Laura Kosloff

Envtl lawyer working in climate change & carbon markets. Also here as @Exchange_Mom re my work w/exchange students. At Mastadon as

[Laura Kosloff @legallaurak]

As Mark Trexler notes in this piece by @ben_elgin, carbon offsets are not bogus by definition. They can be a good tool in our mitigation efforts. But there are certainly problems in practice.

[Bloomberg Green @climate]

This is the story of how the Nature Conservancy, the world’s biggest environmental group, became a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets https://t.co/W3tow6SU4J

[British Embassy Washington @UKinUSA]

The greatest ex we ever had 😢

[Laura Kosloff @legallaurak]

@FreddyLA7 Moose’s are BIG. Almost walked into one once on a path in Alaska. You don’t want to be too close to one in the dark! (But I can understand the wish to see one. They are pretty cool,)

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

If you like the dogs I share and they cheer you up daily, I’d love you to watch this one video.

I only do this once a year and never ask any other time.

You can support here and if you can’t sharing this video helps 🙏 https://t.co/Roftrb3ZWW

[Justice Connection @Justice_CXN]

Lawfare found at least 97 recipients of January 6 pardons have since faced other charges, including assault, domestic violence, child sex abuse material, gun crimes, and DUIs.

Blanket impunity has consequences. https://t.co/KWVJY2zIfl

[Acyn @Acyn]

King Charles: I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the East Wing. I'm sorry to say that we British of course made our own small attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump’s DOJ just filed what may be the most deranged written Motion ever. It reads more like a Truth Social post dictated by Trump himself. What an embarrassment.

The Motion is filled with inappropriate personal insults. It literally calls the National Trust for Historic Preservation name “FAKE” and says the group is “very bad for our Country.” It accuses them of suffering from “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and frames their lawyer as “the lawyer for Barack Hussein Obama.”

This is an actual line from the filing: “because it is DONALD J. TRUMP, a highly successful real estate developer, who has abilities that others don't, especially those who assume the Office of President, this frivolous and meritless lawsuit was filed.”

This is how the Department of Justice is writing now?

Then comes the opportunism. The filing leans heavily on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner incident and uses it to push Trump’s long-standing obsession with building a ballroom. Instead of addressing what went wrong, it argues that none of this would have happened if Trump’s project already existed.

They claim “bipartisan support” because of support from…John Fetterman.

The lawsuit also claims at multiple points the ballroom won’t cost taxpayers anything—something we now know to be false.

Every DOJ lawyer who put their name on this should be ashamed. And it should be a major scandal that it appears that Donald Trump is the one who actually wrote this. So much for DOJ independence.

[Laura Kosloff @legallaurak]

@SarahLongwell25 @BulwarkOnline “Extraordinarily brilliant person”? Who wrote that for him?

[Old North @OldNorth1723]

On this night 251 years ago, two men climbed Old North Church's steeple. They held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Concord via the Charles River.

Their famous “one if by land, two if by sea” warning ignited the American Revolution.

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

Harvard University is offering a FREE online course on the US Constitution! Understanding our Constitution has rarely been more important. Enroll in a free, short, engaging online course.

HarvardX: American Government: Constitutional Foundations | edX https://t.co/fm2LcQ1eZ2

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

15 April 1945 | Soldiers of the British 11th Armoured Division liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was part of the official German Nazi concentration camp system from the time it was established in April 1943. It differed from all other concentration camps in several key aspects.
It was initially set up for Jewish hostages whom the SS had said they would release - in exchange for Germans interned abroad, foreign currency or commodities valuable to the war effort.

The character of the camp changed in March 1944 when a new section was established for sick male prisoners from other concentration camps who were no longer able to work. A section for female prisoners was set up in August 1944.

In December 1944, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp became the destination for numerous evacuation transports. The subsequent overcrowding and disastrous living conditions led to mass deaths.

At least 52,000 of the total of around 120,000 prisoners in Bergen-Belsen died of starvation or disease, of the abuse they received from the SS, or of the immediate effects of their imprisonment following their liberation.

Read more: https://t.co/f1Q5MCuKl4

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

With this settlement the US is worse off in every way than it was before the war; Iran is strengthened by the huge new tolls in the Straits of Hormuz, paid by the whole world. (1/14)

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

An American president threatening the death of an ancient civilization is in some ways the end of the 250-year moral experiment of a constitutional republic that the framers saw as a model for all mankind.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This would be a good time for: a.) STRATCOM commanders who implement orders to fire nuclear missiles to read up on Nuremberg and prosecutions for obeying orders to commit war crimes; and b.) for cabinet members to reread the 25th Amendment and have each other on speed dial.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Seriously, what the fuck is this.

This is completely deranged, and anyone who can’t say so is a coward.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

[Laura Kosloff @legallaurak]

@LisaDNews We will need pics, of course!

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Why does Trump want to increase the defense budget by almost 50%? Because he sees it as a payoff to the guys who will help him establish his dictatorship of convenience.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better.
https://t.co/3EFUACrS3S

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

I was just helping my kid with their high school Gov homework, and was astonished to learn the United States has a Congress.