Jason Rylander
@jasonrylander.bsky.social
Legal Director, Climate Law Institute, Center for Biological Diversity. Artist and musician. Dog lover. Posts are my own.
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Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
The work will always matter, especially now when the risk of doing nothing is palpably real.
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This is utterly bonkers. Who would spend money to visit a country with these sorts of requirements? It’s so bonkers that it makes me wonder if they plan to back down, mostly, so that it feels like a victory when they proceed with a fraction of things that would have previously been unthinkable.
It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted
December 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is utterly bonkers. Who would spend money to visit a country with these sorts of requirements? It’s so bonkers that it makes me wonder if they plan to back down, mostly, so that it feels like a victory when they proceed with a fraction of things that would have previously been unthinkable.
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What does animal ag use all those antibiotics for? The dairy industry, for ex, uses them to treat mastitis, a terrible condition that arises frequently b/c dairy production is brutal & pushes their bodies to the point of collapse. For that, we're willing to risk the effectiveness of modern medicine?
At the end of each year, FDA releases data on antibiotics sold for use in livestock.
It usually changes a few %. This year, it went up 15.8%.
I was shocked & emailed experts/industry groups. Likeliest explanation per a source: industry is not "being good stewards of antibiotics"
It usually changes a few %. This year, it went up 15.8%.
I was shocked & emailed experts/industry groups. Likeliest explanation per a source: industry is not "being good stewards of antibiotics"
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What does animal ag use all those antibiotics for? The dairy industry, for ex, uses them to treat mastitis, a terrible condition that arises frequently b/c dairy production is brutal & pushes their bodies to the point of collapse. For that, we're willing to risk the effectiveness of modern medicine?
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If your trade association purports to advocate for "American Clean Power" but feels compelled to retain fossil fuel government affairs people to move their agenda, let me suggest this is not a way to build trust or confidence with people that you actually care about the climate crisis.
The Chief Advocacy Officer at the American Clean Power Association was formerly the Senior Vice President of Policy, Economics, and Regulatory Affairs at the American Petroleum Institute, and Executive Vice President of Government Affairs at America’s Natural Gas Alliance.
No, really.
No, really.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If your trade association purports to advocate for "American Clean Power" but feels compelled to retain fossil fuel government affairs people to move their agenda, let me suggest this is not a way to build trust or confidence with people that you actually care about the climate crisis.
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If your professed support for renewables leads you to align with fossil fuels on their policy priorities, let me suggest I don't think you actually care about the climate crisis.
December 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If your professed support for renewables leads you to align with fossil fuels on their policy priorities, let me suggest I don't think you actually care about the climate crisis.
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If your argument is that your favored projects are unable to comply with longstanding, bedrock environmental protections, so we should get rid of those protections, let me suggest you consider a different argument.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If your argument is that your favored projects are unable to comply with longstanding, bedrock environmental protections, so we should get rid of those protections, let me suggest you consider a different argument.
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I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling....
The Paris climate treaty changed the world. Here’s how | Rebecca Solnit
There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I had been dreading the treaty anniversary as an occasion to note that we have not done nearly enough, but in July I thought we might be able celebrate it. Because, on 23 July, the international court of justice handed down an epochal ruling....
I was there the day this happened. Had just finished kayaking in the slough. And this surprises me not at all. Probably breathed some of it in on the way out of there.
New Study: Moss Landing battery fire dumped 55,000 pounds of toxic metals into wildlife-rich marshes
www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/02/n...
www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/02/n...
New study: Moss Landing battery fire dumped 55,000 pounds of toxic metals into wildlife-rich marshes
San Jose State University research sheds new light on impacts from disastrous January fire
www.mercurynews.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I was there the day this happened. Had just finished kayaking in the slough. And this surprises me not at all. Probably breathed some of it in on the way out of there.
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What a ridiculous waste of everyone's time. The world is literally on fire and this is what gets attention and resources??
EU countries and lawmakers will meet today to decide whether to give plant-based "sausages" and veggie "burgers" the chop, amid a push to restrict such labels to meat products
jrnl.ie/6898881
jrnl.ie/6898881
EU to decide whether veggie ‘burgers’ face a possible rebrand
EU countries are set to clash over whether terms like “burger” and “sausage” should be reserved for real meat, or stay open to plant-based food.
jrnl.ie
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
What a ridiculous waste of everyone's time. The world is literally on fire and this is what gets attention and resources??
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One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.
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@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass.
By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it.
Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal
By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it.
Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
@biologicaldiversity.org is suing to wipe Trump's face off the America the Beautiful National Parks pass.
By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it.
Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal
By law, the pass must display the winning photo of a federal #PublicLands picture contest. Instead, Trump plastered his own face on it.
Trump's vanity pass is not American, beautiful, or legal
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I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
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Yes, the economics are pretty simple: incentivize demand for gasoline and prices will go up. Look no further than EPA's own regulatory impact analysis earlier this year, which cited EIA projections: www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-rul...
