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We Must Reject White Nationalism Driving MAGA’s Rampant ICE Abuses

For our future security and happiness it is imperative to both discover the root of our legitimate grievances and resist being manipulated by falsehoods and racism.

By Greg Harman

/ 4 Dec 2025

protesters hold signs opposing ice raids

San Antonio Leaders Dangerously Bedazzled by Project Marvel Amidst Climate Breakdown

Dangerously rising heat, housing and food insecurity, and the rise of autocracy and concentration camps in the U.S. are threatening our collective future. More entertainment is not the solution.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Sep 2025

San Antonio Leaders Dangerously Bedazzled by Project Marvel Amidst Climate Breakdown

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One

Do not obey.

By Greg Harman

/ 11 Aug 2025

Texas Gerrymandering Fight Reveals Actions of an Autocrat—And What it Takes to Defeat One

Why Elon Musk’s Demand for Suffering Won’t Stop at Mars

Critics describe Elon Musk’s guiding philosophy of longtermism as primed to justify ‘atrocities.’

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Dec 2024

Why Elon Musk’s Demand for Suffering Won’t Stop at Mars

Another Midnight Call to Avert Authoritarian Capture and Climate Collapse

There is a cliff. We are throttling off of it. MAGA must be defeated.

By Greg Harman

/ 2 Nov 2024

Another Midnight Call to Avert Authoritarian Capture and Climate Collapse

Climate Progress Requires Uniting Against Political Violence and Conspiracy Thinking

Sure, political violence is wrong; but also: it doesn’t work. Even the conspiratorial obsessing over Trump’s behavior under fire is time lost countering actual campaign threats and the vision of Project 2025.

By Greg Harman

/ 1 Aug 2024

Climate Progress Requires Uniting Against Political Violence and Conspiracy Thinking

OSHA Says U.S. Heat Deaths a ‘Vast’ Undercount as Off-the-Rails Temps Push Toward Summer

Federal regulators are targeting Spanish-speaking workers early this year in hopes of reducing deaths during 2024’s extreme heat. But large gaps in Texas heat surveillance means another avoidable season of suffering and death looms for workers, migrants, elderly, unhoused, and the incarcerated.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Apr 2024

OSHA Says U.S. Heat Deaths a ‘Vast’ Undercount as Off-the-Rails Temps Push Toward Summer

How Hearst’s ‘Weather Wonks’ Invisibilize Climate Crisis

Hearst Newspapers’ ‘science-informed’ weather reporting initiative promised to help keep readers safe, but the ‘Texas Weather Wonks’ have entirely ignored the primary driver of recent extreme heat—human fossil-fueled industry.

By Greg Harman

/ 6 Mar 2024

How Hearst’s ‘Weather Wonks’ Invisibilize Climate Crisis

Abbott’s Belligerence on Border Designed to Obscure his Culpability

Record levels of forced migration are tied to a climate crisis that Governor Greg Abbott helped shepherd into existence.

By Greg Harman

/ 29 Jan 2024

Abbott’s Belligerence on Border Designed to Obscure his Culpability

‘New Normal’? This Is Deepening Circles of Hell on Earth

If accumulating disasters have convinced you that there is no hope, it’s OK to tap out for a time. But consider first how the grief of the moment may be a pathway through ‘climate paralysis.’

By Greg Harman

/ 19 Jul 2023

‘New Normal’? This Is Deepening Circles of Hell on Earth

Is San Antonio Not Big Enough for a Rookery?

With a growing list of false and stretched statements justifying its war on migratory birds, it’s time for the City of San Antonio to stop with the poop scares and make room for a bit of wildness in our parks.

By Greg Harman

/ 7 Mar 2023

Is San Antonio Not Big Enough for a Rookery?

CPS Energy Must Stop Shutting Off People’s Power—For Good

Disconnects for nonpayment by CPS Energy have more than doubled during CEO Paula Gold-Williams tenure. And there are still no promises of reform.

By Greg Harman

/ 12 Nov 2020