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Jonathan Mingle
@jmingle.bsky.social
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climate/energy journalist
author of GASLIGHT and FIRE AND ICE
words in @nytimes.com @nybooks.com @yalee360.bsky.social
@undark.org and more
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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · Feb 19
I'm truly honored that my book GASLIGHT has been named winner of the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Award presented by @selc.bsky.social.

Its David v. Goliath tale of grassroots power overcoming corporate energy interests seems more relevant than ever.

www.southernenvironment.org/news/celebra...
Celebrating the 2025 Reed Environmental Writing Award winners
The Southern Environmental Law Center congratulates this year’s winners of its 2025 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award. Through their work, winners Jonathan Mingle, Jared Kofsky, Maia Rosenfe...
www.southernenvironment.org
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marisakabas.bsky.social
multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
February 2, 2026 at 1:27 AM
jmingle.bsky.social
So many @volts bangers but these (non-climate/energy!) pods are essential:
—taxonomy of reactionary centrism
—@samuel-bagg.bsky.social convo on social identity

open.substack.com/pub/davidrob...

Together they're closest thing to skeleton key for understanding our current dysfunction as you'll find.
February 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Maybe it was a sign when the person Trump put in charge of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was a protege of Jeffrey Hart at Dartmouth, a man who wrote this column in 1977.
'Roots' Was a Racist Attack on White People THIS IS going to be a harsher co- lumn than I ordinarily care to write, but the whole "Roots" phenomenon deserves some blunt comment. Tens of millions of Americans sat through the eight TV episodes of "Roots" and apparently did not understand that they themselves were being attacked both directly and unjustifiably. This fact is at once alarming and profoundly depressing. The attack made by "Roots," more. over, was deeply racist, practically all of the whites being unattractive louts, practically all of the blacks nature's noblemen. This is the sort of thing many of the commentators are calling mythic truth." That is, people with white skins are, morally speaking, unattractive louts. As Susan Sontag once put it, whites are the cancer of the human race. "Roots" was just as blunt. Is it possible that the white audience for "Roots" was unaware that it was being assaulted? If so, then perhaps that audience really does deserve to be ripped off, PRoos" is realty al about "Rootst does not have much to do with histo-ry, which is scarcely present at all in the series, but with concrete political claims in the present. The message comes through loud and clear, viz., because of the slavery experience in the past, contemporary Jeffrey Hart blacks have special valid claims on contemporary whites. Contemporary whites, indeed, should feel guilty in connection with blacks. now awarded "victim status" by Alex Haley. "Roots" means to offer blacks a moral blank check, figures to be filled in at leisure: quotas in jobs and colleges, privileged access to the federal kitty, favorable court decisions on highly disputed matters, and so forth. An au• dience willing to ooh and aah over "Roots" is not about to resist very strongly when the political rip-offs arrive. To achieve its propagandistic goals, "Roots" makes a mish-mash of histo-ry. In historical fact, marauding bands of whites did not go into the African bush and Blacks were almest ways seiz…
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
jmingle.bsky.social
This too is bonkers: "In dollar terms, the rest of the world paid as much to travel to the United States for education-related purposes as they did to buy our natural gas and our coal in 2024."

Guessing the numbers for 2025 will look very different.
adamkeiper.com Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 3d
Here's a "holy shit" sentence for you:

"In the past year, the federal workforce lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s, according to an analysis in Science."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...
Trump Is Making America Stupider
How MAGA is purging scientists and other skilled workers from both the private and public sectors.
www.thebulwark.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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dylantus.bsky.social
Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...
ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest
Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.
www.pressherald.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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mollytaft.com
i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers. At the end of 2023 that number was 4 gigawatts
Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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simonwdc.bsky.social
So, incredibly, the White House has chosen to escalate in blue Minnesota and retreat in Maine to protect a vulnerable GOP Senator.