December 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Yes, the economics are pretty simple: incentivize demand for gasoline and prices will go up. Look no further than EPA's own regulatory impact analysis earlier this year, which cited EIA projections: www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-rul...
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JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
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Well, you can delete climate risk information but you can't delete climate risk (without coming together as a society to leave coal oil and gas in the ground and develop collective tools to manage the risk that has already been created). www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales
Site deletes feature after real estate agents and some homeowners say scores appear arbitrary and hurt sales
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Well, you can delete climate risk information but you can't delete climate risk (without coming together as a society to leave coal oil and gas in the ground and develop collective tools to manage the risk that has already been created). www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Lawyers run scared of Trump: cowardice and Quisling edition 37,431 or so ...
The #VA Bar Association made excuses to avoid holding Lindsey Halligan to account for violating #Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct, DOJ rules, ethics ....
@bluevirginia.bsky.social
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The #VA Bar Association made excuses to avoid holding Lindsey Halligan to account for violating #Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct, DOJ rules, ethics ....
@bluevirginia.bsky.social
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Legal watchdogs won’t bite Trump’s corrupt pet lawyers
The Virginia State Bar is the latest watchdog to turn tail and run rather than deal with the crime spree that is President Donald Trump’s Justice Department.
The bar, which theoretically ...
www.dailykos.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Lawyers run scared of Trump: cowardice and Quisling edition 37,431 or so ...
The #VA Bar Association made excuses to avoid holding Lindsey Halligan to account for violating #Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct, DOJ rules, ethics ....
@bluevirginia.bsky.social
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The #VA Bar Association made excuses to avoid holding Lindsey Halligan to account for violating #Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct, DOJ rules, ethics ....
@bluevirginia.bsky.social
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
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For pretty much any critique you can level at any source of energy -- inefficient, too much pollution, takes too much land, has too many externalities, is propped up by subsidies, whatever -- it's worse for corn ethanol.
It's worse in all dimensions. It has zero redeeming features.
It's worse in all dimensions. It has zero redeeming features.
Corn’s clean-energy promise is clashing with its climate footprint
Corn dominates U.S. farmland and fuels the ethanol industry. But the fertilizer it relies on drives emissions and fouls drinking water.
floodlightnews.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
For pretty much any critique you can level at any source of energy -- inefficient, too much pollution, takes too much land, has too many externalities, is propped up by subsidies, whatever -- it's worse for corn ethanol.
It's worse in all dimensions. It has zero redeeming features.
It's worse in all dimensions. It has zero redeeming features.
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“This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States,” said Pat Parenteau of Vermont Law and Graduate School. “Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.”
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States,” said Pat Parenteau of Vermont Law and Graduate School. “Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.”
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Some billionaires, while building "apocalypse shelters" as personal escape hatches from the climate crisis, are urging Democrats to stop talking about and adopting policies to tackle this existential threat. Don't buy their bullshit. 1/ @aaronregunberg.bsky.social @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
Here’s the Data Showing Why Dems Must Keep Talking About Climate
Centrist groups want to see Democrats retreat from climate policy. That’s the wrong thing to do—both morally and strategically.
newrepublic.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Some billionaires, while building "apocalypse shelters" as personal escape hatches from the climate crisis, are urging Democrats to stop talking about and adopting policies to tackle this existential threat. Don't buy their bullshit. 1/ @aaronregunberg.bsky.social @thenewrepublic.bsky.social
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and i think we could often do a better job of making the pro-business case for bike and transit upgrades. the data is there but we forget to lead with it, only to find our projects so often get roadblocked or scaled back at the last minute by "business interests"
A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
Etc.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
and i think we could often do a better job of making the pro-business case for bike and transit upgrades. the data is there but we forget to lead with it, only to find our projects so often get roadblocked or scaled back at the last minute by "business interests"
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This was reposted on my feed by Patton Oswalt. Why does a famous comedian better understand higher ed politics than so many people working in higher ed?
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
This was reposted on my feed by Patton Oswalt. Why does a famous comedian better understand higher ed politics than so many people working in higher ed?
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As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.
BREAKING: (Gift) New Epstein emails reveal that Epstein claimed he had kompromat on President Trump. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
New Epstein emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim
Democrats on the House Oversight say the emails provide evidence of a cover-up by the White House
www.miamiherald.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
As I sometimes like to mention, s the only reason you know who Jeffrey Epstein is (that is, if you weren't one of his friends/clients/beneficiaries) is because Ms Brown, below, broke the story of his sweetheart deal to get out of the 2008 trafficking charges.
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"More than 6,500 jobs and $2.5 billion in investments have been lost in New York due to the Trump administration’s energy policies." An self-made American tragedy:
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
Thousands of New York jobs lost to federal energy policies
More than 150,000 jobs have been lost or delayed nationwide due to the Trump administration's hostility toward clean energy, according to a new report from
www.eenews.net
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"More than 6,500 jobs and $2.5 billion in investments have been lost in New York due to the Trump administration’s energy policies." An self-made American tragedy:
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...
www.eenews.net/articles/tho...