Today Pete Hegseth removed req. that soldiers get #flu shots. in 1918, 45,000 - 50,000 U.S. soldiers died from influenza. 675,000 Americans; 25-50m worldwide. It started in Kansas & from what is now Fort Riley spread wordwide through US Army mobilization. www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article...

In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years.

Renewables: 33.8%
Coal: 33.0%

Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.

Illinois Weighs Early Warning System For Pesticide Spraying Near Parks, Schools - Inside Climate News What makes Illinois’ bill distinct is the parks provision within the spray area, as studies point to particle drift and widespread injury across non-target public and private lands.

Good bill being championed by @repfaverdias.bsky.social ! Protecting vunlerable children from pesticide spraying by ensuring paretns and staff are given sufficient public notice BEFORE it happens. insideclimatenews.org/news/1804202...

Also - new IL public polling out showing OVERWHELMING public support for strong limits AI data centers to stem these pollution problems and consumer theats chicago.suntimes.com/.../data-cen....

Already told your IL legislators to support the POWER Act to limit pollution and your growing power bills caused by massive AI data Centers? Then SHARE this ask with friends! ujoin.co/campaigns/43....

Adult Education: Care of Creation - session 2 of 2 YouTube video by Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago

Gave a hour talk on air pollution and health at 4th Presbyterian Church, right accross from where RHA's Hustle Chicago stair climb happens every February! Audience was wonderful and engaged. Interested? Find it at (jump past first few minutes) www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRw-...

She’s going to be missed. Incredibly steeled.

Electric trains we once had.

Sweet lord Jesus…

Something odd going on with #AirQuality in SW suburbs of #Chicago. Huge spike in fine particle pollution. #UnhealthyForSensiveGroups per state of #Illinois. Cause? Unclear why levels so high.

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.

The Constitution and a court order both say that the Everglades detention facility must allow people access to their attorneys.

Instead of complying, guards are cutting off people’s phone access and beating people who speak up.

Health overtakes climate change as top priority for ESG investors Poll of fund managers finds firms are dropping references to environmental, social and governance and switching to areas like AI ethics and corruption

Both are important and are intimately tied together as fossil fuel use drives both problems. Climate Change IS a health threat. But human health rose from 15th in 2023 to fifth in the next two years and then to the top place this year. #ActOnClimate #CleanAir
www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Or Texas

April 12, 1980. "Today is the day it all begins".
46 years ago today at 2:30 pm in St. John's NL, Terry Fox started to run across the country.
"I touched the ocean before I left, up this old dirt road that was impossible to run on."
via @terryfoxfoundation.bsky.social

This is what it sounds like to live next to a data center

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Want 1000s of locomotive-sized diesel generators next door? Massive new AI data centers should pay thier own way and use clean renewable power, NOT up your power bill & pollute your air. Let YOUR IL legislators know what YOU want --->url:ujoin.co/campaigns/4341/actions/p...

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

It's hard to draw any other conclusion than: The country is being run by criminals who are short-trading on threats of war and annihilation.

starting to understand what it felt like to live through the Cuban missile crisis

Too soon, anthropic. Too fucking soon.

Study finds link between air pollution and lung cancer rates When researchers took smoking out of the equation, lung cancer rates dropped much more than in counties with cleaner air

If you take #smoking out of the #lungcancer equation? Still a lot of lung cancer. “These are things you can control. We can do something about diesel exhaust,” he said. “We can keep trucks out of neighborhoods. We can switch from diesel to electric trucks.”
www.alleghenyfront.org/study-air-po...

Thought this was kind of cool. #CTA, which is running about 25 electric buses now in #Chicago, is looking to contract to buy 30 more E-buses with up to six options to buy 220 more additional e-buses in future years from the same company.
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Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Is Artemis II toilet the band name or just the album?

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

President Trump speaks at a lectern with an American flag in the background. A headline reads: "Trump Repeatedly Threatens to Commit War Crimes in Iran." Photo by Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times.

President Trump has repeatedly threatened to destroy infrastructure that makes up the foundations of civilian life in Iran — attacks that in most cases would be considered war crimes. He said on Wednesday that the U.S. would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...