We're firing a shot across the bow! 1000 Amazon workers have signed our Open Letter: AI hype is a distraction from its staggering costs. And here's the letter if you haven't signed yet (Not just for Amazonians; we also love solidarity signatures): www.amazonclimatejustice.org

Washington residents! Tell the Dept. of Ecology TODAY that there needs to be a public hearing for Sabey Data Centers' desired addition of new diesel generators in Quincy. More pollution, more emissions...shouldn't the community have a say?

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but.... Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?

1/ Seattle! 2000 ballots need signatures (updates or didn't sign)!! Tell your friends to check their ballot status here: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... And if you have time between now & Nov. 14, volunteer to help cure votes: linktr.ee/Wilsonforsea... ("Ballot Chasing for Katie Wilson")

Has your ballot been challenged? A significant number of ballots are in danger of not being counted. Don’t let your ballot be the one that tips the election to Harrell! Make sure it’s counted here 👉 info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

Before her death, Jane Goodall left us all with a compelling message from her last interviews: While we’re the most 'intellectual animals' to ever walk the planet, "we’re not intelligent." “Because intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.” From our friends at @vox.com:

This is sooo important! Please read this whole thread, and the letter, and repost! I've been working with these folks a little for a few months now, and they are FANTASTIC, and doing all they can to slow and shift the AI juggernaut. Make sure that Amazon employees (and other tech folks) see & sign!

Live in Washington State? Care about climate/affordability/ecologies/humans? We have ONE WEEK to comment on the Data Center Workgroup draft recommendations to the governor. Please do! The image links to pointers for commenting, and here is a big overview I wrote up: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why are we calling for a #BoycottTMobile? They’ve lobbied to pass Trump’s Big Bill, launched Trump Mobile on their network, partnered with far-right fascist Elon Musk’s Starlink, and their union busting is disgusting. Sign the pledge + make the switch: tmobileboycott.org @teslatakedown.com

This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

I’ve said it before and will say it again— anyone who says climate change is not relevant to people’s day-to-day lives is either lying or simply not paying attention

seattle - CM rivera's amendment 102 is a poison pill that does not protect tree canopy, and will curtail housing in wealth neighborhoods this will push more development into areas that don't have trees - increasing exposure to heat islands please sign & boost actionnetwork.org/letters/amen...

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Watch how long it takes this clanker to do, well, anything 🤦‍♂️💀 #fail #teslatakedown

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

When I saw this headline, I first thought my cat, named Kazoo, had unbeknownst to me led a whole herd of fuzzy Kazoos in protest of Feucht's descent upon Seattle. Turns out the kazoos countering Christian hate were of the instrument variety. Still, nice story. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

EPA To Drop 'E,' 'P' From Name theonion.com/epa-to-...

Will Alpine co-wrote Microsoft's manifesto on how AI will be a powerful force for good for climate change In a new interview, Alpine disavows the manifesto, saying he believes Microsoft used his work to distract from the much larger climate harms the company enables through contracts with Big Oil

"Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. The web of life is calling us forth at this time." Joanna Macy (1929-2025)

I'm wrapping up teaching a summer term class I first developed a few years ago, called "Popular Culture and the Post-Apocalyptic Imagination." It's ... a different course, in the current moment ... 🧵

Today Amazon released its “Sustainability” report. Predictably, what it leaves out is vastly more important than what it says. Amazon is building a dirty energy empire, spending literally hundreds of billions on data centers that will rely primarily on new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.

Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social in this incredible interview, offers clarity, direction, and most importantly, hope, in the fight against the climate crisis. Pin this, and listen to it, even if it is in the background. It shows the path forward for renewable energy 👇💚

Texas politicians have been loudly denying the link between climate change and extreme floods But behind closed doors, the oil companies that fund those politicians have been acknowledging that storms and floods are getting worse—so they can prepare their own infrastructure for what's to come

I shall be sending this article in response to every university admin who spams my inbox with “How to use AI in your teaching” nonsense: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry? NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion. NASA: $24.875. NIH: $47.7 billion. Fund science, not cruelty.

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news

There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Maybe it would be a better parade if the tank drivers did some fancy weaving, like the Shriners on their little cars

People turned out in peaceful protest for #NoKings in St. Paul, MN, undeterred by the targeted political violence that killed Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and injured Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. Was grateful to join this solemn crowd under a grey sky while visiting family.

Not Trump and Elon having the world's messiest public break-up on main 🤣🍿 Forward, #teslatakedown! #MuskMustFall (and follow us on TikTok!)

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak

I've long admired the excellent reporting of Lynda Mapes. But wow! What a treasure! Lynda spoke to my students about the special charge of public writing this week, and now I want everyone to experience her eloquence and wisdom. Seattle, you should check out her book launch on May 8th ...🧵

Pope Francis moved last summer to make Vatican City the first nation to run entirely on solar energy. In his writing, he made it clear that the climate crisis was about power in all forms--and about human dignity. The world feels much poorer today billmckibben.substack.com/p/pope-franc...

"ICE ... has now deleted legal status to be in the country for 23 UW students — during the middle of a school term, with no reasons given. In the case Thursday, the judge noted the casual indifference of it all." My students used to be anxious about midterms. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This just keeps getting better. 😍 "Is there...a deep and abiding sense of dread that accompanies every moment? Are you worried that you're enabling the fall of democracy?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQOv... #teslaregretsyndrome #trs #TeslaTakedown #Tesla #elonmusk #MuskMustFall

Last night, @maddow.msnbc.com boldly broke the untold story of the epidemic of TRS, and the proven new treatment that’s changing lives across the nation! #TeslaTakedown #TRS #MuskMustFall youtu.be/0zTzDP1dffk

Today's #MustReads: The rise of end times fascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... by @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth." No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

If you hear of visa revocations for international students, please contact @wearehighered.bsky.social. We're maintaining a tracker and coordinating with other folks tracking and helping.

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility. 1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken. A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

🚨 STAND WITH DETAINED IMMIGRANT WORKERS! Labor and community are gathering at the NW Detention Center in Tacoma 3/27 to protest the detention of Lewellyn Dixon, a member of @seiu925.bsky.social, and Alfredo ‘Lelo’ Juarez, an organizer with Familias Unidas por la Justicia. 3/27 5:30PM 1623 E J St

I wake up worried. Every day. I'm grateful when it's 7:30am & not 3am worry. Some of the worry is because of the threats to me but most of it is greater than that. My hope lies in our collective loving resistance to this cruelty. @moreperfectunion.bsky.social did a great job on this interview.

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

We’re dogs against DOGE! We’re cute, not criminal. And if getting the zoomies sometimes means we’re “radical left lunatics,” so be it. Dogs know there are worse things to be … much worse. Humans of the world, join us! And show up to the #teslatakedown Global Day of Action on March 29! #DogsVsDOGE 🧵