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Mar
17
What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology
A few years ago Critical Frequency, the podcast production company that makes Drilled, partnered with Stitcher on a podcast that,
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Mar
09
It's Time to Fight for Actual Free Speech
If you are obsessed with corporate PR and its power, as I am, eventually you butt up against the question
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Jan
20
Newsletter: On MLK Day 2025, It’s Never Been More Important for Nice White Liberals to Step Up
For more than a year now we have been tracking the global trend towards the increasing criminalization of climate protest.
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Dec
17
The Overton-Window-Sized Hole in Most "Moveable Middle" Strategies
I was talking to some climate folks recently and wondered aloud about something I didn't think was particularly
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Dec
03
What's Coming: Peak Oil, Maximum LNG and Ethanol, State Violence, the CCS Boom, and a Lot More Climate Litigation
I haven't sent out a newsletter for a couple of weeks, partly because I'm working on
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Nov
08
On the Benefits of Changing One's Mind in Public
I've been thinking a lot lately about how zero-sum people tend to get about various messages in the
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Oct
14
De-fund the Tone Police
When the stakes are high—a U.S. descent into fascism, genocide in Gaza, the specter of World War III,
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Oct
08
Conspiracies Thrive in a Crisis
Last month during Climate Week in New York, Jennie King, the head of climate research and policy for the Institute
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Sep
29
On Climate Week and Toxic Positivity
Last week was New York Climate Week, which happens alongside the UN General Assembly every year, or as I overheard
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Sep
10
Why Can't We Just Tell the Truth About Fossil Fuels?
I went on a call-in radio show this weekend, the focus of which was climate in the next election. I
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