iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Country (and Western) hating Sleazeball @rsgreacen.bsky.social · 1h

Erik is doing heroic work ringing the alarm about this “permitting reform” bill that will clearcut another swathe of environmental law

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Jon Silver @invisiblemapper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Call for Papers AAG 2027 // NYC Critical Geographies of the Infrastructure Corridor globalcorridor.eu/news/cfp-aag... Alan Wiig + I are excited to bring together a dialogue centring corridors in geographic scholarship + debate. Please do circulate and think about submitting a paper

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NEW: Keir Starmer declared last year that the “peace dividend” was over, promoting the myth that Britain’s military spending has declined since the end of the Cold War. Our latest report shows this simply isn’t true. 🧵

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Ploughshares @ploughshares.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In a new piece for @cipolicy.bsky.social, @samratner.bsky.social of grantee @winwithoutwar.bsky.social argues that addressing the broader risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East requires a vision for regional denuclearization. Read more ⬇️ internationalpolicy.org/publications...

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Rejecting Trump’s corrupt Saudi nuclear deal is only the start - CIP

A full denuclearization of the Middle East offers a robust, progressive alternative to Trump's nuclear deal with Saudi.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

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Starbucks retreats from green goals amid drive for $2bn in cost cuts

Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Massive spending on data centers is crowding out investment in everything else in the economy. — @pkrugman.bsky.social

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AI Versus Everything Else

The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Read our research director @pmbigger.bsky.social's article for @zeteo.uk:

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

and Geoff Mann has a new one coming out (i think in LRB) in the next couple of weeks that is going to be extremely good

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW: Climate policies must deliver for working people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. Today, we're releasing Immediate Relief, a set of policy proposals to cut costs, protect rights and survival, and expand leisure and access: stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/immediate-re...

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TSP's Kevin Cashman in the New Internationalist:

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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This post illustrates what to me is the most fundamental problem with carbon credits. You can't sell carbon credits in electing Lula, but I've seen numerous analyses pointing to that as *the* crucial factor in the world's largest forest.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My newest in Zeteo UK looks at the elements of ecocide in Gaza: the impacts on land, air, and water that the Israeli assault has produced.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My newest in Zeteo UK looks at the elements of ecocide in Gaza: the impacts on land, air, and water that the Israeli assault has produced.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Out today: Our new report shows that car dependence is a burden for people across the US, draining household budgets and leaving drivers feeling trapped. Key stats below 🧵 climateandcommunity.org/research/dri...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@mattduss.bsky.social "The problem here is the opposite of what Moskowitz claims: Hawkish Democrats aren’t being marginalized enough in the Democratic Party." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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The Reality Today Is That Foreign Policy Hawks Are a Minority in the Democratic Party

It is damn time we all started acting like it.

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

NEW: If you live in the US, your electricity might cost an additional $376/year by 2030. Why? Utilities are passing on $1.4 trillion in costs—largely to deal with AI expansion and climate disasters—to customers over the next five years. stopgreedbuildgreen.climateandcommunity.org/posts/the-bl...

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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New @thebulletin.org by MIT physicists Lisbeth Gronlund & David Wright: The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real protection while fueling a costly, destabilizing arms race in space. nice, good talk

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Defeated by physics

The Pentagon's $3.2 billion bet on space-based boost-phase missile defense ignores basic orbital dynamics, offering no real protection while fueling a costly, destabilizing arms race in space.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This is obscene for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is the climate dimension as I wrote about back when the US extrajudicially kidnapped Maduro in January climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/trumps-ill...

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Trump’s Illegal Invasion of Venezuela Forebodes an Environmental Disaster

Rebuilding Venezuelan oil production would produce new annual emissions higher than the carbon footprints of France, the UK, or Thailand

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climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com

Trump’s Illegal Invasion of Venezuela Forebodes an Environmental Disaster

Rebuilding Venezuelan oil production would produce new annual emissions higher than the carbon footprints of France, the UK, or Thailand

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Great reporting from Gary on the climate crisis in 2026. I told Sarah for the piece, “There is simply no reason... that an entire city with a proud industrial heritage in the richest country in the history of the world should not have access to one of the core inputs of modern life.”

