Reposted by Jason WaltersScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3hAdam Hamilton keeps racking up endorsements from retired senior Kansas Republican office holders, who seem to have a very low opinion of the incumbent Sen Roger Marshall. 326861
Reposted by Jason WaltersJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 1h🚨 New study 🚨 Decarbonization has a public health bonus. Three U.S. energy models: PM2.5 mortality rates down 28 to 73% by 2050 under net zero. 194
Reposted by Jason Waltersleftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 7hTalarico delivered this line at a campaign rally in Texas, drawing a direct contrast between how aggressively the govt pursues undocumented workers versus how little it pursues wealthy predators & tax cheats. Talarico leads Paxton 48% to 45% in a state no Democrat has won statewide since 1988. 11395143
Reposted by Jason Waltersexplore.org @explore.org · 30/09/2026Legend of the Falls - Chunk and 602 - the Floatato. 17973123
Reposted by Jason WaltersKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/09/2026generative AI ends up being used where you want to create the outward appearance of accuracy or quality without either of those things actually being involved 29033
Reposted by Jason WaltersErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters. 121259395
Reposted by Jason WaltersDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project? 15145881293
Reposted by Jason WaltersProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A striking thing about the various estimates of how many people Musk killed when he shuttered USAID is that, while of course the exact number is unknown, the estimates all point to a figure of about 750,000 deaths within a year, of which 500,000 were kids Mass murder isn’t “ill fated cost-cutting” 218978
Reposted by Jason WaltersAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work buff.ly/cGHwM0M #ShareGoodNewsToochinadaily.com.cnSpecies classified extinct makes comeback in Chongqing reserveAfter being declared extinct, the ancient cliff cypress — a 300-million-year-old "living fossil" — has staged a stunning comeback in Southwest China's Chongqing, thanks to a two-decade-long… 6354113
Reposted by Jason WaltersJaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 09/09/2026Wait, what? Is the German Energiewende actually happening in reality? If you spend too much time on certain platforms, you might think it was a gigantic failure. 23810
Reposted by Jason WaltersScott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026They ignored 625,000 public comments opposing the destruction of 45 million acres of our National Forests. They are betting you'll feel defeated and just walk away. Let's show them what happens when they ignore the public. Prove them wrong right now: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...actionnetwork.orgTell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forestsContact Congress today! 19960519
Reposted by Jason WaltersAlex Papadopoulos @egeasri.bsky.social · 27/08/2026☀️ What if emerging markets simply bypass the old energy system? Africa is expected to install a record 17 GW of solar in 2026 — up 45% — much of it distributed solar that official statistics barely capture. Amazing news! ⚡🌍 #Solar #RenewableEnergy #ESG ember-energy.org/latest-insig... 12211
Reposted by Jason WaltersBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane... 13587185
Reposted by Jason WaltersCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 21/08/2026Anyway read this article where I was among the folks that said that NOAA is cool and good and we should fund it because it belongs to us www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...forbes.comDOGE Broke America’s Weather Machine. Now Fishermen, Insurers And Farmers Are Paying For ItElon Musk’s DOGE gutted staffing and budgets at NOAA and the National Weather Service early last year. It left fishing fleets, farmers and insurers exposed to the fallout 281040411
Reposted by Jason WaltersDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.nature.comExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadesThe US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project. 14760478
Reposted by Jason WaltersPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The multifaceted #water crises we’re experiencing now are not normal; they're the direct consequence of accelerating human-caused climate changes on top of decades of neglect and underinvestment in our water institutions and infrastructure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comDrought, water rationing and dry rivers: our water crisis is here | Peter GleickIt doesn’t have to be this way. We know what needs to be done 37426
Reposted by Jason WaltersTaraT @tarat33.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"An ICE facility for kids". Read this again. WTF?!? 0128
Reposted by Jason WaltersFederica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 19/08/2026If you know Global South climate politics, you already know how awesome the Uruguay power sector decarbonization story is. It happened thanks to the overlap of a pressing crisis, enlightened politicians and accredited experts; it still lives on. 120356
Reposted by Jason WaltersJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/08/2026If you’re wondering how no product manager at Meta thought of this use case and build in safeguards, the answer is: they did and they don’t care so they released the product anyway, because feeling first and dominating the category is more important to Mark Zuckerberg than the safety of children. 16419
Reposted by Jason WaltersEmily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Wondering again how much we've lost because of GPS, and how wildly that problem is likely metastasizing from heavy use of AI. Brains and bodies want to engage the world; it's work, and that's a good thing. Shortcuts shrink us, mostly.harvardmagazine.comWhy Taxi Drivers Don’t Die of Alzheimer’s | Harvard MagazineExplaining taxi and ambulance drivers’ protection against Alzheimer’s disease. 0168
Reposted by Jason WaltersDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"Some university executives are not simply complying with the Trump Administration; they are skillful entrepreneurs who are exploiting and advancing the government’s agenda for their own gain." I will be calling them "authoritarian entrepreneurs" from now on. 14015
Reposted by Jason WaltersEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"government overreach designed to disconnect citizens from the truth and advance an authoritarian agenda" "must recognize how critically linked science is to democracy itself and defend its integrity with every tool at their disposal." @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 218773
Reposted by Jason WaltersNPR @npr.org · 04/08/2026Far out in the Pacific Ocean, there are tiny islands that few have seen. The oceans around them are full of marine life, from thriving coral reefs to sharks and tuna. The Trump administration is rolling back protections for these places. NPR got a rare visit to a remote area to see what’s at stake.n.prThese are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protectionsThe largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems. 24385212
Reposted by Jason WaltersJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/08/2026See also the term "activist scholar," which is applied derogatorily to academics who use their expertise to advocate for Left-leaning policy, but not to Right-leaning academics, even if they take money from Right-wing groups or advocate for Right-wing causes based on dubious evidence or none at all. 231722414
