Deleted a post on cancer and fracking and reposted it as a three-part thread bc I was unhappy with my attempt to summarize research findings in a clear and accurate way in just one post. Sigh. Reasons I’m not a journalist #79 #OldProfessorsAlwaysBeProfessing

🧪 💥 RESEARCH FINDINGS: 52 studies show a link between fracking and health harms, including rare cancers. Many of these problems are showing up in the Peace River area of British Columbia where >30,000 oil/gas wells have been drilled and fracked over the past 20 yrs. 1/3 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When an AI data center came to town, an Indiana county pushed back: @nataliekitro.bsky.social The Daily NYT: bit.ly/4tDx0Ah Communities are recognizing that if they have land, they have power. @ccbecker271.bsky.social @twrader.bsky.social @ssteingraber1.bsky.social @davidpepperoh.bsky.social

Hey NYT headline writers: There is a word for “maintaining false beliefs about reality despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary” that a) is right there in the thesaurus; and b) doesn’t make it sound like a good thing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Somebody crunches the numbers in Europe: “According to these calculations, the costs of existing or planned CO2 storage projects are at least 50% higher than previous forecasts.” So…a meaningless solution to the climate crisis that requires public subsidies www.cleanenergywire.org/news/ccs-far...

Lots of scientists are on here pointing this out, but I need to say it in my own words: Scientific findings are not repealable. Which makes the White House and the New York Times dumb and (because their editors know better) dumber.

Let me repeat what Katie says: YOU. CAN'T. REPEAL. A. SCIENTIFIC.FINDING. That's not how it works.

(“and yet it moves…”) Gift link: Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

All hail Monterey Park, CA: “They emphasized how the datacenter would strain the power grid, drive up energy rates and create noise pollution. A petition quickly amassed nearly 5,000 signatures. All the materials were shared in English, Chinese and Spanish…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m going with exhale rage, slam it down, get to work But I see your point

the thing that confuses me is that even if you're terrified of staking out any policy promises for fear of suffering for it later, you don't actually have to make any positive *policy* claims you can just say "we're going to prosecute all of these people" and run with it

You know who has sketchy, falsified birth certificates? Adopted people. Ask me about mine * If you want adoptees to show BCs in order to vote, you’re gonna have to end secrecy, deception, and anonymity in US adoption practices. Or, you know, just give us suffrage and open records too.

2/4 The bill demands passports or certified birth certificates millions do not have readily available and opens the door to aggressive voter purges. Citizenship is already required. Fraud is rare. The paperwork barrier is the strategy.

🥚 NY Review of Books reviews two new titles about the tens of thousands of children—many forcibly taken from their birth parents—who were adopted overseas from Guatemala and El Salvador as a direct result of U.S.-backed violence. Average price tag: $30K per kid www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Twenty-six years of large-scale fracking: a thread from one of our finest pipeline fighters:

Exactly this. Prey on the vulnerable to appease the wants of the wealthy. It's immoral how we accept #adoption as a "social good" by turning a blind eye to the grotesque injustices it inflicts on families and communities. It's a form of family separation we embrace and endorse without critique. 🥚

🥚 Here comes the Super Bowl adoption propaganda ad from the leading adoption industry lobbying group with its longstanding ties to Christian nationalism and anti-choice politics. And here is its historically informed, evidence-based counterpoint:

Had some surgery yesterday. My new favorite person: The anesthesiologist who dropped by the recovery room yesterday to tell me that the cardiac monitor “showed that you have the heart of an athlete.” 🥺 1/5

Back in 2020 it wasn't a good career move in the climate space to shit talk Bill Gates' and point out his climate hypocrisy. I was the only person quoted in an article on that issue in a VICE piece. And that was before we knew of the Epstein connections. However, I was right.

Democrats want you primaried

Ok now make your bosses abolish the goon squads that killed them.

Aliya Rahman. Very impressive and fierce human being. She's Bangladeshi-American, born in Wisconsin. Click to play Rahman's testimony. (cued up): youtu.be/xE61aqhnIus?...

i guess i’m going to have to break with Joyce Carol Oates over fingering an LDS #adoption agency founder as an Epstein rape trafficker. how’s that for a sentence never before uttered

Attending another data center meeting and I'm not shocked that the city is being shady about this. Doesn't want to comply with the FOIA. Doesn't want to have meetings with the public. Just want to usher in the data center and get the rest of us to shut up.

It's always the people you most expect.

