December: Thanks to the efforts of @peopleandplanet.bsky.social eight more UK universities cut recruitment ties with the fossil fuel industry. A cultural shift, driven from below: students & staff challenging the normalisation of fossil fuel careers inside public institutions ✊🎉

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Trump campaigned on an “America First” platform. Now he wants to "run" Venezuela? 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Health care is collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. Trump should address these major crises at home and end his illegal military adventurism abroad.

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

Read my full statement on President Trump's military action in Venezuela here: www.bennet.senate.gov/2026/01/03/b...

Trump’s actions are blatantly unconstitutional. There is no dispute that Maduro is a brutal dictator — but only Congress has the power to declare war. If Congress does not begin reasserting itself — immediately — our constitutional order will be permanently transformed.

hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.

Oil, conflict, and climate change – there is a direct connection.

The real kicker here is that if US companies do succeed in ramping up Venezuela’s oil, it’s some of the dirtiest and most carbon intensive in the world. And it’s cheap to produce (PdVSA says $5/barrel, probably closer to $25). ociplus.rmi.org/supply-chain

Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking

"The Hague in the Netherlands was the 1st city in the world to enact a law prohibiting advertisements for fossil fuel products & services... the decision to implement the ban challenges norms& conventions that drive fossil-fuel consumption worldwide & sets an example for other governments to follow"

What a time to publish a book, real smart choices there Kate yougovamerica.substack.com/p/most-ameri...

Mamdani is showing the next Democratic president what to do in 2029

A brilliant opening maneuver. Framing his predecessor's tenure as aberrant and illegitimate is both totally reasonable and creates room for radical change.

Never trust people who want to “de-politicize,” climate change. This has always been true but especially now. They will try to trick you into thinking they are the adults in the room but they are either disqualifyingly naive or in the pocket of fossil fuel interests.

@sanders.senate.gov and Jane Sanders at the Mamdani inauguration. Sadly, Bernie's mittens were a little boring this time lol.

Bernie got HUGE cheers and inspired loud "Tax the rich!" chants.

Crying at @aoc.bsky.social's inauguration speech for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.

Bernie Sanders publicly swears in Zohran Mamdani as NYC mayor

Bernie keeping warm at the Mamdani inauguration

crowd screaming "tax the rich" at a mayoral inauguration in the heart of the global center of capitalism, you love to see it

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

NEW YORK (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani sworn in as mayor of New York City.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

The 8 billionaires are: Musk, Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ballmer. Each one saw their wealth explode as a direct result of the massive and unsustainable AI bubble. Let's resolve to remember that when their bubble bursts all over working people in 2026. Happy New Year!

Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year. Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx

This is a great PHOTO ESSAY on “solar hockey stick of hope”, and countries breaking free of oil and gas dependence. IF your country's media isn't telling you about the renewables global boom, then consider why.... www.science.org/content/arti... bsky.app/profile/scie...

DEMS WIN BIG IN IOWA: Democrat Renee Hardman wins IA State Senate SD-16 with 71.5%, a 27-point Dem overperformance from 2024. Harris won the district by 16. Hardman's victory blocks a GOP supermajority and makes history as the first Black woman elected to the Iowa Senate.

"The bill was aimed at funding a decades-long project to bring safe drinking water to 39 communities in Colorado's Eastern Plains, where the groundwater is high in salt, and wells sometimes unleash radioactivity into the water supply."

Clean energy is unstoppable now. The only question is how much damage can fossil fuels — and their political lackeys — do while we transition to a better future. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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If Project Drawdown could set one resolution for the world in 2026, it would be a reestablishment of our relationship with truth, and through it, our shared humanity. 👉 To see the full @climateone.org award ceremony honoring @globalecoguy.bsky.social, check out: https://bit.ly/4jdgBO2

“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”

There's room for inside/outside strategies, but there's also a difference between doing what you can within current constraints and undermining the believability of future campaign narratives by collaborating with the villains of the story.

Solar power installations in the U.S. in 2025 are expected to exceed the record set in 2024. www.utilitydive.com/news/solar-g... ☀️🔌💡

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

Part 2 of our interview with Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian writer who was the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. We contacted him to respond to President Trump’s threat this weekend to strike Africa’s most populous country, the largest oil producer in Africa.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

What are gas stove manufacturers pushing back against Colorado’s new law trying to hide? Warning labels

This is not an outlier: Texas is regressing back to pre-CWA/CAA environmental disasters because TCEQ doesn't enforce the law. I reported for @thexylom.com @floodlightnews.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social @deceleration.news a 2022 Christmas oil spill that blanketed Corpus Christi Bay with yellow globs:

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol

In the days after the Trump administration’s outrageous and reckless announcement to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, I worked to build a bipartisan coalition of over 100 lawmakers committed to protecting NCAR. And we won’t back down! trib.al/5RfVoNT

"One judge moved house. Another had to freeze her credit cards after a security breach. Other judges have taken actions to adapt to the changing landscape by upgrading home security systems, changing the route they drive to work." This is fascism. This is what terrorist intimidation looks like.

THIS is what hope in action feels like. Here's to more wins like this in 2026, for people and planet 💚 🌍