Adrienne Greve

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

Terrifying example of complying in advance

In Portland, naked bike riders protest Trump’s military plans Organizers called an “emergency” edition of the annual ride to bring attention to the “ongoing and escalating harm” to immigrants and Indigenous people.

Keep it weird Portland, from blow up costumes to naked bike rides. I love it!

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Polanco!

They are; however dismissing state roles in energy policy negates it. I also realize that being CA, I live in a very different situation than many states. The rise in CCA/CCE & state RPS combines to make energy GHG reduction even faster.

States can do that as well.

Stressful, painful, …

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

We watched the Lilith Fair documentary tonight. It was great… such fond memories.

It was also infuriating, we have learned so little in the last 25 years.

Reading "On Tyranny" several years ago was a fast, very sobering read. It is a good read, but terrifying as it very clearly lays out what we are seeing occur in the US.

This! I have huge ethical misgivings about it and know many students are using it. I may try screens down discussion in classes this year. Who knows… we can chat tomorrow (in person, on campus… a beautiful silver lining to the end of summer.

Free Speech and Me Speech A helpful distinction

Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

LOVE the tie.

A year ago, I talked with junior faculty at a conference. They had been called by their deans & asked preemptively scrub their CVs & article titles due state legislative pressure/fear. This was about DEI, but climate is here now.

Great idea! Love that you’re moving in!

However, I give you two years in SLO until you need to store wine. It comes in gifts from students, the university, colleagues, you name it… there is no escaping unless you start giving it away or develop a drinking problem 🥴.

California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.

I’ve ranted in class for 15+ years about the solar potential & preventing of evaporative losses. They have now finished a pilot!

www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

Garnet fire burns into grove of giant sequoias; several behemoths are in flames A fire burning in Fresno County has reached the McKinley grove of giant sequoias. Several trees are in flames and specially trained firefighters are on their way to put them out.

A fire raging through the Sierra National Forest has burned through part of a grove of giant sequoias. @lilaseidman.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

I saw this today. Now we need one about water (same !@#$ story).

Confronting Trump’s Department of Energy Climate Deceit (action item w/deadline) On July 29, the Trump Department of Energy released a deceitful, truthiness-laden broadsheet at odds with basic climate science with significant distortion of what has and is happening in the real-…

Over 85 experts and scientists worked collaboratively to dissect climate-science deceit from Trump's Department of Energy.

A perspective ... and call to action (with a minor item of amusement?).

getenergysmartnow.com/2025/09/02/c...

NEW: A devastating before and after montage of Rasheed Street in Gaza City.

Put together by local photojournalist, Motaz Azaiza.

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day.

Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

The whole thread!
Yes, this is the UK, but the ‘lived outcomes’ of many LGBT+ laws in many places (even those intended to ‘help’) are not understood or realistically evaluated.

This did not age well (where’s the lie).

She knew & told us.

Tryin’ something… tho not always with success.

I know a few that have given them all a sporting go over a decade+. It’s a lot, even as a spectator.

Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center Japanese American groups criticized the construction of a new immigrant detention center in Texas at a military base that was used during World War II to imprison people of Japanese descent.

"National Security" was the same argument our government used 80 years ago to justify the immoral internment of people of Japanese descent at this very military base.

It was wrong then, it’s wrong now.

Absolutely! I teach a green I infrastructure class this fall where 80% of the labs are field trips to visit projects. I love this class…

This seems similar, but more/better. Students are going to FLOCK to such a class. I know the planners will.

Shoulders can’t do slings anymore, but I’ve used Ortleib backpacks for years. They last and keep ‘must stay dry’ things dry.