Farmworkers have more than 35x the risk of heat-related death than workers in any other industry, but there are no federal heat protection standards. The @fairfoodprogram.bsky.social has its own—& just added a rule requiring access to electrolytes for farmworkers www.fastcompany.com/91584914/far...

Farmworkers across 22 states will get free access to electrolytes to combat dangerous heat stress

The Fair Food Program, whose buyers include major retailers like Walmart, McDonald's, and Trader Joe's, will now mandate electrolytes for workers.

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I feel dangerously close to running away into the woods and never looking at a computer again www.vulture.com/article/infl...

The Influencer Recession

Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.

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“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis

In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?

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It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal grist.org/energy/data-...

It’s official: Data centers are slowing America’s shift away from coal

New federal data shows that AI demand helped push U.S. power sector emissions up last year.

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I actually don't know how I would react if someone used AI to talk to me in person. I would be tempted to just walk away. Also, it's fine to not know things in a conversation. If you're unfamiliar with a book, ask them, let the real human you are in front of explain it to you!

this kicks right off with a banger of a line: "A quintessential quality of modern American life is the inescapable feeling that once-good things are subtly but surely being degraded."

Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last wk.

It is kind of amazing that we have settled on a version of capitalism that leads us into a trash can due to a decision not to price in the public costs of private profits. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/enshittifi...

literally any time my husband & I are driving on the highway, if there's someone in front of us braking for no reason (no one in front of them), we end up passing them & see that they are on their phones

bob barker 🍸@insortediaboli.bsky.social · 2w ago

i now sit and point out people to my wife, when she drives, that are on their phones as we go past. its non stop. and shell ask rhetorically at stop lights "why arent we moving" and the answer is just: phone

At a vigil to honor the journalists in Gaza held today in Atlanta, it took the speakers over 20 minutes to read through the names of over 270 Palestinian journalists assassinated by Israel during the War in Gaza, as identified by @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵

This is obvious, but a very powerful thing Mamdani does that is evident in his NYT interview is that he constantly looks for ways to be inclusive and draw people in rather than stoke division, even when talking about people who disagree with him or topics of tension

the piece is about how the collapse of unionized labor in the construction industry has affected wages and working conditions, it took 60 interviews to do. pretty burned out on people just glancing at a headline and giving the most snide possible reaction

Important New York Times story is out today on our investigation: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

"The dirty truth is that 'adding to cart' is far easier, for consumers and for brands, than policy transformation" www.fastcompany.com/91565959/loo...

Loonen and the rise of consumer safety as status symbol

With environmental regulation in retreat, startup brands are finding they can profit by selling clean water, clean air, and more to the rich.

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NEW: Big Oil and Gas created the myth that natural gas is "clean" — despite knowing the health and climate harms of methane decades earlier than previously reported. A major CCI investigation exposes how the gas industry deceived the public and policymakers into believing gas is a climate solution.

The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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In Keenan’s book North: The Future of Post-Climate America, he works to dispel this mythology of climate havens. “There is no such thing as a climate haven,” he writes, “there are merely better and worse places to live.” @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91575258/det...

The wishful thinking of 'climate havens': Canada's wildfire smoke is debunking myths about the Midwest

Cities like Detroit and Duluth, Minnesota, were once thought to be safer from the impacts of climate change. Their air quality this week says otherwise.

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seeing bad air is so wild. the view out of one of our office windows just yesterday versus today

Trials would be ideal, but if they for some reason fail at that, Democrats must at least commit to making the names of people who made each of these specific decisions public, so they can’t escape them the rest of their lives.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w ago

Evil. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

I just remembered one was a Waymo commercial. Also one for Ebglyss with Kelly Rowland (hate that I remember it so well)

Kristin Toussaint@ktoussaint.bsky.social · 3w ago

went to an AMC for the first time in a very long time last night and there was at least 20 minutes of commercials—like, for cars, pharmaceuticals, etc—before the trailers. is this normal now? I found it so jarring

Raising union density is the answer that you are looking for. Everyone should be talking about raising union density all the time. Here's how to raise union density. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/union-dens...

Union Density Is the Cause of and Solution to Our Problems

What it means to take that seriously.

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this idea that every action or pursuit has to 'make economic sense' is a plague (this is a quote from a man who has used AI to publish ~445 books) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...

I finally embraced my destiny and wrote about the Central Park horses and my thought is: just free the fuckin horses already nygroove.nyc/free-the-cen...

Just free the goddamn horses already

Banning the archaic and weird tourist-trap industry is closer to finally becoming a reality this week.

nygroove.nyc

went to an AMC for the first time in a very long time last night and there was at least 20 minutes of commercials—like, for cars, pharmaceuticals, etc—before the trailers. is this normal now? I found it so jarring

We would spend hours in the mall. Now stores are literally banning kids under 18 who aren't with parents. (Not to mention entire groups of us as teens would occupy multiple tables at diners, late at night or post football games, and never get yelled at, though I'm sure we annoyed some waitresses)

Zack Davisson@zackdavisson.com · 3w ago

I ask as always: What were these mythical "third places that previous generations had available to them?" The whole idea of "third places" is just so much Camelot mythmaking.

this country has such short term memory issues www.newsweek.com/the-us-tried...

The US tried permanent daylight saving in 1974 and people hated it

The U.S. tried permanent daylight saving time in 1974 during the energy crisis. Here's why Americans initially backed it—and why public support quickly collapsed.

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One of the most bizarre things I keep encountering _from climate people_ is a statement like "AI is inevitable and by inevitable I mean everyone uses it so we just have to live with it and moderate it the best we can." That's not the fundamental attitude we took on coal and fossil fuels generally.

I specifically remember a college professor assigning us the print edition of a paper to read, because he said you would discover more that way than by searching for stories online www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

Opinion | We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask

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News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

what do you mean a *loss* to the left???????

This is the future Big Oil built for us. Fossil fuel companies knew decades ago that their products would drive increasingly severe and frequent heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, but lied to protect their own profits at the expense of public health and safety. The public deserves accountability.

Dangerous, record-smashing heat wave to scorch millions

A prolonged, dangerous heat wave will intensify across most of the central to eastern U.S. this week, the National Weather Service said.

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