The seats for the course I designed "Special Topics in Political Theory: Environmental Justice" are all filled up 🤗🥹

Republicans deploy little-known law to open Minnesota wilderness to mining Legal experts say the use of the Congressional Review Act to open mining near the Boundary Waters could drastically reshape U.S. public lands protections.

Republicans deploy little-known law to open Minnesota wilderness to mining #Climate

me when i try to justify frivolous and needless expenses yes mom it's for national securityyyyy i swearrrr

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

(Published Dec. 2025)

Twisted my ankle again so I'm pulling the Meredith Grey / Helly R walk

Urban green spaces are scarce, while climate and wealth impact access A study of 862 European cities reveals a lack of adequate access to green space. It also highlights a climate-driven geographical difference and a clear socioeconomic divide.

Urban green spaces are scarce, while climate and wealth impact access

Study of 862 European cities reveals lack of adequate access to green space, highlights climate-driven geographical differences and a clear socioeconomic divide

joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.

This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.

Here's why.

The bizarre connection between Iran negotiations and Trump's crypto firm World Liberty Financial has developed close ties to the Pakistani government.

The Trump family has earned about $1 billion from their arrangement with World Liberty Financial.

The addition of millions of new users from Pakistan would provide World Liberty with more activity on the platform and more stability—and the Trumps with more cash flow as tokens are bought and sold.

I did appreciate the Russian doll with Orbán on the outside and Putin inside at the Tisza party 😀

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Why this NASA climate scientist wants you to stay angry “I don’t think we rebuild science without getting mad.”

I couldn't agree more with Kate that it's okay--even necessary--to get mad, stay mad, and channel that anger along any number of constructive avenues in this disconcerting moment.

Tax deductible!!!! (I think?)

so wild that the dark side of the moon is as far as humans have ever travelled into space and every other tech bro thinks moving humans to the Moon or Mars is a more reasonable path than you know, saving this planet.

the lack of humility that capitalism breeds...

I’m loving all the people arguing now that Pakistan’s solar boom was inevitable and obvious, but nothing comparable could happen in other countries in future.

It wasn’t obvious in 2022, when Pakistan saw no role for solar in fixing the energy import dependencies that had just sent it to the IMF! 🧵

April 1 is supposed to be peak snow in California. Forget that this year An extremely warm March melted most of the snow in California's Sierra Nevada. The early melt fits a long-term pattern as greenhouse gases push temperatures higher.

Most of the snow in California’s Sierra Nevada has melted after a record-breaking heat wave.

“Climate change is influencing California’s water system quickly and severely.” @petergleick.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...

We can’t ignore the largest source of methane Food is the largest source of human-caused methane – we ignore it at our peril

Did you know that methane has caused about 30% of the warming we've seen to date? (Plus, it causes a lot of other air pollution...)

And did you know that the biggest methane emissions come from food systems?

drawdown.org/insights/we-...

Political Science Department Join me in supporting BU Giving Day!

Please consider donating to our department (@bupolisci.bsky.social) this Boston University Giving Day 🙏
If you do I will personally bake you your favorite cookie and/or compose a limerick dunking on your most hated sports team.

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Arctic sea ice hits lowest winter level as unprecedented heat smashes records all over Earth The sea ice is crucial to Earth’s climate because without it reflecting sunlight, more heat energy goes into the oceans. Ice of all kinds around the poles acts as Earth’s refrigerator.

Arctic sea ice shrank to tie its lowest measured level for the winter, the season when ice grows, as a warming Earth shattered records across the continents.

Nothing specific, just a general thought haha

How do political theorists who publish several articles a year do that? Physically and mentally... How?

Transgender women banned from Olympics by new IOC policy The new policy limits eligibility in women’s events to biological females based on genetic screening beginning at the 2028 Games.

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes.

In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist.

www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

Wormy food, intimidating guards, sick kids: Inside ICE’s only family detention center First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.

"You can’t drink the water here. The smell is bad, and it hurts our stomachs a lot."

"I have been served raw meat at Dilley. One woman became so sick from eating the food that she began vomiting blood."

First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

Absolutely obsessed with the suspension of disbelief required to watch early-mid 2000s sitcoms where characters live in impossibly large New York City apartments

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Oh god… It’s* happening again…

*The urgent need to rewatch all of Grey’s Anatomy

This is a master class in how NOT to select a photo for a news story about climate change-fueled extreme heat. Clickbait isn't going to win you actual readers or subscribers via social. (No shade to the photog, it's an editorial call.) @coveringclimatenow.org has good tips on choosing heat visuals.

“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

I happen to be rereading @amitav63.bsky.social's The Great Derangement, which starts by discussing the March 18, 1978, "freak tornado" that had hit Delhi, India. In the 48 years
since, with rising global temperatures, this once rare phenomenon in India had become more frequent and often deadlier.

Petition: Formal recognition of climate-displaced people within the asylum system Amend immigration and asylum law to establish a clear legal status for people displaced by climate change, provide access to protection comparable to refugee status, and create defined humanitarian pa...

Please sign and distribute this petition:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

More generally, this global era we are living through is an opportune time to discuss the ways in which we ought to care for one another. Eloise and Iris put this thought in the most succinct and accurate way I could think of: This is about people having a safe place to live.