This is who Trump's immigration crackdown is actually targeting. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. No criminal record. A work permit application in progress. 35 years of building homes and raising a family. Shot and killed by ICE in his van. Remember his name.

Gratitude

Indigo bunting 🌿

Make it $5 billion, and you'll be getting closer.

67% error rate

Over 4,400 nurses & home care clinicians just walked off the job in Boston, launching the largest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts history. Mass General Brigham executives need to pay up. These heroes save lives every day—they deserve a fair contract, not corporate greed. Let's show our solidarity!🤦🏾‍♂️🙌🏾

Daniel Swain PhD Joined me for a wide ranging talk - including how #Climate feedbacks make #Heatwaves more deadly. Much more to come from this. thinc.blog/2026/07/07/c...

"A new report has revealed that 90 per cent of utility-scale renewable energy capacity added in 2025 was cheaper than the lowest-cost new fossil fuel alternative, helping to avoid an estimated $480 billion in fossil fuel costs by year’s end."

If you are running to be a public servant you should demonstrate desire and aptitude for serving the public. The fetish attraction to folks without that is an outgrowth of the right's crusade to have us see collective action - via government, unions, community organizing - as evil.

On NPR’s Newsmakers: The influential pastor who believes most women should be denied the vote. open.substack.com/pub/steveins...

russian cities feel the pinch amid worsening fuel shortages 🖊️ Pyotr Sauer Ukraine's drone and missile campaign on oil infrastructure has brought impact of war to citizens of moscow and elsewhere www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I go deeper into the AI solutionism they've tweaked in the report, and the efficiency-washing they've badly worsened Please go have a read (and share it if you like it) A treat: Google disclosed water consumption in 'golf course equivalents', so I put it in context: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Google basically say: it's all worth it. But is it? Google now has to burn 1.5x as much energy to make the same $1m in revenue. Compared to 2021, are you getting 2x the value out of Google's services, to justify 2x the climate disasters they'll cause? Is this a good trade-off, to you?

Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Imagine a world where we listen to and believe women. Gotta keep fighting for that world.

Worth constantly reminding that the National Guard are not trained in civilian law enforcement and shouldn’t be patrolling with weapons routinely on US streets:

@philipcball.bsky.social "How Life Works" is an amazing MUST READ for anyone who wants to understand where biology is right now. It's a masterpiece. Dawkins was wrong. Genes are not selfish and not the deterministic blueprint for life. Just as important, the machine metaphor fails.

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Omg I just discovered there are four scissor-tailed flycatcher fledglings learning to fly in a nearby tree. Look at these fluffy little cuddle buddies! 😭 #Photography #Birds

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

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Happy 4th from Santa Fe! The city drone show was great (though backwards from my friend’s house)!

"From every mountainside, let freedom ring." Happy 4th of July from our family to yours 💙 We had so much fun this morning walking in the 89th Annual Wyandotte Independence Day Parade 🥳 #AlwaysWithThePeople #LetFreedomRing #HappyIndependenceDay #Mighty13th #HonoredAndBlessedToServe

We will continue to organize for another 250 years for a better America, against the narrow-minded haters.

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It was us climate scientists. We can geoengineer record heat waves with our space lasers but a trillion tons of carbon pollution from two centuries of fossil fuel burning can't warm the atmosphere

After 12 years of very hard work by remarkable people, the Presbyterian Church divests from fossil fuels! A beautiful message amidst the heat and smoke! pres-outlook.org/2026/06/coal...

Get this book. It’s very good and it’s about fighting back.

This is the *real* center of American political gravity, and it's a hell of a lot closer to Mamdani than MAGA. Yet, that's not at all how the political press presents the situation. I can't be certain they even understand this situation due to their heads being up their asses.

i had a brutal day, but claire with the tea on Chi pope doing incredibly metal "bitch you *thought*" shit to the schismatics has been a balm. Making them hand write an "i fucked up, i'm very sorry" letter? I can just picture every Dominican nun I ever knew going "this guy really does have the juice"

James Monroe died July 4, 1831. Five years after Adams & Jefferson. Fun fact: James Madison died June 28, 1836. If he had held on for just another week, he could have made a real pattern out of the whole thing.

Recent events got me wondering - what's the difference between GRIFT and GRAFT? So I looked it up. In case you were also wondering: GRIFT is a con, a swindle, a deception to get money GRAFT is corruption, abuse of power, to get money This is my public service of the day.

Agriculture Department Puts Trump’s Face On Soybeans https://bit.ly/3SUzUT9

We talked with Rep. Natalie Price about how the utilities throw their weight around in Lansing. *DTE made the threat to primary Rep. Price in 2023, during her first term. Current campaign finance records show no DTE contributions to any candidate in the 2026 race.

Michigan State Capitol Budget 2027. July 2 update from Democrat State Rep. Veronica Paiz, State House District 10.

"My advice: Stop listening to Gates, start listening to @globalecoguy.bsky.social. And as you’re celebrating America this July 4, raise a glass to the scientists who make this nation great." – @sammyroth.bsky.social www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-hu...

Consider just how big the liability of owning these dams is if Consumers is willing to pay a quarter billion just to get them off their books. Remove dams. Restore rivers.

"Every transgender kid in this country deserves better. But I’ve watched this country learn things slowly, painfully, things it should have known all along. We keep learning. I believe that, even today."

How the heck does a regulated utility have $270 million to “offer” the state?

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

Texas has no clean energy mandate. It just beat fossil fuels with wind, solar, nuclear, and hydro on 62% of days this year. Nobody told the grid to do this, just the market.

here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

Today in northern Oakland County, Michigan. I think she’s laying eggs? She’s right next to our driveway, should I fence off this area? #reptiles #turtles

what the fuck did yall think she meant

Justice Kagan: "So the Court ushers back in the same opportunities for quid pro quo corruption that the contribution limits were meant to check."

"That is, a few years work in one of the fifty states in one of the 200 countries on earth has done more than the thing that the fossil fuel industry has based its whole climate rationale on."

Where are the ones in Ottawa?!! I’d love some here… but have never seen them in the wild! Would be perfect along Hemlock 😉… and like a million other places 😬 @rawlson.bsky.social @bikeottawa.bsky.social

An episode that isn't in the list that I would recommend is Bram Büscher's conversation on speaking truth to power:

Today I learned that volunteers on an island near Vancouver decide to just buy tons of efficient heat pumps, unlocking big bulk discounts, and help their neighbors install them. They've done 1,100 of the 3,000 homes on Gabriola Island, BC! How cool is that?! 🤯🔥👠