I've been doing this, but I think more people should adopt the framing that MAGA is *ideologically opposed* to clean, renewable energy. They're a death cult, so their energy policy preference is combusting fossils, leading to more death.
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I've been doing this, but I think more people should adopt the framing that MAGA is *ideologically opposed* to clean, renewable energy. They're a death cult, so their energy policy preference is combusting fossils, leading to more death.
NEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations? In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors. We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1
"About 90% of the half a million school buses operating in the U.S. run on diesel fuel. Diesel exhaust ⛽ contains harmful pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)... (1/4)
10 former directors of the CDC agree on the anti-science actions of RFK Jr: "This is unacceptable, and it should alarm every American, regardless of political leanings."
It's really quite a thing to have a Secretary of Energy who does not understand, ummm... energy.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
The Chicagoese word jagoff is not used enough methinks. Might be using it more in coming weeks. Feel free to join me.
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Wow. This ONE wind turbine could power 55,000 homes while emitting NO harmful pollution. For comparison, the tip of the blades would reach higher than the roof of the (former) John Hancock Building in Chicago. Also there are roughly 50,000 households in Springfield IL. electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
More than 85 climate scientists filed >400 pages of public comments today pushing back against the findings of the DOE’s Climate Working Group Report. A 🧵
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Transit isn't just a problem for NE IL. It's critical in towns & cities ACROSS Illinois. Workers EVERYWHERE need to get to work, kids need to get to school, people need to get to groceries and doctors appts.... PASS legislation that FIXES AND FUNDS TRANSIT in Illinois - for ALL OF IL
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Wonderful to see elected officials like State Senator @gracielaforsenate.bsky.social & Cook County Comissioner Jessica Vasquez today walking the neighborhood talking - and listening! - to constituents. KEEP DEMOCRACY WORKING - sign candidates petitions for office! &VOTE!
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Why not start as every Sunday?
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Great place to put a camera. Run it over and endanger people, pay a fine to replace it
Less asthma, better food. There really is no excuse. And yeah, induction comes at any price point. The cheapest option used to be the contractor-grade gas stove for $300, now it's the $60 IKEA induction plate. #ClimateTech FTW www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... [gift link]
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
Good.
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
the agency dedicated to saving American lives is literally collapsing.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
El Douche makes a new pronouncement: thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Seeing higher power bills? Angry? In Oct, IL legislators can vote yea/nay on reducing costs! Might want to let 'em know YOU support efforts to get more cheap clean #RenewablePower on the grid & more #EnergyEfficiency to push power bills DOWN! (+reduces #AirPollution too) nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
Canceling clean energy programs means fewer projects, higher costs, and more burden on working families. That’s the wrong direction. Clean energy creates jobs, lowers bills, and builds the infrastructure we need.
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
How the sweeping changes at CDC are spilling into the real world, via @elizabethcooney.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
I lack the vocabulary to express how deranged this is
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Worth your reading. "Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."
What a shitshow
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
This man is so utterly full of shit you could fertilize 10,000 farms with his thoughts. EFF HIM. thehill.com/policy/healt...
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actual published peer reviewed study www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New study #AiPollution (PM2.5, NO2, ozone) from U.S. #oil/#methanegas = 91,000 premature deaths EVERY YEAR. Racialðnic minority populations bear the biggest burden. Nearly 90% of new childhood #asthma cases tied to NO2 pollution were from this sector. thehill.com/policy/energ...
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
The realm of the khanate is marked safe.
The sheer amount of time, money, and resources this government has spent to torture one random guy is astounding.
Weird — I was always taught that when a government seizes private business, that’s communism.
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
“This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.” — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson www.ehn.org/trump-admini...
Regular reminder, for every time he tweets something like this, ABC and NBC don't pay for broadcast licenses. Their affiliates do (yes, they each own some affiliates, but most affiliates are independent). Also saying you'll lose a license based on editorial choices is so very much a 1A violation
CDOT staff have told me to my face that they cannot do raised crosswalks on bus routes, as recently as last year. We can now show them this video.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Lookee there… #zeroemission buses 78 years ago. ok ok STREETCAR, but functionally same thing, and CTA also rubber tired ones too.
According to a new report: "The U.S. Department of Energy’s efforts to prevent large fossil-fuel power plants from retiring could cost ratepayers about $3.1 billion a year in 2028."
that's right. fossil fools are stealing both your economic and public health futures
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Americans are going to be killed in the streets when a paranoid 18 year old guardsman from a tiny town squeezes a trigger of a an automatic weapon in a panic.
Lol 😅🤣
We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
They’re just making white collar crime legal huh
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Florida Man….
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
“If water is so good and necessary for life why are THEY saying floods are bad?? Are they AGAINST WATER AND LIFE??”
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
JFC. Was it a knuckle sandwich? Was it filled with iron bars? Was the officer Allergic to dairy? ok it was a dumb move they guy should NOT have done, but really?
they fired people contributing to cancer research
Science friends, life is difficult now, but please still try to peer review papers if you can. I'm the editor handling a paper that just had it's 43rd person decline to review. We may have to reject it because no one is willing to review it, which sucks for the authors.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
I think at this point in time, Andrew Coumo's approval rating is the origin story of a comic super villian... "The City didn't love him, so he vowed to show them...."
