I was one of Alex's nursing faculty at MCTC. This is simply devastating. He was a good student and I knew he'd be a good nurse. Im so sorry for you and his VA family. May his memory be a blessing and an example of what a nurse is.

He was an ICU nurse who helped veterans and Stephen Miller is calling him a domestic terrorist

You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse. A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!” A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉

The US has officially left the World Health Organization. The damage that has been done in the past year to our health institutions will take years to rebuild, if we get the opportunity to do so. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

NEW: Friends, my shop @sehnetwork.bsky.social has released a new report WATER USE IN DATA CENTERS that reviews the available science and serves as an explainer for the various types of DC cooling systems. Written for frontline communities fighting all the secrecy and bullshit. www.sehn.org/water

The Mastodon/Fediverse community is making a real contribution to aid Minneapolis area folks beseiged by ICE and other federal agents. Mastodon for Minneapolis fundraiser has so far raised more than $4600 for the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund from Minnesota Women’s Foundation. You can contribute […]

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Urgent call to action, Texans: we need to write to our State Board of Education members and tell them NOT to adopt the proposed required reading list they’re considering at the the end of the month. It is BAD. I wrote about why here: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/call-to-ac...

The EPA closed a loophole that xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its data center in Memphis. The updated rule means companies need to get air pollution permits before installing & using methane-burning turbines for off grid power at their facilities... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/m...

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Brief Ecology has a new periodic newsletter called The Biodiversity Bulletin. We’ll gather recent news, articles, and studies to keep people informed on the ecological state of the planet. Climate change doesn’t get enough coverage, but our biodiversity crisis gets even less. We want to fix that.

my dear, we are all made of water. it's okay to rage. sometimes it's okay to rest. to recede. PS. - Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos

This is a longshot, but... any people in Austin or thereabouts who work for the library system? The short version is we have some books that people like, but which we printed wayyyyy too many of, and I would love to donate a LOT.

Anna Brauch said an ICE agent grabbed her by handcuffs, and used all his strength to yank her repeatedly around the car. She told him: “You're breaking my hands, you’re breaking my hands.” He told her: “I don’t fucking care. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.” (6) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

There has been so much prevarication by local PDs, even the ones who aren't in 287(g). I mean, in Dallas there are several videos floating around of ICE snapping up people at convenience stores with a good half dozen DPD officers standing around laughing and watching.

Important thread. Scroll down for the gift link.

Rep. Gabe Vasquez (NM) leads the dems new policy ideas on ICE. It calls for more funding for the murderers of Renee Good. There is no demand for accountability. No demand to #AbolishICE who are currently violating the Constitution. Here is the proposal. newdemocratcoalition.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Got $5? Powwow Grounds Coffee is a Native American-owned coffeeshop and community hub for Minneapolis. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

Cool, cool www.texasobserver.org/texas-vouche...

Another way of understanding environmental pollution and premature death is the theft or the taking of your time, our time, on this earth. Living to see our children and their children. What ICE and the broad support for it is taking from us is our lives in both the present and the future.

Considering lives saved often shows that the benefits of regulation far outweigh the costs.

Don't be fooled. This is a backdoor push to advance the privatization of 8 million acres of public national forests by chipping away at public ownership. Just like Mike Lee, Cox's only goal here kick the public off our shared land & turn it over to industry pillage. www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/data-center-... #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #energyjustice #racism

An ecologist “lives alone in a world of wounds…. [He] must either harden his shell and make believe that the consequences of science are none of his business, or he must be the doctor who sees the marks of death in a community that believes itself well and does not want to be told otherwise.” 🌱🐋🌎🧪

Worth noting Jenn Budd has endorsed this film (jennbudd.substack.com/p/hbos-criti...) and just released a video talking about the big news (and coverup strategy) this week: jennbudd.substack.com/p/live-with-...

Worth noting this bit about iNaturalist's Google genAI grant from one of the co-founders that recently left iNat : bsky.app/profile/kued...

The battle to save NCAR has faded from the headlines, but it is not over. www.eenews.net/articles/tak... Call your Congressional reps and ask them to add language explicitly protecting NCAR to the spending package: 5calls.org/issue/ncar-n...

Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump administration’s demands for access to data on millions of voters across the country.

I’m pleased to share our new Perspective in @nature.com The paper shows how exclusion persists in conservation and proposes a practical roadmap for developing more inclusive, rights-based, and effective conservation. Would love to hear your thoughts on this 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This pulls the U.S. out of IUCN, among other things.

Here is the Times story on the withdrawal which doesn't get in to details about the mechanics of rejoining but suggests it could be hard. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/c...

The murder victim has been identified by her mother as Renee Nicole Good. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

FYI, on the Minneapolis shooting video: Bluesky hasn't taken it down. It's been labeled as "graphic media" so that people can avoid it if they choose. You can change your personal settings on whether you see media labeled as graphic (or whether it appears with a warning) here: bsky.app/moderation

In Texas - and, increasingly, in other statehouses - Barton's theories have been central to efforts to put more Christianity in public schools and spaces by claiming that the Ten Commandments and Bible are foundational to American society and history.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

My favorite thing on Bluesky is a labeler made by the Social Technologies Lab at Cornell Tech. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oubsyca6hhgqhmbbk27lvs7c It surfaces metadata on posts. Most useful to me is "This person posted more than 50 times yesterday." It […] [Original post on friend.camp]

This is just blatantly false. LaMalfa “cared” about forestry insofar as that meant getting the cut out. When thousands of USFS and BLM foresters were laid off during the initial DOGE cuts? His office’s response was, “This is what the people voted for.”

Very Informative piece on January 6th that probably slipped with everything else happening. (Hoping folks can be nice to @parkermolloy.com , noticed many good writers ditch bluesky due to some toxic personalities)

"[...] "planetary" has emerged as conceptual alternative to the "global", which had itself emerged as an alternative to the "international". Yet these semantic shifts remains superficial if they do not grapple with the deeper conceptual question: How is the earth written, by whom, and to what ends?"

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.

Aide to George W Bush in 2004 theweek.com/articles/854...

risk awareness

I'm researching the relationship between humanoid robots and data centers, and I'm looking for resources that detail the cloud infrastructures of robots. Generally interested in relationships between these emerging robotics companies and AWS/Azure, etc. Any pointers would be much appreciated!

The Chemical Brothers - The Test (2003) youtu.be/yhS9LnDoo_w

Not too familiar with the reporters but anyone concerned about 'money printer go brrrr' & recessions may want to listen to this interview on NYFed changes and big bank cash infusions: youtu.be/c3uepHkwm3Y

Possibly of interest to Rio Grande Valley reporters (e.g. @pablodelarosa.bsky.social )

Over the holidays, the administration quietly initiated a review of all Wildlife Refuges, something that could preface yet another attempt to steal your land: open.substack.com/pub/wessiler...