Massive logging operation and compacted soil from "restoration" equipment in Packsaddle Grove, within Giant Sequoia National Monument | Photo by JMP staff, June 20, 2025

This is what California politicians - both GOP and Democratic - are calling "sequoia restoration":

(it's clear-cutting)

Planting a Future, Cultivating Consciousness 🌱
Proudly sharing our #SchoolOrchards initiative organized by #XRPeru

Each seed planted is an act of resistance and hope. Every student learning about #agroecology becomes an agent of change.

#ExtinctionRebellion #Peru
#AgroecologyEnAcción #EcoEscuela

Actual Abundance w/ Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, Paul Williams Featuring Isabella Weber, Malcolm Harris, and Paul Williams on Abundance. A debate and discussion of: the book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions of how we make the afford...

The Abundance debate & discussion you didn’t know you needed with @isabellamweber.bsky.social, Malcolm Harris, @pewilliams.bsky.social. The book; the discourse; the underlying economic and political questions; the actual but mystified capitalist social relations. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/actu...

Seabed-Mining Firm Faces Legal Questions Over Controversial Trump Policy

The International Seabed Authority is considering revoking The Metals Company's exploration permits after the company applied for a US permit to mine in international waters, which conflicts with the Law of the Sea treaty that bans seabed mining in international waters without a global agreement. 🌊

Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days | CNN Politics Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear...

Trump's running the country like one of his bankrupt businesses, but this time it's our jobs, savings, and global reputation taking the hit. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

Hawaiʻi lawmakers call for Big Oil to pay for rising insurance costs | Center for Climate Integrity First-in-the-nation resolution urges home insurance companies to limit rate increases by making fossil fuel industry pay up for damages from climate disasters

Hawai'i is now the first state to urge home insurance companies to limit rate increases by making fossil fuel industry pay up for damages from climate disasters.

climateintegrity.org/news/view/ha...

We all recognise smoking kills , that's why tobacco ads were banned in 2002 . Fossil fuels kill too & according to a study in BMJ , cause 5.1 million deaths per year .

Help me ban fossil fuel ads for good– sign my petition to force a Parliamentary debate govpetition.uk/700024

You might not see it on the news, but climate champs are racking up wins:

✅ Naperville, IL candidates swept city council to fight coal
✅ Susan Crawford secured WI’s SC pro-climate majority
✅ Barbara Buffaloe re-elected in Columbia, MO
✅ Our VA champs won both state rep special elections in January

70 year old Senator Tommy Tuberville can’t think of the word “triangle”

NPR host Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

NYC’s housing goals face uncertainty amid upheaval in Mayor Adams' administration Maria Torres-Springer has steered the city's housing achievements under the embattled mayor. Her departure raises questions about what happens next.

As first deputy mayor, Maria Torres-Springer is tasked with tackling the city's persistent housing crisis, which is marked by record-high rents and a historically low number of available vacant apartments.

Her planned departure raises questions about who will steer the city's housing efforts.

Hundreds of NYCers picketed Hakeem Jeffries office in the 🥶 to demand he stand up to Trump 🔥

🎯fight for working people, not billionaire donors
🎯protect immigrants and trans people
🎯stop cuts to social programs
🎯fight climate change and oil companies

And remove Eric Adams!!!

I'm going to need to do a whole explainer, but even though Senate Democrats are not promoting this fact, they are placing holds on some of Trump's nominees.

Senate rules were changed in 2013, 2017, and 2019 to make it easier for the majority party to overcome opposition for nominees.

Lots of people saying, "just wait until the consequences hit!"

I would remind you that last time Trump was president, he botched a pandemic & a million Americans died. As a result, he was reelected & Americans turned on their own public health agencies.

My great fear is that, to the average semi-connected US news consumer, the last few weeks just looks like "Trump does a bunch of bold, decisive stuff that leaves his critics running around & squawking."

Progressive commentator Sam Seder goes off on Democratic congressman Gerry Connolly for his media ineptitude

The Path to American Authoritarianism What comes after democratic breakdown.

"U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration, in the sense that it will cease to meet standard criteria for liberal democracy: full adult suffrage, free and fair elections, and broad protection of civil liberties."

Opinion | ‘Trump’s Thomas Cromwell’ Is Waiting in the Wings Russell Vought views American politics as a life-or-death struggle between the God-fearing right and a malevolent, secular left.

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"Vought is a key actor in the Trump administration’s efforts at executive aggrandizement. Vast expansions of executive power, and the concurrent elimination of checks and balances, are a primary mechanism by which democracies decline." - @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social

Mayor Adams said he would make NYC the "best place to raise a family."

Then he proposed cutting $112 million from 3K and closing five popular early childhood centers, creating chaos for young families.

He had no good answers.

8 Dems voted to confirm Wright yesterday:

@bennet.senate.gov (CO)
@gallego.senate.gov (AZ)
Maggie Hassan (NH)
@senatorheinrich.bsky.social (NM)
John Hickenlooper (CO)
Angus King (ME)
@lujan.senate.gov (NM)
@shaheen.senate.gov (NH)

Absolutely appalling. Somehow, even more damaging than a wrestling executive leading the agency.

Millions of children will be affected and harmed by this no matter who you voted for.

Trump makes up a hurricane's path

BREAKING: Trump nominates Sharpiegate stooge Neil Jacobs to head NOAA

email from: KamalaHarris.com subject: Please give us a chance to explain

lol

TN State Senate doing super normal things

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

A diagram showing how more warming results in extended drought conditions into nov, paired with peak winds Today, with t DERAS One or more images is missing alt text Extremely important new rapid study lust out, by Add alt text Flammable drought conditions are increasingly overlapping with peak Santa Ana winds Drought conditions Bet

Extremely important new rapid study just out, by @wwattribution.bsky.social @frediotto.bsky.social

It confirms our burning of fossil fuels injects a mad acceleration into the factors that blend to create disastrous fires -->>

www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

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A conference poster for "Envisioning a Livable Future".

Tonight, I'm kicking off John Carroll University's "Envisioning a Livable Future" virtual conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si.

Join Ben Sovacool, Nancy Tuchman and I as we discuss the current state of climate science & solutions.

Register here: www.jcu.edu/livable-future

Let the polluting commence!

Speaker Pelosi endorses Ben with the following statement: “For several years, I have had the honor and success to work with Ben Wikler from his thousands of events to save our health care at MoveOn to his winning tough elections in Wisconsin including Justice Janet Protasiewicz and Senator Tammy Baldwin. As a former State Chair and longtime DNC member, I have enormous respect for the DNC and the grassroots activism it engenders. It is with great confidence that I endorse Ben Wikler for Chair as the candidate best suited to lead us to a stronger DNC and many Democratic victories.”

It is the honor of a lifetime to receive Speaker Emerita Pelosi’s endorsement for a DNC Chair campaign that is surging at this decisive moment.

Together we will unite our party, fight through this moment of crisis, and win victories that make a difference in people’s lives.