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Big Oil Breaks Everything The planet, our democracy, our courts...

If you read one thing today ...
An essential article by the great @billmckibben.bsky.social
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When living in Upper Arlington, before moving to Illinois, I was able to talk to one city council member about environmental concerns I had. That was John Kulewicz.

I have no doubt he would be a thoughtful and action-oriented AG for Ohio.

Cool With Kulewicz YouTube video by John Kulewicz for Ohio Attorney General

Throwing my tiny bit of support to John Kulewicz in the Ohio AG race and wishing him the best in the primary coming up on May 5th!

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Go Cubs Go, 6 in a row!

It's Earth Week! Was happy to see how many turned out to the Buffalo Grove Environmental Action Team's Earth Day event yesterday, despite some chilly weather.

Looking forward to @runonclimate.bsky.social's event on Wednesday!

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Would it be weird if I did this to my house?

5 in a row!

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NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.

This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

4 in a row, let's get the Mets sweep tomorrow!

This appears to be the book they are reading!

Alone & Together (A Die-Cut Peek-Through... book by Émilie Chazerand share.google/WcWTSnUgUTft...

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We all need to be doing everything we can to ensure a better future for those who come next.

I'm not in Hollywood, but I assume it's also the people without the actual talent

Both infuriating and depressing, but don't let that keep you down. It's another thing to fight for, we need everyone this year.

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much.

Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment.

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Love this, thank you to both chief sponsors! Looking forward to helping Rep. Syed win her State Senate seat this fall!

If you can't tell, this is the north pole raising over 6° C since the 1950s

i cant stop thinking about this, its the perfect distillation of the conservative financial mind…trump didnt keep his impossible campaign promise bc the promise was impossible to keep so hes blameless

How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up There's an old argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy. It's wrong for a lot of reasons.

How the Trump administration’s climate math doesn’t add up

Illinois House passes youth voter registration bill and limits new immigration detention centers near homes

The Illinois House on Wednesday passed a measure meant to encourage public high schools across the state to connect their students to organizations that will help them register to vote when they turn 18.

Democrats also won control of historically red towns and cities in Wisconsin, and far-right school board members got swept out of power in traditionally Republican parts of Missouri

Republicans did 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘺 in Tuesday’s elections!

Progressives won Wisconsin’s nonpartisan Supreme Court race by 60-40—their biggest margin since 1999—and grew their majority to 5-2.

Dems had their biggest House special election overperformance since 2008 in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old district

Trump's Iran War: A Timeline February 28 - Trump starts bombing Iran and strikes two elementary schools, killing over 100 children. February 28 - The Strait of Hormuz closes, disrupting the global oil and natural gas supply. March 1 - U.S. service members Robert Marzan, Nicole Amor, Noah Tietjens, Declan Coady, Jeffrey O’Brien, and Cody Khork are killed in action in Kuwait. March 7 - Trump claims victory in the Iran War for the first time: “We’ve already won.” March 18 - The Pentagon asks for more than $200 billion in extra funds for the Iran War. March 22 - In prime-time address, Trump claims that Iran is “now dead.” March 31 - U.S. average gas prices surpass $4/gallon. April 1 - Trump says “we're fighting wars, we can't take care of daycare.” April 3 - Two U.S. military aircraft are shot down over Iran. April 5 - Trump issues Easter message demanding Iran to “open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards.” April 7 - Trump threatens to destroy Iranian civilization on Truth Social.

A timeline of Trump's war

Trump Truth Social post

Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization.

Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do?

Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.

Wisconsin, have you reminded three friends to go vote in our election tomorrow? 👀

Neither Polymarket nor Kalshi should exist.

The Contiguous U.S. averaged 4.1F warmer than normal for the Nov-Mar period. This is 1F warmer than the previous record (2011-12). 🔥🔥🔥

ERA5 data confirmed that March 2026 was the warmest March on record. An amazing 38% of the Contiguous U.S. had it's warmest March in 2026.