Third Act Maryland endorses Josh Hastings for Delegate, District 38B! Josh Hastings represents an opportunity to elect a strong environmental advocate from the Eastern Shore, a part of Maryland being devastated by climate change. Volunteer for Hastings’ campaign. tinyurl.com/JoshHastings.

Third Act Maryland proudly endorses Bobby LaPin for Maryland Senate, District 46! Bobby LaPin has the courage to take bold climate action. He does not accept corporate donations. He’s a real human being, not a corporate shill. Volunteer on LaPin's campaign: tinyurl.com/LaPinMDSenate.

Third Act Maryland proudly endorses Amar Mukunda for Maryland Senate! Amar will be a fresh, progressive voice for Maryland’s District 39. There’s so much we love about Amar Mukunda, we can’t list them all here. Learn more and volunteer to help elect Amar at mukundaformaryland.com/get-involved.

“Being able to go to court and say the residents of Monterey Park voted to ban datacenters is a much better gauge of where our residents are" and "would hold more weight in court"

Protestors outside Delaney Hall sing an upgraded 🎵 All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose 🎵 against the for-profit ICE detention center in Newark.

Nice, succinct description of the scientific method. Scroll down to watch video or read transcript.

This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

The idea that only nuclear or gas can provide "firm power" -- the last line of defense against the relentless advance of clean energy -- is going the way of the dodo. There are no arguments left. The only reason to fight progress now is corruption & raw political power.

"The immigrants’ courage is matched only by the severity of their limited options. Ultimately, the pressure for change will have to come from the outside."

“While men made up the ranks of demonstrators who looked to stand in defiance of President Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown, it was often women who led the charge.”

Ongoing: 2nd Weather and Climate Livestream Mon, 6/1 - Wed, 6/3, "100+ US meteorologists and climate scientists whose research is at risk due to proposed budget cuts, overhaul of federal grantmaking rules, and attacks on the National Center for Atmospheric Research." www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...

Join us! Thurs. 6/4 Noon-2 pm National Capital Planning Commission, 901 F St.NW Info and sign up here: actionnetwork.org/events/say-n... @thirdactsocal.bsky.social @thirdactmd.bsky.social @thirdactdc.bsky.social

Just the beginning but some good news!

Hurricane season starts today. Here’s why we expect it to be a quieter than normal year in the Atlantic. The relatively hotter East Pacific due to a Super El Niño overpowers the near waters of the Atlantic. Rising air, thunderstorms and hurricanes in the East Pacific should subdue the Caribbean… 1/

How true: "being looted," literally. #TeslaTakedown Rockville, MD, May 30

'"High-quality professional personnel in science, engineering, teaching, languages, and other critical fields are necessary to our national security effort,” Eisenhower said in 1958.' "the Allies won because they had better meteorologists than the Germans." www.alternet.org/pressure-mov...

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

What a lineup! Power to the People, Oct. 3, 2026, Columbia, MD. merriweathermusic.com/event/power-...

Everyday is #SunDay @thirdactsocal.bsky.social

"the little speck we are in geological time, and what amount of chaos we’ve managed to do in such little time.” "Papua’s tropical glaciers lost 97% of their ice mass between 1980 and 2024" "much rather there was ice than we had to resort to creating 3D models for future generations.”

The California grid now boasts the equivalent of 12 nuclear power plants worth of batteries -- the total cost of which was, I suspect, less than a single nuclear plant.

More than 2,700 reports have already been submitted to @realerinbrockovich.bsky.social Data Center Map. Check it out: www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/the-new-po... See also @thirdactorg.bsky.social 's work on data centers: thirdact.org/events/fight...

Should be very useful. "The Congressional Public Lands Score tracks how every U.S. representative or senator voted on issues impacting America’s national parks, forests, monuments, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges."

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

"The UN has voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change" "No offering is too small. No stone unneeded." Every action, every effort matters; that's how "a path appears."

