I did not have THE VIEW as the next show on the Administration’s hit list… www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | Chair, Political Soc, ASA | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on Saving Ourselves: go.ted.com/danarfisher
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I did not have THE VIEW as the next show on the Administration’s hit list… www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Here's what's going on in and around Chicago 👀
The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.
We’re seeing growing resistance at the local level by elected officials, here’s NYC yesterday www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
I'm really looking forward to seeing everyone at #ClimateWeekNYC! I’ll be discussing Climate Communication in a Polarized World and hosting conversations about building community resilience in the face of extreme events at the House of Scientista Thursday (cosponsored by @au-cece.bsky.social )!
Pollution from fires, intensified by rising temperatures, is on track to become one of America’s deadliest climate disasters www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
We should assume we are all next…
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“The death of Charlie Kirk is a turning point in our fight for civilization.” From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultra-nationalist movements have seized on Charlie Kirk's death to make him a martyr.
well said!
Really interesting new paper on the rising health effects of our warming world with some great data visualizations. Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We should assume we are all next…
Next week on Tuesday, I'm thrilled to be joining the Climate Mic Drop Summit at #ClimateWeekNYC! I'm giving a Lightning Activism Talk: "Harnessing People Power for Social Change & Climate Action" ⚡ Details at: climatemicdrop.org
@fisherdanar.bsky.social: “The only other time that we’ve had such a heightened period of political violence, if you think about all the things that have happened from [January] 2021 through now, is in the 1960s"
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In this new paper with @fisherdanar.bsky.social in Politics and Governance, we distinguish intrinsic and instrumental polarisation and analyse polarisation curves and phases in US climate politics. We also present new methods for discourse networks. doi.org/10.17645/pag... @cogitatiopag.bsky.social
BREAKING: ABC has announced it is pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air “indefinitely” to censor the host after comments he made Monday night about the "MAGA gang" doing everything to claim Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin was "anything other than one of them." Here is the clip:
Absolute fucking hysteria from the free speech guys.
📢My article with @leifeld.bsky.social, "Up and Down With… Polarisation? Intrinsic and Instrumental Polarisation Dynamics in US Climate Policy Debates" is OUT at Politics & Governance. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.17645/pag...
#WellSaid
Hot climate, hot cities, hot bodies, hot forests, hot wildfires, hot death.
RIP Robert Redford. apnews.com/article/robe...
Pretty big news:
The Washington Post was the paper of my teen dreams -- whose courage helped convince me to chose a life in journalism. Monday's firing of the Post's moral beacon, Karen Attiah, proved that a newsroom I'd believed in is now dead to me Why I finally ditched the Post www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Next week on Tuesday, I'm thrilled to be joining the Climate Mic Drop Summit at #ClimateWeekNYC! I'm giving a Lightning Activism Talk: "Harnessing People Power for Social Change & Climate Action" ⚡ Details at: climatemicdrop.org
Amazing lineup--Congratulations 🥳
#sigh 🤦🤦🤦
Stop and think about the government threatening to jail a person if they refuse to print political material with which they disagree.
TODAY!! 🎉👇
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Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.
JD Vance wants to go after the Ford Foundation, eh? Interestingly, the Ford Foundation has long been in the crosshairs of the American far right for their supposed funding of "hateful, radical left, anti-white propaganda." Here's an example of that talk from the 1955 edition of The White Sentinel.
Tomorrow, join the The Center for Environment, Community, & Equity for our first colloquium of the year! We will hear from recipients of the CECE Faculty Research Incubator Grants on Sustainable Procurement and Remote Sensing and Knowledge Co-Production in Haiti cece.american.edu/cece-colloqu...
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
MUST READ 🧵for your Monday Morning FROM @chrismurphyct.bsky.social 👇
9/ I hope I'm wrong. But we need to be prepared if I'm right. That means everyone who cares about democracy has to join the fight - right now. Join a mobilization or protest group. Start showing up to actions more. Write a check to a progressive media operation.
Robert Reich, who worked for Ford & Carter, served as labor Sec for Clinton, and was on Obama's economic transition advisory board — cites progressives like @zohrankmamdani @grahamformaine.bsky.social & @abdulelsayed.bsky.social as the “future” for Dems. Full post: www.facebook.com/share/p/15zD...
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💯 #truth
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
For another good piece, see @thenation.com !
To see @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, @ezraklein.bsky.social and other columnists just ignore this central piece of Turning Point’s work is inexcusable. TPUSA and its allies terrorized hundreds of academics. I was one of them.
