Reposted by meg berkobienM. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 30/09/2026This is a fundamental logic of today’s politics. Democrats supported rollbacks of civil rights over and over—from border enforcement to welfare reform to counterterrorism to crushing the Palestine solidarity encampments—and Republicans predictably use this as the infrastructure for fascism. 04321
Reposted by meg berkobienPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening. 111292407
Reposted by meg berkobienMatthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I haven't read the permitting reform bill yet (seems like there's some good stuff), but I want to once again suggest to fellow clean energy advocates that saying or implying that biodiversity, endangered species, & other non-climate environmental issues do not matter is both detrimental & incorrect 27515
meg berkobien @megberkobien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Cargill is responsible for the death of the people in Mundurukú territory, for the death of the territory itself.” inthesetimes.com/article/yell...inthesetimes.comFortress YellowstoneThe ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world 010
Reposted by meg berkobienBob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 26/09/2026The literature about changes in nor’easters due to climate change is clear about two things: 1) more intense precipitation due to a warmer atmosphere, and 2) more extensive coastal flooding due to higher sea levels 315449
Reposted by meg berkobienAmy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352222814
Reposted by meg berkobienTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52531662
Reposted by meg berkobienExtreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 24/09/2026RECORD HEAT ALLOVER ASIA Unprecedented event in climatic history. Late September record just gets worse: Today 48C in KUWAIT 44C in INDIA Record September High Min at Alibag:Min 29.2C Next days near 50C in Middle East and records from Arabia to China. Still >32C in Russia. 08248
Reposted by meg berkobienStuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Very excited to dig into @tejnagaraja.bsky.social’s new book Troop Movements! We will be in conversation at @redemmas.org next Thurs 10/1. 1103
Reposted by meg berkobienKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software. 3540701431
Reposted by meg berkobienMax Granger @maxgranger.info · 15/09/2026Endangered species stop border wall construction in the San Rafael Valley, near Lochiel, Ariz. 010531
Reposted by meg berkobienJen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fair: The Life-Art of Translation is out in North America in 2 months! Pre-order from @invisibooks.bsky.social : invisiblepublishing.com/product/fair/ Or your local indie bookstore. Launch events TBA soon. 0126
Reposted by meg berkobienIn These Times @inthesetimes.com · 10/09/2026Nearly 8,000 people died or went missing on migration routes to Europe in 2025. This year, @cathyotten.bsky.social reports that Mediterranean deaths are already outpacing last year's. "...victims, not just of the sea, but of hostile migration policies." inthesetimes.com/article/migr...inthesetimes.comFound, But Not RescuedCould migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea be prosecuted as crimes against humanity? 02013
Reposted by meg berkobienBaltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Events you can’t miss in What’s Poppin’ baltimorebeat.com/whats-poppin...baltimorebeat.comWhat’s Poppin’ Issue #087Claudia Rankine presents “Triage” in conversation with Kaye Wise Whitehead, Parkway Theatre, 5 W. North Avenue, Saturday, September 12 2026, 6:00 p.m. snfparkway.org Claudia Rankine’s 2014 book… 143
Reposted by meg berkobienDr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I review the huge number of all-time heat records set in August: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/09/eart...yaleclimateconnections.orgEarth just had its hottest August on record » Yale Climate ConnectionsThe intensifying super El Niño, combined with global warming, is favored to make 2026 the hottest year on record, with 2027 expected to be even hotter. 27042
Reposted by meg berkobienkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026In this episode, I share a bit about what got me into literary advocacy. It's a story I don't share much, but thanks to the support of a bevy of Illinois English teachers last year, finally felt ready to share. www.liberatinglit.com/episodes/epi...liberatinglit.comEpisode Zero: Introducing Liberating Lit — Liberating LitKelly Jensen introduces the new limited run podcast Liberating Lit, a show about book censorship and literary advocacy. 2217
Reposted by meg berkobienisaac @sevier.io · 03/09/2026Has someone out there been writing about the arc of international politics as seen through climate politics from 2015 when the Paris Agreement was launched and today's widespread disorder that threatens the very viability of the UN and other global insts? Surely someone has and I'd like to read it. 0102
Reposted by meg berkobienUrvi @theurv.com · 03/09/2026Drawing of the Day: UN Reports: Earth will cross 1.5°C warming and a best case scenario is "Overshoot, peak, decline" "There are no good outcomes if we remain above 1.5°C... we must double down on climate action" Mamdani announced NY public schools will ban Al for elementary and middle school kids 03813