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Long lost burial site of Pauline Bunyan. She just couldn't quit the smokes.
This evening!
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Shirt I wore today not knowing how prescient it was…
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Beyond disgusting.
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
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Thanks for bits like this.
I want the American people to know that this is not an accident. This administration is choosing to take actions that are raising people's electric bills.
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
PBS needs you, y'all. Become a member. Get Passport. mainline documentaries until your eyes bulge cuz your brain is too stuffed.
Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no. www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...
No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
I can't be there today. But my heart is with these people who were looking out for people exposed to the highest amount of #AirPollution and communities seeing the greatest health damage from that. They were protecting the most vulnerable, and are now being punished and exiled.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
#Chicagoland #AirQuality today? More ozone #smog.... Orange/Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups. So a health hazard to sensitive populations, especially individuals w/pulmonary or respiratory disorders, including #asthma, as well as active children & older adults. Be careful.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Smoke SOOT particles are declining in #Chicago area, but now vehicle & industrial pollution is cooking & making OZONE #SMOG. Already Orange in some places. Calm winds tonight/tomorrow, so everything is going to stay here & cook. Stay safe!
ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck. Wonder where they got the idea😬 Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Um...
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Grok - What happens when you cut wildfire fighting capacity?
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
I wonder if anyone has tested the phrase 'dinosaur farts' for fossil methane. Actually, I don't really care. Going to use it anyway.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Dang it. Like Slim Shady, the #smoke is back today whether you want it or not, in your face #Chicago...
The highest levels of the Trump administration are collaborating with the FBI and DOJ to cover-up evidence the President committed sexual crimes against children. Unspeakably corrupt, and not a single Republican in Congress can be expected to speak out against it.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
God help us if there is a pandemic under his watch. But he's also cutting off the research that will lead to many more deaths for many more years after he's gone too. He's a monster that thrives on death.
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.
They were going to give you vaccines to cure and prevent recurrence of cancer. And Trump and RFK and MAGA took it all away. You should be furious with these killers.
Immigration agencies are placing people into expedited removal--meaning they are removed from the country with no legal process--if they simply refuse to answer officers' questions and submit documentation of their residence in the U.S. via their attorneys. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
#AirQuality in #Chicago land still hitting levels EPA labels 'Unhealthy for Senstive Groups'/Orange - like people living with #LungDisease #asthma #COPD. Unhealthy air stretching unbroken from Chicago all the way to Boston.
Scoop: Brown interviewing campaign managers for Ohio Senate race www.axios.com/2025/08/04/s...
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Dammit. Some GOOD NEWS! There are 5,100 electric clean #SchoolBuses operating in the USA, getting more than 265,000 students to and from school each day with CLEAN AIR — TWELVE TIMES the number five years ago. By the end of this year there could be nearly 14,000 #ZeroEmission school buses!
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no, it's terrifying.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
#AirQuality pretty bad in #Chicago land last night. It's getting better this morning, but maybe another brush with smoke again overnight/early morning tomorrow. #Madison/#GreenBay/#Milwaukee/Kenosha area still in the red zone.
“Not since Stalin and Soviet Lysenkoism have we seen such a brazen effort to misrepresent science in service of an ideological agenda.” @michaelemann.bsky.social on the disastrous effects of political interference in the scientific process. #ClimateCrisis #TrumpTyranny
Did you say “admitted to the bar in 2024?” The DEI of it all. This is insane.
Today would be the perfect day to release the Epstein Files—unredacted, complete, and without excuses.
A 10-day hunger strike persists at Florida's Alligator Alcatraz detention facility for undocumented immigrants, according to NBC. Stories of Multiple detainees are refusing food, following Governor Ron DeSantis' disclosure inhumane living conditions
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Trying to breathe today in #Chicagoland... Now is a good time to remind people that #ComEd offers $50 rebates when you buy a home air purifier (that can help with the Canadian Smoke like today). &higher rebates might be available if you quality. Worth checking it out www.comed.com/ways-to-save...
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@katweaver42.bsky.social
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Still bad air quality outside this afternoon in Chicagoland (and now as far south as Peoria and Springfield too). IL EPA now looking for TOMORROW to be Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (orange) so still health threat for a lot of people.
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Protect yourselves, loved ones from truly awful #AirQuaility in #Chicago region now! helpful advice here resphealth.org/protecting-y...
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Trouble #Breathing?? NASTY air in #Chicagoland! Unhealthy (red) everywhere b/c Canadian wildfire smoke. Late this morning #Chicago got labeled as city with 'worst air quality in the world'
this is crazy www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...
This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
It’s going to keep going up very the next several hours. Unhealthy for sensitive groups projected for tomorrow per IL EPA.
Trump’s EPA wants to repeal the Endangerment Finding—key protection from climate + pollution harms. We won’t let them. WE ACT’s @manuelsalgado.bsky.social stood with @markey.senate.gov to say: we won’t back down. The science is clear. The people are louder. EPA must protect us—not polluters.
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
The air in this entire stretch, which would take you >32 hours to drive is unhealthy because of wildfire smoke from global warming accelerated wildfires. It’s BULLSHIT that EPA is trying to pull that global warming isn’t a heath threat!
thrudasmog.bsky.social (@thrudasmog.bsky.social)
Not good for the country’s health…