Crowdsourcing electrotech surge in Iran war! lets use #DemandDestructionWatch BYD is now doing a fortnight's worth of sales each day "Wang singled out markets such as Australia,New Zealand.., where he said daily sales volumes are now as high as what the carmaker could previously sell in two weeks"

Going to start a new Electro-Yuan thread since its 1 catchy replacement to petrodollar choking at Hormuz 2 China's role in electrotech is about to surge. "China’s cross border payment system hit an all time high in volume yesterday..over 100% growth compared to the Feb data" x.com/joshualipsky...

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The political calculations that result in cutting NASA funding the day after the Artemis II launch must be fascinating

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

🚨 🚨 ABC News confirms that Iran used advanced, passive infrared detection to shoot down the American F-15E fighter jet. Passive infrared detection does not emit radar signals. As a result, it cannot be detected or jammed by American electronic warfare systems. That leaves our aircraft vulnerable.

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

2/ "We're price taker and not a price maker" "There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster" Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband" x.com/implausibleb...

6/ Iran war disruptions will accelerate electrification for AUTONOMY #BatteryHockeyStickofHope In 2022, there was only ONE battery gigawatt-scale facility (roughly 3 mn UK homes for 1h) Today? 42 such facilities. In 2 years: 250 giga projects were expected. Now? WHOOSH ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...

Heck of a 🧵

I regularly tune into foreign media for unbiased reporting.

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

With the news that a second plane, an A10 was shot down (pilot safe) makes me wonder if those recent shipments from Russia to Iran had some new weapons

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Many of the photos that have come out of the moon mission so far were taken by crew members. NASA says the crew is getting guidance from scientists on what to capture when they get closer to the moon. n.pr/4c6V8Dg

USAID, now US Forest Service. They keep demolishing institutions that were deeply problematic, but nowhere near as awful as their erasure. I think this is big, bad news, the real news of the day, not that nothing-to-see-here speech.

I've thought of trying to get an online army to just tag all these pieces of bad news #theydidthis and this is a big one. When the catastrophes, the hunger, the breakdowns happen, please trace it all back to #theydidthis.

73/ Indonesian government, heavy on Coal & Palm Oil was way behind Solar boom across Asia in last decade Faced with 2 Oil shocks in 4 years? "We will convert all motorcycles into electric motorcycles. All cars, all trucks, all tractors must [also] be electric," www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...

"EVERYONE LEAVE EXCEPT VANCE, LIL MARCO, HEGSETH'S DESIGNATED DRIVER, AND THE VAMPIRE MILLER" Absolute gold.

"Tehran, then, should use its upper hand not to keep fighting but to declare victory and make a deal that both ends this conflict and prevents the next one" still rubbing my eyes. Wild to read these words in Foreign Affairs www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

Whom to believe? 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

We are now facing the biggest global energy crisis in history: (As has finally become clear to ppl after a month of this) Kate & I argued this fuel scarcity and shortages will drive consumers, governments and investors towards electric options but unevenly www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/war...

Evidence piling up for another @70sbachchan.bsky.social line I couldn't quite fit in the essay: “Every country right now is saying 'we should have more strategic energy reserves, more homegrown energy, more electrification to insulate our economy against these shocks.” bsky.app/profile/jrfh...

The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/

51/ The International Energy Agency is this morning suggesting people should work from home, avoid air travel & drive at lower speeds to help tackle oil shortages 20% oil trapped at Hormuz, IEA has issued a list of “demand side measures” for govts, households, firms... www.iea.org/news/new-iea...

59/ When there is a shortage of supply, demand forced to cut back "Demand destruction" is a euphemism for deliberately "Contract our entire economy" @katemac.bsky.social Iran's hormuz chokehold is designed to inflict pain on americans with a goal to get Trump to end the war bsky.app/profile/did:...

