Sarah Goodyear

1963 saw the first Clean Air Act and 1970 the most significant Clean Air Act. Supporters of all these laws cited Donora as evidence of the need for air pollution legislation.

The Donora Fog helped lead to laws cleaning up the air. The first meaningful air pollution legislation in the nation’s history passed Congress and was signed by President Eisenhower in 1955.

The people in power would be just fine returning to the conditions that made this disaster happen. In fact, they are busily removing the regulations that protect us. Let's start throwing them out by voting for our lives this week. Vote however you can and however feels secure where you are. Vote.

But Toronto just sent him a message anyway.

I was just explaining this meme to someone today. Always highly useful.

let's go toronto

A Valkyries fan’s sign: “Move the Hawks game. Women = Prime Time”

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Hungary's recent election was less free and more unfair than the upcoming US midterms, and pro-democracy forces still won. Similar point about Serbia's election this weekend. In normal democracy terms, America is in bad shape. But in consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're looking pretty good.

Have you voted yet? I voted early yesterday in downtown Brooklyn and there was a line because there were so many people there, not the usual scene. Also, they had run out of stickers and this made me glad/sad. Get out there and vote, people. It's what we can do in the next 8 days.

big sigh of relief

Check out how easy this is.

Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers futurism.com/future-socie...

lmao

yep

ew

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

This is governing via fear: they don't have real evidence, but they are warning election officials they are in the crosshairs

Keep pushing. Do not stop. This is the job. It's so good to see someone doing the work.

these people are not well

"Reading books is active resistance" is something I tell to my students every day.

ABDUL EL-SAYED: "It shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent for you and your kids rather than dropping bombs on somebody else and their kids."

This is @tomflood.bsky.social's work, and it seems relevant here.

Longyearbyen is warming at between 5 & 7 times the world’s average rate We're getting a glimpse of the chaos to come if the world does not act now on climate change share.google/Fxd4dhTvAVlD...

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

Now that "Life After Cars" is one year old and our book tour is winding down — after a whopping 38 cities! — we want to keep the momentum and the movement going. Here's how you can help spread the word. Thanks to everyone for all the support over this past year! www.lifeaftercars.com

Today was the first birthday of our book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile. I am so grateful for each and every person who has bought or borrowed the book and/or come out to one of our events. Thank you all for making this one of the best years of my life. Truly.

We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.

dig the hole, my man

Being "not-white" even a little bit in a predominantly white rural area, as long as it's enough for white people to notice, also teaches you that no mater what, no matter how "nice" you are, no matter how much you strive to be "one of the good ones," you'll never truly be one of them. Not ever.

IMO the quintessential tension between riders and many motorists is this tug of war over one group's personal safety versus the other group's convenience. Then you see the pattern—that as a default, many people advocate for their own benefit or preferences at the expense of a larger public good.

“Raises questions”?? In this Kavanaugh Stop, ICE agents swerve to hit a US citizen, knock him off his bike breaking his arm, tase him, cuff him as he screams in pain, blame him, lie about everything, threaten to charge him for damage to their SUV. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

"Lander was released under caution, while soldiers took the remaining international activists to Camp Etzion near the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, which houses the IDF's Etzion Regional Brigade." www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

Shame.

How does the federal government distribute funds for public transit? New research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social demonstrates that: —Federal support is insufficient for adequate national service —Funding is concentrated in a few states —Many small communities that need transit funds aren't getting it

For the last couple of years, I've been getting most of my olive oil from this site, which sells olive oil from Palestinian farmers. Excellent quality, beautiful labels, and very reliable shipping. They also sell za'atar, sumac, and other things. Check it out. oliveodyssey.com

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

These 32 #BloodBikes commemorate the 32 people killed on Bloor, Yonge & University in 20-years before bike lanes were built. After bike lanes were installed only one tragic loss of a life has occurred in 6-years since 2020. Bike lanes keep EVERYONE save, not only people cycling. #BikeTO #ONPoli

This article is a great example of how climate, emissions and pollution have been aggressively deleted as priorities Even assuming power $ goes down, if coal and gas increase their air and climate pollution to meet new demand, who bears *that* burden? Who accounts for that cost? Not mentioned......