If Dems were smart (the dream!), they had a clear lane to stand for getting shit done and against political violence. Instead we all know the name Erika Kirk while 95% of the country doesn't even know who Melissa Hortman was or how they were hunted down. Just another episode of the show.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...

Our open source analysis (now in its third iteration) shows that the highest emitting oil is 2.5X more emissions intensive per barrel than the lowest emitting oil. For gas the ratio is 3X. And this is based on analysis of 70% of global production

The last bombshell paleontology discovery of a year of bombshell discoveries: Ammonites survived the K-PG extinction! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

John Roberts has the power to fix the court. But he has to first acknowledge that he has a problem. And apparently he's not yet ready to start that journey. Which is really dangerous; a nation that loses faith in the rule of law ultimately loses the rule of law.

Take note: This is what is needed.

“At its heart, climate change is a justice issue...It exacerbates inequality within and between countries. We need to save the polar bears, sure, but we also need to save the people. Actually, we can’t save the polar bears if we don’t save the people.” #GoneTooSoon #RIP

I remember maybe three or four years ago someone introduced me to yarvin and said among other things that what makes him so dangerous is he’s really steeped in history and philosophy. Sophisticated stuff. So I read some stuff and well, no. This is the stuff you say after you read one thing …

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Here is a 🔗 to my final story of the year: www.canarymedia.com/articles/off...

Imagine if scientists could figure out how Earth's climate has varied for hundreds of millions of years, build sophisticated computers to project how humans are now radically altering it, and warn the public, only to have greedy corporations & venal politicians ignore them. Criminal. Immoral. Evil.

Gift link! Georgia Judge Dismisses Racketeering Charges Against ‘Cop City’ Activists By Rick Rojas and Sean Keenan Dozens of protesters had been indicted after the state attorney general said that their movement amounted to a violent criminal enterprise. [Activists fought this since Sept 2023.]

@zhonggg.bsky.social is currently on a South Korean icebreaker in Antarctica because the US is no longer a serious country. The Trump regime got rid of our Antarctic icebreaker, Nathaniel B. Palmer, so for the first time in six decades we are without a dedicated Antarctic research vessel.

For folks still struggling with the math: There are ~345 million US citizens. There are ~245 million white US citizens. This is what they mean by "Peaceful ethnic cleansing." Their plan ends with deporting all non-white people. Not "undocumented criminals." Not even "all undocumented people."

On Jack Smith deposition, now released: 100% obvious why GOP refused to allow this as open testimony, aired live. It's damning. Testimony from John Dean or Alex ("wiretaps") Butterfield in Watergate days would have 1/10th the impact if just in print. What Smith says is far more incriminating.

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

It sounds like the Bay Area Air Quality Managment District is on track to end the installation of new fossil fuel burning residential hot water and space heating systems in 2027 and 2029 respectively. www.paloaltoonline.com/blogs/a-new-...

🎁 - Hands down my favorite story of 2025: the restoration of the Klamath River. Lots of published work on it, all worth reading. Here is one, a photo essay from the Chron. A metaphor of demonstrated success for where America needs to go. Make this our ‘26. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Since vox has Instituted a paywall, here's a gift link giving everybody access www.vox.com/energy-and-e...

“Ludicrously, the coal plant isn’t even operational right now, meaning repairs — to the tune of millions of dollars — just to get it running, all on the backs of rural Colorado ratepayers!” (5/n) 🔌💡

extremely bad

This is behind a paywall, which I get. For those of you outside of CO some quick info. This coal unit went online in 1980. Its closure has been planned for years. Tri-State announced SIX YEARS AGO that it was exiting coal. This federal intrusion will cost rural customers.

The destruction of knowledge and history is haphazard & breathtaking. NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts.

2025 was one of the three hottest years on record. Also important: The three-year average temperature was 1.5 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average. www.latimes.com/environment/...

>1 million Americans died in a traumatic viral pandemic, and America responded in the most American way, which was to make it more likely people would die of diseases we’d already contained by tearing up the social contract in the name of “freedom” while disregarding the actual concept of freedom.

Trump and Stephen Miller are actually failing in crucial ways. Deportations are lagging behind their goals, courts are mostly functioning, and their fascist, ethnonationalist cruelties have unleashed a countermobilization of unexpected scope and power. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2046...

EU legislation intended to fight deforestation has been effectively ‘dismantled’

One of the things that's wild about MAHA on social media is they're also vilifying Pedialyte and Ensure. So not only do they want you to not do anything that can stop you from getting sick (masking, vaccinating) they also don't want you to effectively treat yourself once you are sick.

The California DMV is in deep need of reform. Enraging stuff, uncovered by a team of reporters at @calmatters.org calmatters.org/investigatio...

Contrast this with how this same administration has revoked visas for researchers studying how information ecosystems are manipulated (including by foreign actors like Russia). Seems strange that they welcome back the manipulators and attack those working to identify and call them out.

Good! 10k to follow, with stoves that have batteries. With batteries on an induction stove, there’s no need for the building to upgrade the electrical. Bye, dirty gas, asthma and other health issues from the pollution. citylimits.org/nycha-to-rep...

Interesting vertical integration going on in the electricity generation-data center nexus.

For a sense of just how massive the legacy problems left by retreating fossil extraction are, check out the struggle to plug just one orphan oil well in a residential neighborhood. CA currently has more than 40,000 orphaned wells, w potential for many 1000s more. www.latimes.com/socal/daily-...

Quietly, the CDC now recommends a 2nd Covid 2025-26 booster for us old folks > 65. Even RFK Jr could not stop science. wapo.st/4siX5nv

Awful. And so sad to lose such a talented climate journalist

My least muddled take is that presidential impeachment doesn't work. Too many people incorrectly see the president as a king-like figure with a four-year democratic mandate. That idea mutated in 2021-2024, when MAGA and SCOTUS decided that you can't ever prosecute a president for crimes.

Requested a correction from @princetonupress.bsky.social. Let's see what happens.

Her work wasn't just something I read; it was something I shared and discussed again and again. There have not been many writers like that. Tatiana Schlossberg and her work will be missed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/u...

Looking forward to being able to limit resale of information about me. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/30/p...

The CIA worked for weeks to carry out its secret, illegal drone strike and Trump...just...blurted...it...out www.cnn.com/2025/12/29/p...

Solar momentum continues, with or without the US. “South Africa was the largest destination for Chinese solar, but not the only one. Sierra Leone imported the equivalent of more than half its total current electricity-generating capacity, & Chad, nearly half.” 🎁: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

We’ve made a graphic of just 180 lowlights of Trump's all-of-government attack on climate, giving a sense of how his minions woke each morning in 2025 asking fossil fuels just how high they needed to jump that day gift link from @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“Right now, literally and figuratively,” says Susan Leal, the former general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, “this should be a fire sale.” The investor owned utilities are so cooked missionlocal.org/2025/12/pge-...

The US is at war with Venezuela. No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity. US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.

I think the greatest gift that being part of our Ethics Initiative this year has given me is the scholarly framework to talk about how failing to phase out fossil fuels is ethically wrong. We can talk feasibility til our ears bleed but there’s an obvious moral aspect that doesn’t need cost analyses

"Rising housing costs, insurance premiums and climate concerns are major factors pushing residents out..." Republicans may not care about climate change, but the housing market does.