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Caleb Heeringa

@calebheeringa.bsky.social
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Climate, energy, insurance, political change. Holding Big Oil accountable at @climateintegrity.org - I like my cities dense, my wilderness wild and my baseball teams winning. He/him.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 2h
As the Supreme Court considers this case, we should make this absolutely clear with both our words and actions: Oil companies must be held financially liable for the widespread destruction they've wrought.
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Supreme Court Tangles Over a Major Climate Change Case
The justices began their new term with a landmark dispute over whether local governments can hold oil companies liable for damages from climate change.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 3h
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 11h
I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"SCOTUS should not shield these companies from having to face the evidence of their wrongdoing. We should all agree that we are still a nation of laws—of, by, and for the people—not a nation beholden to the interests of oil executives." @climateintegrity.org www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-...
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Big Oil Fears the Evidence of Its Climate Lies | Common Dreams
Fossil fuel companies are desperate to escape trial in climate deception lawsuits. The Supreme Court should not shield them from accountability.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"This case represents whether or not we believe as a society that corporations should be held to the same standards that all of us are ... If you know you are going to cause harm, and you don't tell someone, then you should help clean up that harm." @climateintegrity.org www.npr.org/2026/10/05/n...
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Supreme Court's new term kicks off with blockbuster climate change case
The case centers on whether local governments can hold giant energy companies accountable for the local harms of climate change, but it has repercussions beyond climate.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, the Supreme Court will begin the fall session by hearing the case about climate accountability and if localities can sue Big Oil. It’s the first case and begins at 10am ET. Streaming should be here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 05/10/2026
Big Oil Knew. #peoplevbigoil
Big Oil Knew
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
Super-excited to listen to this, but it's worth noting that the right is still engaging in exactly this tactic. And I mean, *exactly* this tactic.
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POLITICO Pro: Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
fortune.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...
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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch
A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.
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Consumer Watchdog @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How Gavin Newsom’s Petty Politics Burned Wildfire Survivors SB 877 and 878 passed the legislature with bipartisan support and no opposition. So why the vetoes @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social ? consumerwatchdog.org/insurance/59...
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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 04/10/2026
I think we can all agree that if that home run had been allowed to land it would have hit a small child and sent it to the hospital, we're all lucky for the universe we live in
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Welcome to Seattle. You can begin by admiring 2 acres of car storage.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 03/10/2026
This will make kids a lot safer on Halloween. Other cities should do this!
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
the DOJ “reviewing watergate” has the foulest stink of desperation. trying to rewrite history to rescue nixon’s name from the mud as if he’s not already a sitcom punchline. I wonder if there’s another historically corrupt executive suddenly worried about his own legacy? probably just a coincidence
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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Exactly one month out from an election that will decide who controls the U.S. Senate -- the chamber every judicial nominee needs to clear -- Justice Alito confirms in a television interview that he is considering retirement from the high court. 1/
politico.com
Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A glimpse into the stakes of Monday's SCOTUS arguments in Suncor v Boulder for just one community: Colorado ranchers, whose livelihoods have been wrecked by fires & drought. Ranchers depend on local govt services -- unless govts can recover climate costs, they say they may not be able to continue
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The judicial system should apply to everyone and corporations shouldn’t get to opt out of it.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We need permitting reform!* *Remembering to actually require that polluting industries get permits.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 01/10/2026
🚨 NEW: Middlesex County, New Jersey, is suing Exxon, Chevron, Shell, BP, and other Big Oil companies to hold them accountable for "decades of climate deception" that "has resulted in severe and devastating damage." Read the complaint: climateintegrity.org/uploads/medi...
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Emily Moore @emilymoore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Great news: The Home Energy Choice Act is now law in CA! It gives people the option to receive $$ from their gas utility to electrify instead of the company spending that $$ to replace their gas line. Congrats to @earthjustice.org @nrdc.org + many more on the win! www.nrdc.org/press-releas...
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California Passes the Home Energy Choice Act
Governor Newsom signed the Home Energy Choice Act (AB 2313), authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) into law. This popular, commonsense legislation will offer California homeowners the ...
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Oregon Coast remains undefeated in conference play.
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 01/10/2026
Can anyone explain to me why a national permitting deal is best negotiated now, mere weeks from an election that is likely to reshape federal power? Let’s stipulate that a deal of some kind is necessary and good; my question is what about the situation makes now more desirable than, say, Q1 2027?
