Reposted by Adam Powersisaac @sevier.io · 14/10/2026Update: this book is real "kill your darlings and embrace systems change and difficult organizing" material. I found the part about the origin of think tanks to be especially useful, and it had me thinking about the founding of "public policy" schools as well. 46817 0
Reposted by Adam PowersChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Every good day is a very gay day. 0163 0
Reposted by Adam PowersYale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 12/10/2026In this interview, @amywestervelt.bsky.social talks us through the origins of PR with appearances by Big Oil, Citizens United, and more: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/the-...yaleclimateconnections.orgThe story of how big business began shaping our understanding of reality » Yale Climate ConnectionsAn interview with Amy Westervelt, climate reporter and author of ‘Brought to You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Public, and Broke Democracy' 01815 0
Reposted by Adam PowersDrilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The Drilled newsletter is back, along with a new and improved website! This week, @amywestervelt.bsky.social asks: Why does everyone talking about the climate movement retreating leave out the part about it being under attack? drilled.media/newsletter/t...drilled.mediaThe Climate Movement Isn't in Retreat, It's Under Attack...and It's Time to Fight Back | Newsletter - DrilledIn 2020, a source shared a presentation with me from an internal branding workshop they’d been asked to attend for bp. It was fascinating for a number of reasons, not least because it indicated that t... 33517 0
Reposted by Adam PowersChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Nobel Laureate Anne Carson, with one of my all-time favorite opening lines and one of my all-time favorite closing lines. 5372107 0
Reposted by Adam PowersAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The perfection of this. 12882136 0
Reposted by Adam PowersPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anne Carson! “What are we doing here, and why are our hearts invisible?”- Anne Carson, The Anthropology of Water 421938 0
Reposted by Adam PowersNobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” 11836417 0
Reposted by Adam PowersClimate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026For #WeekWithoutDriving, we published a report showing that car dependence is a burden for people across the US, draining household budgets and leaving drivers feeling trapped. A few key findings with @dataforprogress.org: 197 0
Reposted by Adam PowersEnergy and Policy Institute @energyandpolicy.org · 06/10/2026We built a new tracker that maps the documented ties between monopoly investor-utility companies and the groups that advocate on their behalf in Washington, D.C.energyandpolicy.orgUtility trade association trackerSee which investor-owned utilities fund and help lead the trade associations and think tanks influencing Congress and federal agencies. 196 0
Reposted by Adam PowersALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"I learned to read him as leaves do with air: minute changes, living turning toward or away from harm. I’d feel them rise veins flushing toward the surface heat rising, capillaries swelling..." —Alexia Cousineau alocasia.org/2026/08/11/a...alocasia.orgAlexia Cousineau :: “Outgrowth” – ALOCASIA 074 0
Reposted by Adam PowersTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You know good and damn well we want to see this fluffy little big head! Awwww. 1040034 0
Reposted by Adam PowersClimate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Out today: Our new report shows that car dependence is a burden for people across the US, draining household budgets and leaving drivers feeling trapped. Key stats below 🧵 climateandcommunity.org/research/dri... 1146 0
Reposted by Adam PowersChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 25/09/2026to queer or not to queer. no. the question is, how to queer further, queer the queerest 1287 0
Reposted by Adam PowersChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Cover reveal + preorder link for my very gaysian book of craft essays!! IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD out December 1st 💫 🐇 25419 0
Reposted by Adam PowersALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Two men meet in the middle of a secret, hide behind the bushes. The trees, who see no deviance, offer their trunks for cover." —Grant Chemidlin, “Cruising” alocasia.org/2023/03/20/g...alocasia.orgGrant Chemidlin :: “Cruising,” “Portrait of a Plant on Fire,” and “Sally (When There’s Nothing Left to Sell)” – ALOCASIA 066 0
Reposted by Adam PowersRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026may we all be sealed for love, for showing up, for liberation, for truth + for joy. ♥️ gmar tov 229550 0
Reposted by Adam PowersIrish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good for Sally Rooney and all the other people who objected to it. "Data centre opposed by author Sally Rooney has planning overturned on climate concerns." www.irishtimes.com/environment/...irishtimes.comData centre opposed by author Sally Rooney has planning overturned on climate concernsUS firm had chosen Mayo because of electricity constraints around Dublin 015132 0
Reposted by Adam PowersPM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"They heard consistently that USAID’s withdrawal led to immediate backsliding on environmental standards and accountability in the countries where it had worked. Without the agency’s backing, the responses said, government officials lost support for pushing reforms in their own countries."insideclimatenews.orgHow the End of USAID Eroded Global Environmental Goals - Inside Climate NewsAn analysis finds the cancellation of $1 billion in annual funding weakened protections around the world and undermined U.S. interests. 099 0
Reposted by Adam PowersRebecca John @rebeccajohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What they want is to pollute with impunity. This brilliant investigation by @juliakane.bsky.social @fieldnotes.co exposes the oil & gas campaign to derail regulation of the climate superpollutant, methane.fieldnotes.co‘And Not Much More’: Inside the Oil & Gas Industry’s Campaign Against…Fieldnotes is a watchdog group that investigates the oil and gas industry. 163 0
Reposted by Adam PowersRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Oh, Annie Dillard. ❤️🔥 "At a certain point you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself & wait, listening. After a time you hear it: there is nothing there. There is nothing but those things only, (cot'd) 313827 0
Reposted by Adam PowersSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Today on #VibeCheckPod, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains what’s really going on with these so-called AI whistleblowers. Also, I let the chopper spray on Robert Kraft, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Jasmine Crockett and Chris Brown. Also, I read a lovely poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen.open.spotify.comThe AI Apocalypse Is a DistractionVibe Check · Episode 1026668 0
