Scenes from Delaney Hall today, Saturday, May 30. ALL EYES ON DELANEY.

When I posted this week that NPR is shrinking its climate reporting staff it got a big reaction on here. Please help me also share that there remain dozens of climate & energy reporters at LOCAL public media outlets all across the U.S. whose work deserves props and support. Here are 20. Plz repost!

Magnolias evolved before bees existed. 95 million years ago, their ancestors shared the planet with the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous, but no bees. So they made a messy partnership with beetles that continues today & it explains why they're such unusual flowering plants. Let's talk about it.

A friend just bought 9 gallons of gas in Dillingham Alaska. Anyone want to guess how much it cost to fill up their car? A lot of US oil comes from AK, oil companies pay little to no taxes on their extraction to the state of AK, & most of the workers come from outside AK, FYI.

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

This is how they kill us: The Network State is made of territory around the world. In each place, the fascists will set up AI infrastructure, data centers, a new military base designed for *their* weapons companies, nuclear power plants, mining operations, they will put up a colony.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

I'm sure there are scholars who've spent years of study and toil writing dissertations on the aesthetics of fascism and now there's a UFC fight at the White House that's basically gonna be Aesthetics of Fascism: The Musical.

In Arizona, clean energy candidates beat utility insiders backed by business groups and Turning Point Action. Marjorie Kelly and @thomasmhanna.bsky.social report that advocates for renewable energy and affordability now hold a majority on the Salt River Project board.

"As an AI Guided Writing Specialist, you will teach AI models how to recognize text, images, and entire careers that are ripe for annihilation."

Back in Paris again for first time in a while and, as ever, I always look out for the climate-modelling posters put up at Gare du Nord (RER) a decade ago to celebrate COP21. Remarkably, they are still there, but beginning to fade - and have now lost any context/signage. Just abstract maths

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

ayyy

NOW: I’m outside the Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ where protesters are supporting detainees inside who are on a hunger and labor strike because of inhumane treatment. Follow this thread for updates.

I would take the people who say tech haters are overreacting more seriously if every third story about tech wasn’t something like this

A proudly pro-Confederate school board member sieg heiling towards her J6er III% co-worker because they’re arguing has gotta be one of the most overtly white supremacist WTF moments in the history of modern day school board meetings.

This is real. www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/

Epistemology101

American Vandal in Brooklyn with @mckenziewark.bsky.social

🧪❄️🌊 I chatted with Patrick Pester at @livescience.com about the impending demise of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, future change to Thwaites Glacier itself and the implications for sea-level rise. www.livescience.com/planet-earth... #Antarctica #sealevel #ThwaitesGlacier

In case you missed it: last night, CBS News awarded the Mike Wallace Memorial Scholarship to Santiago Campos, a high school journalist. In accepting, he took the time to condemn the direction of CBS News to much surprise and applause from the audience.

Yes. Tech fash already have 60% of Brazil's population on their banking system.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

Why do university administrators hate universities?

"After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Oil Spill (1990) provided an informative way to learn about maritime safety protocols and inspections as players moved oil tankers through treacherous waters." - Sherri Sheu niche-canada.org/2025/10/17/b... #envhist #envhum #boardgames #energyhistory

I helped on this one. I found one of the shooters active in an incel forum complaining about being short, attacking women and giving advice on self-harm. The shooters weren't nihilist. They're representative of the ties between incels and white power that's fueled by the great replacement theory.

creep shit

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This is evil collective punishment.

Shower thought: we are going to have a really fascinating public policy experiment in a few years when essentially all universities across the world, with their very different funding models, have reverted back to timed examinations in exam halls.

It seems a few Leftists are now discovering for the first time that the radical Right is also anti-establishment, and so if you squint at a few of its positions, from a tiny angle, they can kinda sound like our own. Don't get too excited! Learn about the 'three-way fight'

“three way fight says that radical politics needs to be antifascist, and antifascist politics needs to be radical.”

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.

I’m starting to think the earth-destroying, education-crippling, non consensual pedophilic nude-generating, fascist billionaire-owned, theft and plagiarism machine might be bad, actually.

The San Diego Islamic Centre shooting was not an isolated act of hate. It was part of a far-right “curriculum of violence,” where attackers study, cite, and try to outdo one another. My new piece for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-san-dieg...

"The AI Resist List", by Karen Hao, Better Images of AI, Distributed AI Research Institute, and others, collects the works of those developing radical alternatives to current "Big Tech" AI paradigms: centring community, human agency, local contexts, and Earthly flourishing. airesistlist.org

REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.” We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Ugh

Could this be you? 🎓 Last few spaces on our Local Climate Academy — registration closes 26 May. Six weeks online for council officers & councillors, every Tuesday from 2 June. £75 per person. Register now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1985370653...

A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing carbon stored over millennia, meaning higher CO2 emissions than assumed

Democratic norms being shattered everywhere in front of our eyes

the irony of using an AI flyer for your conference on sustainability 😵‍💫

San Diego, heartbroken. Supposed manifesto, incl claiming ecofascism, predictable.

It isn't "racial pride." The manifesto, which I'm reading right now, is a total slop-bucket of neo-Nazi accelerationism with misogynistic rants and multiple sections that are completely unfinished. It lionizes Brenton Tarrant, who murdered 51 people in a NZ mosque in 2019. nymag.com/intelligence...

Journalists: I dunno, it looks like these guys were just showing racial pride An alleged shooter: Let me first introduce myself by citing a neo-Nazi domestic terrorist

"Republicans blocked a law to keep your taxpayer money from going to convicted pedophiles"

Tributes have poured in for the guard, who was among the three people killed in the shooting at the San Diego mosque.