today was the final deadline. Now utilities can’t charge customers $60 million/yr to expand fracked gas pipelines. Oh snap. earthjustice.org/press/2025/n...

💥UPDATE: we won! NY Gov Kathy Hochul just SIGNED the bill to rescind a stupid subsidy for fracked gas: the hateful 100-ft rule, which forces all of us who pay utility bills to cover the cost of hooking up new homes to old gas lines. We save $6 million + incentivize electric. Power to the People

Me bright-siding myself: Today I am grateful for the fall of twilight in the afternoon and endless cold rain that takes away all remaining light so that I can stagger home from the ophthalmologist without need of covering my dilated eyes with sunglasses. Thank you, fucking darkness. A-fucking-men.

A deep low bow… Bernie’s objection to AI data centers focuses on loss of jobs and rising utility bills for working families. My focus is consumptive water loss, smog, noise pollution, increased demand for fracking, and accelerating climate chaos. Let’s dance. www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

Friends, here’s a wild thing to be posting on the Friday afternoon before Xmas while in an ophthalmologist exam room w my eyes dilated BUT …here’s our webinar on the newest science documenting the harms of #fracking in the Americas north and south. www.healthandenvironment.org/che-webinars...

I am once again learning shocking news about my country by reading the foreign press. Also when anyone says topic X is boring, beside the point and so unseemly, it’s likely they are tangled up with topic X. Especially if they are moral scold David Brooks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

the vast majority of children brought out of “sending countries” for #adoption into European and other affluent countries like the US and Canada have parents.