A quote from @70sbachchan.bsky.social that didn't make it into my NYT piece: "Countries can make very big strategic choices during oil shocks that last for generations." That includes policymakers ... and consumers. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

71/ "In the Philippines, the govt is stepping in to fill the gap. This week, a state-owned pension fund started offering loans of up to 500,000 pesos ($8,300) for home solar panels after President Marcos Jr. declared a national energy emergency due to the war." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Don't EVER say Israel entrapped the US in this war. But also have you actually ever heard what Netanyahu says: ft.com/content/092e... x.com/JustinTLogan...

"For all the fuss about whether Israel was responsible for the war, it's actually Israel's repeated choices to move up the escalation ladder, forcing the US to follow suit, that's a much clearer case of entrapment." - Emma Ashford

OK folks, i am just going to start retweeting this. this 1 minute on the straits is more accurate and to the point than the right wing spin you are getting from the war. David McNally on 60 Minutes nails it. Watch. bsky.app/profile/70sb...

94/ Yep. Also the picture and title are worth a 1000 words bsky.app/profile/atta...

Update 1. The last 36 hours (CENTCOM AOR): F-15E lost, pilot rescued 2x HH-60W damaged A-10 down, pilot ejected (allied) Wing Loong 2 down, Shiraz Likely MQ-9 down, Shiraz Possible MQ-9 lost on CSAR mission. F-16 Squawk 7700, Iraq (safely back) 2x KC-135 Squawk 7700, Israel

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

179/ "Javad Zarif warns Iran not to overplay hand, proposes - mutual nonaggression pact - no sanctions on Iran - Hormuz reopened - no Iran nukes - regional enrichment consortium, not necess’ly in Iran - down-blend stockpile - poss China, Rus guarantees…" RT Rosemary Kelanic x.com/RKelanic/sta...

178/ "The administration does not seem to grasp that the Strait of Hormuz is the center of gravity in this war." -@ProfTalmadge The problem as she argued is US Military has no good options. Iran now able to enforce sanctions on whomever it wants and whenever it wants www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"Tehran, then, should use its upper hand not to keep fighting but to declare victory and make a deal that both ends this conflict and prevents the next one" still rubbing my eyes. Wild to read these words in Foreign Affairs www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...

Advait is clear-eyed about the limits to state climate action. However, we must be able to work with a changing constellation of ambitious governments local and national, rather than waiting for all the national govs to have the right party in power simultaneously. Multilevel climate governance.

i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

Ok this is extremely funny -- @suzania.bsky.social x.com/suzania/stat...

"I've never sen anything more accurate?" x.com/KristinRawor...

"Pope says do revolution in the imperial core" x.com/makbethel/st... warhammer intensifies bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Europeans & Americans are discovering thread that I wrote a week into the war when the magnitude of the Hormuz shock became clear to energy experts & Asian countries. Please read @isabellamweber.bsky.social essay for what must be done www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

176/ "Whoever ends up controlling the Strait of Hormuz once the guns fall silent will be the winner of the war. So far, it looks like Iran is on a path to strategic victory." Wall Street Journal coverage has been excellent on military matters. www.wsj.com/world/middle... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

this is in no sense how it should have happened. but it is precisely because we find ourselves in a situation that requires war, death, and destruction to get well positioned political actors behind accelerating energy transition that we should demolish fossil capital as decisively as we can

The climate GOAT is back with this big thread, link dump, geopolitical analysis, and daily dose of optimism. Read and follow !!

"Bomb you into the Stone Age". Just vile and depraved from the most vile and depraved government in US.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Millions of working class voters: Lose my health insurance, lose my local hospital, lose my elderly parent's nursing home, lose my kids' daycare, and get a foreign war that leaves a lot of people dead plus makes my cost of living more expensive? Yes, thank you, this is what I want.

1/ Charts from what looks like a spectacular March jobs report: * 178K increase in NFP (biggest single gain since December 2024), some of this is returning strikers, also snapback from an abysmal Feb report * Unemployment rate falls almost 0.2pp to 4.26%