Reposted by Laura NeishJonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 6hYour periodic reminder that phasing out fossil fuels would largely pay for itself in avoided death and disease from air pollution alone: 16225
Reposted by Laura NeishRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1hI guess I’m in the minority for focusing on how Trump’s oil deal helps Putin while most are focused on how little it helps US oil/diesel prices. 1351210281
Reposted by Laura NeishBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.cbc.caOntario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC NewsOntario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says. 44776263
Reposted by Laura Neishpetercracknell.bsky.social @petercracknell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026#Restaurant induction hobs are cheaper to run, they don't pollute the kitchen air, electric kitchens are cooler, induction hobs are quicker and easier to clean, and they have better temperature control [compared to gas]. #Electricity thesra.org/news-insight...thesra.orgNew Guide Shows Electrifying Kitchens Can Save Restaurants up to 20% a Year on EnergyThis new guide to electrifying your kitchen highlights significant cost savings and provides a how-to guide for managing the process. 1267
Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Decades ago I was consulting for Az Public Svcs -we did focus groups about many things but also TOU pricing. Even back then, before you were in communication w your appliances, people absolutely knew how to shift their energy use to save money. Savvy is def the word for folks pinching every penny 110
Reposted by Laura NeishSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW 3444421463
Reposted by Laura NeishChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 07/10/2026How do I know Hegseth’s order to deny access to bases to members of Congress is about a cover up, not about safety? Because I asked for a military briefing at the embassy as a substitute and was told the policy prohibited military leaders in the region from even talking to me. 10231641152
Reposted by Laura NeishMoveOn @moveon.org · 07/10/2026Starting a war and then inviting the country you’re fighting to destroy American cities is beyond disgraceful. The people of Los Angeles and San Diego are not pawns in Donald Trump’s war. A president is supposed to protect the American people, not fantasize about their destruction. 613234
Reposted by Laura NeishRaider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thank you for coming forward. We need more voices from inside the uniform standing shoulder-to-shoulder with us to reject this extremism, protect our democratic norms, and demand accountability. 23844151807
Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 07/10/2026*Trying to wrap my brain around a universe expanding faster than the speed of light* Well, where’s it going! Thank you @bjkeefe.bsky.social - I can now ponder the very quickly expanding universe and let those determined neutrinos carry on 010
Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Aha! I was listening to Science Friday ever so long ago and Ira asked a physicist what the most interesting thing you could do with pi. The response “measure the circumference of the universe.” This occupies my 3am thoughts for… decades. So? 010
Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So, where do neutrinos go if they don’t interact with much of anything? Do they pile up at the edge of the universe? 260
Reposted by Laura NeishAdam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Go vote today if you can 20667241
Reposted by Laura NeishMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is exactly the same as "We shouldn't do impeachment because it will fail." You impeach. And then you do it again. And then you do it again. And you make the far right authoritarian party block it in the Senate, again and again. 1328254
Reposted by Laura NeishGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 297113164106
Reposted by Laura NeishJohn Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Back on my Ethanol soapbox - Even under some generous assumptions, electrifying just 3.6% of the current gasoline-powered fleet would free up enough land to power EVs replacing the entire gasoline fleet with solar. 2276
Reposted by Laura NeishMiaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Bankrupt this Infestation. 11331166
Reposted by Laura NeishRight To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING: @governor.ca.gov just signed the Home Energy Choice Act, a bill that will give Californians the freedom and funds to install electric appliances with money that would otherwise have been used to replace old gas lines earthjustice.org/press/2026/c...earthjustice.orgCalifornia Passes the Home Energy Choice ActAB 2313 gives Californians the option to install non-polluting appliances with the help of funds that would otherwise have been used to replace the old gas line to their home 02015
Reposted by Laura NeishJack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This morning, the Justice Department went after nearly an entire state's federal bench, all at once. The judges had said the government wasn't following court orders. The response was to try to remove the judges. Here's why every American should be paying attention. www.jackhopkinsnow.com 31158733156
Reposted by Laura NeishAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our response to the State Department using Smokey last night. 106100872692
Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Well, support stay at home moms with Medicare and count their work towards social security wages. 001
Reposted by Laura NeishJoe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Evil. Shame on everyone who voted for this.👇 54754256
Reposted by Laura NeishOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees. 296138154635
Reposted by Laura NeishBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.thebetter.newsFinland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness. 9385152
