Learn why Fossil Fuel Divestment is a Win-Win-Win for IL, its pensioners & its residents. On 1.7.26. Hosted by the IL Environmental Council & featuring IL legislative lead sponsors, members of the Climate Safe Pensions Illinois coalition will explain why. Protect Pensions, Protect the Planet!

Quite simply, the best transit bill ever developed to fix and fund a large city's transit system!

This #GivingTuesday, I hope you’ll join me in supporting Active Transportation Alliance! It’s celebrating its 40th Anniversary of advocating for better walking, biking, and transit in Illinois. Donate: haku.ly/ecc3f58cda

Great Robert F. Kennedy quote for Standing Strong and Acting Strong. "Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope." DAY OF AFFIRMATION ADDRESS, CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 6/6/66.

@thirdactillinois.bsky.social Mixed bag on climate progress since the Paris agreement 10 years ago with solar energy’s growth the big “bright spot”. #thirdact #350chicago #climaterealitychicago #sunday www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A cheap and accessible form of energy lies in a large ball of burning gas 93 million miles up in the sky: the sun. So why haven’t we adopted solar energy more widely? “How We Survive” host Amy Scott recently talked with longtime climate writer and activist Bill McKibben #thirdact

Get ready for the Sun Day Solar Fest to celebrate solar energy. Join the kickoff with 3rd Act Illinois, 350 Chicago, event partners & special guest Bill McKibben on 8/13/25 at 6:50 pm Central to learn about the Sun Day event 9/21/25. To attend the kickoff, register forms.gle/u9av3oDwLnv9...

Fighting back with joy and community is a strategic reaction to the fascists who are trying to make us feel alone and powerless: “Their job is so much easier if we are convinced to give up our power.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @chrislhayes.bsky.social

We've got new distributional data on the Senate's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" from @natasharsarin.bsky.social and team at @budgetlab.bsky.social. The results are **stark.** Top 0.1% _GAINS_ $97,000, or 1% of household resources. Bottom 20% _LOSES_ $600, or 3% of household resources.

The highest income earners would overwhelmingly benefit the most from President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans’ sprawling tax and immigration package, according to data released Monday. wapo.st/46kiALY

So the Trump/GOP will make America great how? Massively fund secret police & concentration camps, destroy US science, steal medical care from the poor to give more tax breaks to the ultrarich, & expand dirty energy & worsen climate change while the rest of the world moves to clean energy. Got it.

Coal is the dirtiest and most dangerous source of energy and the last thing smart, future-focused people should bring back from its fast, steady decline.

The House just passed a reckless budget bill gutting clean energy tax credits & handing billions to polluters. ☎️ Call your Senators NOW: Tell them to protect the clean energy provisions in the IRA—they’re saving money, creating jobs, and powering the future. thirdact.org/act/urge-you...

Great summary of how Pope Francis understood the existential challenge facing us in climate chaos and thought more broadly on how we must react.

Regulations aren't putting coal, even Trump's "beautiful, clean coal", out of business. Economics are.

From Heather Cox Richardson's post: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt rallied Americans to oppose fascism by emphasizing the principles that would, he said, provide “the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy: “Equality of opportunity for youth and for others. Jobs for those who can work.

Yesterday, we sent a historically big message to Trump, Musk, and the GOP — and we also sent a signal to all those who agree with us but have spent the last few months feeling shaken, hopeless, and afraid. #handsoff

☀️ THE DAY IS HERE. Today, Saturday, April 5th, 12:00 pm, Chicago's Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington. We're coming together to send a message to Donald Trump, Elon Musk, & their Republican enablers in Congress: HANDS OFF. See you soon!

Donald Trump is trying to sell off our national monuments to Big Oil for drilling and mining. Join me in demanding Congress stand up for our natural wonders and stand with Indigenous communities. 👉 act.350.org/letter/apr-2... #EarthMonth

Don't think for a second that Signalgate is "a small mistake" of no consequence and that folks are blowing it out of proportion. It is the tip of the iceberg and @timothysnyder.bsky.social lays out so logically how big the iceberg really is.

