Caleb Heeringa
@calebheeringa.bsky.social
Climate, energy, insurance, political change. Holding Big Oil accountable at @climateintegrity.org - I like my cities dense, my wilderness wild and my baseball teams winning. He/him.
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Sleeper issue around the data center boom: cooling water used for Amazon's server farms in Eastern Oregon creates major groundwater contamination issue, poisoning local drinking water. thefern.org/2025/11/the-...
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sleeper issue around the data center boom: cooling water used for Amazon's server farms in Eastern Oregon creates major groundwater contamination issue, poisoning local drinking water. thefern.org/2025/11/the-...
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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Comanche 3, Colorado’s newest coal plant has already been broken down *two full years* since it began burning crushed rocks in 2010. Now it will be offline another year.
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Comanche 3, Colorado’s newest coal plant has already been broken down *two full years* since it began burning crushed rocks in 2010. Now it will be offline another year.
On staff at the college newspaper we used to do these kinds of jokey parody hot takes for editorials. Until the staff advisor sat us down and reminded us that with great power came great responsibility and we shouldn’t treat the editorial pages like an outlet for our inside jokes. Alas,
At this point, the Washpost edit page is just trolling its readers.
This is today's actual house editorial.
This is today's actual house editorial.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
On staff at the college newspaper we used to do these kinds of jokey parody hot takes for editorials. Until the staff advisor sat us down and reminded us that with great power came great responsibility and we shouldn’t treat the editorial pages like an outlet for our inside jokes. Alas,
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
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"The future is triage on an uninsurable earth" -
Read @katemac.bsky.social & I @thepolycrisis.bsky.social :
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
Read @katemac.bsky.social & I @thepolycrisis.bsky.social :
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
“Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
@kmac & I dig insurance: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"The future is triage on an uninsurable earth" -
Read @katemac.bsky.social & I @thepolycrisis.bsky.social :
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
Read @katemac.bsky.social & I @thepolycrisis.bsky.social :
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
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It's a lot easier to cover the soap opera of the Trump attacks on Comey & James than the destruction of NASA, the Department of Education, EPA, NOAA, the IRS, etc
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's a lot easier to cover the soap opera of the Trump attacks on Comey & James than the destruction of NASA, the Department of Education, EPA, NOAA, the IRS, etc
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Why Trump is provoking a war with Venezuela: “for the American oil companies [it] will be a field day.”
God help all the people who will be killed. The end of the fossil-fuel era cannot come soon enough.
God help all the people who will be killed. The end of the fossil-fuel era cannot come soon enough.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Why Trump is provoking a war with Venezuela: “for the American oil companies [it] will be a field day.”
God help all the people who will be killed. The end of the fossil-fuel era cannot come soon enough.
God help all the people who will be killed. The end of the fossil-fuel era cannot come soon enough.
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"A cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document: The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways." From our story out today: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"A cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document: The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways." From our story out today: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
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Planned obsolescence is not a sustainable way to build an economy and we shouldnt measure it that way either.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Planned obsolescence is not a sustainable way to build an economy and we shouldnt measure it that way either.
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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my favorite beatle used to be john and then it was george but i think i've settled into it being paul. maybe ill go through a ringo phase later idk. seems like a typical trajectory. i wanted to be a tragic artist, then a mystical genius, then i was like "no, i should just be a nice person"
November 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
my favorite beatle used to be john and then it was george but i think i've settled into it being paul. maybe ill go through a ringo phase later idk. seems like a typical trajectory. i wanted to be a tragic artist, then a mystical genius, then i was like "no, i should just be a nice person"
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Nobody within the regime has bothered to even pretend to make a plausible case for going to war against Venezuela. As far as I can see, the Dems are doing nothing to stop it from happening.
Les États-Unis ont averti l’aviation civile d’une « augmentation de l’activité militaire » aux larges des côtes vénézuéliennes.
Suppression de vols, cartel désigné comme « terroriste »… Inquiétudes autour de la présence militaire américaine au large du Venezuela
l.leparisien.fr
November 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Nobody within the regime has bothered to even pretend to make a plausible case for going to war against Venezuela. As far as I can see, the Dems are doing nothing to stop it from happening.
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As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
November 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
As someone who is this guy's age I can tell you 100% that if you were into Pixies, Nirvana, 120 Minutes stuff, etc. but didn't like the Beatles you had to have worked hard to contort yourself into that special little box. Your enemy, if you absolutely needed one, was hair metal. GTFO here with this.
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With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.
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Detailed new look at how climate shocks are pushing down home values in certain parts of the U.S. Biggest driver seems to be rising reinsurance prices: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
A Climate ‘Shock’ Is Eroding Some Home Values. New Data Shows How Much.
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Detailed new look at how climate shocks are pushing down home values in certain parts of the U.S. Biggest driver seems to be rising reinsurance prices: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
These ads are poisoning trust in media
‘Native advertising' allows fossil fuel companies to disguise their ads in news outlets. A new book argues the practice undermines journalistic credibility.
www.exxonknews.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Big Oil is using native advertising to "disguise their ads in news outlets" and promote "controversial technologies like carbon capture as climate solutions, portray fossil fuel companies as climate-friendly, or misrepresent their role in the energy transition" finds author @commscholar.bsky.social.
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if trump is as susceptible as people say (he is) then for one brief shining moment immediately after this meeting concludes and before he talks to anyone else donald trump will be a communist too
Trump says he’s meeting with “communist” Mamdani at the White House on Friday
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
if trump is as susceptible as people say (he is) then for one brief shining moment immediately after this meeting concludes and before he talks to anyone else donald trump will be a communist too
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NRG Energy awarded $370M taxpayer-funded loan to build natural gas power plant in northeast Houston - Houston Chronicle www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
NRG awarded $370 million state loan to build northeast Houston power plant
In total, Houston-based NRG Energy has been awarded more than $1.1 billion in taxpayer-backed loans from the $7.2 billion Texas Energy Fund.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NRG Energy awarded $370M taxpayer-funded loan to build natural gas power plant in northeast Houston - Houston Chronicle www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...
"How is it fair that everyday New Yorkers are shouldering the costs of extreme weather disasters through higher insurance rates, while the companies that caused the problem — and lied to the public about it — pay nothing?" @climateintegrity.org climateintegrity.org/news/view/ne...
New York bill would make Big Oil pay for the home insurance crisis | Center for Climate Integrity
Senate Bill 8585 would keep insurance affordable and available by holding oil and gas giants accountable for damage from extreme weather disasters
climateintegrity.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"How is it fair that everyday New Yorkers are shouldering the costs of extreme weather disasters through higher insurance rates, while the companies that caused the problem — and lied to the public about it — pay nothing?" @climateintegrity.org climateintegrity.org/news/view/ne...
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while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.