Alaina Kinol
@alainakinol.bsky.social
Climate + energy policy PhD candidate at Northeastern U
A great reminder of our networks of climate obstruction paper linking fossil energy-agrochemicals-petro plastics on social media —> they promote similar narratives of climate denial & delay
On the sixth day of our #PLOSClimateCountdown, we're featuring a Mini Collection on Emerging Themes in Climate Obstruction, coordinated by Academic Editor @mgrasso.bsky.social
🔗 latitude.plos.org/2025/03/emer...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A great reminder of our networks of climate obstruction paper linking fossil energy-agrochemicals-petro plastics on social media —> they promote similar narratives of climate denial & delay
a 22 year old, 15 days after a c-section, with a baby in the NICU.
with a pending asylum petition & crime victim visa. kidnapped by the US secret police on her way to see her baby in the NICU.
held for more than a day without medical care, sanitary resources, pumping equipment, or a fucking bed.
with a pending asylum petition & crime victim visa. kidnapped by the US secret police on her way to see her baby in the NICU.
held for more than a day without medical care, sanitary resources, pumping equipment, or a fucking bed.
December 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
a 22 year old, 15 days after a c-section, with a baby in the NICU.
with a pending asylum petition & crime victim visa. kidnapped by the US secret police on her way to see her baby in the NICU.
held for more than a day without medical care, sanitary resources, pumping equipment, or a fucking bed.
with a pending asylum petition & crime victim visa. kidnapped by the US secret police on her way to see her baby in the NICU.
held for more than a day without medical care, sanitary resources, pumping equipment, or a fucking bed.
@massgovernor.bsky.social
MA should not be working with ICE to kidnap children teens and DREAMers.
I would not only vote but actively campaign for someone who was stopping this evil instead of facilitating it.
MA should not be working with ICE to kidnap children teens and DREAMers.
I would not only vote but actively campaign for someone who was stopping this evil instead of facilitating it.
I would really love if our governor @massgovernor.bsky.social was actually doing something to protect people from being kidnapped from her state, instead of continually saying she's "happy to work with ICE."
“She wasn’t told why she was detained...She was shackled like she was some type of hardened criminal, and then deported to Honduras with no opportunity to have a court hearing or even talk to an attorney...If that isn’t unconstitutional, I don’t know what is." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@massgovernor.bsky.social
MA should not be working with ICE to kidnap children teens and DREAMers.
I would not only vote but actively campaign for someone who was stopping this evil instead of facilitating it.
MA should not be working with ICE to kidnap children teens and DREAMers.
I would not only vote but actively campaign for someone who was stopping this evil instead of facilitating it.
could be you @cityofpittsburgh.bsky.social
We got you, Adelaide 🚍
You'll no longer see bull dust about gas being clean on your buses, following our successful complaint to Ad Standards.
#greenwashing
commsdeclare.org/2025/12/03/a...
You'll no longer see bull dust about gas being clean on your buses, following our successful complaint to Ad Standards.
#greenwashing
commsdeclare.org/2025/12/03/a...
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
could be you @cityofpittsburgh.bsky.social
Reposted by Alaina Kinol
"Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand"
Really horrific
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Really horrific
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand – latest updates
Hundreds remain missing in Indonesia and Sri Lanka as rescue efforts continue after Cyclone Ditwah
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
"Death toll passes 1,000 in devastating floods across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand"
Really horrific
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Really horrific
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
A student going home for Thanksgiving
This interview with Any Lucia Belloza is heartbreaking but everyone should read it. These are the lives our country is destroying.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/26/m...
![“I was so happy when I got there [to Babson],” Lopez Belloza said. “I was just living the college life — going to events, going everywhere ... everything there was really great. I really loved the school."
She and her father also had a special shared aspiration. With her business degree, Lopez Belloza was going to help her father open his own tailor shop, they hoped.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u6ajzyiqzkzbppp2x2y7fpfu/bafkreib33kpkgmvas4z6avgq62styxbzrzuawjufqyddtoynqgbiwnhtzy@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A student going home for Thanksgiving
A real problem with the "environmentalists are concerned" framing is that actually all humans breathe air, drink water, and eat food.
