Ethan Fletcher
@ethanfletcher.bsky.social
Real estate agent focused on climate resilience: https://climateresilienthomes.com/.
"I worry about climate change now so you won't have to later."
Writing: https://climatechangeandyourhome.substack.com/
"I worry about climate change now so you won't have to later."
Writing: https://climatechangeandyourhome.substack.com/
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Ethan Fletcher
@ethanfletcher.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Climate Resilient Homes
climateresilienthomes.com
I’m excited to announce my new company, Climate Resilient Homes! climateresilienthomes.com
It’s a real estate business with realtor services at its center and it’s built on the recognition that the rapid changes to our planet have consequences in the physical world. 1/
It’s a real estate business with realtor services at its center and it’s built on the recognition that the rapid changes to our planet have consequences in the physical world. 1/
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This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:57 PM
This is physically unsustainable for all life on earth.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point.
The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
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"Should we freak out that Trump sent his masked goons to a polling place in a key state?"
How is it even possible that this is a question? Has no one learned anything?
Listen to Hasen:
How is it even possible that this is a question? Has no one learned anything?
Listen to Hasen:
Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not.
Was this a dry run?
slate.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:16 PM
"Should we freak out that Trump sent his masked goons to a polling place in a key state?"
How is it even possible that this is a question? Has no one learned anything?
Listen to Hasen:
How is it even possible that this is a question? Has no one learned anything?
Listen to Hasen:
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JICYMI - reporters or anyone who may need a refresher about someone who AXIOS is propagandizing as "a calm voice of de-escalation."
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 9:17 PM
JICYMI - reporters or anyone who may need a refresher about someone who AXIOS is propagandizing as "a calm voice of de-escalation."
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"The pessimistic story is far darker. It’s about the raid being a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections.... Now is the time for state and local governments, the courts, and the people to work against such potential election subversion"
My New One @slate.com: "Trump’s Continued Obsession With 2020 Is a Joke. His Raid on a Georgia Election Site Is Not."
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
January 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
"The pessimistic story is far darker. It’s about the raid being a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections.... Now is the time for state and local governments, the courts, and the people to work against such potential election subversion"
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This is not a "possibility," it is very, very obviously what's currently happening. The only reason people in power want to view it as a possibility rather than an ongoing fact is that they are scared of the implications. If it's the latter, they have to *do* something. History calls. It's scary!
"The most disturbing possibility is that the president is creating a militia which answers only to himself ... Abroad, from El Salvador to the Philippines, would-be despots often turn the army and the police against their people in the name of keeping order." www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
www.economist.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:20 PM
This is not a "possibility," it is very, very obviously what's currently happening. The only reason people in power want to view it as a possibility rather than an ongoing fact is that they are scared of the implications. If it's the latter, they have to *do* something. History calls. It's scary!
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If @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Dems don't use the leverage to make sure Trump regime can't use DHS or any of its agencies to interfere with upcoming midterm elections - it'd be inexcusable political malpractice. / ht @joesudbay.bsky.social
Trump’s efforts to interfere in midterms becoming clearer & more dangerous every day:
-using ICE to terrorize blue states & cities
-seizing ballots in heavily Dem counties
-prosecuting 2020 enemies
-extorting states for sensitive voter data
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
-using ICE to terrorize blue states & cities
-seizing ballots in heavily Dem counties
-prosecuting 2020 enemies
-extorting states for sensitive voter data
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
From Minnesota to Georgia, Trump’s plans to interfere in the midterms are becoming more dangerous
The seizure of ballots in Fulton County, Georgia follows the DOJ’s demands for voter data in Minnesota.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:19 PM
If @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Dems don't use the leverage to make sure Trump regime can't use DHS or any of its agencies to interfere with upcoming midterm elections - it'd be inexcusable political malpractice. / ht @joesudbay.bsky.social
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Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF
A 17-second encapsulation of why buying a climate resilient home is an unusually good value right now.
January 29, 2026 at 8:26 PM
A 17-second encapsulation of why buying a climate resilient home is an unusually good value right now.
David French sees today's reality as clearly as anyone. This is an important read. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Opinion | What MAGA Sees in the Minnesota Mirror
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:17 PM
David French sees today's reality as clearly as anyone. This is an important read. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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Opposing ICE happens at every scale and for every person and every risk tolerance. If you cannot patrol, can you donate to a grocery fund? Volunteer at a food bank? Support your neighbors who are patrolling, watch kids, take people to the doctor, hang a sign in your window? All of it is the fight
It's not just "stand up to ICE when you see them," it's building many vast networks of support and trust to
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on
- create safe spaces
- protect schools
- get kids TO school
- check on neighbors
- deliver groceries
- help pay the rent
- let people know of danger
- feed the helpers, too!
- and on and on
January 29, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Opposing ICE happens at every scale and for every person and every risk tolerance. If you cannot patrol, can you donate to a grocery fund? Volunteer at a food bank? Support your neighbors who are patrolling, watch kids, take people to the doctor, hang a sign in your window? All of it is the fight
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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quiet part aloud ... ("in theater")
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 3:41 PM
quiet part aloud ... ("in theater")
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This is amazing. This has completely made my day.
Definitely this Caitlin Seida poem: Hope Is Not A Bird, Emily, It's a Sewer Rat
January 29, 2026 at 4:06 PM
This is amazing. This has completely made my day.
