Had a great chat to one of the best climate journalists in the world, @amywestervelt.bsky.social, about criminalisation & repression of climate & environmental protest around the world the other day. Here’s the result.

People often ask me why I left the U.S. and there are various reasons but the thing that made me start really making an exit strategy was when journalists covering Standing Rock were being arrested. Historically a very bad sign for democracy. Seeing it get worse and more blatant is scary and sad

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

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It's weird how after every good thing/gain (even if we don't call it a victory) people circle up to insist we shouldn't celebrate. Celebrating is not how people give up, in my experience; believing we can't win, never win, and have no power is (with a side of joylessness).

Happening now: “ICE out” protests from East Coast to West Coast in solidarity 🔥

This January is already more January than any January has ever Januaryed.

Dear Climate Bluesky, 1️⃣ Learn about the arrest of Harjeet Singh and his wife, Jyoti Awasthi, by the Indian government this week. 2️⃣ Follow these accounts: @fossiltreaty.bsky.social @tzeporah.bsky.social @alexraf.bsky.social @harjeet11.bsky.social Solidarity and awareness matter more than ever. ✊

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Your periodic reminder that the US is a petrostate, has been governing like one for decades, and ending the fossil fuel era can't come fast enough.

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

I simply cannot believe we are doing this all over again. America must be stopped. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Saw Bluesky described as where elder millennials go to retire from the internet, and immediately felt the peace that passes all understanding wash over me. None of have to struggle any longer. We completed our time.

I admire Zelensky's composure. This is beyond infuriating.

The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The only way to get back on track to the Paris Accords — which aims to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2.0 C — is to pull the “Emergency Brake” climate solutions. Towards the top of the list is curbing methane emissions as quickly as possible. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We had so much fun postering around Amazon's offices to show that Amazon corporate workers are pushing back on the company's reckless AI plans. Sign our letter if you work at Amazon or sign our solidarity statement if you don't, link in bio! TY to friends at @stand.earth @troublemakers.bsky.social!

The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable: latest research by @1alexhemingway.bsky.social. Reforms from a flurry of government announcements gesture at the right ideas but fall short in scale and implementation.

I understand the impulse to relocate to places perceived climate havens. My concern is how this leads to places (and people) being seen as expendable and not worth fighting for. Who will be left behind? Taken to the extreme, it's the billionaire fantasy of fleeing to Mars while Earth burns.

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loved this conversation. Anyone need a crash course on why the intersection of AI, fascism and climate breakdown? We tried to cover it all!

@greenprofgreen.bsky.social and I reflect on #COP30's failure to even mention fossil fuels. In its silence Canada hides behind petro-states like Saudi Arabia and Russia. It's time to join more constructive fossil fuel producers in a coalition of the willing. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/02/o...

Realtors know that, in many parts of the country, if you educate people about climate risk, the housing market will collapse. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

What a dick. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Oh it's half-baked alright www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson Gotcha. That explains a lot.

Grateful as always for the @ubcic.bsky.social www.ubcic.bc.ca/ubcic_strong...

“I don’t know that the PM would have agreed to a new bitumen pipeline without Pathways, and we wouldn’t have agreed to Pathways without a new bitumen pipeline," said Smith. It's absolutely maddening that Big Oil has managed to paint its own greenwashing strategy as the climate bargaining chip 😩🙄🤬

BREAKING: Industry responsible for destroying the planet doesn't keep it's promise to destroy the planet less.

BREAKING: 30 young people were just arrested after blocking an ICE detention facility near Alligator Alcatraz. ICE is kidnapping our neighbors on behalf of fascist billionaires. It's time for every single American to stand up to their intimidation tactics. Let's shut it down.

Maybe we should reconsider the notion that the politicians and diplomats were going to save us?

BC is not just ceding its leadership on EVs, but arguing against provincial leadership. Passing the buck on incentives (up to the feds) and wrt regulations "there should be one clear, harmonized sales target for the country to provide clarity..." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/n...

📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.” Read our press release: shorturl.at/hSGvm

Have courage to create fossil fuel phaseout roadmap at Cop30, Brazilian minister urges

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

I think it's a lot easier to think of #nuclear as "clean energy" if you are willing to ignore the people who mined the fuel, the communities they live in, and what happens after the mines close. Turns out there are a lot of Native Americans in those two categories.

Climate Action Tracker's update on Canada's climate policies is a grim read. "Our rating of Canada’s policies and action has worsened to 'Highly Insufficient', with the latest emissions projections now higher than previous updates" climateactiontracker.org/countries/ca...

Canada is pouring billions into LNG megaprojects while the rest of the world moves on. This CleanTechnica piece shows how public money is propping up fossil exports instead of building the clean, resilient economy we actually need.

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are not living in an era of optional climate policy. We are living in an era of planetary limits where the choices we make in city halls will determine the world our children inherit, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social write. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...

This segment on CBC last night is such a perfect example of what's wrong with politics in this country. That an MP criticizing their own government's policies is seen as unacceptable across party lines is scary. That the political class thinks we elect cheerleaders is worse. youtu.be/-yoTKV-fLcA?...

When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE

We should vote only for those who promise to make billionaires history. We need a great levelling, through tax and redistribution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This country is five banks, four oil companies and three telecoms in a trench coat.

“Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If Tuesday's budget is any indication, they successfully persuaded Prime Minister Mark Carney's government” www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...

still one of the finest essays on this particularly grim episode of corporate social murder

“If the water isn't able to be treated and reused in the mines and for development, why is it good enough for us to drink?” said Billy-Joe Tuccaro, chief of the Mikisew Cree First Nation. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...

The projected cost of a $100-million water pipeline stretching more than 50 kilometres from the Peace River to drought-stressed Dawson Creek is nearly five times greater than what the city received in property tax revenue last year. Ben Parfitt writes. #bcpoli