Those who aren't concerned perhaps need *media* to remind them that their health is physically dependent on environmental quality.
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
Those who aren't concerned perhaps need *media* to remind them that their health is physically dependent on environmental quality.
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
Interior skips NEPA analysis for offshore drilling expansion
All prior five-year drilling plans — dating back to 1980 — reference National Environmental Policy Act analyses.
www.eenews.net
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A real problem with the "environmentalists are concerned" framing is that actually all humans breathe air, drink water, and eat food.
Those who aren't concerned perhaps need *media* to remind them that their health is physically dependent on environmental quality.
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
Those who aren't concerned perhaps need *media* to remind them that their health is physically dependent on environmental quality.
www.eenews.net/articles/int...
A story of many people choosing to harm the public for money. & shows why industry lobbyists should not be regulators.
Absolutely enraging.
Absolutely enraging.
PFAS have been linked to several kinds of cancer, birth defects, damage to the liver and immune system, and other health problems. The EPA plans to relax rules requiring companies to report PFAS products and weaken drinking water standards for the chemicals.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food - The Boston Globe
The agency approved two new pesticides that will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli, and potatoes.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
A story of many people choosing to harm the public for money. & shows why industry lobbyists should not be regulators.
Absolutely enraging.
Absolutely enraging.
Absurd
“Occidental Petroleum put out a press release claiming they had produced the world's first zero-carbon barrel of oil.”
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Listen now: Overshootpod.com
@amywestervelt.bsky.social
Listen now: Overshootpod.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Absurd
Helpful term for a concept I mostly think of re: solar geoengineering research
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Helpful term for a concept I mostly think of re: solar geoengineering research
Reposted by Alaina Kinol
Returning to fossil fuels is not a "pragmatic" decision. It is a delusional one.
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Returning to fossil fuels is not a "pragmatic" decision. It is a delusional one.
@governor.ny.gov new gas pipelines are a violation of NYS’s climate law and an act of violence against the public.
Not a good look for the Governor, as she approves a new natural gas pipeline as well as gas for a crypto-mining operation. Both decisions fly in the face of NY's climate law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
@doreenharris.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...
@doreenharris.bsky.social @governor.ny.gov
Hochul Approved Permits That Could Help Clients of Her Husband’s Firm
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
@governor.ny.gov new gas pipelines are a violation of NYS’s climate law and an act of violence against the public.
from a federal agency
If these people are ever thrown out of power, I hope we all understand there is no reformist pathway for institutions like this as much as Dems might desperately wish and claim there is.
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
from a federal agency
NYS just committed to violating its own climate law to permit this pipeline instead of investing in clean infrastructure to meet energy demand & reliability.
In 2025, we know building fossil energy=enacting violence against current & future gens. Horrible.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0711202...
In 2025, we know building fossil energy=enacting violence against current & future gens. Horrible.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0711202...
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
NYS just committed to violating its own climate law to permit this pipeline instead of investing in clean infrastructure to meet energy demand & reliability.
In 2025, we know building fossil energy=enacting violence against current & future gens. Horrible.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0711202...
In 2025, we know building fossil energy=enacting violence against current & future gens. Horrible.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0711202...
the type of thing that makes you question the integrity of the journalism
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
the type of thing that makes you question the integrity of the journalism
Social science is so cool
We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Social science is so cool
Every family dinner as someone who studies policy is like:
"X shouldn't be political." OK but it is. Now what?
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Every family dinner as someone who studies policy is like:
INSANE to write about keystone xl as diplomacy without a mention of why the pipeline was cancelled in the first place: worsening climate impacts of gas.
No, keystone XL won't fix trade. WTF E&E news stop using the admin/industry framing and do some real journalism
www.eenews.net/articles/can...
No, keystone XL won't fix trade. WTF E&E news stop using the admin/industry framing and do some real journalism
www.eenews.net/articles/can...
Can the US and Canada revive Keystone XL?
An earlier push to build the pipeline ended during the Biden administration. Both countries could try again if they settle their trade war.
www.eenews.net
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
INSANE to write about keystone xl as diplomacy without a mention of why the pipeline was cancelled in the first place: worsening climate impacts of gas.
