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1) Lots of states have criminal offenses related to improper access to private data. 2) Federal officers do not have immunity from state criminal prosecution when they're acting outside federal law, as DOGE is clearly doing. 3) State AGs should consider criminally charging DOGE.

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Of fucking course the creepiest, grossest, all-around worst kid I ever met in law school is helping the flagrantly illegal and horrific DOGE takeover. We used to regularly talk about his serial killer vibes. This is literally a government of the worst people in the entire world.

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Maybe I missed the discourse around this but great great piece.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

From our rally today. Poetry.

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The magnitude of the current size of the #Arctic sea ice extent anomaly is unheard of in the satellite-era record for the deep winter season months. Data from nsidc.org/data/seaice_...

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Pix/text via @zackmezera.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Hundreds of Rhode Islanders out in force today calling on our federal delegation stand strong and use every tool at their disposal to fight Elon’s attempted takeover of our federal government!

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This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 15 days ago • 603 comments

We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments

@aaronregunberg.bsky.social writes about the tools Senate Democrats have at their disposal to slow things down: newrepublic.com/article/1912...

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Remember when South Korea's president declared martial law and troops blocked lawmakers from parliament, but they broke through the barricades and voted down the power grab anyway? Vigorous opposition to tyranny is possible. We need Dems to act like it. newrepublic.com/article/1912...

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Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

submitted 17 days ago • 2101 comments

Wow. Last month wasn't just a usual hottest January on record. Despite cool La Niña conditions, it was even hotter than last years record-breaking El Niño January! Graph by @hausfath.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

Musk and Trump are literally in the midst of a coup. Every Dem senator/rep doing business as usual - voting for Trump noms, taking weekends off, not blocking unanimous consent or maxing out debate or showing up at OPM and Treasury in person - wake the fuck up!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk is stealing your Social Security to pay for his tax cut. That's the truth, and that's the message -- we need to repeat it every minute of every day.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Seems like our movement and Dems should be really making Elon a massive focal point of our protest, right? Unpopular oligarch leading a coup to loot America for his own gain. They’re trying to flood the zone — but maybe we keep the conversation aimed right there.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 20 days ago • 1308 comments

Nice of him to say this now when it means nothing. This MFer literally pushed the DNC to hold an early virtual vote to lock in Biden’s nomination before the Convention, which was only scrapped thanks to some desperate organizing by a bunch of grassroots and elected Dems. GTFOH

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

“As long as we can save even the smallest slice of this mind-blowingly beautiful planet, and of our flawed but still miraculous civilization, that means going on will be worth more than giving up… There’s no point at which that extra bit of fight won’t matter.” - @aaronregunberg.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

When billionaires intentionally swing wrecking balls into government, bad shit happens. That's what Trump and Musk and their cronies did to the FAA, that's why this tragedy happened, and that's what is going to happen to much of what we care about if we let them get their way.

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“One particular safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabilities and objectives – also known as scheming…the potential of AI agents to engage in scheming is a concrete rather than theoretical concern.” Terrifying. Read this.

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Grandson of a German-born Holocaust survivor here -- just wanna say I think the grandkids of Nazis feeling enough guilt about what their families did to not vote for neo-Nazis is actually a great thing that Germany really doesn't need to move beyond.

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So just to be very clear, ExxonMobil hired a hacker to attack climate orgs as part of their conspiracy to shut down accountability efforts. They REALLY don’t want to be made to pay for their planetary arson (and, as always, are happy to commit crimes to get what they want).

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Like many this week, I’ve been reckoning with some strong emotions. How do we think about hope and despair in a moment where the argument for despair does seem to have a lot going for it? Tried to make sense of my own conflicted feelings in this piece for @newrepublic.com

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

Trump's Executive Order declaring a national emergency on energy is directed squarely at local climate policies in blue states. Trump -- at the behest of his Big Oil backers -- wants to sweep away these critical measures that protect our health and safety. We can't let him.