Reposted by Jason WaltersTom Haddon @tomh-analyst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026The pie chart that appears when the curtains are drawn back to show the final energy consumption (fallacy) is nothing short of perfection as it is still trotted out to this day as some sort of monolith. 1346
Reposted by Jason WaltersRob @robertferry.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“The world looks different now than when we co-founded the climate pledge,” said Margaret Callahan, an Amazon spokeswoman. Yes Margaret. It is hotter and more on fire.nytimes.comNew Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (Gift Article)The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments. 34517
Reposted by Jason WaltersBen Lilliston @handle.invalid · 10/08/2026An excellent overview by @georginagustin.bsky.social of how a major private dairy, Riverview, is rapidly expanding in MN, SD, ND where state agencies seem unable or unwilling to protect water/account for GHG emissions. insideclimatenews.org/news/0708202...insideclimatenews.orgA Minnesota Dairy Company’s Rapid Expansion Is Prompting Lawsuits Against Regulators - Inside Climate NewsRiverview LLP’s operations are increasingly meeting with pushback amid concerns over its climate and water impacts. 053
Jason Walters @globalsherpa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Still not good, but higher ed actually doing better in the trust downfall than many other areas, including US medical system (increasingly privatized and profit-driven), banks, religion, etc. 000
Reposted by Jason WaltersJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/08/2026‘If built as planned, data center developers’ gas burning plants could release as much pollution in a year as half of all the passenger vehicles in the US, particulates that can contribute to heart disease, asthma, lung cancer, strokes and other ailments.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...nytimes.comTrump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollutiontk 24284179
Jason Walters @globalsherpa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026US running low on missiles, jobs, and sanity. There's only one way to vote in Nov - no more of this! 000
Reposted by Jason WaltersPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Outstanding commentary by talented @fionakatauskas.bsky.social. #death #war #famine #conquest #plague #ClimateChange #AI 03612
Reposted by Jason WaltersJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant in West Texas. I sorted all 14,036 operating U.S. power plants by size to see where that lands. It doesn't land anywhere (nothing on the American grid is that big). 12317
Reposted by Jason WaltersGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown. 1092656609
Reposted by Jason WaltersTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps. 661367634
Reposted by Jason WaltersJocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Hummingbird Clearwings, a species of Hummingbird Moth, are fondly called "flying lobsters" due to their flared tail. The species Snowberry Clearwing, which looks very similar, also has this nickname. 238349
Reposted by Jason WaltersDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Balcony solar. A solution coming to your city soon. 36014
Reposted by Jason WaltersMark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 05/08/2026SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏 367194255560
Reposted by Jason WaltersKatie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 04/08/2026My favorite things in one story: wetlands, conservation success stories, and names that make you giggle like a middle-schooler ipmnewsroom.org/at-spunky-bo...ipmnewsroom.orgAt Spunky Bottoms, an Illinois River wetland’s resilience is on display - IPM NewsroomThe Nature Conservancy acquired the roughly 1,300-acre Merwin Preserve at Spunky Bottoms in the late 1990's and allowed the site to return to being a floodplain wetland. 1239
Reposted by Jason WaltersDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty. 22672983710339
Reposted by Jason WaltersMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03... 16154702517
Reposted by Jason WaltersDavid Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I know we're all supposed to keep quiet about climate change, even as Americans are fed up with high gas prices. But as Europe burns and the strongest El Niño in history awaits, we're learning that Mother Nature won't wait for political dysfunctions to be sorted out. prospect.org/2026/07/28/c...prospect.orgThe Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready. - The American ProspectDonald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change. 27428
Reposted by Jason WaltersDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 30/07/2026While the lake has experienced droughts in the past that have hit business, Durig said that their frequency has increased. “These droughts are occurring in rapid succession, something we’ve never seen before" 🤔 #YouDon'tSay?straitstimes.comSwiss drought dries up Lake BrenetsA severe drought has left Switzerland's Lake Brenets all but drained, stranding boats and impacting tourism amid record low water levels. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com. 1209
Reposted by Jason WaltersYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 27/07/2026Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u... 29640276
Reposted by Jason WaltersTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026there's a new round of efforts by the GOP and Trump administration to cut Medicaid. a reminder of one of the least discussed effects of Medicaid: health-care coverage lowers crime and promotes safety. (and yet the GOP cuts Medicaid, but doesn't get labeled as endangering safety.)boltsmag.org“We Need to See the Bigger Picture”: How Cuts to Medicaid Hurt Public Safety - BoltsWhen a state made cuts to Medicaid, depriving people of access to health insurance, the crime rate increased: That’s the finding of a new academic study, supported by the National... Read More 7328149
Reposted by Jason WaltersPhotography by Alfie Goodrich @alfie.photography · 25/07/2026Either full of sewage or off-limits. So happy that here in Japan there are so many rivers you can enjoy. 2183
Reposted by Jason WaltersDavid Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Only one country voted against a UN declaration to reduce crash deaths. Want to guess which one? Info: www.linkedin.com/posts/overwh... 18365111
Jason Walters @globalsherpa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The world and media especially needs to talk much more, not less, about climate change, nature loss, and pollution and their very costly, harmful consequences for people, workers, the economy, and society. A small cabal of rich, corrupt con men is leading us in exactly the wrong direction. 020
Reposted by Jason WaltersClean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Solar generated record 25% of EU power in June with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the race With an output of 52 TWh of electricity, solar overtook coal, gas, nuclear, wind and hydropower in June 2026euronews.comSolar met 25% of EU power needs in June thanks to quick installationsSolar was ahead of coal, gas, nuclear, wind and hydropower. 055