Whenever we are finally able to unravel all the details of the Venezuelan oil theft to uncover all the bribes, kickbacks and corruption by American and Venezuelan politicians, greedy oligarchs & swindlers it’s going to make Trump’s $2 billion crypto scam look like an appetizer.

Donald Trump is so incompetent he is going to create a toilet paper shortage *while* he gives us explosive diarrhea.

Scientists published today the world’s first climate attribution study to link major fossil fuel emitters’ emissions to water loss in the Western U.S. Almost half of decreased snowpack and streamflow in the region, they found, is attributable to 122 oil, gas and cement producers.

The Biggest Carbon Polluters Are to Blame for Half of U.S. Western Water Lost to Climate Change, ‘Groundbreaking’ Paper Says - Inside Climate News

Some of the most impactful changes have come in the stressed Colorado River basin.

insideclimatenews.org

Remembering Mary Esty today, 334 years after she was hanged 😢

Chaski@chaski85.bsky.social · last wk.

We're happy to share videos from our Postcards from America: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness concerts presented by Beerthoven Concert Series at the Neill-Cochran House Museum! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @shanahipharpy.bsky.social @flautadita60.bsky.social

Hey gang, can you do me a favour? If you’re on Instagram too, can you consider following me there as well? I’m working to be more effective there than I have been in the past. Thanks.

Every day Scott Bessent plays in the Treasury markets to buy down interest rates for three hours, he’s spending the local match for the new subway line your city needs. Just a little context.

Yonah Freemark@yonahfreemark.com · last mo.

Congress 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...

One of our earliest posters ICYMI: If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth

Have we just been examining the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI's carbon emissions? This new study says YES. Thanks to @emorwee.bsky.social and @grist.org for reporting on this.

AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model

nature.com

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

The Trump administration is erasing climate data. Researchers are bringing it back.

A review of rescued climate data » Yale Climate Connections

The Trump administration has shut down websites like climate.gov and other climate data projects. Academics, journalists, and nonprofit organizations are working to rebuild what has been lost.

yaleclimateconnections.org

A reminder for Democratic Party leadership: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democrats — support it.

Here's Tango for wind quintet! Many thanks to SMART Sessions for presenting the world premiere yesterday and to Jeremy J. Sustaita, Maryssa Chartier, Jessica Ajucum, Roman Lomas, and Christian Busch for a wonderful performance! 🎶🇦🇷 youtu.be/EopxoWxLQN4

SMART Sessions presents "Tango" by Adrienne Inglis

YouTube video by Adrienne Inglis

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Free concert 1 PM Saturday at San Marcos Public Library! I'm so honored to have SMART Sessions perform the world premiere of my wind quintet "Tango." 🇦🇷🎶

More solar panels in parking areas like this!

Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche would be signing off on what is essentially a $100 million get-out-of-jail-free card for Trump. He must not be confirmed.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she won't support Todd Blanche, adding a key hurdle to his AG confirmation

Climate change is causing more intense, slower-moving hurricanes, increased rainfall, and higher sea levels. But traditional risk assessment methods typically consider one hazard at a time, leading to an underestimation of the danger. yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/08/the-...

The floods of the future won't come one at a time » Yale Climate Connections

A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.

yaleclimateconnections.org

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

It. WORKED!!! The calling and comments and yelling! It works. It's a temporary stall but it can be made permanent. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sena...

U.S. senators push against giving political appointees control over science funding

These proposed changes have seen significant bipartisan pushback and have been criticized by scientists across disciplines

scientificamerican.com

Important new study out at Nature Climate Action showing that individual climate actions do not stop people from participating in collective climate action. Instead, they were associated with greater collective engagement and somewhat stronger policy support. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence - npj Climate Action

npj Climate Action - Personal climate actions do not crowd out collective action and policy support: longitudinal evidence

nature.com

From heat waves to smoky air to a tropical depression in the Gulf, it's been a wild couple of weeks. And while mainstream news outlets are cutting climate coverage left and right, we’re more determined than ever to keep telling the truth. Support us: givetoday.yale.edu/campaigns/71... 

Weather and climate are connected, but they are not the same. Weather is what we experience day to day. Climate is the longer-term patterns that help explain what is changing, what is becoming more likely, and what communities may need to prepare for. Climate.us helps make those connections clearer.

German broadcast. Nailed it

Ocean scientists warn that many snails and mollusks that rely on hydrothermal vents could face extinction as commercial-scale deep-sea mining threatens to destroy their habitats. Yet the U.S. continues to fast-track deep-sea mining leasing offshore American Samoa.

Sea Mining Could Devastate an Enigmatic Group of Creatures, Researchers Warn

The snails and other mollusks around hydrothermal vents have evolved to thrive in extreme conditions, but mineral extraction could drive more than half to extinction.

nytimes.com

Texas Democrat vows to investigate SpaceX if elected state attorney general www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Texas Democrat vows to investigate Musk’s SpaceX if elected attorney general

Nathan Johnson, the Democratic nominee for attorney general, said he wants to determine whether SpaceX is unfairly getting state grant money.

nbcnews.com

"Climate change isn't real" "Climate change is real but it isn't caused by humans" "Okay climate change is real and caused by humans but it really isn't that bad" "Whoops"

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

No matter which conspiracy theories Trump peddles tonight, we know he's just trying to come up with an excuse for unprecedented election sabotage. Trump is desperate, and the GOP will do everything they can to cling to power. The way we stop them is by getting into election protection formation.