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youtube.com/watch?v=IUKT... Great discussion with @aaronregunberg.bsky.social about #ClimateCriminals from @planetcritical.bsky.social 👏

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Internal report from the American Petroleum Institute in 1982 literally warning that humans might not survive climate change caused by the burning of fossils fuels. These people are criminals and should be treated as such.

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If you're interested, you can find a summary of the latest research on wildfire and climate change in the US here: nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/2/

submitted 43 days ago • 13 comments

Folks keep looking for crazy conspiracy theories re: climate disasters when we have stacks of internal company documents with Big Oil saying "we know our products will cause exactly this kind of disaster, and here's our plan for lying to the public to make sure that happens."

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

We can have a beautiful world where we get free energy from the sun, or we can live in a literal hell where everything we love is lost to fire and floodwaters and withering heat. A few hundred Big Oil billionaires are deadset on condemning us to the hell. We can't let them win.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

If that doesn’t say it all. Stories about the climate inferno engulfing the second biggest city in America, right above a paid ad by the polluters who caused this disaster, calling for SCOTUS to protect them from state suits that would make Big Oil pay for their climate lies.

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Did you know that California has a law that makes it a crime to "recklessly cause a fire," as well as a victim restitution statute requiring those conficted of crimes to pay their victims for their economic losses? Big Oil did this. Prosecute them and make them pay.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

If any of us engaged in conduct that caused this destruction, we'd be thrown in prison. Why aren't we prosecuting ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP?

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Fossil fuel companies

submitted 47 days ago • 282 comments

UN special rapporteur on climate says COP and consensus-based, state-driven process is dominated by false narratives and by tech fixes that divert attention from real, equitable solutions.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Couldn't be prouder to work with @aaronregunberg.bsky.social and @darkush.bsky.social on describing the crime that best captures Big Oil's conduct: causing or risking catastrophe. nyuelj.org/2025/01/caus...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Big Oil has recklessly caused or risked climate catastrophes in countless communities around our country. Turns out in many jurisdictions that's quite literally a crime -- as we explain in our latest law review article, published today in the NYU Environmental Law Journal!

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Making latkes with my three-year-old and he legit just did a one-handed egg crack, something I’ve never been able to do. What?

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Knowing that, in refusing to address climate change, we're stumbling towards the literal collapse of organized human civilization on this planet, and having to walk around like things are basically fine so you don't seem crazy -- it's enough to actually make you lose your mind.

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Happy Chanukah. It’s dark out there — gotta hold fast to the lights when we can find them.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

If you HATED the Democratic Party, and wanted nothing more than to destroy it by permanently alienating enough young + working class + progressive voters so Dems could never win a majority again, could you find a better plan than the one Dem elites have followed this past year?

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Harris campaign advisors: "We did everything we could have, but this was unwinnable, because Biden - the guy we previously said absolutely had to be the nominee - was so unpopular, but also not unpopular enough to justify us making literally any effort at all to break from him."

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

No no no, we can’t try to pass a minimum wage hike through reconciliation, that would violate a norm. We can only do that for stuff we really care about, like illegally arming war criminals or pardoning my shitty selfish son.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Kamala Harris treated climate change as an issue to be avoided. But climate is one of Dems' best opportunities to tell stories that, like Trump's, have clear villains and center the way elites (like Big Oil CEOs) are hurting working class people. That's why it's time for climate populism.

submitted 88 days ago • 15 comments

Say it with me: Dumbass forms of identity politics didn't come from the Bernie wing of the Democratic Party, they came from the establishment's cynical attempts to beat down that wing.

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

So the Dem establishment that argued we can forget working class voters cause of the suburbs is now saying we lost cause progressive groups advocated for stuff? How bout fucking insurance companies, Big Oil lobbyists, AIPAC—no way they’ve pushed Dems to do unpopular stuff, right?

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Democratic elites spent years weaponizing identity politics against Bernie because of his class-first approach, but ya know what he’s never done? Throw immigrants and trans folks under the bus, as many Dem elites have been eager to do this cycle. Bernie has a better approach:

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