Reposted by Laura NeishJoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I never thought in a million years that the president and First Lady of the United States would be targeting me personally and trying to hurt me and my kids. jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/be-best-be...jojofromjerz.substack.comBe Best. Be Quiet. Or Be Bankrupted.Melania Trump is selling a story about lifting women up. I’m the mother of two she tried to frighten into submission. 2832289781
Reposted by Laura NeishRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks. 633131253899
Reposted by Laura NeishBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Should the economy be regulated by a democratic society to ensure that it creates opportunity and benefit for everyone? Or should it be a plaything for approximately a dozen of the world's most odious assholes? Who knows 202637465
Reposted by Laura NeishThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“If you’re evil you’re actually kind of good. Because you’re at least getting something done.”🤔 Y’all aren’t alarmed enough about what MAGA tech billionaire (Trump donor, J.D. Vance’s pimp, Epstein’s buddy) Peter Thiel is doing to our country. 3571973814
Reposted by Laura NeishGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I also don't think most people, even extremely online people, clock what it means for Telegram Nazi misogyny to hit the political mainstream the way Telegram Nazi racism already has. It's not just "subjugate women." It's explicitly "rape, enslave, and murder women" 418061
Laura Neish @laura4climate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How did that work last time folks? Damn feckless Dems… 000
Reposted by Laura NeishWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Should be bigger news, no? www.propublica.org/article/debu...propublica.orgProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption ProbeProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o... 31869313
Reposted by Laura NeishRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities. 7732361073
Reposted by Laura NeishGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157... 10870300
Reposted by Laura NeishThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 24/09/2026CNN: "Right now the Chinese communist state media are allowed on the White House grounds, but we are not. I think that says it all." TRUMP IS THE COMMUNIST. 781927838
Reposted by Laura NeishDr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Did you know that about half of the climate change we have seen to date is caused by OTHER greenhouse gases beyond CO2? We tend to underestimate the importance of methane, N2O, f-gases, and so on. 810836
Reposted by Laura NeishPsycho Pete @psychopete.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Jeffries does not get it and he never will. Dems need to vote in new leadership. This is not the man for this moment. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...open.substack.comSCOOP: Jeffries to Fundraise With Fox News’s Favorite DemocratThin wallets make strange bedfellows. 74117
Reposted by Laura NeishRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47271643220
Reposted by Laura NeishRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. 720160456063
Reposted by Laura NeishCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026EPA allowed pesticide giant Bayer to pick from a menu of regulation options for the controversial and destructive weedkiller dicamba. Dicamba is drift prone and kills vegetation and crops for miles around fields where it is sprayed, and is linked to liver cancer and Non-Hodgkin lymphomatheguardian.comUS environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents showEnvironmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule 20368221
Reposted by Laura NeishRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul... 341127514654
Reposted by Laura Neishconifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Release ALL the Epstein files NOW! 401625778
Reposted by Laura NeishRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. 16971562426
Reposted by Laura NeishBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Your regular reminder that there ISN’T a “war on cars.” Any objective observation in most cities however, would conclude that for 60+ years there’s been a war on every mobility choice EXCEPT cars. And that’s been bad for EVERYONE, including drivers. Poster via @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth 10356122
Reposted by Laura NeishEarthjustice @earthjustice.org · 01/09/2026The Trump admin says its reversal of the Roadless Rule is about wildfire prevention, but research shows that wildfires are about 4x more likely to start near roads than in roadless forests. The repeal of the Roadless Rule is about opening protected lands to extractive industries like logging.commondreams.orgConservationists Say Trump Gutting of Roadless Rule Is Corporate Giveaway, Not Wildfire Prevention | Common DreamsTrump has cleared the way for 45 million acres of protected forest to be opened for logging in what one conservationist group called the "largest evisceration of public lands protection in American hi... 14223
Reposted by Laura NeishJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Imagine trying to scare me “Sharia Law” while I live under a GOP supermajority trying to reinstate an abortion ban, while writing bills to put the 10 Commandments in public schools and ban books and free speech. I have nothing to fear, except the Christian nationalists in front of me. 13547811328
Reposted by Laura NeishAnalisa Swan (she/her) @analisaswan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Trump/GOP are removing conservation protections from 86+ million acres of U.S. public lands to open them up to billionaires & corporations for logging, oil/mineral extraction, & despoliation! This land belongs to us as Americans! Trump/GOP, billionaire cronies, & foreign companies profiting from it! 3223104
Reposted by Laura NeishDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 26/08/2026A man in was fined by an A.I traffic camera for running a red light in Alabama when he was actually in Florida and exposes the corruption behind the surveillance infrastructure and promises to continue doing so He finishes with "Congratulations, you all got yourselves a new pain in the ass" 16311122