It's confirmation that Trump-Vance-Miller view ICE as a partisan govt-backed militia to attack blue America while propping up their regime. 1/
January 29, 2026 at 12:55 PM
jmingle.bsky.social
Another must read by Fintan O'Toole:

"Watchfulness is the most dangerous form of resistance because it obstructs the Trump regime’s project of habituation...(of) making the threat of arbitrary state violence routine, stitching it into the fabric of daily urban life."
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
The Crime of Witness | Fintan O’Toole
Renée Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.
www.nybooks.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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parkermolloy.com
Drowning High Five refers to a comic by Russian artist Gudim showing a hand reaching out of water, evidently belonging to a drowning person. Another hand comes in and gives the drowning hand a high five. The comic has been used as a reaction image and object labeling exploitable. Obama's "here's a podcast" line is in the third panel
January 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
jmingle.bsky.social
Always read @fotoole.bsky.social
"It would be a mistake to assign a deep strategic coherence to the attack on Venezuela. It's telling that Trump described his own experience of the operation to snatch Maduro as entertainment: 'I mean, I watched it, literally, like I was watching a television show.'"
January 28, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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eileen4ever.bsky.social
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
Cumulative US measles cases As of January 27, there have been more cases than there were by the same week last year. Fairly horizontal lines for 2023 and 2024, a steep diagonal line for 2025, and a vertical line for ytd 2026. 2026 478 cases 2025 2253 cases 2024 283 cases 2023 63 cases Note: Data updated on January 27, 2026, at 3 p.m. ET. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Johns Hopkins University, Center for Outbreak Response Innovation Graphic: Alex Leeds Matthews and Matt Stiles, CNN
January 28, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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kristenradtke.bsky.social
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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jmingle.bsky.social
Our gov't: 'Don't believe your lying lungs.'

"The new nihilistic EPA position is that environmental safeguards have no benefits. People w/ asthma who’ve experienced improvements in health from cleaner air know this isn’t true...our gov't will now pretend otherwise."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
Opinion | The Trump Administration Now Thinks Clean Air Is Worthless
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:06 PM
jmingle.bsky.social
I got to interview McElroy in 2017 for a profile I wrote about his polymathic career for Harvard's Center for the Environment. Re-reading it now I'm struck by his foresight. He was bullish on EVs, wind, solar, storage. And quite clear on the imperative of electrifying everything — a decade ago.
January 27, 2026 at 3:25 AM
jmingle.bsky.social
Half a million Americans died prematurely from 1999-2020 due to breathing air pollution from coal power plants.

These were preventable deaths. After emissions controls were installed, mortality dropped sharply.

EPA's now saying preventing those deaths has no value.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 26, 2026 at 3:18 PM
jmingle.bsky.social
Our gov't: 'Don't believe your lying lungs.'

"The new nihilistic EPA position is that environmental safeguards have no benefits. People w/ asthma who’ve experienced improvements in health from cleaner air know this isn’t true...our gov't will now pretend otherwise."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
Opinion | The Trump Administration Now Thinks Clean Air Is Worthless
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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badideas.bsky.social
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting. 2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value. 3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE. 4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on. 5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle." 6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground. 7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack. 8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video. 9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk. 10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun. 11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him. 12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes. 13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times. 14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him. 15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1. 16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground. 17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building. 18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values. I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct. Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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brianstelter.bsky.social
Powerful statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:

"Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world..."
January 25, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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koltai.bsky.social
Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.
bellingcat.com Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 8d
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
He was directing traffic and filming.
They started assaulting and pepper spraying him.

And it led to them murdering him.

It's murder.
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8d
NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.
January 24, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment
January 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
WHO removing Us Flag
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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startribune.com
Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.

📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ
January 23, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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archaeoscape.bsky.social
"Slavery was real"

Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington.

Presidents House, Philadelphia.
Large brick wall with a tiny white signat the base of the wall that says "Slavery was real"
January 23, 2026 at 3:22 PM