Reposted by meg berkobienAnne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Not a moratorium -- but meaningful.nytimes.comA.I. Is to Be Banned in N.Y.C. Elementary and Middle Schools (Gift Article)A new policy to be announced by the Department of Education bars younger students from using A.I., but stops short of a moratorium. 24311
Reposted by meg berkobienBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 02/09/2026Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missingbloom.bgNepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and IndiaNepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing. 410243
Reposted by meg berkobienNatasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Looking through holiday photos today, the last day of summer. Here are 2 photos I havetaken 8 years apart looking towards the sublime Mont Blanc massif. My son has doubled in size. The glaciers have halved. We are destroying the world they are growing up in. 💔 12913
Reposted by meg berkobienCAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 31/08/2026ABC, CBS and NBC aired nearly 200 segments on three major US heat events this summer, but failed to explain how human-caused climate change is making extreme heat more frequent and severe. Learn more via @mmfa.bsky.social buff.ly/arnh426mediamatters.orgABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate changeFrom late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts.… 12719
Reposted by meg berkobienPeter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 30/08/2026We can *absolutely* not look away from this. This is from the frontlines of the climate crisis. This is at ~1.5ºC of heating. We are firmly on track to 2ºC We are not ready. nepalitimes.com/2026-central...nepalitimes.comReporter’s Diary 27 AugustNepali Times photographer finds his camera is inadequate to capture the true scale of the tragedy 44425
Reposted by meg berkobienprofessor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 29/08/2026looks like hopkins is a win for the rightwing activists attacking higher ed, which means they got proof of concept for their template to weaken and take over institutions. not good at all 12212
Reposted by meg berkobienZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 27/08/2026My rough global temp prediction for the next few months: Warmest August on record. Second warmest September on record (after 2023). Warmest October, November, December, January, February, and March on record (and maybe beyond). Follow along over at the Climate Dashboard:dashboard.theclimatebrink.comClimate DashboardDaily-updated global temperature tracker: ERA5 daily data, multi-model ENSO forecasts, annual projections, and climate models vs. observations. 69239
Reposted by meg berkobienRed Emma’s @redemmas.org · 27/08/2026Tickets w/a book purchase will be required for this event, and they are going really quickly, so don’t wait to grab one! 1144
Reposted by meg berkobienJohn Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves 3325311151
Reposted by meg berkobienYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026“How can you show proximate causation in injury?” With new statistical models, we can now calculate changes to extreme events based on historical emissions, & thereby infer a carbon major's contribution to the increasing risk of injurious events like extreme heat & rainfall “Every ton matters”motherjones.comIt just got way easier to sue fossil fuel companies over climate changeFor years, industry has argued you can't prove which company caused which disaster. A new study says otherwise. 210758
Reposted by meg berkobienLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Catherine Lacey looks at Montserrat Roig’s Goodbye Ramona, a classic of antifascist Catalan literature. lithub.com/catherine-la...lithub.comCatherine Lacey on an Antifascist Classic of Catalan LiteratureMontserrat Roig’s 1972 classic of Catalan literature, Goodbye, Ramona, both opens and closes in a vivid scene of the Spanish Civil War, but if you don’t remember the exact contours of that extremel… 0134
Reposted by meg berkobienAruna Chandrasekhar @arunacsekhar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Summer in Mumbai was brutal and endless. The monsoon's poster child was running out of water. In a dispatch for @equatormag.bsky.social, I wrote about living with extreme heat in a broken city and limits to resilience. With🔥 images by @ishantankha.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...equator.orgCity of Sweat • EQUATORA vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai 4191113
Reposted by meg berkobienRed Emma’s @redemmas.org · 24/08/2026The city that reads deserves a book festival this good, and we are proud to be part of the team making it happen: baltimorebookfest.combaltimorebookfest.com2026 Baltimore Book FestivalSeptember 19 & 20 in Waverly. 04518
Reposted by meg berkobienLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 22/08/2026The environmentalism of Ursula K. Le Guin: "Climate change visions of transformed Oregon and California places and spaces show up in the worlds Le Guin imagines." 1184
