Shawn Kerwin

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

In a Win for Voters, Wisconsin Judge Withdraws Anti-Voting Order on Proof of Citizenship Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks — a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Tell City Hall: We need to green Toronto’s buildings Make your voice heard

Join me and @toenviro.bsky.social‬ and @stand.earth‬ in calling on Toronto's leaders to make sure our city's buildings are ready to take on climate change:
act.stand.earth/page/88238/d...

Translation: he has no idea how insurance works

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.

Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Americans deserve better than the eight Democratic Senators who voted on a promise, without a guarantee, to protect the Affordable Care Act.

A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what appears to be the world’s largest spider web, which researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

Voters want a Democratic Party that fights back against the forces that have rigged the system and made their lives more difficult.

A party that comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable —not a party that buckles and capitulates.

When will party leadership learn this lesson?

Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.

YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.

BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær

Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...

Ghislaine Maxwell Seeks Commutation From Trump, Democrats Claim Whistleblower documents indicate the Jeffrey Epstein associate is preparing a “commutation application” for Trump.

Whistleblower documents indicate the Jeffrey Epstein associate is preparing a “commutation application” for Trump.

We cannot afford a divided and weak opposition party when an authoritarian is invading our cities, terrorizing our communities, and corruptly self-enriching at the expense of the rest of us. We want to celebrate a Democratic Party that fights back. But after this latest surrender, the next step is primaries and new leadership. We get the party we demand, and we intend to demand one that fights.

Once the government reopens, precedent has already been set, if Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear in Adelita Grijalva, the newly elected representative from Arizona’s 7th District, someone else will. In Powell v. McCormack (1969), the

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Christian Nationalists:

QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?

ANSWER: Zero times.

The shutdown deal doesn't extend expiring health subsidies. What happens to them now? A legislative package that appears on track to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made privat...

A legislative package that appears on track to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history leaves out any clear resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits that have made private health insurance less costly for millions of Americans.
https://to.pbs.org/3XksAz5

Schumer’s done.
7 Democrats + 1 “independent” just caved to Republicans to end the shutdown.

After a winning week & a powerful #NoKingMarch, the establishment folded like paper.

Zero discipline. Zero courage. Zero leadership.

Schumer must resign

#DemocratsCaved #SchumerResign #AccountabilityNow

💯. It wasn't about just the ACA subsides—it was about those and … everything else.

I am proud that my legal team and I are leading the fight in this case against the Republican Party’s effort to throw out lawful ballots. Everyone needs to recognize this as the next step in the GOP plan to ban mail-in voting entirely and to eventually target early voting as well.

Time to swear in Adelita Grijalva, let her cast the final vote to release the Epstein files!

Since 2020, I have been fighting for mail-in voting and the GOP has been fighting against it. A critical court case is now going before the U.S. Supreme Court. I can assure you that I will be there fighting hard to ensure every lawful ballot counts.

ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.

Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

The only silver lining to last night’s cave.

Each dollar in SNAP benefits generates about $1.54 in economic activity, meaning the program acts as an effective economic stimulus. With around $100 billion in spending in FY 2024, this multiplier effect suggests SNAP contributes approximately $154 billion to the economy.

I think I'm going to watch "Inglorious Bastards" tonight. I love seeing Nazis get obliterated. 👍😁

Cave once, and history will make you pay twice.

And I'll say it again:

‪If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.

He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.

The American people need protection from those who seek to exploit the workers for every last penny.

Some decry this view as "socialism."

I call it fair.