“I had chosen to place my child for adoption after struggling with my mental health while living in a conservative Christian home…Even after having my own two daughters later in life, I felt like a phony, unworthy of the title of mother, unable to be a present parent” 🥚 apple.news/ArzUplplrShe...

huge anti ICE demo in Fruitvale Oakland now

Did Hudson, NY show up for the national #IceOut protest in the teeth of a -10-25 windchill warning? Why yes we did. And if my phone hadn’t frozen I could show you the sign carried by the seven-year-old that said ICE NO LOVE YES Dangerous to cry when it’s minus zero. I’m the one on the right.

A thing I already knew without knowing that I knew this:

Along with independent journalist Georgia Fort. Don’t let her be written out of this.

Adoptees undergoing genetic tests in the absence of family medical history is like watching the trailer of a foreign film and trying to guess the plot. Those who think that DNA results in the absence of context can stand in for family history have never navigated the medical system as an adoptee.

every person who is adopted is a person who has undergone and experienced family separation. the fact that Western culture valorizes #adoption as a system for family creation cannot alter this fact, though it does create a taboo against acknowledging it and against hearing dissenting voices.

anyone who doubts this has never looked at the comments on any article at all that explores #adoption from anything except adoptive parents’ point of view. adoptees willing to go on the record about their critiques of the system are absolutely savaged.

A New York federal judge dismissed murder and weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione, a major blow to prosecutors that means Mangione no longer faces a possible death penalty if convicted reut.rs/45Fin56

I am ABSOLUTELY BEGGING people to stop talking about Tom Homan as if his evil brain hatched the nefarious idea of family separation—a form of violence that the United States has visited upon *all* marginalized people throughout its *entire history*. 🥚

If you’re giving money to a white supremacist who put thousands of my colleagues out of work, decimated American science, and killed millions of people just so you can use a water-guzzling, misinformation-hawking racist chatbot the least I can do is make you embarrassed to admit it out loud.

ICYMI: A result of Trump’s Greenland belligerence, civil society groups are now urging the EU to end U.S. LNG imports bc they raise energy prices, expose the EU to market volatility, and “the US has shown that it is not a reliable trading partner.” US journalists: 👇 oilchange.org/news/eu-phas...

🚨 120+ groups just sent a letter to EU leaders demanding an end to reliance on US fossil fuels. The EU is at a fork in the road: it can follow the US down its destructive path or forge its own course to stability and energy security through a just transition to renewable energy. bit.ly/4bpGw3l

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

The sound of New Yorkers recalling Chuck Schumer doing anything is the sound of the wind in a subway tunnel at 3 AM on Sunday.

New newsletter with links on how to comment. Deadline 5:00 on Thursday, Jan. 25. Even a quick eComment counts! myemail.constantcontact.com/Final-Remind...

New gas pipelines? While making a few fossil fuel CEOs richer, they also increase risk of childhood cancers. In🧵add your name to say NO to the proposed babaric fracked gas pipeline in NY. This👇🏽but one of tons of medical research on threats from fracked gas. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Hot take: If the problem is an accelerating food crisis caused by the climate crisis, the answer is not to tell people what to eat. The answer is to work collectively for a just transition off fossil fuels. If you want a world with strawberries and coffee in it, fight oil not milk.

I disagree. Pollinated foods—fruits + vegetables—and grain crops are most vulnerable to climate devastation. Just stop drilling. It’s more important to shut down oil and gas than shut down the pastures and meadows—which support grazing animals + wildlife—and which will be parceled up and developed.

NEW YORKERS: Alert @nyclimate.bsky.social @nynurses.bsky.social 👇🏾

NEW YORK friends! TODAY 1/28 is the deadline to submit your comment about the horrible plan to bring back the Constitution fracked gas pipeline to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (See details of that plan below) Here’s the easy way to do that: act.foodandwaterwatch.org/page/93259/a...

Heads up, New Yorkers! Here’s a map of the wretched fracked gas pipeline project the NYDEC killed off ten years ago bc it imperils health and water. Now it’s back. Letters sent out by company includes the possibility of using eminent domain to seize private land. www.nyvtmedia.com/sections/cob...

NEW RESEARCH: Climate change on track to slash global crop yields by 24% before 2100. Like, within the lifespan of your kids. Also: adaptation and new farmland can’t offset this loss. Sorry, AI can’t fix this. agupdate.com/agriview/mar...

Mayor of Milan: “Bringing to Milan a militia which distinguished itself — this is not my opinion — with criminal acts, which kills, which enters in the homes of American citizens without authorization, I do not think that that is a good idea.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

New from me: an essay called “Wilder Fires” that asks if wild fires are wild bc they act wildly or bc they burn down wild places…and then moves from etymology to science. Fun fact: the original “wylde fyr” was a medieval weapon of war, a kind of proto-napalm situation. www.sehn.org/sehn/2026/1/...