Reposted by Adam PowersTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026What a lovely conversation I had with you all and a breath of fresh air. thank you for having me. 419536 0
Reposted by Adam Powersthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026rip annie dillard 1134431142 0
Reposted by Adam PowersRebecca I. Allen @rebeccaallen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"But if I can bear the nights, the days are a pleasure. I walk out; I see something, some event that would otherwise have been utterly missed and lost; or something sees me, some enormous power brushes me with its clean wing, and I resound like a beaten bell." ~Annie Dillard Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 051 0
Reposted by Adam PowersAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...themorningnews.orgAnnie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning NewsWriters aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage. 1629966 0
Adam Powers @adampowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there." —Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 031 0
Reposted by Adam PowersEmily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026NEWS: I'm thrilled to be launching Point Source with the one and only @rebleber.bsky.social today! We'll be working to expand the too-small ecosystem of climate accountability reporting. We've already got two new stories up on the site -- please check them out and subscribe! 65823 0
Reposted by Adam PowersAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie. 17971157 0
Reposted by Adam PowersClimate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026NEW: If you live in the US, your electricity might cost an additional $376/year by 2030. Why? Utilities are passing on $1.4 trillion in costs—largely to deal with AI expansion and climate disasters—to customers over the next five years. stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/the-bl... 196 0
Reposted by Adam PowersAdrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026poetry reading 071 0
Reposted by Adam PowersDayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action @joindayenu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It takes grit and grace to keep taking climate action. Let's add some humor, music, joy, and connection to that stew. 🎉 Join us TONIGHT/ Tuesday for live performances of comedy and music and teachings. 9/15, 8pm ET/ 5pm PT secure.everyaction.com/wpuK0wx8VkyT... @environmentalvoter.bsky.social 073 0
Reposted by Adam Powersjae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 14/09/2026who is ready for… DATA CENTER OIL SPILLS!patch.comData Center Spills 5,500 Gallons Of Diesel Into Secaucus CreekThis happened Friday night at Equinix data center, which is located on Hartz Way and is expanding. 17456238 0
Reposted by Adam PowersOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the AI industry, a campaign organisation has warned...a survey of the 10 biggest manufacturers found most had plans to increase production." www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.com‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warnBig manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres 12332215 0
Reposted by Adam PowersRewiring America @rewiringamerica.bsky.social · 14/09/2026When farms embrace agrivoltaics, plants and people get shade, and power gets made. That’s a real win-win. Here’s how solar panels are powering this third-generation farmer’s land: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comOn a Colorado farm, solar panels bring shade for plants, power – and cash: in picturesMore than 3,000 solar panels power Jack’s Solar Garden, cool the land and help it turn a profit 01711 0
Reposted by Adam PowersAdrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"In the beauty of poems are the tuft and final applause of science." - Walt Whitman, Preface to the First Edition of "Leaves of Grass" 062 0
Reposted by Adam PowersMarshall Shepherd @drshepherd2013.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You just lived through the planet's hottest summer on record (along with 2024) 03111 0
Reposted by Adam PowersChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026obsessed with this poem by CAConrad. the empire will tax your soul! I prefer the forests making blankets from themselves!! 113027 0
Reposted by Adam Powersashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 10/09/2026I am fighting for human freedom and the wellbeing of the planet. I want my future ancestors to be able to live good, simple lives where they are fairly compensated for their labor, where they feel loved and connected to one another and the earth, where their basic needs are taken care of. 417026 0
Reposted by Adam PowersLabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026USA: How Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE Occupation www.labornotes.org/2026/09/how-...labornotes.orgHow Minnesota Unions and Community Groups Stood Up to an ICE OccupationIn this excerpt from the new book This Is How We Win: A Guide to Building Working-Class Uprisings, SEIU Local 26 President Greg Nammacher describes how his union, its members battered and exhausted fr... 0306 0
Reposted by Adam PowersCenter for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 08/09/2026Extreme heat is reshaping everyday life. 80% of Americans now say extreme heat has increased their electric bills. 68% say it limits outdoor activities. Communities are paying the price for a crisis that Big Oil knew decades ago its products would worsen. Accountability now!apnews.comHow extreme heat is changing Americans' lives, according to a new AP-NORC pollA new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are increasingly noticing the impact of extreme heat on their lives, and they say much of that shift is happening in the West and Midwest. 1186 0
Reposted by Adam Powersisaac @sevier.io · 08/09/2026One of the biggest energy sovereignty fights in Hawaii is over whether or not to allow private corporations to build a new LNG terminal which would continue to lock in fossil fuels and make the climate crisis worse. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/09/08/f...hawaiinewsnow.comFirst Alert Forecast: Hurricane Warning posted for Kauai and Niihau, Tropical Storm Warning posted for OahuFirst Alert Forecast: Hurricane Warning posted for Kauai and Niihau, Tropical Storm Warning posted for Oahu 0106 0
Reposted by Adam PowersTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Until noon today. (Thank you, Beth.) 812729 0
Reposted by Adam PowersTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...vimeo.comPower to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther... 39807277 0
Reposted by Adam PowersAdrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026As imperceptibly as Grief The Summer lapsed away— - Emily Dickinson 063 0
Reposted by Adam Powersisaac @sevier.io · 04/09/2026This is right and for this to work, we have to live in a society in which life is precious in the first place. That's why my climate and energy work is explicitly abolitionist today, among other goals. It is impossible for climate action to overcome white supremacy without being explicit about it. 1216 0