Building on the legacy of the #MineBanTreaty, the #ClusterMunitionsConvention, and the #TPNW, Colombia 🇨🇴 is stepping up to host a major international conference on phasing out fossil fuels. A new Oslo/Ottawa moment is on the horizon. Way to go! fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

I have a new blog post on the #plasticstreaty negotiations -- despite opposition from a few countries and hindrance by the chair, most countries made real progress on fleshing out a treaty text at #INC5.2. Read it here: medium.com/@climatesail...

Another #plastics recycling facility on fire, this one hosting waste "exported" by the UK to Turkey. A terrible case of #wastecolonialism and a huge health hazard to those downwind and ultimately, all of us, as many of the pollutants will enter the food chain. www.linkedin.com/posts/sedat-...

So, those 14 people the US summarily executed by drone in international waters -- who were they? What were their names? Has anyone spoken with their families? What a colossal failure by the press to follow up on this story. It bleeds but it still doesn't lead. I wonder why...

After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social

It's the best of times, the worst of times. Fossil fuel majors are planning to pump out more oil & gas than ever before, but some countries are pushing ahead to phase out fossil fuels. Diametrically opposed forces on the world stage. fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

Good article that helps illuminate the appeal of fascist misogyny to women. Rather than focus on the loss of women's agency, fascism elevates wifely roles to heroic status. Chaos in the public sphere amplifies the duty of women to manage the private sphere. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 1/2

Robert Reich rhyming with Sweet Honey in the Rock: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Instead of scientific peer review, here comes political peer review

It's insane that we are still talking about Charlie Kirk's murder and yet this hanging -- and another one, of a homeless man -- is entirely absent from the news. Just in case you were wondering who the mainstream media thinks is important. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Everyone's been whispering about it, but @magnuslovold.bsky.social finally spills the tea. Andersen has done more damage to UNEP than anyone else. Those interested in saving multilateralism need to stop defending failed institutions, as I argued: medium.com/@climatesail...

"Taking away a broadcast license has so many legal obstacles and takes so long that the FCC doesn't even try." This is important to understand. The real action is in self-censorship and merger approvals. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

A good essay on the ripple effects of fascism and its impacts on young people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

Time to delete your academia.edu account.

Very interesting thread that paints a more complicated picture of the rightward shift of the working class. The underlying problem is social political and economic exclusion. Hard not to draw a straight line from Clinton’s abandonment of the unions to the present day.

ADL and Cato — neither a source I would normally quote— agree on this point.

Wait a minute. Two people were just lynched in Mississippi and it’s not dominating the national news cycle???

Exactly this. Unfortunately too much of the media has played the useful idiot.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

Great column by @billmckibben.bsky.social on China's incredible green overdrive. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Proud to have helped support this fabulous project by my colleagues at @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social, War on Waste, WALHI, and Green Knowledge Foundation. The air quality around waste incinerators/pyrolysis plants is awful -- and this study got one closed! More here: www.no-burn.org/clearing-the...

The reason for the anger at posting Kirk’s words is simply that we are entering a fascistic world where the truth is dangerous and lies become facts. It is literally how fascism sustains itself. Turning bigots into martyrs and innocent people into criminals. And that’s why saying the truth matters.

I’m not easy to shock at this point but this is shocking. At this point why would any company interest in the US?

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

At least 15 people including journalists and teachers have been fired or suspended for criticising Charlie Kirk online, Reuters reports. Free speech for us, not for you. #NorthKoreaShit

WTF UCB? Here’s a test for you: Speaking out, challenging narratives, debating, sharing/hearing opposing views is a) our Constitutional right b) part of developing critical thinking in a liberal arts education c) the right way to non violently handle differences or d) all of the above? #Berkeley

“Unlike birthright citizens, naturalized citizens can now be stripped of their status through a ‘civil process’ — which doesn’t guarantee a lawyer and uses lower standards of evidence.” indiacurrents.com/attention-us...

I don't know what's more disturbing -- that the president had 11 people killed for a photo op or that the opposition senator calling him to account seems to think that law enforcement is empowered to kill people without trial. apnews.com/article/trum...

The Paradox of Tolerance: a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance – thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.

So many things to say about this but here’s one: as the 2nd largest GHG emitter, this will have implications for the accuracy of global emissions inventories.

Interesting take.

Yet another victory for Putin and Xi. Another of the US's critical alliances is circling the drain. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

The fact that right-wingers commit the vast bulk of domestic terrorism in the US is well-established by numerous expert investigations & reports. But the right *accuses* the left more often, makes more *noise* about it, so they've bullied reporters into framing this as a "both sides" problem.

I don't normally go negative, but Ezra Klein is so much more of an idiot than I realized.

Join Beyond Plastics' science Director, @trishavv.bsky.social, @amizota.bsky.social of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and Ryan Babadi of @toxicfreefuture.bsky.social on Nov. 12 for a free webinar about toxic chemicals in plastics. www.beyondplastics.org/events/toxic...

If you're wondering why #decarbonization is so hard, here's a $31 billion reason: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Excellent question. Assuming things like evidentiary laws are still in place.

We’re sprinting into some very, very bad territory. Use caution. Think about what you say. Be safe.

Inequality leads to revolution. Suppressing peaceful protests leads to violence. It's a familiar story globally and a warning to the US. #nepal apnews.com/article/nepa...

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

This is what I have the hardest time wrapping my head around. Fascists live in a world where truth is irrelevant. It’s only the narrative that matters.

Precisely why we can’t wait for the midterms

NEWS Charles Munger Jr, the son of the late Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s business partner, has put in another $10 million into the campaign against Gavin Newsom’s redistricting initiative. Munger has contributed $30 million so far in just the last three weeks.

Can only assume the constitutionality of age of consent laws will soon be decided on the shadow docket