We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

If you enjoy orange skies from wildfires, good news: Since we're still unwilling to take on car culture, we'll eventually turn to "geoengineering" to try to prevent a total climate catastrophe. The most likely form of geoengineering to take off first: Stratospheric sulfur dioxide injection.

It’s tragic that CO₂ doesn’t look and smell like wildfire smoke.

still thinking about how Hochul pushed a law that would legalize more housing in Long Island and in response all of the chud republican politicians started talking like woke grad students

Reminder: It's been a very long fight versus very awful people, but New York celebrates the community win on 31st Street this weekend:

The Chevy Tahoe is causing a climate change disaster in Tahoe, the Toyota Tundra is melting the tundra, the Dodge Durango led to drought in Durango, the GMC Denali is melting glaciers on Denali, the Kia Sedona is causing record heat in Sedona great product marketing, TBH

Any east coasters new to wildfire smoke, pro-tip: If you've been on fence about a heat pump, get one. Even if it's not cold/hot, you can run the fan & they'll filter your air. These are early days of Canadian wildfires. We're not driving any less, and there are billions of trees in the boreal.

What an embarrassment to everyone who works for this company.

For over a decade, a small cohort of us were lonely voices warning that the hundreds of billions of dollars going to subsidize electric cars and incentivize people to buy them weren't going to work. We were summarily dismissed, accused of being Luddites, told we don't understand how great EVs are.

There is a deep irony to the fact that the beating heart of production of the most-polluting passenger vehicles on earth -- Michigan, Ohio, Indiana -- is now choking on the smoke from fires caused by the most-polluting vehicles on earth. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

Even more ridiculous is that the more progressive the city (e.g. Los Angeles), the equation flips to "cars get free space on the street, humans get high rent, but if they can't pay that high rent, they can live on the street -- as long as they don't interfere with the cars." American cities, man.

i feel like people fail to realize free street parking itself is a form of subsidy for both suburbia and also carbon-intensive land-use

total car-brain victory (this is in response to a proposal NYC have less free street parking) do people not get the fact that free parking itself boosts car use over other transport modes?

I get a lot of heat on the other website for warning Waymo activists about stuff like this. Anyway, this was predictable. Running a large-scale science experiment without consent of the participants was always a fraught idea. techcrunch.com/2026/07/08/f...

SUVs and trucks are the fifth-largest source of climate pollution on earth and there are over a half-billion of them globally, out of a global fleet of 2 billion. Unless the poster is implying that 500 million SUV/truck drivers -- most of them American -- are the richest 1%, this post is bullshit.

The mayor of San Francisco is tight with Silicon Valley, but he has clearly lost patience with Waymo. He's now turning to California leaders, asking them to tighten regs after Waymo created a traffic disaster on July 4th. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/w...

In the last two days, I've had two instances of drivers straight up *not seeing me.* Me, a 5'11" guy riding a 9-ft long, tomato-red cargo bike, with two kids in the bucket wearing hi-viz helmets. I'm beginning to think the "cyclist came out of nowhere" problem is on the drivers' end.

Violent drivers, especially in progressive cities, routinely bully city officials into killing safe streets measures that would prevent them from speeding on the basis of -- get this -- they think going faster saves fuel & helps the climate. Even worse: Our cowardly elected officials fall for it!

🔥TILLIS (R): “I’ve heard a lot of talk about DOGE savings… Give me 1 example. I love the IDEA of DOGE— but not the DOGE shit we’re picking up bc people did it wrong.” Trump’s budget stooge @russvought gets bipartisan smoke from @SenThomTillis @SenTinaSmith & @Sen_Alsobrooks

get in losers, we're gonna save a bunch of lives from Berkeley NIMBYs

Boston Mayor Wu is responsible for death of one of Boston's top safe streets advocates. The cowardice at City Halls across the US has to be bullied out of office. City leaders should not be helping kill their own residents out of fear of carbrained jackasses. mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/14/w...

