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?"

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.

I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.

Academics & faculty, the time has come for me to create a separate blog given the limitations of what I can or cannot say in my professional capacity. I would love to know how folks like me - at public institutions - are navigating this! Feel free to dm! 🙏

One of my favorite moments in the documentary is when @chefelenaterry.bsky.social so powerfuly differentiates between nutrition and nourishment! And, woohoo Madison, we finally get a Native cuisine restaurant, thanks to her! 🙏🏽

A set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases is being reversed by the Trump administration. Dr. Gretchen Goldman, president and CEO of the Union of Concerned Scientists, calls it a "devastating" development.

I love it when a podcast interview turns into a great conversation that you don’t want to end like this one w Matt Kendziera, Director of Wisconsin Faith Voices for Justice, who work on voter registration, immigration, and LGBTQ+ care and equality & more: share.transistor.fm/s/79f95386!

Nice pop of Badger pride this morning: Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar, UW–Madison had just the one! news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

I have not been watching, but I am very happy to hear that Bad Bunny is winning the Super Bowl.

Shout out to the wealthy Indian guy who told me I talk about white supremacy too much and it’s a dead horse.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

5. What this is about is the locus of solidarity. Either you express solidarity with the victims of genocide and the victims of sexual abuse. Or you express solidarity with someone you treat as a hero, who might be assisting the airbrushing of those crimes. There’s a choice to be made.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

so much free speech, so much freedom, we’re all drowning in it.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

It’s worth saying again: this data proves that fossil fuel firms are actively sabotaging climate action and weakening government ambition. A fossil fuel treaty is not merely an option, but the indispensable mechanism to hold these giants accountable. www.euronews.com/green/2026/0...

Seeing some folks jumping into mobilizing for the 1st time & not know the difference between an activist & an organizer. I would strongly suggest listening to the latter. They’ve been doing this for a long time, maybe their whole careers, they are in it for the marathon, & THEY WILL KEEP YOU SAFE.

Something about working on climate for 25 years is that some patterns are instantly recognizable. For eg, when the media establishment denies, delays & then gives in such a way that there is no building power towards consensus, just an unhealthy debate chamber that will perpetually generate clicks.

Community members in Minneapolis have built a vast rapid response network; patrols; witness and response to ICE presence; large-scale food deliveries; and care webs for those who are left behind by ICE. Many of these systems sprung to life along the paths laid down by the George Floyd uprisings.

The number of privileged people (lookin’ at ya, white Buddhists) that have expressed their sadness, helplessness, rage, despondence & *favored adjective to me & each time, when I’ve said to them, get on the streets, link up with like-minded folks, go into the community, their discomfort is palpable.

How can we better understand the psyche of individuals making such decisions, to better judge their actions? The psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe highlights a prevailing mindset of 'neoliberal exceptionalism' that allows us to ignore reality, reject limits & act with a "culture of uncare"

The REVEREND Nekima Levy Armstrong.