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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/02/2026
Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold. In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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Torr (I moved to Threads) @torrleonard.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
“US greenhouse gas emissions grew by an estimated 2.4% last year, driven in part by increasing electricity usage among data centers and cryptocurrency mining. The uptick reverses the downward trend of the previous two years.”
bloomberg.com
Data Centers and Coal Helped Drive Up US Emissions in 2025
The country’s greenhouse gas emissions grew by an estimated 2.4%, reversing the downward trend of the previous two years.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
We are stepping up to support climate science, solutions, and public service. Announcing the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship program!
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 13/02/2026
ASK A SCIENTIST: What is Big Oil and Gas’ beef against offshore wind? UCS's analyst Susan Muller responds.
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Ask a Scientist: Why Are Fossil Fuel Companies So Threatened by Offshore Wind?
Spoiler: It’s got something to do with the fossil fuel industry and their insatiable thirst for profits.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 19/01/2026
This has happened to people sent to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Bhutan. There are local news articles for some of these instances, here’s one www.wbaltv.com/article/hage...
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Hagerstown woman deported to Vietnam after living in US for 30 years
Melissa Tran, a wife, mother and business owner, was deported to Vietnam, her home country. The Hagerstown community has rallied to support Tran and her family over the last six months. Tran owns the ...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
washingtonpost.com
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This huge investment in a battery startup shows that investors are beginning to notice the powerful business case for scaling distributed energy resources. Hard to envision any politician standing in the way of homeowners that want to lower their bills and take greater control.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions @akelalacy.bsky.social, @radleybalko.bsky.social and yours truly discuss the Trump administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home. theintercept.com/2025/10/10/b...
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License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions
Akela Lacy, Radley Balko, and Nick Turse on the administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
chicago.suntimes.com
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
New high of Americans saying immigration is good for the US
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Today in #PlanetarySapience: “Taxonomists imagine a world in which all species are known and can thus be tracked. Just as we monitor the weather for looming disasters, complete inventories of animal life could allow scientists to monitor biodiversity….” www.vox.com/down-to-eart...
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The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results
We still haven’t documented 90 percent of animals on Earth
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says. Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Underestimating support for climate action limits political decision making, study says
Research reveals huge disparity between perceived and actual willingness of public to contribute to fixing climate
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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2025
The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.
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Trump administration halts work on an almost-finished wind farm
The Revolution Wind farm was slated to start sending power to homes and businesses in Rhode Island and Connecticut starting next year.
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Greg Pierce @gregspierce.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
In the past 24 hours alone, more than 152 new fires have broken out across Greece www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Greece battles wildfires as heatwave rages across southern Europe
At least three people have died and dozens more have been inured in Spain, Turkey and Albania.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Phoenix has always been hot, but not this hot. In early 1900s, highs typically reached 110 degrees fewer than 10 days a year. Last year, it happened 70 times; this year, 30+ already. Nine of the city’s 10 hottest years have come since 2010. This affects everybody, but especially unhoused people.
nytimes.com
Asphalt Burns and Heatstroke: Homeless in America’s Hottest City
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
When Pope Francis died, it wasn't clear his successor would take up his environmentalist mantle. In just a few short months, Pope Leo is already well on his way to being the climate champion the world needs now Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Pope Leo Is Becoming the Climate Champion We Need
He has introduced a “green” Mass and supports running Vatican City solely on solar power.
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Grist @grist.org · 05/08/2025
A new report shows how local climate activism leads to ‘remarkable’ gains. Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost. grist.org/solutions/ne... #Activist #Climate #Environment #Local #Activism #Politics #Policy
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A new report shows how local climate activism leads to 'remarkable' gains
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
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Lauren Rosenthal @laurenthal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Researchers Are Resurrecting Billion-Dollar Disaster Tool Trump Killed
Nonprofit Climate Central has hired the scientist behind a key database of costly weather disasters to rebuild it.