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“I’m not aware of something like this happening ever before.” FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn, by @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...
www.propublica.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:34 PM
“I’m not aware of something like this happening ever before.” FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn, by @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
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"Who's city is it Chief?
Bovino: "It's our fucking city."
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.
Bovino: "It's our fucking city."
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.
January 29, 2026 at 2:41 PM
"Who's city is it Chief?
Bovino: "It's our fucking city."
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.
Bovino: "It's our fucking city."
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.
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The behavior of the administration toward Canada since Carney’s Davos speech continues to confirm the thesis of Carney’s speech.
Bessent: "I'd encourage Carney to do what he thinks is best for Canadians, not his own virtue signaling. We do have a USMCA negotiation coming up. He rose to power on an anti-American, anti-Trump message. That's not a great place to be when you're negotiating w/ an economy multiples larger than you"
January 28, 2026 at 4:32 PM
The behavior of the administration toward Canada since Carney’s Davos speech continues to confirm the thesis of Carney’s speech.
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Keep in mind that after the killing of Renee Good, Trump went out and egged on ICE to be a force for "RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION" in Minnesota. It was no accident that Alex Pretti was executed, it was almost inevitable because of Trump's actions. He is to blame, no one else.
January 28, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Keep in mind that after the killing of Renee Good, Trump went out and egged on ICE to be a force for "RECKONING AND RETRIBUTION" in Minnesota. It was no accident that Alex Pretti was executed, it was almost inevitable because of Trump's actions. He is to blame, no one else.
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Trump has reunited the world—with China.
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
Trump Is Making China Great Again
America’s friends and trading partners are running into the arms of our adversaries. What a mess.
www.thebulwark.com
January 18, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Trump has reunited the world—with China.
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
A parade of foreign leaders is suddenly visiting China after years away. On Friday, Canadian PM wrapped up a Beijing trip, 1st trip since 2017. Korean president was there earlier this month (last visit: 2019); British PM will be there soon (last visit: 2018)
A 90-second encapsulation of the risk and opportunity in the housing market as climate risk becomes the most important element of home values. (We don't go into it in detail here, but the implications of this transformation are truly vast.)
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
Buying a home in the climate change era (video podcast)
Watch now | My podcast partner and I discuss how climate change is significantly reshaping the risks and opportunities of buying a home.
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
A 90-second encapsulation of the risk and opportunity in the housing market as climate risk becomes the most important element of home values. (We don't go into it in detail here, but the implications of this transformation are truly vast.)
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
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@ethanfletcher.bsky.social, a very rare "Realtor focused on climate resilience", asks "the trillion dollar question":
"Why haven’t climate vulnerable homes declined more significantly in value by now?"
(+ "opportunity for people who can see things clearly"...)
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
"Why haven’t climate vulnerable homes declined more significantly in value by now?"
(+ "opportunity for people who can see things clearly"...)
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
The trillion dollar question about the climate repricing of homes
The exact speed of the transformation is hard to predict, and that creates a window of opportunity for those able to see clearly
open.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:42 PM
@ethanfletcher.bsky.social, a very rare "Realtor focused on climate resilience", asks "the trillion dollar question":
"Why haven’t climate vulnerable homes declined more significantly in value by now?"
(+ "opportunity for people who can see things clearly"...)
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
"Why haven’t climate vulnerable homes declined more significantly in value by now?"
(+ "opportunity for people who can see things clearly"...)
open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
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I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.
ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.
www.bizjournals.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:29 PM
I find it necessary these days to affirm the obvious because the descent into fascism is mostly a continuous, not discrete, process so here it goes:
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
these are internal checkpoints by secret police for what is routine freedom of movement.
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Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
January 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
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I think Dem strategists and comms/data folks need to recognize that we are in a period of discontinuity. What's happening now is not like what's come before. It's all new. And we need to stay close to the data that's in front of us, not bring old fights into the ones we now find ourselves in.
From Hopium:
- Democrats must work hard now to restore rule of law in America, rein in ICE
- Vance and Rubio are bringing great shame to the US today
- We must do more to support the opposition in Iran
- Imagining "a new birth of freedom" in the world
👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/restoring-...
- Democrats must work hard now to restore rule of law in America, rein in ICE
- Vance and Rubio are bringing great shame to the US today
- We must do more to support the opposition in Iran
- Imagining "a new birth of freedom" in the world
👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/restoring-...
Restoring Rule Of Law And Reining In ICE, Vance Brings Shame To America, Aiding The Opposition In Iran,"A New Birth Of Freedom"
Greg Sargent joins us today at Noon EST. Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 7pm.
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I think Dem strategists and comms/data folks need to recognize that we are in a period of discontinuity. What's happening now is not like what's come before. It's all new. And we need to stay close to the data that's in front of us, not bring old fights into the ones we now find ourselves in.
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looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
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The Climate Repricing of Housing has Begun
=> New Substack from @ethanfletcher.bsky.social, "the first realtor focused on climate resilience"
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=> New Substack from @ethanfletcher.bsky.social, "the first realtor focused on climate resilience"
substack.com/@climatechan...
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM
The Climate Repricing of Housing has Begun
=> New Substack from @ethanfletcher.bsky.social, "the first realtor focused on climate resilience"
substack.com/@climatechan...
=> New Substack from @ethanfletcher.bsky.social, "the first realtor focused on climate resilience"
substack.com/@climatechan...