Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️

Solutions abound when you switch from yelling #climatecrisis to focusing on cutting climate risk. Full #climlifebergen @UiB_IF talk at: revkin.substack.com/p/how-to-defea…

Catching up with God….

Mr. President, completely agree about having a lot of fun over these next seven months.  But nitpicking? Some of your advisors are telling you to support things like:     - Using billions of taxpayer dollars to compensate convicted felons and thugs who attacked police. (Ed Martin)    - Pushing 50-year mortgages and Elizabeth Warren's housing bill over sound conservative housing policy. (Bill Pulte)    - Using taxpayer money to transform publicly traded companies into state-owned enterprises. (Howard Lutnick)    - Firing our very best generals and not holding Putin accountable for his systematic kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of Ukrainian civilians. (Pete Hegseth)  If opposing these things makes me a RINO, then I gladly accept that nickname.  We need Republicans to do well in November, but the stupid stuff is killing our chances!

Imagine being an immigrant who was dumb enough to vote for Trump while telling yourself 'Oh he's only anti illegal immigration, not legal immigration.' The reality:

@sgallz_ @CurtisHouck So a Beltway wonk with ths c.v. - intern, intern, intern, secretary, blogger, propagandist - is daring to criticize a three-tour Marine. Got it. Come out here to Downeast Maine and try that at the Black Moon Public House in Ellsworth.

.@CurtisHouck on Graham Platner 👀 “His record is this working class oyster farmer? No, he went to rich boarding school funded by his parents, he went to GW here in DC, and now we see today he’s a Time Magazine cover guy.”

Hey @HouseGOP, @SenateGOP, congratulations on remaking America in your image... ~

@ReichlinMelnick Here’s hoping he applies to Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund for substantial compensation.

A federal judge dismissed charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia as an "abuse of prosecuting power," saying "The objective evidence here shows that, absent Abrego’s successful lawsuit challenging his removal to El Salvador, the Government would not have brought this prosecution."

There are 1.2 MILLION legal immigrants waiting for approval on their adjustment of status green card applications. And USCIS says we're not processing you. We're taking your money to pay for our new police force. Thanks. GTFO.

Despite Trump’s efforts the Epstein story refuses to go away.

Highlands Conservancy members gather for 2025 Fall Review at Blackwater Falls:wvhighlands.org/article/highla…

Too soon gone. A fine @sarahkaplan48 obituary of Rafe Pomerance, a lifelong campaigner for a better planet with a livable climate. Lung cancer took him at 79, but not before he said this in another context at a meeting of the West Virginina Highlands Conservancy last November - quoting Joe Hill: Don't mourn. Organize." (1/2)

@ClaraJeffery The next time Alexander Skarsgård hosts @nbcsnl he absolutely has to take the mickey out of this insanity. Listen to Hegseth‘s voice and think about Alexander‘s voice.

This is the most pathetic weak ass shit I’ve ever seen

@JonahDispatch He says the opposite on his home page.

I have no idea if he’s an idiot or a cynical liar or some mixture of both. But this sort of thing makes me appreciate how fragile the American experiment is.

Universal healthcare and economic inequality - 20 years ago - debated by @davidsirota and that early Colbert character... deja vu forever....

Slopification watch: There's this purportedly locals-only Maine Facebook group that's largely anti-data center slop about fabricated news stories.

Platner's entire argument for his candidacy is that he has grown as a person, that he has overcome the depths of despair that poured out of him in toxic ways, by focusing on building and being with community. His campaign is an extension of that argument, going from community to community telling this story of growth and redemption, and identifying the villains who are destroying communities both here and overseas. Every time Republicans point out that he said something toxic previously, they are telling the Maine public nothing new, while also painting themselves as the woke scolds they used to warn about.

The Time Platner profile: time.com/article/2026/0…

It's PLATNER TIME. Literally. On the cover of @TIME Magazine. (I took the video when @grahamformaine was a "peacekeeper" at the first #nokings rally in Ellsworth Maine, June 2025. I was impressed with this anonymous guy months before he ran.) From the story, by @JuliaTerruso: The test will come in November, when Platner squares off against the five-term Republican incumbent, Susan Collins, with control of the Senate on the line and his controversies dominating the airwaves. A victory could change the kinds of candidates Democrats recruit for public office for years to come, especially as millennials with problematic online footprints hit middle age. Platner’s candidacy is forcing the party to come to terms with what it’s willing to risk in exchange for a fighter. “People don’t want cowards who are, like, trying to find this moderate message, to find this mythical center,” Platner says as we ride in his truck to a town hall in Orono. “We are in a form of class war. And if the Democratic Party is going to have a future with working people, it needs to pick the side of working people.” Story link is below.

@ChrisMurphyCT Corruption that kills. x.com/Revkin/status/…

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy #donation-big-tobacco-vaping" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nytimes.com/live/2026/05/2…

Corruption that kills: Trump takes tobacco money to lure your kids into vaping. Glad @MartyMakary had the gumption to resign. Great reporting by @By_CJewett @kenvogel. Now will anybody do something about it? Looking at you @SenateGOP @HouseGOP

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it. Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago. IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued. The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk. The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit. Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”  Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million. The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out. This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues? nytimes.com/2026/05/19/adm…