Reposted by meg berkobienJames Hansen @drjamesehansen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The El Nino is off the charts. Can people see the real issue and accept the implications? We may be getting closer. See the Bigger Problem – mailchi.mp/caa/super-du... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/super-dupe... 412359
Reposted by meg berkobienAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026pretty sure this is why they insist on using disability as a cudgel in the discourse around gAI, so they can push the tech and evade criticism using this line. A deeply cynical ploy. 19522
Reposted by meg berkobienAri Bloomekatz @bloomekatz.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Any DSA member can get a free 1-year print subscription to In These Times. No credit card. No strings. Just great journalism. Sign up with the QR code in the image or going to www.inthesetimes.com/dsa 05116
Reposted by meg berkobienCommon Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The story follows his journey to a commune in Chicago, illustrating the disabled world-building that was essential to liberation movements. Story by @anniesinger.bsky.social Edited by @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and @genderhorizon.com Read the full story: buff.ly/AIR7Wiacommonnotions.orgProject 2052 (Everything for Everyone) — Common Notions PressProject 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 0109
Reposted by meg berkobienExtreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 08/08/2026It 's another scorching day in the West and Central States with 110s in Kansas and Oklahoma. Phoenix AZ had a night Minimum of 95F,if it holds until midnight ,it would tie its August High Minimum record (previous attempt earlier this month failed few minutes before midnight) 215066
Reposted by meg berkobienPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026slate.com/news-and-pol...slate.comTexas Prisoners Are Baking to Death. The State Keeps Saying No to AC.A 90-year-old with hypertension could still fail to qualify for a bed with AC. 59357
Reposted by meg berkobienDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 01/08/2026On Tue, Aug 4 at 6pm PT, I'll be participating in a live virtual Town Hall event, hosted by CA State Senator Mike McGuire, on our rapidly-developing #ElNiño event and implications for California from 2026 into 2027. No RSVP required. See you there!youtube.comSuper El Nino Town HallJoin Senator McGuire, along with climate scientists, meteorologists, and disaster preparedness experts, for a virtual Super El Niño Town Hall to learn how California is preparing for very strong or “super” El Niño weather patterns and events this fall. 110138
Reposted by meg berkobienJorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Pedro Sánchez has sent a letter to the EU institutions complaining about the political reaction of some member states to the migratory crisis in Ceuta. “In the current international context, the European Union cannot afford this kind of selfish, polarising and unlawful reaction.” 🧵 11792278
Reposted by meg berkobienDan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Key point: climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels. It's burning fossil fuels that is making heat waves hotter and more frequent. We need to stop burning fossil fuels (and that includes leaving them in the ground) 3349
Reposted by meg berkobienMaximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Michigan primaries are Aug 4! In the frigid cold of winter, I traveled all the way to Saginaw, Michigan, to get a chance to sit down with progressive Democratic Senate candidate @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Here is our full, unedited conversation @therealnews.com therealnews.com/can-the-demo...therealnews.comCan the Democratic Party be saved? TRNN’s full, unedited interview with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed“I'm a democrat with lowercase D, and I hope someday we can win the fight for what the Democratic Party can be. I'm not willing to let go of all that infrastructure because a few folks who can't let g... 12711
Reposted by meg berkobienSarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.socialtherealnews.comCorporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz... 7149181658
Reposted by meg berkobienMaximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 29/07/2026BREAKING: Community marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old elder was brutally beaten in Baltimore. I was there on the ground for @therealnews.com therealnews.com/baltimore-co...therealnews.comCommunity marches into 7-11 where 74-year-old was brutally beaten in BaltimoreA local elder and Black Panther veteran was attacked and brutally beaten by six teenagers at the same 7-11 in Baltimore where Victorious Swift was murdered in 2017. Now, the community is rising up to ... 02515
Reposted by meg berkobienDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 29/07/2026Kinda makes you wonder why an autoworker union was investing in Israel Bonds in the first place 1192
Reposted by meg berkobienKate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The line between climate hushing and climate denial is getting awfully thin 418746