There are too many Elon stans & AV fanatics on the other site to have a straight discourse, but phenomenon of parents getting fed up w/ traffic violence and bullying city halls to enact safe streets is a national story. We're now at the phase where they take over city hall. Next phase: Save lives.

The absurdity of the Hopkins saga is what radicalized me and got me interested in engaging Berkeley politics in the first place. I’m running for D1 and safe streets is a core priority of mine. Climate, community, public safety and personal health: bike lanes are the way 💪🚲 Rossforberkeley.Com

I wonder how many of the folks blaming data centers for the end of the world drive an SUV that gets less than 25 miles per gallon. Because in the U.S., that describes ~ 65% of all people. Carbrain isn't just about violence. It's also about blaming others for your lifestyle choices.

This is basically as close as we're gonna get to the Confederate traitors saying "As long as Democratic governors don't set up militias to stop our brownshirts, we're gonna keep giving it to their residents good and hard." Wonder what happens next.

Damn, I am impressed. The City of Berkeley just hired an *actual* safe streets expert to run its public works department. Maybe we really can have good things. Kudos to @berkeleyca.gov, I would not have expected this from you.

Biggest failure of capitalism in my lifetime has been how the socialist car salesmen grifter convinced a bunch of billionaire climate philanthropists in California that his shitty cars would solve climate change, picked their pockets for his first few billion, then converted those into junk bonds.

🚨SpaceX bond yields rocket towards junk www.ft.com/content/3a02...

ugh, California Assigned Auto Risk Plan (CAARP): California like all US states has low minimum coverage, a driver can kill you and only pay $30k. Some drivers are so dangerous insurers won't cover that. The state of California should take their cars, not subsidize driving with minimum coverage!!!

If Americans ever discovered the modern world, it would utterly transform our lives. I wish there were some kind of international program to help ailing backwaters like us get out of our under-developed stasis and embrace modernity. Alas, UAW gotta build those F-150s I guess.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

oil has succumbed to the quantum observer effect, if you don't observe it it acts like a commodity but if you do it turns into a marauding band of chaos monkeys

Wrong, the Upper West and East sides of Manhattan are about to no longer be covered in the trash that is the result of massively subsidizing the lifestyles of a handful of drivers.

Mother Jones has been the ~ only publication on the left that is willing to do the kind of honest, introspective reporting that could have prevented the forces of NIMBY slopulism from gaining traction in left circles. So, you can't blame MoJo for what's happening, or what comes next. Subscribe.

People who've legislatively done more to block housing bc they *claim* to be anti-corporate but really they're protecting the views and housing value of their core constituents—Aaron Peskin and Connie being prime examples—are why rents and housing purchases are so out of control in SF.

In San Francisco (and maybe everywhere) the labels of "moderate" and "progressive" have become so useless as currently applied by the local media.

The mystery isn't that hard to solve. Connie Chan is against transit and parks and housing. Teachers aside, her labor support mostly comes from those unions trying to block modular offsite construction. She's best understood as a west side NIMBY, not a progressive. sfstandard.com/opinion/2026...

Ride In Peace, Louisa.

The OP and the comments are a cesspool of violent driver cope and apologia, only, leftistly.

Someone who received a speeding ticket is more of a danger to society than someone whose only infraction was being undocumented.

Steve Hilton says he’d extradite California doctors who prescribe abortion pills to states with bans. Xavier Becerra says he’d refuse. Democratic lawmakers want to take that choice out of governors’ hands for good. kffhealthnews.org/courts/shiel...

it's ... raining?

A question for all the serious politics and democracy knowers: What are the *actual* remedies for a President who operates outside Constitutional law, a Congress controlled by Confederate traitors who hate the Constitution, & Supreme Court that adjudicates in favor of Confederate principles? ELI5.

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

Curious to hear Mitch McConnell's comments on the passing of Lindsey Graham.

“scheduled”

If you're looking for a form of transportation that can run 100% on solar power ... This is it.

We're in the midst of a transportation revolution. www.twincities.com/2026/07/11/c...

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read: