christine e. norrie

NYC! TURN OUT!

Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm Opponents of a natural gas pipeline approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York noted that the project would benefit a client of the prominent law firm where her husband works.

Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables.

Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine.

Is this why?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

So is ethical AI possible? I say no, at least not in its current form or at this tenuous time in history. To use it is to forsake the value of work and the people who do it while putting money in the pockets of those who are active or complicit in the global dismantling of democracy and human rights

A man walks along a muddy street where cars are piled up in Bacayan in Cebu City, Philippines, on Wednesday after being swept away in floods brought by typhoon Kalmaegi. Photograph: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters

“Either we decide to change by choice, together, or change will be imposed by tragedy. We can change. But we must do it together”

— Andre Correa do Lago, #COP30 president, in a letter to negotiators at the start of the UN meeting

HT @coveringclimatenow.org

Seeds of Resistance, With Vivien Sansour On A People's Climate: “If you want to support Palestine, get free.”

Palestinian seed saver and conservationist Vivien Sansour explains why environmental annihilation is a weapon of war — and why climate movements must speak clearly about genocide.

Hear the latest episode of A People's Climate for @thenation.com.

Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...

BREAKING: We will also have WHISTLES and WHISTLE ZINES to distribute at this event! Sign up and come on by on Saturday, NYC! It's gonna be awesome! www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

Google getting rid of their “Don’t be evil” slogan should have tipped us off

A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals Gmail, Outlook, and Apple got complacent and took their eye off the ball. Then along came HEY.

hey email isn’t free, but it is good! www.hey.com

there are alternatives to google shit; here’s just some of them: www.libreoffice.org

ditch your google shit!

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Look, I know we’re all rightfully pissed about the current Epstein stuff, but you should really set aside some time and read this piece. There’s a reason “mitigating the effects of climate change” is one of my key policy positions.

Stop lying to people.

Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

today, a federal judge ordered the release of 615 people wrongfully abducted by ICE / CBP from june to october (yay!). as if they haven't already been through enough trauma and violence, they each still have to pay a $1500 bond (aka ransom & extortion) (boo!).

donate here twd the $900K+ in bond:

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The most valuable thing we have in the store is not Spawn # 1; it's our community!

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What if instead of Cyber Monday (aka Daddy Bezos Day), we did a Support Indie Media Monday?

What are your favorite indie publications? Who are some of your favorite freelance and indie reporters and commentators?

Can we make this a thing?

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

You love to see it: “Seven years ago, left-leaning politicians opposed a plan that would have given incentives to Amazon to build a headquarters in the same neighborhood.”

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.

People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?

Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill

Hands Off NYC Day of Community Action - NYCLU

Hands off immigrants.
Hands off our neighbors.
Hands off New York City.

Join us this Saturday, November 15th, as we canvass key neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens to ensure our neighbors know their rights for potential interactions with ICE or the National Guard.

Sign up now 👇👇

I have a legit, honest question: has the Trump admin given any reason why they don't want the Epstein files released? Even a flimsy one about protecting the victims, national security, whatever? You know, something other than "don't release these files that prove I'm guilty because then I'm guilty"?

blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Interesting how the line is, now that we have legalized sports gambling across the board there's no putting that genie back in the bottle versus sure we can end the hemp industry with one line in an unrelated bill.

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country values can change over time. Sometimes, though, there’s a sort of cognitive delay between the country you think you are in, and the country you’ve actually become. For example, you can keep selling yourself, to foreigners, as the country of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, and luring busloads of tourists to Stratford-upon-Avon and Bath, and put a statue of George Orwell in front of the BBC, and imagine yourself a cultured and literate nation, which the rest of the world admires for its devotion to the written word – but if you then chronically underfund your cultural institutions, and treat your cultural workers with contempt, many people will suspect you of being full of it. And as the decades pass – and fewer and fewer Shakespeares and Austens and Orwells emerge from your little island – even more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Harvard grads can call the Harvard Alumni Association and politely let them know they won't donate to the school as long as Summers is working there. Their number is 617-496-0559.

Kinda seems like nation states should be paying #Indigenous people to care for the lands and waters.

Instead Indigenous people are pleading to do it for free.

This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline. After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...

NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.

Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says 10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström

It might be true that the world needs to remove ten billion tonnes of CO₂ from the atmosphere every year but it’s never going to happen for many different reasons: technical, financial, social, environmental, governance, etc. If we don’t reduce CO₂ emissions, we’re screwed. That’s it.