In Washington, we're proud of the Climate Commitment Act. "Not only are these investments helping cut climate pollution, which is obviously very important, as we’re seeing a lot of climate impacts in Washington right now, but a lot of these are also helping lower everyday cost of living for folks.”

Lauren said it best: we're getting coal for Christmas. This is just so incredibly stupid. There's not even coal supply or demand. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Look to the states for continued leadership on the climate crisis. As @autumngales.bsky.social @climatesolutions.org puts it, “States have always been the incubators for important climate policy work,” and Trump's efforts to thwart state action are likely to fail. @grist.org

You cannot make this shit up. Sharing this jaw-dropping story with a gift link -- give it a read.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

Disgusting that such an ignorant person has such power. To actually learn about the regime of violence Russia has deployed in occupied Ukraine, watch this documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHld...

The Czechoslovak newspaper Vecerni Prah, 6 days after the Soviet invasion in 1968, published 10 commandments: “When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.”

Brian Heywood right now

Big win for efforts to fight climate change today as Judge Sandra Widlan ruled that Initiative 2066 was unconstitutional, a measure that would have locked us into a dirty methane gas future. While Trump goes backward on climate, Washington State is going www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The King County Superior Court just ruled that Initiative 2066 is unconstitutional! Huge win for clean energy and Washington families.

VICTORY!!!! BIAW and Brian Heywood's Initiative 2066, aiming to lock us into a future with methane gas, is being ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL in a verbal ruling in King County Superior Court! #waleg #waelex

Big, important news!

The deeper you dig, the more connections in the web of autocracy, inc you can find.

"If you are a citizen and you are casting doubt on the importance of due process, remember this: you need due process in order to prove that you are a citizen."

TIL I am religious! I am an adherent of the climate change religion! But alas the feds are driving a dagger in its heart.

Congress approved the funding for Ukraine, just like Congress approved funding for so many other things Musk-Trump-Vance have halted.

Great time for all US-Americans to send donations directly to Ukraine right now: u24.gov.ua

Let's be clear: the current US admin does not care about real peace. They do not care about Ukrainians. They do not care about people dying. They do not care about people being tortured. They care about looking like "strong" men. They care about buddying up to other authoritarians.

‘We’ve lost some parts of nature for ever’: the #Ukraine war’s impact on environment – photo essay www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Those who decry the U.S.’s role in great power struggles (“NATO expansionism!”) are exhibiting their own imperial mindsets by deferring to the desires of another “great” power (Russia and its supposed “legitimate sphere of influence”) — completely ignoring the agency of smaller countries.

“Ukraine has long been located at the intersection of empires. And these empires have often collaborated to plunder the country’s resources, offering little or nothing in return. We can see this kind of predatory collaboration of imperial and neo-imperial regimes once again taking shape.”

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

Thursday was housework day in my house growing up. Traditionally, my dad did the vacuuming. But he had ear problems and the noise started to hurt his ear too bad. So every Thursday, he would get the family together to yell at me for a few hours in front of everyone for something I allegedly did. 1/x

WAYS TO SUPPORT UKRAINE: u24.gov.ua www.razomforukraine.org savelife.in.ua/en/ Be mad and do something about it.

I keep saying this: if you grew up under an abuser, you know exactly what this is and that no appeasement is possible.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Trump and Vance act as if the problem is that Ukraine is resisting an ongoing Russian invasion. The problem is the ongoing Russian invasion. If they want to use American power to stop the war, apply it to the aggressor. Abusing the victim is not going to end a war of aggression.

The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.

Imperialist assholes

Hey asshole JD, have YOU said thank you?!

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

my favorite genre is old ladies yelling at goons who are carrying out the orders of an autocratic state

"While the world runs on oil, we cannot fight those who sell it without incurring economic pain." Also, (almost) EVERYONE SUCKS

Three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion. 🚀 Cities bombed 💔 Thousands of lives lost 🏠 Millions displaced Yet, Russian oil, gas, and #LNG still fund this war. We need full energy #sanctions & transparency in the EU #gas market. razomwestand.com/eu-once-agai...

"i know you’re afraid of blood so we’ll write it with water the water the wounded man asked for when he could no longer swallow and just looked at it water that seeps through a shelled-out roof water that can replace tears" WHAT WAR IS Ostap Slyvynsky Full poem: snyder.substack.com/p/what-war-is

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

This article is almost a year old, but my husband was at their presentation, told me about it, and it has been on our minds since. Who wants the war to end the most? Ukrainians. How can it end? By Russia getting TF out. Not by the US raiding it like a new colony, which is disgusting.

“I don’t think that this ‘peace process’ is for Ukrainians’ sake. It is laughable that they pretend it is.” “I don’t think Trump gives a damn about Ukraine. And his so-called ‘deal’ about natural resources? It feels like we’re the ones expected to pay reparations instead of Russia. It’s insane.”

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

Nobody wants this war to end more than Ukrainians do. It’s our homes that get attacked with drones every night. It’s our friends who get killed in battle. It’s our youth that’s been stolen by this war. But we understand that any compromise with Russia won’t be the end of the war.

Musk sure didn't like it when ProPublica got access to his taxpayer data though. Reminder DOGE isn't a real government entity and there's an actual organization designed to track govt efficiency. It's a data mining operation.

"What we have failed to communicate is that the escapable and preventable socioeconomic ills of everyday life were never a symptom of democracy, but rather a product of democracy’s opponents: corruption and inequality."

Removing sanctions on Russia does what exactly, other than aiding a war criminal and abetting further crimes? I highly recommend giving @razomwestand.bsky.social a follow to better understand the need to sanction Russian fossil fuels.

"It was humiliating, at Munich, to keep hearing Americans holding microphones tell Ukrainians that war is bad. Every Ukrainian listening has lost someone... But just talking with Russia...will not lead to that conclusion, and Ukrainians know it." - @timothysnyder.bsky.social

On the Russians and Americans backing the German far right www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/w...

"Bad ideas do a lot of the work of building autocracy. By forcing us to engage with them, they make our conversations, our media and our society dumber. By conjuring the unimaginable...they plunge us into an anxious state in which thinking is difficult."

The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence.

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...