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Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov 🤩
🚨👀 Seems like a BFD - Sen Van Hollen calls out New Yorkers like Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Hakeem Jeffries for “spineless politics” bc of not endorsing Mamdani. Great to see CVH speaking w moral clarity w/o fear. More of this please. 🔥
Good news for climate science and climate action, but likely just a pause in the Administration’s efforts to spread climate misinformation. www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
Oop.
Trying to imagine the media diet I would have to consume in order to believe that bussing insurrectionists to the US Capitol equates to arguing "with civility"
THIS👇
Always fun getting mansplained by a dad at my kid’s bball about how political violence works…😏
Good news for climate science and climate action, but likely just a pause in the Administration’s efforts to spread climate misinformation. www.npr.org/2025/09/13/n...
Same.
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Anyone looking for an example of how to fan the flames of political violence with misinformation that targets your opponent, here you go:
lol
Over a month out, and #NoKings 2.0 looks like it may be even bigger than the first time around this summer! for details, see: www.nokings.org
Same
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We conducted a national survey (so everyone), which is in the piece in Scientific American. The data from the Left were collected at legally permitted peaceful protests, which is not currently the jam of the Right (for many reasons).
Absolutely 💯
And here's more on this subject from my piece in @sciam.bsky.social in March: www.scientificamerican.com/article/risi...
My research has been documenting growing support for political violence across the political Left since January. Here are data from participants at all of the major protests in 2025:
If you did an obituary on Charlie Kirk that was just quoting directly in context what he was most proud of saying and doing, a lot of editors would say to revise it because it would read as being mean to a dead man
Hearing about parrot's building digital communities is a perfect way to start this Friday! 😍😍
Nice!
she is awesome (and so is Dayenu) 😍😍😍
I'm delighted to announce this year's Faculty Research Incubator Grant competition for @au-cece.bsky.social is now OPEN! For details on eligibility and how to apply (note you must be a faculty member at American University), go here: cece.american.edu/call-for-pro...
Well that's kindof beautiful (but sad).
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Apparently inciting hatred and violence with intolerance is what he (and the NYTs by association) believe is how to "practice politics the right way." Just #NoWords.
💯 and straight up #NoWords.
If Charlie Kirk had been, say, a Black Panther or member of the Nation of Islam and went around college campuses saying white people weren't qualified to fly planes or deserved to die in mass shootings, no one would eulogize him by saying he was "practicing politics the right way."
Seems like an important day to re-up this piece from March 2025 (before US cities were being occupied by the military) in @sciam.bsky.social : www.scientificamerican.com/article/risi...
The new 2025 report from @rhg.com shows how quickly the Trump Administration has changed the climate outlook for the US (and our emissions trajectory). These scenarios show the consequences of Trump's rollbacks and they are not good for the legacy of the Paris Agreement. rhg.com/research/tak...
The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.
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Insanity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The Democrat who gets my vote in 2028 will be the one who doesn't condone Charlie Kirk's racism and bigotry by lowering American flags to half-mast
OUCH (and yet...)👇
Today would be a great day to start a meaningful conversation about stopping gun violence in the US.
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
Well said.
Seems like an important day to re-up this piece from March 2025 (before US cities were being occupied by the military) in @sciam.bsky.social : www.scientificamerican.com/article/risi...
Today would be a great day to start a meaningful conversation about stopping gun violence in the US.
Some thoughts on the #FreeDC walkout on our campus yesterday and how this type of action can help build community and prepare us to push back against autocracy: danarfisher.com/2025/09/10/b...
Some unexpected support for clean energy (and a break in the ranks): www.politico.com/live-updates...
Those countries have embraced social democracy…
ICYMI @akshatrathi.bsky.social
A must watch right here. Happy to see @mika-brzezinski.bsky.social pushing back and using her platform 👏👏
Anyone ignoring the connection between inequality and capitalism, I give you the words of the inimitable @rbreich.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/rbre...
Here’s a highlight reel from my talk yesterday during the AU walkout. While I think it got tagged by the algorithm over at TT, I’m getting lots of love on Facebook #GoFigure
RFK Jr.’s new report that claims it will make childen healthy again ignores the number one cause of death for childen in the United States: gun violence. Fellow Defend Public Health member @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy talked to the LA Times about this. We didn’t ignore it in our IHAT report.
Not sure how changing the scale of the target changes the goal...🤔
Some thoughts on the #FreeDC walkout on our campus yesterday and how this type of action can help build community and prepare us to push back against autocracy: danarfisher.com/2025/09/10/b...
Wow! I suppose one interpretation giving sea surface temperatures is that this is literally the calm before the storm, right?