"Explore how regenerative coffee farming in Brazil supports climate resilience, biodiversity, and sustainable farmer livelihoods." Wed., May 27, 3 pm CEST / 9 am EDT www.eventbrite.de/e/from-fores...

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

"how to prevent an impending utility death spiral" "legal limits of a utility’s “obligation to serve,” the potential for gas companies to transition into geothermal thermal energy networks, and why the US has suddenly become the global leader in heat pump sales."

"The global food system is the largest emission source of greenhouse gases. ... At the same time, ... one of the most vulnerable areas to climate change. ... The future of our planet is dependent on how we address these agricultural challenges." Solutions are known, doable, scalable.

Re RCP8.5 "Future carbon emissions scenarios will be determined by politics. But the warming associated with those emissions is determined by physics." "Climate change is real. And it’s dangerous. Yes, we can solve it. But later is too late."

"Additional data acquired in recent weeks has left climate scientists gobsmacked and re-examining their assumptions of how the complex interplay between the ocean and the atmosphere could accelerate the effects of human-caused climate crisis."

"All of America should watch Hawaii closely because if one state can pull this off, others can do the same. And that’s how REAL change starts."

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these ..." #TeslaTakedown Rockville MD this morning.

"impact on energy and water supply is well documented, but the first in a series of new studies has revealed another potential impact of data centers: They may be creating enough heat to affect temperatures around them and produce data center heat islands, or DCHIs."

"tectonic changes ... as the world shifts from molecules to electrons" "may well see the Iran war as the moment the US unwittingly ceded leadership to China" "Despite the deep pockets of the backers of fossil fuel fascism, their resistance will be futile"

"PJM, ... the reason your energy bills are so high." "PJM is failing us, not by accident but by design." "Wholesale, structural reform of PJM is what’s needed"

"No country will be energy-secure or independent as long as its fuel supply remains finite and fossilized and its power plants and energy grids centralized and fossil fuel-dependent."

Climate Conversations: Brain Health, May 28, 2026, 3:00 pm ET "Climate change is increasingly recognized not only as an environmental and physical health challenge, but also as a growing risk to how we think, feel, and function ... These impacts are not felt equally ..." Register here:

"[91-year-old] Tannis was so inspired by Bill McKibben’s latest book, Here Comes the Sun, that she’s purchased copies for every BC MLA, and every Canadian MP." Read it? Pass it along and help spread the word.

"in just 25 years, more than 70 percent of the Southwestern needle leaf evergreen forests ... may be replaced by grass" "One of the biggest consequences is the loss of shade ... sign of a catastrophic feedback loop beginning to form" tinyurl.com/ymxmxpr2 #climatecrisis

“Maybe it’s 10 years, maybe it’s 20 years, but if I’m still here, my kids are going to ask me what I did. And I don’t know how I could look at them and say I did nothing”

Cruise alert (!), among other things ... #climatecrisis

13 reasons (missing traditional bases of state power) "The systems that made the United States a superpower cannot be rebuilt as they were, nor should they be: they involved structural injustices that made the present attempt at self-annihilation possible."

"This is just another attack on federal science and scientists. The lack of regard for science as a public good will not only set the American scientific enterprise behind global rivals but also leave communities less safe and less healthy."

"China is seizing the moment [war in Iran] to extend its dominance in wind power" "Last year, China installed three times as much wind power capacity as the rest of the world combined" "motivated by concerns over national security, economic stability and climate change"

"These documents from the UCAR lawsuit clearly show the intent by OMB to dismantle NCAR in a fast and rash manner. This is no longer a theory; it is documented that OMB wants this break-up implemented in FY27." What you can do? Contact your senator and representative: secure.ucs.org/a/2025-prote...

HAPPENING NOW… marching on the Capitol…. #NewJimCrow @GovBillLee

After months of fossil fuel industry lobbying, Republican lawmakers have introduced federal legislation that put Big Oil above the law. Tell Congress: 📣 NO IMMUNITY FOR BIG OIL 📣 TAKE ACTION: tinyurl.com/NoBigOil-Immun