Joe Robertson
@joro.bsky.social
Executive Director, @climatecivics.org; Chief Strategist, climatevalue.net; Founder, Earthintel.org, NavigatorNews.net & Activv.net
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Joe Robertson
@joro.bsky.social
· Jul 31
Climate protection is a fundamental human right
Active Value ratings will count hidden costs & benefits; ICJ finds climate action is a legal duty; canceling climate policy will cost lives & treasure; food systems can drive sustainable prosperity.
livingfutures.net
Climate protection is a fundamental human right. The International Court of Justice finds all nations are required to reduce threats to climate & environmental rights & safety, domestically & internationally. Actionable insights are coming; we have work to do. livingfutures.net/p/climate-pr...
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This week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency moved to abandon the national health-based limits on fine particulate matter, also known as soot. A move that scientists say could lead to dirtier air and more U.S. deaths.
EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths
The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency moved to abandon the national health-based limits on fine particulate matter, also known as soot. A move that scientists say could lead to dirtier air and more U.S. deaths.
The Trump administration’s sadistic campaign against immigrants is breaking up American citizens’ families, denying due process, ignoring the Bill of Rights & putting all Americans’ rights & freedoms at risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Trump administration’s sadistic campaign against immigrants is breaking up American citizens’ families, denying due process, ignoring the Bill of Rights & putting all Americans’ rights & freedoms at risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
In the United States, press freedom is a fundamental human right, which reinforces all other rights. No court has any lawful authority to aid Trump in his blatantly corrupt, criminal efforts to end press freedom.
In case you missed this, the BBC edited a historian's speech about Trump to remove the claim that he's "the most openly corrupt president in US history." This came after Trump had threatened a $1 billion lawsuit.
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Elite capitulation continues.
Read all about it here:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump Angrily Threatened to Sue BBC. Then Things Took a Darker Turn.
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In the United States, press freedom is a fundamental human right, which reinforces all other rights. No court has any lawful authority to aid Trump in his blatantly corrupt, criminal efforts to end press freedom.
The Treasury Secretary is offering “justifications” instead of action to support Americans’ everyday affordability needs. Meanwhile “A Fox News poll this month found that 76 percent of voters had a negative view of the economy under Mr. Trump” & 2/3 oppose tariffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
As Prices Pinch, Bessent Looks for Ways to Mollify Wary Consumers
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The Treasury Secretary is offering “justifications” instead of action to support Americans’ everyday affordability needs. Meanwhile “A Fox News poll this month found that 76 percent of voters had a negative view of the economy under Mr. Trump” & 2/3 oppose tariffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
Judge dismisses case against Trump in Georgia—not exonerating Trump but saying federal investigation was more appropriate & lamenting likely length of litigation related to the Supreme
Court’s “immunity” ruling. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Court’s “immunity” ruling. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Judge dismisses case against Trump in Georgia—not exonerating Trump but saying federal investigation was more appropriate & lamenting likely length of litigation related to the Supreme
Court’s “immunity” ruling. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Court’s “immunity” ruling. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Is there no end to the reckless cruelty? www.newsnationnow.com/health/epa-a...
www.newsnationnow.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Is there no end to the reckless cruelty? www.newsnationnow.com/health/epa-a...
As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND people, two-thirds of them children. The cruel, pointless dismantling of USAID & illegal seizure of its funds is a crime against humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND people, two-thirds of them children. The cruel, pointless dismantling of USAID & illegal seizure of its funds is a crime against humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A huge 89% majority of global people [56% even in the United States] want stronger action to fight the #ClimateCrisis, but mistakenly believe they’re in a minority.
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
People want action. Smart cities are taking action. Nations should support city action.
#ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social
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How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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A judge dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor that President Trump handpicked was unlawfully appointed. trib.al/W6MJvZJ
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A judge dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor that President Trump handpicked was unlawfully appointed. trib.al/W6MJvZJ
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
With the current administration’s lawless dismantling of environmental and conservation protections, this could be a disaster for Minnesota.
The state has held on to the BWCA land for decades, hoping to trade with the Feds for timberland.
Minnesota nears deal to sell 80,000 acres of Boundary Waters land to Forest Service
The state has held on to the BWCA land for decades, hoping to trade with the Feds for timberland.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
With the current administration’s lawless dismantling of environmental and conservation protections, this could be a disaster for Minnesota.
Every single time this happens, it is a crime against the Constitution & against every person in the United States. No person in any part of government has any legal authority to participate in, condone, or further this evil.
Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth.
Journalists must speak out.
Journalists must speak out.
Journalists’ cameras become targets at Oregon protests
Federal agents in Portland are waging war on the press
freedom.press
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Every single time this happens, it is a crime against the Constitution & against every person in the United States. No person in any part of government has any legal authority to participate in, condone, or further this evil.
Trump has zero lawful authority to “weaken” the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. If he plans to change how they are enforced, he is required by the Constitution to demonstrably secure the rights of all Americans to actual clean air & water. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Trump has zero lawful authority to “weaken” the Clean Air Act or the Clean Water Act. If he plans to change how they are enforced, he is required by the Constitution to demonstrably secure the rights of all Americans to actual clean air & water. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...
