Caleb Heeringa

My bereaved family: Can't believe he's gone. But now, with the power of technology, we can ask him what he thinks about current events

My distorted face glitching on a screen: ToyYotathon Is hERE

Wildfire smoke breaks MN PCA record with 6 days of air quality alerts Unhealthy air could be back numerous times before winter falls, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said.

hey did you hear sydney sweeney is a registered WILDFIRE SMOKE IS CURRENTLY LEADING TO RECORD AIR POLLUTION IN MINNESOTA

“As MAHA promises less food dye, MAGA gives us more pollution, as though anyone anywhere was clamoring for it.”

From 2020 to 2023, smoke PM2.5 concentrations were 2.6–6.7 times higher than the 2006–2019 average, with exposure periods twice as long.

The "cost of living crisis" is the climate crisis getting real, Part 286.

Measuring the impact of climate change on state and local governments’ fiscal health | Brookings Summaries of papers presented at the 2025 Municipal Finance Conference, detailing the consequences of wildfires, floods, and the transition away from coal.

"wildfire pollution drives up borrowing costs for hospitals, estimating that healthcare municipal bond issuers will have to pay $270 million in additional interest expenses in counties with above-average levels of wildfire smoke." www.brookings.edu/articles/mea...

Measuring the impact of climate change on state and local governments’ fiscal health | Brookings Summaries of papers presented at the 2025 Municipal Finance Conference, detailing the consequences of wildfires, floods, and the transition away from coal.

"A one standard deviation increase in future wildfire risk leads to a 14 basis point increase in school district bond spreads, reflecting higher borrowing costs for local governments as a result of climate change." www.brookings.edu/articles/mea...

Everyone who thinks that voters are responding to their own lived experience needs to explain this graph.

Climate change: Ban fossil fuel advertising says UN chief - BBC News The UN leader's call comes as new data highlights the worrying pace of global warming.

did you know the u.n. secretary general has literally called for all countries to ban fossil fuel advertising

Germany’s new willingness to lead Europe’s anti-immigration front removes one key obstacle preventing European countries from enacting policy proposals that were until recently deemed beyond the pale. Those include plans to deport migrants to third countries and to process asylum claims outside the EU, copying the U.K.’s failed Rwanda scheme, which Merz previously praised as “something we could emulate.”

Absolutely revolting that this is becoming normalized as a policy
www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Not that I'm a paragon of masculinity but I'm 40 and have spent years thinking really hard about being a dad and a man, I've done tons of therapy and have graduate training in gender studies/history, and I'm still learning new ways that I've been conditioned to be shitty. It goes deep.

Me three months ago:

Okay, *now you can start to worry about data being manipulated.

this is a disgrace and a national shame

US undocumented farm workers feel ‘hunted like animals’ amid Trump’s immigration raids Ice raids have caused workers to lose hours and income, and forced them into hiding at home, according to interviews

for the unawares, monthly jobs reports explicitly exclude farm workers. so feel free to also mentally account for the impact of ICE hunting down agricultural laborers like runaway slaves

Lee, S., Byrne, M. P., Loikith, P. C., & O’Dell, C. W. (2024). Zonal contrasts of the tropical Pacific climate predicted by a global constraint. Climate Dynamics, 62(1–2), 229–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-023-06741-7

Lots of interesting stuff buried in the DOE report.

For example, here's a reference that doesn't exist:

Not at all a coincidence that this type of clean-energy comms - which presents a positive case in forceful terms rather than trying to dance around the issue - is coming almost exclusively from non-US firms. The comparison tells us a lot about why the IRA failed. More below:

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A True American Hero emerges, right when we need it most.

The bill for climate change is coming due, and it’s threatening to bankrupt state and local governments. Big Oil, which spent decades lying to the public about their products’ contribution to the problem, is pushing for legal immunity to escape all accountability.

Where does the climate movement go from here? In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity.

If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

Maybe 10 years ago: Technology is great and makes my life easier in many ways
Now (holding a big caveman club): We must destroy machine

Sell low, buy high*, art of the deal.

*The price wasn't that high?

Just another day where the Director of National Intelligence opines that I must be guilty of something for not posting on X.

This is not normal. This is what it looks like when the Trump administration is targeting their political opponents.

I love imagining a world in which Trump illegally takes power for a third term but follows the law in every other respect.

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)

Why spend money on free agents when you can corner the market on Calebs?

Motherfucking wind farms…

Ichiro Saved One Last Surprise For Cooperstown | Defector A Hall of Fame case does not get built in the same way, or out of the same things, as a legend. There are plenty of Hall of Famers who managed to build compelling cases, in the methodical and accumula...

I wrote about Ichiro as a player, a legend, and a stand-up comic. I don't imagine it'll spoil anything for me to say here that I think he's the coolest and most interesting baseball player I've ever seen. defector.com/ichiro-saved...