Phaedra C. Pezzullo

One notable milestone lead by Lula's Brazil just on Friday.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

let's fucking go

stand up against neonazionism www.youtube.com/shorts/a-PEA...

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

BREAKING Brazil's Lula clinches victory over Bolsonaro to win fourth term: official results show

Brazil 2026 election live: Lula and Bolsonaro in tight race https://aje.news/a66zrw

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university." As with climate change, where if the economy results in no place habitable to live, you don't have an economy

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Proud to march today with students from UNCG, NC A&T, and Bennett. Despite having their on-campus polling sites removed, they walked 30–40 minutes to cast their ballots. This is what democracy looks like. Don't let anyone take away your choice. Your voice is your power. Go VOTE! #ncpol #vote

NORTH CAROLINA A&T STUDENTS MARCH TO VOTE AFTER CAMPUS POLLING LOCATION REMOVED Students at North Carolina A&T State University took to the streets in Greensboro on Thursday, marching to cast their ballots on the first day of early voting in North Carolina.

Thank you for recognizing A&T Students in Greensboro NC #Maddow They marched 45 minutes away to VOTE! The kids are GOOD! www.wfdd.org/politics-gov...

New SEC filings show that Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to pay California’s billionaire tax without losing control of Meta. So billionaires can afford to pay the tax? And they won't lose control of their companies or flee the state? Don’t fall for billionaires’ propaganda. Vote YES on Prop 40.

Vote!!

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Mid-November, "Musk" will be available for rent on Apple/Amazon etc. In January it will be on HBO.

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Voting in Colorado is my ideal. Had to spend an hour reading while filling out the ballot, but that is the time I need. And dropping off a mail in ballot that is tracked so well is satisfying.

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

An important interview with Mirjana Spoljaric, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross:

Mirjana Spoljaric, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, travels to active war zones to do confidential, sensitive work during conflicts. In a rare conversation on “The Interview,” she is speaking out about her worries. trib.al/hHJ1JHp

Who faces the loses from ending fossil fuels? The rich: "In the U.S., 82% of the devaluation would hit the wealthiest 10% of households, and that loss... would amount to only 0.4% of the wealthiest households’ net worth." Big Money & the rich are blocking climate action for a rounding error.

The infrastructure required to sustain the current AI boom is creating a political problem for Big Tech. Tech companies trying to bring their material infrastructure into communities around the country are facing pushback from communities all across the country.

🎬 NRDC Climate Storytelling Fellowship 2027! 💰 Win $20,000 to develop climate screenplays or TV pilots. Apply by December 4 wp.me/p23f03-eMP #NRDC #ClimateStorytelling #Screenwriting #ClimateFellowship

LIKE THE NEW SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, BUT FOR GROWNUPS Billionaires bankroll politicians. Senators confirm Supreme Court justices who serve for life. Roe overturned. Voting rights weakened. Presidential power expanded. This didn’t happen by accident. Elections have consequences & we’re living with them.

Job posting! Comes work with me @cires.colorado.edu. Let's do amazing things together! #polar #cryosphere #academicjob jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

A very intelligent framing was presented by a commentator recently calling this “simulated intelligence” which is afar more accurate description. These algorithms are simulating intelligence like climate models simulate a climate. The climate models ARE NOT PLANETS.

👏👏Bravo to the mighty DAMSHEG‼️ (Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Enviro Grp)✊✊ “Today the high court has said what we have always known: we cannot dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change,& then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us & won’t be felt by us”

New anti-Data Center graphics package just dropped on our free downloads page! justseeds.org/graphic/no-m...

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

From Minneapolis to y'all: Three quick bursts if you see ICE. Long loud blasts if they're actively detaining someone. Form a crowd, stick together, and film everything.

Front page in the print newspaper today. > “I’m confident that even should the upper administration in the CU system decide they don’t want to hear our voices, we’re just going to get louder,” Andrews said. ✊

"Nearly 93% of known plastic chemicals used to wrap food and make clothes, toys, and other common household and personal care products pose a high risk to human health" Plastic, mind you, is Big Oil's backup plan, on the off chance we decide to swap free solar energy for planet-killing fossil fuel.

"When the court opens its term on Monday with the blockbuster case Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County*, the justices will have digested four principal briefs." #boulder

Chevron donated $150,000 to the Bay Area Council, which led a campaign against electrification rules requiring homeowners to replace gas water heaters with electric heat pumps. The Council hired a software company to send thousands of opposition emails, some without the consent of the signers.

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

the Supreme Court heard oral argument today about a topic near and dear to the justices' hearts: elite impunity ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/sunco...

Cornell protest right now. At least a thousand people out here.

SCOTUS protects corporations but not the people. Supreme Court to weigh energy companies' bid to end Boulder climate-change lawsuit share.google/kXAnBC6NKYwa...

TODAY: U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Suncor v. Boulder. 🛢️ Big Oil is asking the Court to dismiss this landmark climate case. ✊ But communities facing fossil-fuel-driven climate harm deserve their day in court. We are at the Court and monitoring the hearing. Follow us for updates. #SCOTUS

Happening now: argument in Suncor v Boulder before #SCOTUS This is a big climate change liability moment: earthjustice.org/brief/2026/w...

University administrators play on our division. They've claimed that there is no coherent message from faculty or students about "AI". That refusal is fringe. That OpenAI contracts are ordinary procurements not subject to shared governance. May the record show that faculty and students speak as one

I talked with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson about how our communities can defend the voting process this November. Some folks reached out and asked me if I could make an episode about this subject because they were tired of simply being told to vote harder and wanted to know what more we could do. ❤️

Like I have said many times before, tax policy is climate policy. Data centers are driving a huge demand for natural gas. US tax policy is turbo-charging this demand.

Interesting new data collection from the nice people at the Sustainable AI Group. Most of this is estimates, particularly the closed models where OpenAI etc don't report energy or climate impacts. This stood out: there is *no* increase in model efficiency cleerdash.sustainableaigroup.com