NEWS: A federal judge found that ICE had repeatedly retaliated against peaceful protesters in unconstitutional ways — and barred agents involved in Minnesota's "Operation Metro Surge" from using similar tactics and force. w/ @joshgerstein @hassankanu www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Big, big news! This is probably the coolest of the many jobs I have shared here! 🚨COME BE MY DEPUTY🚨 🚨JOIN THE BEST TEAM WORKING IN CLIMATE POLICY AND POLITICS!🚨 This. Will. Go. Fast.

Great to see RRIF and TIFIA reforms moving forward. Next step: doing for transit what this does for TOD. Electrification + automation stand out as good candidates for capital, not grants.

Props to the lady giving an interview in her pink UFFDA hat and saying, "well, gosh, I've never had tear gas and flashbangs shot at me, but I'm happy to take it so my neighbors are safe."

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

Timeline cleanse courtesy of mother nature and geologic time. Sunrise in the towering hogbacks formed by Benton Group, 100 million years ago.

NOEM: “We can’t trust the government anymore.” BASH: “You are the government.” NOEM: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”🤔 The only honest thing @KristiNoem said today

This is the way and every single Democrat should be on board. It won't get anywhere before the midterms, but it will make the midterms easier for Democrats to win and easier to take action on these promises once they do. Be the party of accountability. Own that space, starting now.

A friend protesting in Minneapolis was arrested and detained for 8 hours. He says agents took very little information while he was detained. They didn’t know what officer or what agency was charging him and they kept asking him if he knew.

More than 5,000 people here in Powderhorn Park protesting ICE’s occupation of Minneapolis. #FuckICE #iceout #mpls #FuckTrump

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Some good news today: Washington Gas (finally) came back out and capped our gas service at the main #electrifysky ⚡️

Excellent, clarifying piece on the (real) legal pathway that Minnesota has to prosecute the ICE agent who shot and killed a woman today. No, federal agents do not have absolute immunity from start charges, no matter what the Trump administration claims.

From Saint Paul Mayor Kaohly Her, sworn in just a few days ago. Thinking of friends and family and protestors in MSP tonight.

Minneapolis.

NOW: Crowd continues to grow in Minneapolis at a vigil where a federal agent shot and killed Renee Good this morning. “SAY HER NAME!” “RENEE GOOD!”

No surprise MN in crosshairs as it represents fascists' nightmare: largely white state that embraced newcomers who have not merely survived but risen to leadership. MN has long battled the far right divide in order to conquer politics - throwback to how: wordstowinby-pod.com/greater-than...

Jim Geraghty: “No two countries with a Trump-branded property have ever fought a war against each other — at least, not while they’ve had that Trump property.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This is very bad news for Greenland

This. In all the political back and forth and media coverage it's appalling - and deeply colonizing - how little concern or voice has been given to Greenland's actual inhabitants, who are overwhelmingly Indigenous.

On Jan. 6, 2021, bloody insurrectionary violence interrupted the peaceful transfer of power. Today, America is still caught in an epic struggle between selfish forces of rule-or-ruin autocracy & the unyielding defenders of constitutional democracy all over America.

Two policemen remember January 6. One was defending the Capitol, the other attacking it. Both were transformed by the experience, and by the photos and video taken that day www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Walz is out www.fox9.com/news/gov-wal...

A refreshingly systems-level #housing take: not just ‘upzone.’ Legalize more homes near transit + smaller lots + faster reviews. But also: replace mortgage interest deduction w/ targeted first-time buyer credit, curb investor tax breaks, expand vouchers, and create steadier multifamily finance.

Quite simply, any mail-in voter must now place their ballot in the mail at least ONE WEEK sooner than they might have in previous years...or be encouraged to return them in person, if possible. We need to message around this consistently from this point forward. www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...

It can seem pollyannaish to imagine wildly positive futures at times like this, but that's when they're most powerful - a light to guide our way out of the dark. Fascism wins when we can't remember what a better world looks like. When it doesn't feel possible. Nurturing our dreams is resistance.

In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...

Since a lot of folks have asked: "Field" is ground game, most especially door knocking. Basically the story of the last 20 years of progressive electoral organizing is good organizers saying "field wins" and then hot shot types running campaigns into the ground ignoring that reality

Humans have emitted 2750 gigatons of CO2 since the industrial revolution from burning fossil fuels and land use change. To put this in perspective, this is more than the (dry) mass of all living things on earth and everything humans have ever built combined:

In the old days, we would seek comment on stories about climate change from experts in the field who have spent decades studying evidence of the effects of greenhouse gases and findingsolutions. That ends today. Now we'll get your uncle Rooster who you had that big argument with at Thanksgiving.

ngl the casio is going hard as ever

New from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Key takeaways from Mamdani's inauguration speech. "Mamdani will force a conversation among the left about how it should govern." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/understand...

NEW: This is very interesting — Seattle City Council has allowed 8-unit buildings up to 3 storeys, or 10 apartments up to 4 storeys (they call them “stacked flats”) if they add green features (like bioswales or green roofs) or preserve trees, in all residential zones across the entire city!

Happy New Year! Kicking off 2026 on a high — wrapped up day one with a chilly, joyful trail run. ✌️ Here’s to giving this gorgeous planet everything we’ve got, and finding real joy while we do it.

Mandy Patinkin singing with the PS 22 chorus before @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s inauguration

Mamdani took over the @NYCMayor account on Twitter but old Eric Adams tweets are still active. That means Mamdani's name and face shows up for old tweets he didn't send. You're probably going to see a lot of screenshots like this where Mamdani appears to praise Netanyahu, but they aren't by Mamdani

We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January 1st at 1:15pm. This is my place, I make the rules.

Picked up my old boots from Fortuna’s in Bethesda this morning. Walking into the New Year on new soles, but the same old boots. Happy New Year, friends.

In the story of our house electrification and DIY solar install, we’ll include a chapter about Washington Gas dragging its feet to cap the gas line. Today is the fifth time this guys has assessed the line, but still hasn’t completed the task. We filed a gas service abandonment nine months ago. ⚡️⚡️

Gravel biking adventure in Patagonia AZ in March!

Listening to Saul on Volts comparing AUS vs US rooftop solar was painfully familiar. In AUS he got 5 quotes in 2 days + permit/interconnect in ~24h; here we’re DIY’ing our roof (with help from Bluesky friends like @commercialsolarguy.com) and permit review loop is the biggest bottleneck

Took a pic of a friend’s shirt and wanted to check back in to say 👋 🎄. More climate action via transit oriented development and housing in ‘26!!

Minnow and the long shadows of December. #trailrun #leonstevereggie #rooted #loveisforever

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

This is bunk. These sites are chosen to not interfere with radar systems, according to the process listed on...the Department of Energy's website: windexchange.energy.gov/projects/rad...

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Happy Solstice, friends. The year’s tide is turning. May the Solar year ahead bring growing light.