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Leah Stokes
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Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly 🇨🇦 Gardener 🌱 leahstokes.com

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Leah Cardamore Stokes is a Canadian-American political scientist specializing in environmental policy. She is the Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, Stokes is a senior policy consultant at Evergreen Action and Rewiring America. She also hosts the climate change podcast A Matter of Degrees. Her research focuses on political behavior, public opinion, and the politics of energy and environmental policy in the United States. .. more

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · Jan 15
It's official: I'm writing a book. Should be out early fall 2026. Thrilled to be working with MIT Press.
Book announcement for "The Carbon Wave."

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 11h
Lol

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 11h
Not according to Bill Gates lol 🤣😭

Reposted by Justin H. Kirkland, Daniel W. Drezner, Leah Stokes

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h
America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com

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Colin Kinniburgh @colinreports.bsky.social · 11h
It got overshadowed by the pipeline news, but NYS’s deal to allow Greenidge Generation to keep operating an upstate gas plant *for the sole purpose of mining bitcoin* might be almost as big of a reversal gothamist.com/news/upstate...
Upstate NY Bitcoin mine agrees to slash emissions, will get air permit from the state
The move comes days after Hochul’s administration paved the way for a new natural gas pipeline in New York Harbor.
gothamist.com

Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Cathy N. Davidson, Melanie C. Green , and 10 more

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Reposted by Ken Caldeira, Rosemary A. Joyce, David R. Miller , and 4 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 5d
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, John McLaren, Leah Stokes

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d
“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com:

www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...
Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
www.desmog.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 5d
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.

I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.

But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
royalpratt.bsky.social Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d
Trump: "If you go a couple of years out, you're gonna see numbers like you've never seen. We're building some of the biggest building ever built anywhere in the world. The AI buildings."

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 5d
Democrats have spent the last nine months wringing their hands about how now one cares about climate or energy policy, blah blah blah.

Meanwhile, HIGH ELECTRICITY PRICES were key to Democrats winning in Georgia, New Jersey and Virginia. Maybe, uh, people do care?
www.axios.com/2025/11/05/n...
How Spanberger, Sherrill will address high electricity costs after winning elections
Electricity prices played a big role in both New Jersey and Virginia.
www.axios.com

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 5d
HOW DARE WE ATTACK THE ALBATROSS

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 5d
"It is a profound mistake to treat the 2024 presidential election as a referendum on the ideological direction of the United States or as evidence of a realignment or whatever else you happen to have as your hobbyhorse." - @jamellebouie.net is right as usual
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...
Opinion | Make No Mistake: Trump Is an Albatross
www.nytimes.com

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 7d
Lol to the WEO

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 10d
The way he rubs his inhumanity in Americans” face never ceases to stun me.

He’s illegally refusing to pay food stamp benefits…

…while he throws a ridiculously over the top Gatsby party for his right wing millionaire and corporate friends.

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Jesse H. Kroll, Leah Stokes

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 10d
November 1, 1965 – “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up

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November 1, 1965 - “Fortune” magazine covers carbon dioxide build-up - All Our Yesterdays
Sixty years ago, on this day, November 1st, 1965,  Fortune magazine flags climate change in an article called “We can afford clean air” by Edmund K. Faltemeyer. “The tremendous rise in worldwide use o...
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 11d
When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”
johncarlbaker.bsky.social John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 11d
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 11d
It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.