@narayangopinathan.bsky.social
This is horrifying. Those who cut USAID and those who celebrated it - and also those who voted for Trump - should see the results and repent.
NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
This is horrifying. Those who cut USAID and those who celebrated it - and also those who voted for Trump - should see the results and repent.
I am a believer in the Paris Agreement, and it is a big reason that despite the failures and shortcomings, we still have hope for a livable future.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I am a believer in the Paris Agreement, and it is a big reason that despite the failures and shortcomings, we still have hope for a livable future.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Paris agreement is a shared commitment to life on earth and despite the slow progress it is working. Trump and others have done terrible damage, but real progress has been made, and Paris gives ecosystems and civilizations a real shot at survival.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A shift no country can ignore’: where global emissions stand, 10 years after the Paris climate agreement
The watershed summit in 2015 was far from perfect, but its impact so far has been significant and measurable
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Paris agreement is a shared commitment to life on earth and despite the slow progress it is working. Trump and others have done terrible damage, but real progress has been made, and Paris gives ecosystems and civilizations a real shot at survival.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is a great piece on efforts to envision a truly transformational regional rail system for So Cal. Looks at all these publicly-owned tracks! We should have have 15 minute peak service running under overhead wires powered by 100% renewable energy.
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is a great piece on efforts to envision a truly transformational regional rail system for So Cal. Looks at all these publicly-owned tracks! We should have have 15 minute peak service running under overhead wires powered by 100% renewable energy.
Great article about the Paris Agreement.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great article about the Paris Agreement.
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Americans increasingly can't afford their cars. We need to invest in fast, frequent, electric regional rail so that more people - especially in rapidly-growing, lower income areas like the Inland Empire and Central Valley - can save money by going car-free.
More Americans are falling behind on their auto loan payments. Here's why.
More Americans are falling behind on their auto loan payments. Here's why.
A new study by VantageScore found that auto loan delinquency rates have increased more than 50% over the last 15 years.
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October 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Americans increasingly can't afford their cars. We need to invest in fast, frequent, electric regional rail so that more people - especially in rapidly-growing, lower income areas like the Inland Empire and Central Valley - can save money by going car-free.
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Reminder that overhead catenary trains are easier to maintain and cost less to operate than diesel trains. Rail electrification doesn't just eliminate tailpipe emissions, it leads to faster, more frequent service and higher ridership.
October 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Reminder that overhead catenary trains are easier to maintain and cost less to operate than diesel trains. Rail electrification doesn't just eliminate tailpipe emissions, it leads to faster, more frequent service and higher ridership.
Jane Goodall was a remarkable soul and had much to emulate.
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October 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Jane Goodall was a remarkable soul and had much to emulate.
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We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.
The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.
The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms
The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.
I wrote a thing!
Hydrogen rail is not the answer for the Sprinter. With the need for equipment, the Sprinter should be modernized and electrified instead of rolling out unproven, polluting hydrogen trains. thecoastnews.com/hydrogen-rai...
Commentary: Hydrogen rail not the answer | The Coast News Group
The Coast News recently reported that NCTD plans to pilot hydrogen trains for the Sprinter. However, hydrogen is not as great as it seems.
thecoastnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I wrote a thing!
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Really nice and super clearly written argument for electric rail from @narayangopinathan.bsky.social
Hydrogen rail is not the answer for the Sprinter. With the need for equipment, the Sprinter should be modernized and electrified instead of rolling out unproven, polluting hydrogen trains. thecoastnews.com/hydrogen-rai...
Commentary: Hydrogen rail not the answer | The Coast News Group
The Coast News recently reported that NCTD plans to pilot hydrogen trains for the Sprinter. However, hydrogen is not as great as it seems.
thecoastnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Really nice and super clearly written argument for electric rail from @narayangopinathan.bsky.social
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This is a great example of local actions that both reduce carbon pollution (climate mitigation by enabling carbon free active transportation) and also increase the resilience to climate impacts (climate adaptation by designing systems to handle increased amounts of rainfall due to climate change).
They aren’t just flower beds!!!
Fascinating peak beneath the surface of one of London’s new Cycleways - you can see the complex drainage system that ensures bike lanes help protect the capital from heavy rain & the effects of climate change.
And don’t they look great when they’re finished? 💚🚲👍
Fascinating peak beneath the surface of one of London’s new Cycleways - you can see the complex drainage system that ensures bike lanes help protect the capital from heavy rain & the effects of climate change.
And don’t they look great when they’re finished? 💚🚲👍
September 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is a great example of local actions that both reduce carbon pollution (climate mitigation by enabling carbon free active transportation) and also increase the resilience to climate impacts (climate adaptation by designing systems to handle increased amounts of rainfall due to climate change).
We are reauthorizing our state's cap and invest program!! This is awesome! And we also passed a bill to legalize housing near transit stops! Despite all the terrible things going on, there are still some good things here in CA. :D
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September 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
We are reauthorizing our state's cap and invest program!! This is awesome! And we also passed a bill to legalize housing near transit stops! Despite all the terrible things going on, there are still some good things here in CA. :D
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Oh great stormfront-level gutter racism from a sitting US senator. Remember when we had a media that would’ve crucified him for this? Now we get at best an indifferent shrug
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
!["America is not a 'universal nation.' ... [American] principles are not abstractions. They are living, breathing things — rooted in a people and embodied in a way of life."
Senator Eric Schmitt got a standing ovation at Nat Con DC for saying America as a nation is the property of a distinct ethnic people.
Americans are a mix of “the most adventurous, the most courageous, the most curious and innovative” of the English, Scotch-Irish, and continental Europeans, who came as settlers and have spent hundreds of years building, fighting, and dying for "a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"We’re a nation of settlers, explorers, and pioneers — born on the ocean waters that carried the first ships to our shores and forged in the crucible of a wild frontier. Our people tamed a continent, built a civilization from the wilderness, and wrote our nation’s name in history.
