F J Handley: Tax Climate Polluters! Stop Genocide!

Peace & climate activist, environmental lawyer (w/ engineering, economics), cyclist, amateur fiddler, 14 yrs @ US EPA, 9 yrs @ Carbon Tax Center.

[F J Handley: Tax Climate Polluters! Stop Genocide! @FJHandley]

#Doublespeak:

#Gaza: Take #AIPAC $$, fund & supply #genocide, mouth anodyne platitudes, "2-state solution."

#GlobalWarming (Roasting?): Take #FossilFuel $$, accelerate "drill baby drill," throw taxpayer funded subsidies at all kinds of energy, call it #climate policy.

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

Just a reminder for everyone on this site who said, "why are these climate activists talking about Gaza? Those two things are unrelated!"

In just two months, Israel's assault on Gaza produced more emissions than 20 countries.

[Impeach 47 @Impeach_47]

@tparsi 215-208, with four Republicans crossing. The Senate version can't be filibustered under the War Powers Act, so every senator now has to put their name on this war, on the record.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Amazing! The House just passed a War Powers Act resolution to end the Iran war! It must now go to the Senate, but it won't need a signature from Trump.

This is the furthest any WPR has gone against the Iran war!

A major defeat for those who wish to continue the war, although it doesn't automatically force Trump's hand.

Several Republicans broke with Trump to get this passed:

Massie,
Fitpatrick,
Davidson, and
Barrett.

Several organizations deserve massive credit for this key win:

@justfp
Action Corps
@FCNL
@NIACouncil
@demandprogress
@PeaceAction

[Karishma Manzur for Senate @Karishma4Senate]

Calling all Granite Staters: This Senate seat belongs to all of us. Join me in the State House on Friday at 3:30 pm as I file for U.S. Senate. Let’s start to reclaim our power 🎉

[Martin Tye @martinrev21]

The biggest danger from #renewables is the excuse for BAU... with no austerity discussion.
More economic/population growth via a different energy source still means eco-ruin.

[DigitalPepa @DigitalPepa]

@RepThomasMassie @saifedean How about israel taking over our pentagon?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It was blatantly obvious at the time -- even more so now -- that @JeremyCorbyn was a victim of a deeply cynical smear campaign by the Israel Lobby and Labour's establishment wing: being smeared as a bigot/anti-Semite for criticizing Israel and questioning UK financing of it:

[Bobby Sauce @takenaps]

Watch Glenn Cook

This clip of @ggreenwald on @jubileemedia is heat. He's explaining in simple terms how people who complained about Hunter Biden enriching himself from Daddy's power are completely ignoring the much higher amount Donnie's family has made in the exact same way.

The millions to Hunter pale in comparison to the billions of enrichment that have come directly from this term that isn't even halfway through.

The slop merchants will completely ignore this fact, per usual, because of why? Loyalty? More like a lack of principles.

All of us just casually ignored these things because we were happy to be on the theoretically winning side.

It's our guy and he's better or however we chose to justify it.

But the glaring reality of this is now too big to ignore. Great job, Glenn.

[ingrid jay @IngridinDC_22]

Sunday*MAY 31* 10am-4:30pm #DC
PROTEST GENOCIDE IN GAZA
Join us as we greet over 2K AJC attendees as they arrive for Opening Plenary. Our message is ...
- Stop Israel's genocidal policies - Hold Israel accountable - End the apartheid state #FreePalestine

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

And I will be offering an amendment in the committee itself to strip section 224 out, @RepThomasMassie.

Trump can't kill the Massie/Khanna partnership no matter how much he posts on Truth Social.

[Karishma Manzur for Senate @Karishma4Senate]

Many Americans voted for Trump because they wanted to challenge a broken system. Their frustration with partisan politics was real.

I'm running to bring people together around real solutions: affordable housing, livable wages, and a foreign policy that serves the American people.

Join me.

#ussenate #karishmaforsenate #nhpolitics

[Quincy Institute @QuincyInst]

Members of Congress have quietly advanced an alarming proposal: to further fuse the U.S. and Israeli militaries via sharing data, co-producing weapons, and integrating AI, cyber, and autonomous systems.

It’s buried in the House NDAA as Section 224, and it would give Israel deeper military integration with the U.S. than any country in the world, including NATO allies.

The move would also shield the relationship from public scrutiny by shifting it from visible aid votes into the opaque machinery of defense acquisition, where oversight is limited and political accountability is minimal.

Read more from @BenFreemanDC at @RStatecraft https://t.co/zHzKQbb3dC

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case!

Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined

Kudos to our wonderful client @RepBeatty
& my colleagues @DDAction_ & Washington Litigation Group

This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A bricklayer in East Yorkshire has spent 35 years putting up barn owl nest boxes on weekends. This year, the region saw 308 owlets hatch.

His name is Robert Salter. He's 56 and does bricklaying full time. In 1990, he saw a piece on the news about a man in Lincolnshire installing barn owl boxes, and decided he'd do the same. He started with five.

He now has more than 350 boxes scattered across fields, farms, outbuildings, and trees in East Yorkshire. Every June, he takes four weeks off from bricklaying and visits them with his wife Sue. Scrambling up ladders, ringing chicks, cleaning boxes, repairing the ones the weather got to. He's a licensed bird ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology.

In 2024, the region ringed 95 owlets. In 2025, the count was 308. The Barn Owl Trust says that nationally, this year was "pretty poor" for barn owl breeding, but east Yorkshire is the exception, and it's the exception because of one man with a ladder.

The barn owl population in the UK was estimated at 4,000 pairs in the mid-2000s and crashed to roughly 1,000 by the early 2010s. The species is still recovering.

Most of conservation is one person who refuses to give up.

[WELCOME TO BLACK TWlTTER  @blacktwiterthrd]

9th grader Demi Johnson wins National Geographic award for her plan to restore Mississippi’s oyster reefs. She already produced 1,100 oysters that will spawn millions of larvae, delivering a major boost to the ecosystem.

[Jamarrius @YungxJayy]

What is there even left to say about these depraved demons? It’s just so hard to believe anyone has the capacity to be this evil.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Israel bombed a Roman Fort in Lebanon, over 2000 years old, one of the finest examples of Roman Architecture left on the planet, stood isolated on a hill.

But Israel bombed it anyway.

They are terrorists, and they destroy everything.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

People are dying, systems are breaking down.

This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

It’s a blatant violation of international law, a crime in progress.

Canadians are connected to Cuba: we’ve been welcomed, had great holidays, heard incredible music, done business and made friends.

We need to help Cuba right now, even if it bothers Trump: Canada should send immediate humanitarian fuel aid, in as much quantity as we can quickly assemble.

And we should be speaking out loudly on the international stage: US military action against Cuba is absolutely unacceptable!

It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The Democratic Party is unpopular because we had a party that supported the genocide in Gaza, foreign wars, the hollowing out of industrial towns, and we allowed wealth to be hoarded in the hands of the few.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

While Americans oppose more military aid to Israel, Congress is inserting something even deeper and more insidious into the US military budget (NDAA): US integration with the Israeli military!

Tell Congress: Reject Section 224 of the NDAA. No military integration. No weapons and AI partnerships.