After intense criticism from lawmakers in both parties, Rubio & Trump say leaked “peace plan” framed as surrender to Putin was never a U.S. plan, but was “proposed” by Putin. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Lawmakers deny US backed latest Ukraine peace plan
Members of Congress attending an international security forum said Secretary of State Marco Rubio called them to say the Americans did not instigate the proposal.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:38 AM
After intense criticism from lawmakers in both parties, Rubio & Trump say leaked “peace plan” framed as surrender to Putin was never a U.S. plan, but was “proposed” by Putin. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
As 196 nations work toward a consensus outcome on upgraded climate action, at #COP30 in Belém, it us important to recall that any & all nations have both implicit & explicit obligations to reduce climate risk & harm, enforceable by courts of law. climatecivics.org/2025/07/23/i...
ICJ finds nations have legal duty to act on climate
Topline takeaways World’s highest court finds all nations have a legal responsibility to act to reduce climate risk. Climate protection and a healthy, clean environment are implicit in all ot…
climatecivics.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
As 196 nations work toward a consensus outcome on upgraded climate action, at #COP30 in Belém, it us important to recall that any & all nations have both implicit & explicit obligations to reduce climate risk & harm, enforceable by courts of law. climatecivics.org/2025/07/23/i...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Grok pronounces Elon Musk as the greatest genius in all of human history... whereas analysts who have studied him suggest his IQ is only slightly above normal and certainly not at the genius or near genius level. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok ranks him as world history’s greatest human
Grok suggested Elon Musk was more fit than LeBron James
www.independent.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Grok pronounces Elon Musk as the greatest genius in all of human history... whereas analysts who have studied him suggest his IQ is only slightly above normal and certainly not at the genius or near genius level. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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The Coast Guard reversed its 'swastikas aren't all that bad' policy just hours after the Washpost broke the story.
It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The Coast Guard reversed its 'swastikas aren't all that bad' policy just hours after the Washpost broke the story.
It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The First Amendment makes it unlawful to abridge the right to redress. The 10th Amendment gives states power to defend basic rights. Executive orders cannot alter or abridge fundamental Constitutional rights. The lust of AI companies for unfettered power cannot change that.
Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation prospect.org/2025/11/20/b...
Unrestrained AI is Insanity!!! AI will eventually turn against and annihilate Humans!
Unrestrained AI is Insanity!!! AI will eventually turn against and annihilate Humans!
Big Tech Poised to Win Immunity Shield From State AI Regulation - The American Prospect
The Trump administration is readying an executive order preempting constraints on AI. It could become a much more wide-ranging deregulatory tool.
prospect.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The First Amendment makes it unlawful to abridge the right to redress. The 10th Amendment gives states power to defend basic rights. Executive orders cannot alter or abridge fundamental Constitutional rights. The lust of AI companies for unfettered power cannot change that.
Next year, the U.S. will mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. Putin is committing war crimes in Ukraine, using terror & the menace of inhuman evil to break a free country. Trump’s pro-Putin “peace plan” is like surrendering to the tyrant George III. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
Zelensky Says Ukraine Ready to ‘Honestly’ Engage With U.S. Peace Plan
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Next year, the U.S. will mark 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. Putin is committing war crimes in Ukraine, using terror & the menace of inhuman evil to break a free country. Trump’s pro-Putin “peace plan” is like surrendering to the tyrant George III. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/w...
If this decision stands, it will likely come to haunt Trump & those following unlawful orders of all kinds in any part of DC. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Judge Concludes Prosecutors Can Circumvent Federal Grand Juries in D.C.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
If this decision stands, it will likely come to haunt Trump & those following unlawful orders of all kinds in any part of DC. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
There is no legitimate reason a federal agent could ever use to justify shooting journalists with chemical agents. No government action can lawfully restrict the freedom of the press to report independently on government actions.
Update: Appeals court Wednesday suspends preliminary injunction won by Chicago journalists and press groups that restricted federal agents’ violent tactics at immigration protests there; judges call injunction “overbroad,” put it on hold while government appeals.
Journalist shot with pepper balls at Illinois ICE facility protest
Journalist Raven Geary was shot in the face and shoulder with pepper balls by federal officers while reporting on protests …
pressfreedomtracker.us
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
There is no legitimate reason a federal agent could ever use to justify shooting journalists with chemical agents. No government action can lawfully restrict the freedom of the press to report independently on government actions.
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
November 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI
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“never in modern U.S. history has the office intersected so broadly and deeply with the financial interests of the commerce secretary’s own family, according to interviews with ethics lawyers and historians.” Great reporting from a NYT team.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Family Affair: Commerce Secretary’s Sons Cash In on A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“never in modern U.S. history has the office intersected so broadly and deeply with the financial interests of the commerce secretary’s own family, according to interviews with ethics lawyers and historians.” Great reporting from a NYT team.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...