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Burning wildfires as of 8/4/25 have massive greenhouse gas emissions as part of a feedback loop.
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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 31/07/2025
🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨 Please RT this so as many people see it as possible. forms.gle/BL9xUAfRxA...
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DOE climate report response form
We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.
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Justin Guay @guayjg.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New York just became the first state in the nation to mandate all electric buildings Goodbye gas. Hello heat pumps 😎 www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...
canarymedia.com
New York becomes first state to commit to all-electric new buildings
The state finalized rules ensuring most new edifices will install electric heat pumps and stoves instead of gas appliances, lowering costs and improving…
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 31/07/2025
This is just a sampling of the vast armada of fossil-fuel front groups and captured lobbyists they have out defending the $700+ billion annual subsidy we provide these polluters, by tolerating their pollute-for-free business model. Epic corruption.
desmog.com
Who Are the Climate Deniers Fighting the Endangerment Finding?
DeSmog has been tracking the efforts of fossil fuel trade associations, policymakers, and industry backed-groups out to demolish U.S. climate policy for years.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"Our local star already provides us with warmth and light and photosynthesis, and now it would like to give us all the power we need, and then do the same tomorrow, ad infinitum." — @billmckibben.bsky.social 🌞
rollingstone.com
Solar Is Liberation
Solar is the only scalable way to slow down the climate crisis — and it will free us from the power of billionaires too.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
“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.”
heated.world
Where does the climate movement go from here?
In the face of Trump's climate assault, Bill McKibben proposes a sun-soaked path forward.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
"How can national sovereignty remain the bedrock of international relations when we are faced with colossal planetary challenges? What can be ‘foreign’ about ‘policy’ when on the most existential of issues the world is more deeply interconnected than ever?" aeon.co/essays/we-ne...
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We need a planetary system of diplomacy for the 21st century | Aeon Essays
We need new forms of global diplomacy to transcend the current pathetic bargaining of national and commercial interests
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Sam 🇺🇦 @wardlfc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
EVs Surpass 60% of New Car Sales in Ethiopia in 2024. Africa is shifting away from oil faster than some countries in Western world. birrmetrics.com/evs-surpass-...
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EVs Surpass 60% of New Car Sales in Ethiopia: Outlook - Birr Metrics
More than 60 percent of newly registered personal cars in Ethiopia in 2024 were electric vehicles (EVs), marking a major shift in the country’s transport and
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes? American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
New graphs showing fossil gas use down 42.5% since 2023 and 24.3% since 2024 on CAISO grid WWS up 16%, solar up 47.4%, batteries up 213% since 2023 162nd of 207 days in 2025 with >100%, for an avg of 4.7 h/day (v 1 h/d in 2023) WWS has met 57.5% of demand in '25 v 48.7% in '23
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution
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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
There's was lots of concern when we learned the land carbon sink in 2023 virtually disappeared due to fire, heat, and drought. Early estimates suggest it happened again in 2024 -- but for different reason.🧪
newscientist.com
One of Earth's largest carbon sinks vanishes for second year in a row
Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of the atmosphere
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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 24/07/2025
EU fossil fuel share is collapsing. Coal, oil + gas 🔥 Top drops from 2004 → 2024: 🇩🇰 Denmark: 76% → 12% 🏆 🇵🇹 Portugal: 73% → 15% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 91% → 46% 🇮🇪 Ireland: 95% → 55% 🇬🇷 Greece: 90% → 50% 🇫🇮 Finland: 44% → 5% Clean power isn’t a future dream—it’s already the present. ⚡ #EnergyTransition #EU
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 24/07/2025
For a long time, I underestimated how much climate change comes from agriculture and land use, in part because (by EPA reckoning) they're only about 10% of US annual emissions. Globally, though, food and land use are at least 19% of annual net emissions, and possibly more depending on accounting.
