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Host of The Fenton Forecast podcast, author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons from 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator davidfentonactivist.com

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How Safe Are Nuclear Power Plants? A new history reveals that federal regulators consistently assured Americans that the risks of a massive accident were “vanishingly small”—even when they knew they had insufficient evidence to prove i...

www.newyorker.com/science/elem...

11.02.2026 13:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The are building far far more solar and wind. You forgot to mention that.

10.02.2026 22:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide

How do you spell CORRUPTION especially the OILY SLIMY kind? A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide

04.02.2026 22:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

It’s always good when the courts recognize what every single other person in the universe understands about the DOE CWG.

A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/c...

30.01.2026 23:23 — 👍 151    🔁 57    💬 4    📌 1

These documents alone should end Donald's presidency. I mean, how much more evidence is required to prove he was up to his beady buzzard eyeballs in Epstein's human trafficking crimes?

31.01.2026 15:58 — 👍 80    🔁 38    💬 7    📌 0

Tom Homan thinks it's a shame that people are blowing whistles at his agents as they murder people in the street.
Um, Tom, the whistles aren't the problem.

29.01.2026 16:24 — 👍 169    🔁 59    💬 16    📌 3
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Data Center Power Play Unmitigated data center growth puts the public at risk of higher utility bills and public health costs.

@ucs.org shows we can power data centers with clean energy. And better.

29.01.2026 04:58 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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For Trump, the Truth in Minneapolis Is What He Says It Is The Trump team has advanced one-sided narratives to justify each of the killings, even when bystander video shows something else entirely.

News Analysis: Without waiting for facts, the Trump administration has advanced one-sided narratives to justify the killings of protesters in Minneapolis by federal agents, even when bystander video shows something else entirely.

25.01.2026 22:05 — 👍 724    🔁 256    💬 170    📌 53
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Michigan Is Suing Oil Companies For 'Suppressing' EVs The State of Michigan alleges in a lawsuit that BP, Chevron, Exxon and other oil giants have been a 'cartel' that's 'suppressed innovation' around EVs.

The state alleges that BP, Chevron, Exxon and others have acted as a "cartel" that's "suppressed innovation" around EVs.

insideevs.com/news/785388/...

25.01.2026 15:25 — 👍 113    🔁 20    💬 8    📌 3

Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)

25.01.2026 15:18 — 👍 9832    🔁 1961    💬 188    📌 104
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Bookmark that Vice President and future presidential candidate JD Vance retweeted a post that said Alex Pretti was “an assassin who tried to murder federal agents.”

25.01.2026 13:50 — 👍 6035    🔁 2032    💬 334    📌 136

Arrest the murderers. TODAY.

24.01.2026 16:18 — 👍 123    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 0
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“IT’S COLD, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?” is a common response to winter weather. But in certain patterns, climate change enhances the presence of cold in the US. This is one of those times. Here’s how… 1/

24.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 72    🔁 29    💬 5    📌 8

To repeat: It is highly improbable that I would agree with Bill Kristol.

I agree with him 100%. ICE has become the gestapo. They need to go.

Just saw a Minneapolis protestor yelling at ICE, near shooting site, "We will not forgive you." Correct.

24.01.2026 16:28 — 👍 1090    🔁 277    💬 37    📌 10

We can actually predict polar vortex events now by monitoring Ted Cruz flight patterns

23.01.2026 00:38 — 👍 3359    🔁 725    💬 89    📌 24

"A ‘Perfect Storm’: Extreme Winter Weather, Bitter Cold, and Climate Change" | My Jan 2018 commentary for @climaterealityproject.org: www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/perfect...

23.01.2026 17:06 — 👍 57    🔁 27    💬 4    📌 4

REMINDER: The Trump regime aren't just fascists. They are petrofascists. #ClimateSky

23.01.2026 02:02 — 👍 27    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 2
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Here’s how to fix America’s immigration system. Trump’s path is not the solution | Kenneth Roth A grand bargain on immigration could address problems with both the old approach and Trump’s new approach

A statute of limitations for immigrants working hard here for years makes so much sense @kennethroth.bsky.social

21.01.2026 15:43 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

“We’re on the road to becoming the last petro state,” Princeton prof Michael Oppenheimer says. “All of this is a picture of a country that not just isn’t interested in fighting climate change but wants to cause more climate change."

20.01.2026 15:38 — 👍 44    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 0
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A Nuclear Free New York The first of a series of “Forums for a Nuclear-Free New York” was held last week following New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposition for an expansion

Why new nuclear is obsolete and useless in New York or elsewhere, regardless of how much money is poured into it..

www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/20/a...

20.01.2026 15:42 — 👍 30    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 3
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Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

19.01.2026 01:40 — 👍 16530    🔁 4008    💬 32    📌 253
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How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change

How Wall Street Decided to Destroy the Economy and Insurance Markets with Extreme Weather. Suicide investing! #climate

17.01.2026 18:23 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It Could Get Messy.

TRUMPOLLUTION Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It Could Get Messy. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...

16.01.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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BP to take hit of up to $5bn on green energy as it refocuses on fossil fuels Energy company also under pressure from worse oil trading performance and weaker oil prices

BPetroleum to refocus on destroying prosperity and health with extreme weather. #climate

15.01.2026 14:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Greenland Matters for a Warming World

Trump’s Secret Plan: Burn Venezuelan oil to melt Greenland. #climate

14.01.2026 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We all live in the red mountains now.

14.01.2026 14:53 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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A Stealth Heat Tax Has Already Cost Americans $1 Trillion A hotter planet is making life more expensive. There’s the big-ticket stuff, of course, like the property losses and higher insurance premiums that come with supercharged natural disasters. But a deep...

Temperature changes alone cut US incomes by 12%, between 2000-2019, per a new study - on top of disaster and insurance losses.

Call it a stealth heat tax

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

14.01.2026 13:22 — 👍 85    🔁 63    💬 4    📌 14
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The other ‘insane’ thing about Trump and Venezuela | Will Bunch Newsletter Plus, Newsom’s ‘28 campaign feels DOA before it starts.

The most insane thing about Trump's Venezuela follies isn't even that his war is illegal, immoral and destabilizing

Dirty oil from VZ would poison the struggling, mostly Black "cancer belt" of South TX and create more climate disasters. And for what?

My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

13.01.2026 16:54 — 👍 162    🔁 78    💬 11    📌 2
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2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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