Greg Spooner
@spoonsky.bsky.social
Physicist Californian Climate activist Wine maker Human Born at 318 ppmCO2 he/him/any Just in case BlueSky gets nuked or neutered… find me on Mastodon here: @gregspooner@ohai.social
In June, the BLM quietly approved the Townsite Data Center project in Boulder City, Nevada - the first data center approval on public lands Environmental advocates warn it sets a dangerous precedent, & @biologicaldiversity.org & @sierraclub.org are challenging it www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump...
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Build Data Centers on Public Lands
The latest was supposed to be a solar project. Now, in a “bait and switch,” it’s set to power AI
sierraclub.org
Trump is refusing 220 million dollars in disaster relief to Democrat led states. That alone should be a bipartisan impeachable offense. It should also be something that incites open revolt.
Feel like this should have got more attention "Rapid early assessment by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) estimates there were 2,877 heat-associated deaths during 2 notable periods of hot weather in May and June 2026, almost double the figure reported annually for 2025"
UKHSA report shows 2,877 excess deaths caused by May and June heatwaves
The 2,877 excess deaths represents a significant increase on the 1,504 excess deaths observed in summer 2025.
gov.uk
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Day 36 of my 28,000km no-fly lower-carbon trip from Italy to PNG. I'm mid in my journey & here's my second thread after the first: bsky.app/profile/ggri.... I enjoy the quiet and buzz of Chiang Mai-Thailand before heading South. Slow-travel will cut greenhouse gases emissions by ~10 times. 51/
dr. gianluca grimalda@ggrimalda.bsky.social · 11mo agoI've set off to Bougainville,PNG, for another #NoFly journey. I want to complete my research there. Travelling the ~25,000km distance from Italy by🚢,🚅,&🚌,I'll emit ~10 times less than✈️ (computations to come).Here the long read on my motivations: gianlu777.substack.c... 1/🧵
A self-respecting Congress would impeach him over this immediately. Doing an end-run around the Senate's Constitutional "advise and consent" authority to illegally take money from taxpayers, and give it to himself and criminals he likes. Alone, one of the most impeachable offenses in US history.
Howard French@hofrench.bsky.social · 4d ago
Well that didn't take long. But remember even as all these show trials blow up in their smug botoxed faces, the Prairieland protestors have been thrown into a gulag for 30 to 50 years. There's no resting until all political prisoners are freed.
Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was flawed, drops case against former Olympian | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was flawed, and it is dropping the criminal case against former Olympia...
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My latest republished in @truthout.org. "Florida is really ground zero for how much immigration enforcement is changing and expanding." - @silkys13.bsky.social
How Do We Sustain Momentum for the Anti-ICE Movement Over Time?
Silky Shah, executive director of Detention Watch Network, discusses how the fight against ICE has entered a new phase.
truthout.org
This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?
FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.
President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.
eenews.net
It’s fun to donate blood. You get snacks. Donor centers are full of good people. The machines are fun to watch. I donate “double red” the 1st day I can after the required 16 weeks between donations. I get emails telling me where my blood goes! As an O+, CMV- donor, my blood often goes to preemies.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk."On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
These are not just fires. These are not just heatwaves. These are not just smoky skies. These are climate disasters that Big Oil knew decades ago would become more deadly and destructive if we kept burning fossil fuels. Instead of warning the public, Big Oil lied. There must be accountability NOW.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
stlpr.org
"Self-checkout and locked up products may both be driven by management’s desire to reduce staffing, as Mull notes, but in combination they create a nonsensical system." dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
dannykatch.substack.com
DoorDash has been silent as its delivery drivers are hunted and killed by federal agents. Now, the company is backing #HR9720, a bill attacking DC Home Rule. We are calling on everyone to #DeleteDoordash. Let us know you've deleted your account and share your reasons why: deletedoordash.com
Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
deletedoordash.com
"Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder," Susan Pretti wrote Saturday on Instagram. "No-one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over.” www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Alex Pretti's Mother Says The Last 6 Months Have Been A 'Roller-Coaster Of Trauma'
It's been six months since federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, who was protesting ICE's crackdown in Minnesota.
yahoo.com
TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
cbsnews.com
I continue to believe RFK Jr is morally depraved and essentially a eugenicist www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
liberalcurrents.com
Exclusive: NIH, which 1 year ago was slammed by a federal judge for illegally terminating more than 1700 grants funding research on health disparities and other politically sensitive issues, is again killing ongoing projects on those topics. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4pF6Mvy
This should be truly shocking, but unfortunately isn't.
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
nytimes.com
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
As *tech*, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's apps "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology: www.normaltech.ai 1/
Every article about the effects of global warming that doesn't mention global warming is unnatural. It's like if articles about car accidents never mentioned that cars were involved, and only described the victim's injuries. It's not only bad journalism, at this point it's pro-oil propaganda.
An FDA Committee Just Voted in Favor of Peptides—Despite the Agency's Opposition time.com/article/2026...
An FDA Committee Just Voted in Favor of Peptides—Despite the Agency's Opposition
The group met on July 24 to vote on whether compounding pharmacies could legally dispense certain peptides.
time.com
Saying "They don't have the votes" takes all the pressure off Pro-Trump congressmembers. #DemandMore #RaiseTheBar #ImpeachConvictRemove