Texting war plans to reporters is clearly bad But the fact that America’s top leaders communicate about 40% via emojis is also freaking me out

How can Trump be the spokeMAN for Tesla to help his boss Musk--isn't that kinda illegal? And doesn't he remember that ALL Tesla's are electric vehicles, which he is trying to kill, along with other critical solutions, as he destroys the US government's ability to address climate change (it's real).

“Stretching the bounds” is a gross understatement. This is clearly an ethical nonstarter. 😩

Ask your US Representative and Senator who will receive the $4.5 Trillion Republican tax cut. What % will go to those making at least $200K/year? To those making $100-200K/year? To those making <$100K? IF THEY WON'T TELL YOU, THEN YOU KNOW ONLY THE RICH WILL BENEFIT. Speak up!!

Elissa Slotkin was remarkable in her official response to Pres. Trump's "Staleness" of the Union address. Great if you can listen to the whole thing, but this segment highlights how you can help ... now!

RALLY FOR UKRAINE. Sunday, March 2nd, 2:00 pm, Chicago Water Tower, 806 N Michigan. Organized by Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, IL Division. Justice for Ukraine!

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

From the YouGuv 2/19 poll, 61% of Amercians think Russia started the war (only 6% think Ukraine did). 71% think Putin is a dictator, 41% think Trump is a dictator, only 22% think Zelensky is! Why is Trump so enamored with Putin, ignoring Republican & Democratic support against the Russian dictator.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago. But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today. He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

The Chinese are thankful that we are turning over leadership of the 21st century to them.

We truly need and depend on NOAA/NWS in so many crucial ways. Gutting them isn’t about efficiency, waste, or fraud. It’s just plain stupid.

🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.

Why should us regular citizens pay for all the damage to our health and to our planet when the fossil fuel companies knew 50 years ago about the tragic consequences of using their products and yet did nothing to help? Polluters should pay, not us.

So if they gut NOAA, all this great progress and the lives it saves will go down the drain. So sad!

When Trump, Musk or their followers claim fraud, it’s code for something much worse. Read here for some great insight.

2023/2024 saw the greatest # of climate-change-influenced, $1 Billion catastrophes. Ignoring climate change does not make it go away. Burning stuff for energy is inherently dangerous for our planet, our kids, our grandkids. Climate Change is Real! Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Someone tell Trump that halting climate data won’t stop his favorite warm spots from getting unbearably hot, becoming submerged, or being devastated by increasingly powerful hurricanes.

California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy. The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone. grist.org/energy/calif... #Energy #CA #California #Renewables #Solar

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

The Trump strategy in a nutshell.

Probably the best summary of what really is happening in our government. A huge threat to our democracy, the Constitution, the rule of law, the separation of powers, our country and personal security, and common sense (though Trump in effect claims that only he has common sense)....

Elon Musk is acting without regard to the constitution, laws of the land, and as an unelected/appointed, billionaire "advisor" to Trump (as "acting President"). He believes he has the same rights to do anything he wants with the US government as he does for Tesla, X and SpaceX. He does not! cont.

Why Trump’s recent energy and climate directives are “not remotely in the national interest” and play right into Making China Great Again. @thirdactorg.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @chrislhayes.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social

Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.

None of us should feel good about what’s going on here.

Masterfully done!

You can see why I look to Christiana for inspiration in our fight for a better world. She’s the architect of the Paris Agreement, but has never rested on her laurels. She just keeps going. 💚

Tim Snyder, the Yale historian and author of On Tyranny and On Freedom, suggests how to address the new administration's inevitable corruption and oligarchical activities, to protect our constitution, the rule of law, and the people. @timothysnyder.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social

Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is the best tribute to Carter’s visionary energy policy. If only we’d done it sooner www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...