NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

He stole the Resolute Desk !

Arrested fighting an active fire while we were under a Red Flag Warning. Total betrayal all around.

California governor calls Trump ‘an invasive species’ at Cop30 climate talks

It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

One of the behaviors Musk (and Zuckerberg) incentivize is to not include links when posting content. I find this really problematic, and I see people starting to do it here. So here's the deal: if you share a chart or graphic, but don't link, I won't boost. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/how-e...

frustrating to see climate communicators pivot to talking about tech solutions immediately after calling out people in power for letting climate deniers get away with it. people know the solutions are there. they don't need that kind of reassurance. they need moral courage and pride in the fight.

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

New Yorker cartoons don’t miss.

Well, well, well. It turns out more voters blame fossil fuels than renewable energy for high electricity prices—and the most voters, correctly, blame utilities. So if they promote more fossil fuels to lower costs, @mattyglesias.bsky.social, Dems will fail to campaign on voters' *actual* positions.

Just out: new New Jersey state sea-level rise assessment Under current global emissions trends, New Jersey is likely to experience 1.5-2.5 ft of sea-level rise between 2005 and 2070, 2.2-3.8 ft by 2100 (or 2.2-4.5 ft, considering potential ice-sheet collapse).

Here's an open-access preprint: kevinjkircher.com/wp-content/u...

This is a huge victory that should be broadcast nationwide in all the major outlets. Big big big deal. I have been following this. Make them pay

I love it because it's trash. Progress on waste-based jet fuel in my latest for @anthropocenemag.bsky.social: www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/11/your...

Yet another move by the Trump regime that will kill people. All to fatten the wallets of the rich. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

US gov sent high-level delegation to a gas conference in Greece. Trump admin wants to use Greece as an "entry point" to send a lot more LNG to Europe gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...

In a single day, two different federal officers point guns at two different @chicagotribune.com photojournalists in and around Chicago. This is dangerous stuff.

Opposing battery storage during a so-called "energy emergency" makes zero sense. I wish someone could explain that one to me. heatmap.news/sparks/swift...

NEW: Finalised COP30 agendas have been published, not including controversial items that various groups wanted to add But NB those items are being discussed under "presidency consultations" & likely to rear up again tmrw unfccc.int/sites/def... unfccc.int/sites/def... 1/2

There's no official American delegation to COP30. There are still Americans in attendance, as observers from non-govt organizations, universities, etc, but no delegates participating in the actual negotiations. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-whi...

A large country sending zero official delegates is rare... and a deeply weird choice. Governments opposing the UN climate negotiations usually still send delegates, if only to disrupt the process and limit the outcome. Sending nobody allows other countries to control the outcome.

Free admission while supplies last! This article finds that overlooking the influence of banks’ types of equity on sustainable lending narrows the scope of analysis and limits the tools available to reach Paris-aligned portfolios. See abstract for more! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/W9GF3...

"Without new + sustained financial support, the GCOS secretariat will cease operations in 2027, ending the only mechanism that holistically assesses + coordinates global climate observations across all domains: from rescue to provision." #COP30 gcos.wmo.int/site/global-...

Tucked into a spending bill that is part of the deal to end the government shutdown is a provision that would allow GOP senators to personally sue the federal government for as much as $500K over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lawful search of their phone records. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

O aporte será de 5 milhões de francos suíços (aproximadamente R$ 33 milhões). O anúncio foi feito pela ministra Marina Silva, durante evento promovido pelo país europeu em Belém. Esta não é a primeira vez que a Suíça contribui com o fundo: em 2023, realizou sua primeira doação, no mesmo valor

This is what they want to take from us by building ever-more oil extraction infrastructure wapo.st/4p1sRTx

Helicopter that doesn't show up on flightradar24 circling over south Palo Alto. No idea what's going on.

"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged." #China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries? www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy. "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

This is what they want to take from us by building ever-more oil extraction infrastructure wapo.st/4p1sRTx

For my newsletter, I took a deeper look at the electoral record of WelcomePAC, a centrist group that produced that 352 page document advising Democrats to moderate once again. Turns out the campaigns they work for aren't winning. www.burnsnotice.com/fire-the-con...

“...DHS is ignoring its own certification process and treating Real IDs as suspect. ...DHS is placing more weight on its profile of how an undocumented worker looks than it places on the fact that someone has an ID issued exclusively to people who have proved their legal status.”

Making fun of our neighborhoods and communities is disgusting. Greg Bovino and his masked agents are not here to make Chicago safer. As children are tear gassed and U.S. citizens detained, they are posing for photo ops and producing reality TV moments. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

Just in time for #COP30, here's my new @carnegieendowment.org piece on the arc of green industrial policy from 2000 through the Biden era. My takeaway on lessons learned from the trenches: don't overpromise, and do be honest about tradeoffs. carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.

Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.

These lease sales are required under the Big Beautiful Bill. The last Cook Inlet sale in 2022 was mandated by the Inflation Reduction Act; that one was overturned under the national environmental policy act. Now we’ll see what happens with a weaker NEPA. www.marinelog.com/offshore/boe...

The other thing Kathy Hochul did on Friday afternoon: reversed the denial of an air quality permit to a fracked gas-powered BitCoin facility on shoreline of Seneca Lake. www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/11/08/n...

Lots of folks correctly calling this racist, sexist, Nazi, etc. But also, this MAGA Republican economy sucks shit for people who look exactly like this! They’re lying to young white men that fascism will benefit them, when their policies are designed to make them serf laborers for billionaires.

Also, I had no idea?! "Hospitals are notorious for their greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around 5% of emissions globally."

Besides being cheap calories, pasta is, to put it mildly, a culturally important food for lot of us. Making it unaffordable is unacceptable. Gift link has a view count limit. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

"The most effective way to resist the authoritarian takeover of our democracy is to make it clear to companies partnering with authoritarians that there will always be consequences for such business relationships." - @barely.live #BoycottTmobile #teslatakedown ✊ www.commondreams.org/opinion/boyc...

"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."

The installed capacity of carbon capture and storage is about 50 megatonnes per annum of carbon, but it actually captures about 30 a year Have been hunting for this number for a LONG time - buried in a DNV CCS report -> brandcentral.dnv.com/original/gal...