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Moral and political philosophy, climate economics, bioethics | Author of *The Social Cost of Carbon* (OUP 2025) | Faculty @UWMadison | First-gen | Fandom: Boston Celtics ☘️, Scrivener, pandoc, ebikes, funding public ed. paulkelleher.net
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WTF is this - why is NPR quoting some obscure health policy guy from a think tank both sides-ing miasma theory?

submitted 9 hours ago • 39 comments

I’m in LA today and sadly unable to protest. But if you see this kickass sign in Madison, that’s my friend Kristen!

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

👇🎯 The moment the Republic stopped functioning was not January 6. It was the second impeachment acquittal in the Senate on February 13, 2021.

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Thread. I don't need to say 'May her memory be a blessing', because it clearly will be. But may she rest in peace.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Well past time for big city mayors to call for the arrest of anyone who claims to be law enforcement but wears a mask and/or won’t identify themselves

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

In ethics we used to call situations like this a “thought experiment”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The confirmed* #measles count in the US so far in 2025 (*undoubtedly an underestimate) stands at 1197 as of 6/12, per #CDC. Another 78 cases would surpass the 2019 count, which is currently the highest yearly total since measles elimination in the US in 2000 — & we're not yet 6 months into the year.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Filed out of an Ani DiFranco concert next to Dennis Kucinich.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I've been planning to bring this book to read on the plane today, but then I just noticed the endorsement on the front. So first I gotta find a strip of opaque painter's tape. Second, a good example of "don't judge a book by its cover".

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Pledging to liberate a city from its democratically elected leadership seems pretty authoritarian to me.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Kamala Harris didn’t provide enough detailed answers about her policy agenda 🤔 bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

As a Tulane alum I am angry and disgusted at this news. A university bowing to political interference to quash important work protecting the most vulnerable from the most powerful. An absolute disgrace @tulaneu.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

For better or worse, EPA generally deems environmental impacts relevant only when impacts are monetized. Yesterday's repeal of emissions standards for power plants studiously refused to monetize any climate impacts at all, which let the decision turn entirely on "regulatory compliance costs."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Kennedy appointed Robert Malone to the top vaccine advisory committee ACIP. Malone is one click off Andrew Wakefield. He thinks the covid shots killed 17 million and that bird flu vaccines are a deep state psyop.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

You and your children will breathe more air pollution because of this action. People will have more asthma attacks. People will have more heart attacks. All while climate impacts accelerate.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I don't know...did Steve Levitsky do <anything> else relevant, @washingtonpost.com? Like, literally <write the book> about this topic? What are we doing here? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Where were these parentheticals when journalists were quoting scientists from fossil fuel-funded think tanks?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

WTAF

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

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BF nuclear Deal

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EPA formally proposed to repeal all greenhouse gas limits for power plants. It argued power plant emissions are "not significant" and "a small and decreasing part of global emissions." It adds that "cost-effective control measures are not reasonably available." www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment