this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

The perpetual question with these guys: Is it incompetence? Maliciousness? I think we're going to settle on "both."

As always, a thoughtful post from @magnuslovold.bsky.social Those decrying the dysfunctionality of the international legal order are usually the ones taking a wrecking ball to it. Sticking to the rules is in fact a strategy to save the rules.

Well this is timely

They say never read the internet comments section but in this case: read it.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

This is a good, non-wonky intro to the dangers of the #manosphere for parents of boys. "The engineered delivery system of misogyny" is a phrase I'll hold on to. www.huffpost.com/entry/red-pi...

Victory for Black Residents of Cancer Alley as Court Rules Landmark Lawsuit Seeking Moratorium on Toxic Industry Can Proceed on All Counts | Center for Constitutional Rights ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

#microplastics blues: leahwittenberg.substack.com/p/microplast...

This is really important. If the dems manage to control a house or two and then try to restore normality or whatever, we’re fucked. There needs to be a full denazification program.

Thank you to No Tech for Apartheid for holding this work down

The #plasticstreaty has a new chair. Now the real work begins. Catering to polluters cratered the previous rounds of talks. Will the new chair have the vision -- and guts -- to push through an ambitious treaty?

Last night I heard my mother’s voice for the first time in more than 20 years. Incredible.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Nothing to see here; just the division that funds (or not) all of us in the environmental sciences, including atmosphere, ocean, ice, Earth, climate, hydrology, whatever.

We're told that #EPR is the key policy to solve waste problems. #pyrolysis and #chemicalrecycling will clean up plastic pollution. And the waste trade helps facilitate #recycling. But this is what really happens when they all come together: www.reporters-collective.in/trc/india-is...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Nice writeup of a #citizenscience #communityscience project by @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social. It's reassuring that facts and data still matter, when combined with organizing muscle. www.cleanairfund.org/news-item/le...

This is one element. Remember: every accusation is a confession.

The Constitution is clear that this man staying in office after defying the 4th and 5th Amendments is the only nonstarter. Congressional expulsions will be necessary to restore democratic government. We should be talking about it now, to head off the predictable norms-and-decorum hesitation.

Congratulations to the U.K. for having a functional political system. That must be nice.

New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...

The great #Oberlin story. I’d never seen it all laid out like this. Good inspiration for hard times.

Sadly, this is the ICE M.O.: Assault innocent people and then tell elaborate lies to blame the victim. No judge should give any credence to anything a DHS lawyer says to them. They have proven themselves to be liars too often.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

An important thread to understand what’s happening behind the scenes

An infuriated federal judge in Minnesota on Wednesday published a list of nearly 100 court orders that ICE had violated over the last month. Judge Schiltz wrote that the "extent of ICE's noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated."

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

This is good news. I still expect them to repeal the enhancement funding but now that repeal has much less chance of standing up in court

Good news from #Canada, where the Supreme Court has upheld the determination that #plastic is indeed a toxic substance. www.fca-caf.ca/en/pages/dec...

This looks like a good climate change film to see with your teenager. Too bad it's not showing anywhere in Northern California :-( hollowtreefilm.com

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

Do not watch before eating. #plastics #petrochemicals www.instagram.com/reel/DS5xB8g...

It looks like the Dems are starting to stand up. About time! I just called my Senators to say, shut down the government as long as you like, but not a single red cent for ICE or CBP. Please do the same. #abolishICE. apnews.com/article/sena...

I don’t know, declaring victory in MN seems premature. They’re still arresting people and brutalizing the community. The changes appear—so far—to be cosmetic

We should make their political lives miserable until they resign, retire, or end their terms.

Important. There has not been a deescalation.

Nice list of alternative tech products and even better a chance to think our use of tech entirely disconnect.blog/we-need-to-r...

This is a nice gloss on what has become increasingly clear: a handful of petrostates are sabotaging the international, consensus-based rules system, so the rest of the world needs to move on without them: www.climatechangenews.com/2026/01/27/c...

Keep Maryland quirky! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Great interview with John Beard, Jr. If you want to know how polluting #plastics and petrochemical industries get away with harming their host communities decade after decade, this is well worth a read. southeasttexasimpact.substack.com/p/q-and-a-co...

Idiocy or impunity? Could easily be both.

US govt loses talent. So who gains it? www.science.org/content/arti...

Are the @democrats.org growing a spine? Will wonders never cease? It's past time to impeach Noem, and Trump, and abolish ICE. But better late than never. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Beyond appalling.

my expectation of democratic senators is that they find 1/10th of the bravery of your average 70 year old lutheran lady following ICE around mpls in her subaru crosstrek