Beth Chajes

An El Niño is brewing And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life)

billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

bsky.app/profile/nash... We must remain outraged at the inhumanity of this Regime. THIS is our defining moment as a Nation. We choose the legacy we leave for our Children.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

CBS doesn’t want you to watch this, so of course you should!

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

courtesy of the same Trumpian math that promises a 1500% reduction in prescription drug prices...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

@volts.wtf A friend who's a librarian specializing in kid-lit said that they broadly classify books into "mirror" books or "window" books. Mirror books reflect you and what you know, while window books are a peek inside a world unlike yours. Ideally kids get a mix of both.

Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.

Delaware CCL congratulates @coons.senate.gov, the original Democratic sponsor of the bipartisan PROVE IT Act. We advocated on behalf of the bill in 2023 and 2024 and are thrilled to see major portions have become law!

E&E News: How Congress came to approve a long-shot carbon trade bill Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer kept a “cone of silence” around his "PROVE IT Act" as it was tucked into a spending package.

Language from the PROVE IT Act was included in a funding package that is now law!

"It's like so many legislative accomplishments. It starts years before it's accomplished," Sen. Cramer told @eenews.bsky.social.

CCL is part of the story of those years... 🧵 subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Sacrificing the health of your children to own the libs and because nobody is the boss of you

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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Stop Letting Republicans Off the Hook for the ICE Killings The GOP has a choice: use their power to force change or own the chaos and the killings.

The killings in Minnesota and ICE terrorizing American cities wouldn’t be possible without the acquiescence of John Thune, Mike Johnson, and the rest of the GOP.

Everyone, especially the media, has to stop letting them off the hook.
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great article. very helpful info - here is a "fun" fact to encourage reading
"in fact, if you look over the last decade, the arrest rate of CBP officers and Border Patrol agents (.5%) has been HIGHER than the arrest rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States (.4%)."

Joining the chorus of folks recommending this article.

It’s not just that they are murdering people who are peacefully protesting, it’s that they then stand in front of the cameras and slander the victims by telling us that what we see on the videos didn’t happen.

Yes.

Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration.

Congress can:
- Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage)
- Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes
- Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same
- Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction

It can be done.

#minneapolis

Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here’s how. Feel like you're at the North Pole at the moment? There's good reason for that.

Yes, climate change can supercharge a winter storm. Here’s how.

Opinion | The Hidden Risk to the Housing Market

This is the cascade I warn of: climate risk crashes insurance markets, which crashes mortgage markets, which crashes home values, tanking the economy.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Never forget, Greenland is a climate story. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

From 8 days ago

e360.yale.edu/digest/china...

China has more wind power than any other country 🙄

I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:

Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...

Whitehouse and DelBene Reintroduce Carbon Border Adjustment Bill to Boost Domestic Manufacturers and Tackle Climate Change - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Congresswoman Suzan K. DelBene (D-WA-01) today reintroduced the Clean Competition Act, legislation aimed at making American companies more...

CCL applauds the reintroduction of the Clean Competition Act from @whitehouse.senate.gov & @repdelbene.bsky.social!

The bill "would give domestic companies a step up in the global marketplace while lowering emissions at home & abroad," Sen Whitehouse says.

www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release...

I often talk to folks who never call or write the people they voted for. Just because you helped vote someone into an office doesn't mean they represent you. It means you agreed with them enough to vote for them. But, they have no idea if they agree with you, unless you tell them what you think.