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 30/09/2026
Ballard Congratulates Golf Course on Its New Light Rail Station: tinyurl.com/yncw9jep
Map of new Pinehurst light rail station opening Sept. 30 next to I-5 and 160-acre Jackson Park Golf Course.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Homer saying “those are prizes” while holding a blasting cap
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Mayor Katie B. Wilson @mayor.seattle.gov · 29/09/2026
Many of us who live in Seattle don't have a ton of personal space. That's why the public spaces we all share are so important. My proposed budget includes $1.4 million for 12 new public restrooms across Seattle so everyone can explore our beautiful city with comfort and confidence.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We have to sit and listen as men worth unfathomable sums speculate about whether our species will survive their companies’ initial public offerings. We definitely weren’t designed to cope with all this.” 🎯
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
The assault on public lands is so disgusting to me. Once these are privatized, they are never coming back.
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The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - High Country News
Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Big Oil’s obviously a beneficiary, but Big Tech stands as one of the biggest winners. These bills would strip everyday Americans of a vital tool for addressing the harms of data centers in their communities.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hot new fad on the right: granting special legal rights to corporations by taking away everyday peoples’ right to access the court system. Corporate bill mill ALEC pushing these in a state house near you next year. @newrepublic.com @aaronregunberg.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2154...
newrepublic.com
The Right-Wing Plot to Make It Harder to Sue Corporations
Oligarchs and their Republican lackeys are working together to shield corporations from accountability for the widespread harms they do to the American people.
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Oliver Milman @olliemilman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
latest by me - the number of people cut off from their electricity surged in July, the hottest month ever recorded in the US. Americans describe cutting back on food and suffering heatstroke as inflation and the climate crisis collided this summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘It’s just cruel’: US households hit by surge in electricity shutoffs amid record hot summer
Utility disconnections were up 28% in 10 states in July 2026 – the hottest month ever recorded in the US – compared with July 2024, data shows
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 29/09/2026
"Exxon and Suncor can point to no language in the Clean Air Act that preempts Boulder’s claims. Why? Because there is none." Former EPA administrator Gina McCarthy and former EPA general counsel Avi Garbow on why Big Oil's arguments to escape accountability "have no credibility whatsoever."
thehill.com
Big Oil can’t hide behind the Clean Air Act
The Clean Air Act was designed to shield Americans from harmful pollution. It was not designed to shield fossil fuel companies from legal accountability or to eviscerate states’ authority to protec…
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026
In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...
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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it
Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 28/09/2026
Justice Samuel Alito has recused from Suncor v. Boulder — one of the dozens of state and local lawsuits seeking to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their climate deception and the resulting harms.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
McClatchy-slop.
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 29/09/2026
cool seeing what the 1000s of military forces stationed in the nation's capital are getting up to #freedc #nationalguardgohome #possecomitatus
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JTF-DC Alaska National Guard Conduct Close Quarters Clearing Training
U.S. National Guardsmen with the Alaska National Guard, assigned to Joint Task Force-District of Columbia (JTF-DC) in support of the DC Safe and Beautiful mission, practice close-quarters room clearin...
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito announced Monday that he will recuse himself from a major climate change-related case the court is set to hear next week, following weeks of pressure from environmental groups that argued he was compromised by his financial holdings in the oil and gas industry."
cnn.com
Alito recuses himself from major Supreme Court climate change case | CNN Politics
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito announced Monday that he will recuse himself from a major climate change-related case the court is set to hear next week, following weeks of pressure from environmen...
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Corbin Hiar @corbinhiar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW — Conservative groups have filed over 100 records requests at 19 universities across the country, targeting at least 30 climate researchers since 2021. The goal: Discredit scholars who could persuade judges and juries in multi-billion-dollar climate cases. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Smart and strategic organizing works.
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Major u-turn from Justice Alito as Supreme Court reveals he will no longer participate in the big climate change case being argued next week. Previously, the court told NBC News there was no reason for him to step aside despite his earlier recusal in same case.
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Hannah Story Brown @hannahstoryb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOOOO!
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"More than half of [rising household costs due to climate change] came from higher home insurance rates — and indirect insurance costs on businesses that are passed on to consumers." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...
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POLITICO Pro: Prices are already high. Add ‘climateflation’ to the tab.
Climate change is boosting costs for households beyond the inflationary pressures from war and tariffs.
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Hey Claude: historically, what's the 'next phase' after an economic boom?"
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Caleb Heeringa @calebheeringa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Americans are paying the [climate change] bill. Twice. Higher energy costs. The public health toll of unchecked pollution. Rising disaster costs. Homeowners’ insurance becoming unaffordable and unavailable. Lost taxpayer revenue." www.epw.senate.gov/public/index...
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Leader Schumer, Whitehouse Unveil Comprehensive New Report Exposing Corrupt Fossil Fuel Industry Control Over Trump Administration
As energy and electricity costs skyrocket, Americans are paying Trump’s debt to the fossil fuel industry Bombshell investigation released as part of Leader Schumer’s Anti-Corruption Workin...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Republicans want people to use more gasoline, no matter what it costs them, so that fossil industry profits will rise. No, really. This is not a culture war. That’s why they’re making cars burn more gasoline.
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