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Friday was the hottest day *ever recorded* for Earth's oceans, on average. Oceans continue to absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from global warming: www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti... via @sfchronicle.com

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Earth’s oceans just broke a heat record. The implications will be massive

Human-caused global warming and a strong El Niño are adding excess heat to the oceans, threatening marine life and providing storms with more energy and moisture.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The war in Iran is gonna be one of those things that students learning about it in the future will be like "wait... why?" and their teacher or prof will just shrug and remind them it was eventually named Trump's Folly or The War for Nothing or whatever

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

get in losers we're doing Green Economic Populism @cplusc.bsky.social

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We're seeking a Senior Associate, Finance and Operations who blends operational savvy, financial management, and commitment to supportive and transparent culture. Learn more and apply: climateandcommunity.org/careers/

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The Green New Deal for Public Schools Act would invest $1.6 trillion over 10 years to provide healthy, green upgrades to every K-12 public school in the nation while tackling educational, environmental, and racial inequity. 🧵

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@cplusc.bsky.social is hiring again! We're looking for someone to join our operations team. This role will be critical to implementing some big changes we're aiming to make that will allow us to be even more effective winning transformative climate+economic policy. climateandcommunity.org/careers/

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Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute

Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The world is a little dimmer today. Writing this for my friend and colleague Sarah Knuth was agonizing and we miss her so much, but we also celebrate Sarah's memory and push forward on the struggles that she cared about so deeply. climateandcommunity.org/bio/sarah-kn...

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Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sad news. RIP Sarah.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Still reeling from this. Sarah was kind of an academic aunt to me through grad school and after. She was brilliant, but she used her brilliance to collaborate and to make everyone around her feel smarter, funnier, and more hopeful. Unreal to inhabit this dumber, drearier world without her.

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Sarah Knuth (In Memoriam) - Climate and Community Institute

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/07/2026

uh...yes?

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Trump's whole-of-government assault on clean energy isn't just a disaster for the planet, it's a catastrophe for the whole economy, with effects that will grow exponentially Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

bloomberg.com

Quashed Cleantech Opportunities Are Costing Us Billions

Ever wonder about the financial implications of your life choices? Taking one job over another, spending Christmas with your nephew instead of working through it at your financial firm, that time Bitc...

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Baltimore Banner Sports @sports.thebaltimorebanner.com · 20/07/2026

“We’re not asking for permission to be here. We’re playing.” In February, USA Rugby banned transgender women from competing in women's matches. It was, on paper, a massive blow to the Baltimore Ferals, one of hundreds of teams affiliated with International Gay Rugby. Instead, they kept playing.

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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

New report by the Oakland Institute reveals that the rush for critical minerals is not about a green transition. More than 70% of mineral demand comes from industries outside the energy transition, like aerospace, military, Big Tech, and AI sectors. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/rush-globa...

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RUSH: Global Scramble for Minerals Wages War on People and Planet

New report from the Oakland Institute highlights how the military, AI, and corporate interests are driving the global rush for critical minerals.

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Karin Kirk @karinkirk.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's the time of year when this NASA page about wildfires and climate change becomes sadly relevant. But the good news is that the page is still up! It walks through the ways we know that our warming climate is causing larger and more destructive wildfires - the evidence is clear.

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Terrible air quality in the nation's capital today, brought to you by Exxon, Chevron, BP, Shell, the American Petroleum Institute, et al.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Okay okay okay let’s go

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Patrick Bigger @pmbigger.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As fire season heats up and wildfire smoke begins to choke cities up and down the East Coast, a reminder that this administration has gutted the Forest Service, making fire prevention and responses even harder. Read more from @cplusc.bsky.social fellow Sara Nelson on our substack

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Setting Fire to the Forest Service

The Trump administration’s USFS reorganization plan is bad news for people and the planet

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Moratoria are one of few levers of democratic intervention able to pause Al data center developments. We hope they are a step toward more deliberate governance and the beginning of a conversation around reorienting public investments toward critical social infrastructure rather than private profit.

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Setting Fire to the Forest Service

The Trump administration’s USFS reorganization plan is bad news for people and the planet

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

And of course next year Memphis will have a GOP congressman, bc Rs used Callais to split the city up into safe red districts.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Check out this new report we worked on with @cplusc.bsky.social. "The AI and data center buildout is not the spontaneous outcome of an imagined 'free market.'...We are witnessing a corporate takeover of state capacity."

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AI First: How the Federal Government is Prioritizing AI Over People and Planet

The data center boom shows that world-altering infrastructure can rapidly expand when the interests of state and capital are aligned.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/07/2026

"Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels of 5 — the highest possible — are forecast across the eastern U.S., meaning human-caused climate change made this extreme heat at least 5x more likely. This signals an exceptional climate-influenced event." 🔥 ➡️ Learn more: www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

Graphic showing the Climate Shift Index for July 2, 2026 using data from the 18z GFS model for minimum temperatures. The graphic shows the change in likelihood due to climate change. Many areas are seeing a maximum of temperatures being at least 5x more likely due to climate change. This tool is available at https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index.

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