LA's City Council has voted unanimously to ban new oil and gas drilling in the city and to phase out existing wells over the next 20 years. The ordinance mirrors a recently passed measure covering unincorporated parts of LA County. Read more Yale Environment 360: bit.ly/3gZ9soZ

I've seen enough: Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) defeats Herschel Walker (R) in the #GASEN runoff, giving Democrats a 51-49 majority in the Senate.

Disturbing. To all my friends- Let’s recommit to reversing this trend. Thanks Marianne Alleyne 🇳🇱🇯🇲🇧🇧🇺🇸 for sharing. reuters.com/graphics/GLOBA…

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A little slice of history — the first U.S. banknotes with a female Treasury Secretary’s signature on them ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Tom Nichols constans Someone said something to the effect of “80% of conservative outrage is just someone finding out how stuff works for the first time”.

On this day, 43 years ago: smallpox was confirmed as eradicated. It's the only human disease that has been successfully eradicated. An estimated 300 million people died from smallpox during the 20th century. ourworldindata.org/smallpox

What strikes me most about the people who claim to be the most iconoclastic thinkers, the people who say they question everything and trust no one is that they are so often the ones engaging in group think and regurgitating canned lines.

@JoshuaPHilll Rich people being "good at business" is just them doing stuff that would get poor people arrested.

We need to catch up to this.

🚨 Breaking news 🚨 The Bugs Matter citizen science survey has found a decline of 64% in the number of insects sampled between 2004 and 2022 across the UK. 🐞 Read more 👉 kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/further-i…

Part II of Deena's 3M story is out. By the 50s, 3M knew its chemicals were toxic. By the 60s, they knew they lasted forever. By the 70s, they knew the compounds were showing up in the blood of most Americans. But change didn't come until decades later. minnesotareformer.com/2022/12/15/tox…

this is insane but also god he's such a fucking baby

Regarding Elon Musk situation everyone's been talking about, LAPD statement: "LAPD's Threat Management Unit is aware of the situation and tweet by Elon Musk and is in contact with his representatives and security team. No crime reports have been filed yet."

Yeah, right.