No, keystone XL won't fix trade. WTF E&E news stop using the admin/industry framing and do some real journalism
www.eenews.net/articles/can...
No, keystone XL won't fix trade. WTF E&E news stop using the admin/industry framing and do some real journalism
www.eenews.net/articles/can...
Disturbing & insightful
A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
They were supercharged by climate change
Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe
Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵
www.scri.org.uk/derailment
Welcome to the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative
How can we stop the consequences of climate change from undermining climate action?
www.scri.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Disturbing & insightful
it's wild that the GOP keeps introducing "permitting reform" because headlines don't explicitly say "we're blocking affordable clean energy + building outdated fossil fuels that cost taxpayers $$"
but sure the left is the problem in climate & energy policy
but sure the left is the problem in climate & energy policy
I love how, to centrists / the Abundance faction, “the left” has blocked clean-energy development in America, but also Democrats should not talk about climate change because doing so associates them with “the left.”
Make it make sense.
Make it make sense.
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
it's wild that the GOP keeps introducing "permitting reform" because headlines don't explicitly say "we're blocking affordable clean energy + building outdated fossil fuels that cost taxpayers $$"
but sure the left is the problem in climate & energy policy
but sure the left is the problem in climate & energy policy
“As [universities] vie for rankings, grant dollars, and tuition-paying applicants, larger concerns such as the future of higher education* go unaddressed.”
*let us not forget climate change, humanitarian crises, etc
Utterly damning
*let us not forget climate change, humanitarian crises, etc
Utterly damning
"It's past time to recognize that university administrators aren't going to lead the way out of this, [setting] the stage for leadership... from faculty, staff, & students, [where] most if not all progress in higher ed over the past 100 yrs has occurred."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#AcademicSky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#AcademicSky
Higher education fails at collective action
In the latest development in the ongoing combat between universities in the United States and the Trump administration, the Department of Education has presented them with what it calls a “compact.” I...
www.science.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
“As [universities] vie for rankings, grant dollars, and tuition-paying applicants, larger concerns such as the future of higher education* go unaddressed.”
*let us not forget climate change, humanitarian crises, etc
Utterly damning
*let us not forget climate change, humanitarian crises, etc
Utterly damning
It’s the “will of the people” to overturn the 22nd amendment for the “divinely providential” president
I do think it’s interesting that as soon as bannon receives any pushback on his self-image as mastermind, he immediately reveals the plan. Like a child.
I do think it’s interesting that as soon as bannon receives any pushback on his self-image as mastermind, he immediately reveals the plan. Like a child.
it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028
October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
It’s the “will of the people” to overturn the 22nd amendment for the “divinely providential” president
I do think it’s interesting that as soon as bannon receives any pushback on his self-image as mastermind, he immediately reveals the plan. Like a child.
I do think it’s interesting that as soon as bannon receives any pushback on his self-image as mastermind, he immediately reveals the plan. Like a child.
I loved listening in on this convo.
A discussion about trump’s hold on the south —> analysis that explains why grassroots-oriented progressive candidates who campaign w/ community-building on hyperlocal econ & social issues are so compelling, eg Wu, Mamdani, Abugazaleh
A discussion about trump’s hold on the south —> analysis that explains why grassroots-oriented progressive candidates who campaign w/ community-building on hyperlocal econ & social issues are so compelling, eg Wu, Mamdani, Abugazaleh
One more note. Someone a lot smarter than me made a similar point in The NY Times this morning. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argued against democrats trying to run to the middle. It hasn’t worked. Try doing the things suggested by more progressive and populist people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...
Opinion | There Is No Trump Without the South
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I loved listening in on this convo.
A discussion about trump’s hold on the south —> analysis that explains why grassroots-oriented progressive candidates who campaign w/ community-building on hyperlocal econ & social issues are so compelling, eg Wu, Mamdani, Abugazaleh
A discussion about trump’s hold on the south —> analysis that explains why grassroots-oriented progressive candidates who campaign w/ community-building on hyperlocal econ & social issues are so compelling, eg Wu, Mamdani, Abugazaleh
Death cult
October 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Death cult