Pie chart showing 2016 global greenhouse has emissions: 73% energy, 5% industry, 3% waste, 19% ag, forestry, land use
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The reports of Israeli drones (“quadcopters”) shooting pregnant & breastfeeding woman is in this Guardian story by volunteer surgeon, Nick Maynard. It is searing testimony. “Nothing has prepared me for the sheer horror I’m witnessing: the weaponisation of starvation against an entire population.”
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I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
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Citizens' Climate Lobby @cclusa.org · 24/07/2025
➡️ 402 meetings on Capitol Hill ➡️ 2,044 phone calls to Congress from constituents back home ➡️ 1 incredible Lobby Day! Thank you to everyone who made this year's Lobby Day a success 🇺🇸
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Wisconet @wisconet.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Wet Bulb Globe Temperatures are dangerously high over much of southern Wisconsin. There’s a high risk of heat illness during outdoor activities this afternoon. Stay in air conditioning and drink plenty of water.
Wet Bulb Globe Temperatures across southern Wisconsin.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
He helped the families of dying children. Spent all night with them even once the child was taken to the morgue. A former colleague tells us on the record that Ayman Soliman is the reason certain poor families who lost their babies at the hospital didn’t have… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
Trump Wants to Deport a Children's Hospital Chaplain to Egypt, Where He 'Faces Death'
Chaplain Ayman Soliman has comforted the parents of dying children. Trump wants to deport him back to Egypt, where his lawyers say he “faces death.”
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Good news! Trump sought to eliminate NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which would have led to the closure of NOAA Research Labs. Among other important climate research, this would have meant eliminating the Keeling Curve. The Senate Appropriations Committee said no! bit.ly/3TShZKk
NOAA OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
The Committee's recommendation provides $657,053,000 for the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. OAR programs provide environmental research and technology needed to improve
NOAA weather forecasts, climate predictions, and marine services.
To accomplish these goals, OAR supports a network of scientists in its Federal research laboratories, universities, and joint institutes and partnership programs.
The budget request proposes eliminating OAR, potentially terminating many of its programs and transferring others to operational
NOAA line offices, such as the National Weather Service and NOS While the Committee could be open to realigning some programs to enhance operational outcomes, the absence of detailed plans hinders informed decision-making. Consequently, the Committee maintains funding
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
GUARDIAN: “Migrants at a Miami immigration ICE jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates ‘like dogs’…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21/07/2025
The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making.
The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 19/07/2025
100 years of average April-May-June temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago. At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021. From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
Feb 2025 1934 ppb
Feb 2024 1926 ppb
Graphs of 2021-2025, showing the slowing increase and of 1985-2025, with the whole picture of increase, stabilization, accelerating increase, slowing increase
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 08/07/2025
NOAA’s cutting-edge specialized models “got this right,” @weatherwest.bsky.social tells @jeva.bsky.social of the Texas storms. Trump's proposed budget slashes their funding. More below on the endangered weather models that predicted Texas' floods ⬇️
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The Only Weather Models That Nailed the Texas Floods Are on Trump’s Chopping Block
Predicting the location and severity of thunderstorms is at the cutting edge of weather science. Now funding for that science is at risk.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/07/2025
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms. By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social
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Floods are getting more dangerous around the country, not just in Texas
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
At the risk of repeating myself: Those Heat Domes? Yeah, they're climate change. www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/o...
screen cap of NY Times op-ed linked
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2025
People inside (and outside) the energy world waste way too much time debating the merits of individual energy sources & technologies. The most important thing right now, which all our resources should be aligning behind, is ELECTRIFICATION.
electrotechrevolution.substack.com
The electrification imperative
How a switch from burning fossil fuels to using electricity can unlock the full value of the energy transition
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2025
An awesome story about how solar microgrids kept the power on during Puerto Rico's latest blackouts. This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!
spectrum.ieee.org
Could Microgrids Be Puerto Rico's Answer to Endless Blackouts?
Meanwhile, feds redirect $365 million away from solar toward grid fixes
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