146 Venezuelans deported from the US were killed in the earthquakes that struck Venezuela just hours after their arrival.

"He's never made this much money in his entire life as he's made in this one year." - @ericlipton.nytimes.com on Donald Trump's unprecedented use of the presidency as a massive personal cash cow. Trump's most profitable endeavor of his career. www.pbs.org/video/profit...

🧪 New from @dataforprogress.org: Federal research grants are awarded on scientific merit judged by panels of scientists and outside experts. Trump has moved to change that. Voters don't approve. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/7/...

Was not expecting this at all, thank you for the boost, @madison365.bsky.social!

This is the future Big Oil built for us. Fossil fuel companies knew decades ago that their products would drive increasingly severe and frequent heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, but lied to protect their own profits at the expense of public health and safety. The public deserves accountability.

🚨 Act to protect the Great Lakes! 🚨 I just submitted a public comment urging EGLE to reject Enbridge's water discharge permit for Line 5 - please join me! Public comment closes tomorrow. www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/submit_water...

As an Indian watching my country routinely burn through multiple summers with massive death and disability tolls, I gotta say, Im quite fed up with heat and AC discourse. No one gives a fuck when its poor brown people dying in their thousands "somewhere else"

Next up is the potential for a major heat wave across the central and eastern U.S. Humidity and overnight temperatures will be a big story and increase the risk of heat stress for many communities outdoors celebrating the days leading up to July 4th. Map from: www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/threats/thre...

Has anyone done emissions modelling on the number of rocket launches SpaceX would require to ever be profitable?

"The murder of Mona Khalil sends a chilling message: Even those whose only weapon is compassion, whose only mission is preservation, are not spared," said one observer.

"By scattering vital student protections across multiple bureaucratic agencies that are entirely unequipped to handle them, [the Trump] administration is actively sabotaging the future of American college students." More from @rweingarten.bsky.social & @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social ⬇️

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

We are not okay and that's perfectly okay. It just means we have a heart made up of compassion and concern. And, no matter how much it hurts, it helps to pause and honor the fact that our hearts are working appropriately. www.uwalumni.com/news/the-sho...

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

It appears Pope Leo’s first encyclical, focused on AI, will drop May 25: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

okay I have not read it yet but it appears Pope Leo released a new papal encyclical called “MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS: On the protection of the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.” Encyclicals are a pretty big deal. It’s essentially like “here’s some new doctrine.” This feels noteworthy

That so much of the West has little to no snowpack left is mind-boggling. "Snowpack, the western US’s largest non-man made reservoir, is already gone in many places...This year’s peak snowpack will be the new benchmark low for Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; there are no comparable years."

the cool thing about spending a decade trying to convince people on social media that Elon Musk is a bad guy, only for him to make it undeniable and then buy the social media platform you relied on to get your message out, is that you really get over the idea that social media can influence stuff

Trump’s next ICE Director David Venturella was an executive at the Geo Group for more than a decade. You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to follow this corrupt money trail to the private prison industry.

Listen, decent people are the majority — they would not need to suppress us with all of their might, money, cunning, and decades of făsh′ĭzt planning if we were not. They are scared of us for good reason.

Reuniting with WWF for this year’s Fuller Symposium: www.worldwildlife.org/our-work/sci... alongside Art Blume and María Inés Rivadeneira. Check it out: May 19, On Cultural Resilience.

And never ask people who spend months working on things, if something will also happen the next year. Ask: "I really appreciated this year's event, HOW CAN I HELP MAKE NEXT YEAR POSSIBLE?"

Devastating. Please consider donating, and spread the word. Justice for Isaiah Kirby.

Last year a fossil fuel advocate said it was "complete and total paranoia" and "pure fiction" when climate groups warned Big Oil was lobbying for legal immunity. One year later, same guy says "we look forward to working with" Republican sponsors of the bill to give Big Oil immunity. 🤔

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Happy Earth Life! 🌏 🌱💧🐅 Join @dchungyalpa.bsky.social in conversation with @centerhealthyminds.bsky.social, @jonathanpatz.bsky.social, @arocha.us, @greenthechurch.bsky.social, @350nh.org, & more experts for a deep dive into why climate action is a moral imperative. Watch here: youtu.be/JdGVG67d1rY

I am far away from people this Earth Day. Deliberately. Latest essay here: burning-bright.ghost.io/happy-earthl...

Happy #EarthLife to those of us who celebrate it! Water is one of my greatest teachers, may she be yours too. 🙏🌏🙏

And if you care at all what Congress actually knew and discussed when they wrote and passed the Clean Air Act: www.ecologylawquarterly.org/wp-content/u...

Grieving for the Boundary Waters and what it means for all of us — the Senate voting to strip Minnesota’s Boundary Waters of protection from mining pollution sets a precedent for Republicans to tear down protected area status of all other public lands through the Congressional Review Act.

I am not interested in prison. Throwing a few creeps in prison until the next fascist pardons them does nothing to destroy their power. I want the financial and political power of these individuals and corporations to be utterly destroyed. Take literally all of their money.

Shout out to Wonder Cabinet, the new podcast by Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson (prev. NPR). Noting that I did this interview in October 2024, talking about the wars paid for by our taxpayer money, with zero idea of what was ahead of us! 😥Link: wondercabinetproductions.com/dekila-chung...

Feeling good today, Wisconsin.

It looks like Sarsour was booked into the Clay County Jail in Brazil, IN on 3/30. ICE has repeatedly used Clay County to move people out of the Chicago area. Another detainee in Clay County is Juan Espinoza Martinez, who a Chicago federal jury acquitted in January of placing a hit on Greg Bovino.

The arrest of Salah Sarsour is inexcusable.

Congresswoman Gwen Moore is calling on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to immediately release Salah Sarsour, President of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, following his recent detention.

And there is no opposition party.

Always blown away that THIS is my life’s work! Reunions & new unions w faith leaders who are championing environmental and climate solutions in their communities close and afar at @lokainitiative.bsky.social's PREP conf this week! Pic 1: W Rev Dr. Ambrose & Pastor Bruce Carroll fr Green The Church.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

Come join us! @lokainitiative.bsky.social is bringing together faith leaders Huda Alkaff, Rev. Dr. Ambrose F. Carroll, Rev. Kendra Ford, Rev. Dr. Ben Lowe & Phra Woot, & UW-Madison scientists, Dr. Richie Davidson & Dr. @Jonathan Patz on March 26, 2026, Fluno, register here: go.wisc.edu/i271p8!

$350 million! @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social is being bankrupted by Texan energy company, Energy Transfer, for supporting the #StandingRock movement. We as a movement have to stand against this assault. My thoughts on Big Oil hijacking the system & how we respond: burning-bright.ghost.io/embracing-th...

Can’t help but draw a line to writers like Arendt who predicted that science would not hold under authoritarian assault because protocols of ethical accountability were added after the design was already baked, as opposed to being the starting point.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In 2024, the Republican Attorneys General Association received $125k from ExxonMobil; $250k from the American Petroleum Institute; and $250k from Koch Industries, all of whom are defendants in climate lawsuits.. - @emdashsanders.bsky.social

Happy Tibetan New Year! ལོ་གསར་ལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། I wrote on the significance of a Fire Horse year, what refugees are experiencing rn, the importance of rising along with faith leaders, and how the First Amendment has to be protected against assault. Check it out: burning-bright.ghost.io/happy-losar-...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025: apnews.com/article/sola...

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.