Jonathan Mingle
@jmingle.bsky.social
climate/energy journalist
author of GASLIGHT and FIRE AND ICE
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website: jonathanmingle.com
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author of GASLIGHT and FIRE AND ICE
words in @nytimes.com @nybooks.com @yalee360.bsky.social
@undark.org and more
website: jonathanmingle.com
signal contact: jmingle.74
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Jonathan Mingle
@jmingle.bsky.social
· Feb 19
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
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...
Its David v. Goliath tale of grassroots power overcoming corporate energy interests seems more relevant than ever.
www.southernenvironment.org/news/celebra...
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I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I'm told the catastrophic Washington Post layoffs today include at least 14 climate journalists. Totally gutting. Details: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Good example of what an institution the size of WaPo can do that is very difficult to replace. Local, worker-owned publications & nonprofits do excellent accountability work but I don’t imagine any could set up an ME bureau, with staff across the region, logistics, legal and security support, etc
February 4, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Good example of what an institution the size of WaPo can do that is very difficult to replace. Local, worker-owned publications & nonprofits do excellent accountability work but I don’t imagine any could set up an ME bureau, with staff across the region, logistics, legal and security support, etc
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I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
February 4, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
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NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
Here's the kind of coverage the Post is eliminating so it can run more Shadi Hamid "Here's why the Democrats are to blame for the surge in malaria" columns
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects
The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Here's the kind of coverage the Post is eliminating so it can run more Shadi Hamid "Here's why the Democrats are to blame for the surge in malaria" columns
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
And that utility profit component deserves a *LOT* more attention.
For those who need a primer on "return on equity" and how utilities capture of regulators lets them siphon massive $$ from ratepayers to reward shareholders, read this good @nickbowlin.bsky.social piece:
harpers.org/archive/2026...
For those who need a primer on "return on equity" and how utilities capture of regulators lets them siphon massive $$ from ratepayers to reward shareholders, read this good @nickbowlin.bsky.social piece:
harpers.org/archive/2026...
February 4, 2026 at 2:40 PM
And that utility profit component deserves a *LOT* more attention.
For those who need a primer on "return on equity" and how utilities capture of regulators lets them siphon massive $$ from ratepayers to reward shareholders, read this good @nickbowlin.bsky.social piece:
harpers.org/archive/2026...
For those who need a primer on "return on equity" and how utilities capture of regulators lets them siphon massive $$ from ratepayers to reward shareholders, read this good @nickbowlin.bsky.social piece:
harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
'Democracy Dies in Darkness': Super Bowl commercial (2019)
YouTube video by Washington Post
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.
February 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
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Oh shit, people are out there open carrying their own hands
Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
February 3, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Oh shit, people are out there open carrying their own hands
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Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
So who's currently writing the sweeping inside story on the destruction of the Washington Post?
Because we clearly need an 8,000-word New Yorker or NY Magazine epic on how WaPo went from 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' to 'Democracy Dies... [shrug emoji]'
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
Because we clearly need an 8,000-word New Yorker or NY Magazine epic on how WaPo went from 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' to 'Democracy Dies... [shrug emoji]'
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
'Washington Post' journalists plea to Bezos: Don't gut our newsroom
Members of the newspaper's union say they have been warned the company could cut as many as 300 jobs, although no announcement has been made.
www.npr.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:43 PM
So who's currently writing the sweeping inside story on the destruction of the Washington Post?
Because we clearly need an 8,000-word New Yorker or NY Magazine epic on how WaPo went from 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' to 'Democracy Dies... [shrug emoji]'
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
Because we clearly need an 8,000-word New Yorker or NY Magazine epic on how WaPo went from 'Democracy Dies in Darkness' to 'Democracy Dies... [shrug emoji]'
www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...
Great @sammyroth.bsky.social piece on the Colorado River crisis.
One long in the making:
"Gentlemen you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land" —John Wesley Powell to Congress, 1878
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
One long in the making:
"Gentlemen you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land" —John Wesley Powell to Congress, 1878
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
Opinion | These Four States Are in Denial Over a Looming Water Crisis
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Great @sammyroth.bsky.social piece on the Colorado River crisis.
One long in the making:
"Gentlemen you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land" —John Wesley Powell to Congress, 1878
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
One long in the making:
"Gentlemen you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights for there is not sufficient water to supply the land" —John Wesley Powell to Congress, 1878
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...
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Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
![[start quotation] MEMORANDUM OPINION
On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of
all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President
Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8
U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United
States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS
holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take."[end quotation]
Underneath is a screenshot of a tweet, which reads: " Secretary Kristi Noem
@Sec_Noem
I just met with the President.
I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that's been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.
Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS.
WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.
6:52 PM
Dec 1, 2025
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February 3, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
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multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
cbsn.ws
February 2, 2026 at 1:27 AM
multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
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.
—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
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.
—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.
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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.
October 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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.
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.
Guessing the numbers for 2025 will look very different.
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...
"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
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.
Guessing the numbers for 2025 will look very different.
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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...
“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
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...
“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...
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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
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
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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/
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/
Maine Senator Susan Collins said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed her that ICE will end the immigration enforcement surge in the state.
ICE ending Maine surge, Senator Collins says - The Boston Globe
Collins said in a statement that she had pushed Noem and other Trump administration officials to have ICE “reconsider its approach to immigration enforcement in the state.”
trib.al
January 29, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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/
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/
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/...
"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
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/...
"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/...