"Our ancestors were driven here by destiny, possessed by urgent and fiery conviction, by burning belief, devoted to their cause and their God."
"The Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge, Pilgrims struggling to survive in the hard winter soil of Plymouth, pioneers striking out from Missouri for the wild and dangerous frontier, [and] outnumbered Kentucky settlers, repelling wave after wave of Indian war band attacks from behind their stockade walls, would be astonished to hear that they were only fighting for a 'proposition.'
"They believed they were forging a nation — a homeland for themselves and their descendants."
"America, in all its glory, is their gift to us, handed down across the generations.
"It belongs to us. It’s our birthright, our heritage, our destiny.
"If America is everything and everyone, then it is nothing and no one at all."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreif3x7re3lubuj7kzurj3ayotcnq2l46kwb2p5hp2zid2dagzth5nu@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Oh great stormfront-level gutter racism from a sitting US senator. Remember when we had a media that would’ve crucified him for this? Now we get at best an indifferent shrug
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It’s pretty simple:
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
The order to stop construction on Revolution Wind off the coast of Rhode Island is part of a campaign against renewable energy.
nyti.ms
August 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s pretty simple:
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
- AI is driving electricity demand up
- The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built
- When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.
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AMAZING NEWS! A judge has ruled that the Everglades Interment Camp must halt operations. They cannot receive new immigrants (thank GOD), and must tear down fencing and other aspects within 60 days. Essentially making it inoperable.
www.everglades.org/judge-halts-...
www.everglades.org/judge-halts-...
Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center With Preliminary Injunction
www.everglades.org
August 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
AMAZING NEWS! A judge has ruled that the Everglades Interment Camp must halt operations. They cannot receive new immigrants (thank GOD), and must tear down fencing and other aspects within 60 days. Essentially making it inoperable.
www.everglades.org/judge-halts-...
www.everglades.org/judge-halts-...
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Life comes at you fast
August 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Life comes at you fast
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
August 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
Angus King is doing the right thing! All senators and representatives should do this. We should not send one more cent to IDF as long as they continue genocide.
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July 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Angus King is doing the right thing! All senators and representatives should do this. We should not send one more cent to IDF as long as they continue genocide.
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This is deeply shameful. Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get aid in the past 8 weeks. Israel must immediately cease these shootings & lift the blockade. Congress must pass the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act to help distribute aid in Gaza
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza
A joint statement says the Israeli government's "siege" has left aid supplies "totally depleted".
www.bbc.com
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
This is deeply shameful. Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while trying to get aid in the past 8 weeks. Israel must immediately cease these shootings & lift the blockade. Congress must pass the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act to help distribute aid in Gaza
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I am so proud to have contributed to this research during my internship last summer with the Climate and Community Institute!
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Letting People Move - Climate and Community Institute
Transportation policy represents a key tool to address both the cost of living and climate crises. In the United States, the shortcomings of today’s transportation system …
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July 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
I am so proud to have contributed to this research during my internship last summer with the Climate and Community Institute!
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
climateandcommunity.org/research/let...
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The Trump Admin wants to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse?
Then let's talk about their decision to incinerate 500 tons of food that should have been sent to those who need it.
$800,000 of our taxpayer dollars to purchase the food and another $130,000 to burn it all.
Then let's talk about their decision to incinerate 500 tons of food that should have been sent to those who need it.
$800,000 of our taxpayer dollars to purchase the food and another $130,000 to burn it all.
The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
www.theatlantic.com
July 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Trump Admin wants to talk about waste, fraud, and abuse?
Then let's talk about their decision to incinerate 500 tons of food that should have been sent to those who need it.
$800,000 of our taxpayer dollars to purchase the food and another $130,000 to burn it all.
Then let's talk about their decision to incinerate 500 tons of food that should have been sent to those who need it.
$800,000 of our taxpayer dollars to purchase the food and another $130,000 to burn it all.
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Interesting article on the need to shift from car-dependent to transit-oriented development, drawing on lessons from previous interventions.
Key issue: “Transit investment is often absent or delayed until after development occurs, which weakens sustainability and reinforces car dependency”
Key issue: “Transit investment is often absent or delayed until after development occurs, which weakens sustainability and reinforces car dependency”
Transit-oriented development versus car-dependent development: The importance of high frequency transit services and prior investment in transit
Urban development in most Global North countries is largely car dependent, enabled and facilitated by mass car ownership, cheap oil and weak planning …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Interesting article on the need to shift from car-dependent to transit-oriented development, drawing on lessons from previous interventions.
Key issue: “Transit investment is often absent or delayed until after development occurs, which weakens sustainability and reinforces car dependency”
Key issue: “Transit investment is often absent or delayed until after development occurs, which weakens sustainability and reinforces car dependency”
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In a sane world, this would be the biggest, most important news story in the world.
‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders.
“Every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. And every year of “overshoot” matters too.”
“It’s ultimately a matter of survival.”
#ClimateCrisis
‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders.
“Every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. And every year of “overshoot” matters too.”
“It’s ultimately a matter of survival.”
#ClimateCrisis
‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders
World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almo...
news.exeter.ac.uk
July 7, 2025 at 5:38 AM
In a sane world, this would be the biggest, most important news story in the world.
‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders.
“Every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. And every year of “overshoot” matters too.”
“It’s ultimately a matter of survival.”
#ClimateCrisis
‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders.
“Every fraction of a degree above 1.5°C matters. And every year of “overshoot” matters too.”
“It’s ultimately a matter of survival.”
#ClimateCrisis