I asked Jerry Brown about Speaker Robert Rivas reducing the number of bills assemblymembers can introduce from 50 to 35. Brown says it should be even lower. “I’d go 5.” Watch ⬇️

It’s called reductio ad absurdum. Take something far enough, you demonstrate it’s absurd, and people want the opposite. politico.com/newsletters/ca…

"Not even Donald Trump, who is quite clever in many ways, can repeal the laws of physics" Former Governor of California Jerry Brown says soon "there will be a reduction, to absurdity, of the idea that climate change is a hoax" #BBCLauraK bbc.in/4jdPrGw

Will the LA wildfires prompt people to leave California for good? “Wherever you go, you’re not going to escape nature – and nature is being disrupted profoundly,” says former California Governor Jerry Brown. Without addressing the climate crisis, he argues, the cost of

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“I feel so proud that in these five and a half years we have been able to identify and publish and trumpet this new generation of writers and editors.” —Emily Greenhouse interviewed by Merve Emre go.nybooks.com/4jCA6iW

That’s me!

This bizarre & nihilistic move to gut American environmental law denies reality & assaults basic science. It may help some polluters, but will do grievous harm to the American people. This must be stopped.

All these stupid budget cuts are to provide money via tax cuts to very rich people.

These latest edicts are insane. In the face of dangerous climate change, Trump goes out of his way to push coal & attack the states reducing carbon pollution. The people won’t stand for this. Trump will fail.

Defying the Supreme Court, planning to spirit American citizens to El Salvador and saying that the courts have no role since it is a foreign country and the president has all foreign policy powers. We have entered the realm of fullblown fascism.

On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that the United States carried out strikes against Iranian nuclear sites. Yesterday, Bulletin nuclear affairs editor François Diaz-Maurin assessed the risks associated with such attacks. thebulletin.org/2025/06/the-ra…

Gutting solar & the tech of the future. Doubling down on dirty fossil fuels. Selling off public land. Cutting taxes for the affluent. Adding trillions to the nat’l debt. Taking away health care. An assault on the very foundation of America. Obscene.

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli… via @NYTimes

This is an absolute abomination. If Trump attempts to emasculate America’s capacity to combat carbon emissions, he will be reviled—rightfully. And he will be stopped!

Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change nytimes.com/2025/07/23/cli… via @NYTimes

Trump and his EPA appointees must follow international law and the mandate of this case. Otherwise they become international outlaws.

Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyr… via @NYTimes The tyrant strikes again…