Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...
Immediately disqualifying for the job for which he has been nominated. The 4th Amendment specifies it’s “the right of the people,” not of citizens.
We cannot allow someone who doesn’t understand the 4th Amendment to be the head of DHS.
you were pokemon going to panopticon dystopia, whether you realized it or not
Not that I've seen! The (good, solid) justifications I've seen from LAWA staff are basically about traffic reduction and revenue-generation.
And! With all this money trapped sloshing around in airport dept. budgets, what incentive is there to spend it efficiently? c.f. truly ridiculous cost overruns on basically every US airport construction project, including the one that motivated this change!
This is good for transit riders and airport users. But it's also a huge missed opportunity, because the revenues will remain within the airport - it's illegal to spend them on anything else. Actual climate action in the aviation sector requires transferring funds.
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8/ Read Tooze on why the Fertilizer shock during planting season is going to cause a lot of pain. Guess where most people in the world live & farm - Asia!
Most people don't know -I didnt!- Gulf countries as a whole are 2nd largest fertilizer exporters
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4/ The weakest people will suffer the most. Again, just as after Ukraine.
"Pakistan gets 99% of its LNG from Qatar. Fertilizer plants are shutting across the country because they can’t get feedgas
Industries are warning of higher input costs from gas and oil"
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This is a pretty great job! Ask me how I know
The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
I've wanted to go to Isfahan ever since my junior year of college, when I had an amazing history professor who taught the Safavid dynasty. I've never figured out how to get a visa and see these amazing pieces of history and culture.
I am so sorry that my country is an instrument of ruin.
Agreed!
Prediction markets, like prior forms of political gambling, are incompatible with democracy and must be outlawed. This one isn't nuanced.
One of the best people i know, @gruberte.bsky.social came on this podcast to talk about the work she is doing with two of the other best people i know, @jmijin.bsky.social and @jlappen1.bsky.social.
One big takeaway for me is this...
The late 2010s push to build climate desks at media outlets was great - but now the challenge (for those outlets who haven't subsequently sacked them all!) is to integrate them into literally any other desks
Love this teaching idea!
Thanks for your incisive work!
It must change because the real-world is ripe for fossil fuel industries to exploit a very real fear Americans have - based on our past history! - about societal abandonment. They talked about many good cases of this. Fossil fuel companies exploit this fear, and have limitless resources to do so.
"Inextinguishable Fire: A Teach-in Tuesday, March 10th 12:30-1:25 Pigott 100 Come join us to watch Harun Farocki's classic antiwar short Inextinguishable Fire (1969) about the role of Dow Chemical in the production of napalm and discuss what lessons it holds for us today. What responsibilities do we have when American companies manufacture weapons used to kill innocent civilians? How can we act to stop such killings?"
Trying to do my part by holding a teach-in screening of Inextinguishable Fire next week.
I'm late to read it, but this is a fantastic review - both an incisive examination and critique of Fressoz's work, and illuminating in its own right.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
1/3
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Old enough to remember when the regime cared so much about these whales that we had to [checks notes] ... gut the entire offshore wind industry on a hunch?
BREAKING: As I was first to report earlier, Trump has nominated Bradford Wilson, who does not meet the statutory requirements—which include that the nominee be nonpartisan and professionally qualified—to be the next Archivist of the United States.
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Also, this is great reporting, but wildly overdue. The vast majority of media coverage of (just for instance!) oil prices depends on industry claims, and yet very rarely does coverage consider that the source is less than objective. Controlling the data means controlling the political environment.
Tax policy experts will tell you that the US tax model is very susceptible to fraud, that govt data verification is both resource-intensive and politically incendiary, and that self-reporting advantages the wealthiest, who are most sophisticated about misreporting. The analogy reveals who benefits.
The CO regulator quoted here offers an analogy that we should carry further: comparing FF industry self-reporting to taxpayer self-reporting to the IRS. Many, many other countries rely less on self-reporting and more on direct govt data collection than the US, and for the same reasons:
This is a common theme @gruberte.bsky.social and I are constantly running into in our work: Env laws allow industry to self-report, which forces limited reg. resources towards verification and modelling. Political fights then focus on reg. budgets instead of industry pollution. More: bit.ly/4u1IFcc
in this case, it's misdirection. Trust-but-verify is extremely resource-intensive, and lack of direct data control makes it even harder. It's also mitigation rather than prevention. Regulators could simply gather the data themselves and recover costs from industry - a common solution elsewhere.
First, striking to me that EDF and some others in this piece describe this as a problem of error replication and therefore of state capacity. This is the industry's framing, in which data problems are accidental and govt is failing to correct them. I'm a big fan of state capacity analyses, but:
