One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life) billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

Probably the most straightforward example of government censorship of the broadcast news in my lifetime? They must really be scared of Talarico talking about genuine Christianity www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

An El Niño is brewing. And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. @billmckibben.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

A heads-up from @billmckibben.bsky.social: "One way of summing up this moment is to say that the endangerment finding & the politics of climate are puny in the face of physics. We’re going to see that physics in action in the next 24 months, and it will drive many changes... some of them political"

An El Niño is brewing. And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight. open.substack.com/pub/billmcki... @billmckibben.bsky.social

No one asked Gallup to display special courage in this moment. Just to continue doing what they'd always done. And that was too much for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

No one asked Gallup to display special courage in this moment. Just to continue doing what they'd always done. And that was too much for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

share.google/AyMIMtxvegty... An excellent account from a visitor to Minneapolis of the bravery, creativity, and fortitude of the people shouldering America’s burden of resistance

A Vermonter won the first men's xc medal in 50 years today, and the Europeans love him fasterskier.com/2026/02/an-a...

Wait. On the same day Trump says China is going to eliminate hockey, and he threatens to block the GORDIE HOWE BRIDGE www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter: "The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

I, too, am a partisan of snow. This is beautiful & agonizing. "The quietest place I’ve ever found myself is in a windless snowfall...Last week, when the full moon came out on the snow, Vermont was so bright it looked enchanted...Does it get me heated that we’re losing winter? It does."

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

Very big win here. A federal judge says it's just fine for funds and pension plans to boycott fossil fuels www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/c...

“Where the GOP learned to lie as a matter of course is an interesting question, and I’m afraid I’ve had a front row seat. I think it’s the climate fight, more than anything else, that taught them to regard reality as optional.” Read @billmckibben.bsky.social on how we reached this moment

Democracy dies of heatstroke. What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Democracy dies of heatstroke. What a tool Bezos is--imagining having that kind of money and still being afraid of Dear Leader. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

Just finished @billmckibben.bsky.social’s new book, “Here Comes the Sun” and it’s rekindled some hope in a dark timeline. It’s critical reading for normies on the clean energy transition that’s happening right now. munrobooks.com/item/GFQL6zL...

At this point, it would be far easier for the newspapers to assign a reporter to list the true things the president says—a list as short as his…temper. billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

Brazen lying is now the go-to move for Republican Party and the Federal Government. Years of practiced climate denial may have convinced them that deceit can work @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

At this point, it would be far easier for the newspapers to assign a reporter to list the true things the president says—a list as short as his…temper. billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

The GOP learned to lie--shamelessly and obviously--from three decades of climate denial. billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

If Chuck Schumer was dealt a full house he’d bet a nickel

If Chuck Schumer was dealt a full house he’d bet a nickel

It would sure frost dear leader if the city of Minneapolis won the Nobel Peace Prize for its pioneering work in nonviolent resistance! (h/t @bettybarcode.com)

They finally met a gun they didn't like

It would sure frost dear leader if the city of Minneapolis won the Nobel Peace Prize for its pioneering work in nonviolent resistance! (h/t @bettybarcode.com)

"Should the forces of decency ever regain the upper hand in DC, we need a monument to the people of Minneapolis on the National Mall, and busts of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in the capitol."

Time for financial leaders to show a bit of courage in the climate fight--and there is a path forward! open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Hours after Alex Pretti was executed, Apple's Tim Cook went to the WH for the debut of the Melania 'documentary' His taste and his timing disgust me. I won't pretend I'm giving up the laptop I'm writing this on, but I'm not buying more of their stuff anytime soon. spyglass.org/tim-cook-cap...

Maybe someday America will decide it wants to fit in with the rest of the world as one of Mark Carney's 'middle powers,' an oversized Belgium or something. I think a majority of Americans would go for it in a heartbeat www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Hours after Alex Pretti was executed, Apple's Tim Cook went to the WH for the debut of the Melania 'documentary' His taste and his timing disgust me. I won't pretend I'm giving up the laptop I'm writing this on, but I'm not buying more of their stuff anytime soon. spyglass.org/tim-cook-cap...

Maybe someday America will decide it wants to fit in with the rest of the world as one of Mark Carney's 'middle powers,' an oversized Belgium or something. I think a majority of Americans would go for it in a heartbeat www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

In the olden times, U.S. presidents tried to help America process hard sad events, with at least ritual nods to the solemnity of the occasion. That would obviously be hard here, for a variety of reasons, beginning with it's his fault.

In the olden times, U.S. presidents tried to help America process hard sad events, with at least ritual nods to the solemnity of the occasion. That would obviously be hard here, for a variety of reasons, beginning with it's his fault.

From @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter. billmckibben.substack.com/p/we-interru...

Alex Pretti, honoring a deceased vet at the VA ICU. Not The Pitt, real life. And now he’s dead www.reddit.com/r/law/s/xGo9...

He's retweeting from 2018. @billmckibben.bsky.social answered then.

In case you for some reason need a bit of good news this week, India--largest country on earth--seems to be taking a decisive turn toward solar energy open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Between Minnesota and Denmark, we’re seeing Lutheran legacy at work this week and so far so good!

So moved by the people of Minnesota who—drawing on LA, Portland, Chicago, DC etc—are writing a shining new chapter in the history of nonviolent resistance. The rest of us need to be taking notes—and helping them! www.standwithminnesota.com

So moved by the people of Minnesota who—drawing on LA, Portland, Chicago, DC etc—are writing a shining new chapter in the history of nonviolent resistance. The rest of us need to be taking notes—and helping them! www.standwithminnesota.com

"We are living through the darkest moment I can remember, and in that moment one of the few bright lights—literal and metaphorical—comes from small-scale solar." I'll take whatever good news I can get these days, and this is wonderful. Thanks yet again, @billmckibben.bsky.social.

Solar power is liberating--if Gandhi were alive today, he'd be showing people how to set up panels billmckibben.substack.com/p/solar-as-s...

Solar power is liberating--if Gandhi were alive today, he'd be showing people how to set up panels billmckibben.substack.com/p/solar-as-s...

This is the bishop that stood up to Trump at his inaugural church service. Sign up for this conversation today! @thirdactorg.bsky.social thirdact.org/faith/events...

Grateful for this interview, if only because they dug up tape of me with Studs Terkel from the 1980s. If there's an American we could use right now, it's Studs Terkel outsideinradio.org/shows/bill-m...

James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social thinks and talks about Christianity with as much clarity and grace as any American political figure since Dr. King. A victory for him in Texas would be a chance to reset the national political debate in remarkable ways www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social thinks and talks about Christianity with as much clarity and grace as any American political figure since Dr. King. A victory for him in Texas would be a chance to reset the national political debate in remarkable ways www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...