This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

The “good news” is that “the number of people experiencing food crises every year might drop by more than a half if governments began, aggressively, to stop burning fossil fuels and expand green energy.”

RFK, jr & team are trying to squash the market for vaccines and US funding for vaccine R&D and thereby cut off vaccine development globally. It's incumbent on other powers (including e.g. US states) to act to preserve the vaccine development system with research and vaccination funding.

Japan's fossil financing spree extends quite significantly into the US as well. www.csis.org/analysis/jap...

CA scientists: there is a push to get a bond measure to establish a CA version of NSF. Already see many big names on here. www.fundcascience.org

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Michigan has joined nearly a dozen other states in suing #BigOil, but takes a different approach - accusing the companies of driving up energy costs by colluding to suppress competition from cleaner & cheaper alternatives A deeper dive look at this new case insideclimatenews.org/news/1502202...

Why did Biden's climate policies fail to cement EVs in US life? Only well-off ppl have been buying lots of new cars—IRA leaned into that. The EV subsidies for expensive cars had income caps—but were de facto most relevant for buyers earning just under the limit. Not much help for working class. 1/

I've added the New York Review of Books to the gift link feed. As is true of a number of outlets, their gift links appear to become non-gift links after some number of clicks. The feed is at bsky.app/profile/davi...

Indiana on the verge of adopting legislation with stringent requirements that local law enforcement & sheriffs help ICE. The bill is aggressive — e.g. requiring full compliance with detainers; far-right AG still trying to make it even stronger. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/01/27/i...

My first-ever climate-related interview was in 1978 at an office in NCAR. The interviewee was Stephen Schneider. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen... We talked about a major interest of his then, desertification. bsky.app/profile/cnn....

EPA has finalized its repeal of the endangerment finding. Up next - court challenges @sierraclub.org & its NGO partners plan to sue. Some public health orgs do too MA & other Dem-led states say they will challenge this @youthvgov.bsky.social will petition too www.sierraclub.org/sierra/envir...

They’re pretty bad actually!

There is an unpaywalled preprint of the paper Positive Images of Heat Waves Reduce the Effects of Messages About Extreme Heat among U.S. Adults at the link below

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Gas stoves: still really bad for your lungs www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

You can understand media consolidation into the hands of the very wealthy not just as a product of wealth concentration but also as a means to defend it, with Bezos at the Post being the most obvious example

Dems could get enough votes to impeach RFK Jr over this, no question. Conviction in the Senate is harder, 67 is a high hurdle. But a strong Dem push for it, including a relentless media strategy, could cause Trump to panic and force a u-turn.

J'ai ajouté la Neue Zürcher Zeitung et Dar Bund à la liste des liens pour les cadeaux. Je sais que Le Temps et la Tribune de Genève ont également articles offert, mais je n'en ai trouvé aucun exemple et ne peux donc pas les ajouter. Quelqu'un pourrait-il m'en partager un ? bsky.app/profile/davi...

“In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January… The United States has not made any public deal with Cameroon.”

Amazing numbers for activism in Minnesota Q: "Since December, have you participated in any neighborhood group discussions, either in-person, by phone, or online, in response to federal law enforcement activity in your area?" Minneapolis/St Paul, 49% said yes www.startribune.com/poll-results...

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

New: Trump admin moves to pull supercomputing center out of top weather and climate research center (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. Part of its effort to "break up" the lab. www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/w...

There is an unpaywalled preprint of the paper Positive Images of Heat Waves Reduce the Effects of Messages About Extreme Heat among U.S. Adults at the link below

American Meteorological Society denounces EPA’s endangerment repeal. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

Gift article. Removing detainees swiftly from their home state seems like cheating by design. We do not do this for people charged with murder, rape, fraud, or anything else... Pretending that this provides detainees with due process is wrong. www.startribune.com/court-ruling...

J'ai ajouté la Neue Zürcher Zeitung et Dar Bund à la liste des liens pour les cadeaux. Je sais que Le Temps et la Tribune de Genève ont également articles offert, mais je n'en ai trouvé aucun exemple et ne peux donc pas les ajouter. Quelqu'un pourrait-il m'en partager un ? bsky.app/profile/davi...

Project 2025 says (re: weather & climate) that "emphasis on prediction & management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable." But it's clear that broader federal bureaucracy is being forcibly dismantled to prevent anticipation or mitigation of foreseeable future harm.

TFW you get fired for posting that your job killed your boss. www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk...

I've thoroughly obsessed over the visual syntax and regret to inform us that we have been pwned with no errors or weird incorrect metaphors. RIP to both our democracy and political cartooning hegemony.

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

Make this make sense. (Trick question; you can’t. Hint - the EPA is a Federal agency.) “The final rule announced on Thursday argues that the 1970 Clean Air Act applies only to direct, localized pollution, whereas greenhouse gases spread far and wide and therefore aren’t subject to regulation.”

While the Trump Admin is demolishing climate policy and promoting fossil fuels, scientists are issuing new warnings that the earth is approaching tipping points that could lock us into a "Hothouse" future. @insideclimatenews.org 1/ insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...

not sure she understands how elections are supposed to work

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data. Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Happy to contribute to this important story 👇

The key thing here is that the local rapid response was able to figure out who had been taken, and make sure there was a lawyer working to free her. That makes a world of difference. Call if you see this happening, and join your local one if you're a citizen.

In a completely unsurprising outcome, adding more lanes to the 405 in LA didn't make driving fast. Transit probably won't either, but it does mean people don't have to be stuck in it, with all the pollution and wasted time that entails. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Why do the fascists want to keep you hooked on fossil fuels? Because it keeps them in power. If you don't need their fossil fuels, they lose a lot of that power. True for Putin, Trump and the Princes. The smartest national security move now is to switch to renewables and electric transportation.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Kid wanted me to remove nine spiders from his bedroom and put them outside. There were not just nine.

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

*rubs temples* As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but... The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.

I’ve been privileged to serve as a graduate advisor for many active-duty service members & veterans who pursued their education. Once finished, they return to service & take command positions or rotate as instructors at West Point. The govt should not take away opportunities from US service members.

When I read stories like this one, I like to imagine how MAGA would have reacted to the FBI and DHS opening up investigations on folks who were flying "F Joe Biden!" flags or people who purchased Hillary, Biden or Harris shooting targets...they're still selling them, by the way. 🎁🔗

A couple of days ago, I joined @slate.com's Decoder Ring to discuss Coalie and the broader politics of energy messaging. What looks like simple branding opens up bigger questions about public institutions, industry narratives, and climate politics. Take a listen. slate.com/podcasts/dec...