Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 8h

I wonder how many times the app for my ear plugs (which, silly me, do not block sound on a plane) has been downloaded.

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 16h

This shit has real consequences.

"Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding."

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

4 11

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 1d

Any time you have the opportunity to trade for Alex Verdugo…

1 8

Reposted by Evan

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

17 270 1.4K

Reposted by Evan

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

80 1.1K 4K

Reposted by Evan

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

360 4.2K 18K

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! Thanks for all your work on this.

2

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 4d

Love baseball. Congrats Mariners fans.

2

Reposted by Evan

Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 5d

Let’s stop forcing California customers to pay for their utilities' advertising and political lobbying costs.

@governor.ca.gov: sign #AB1167!

2 6

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 5d

It's a little thing but Hilary does a great job explaining how steel is made with a very quick chemistry lesson. Dr. Dell @rebeccawdell.bsky.social would be proud.

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 5d

Terrific @climateone.org pod on hydrogen, featuring my colleague @hilarylewis.bsky.social. Hydrogen is overhyped, but there are some applications where it still makes sense, notably steel and ammonia production for fertilizer. listen.climateone.org/z7oIxKJV?sid...

De-Hyping Hydrogen

For decades, hydrogen has held promise as a revolutionary tool in the clean energy transition. It can be a fuel and energy carrier, and when made with renewable energy and burned in a fuel cell, its o...

listen.climateone.org

1 5

Reposted by Evan

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

230 3.1K 6.5K

Reposted by Evan

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6d

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

23 270 720

Reposted by Evan

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 6d

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 6d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

9 470 1.4K

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 6d

Say it ain't so, @sammyroth.bsky.social!

Commentary: Leaving the L.A. Times, and a new direction for Boiling Point

I'm not done telling stories about climate. And neither are my wonderful friends and colleagues.

www.latimes.com

1 1

Reposted by Evan

Industrious Labs @industriouslabs.bsky.social · 6d

Energy access is at the heart of the U.S. #aluminum industry crisis. Without clean, affordable power, we’re not just losing smelters — we’re losing good union jobs like Dalton’s.

His story in @thehill.com: thehill.com/opinion/5524...

2 2

Reposted by Evan

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

190 4.9K 11K

Reposted by Evan

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 7d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

900 9.5K 17K

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 7d

Yah, these are all excellent examples of ways to talk about solutions. Is the broader point that we shouldn't talk about climate though?

1

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 7d

Do you have suggestions on how to more effectively communicate emissions reductions?

1

Reposted by Evan

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 8d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

320 2.2K 5.5K

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 8d

No-so-fun fact: California operates some of the dirtiest cement plants in the world. Via GEI and ClimateWorks ... www.climateworks.org/wp-content/u...

1 5 15

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 8d

Gov signed our bill. 👍👍👍

Right To Zero @righttozero.bsky.social · 19d

Important piece from our partners at @industriouslabs.bsky.social and the Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 104 about AB1280, a bill that would supercharge the installation of clean, efficient heating technologies.

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 20d

www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

1 3 5

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 9d

EPA cites public comments in decision: "Upon review of this
and information received in public comments and at the public hearing, the EPA does not believe that the currently available information supports a conclusion that regulated parties would face significant immediate compliance challenges."

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 9d

Great news: The EPA is withdrawing its proposal to delay the implementation of hazardous air pollutant standards for coke ovens. Very good news for breathers in steel communities. It's nice to win! www.epa.gov/system/files...

www.epa.gov

3 5

Evan @evangillespie.bsky.social · 9d

Great news: The EPA is withdrawing its proposal to delay the implementation of hazardous air pollutant standards for coke ovens. Very good news for breathers in steel communities. It's nice to win! www.epa.gov/system/files...

www.epa.gov

4 11