Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

This is a good summary of the current state-of-play for global climate policy, IMHO.

Whilst its easy to get used to scary graphs, this one made me pause! The 2025 State of the Cryosphere report published yesterday has this one overlaying observations of #AMOC slowdown against model predictions. The report states that “AMOC shutdown appears all but inevitable”

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions rise again in 2024, up 2.3%. This is our collective progress, 10 years after the Paris Agreement. www.unep.org/resources/em... 1/

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

“New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant.” Watch the best of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's victory speech after becoming New York City’s first Muslim mayor. Visit zeteo.com for more coverage.

Portland voters appear to be approving a ballot measure to renew and extend the city’s parks levy for another five years. In partial returns, the measure had 53% support on Tuesday shortly after 8 p.m. About 47% of votes counted oppose the measure.

Climate action entails transition. + All transition is local. = Local politics is important.

The most under-appreciated (and under-funded and under-reported) driver of climate change is our food system. Our food system emits ~1/3 of global emissions. But it only gets 3% of climate funding and 4% of media coverage. Let’s focus more on food. Here’s a start: go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

Jordan has seen the number of EVs on its roads boom in recent years. To deal with a growing wave of end-of-life EV batteries, mechanics in Amman are coming up with innovation solutions. The latest for @climatechangenews.com's Clean Energy Frontier series. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/03/s...

Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component: www.newscientist.com/article/2502... Research paper: doi.org/10.1038/s432...

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

Meanwhile, in the far-left progressive bastion of ... entire State of Utah: "The plan shows 3,100 miles of paths. The network would come within a mile of 95% of Utahns, connect to 33 school campuses, 31 state/national parks, and 74 high-capacity transit stations." www.sltrib.com/news/2025/10...

Cannot say enough: the Trump administration actively chose to illegally withhold SNAP benefits in November, pretending they weren’t allowed to deliver benefits this month despite their own guidance from September 30 saying they could — guidance they deleted on October 23.

October is the least warmed month and reached +1.55°C during a La Niña! The past 29 months were +1.57°C on average, 0.32°C above the same 2015-2017 period, indicating a 0.4°C/dec warming rate. That's more than a doubling from the 1970-2010 warming rate. Even(?) we might have underestimated this.

Did you wake up irrationally angry at how much energy is being used - and CO2 is being emitted - to foist upon us AI technology that most of don't even want?

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Green connection taking shape on North Portland riverfront northpeninsulareview.com/green-connec... #portland #pdx

It’s funny to think that the masked ICE Agents terrorizing communities are the same folks that spent two years saying they couldn’t breathe with a mask on.

Union and civic leaders from Washington County, Oregon, spoke out at a press conference Friday afternoon against recent mass arrests by the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The fall of the CBS News climate team - David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news, writes @emorwee.bsky.social heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670 Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy? You’re doing their dirty work.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

"An important predictor of future warming is Earth's energy imbalance [..] It is rising much more quickly than predicted by most climate models, possibly because of a darker planet corresponding to a large decrease in Earth's albedo which is near an all-time low "

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Yep. Long covid is the NUMBER ONE chronic illness in children. Who could have seen this coming? Oh right, all of us who pay attention and are constantly dismissed.

Trump has issued an Executive Order to block state laws and lawsuits that make polluters pay for the climate destruction they've caused. Congress should support those efforts, not blockinh them. Demand Congress oppose Big Oil immunity. secure.everyaction.com/uyucPzhrMkSm...

Not just another flu, COVID-19 complacency risks lives Former ABC medical reporter Sophie Scott warns that complacency about COVID has set in. Public health messaging has faded, yet large numbers are still catching COVID, being hospitalised, or dying — COVID hasn’t gone away. archive.li/NccoV

I'm concerned that this has to be said like this

In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!

The five biggest meat and dairy producers are generating more methane than the largest oil and gas firms, according to a new report.

WATCH LIVE: Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley is holding the floor of the Senate to denounce authoritarianism.

"This year’s report card, the fifth in the series, is sobering: Not one of the 45 indicators assessed is on track to achieve its 2030 target" - @worldresources.bsky.social #StateOfClimateAction2025 #ClimateEmergency www.wri.org/insights/cli...

Business as usual = climate breakdown = economic and societal collapse

“Frequent transfers of migrants between states have disrupted medical treatments & allowed prescriptions & records to be lost in transit. Migrants have died of infections, Covid, injuries, uncontrolled diabetes & suicide” Nearly as many immigrants have died in 9 months as during entire Biden admin

There are two Portland, Oregons. I live in the real one. open.substack.com/pub/leahsott...

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

People no longer listen to medical professionals but, to their detriment, prefer influencers peddling snake oil. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/w...

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill. And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty.

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

People Say COVID Infections Are Worse This Year. "Razor sore throat, fevers, chills. Some social media users are claiming that their current COVID-19 infections are more severe than previous COVID infections; some even claim it’s the worst they’ve ever felt." Source: archive.md/DB2uM

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Use it as material, not as fuel to make materials / to make stuff go.