Exec Dir @CoveringClimate, enviro correspondent @thenation, author (Big Red's Mercy, HOT, Earth Odyssey, On Bended Knee, The Beatles) and lucky dad.
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My personal affection and professional respect for Christiane @amanpour approaches infinite. I have been privileged to learn from her and laugh with her for four decades. And I know she will continue to illuminate our world and our lives.
Breaking: CNN legend Christiane @Amanpour, the network's chief international anchor, is departing the network next June. cnn.com/2026/10/19/media/chr…
My latest @CoveringClimate column: "The Trump Scandal That Everyone Overlooked" newrepublic.com/article/2166… via @newrepublic
Article by me, available for all @CoveringClimate partner news outlets to publish as well
Trump Is Making Deals With Big Oil | The Nation thenation.com/article/enviro…
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There are several flaws in this @NYT piece about Jeffrey Epstein's death. The biggest, however, is the reporters ignore the fact that someone else didn't need to get into that unit to kill him. The unit was filled with inmates capable of harming him -- and they were coming and going all day and even into the night. Epstein had a number on his back from the day he got there. The cameras weren't recording. It's simple to just leave a door unlocked and pay someone already on the inside to kill him. It remains frustrating that the Times fails to adequately address (with its enormous resources that I don't have) -- the massive corruption and fabricated reports in that facility that happened that night. The Times would have you believe that it was just accidental that he was left alone in his cell, and that killing him would have required a massive number of people. That simply is not true. youtu.be/uTsI2OTeSxk?si=HWMW… via @YouTube
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Indigenous Peoples Day is today and it’s important to remember Native Americans are not merely historical people. We are still here and the oldest injustice in US history—the dispossession of land from hundreds of Indigenous nations mainly by fraudulent treaties—is still ongoing!
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Keys to a happy long-term relationship:
- be obsessed with each other
- be very affectionate
- laugh together
- eat together
- want ~the same things out of life
- support each other’s dreams
- don’t blame your partner for your bullshit
- figure out how to both get great sleeps every night
- learn how to co-exist in a space, manage chores + orderliness in a way that feels good for you both
- actually listen to each other
- take responsibility for yourself
- be curious about each other’s worldview
- apologize + admit when you’re wrong
- talk about money, figure out your shared / differing beliefs about how you want to generate, save, spend
- always expand each other’s sense of what’s possible
- speak to the highest version of each other
- give gifts and gestures that show your partner you see + understand + think about them
- connection + quality time that do not center logistics / life operations
- build shared good habits
- fall in love with the life you’re building together
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Marina Silva on Flávio Bolsonaro: He will try to finish his father’s ‘perverse project’ to destroy the Amazon
Interview by @tomphillipsin
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Trump è il presidente più corrotto della storia americana: non governa, saccheggia e a pagarne il prezzo sono l’Unione Europea e il resto del mondo.
Il suo rapporto con Putin è uno scambio di favori:
Trump cerca il suo aiuto per far scendere, prima del voto, il prezzo del diesel, arrivato a 6,50 dollari al gallone.
In cambio, allenta le sanzioni contro la Russia, mentre continua a usarle come leva di pressione sull’India e sull’Unione Europea.
E all’Europa riserva un doppio ricatto:
Sottomissione e umiliazione :
ne limita le alternative energetiche e la costringe a comprare gas e petrolio americani.
Non è una politica di alleanze: è una politica di prepotenza, in cui gli alleati diventano clienti obbligati e gli interessi di Trump vengono prima di tutto.
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Once again @AP models what @CoveringClimate calls the 3 essentials of good climate reporting: humanize the climate story (talk people, not parts per million), localize it (geographically or emotionally), and solutionize it (describe not just the problem but how to fix it. Bravo!
Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting diesel generators. In Nova Sociedade, where residents walked up to 20 kilometers for water during the historic 2024 drought, solar panels now power pumps supplying clean water to 36 families. Advocates say renewable energy can strengthen Indigenous and traditional communities, improve climate resilience and help protect the rainforest.
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NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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O jornal britânico The Guardian alertando que Flávio bolsonaro não passa de um golpista e ameaça a nossa democracia enquanto a mídia brasileira trata a candidatura do filho de alguém que está preso por golpe de estado como se fosse normalíssima.
theguardian.com/world/2026/o…
Once again @AP models what @CoveringClimate calls the 3 essentials of good climate reporting: humanize the climate story (talk people, not parts per million), localize it (geographically or emotionally), and solutionize it (describe not just the problem but how to fix it. Bravo!
Off-grid solar power is spreading across Brazil’s Amazon, helping remote communities prepare for severe drought while replacing costly, polluting diesel generators. In Nova Sociedade, where residents walked up to 20 kilometers for water during the historic 2024 drought, solar panels now power pumps supplying clean water to 36 families. Advocates say renewable energy can strengthen Indigenous and traditional communities, improve climate resilience and help protect the rainforest.
Mark Hertsgaard retweeted
Pocas veces he visto una explicación tan perfecta y sentida de lo q representa la ideología de DERECHA.
La excelentísima Presidenta de México; Sra. Claudia Sheinbaum, nos regala esta enorme verdad;
"La derecha es una ideología q está contra el pueblo".
Escuchen y aplaudan de pie.
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The personal computer revolution believed in the hands-on imperative: we humans should be connected in a tight partnership with our machines, which would augment not replace our intelligence. But AI is barreling down a different path. Here’s why that’s a mistake. nytimes.com/2026/10/05/opini… via @NYTOpinion
