Philadelphia's got a citywide commitment to decarbonization and a publicly owned methane gas utility that is making their customers pay for ad campaigns aimed at expanding gas use. "Why is a company that has no competition, why do they have to market at all?" YUP whyy.org/articles/pgw...

I reckon a fossil fuel being heavily promoted at climate week is a bad thing

Why hasn't there been more climate progress? "The massive, decades-long campaign of denial and obstruction from the fossil fuel industry is the major part of it," Al Gore explains. "It would be a mistake, in my view, to underestimate how significant their role has been."

Last year, more Americans died from wildfire smoke than from traffic crashes. "By 2050, the researchers found, choking wildfire smoke will be the new normal," prematurely killing more than 70,000 Americans annually. These are alarming numbers. Big Oil MUST be held accountable.

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?

As long as we’re all autism experts now, here’s an actual study showing links to air pollution and fossil fuel hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pol...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

That this is happening at a Seattle-based PBS station does not bode well for rural stations. What a huge loss for the Northwest.

Why is the US secretary of Energy telling the EU they have to get rid of their methane regulations? It's simple. The distance between what the EU says they require and what the real science and data shows is happening in US gas production is so vast, the only way to get around it is to ignore it.

Who pays for wildfire damage? In the West, utilities are shifting the risk to customers. Utah laws cap wildfire damages and let utilities pass the cost onto customers. Utility lobbyists are pushing the model in other states. grist.org/wildfires/wh... #utilities #CA #California #Policy #Wildfire

Something keeping me up at night is that it's fully saturated in the US imagination that Big Tech == innovation == sacred == desirable. Until/unless we are able to shift this broadly, especially in key policy circles, most solutions for big hairy problems will stay elusive.

The "cleanest fossil fuel" strikes again.

It's been Climate Week for a very long time now.

This is your friendly reminder that although there is evil, most people are decent and the internet and social media lets us view the worst of humanity 24/7 and that’s probably not best for us.

I’ve said it before and will say it again— anyone who says climate change is not relevant to people’s day-to-day lives is either lying or simply not paying attention

The Trump administration’s attacks on national parks continue This time, they’ve removed both physical signs and website mentions describing how climate change is damaging the parks Because if you remove the info, famously, the problem goes away www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

this is not a new thought but the best political commenters for the next decade will be people who understand both megachurch aesthetics/doctrine/culture and WWE

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Hot new feedback loop just dropped.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I find it remarkable how much ink is spilled on techno fixes to the climate crisis w/o so much as a rhetorical nod to the imperative to wind down fossil fuels. The unfortunate subtext of this op ed -- whether by design or not -- is that politicians need not confront fossil fuel political power.

The president ordering the murder of 3 more human beings on a boat didn’t even make the list

Saving this list for the next time I have a student ask why I say that Watergate was small potatoes compared to what goes on in an average week with this administration.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

He’s right. Nutshell: the more clean energy you pull off the grid, the more you have to go “up the stack” of more and more expensive polluting units, which sets the grid price, which consumers pay.

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

this exists it is called thinking

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You knew your friends were hot tub rich when they had the Aerostar with the rear seat audio controls.

This is deranged.

"Taking away a broadcast license has so many legal obstacles and takes so long that the FCC doesn't even try." This is important to understand. The real action is in self-censorship and merger approvals. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

They should demand it both because it’s the right thing to do and because it’s going fray the MAGA coalition and hurt Trump’s numbers even more

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it

New to baseball and not sure where to start? The first thing you need to know is that the most dramatic moments of games are routinely delayed so players can fiddle with the devices in their ballcaps that are necessary because the Houston Astros are filthy cheaters. www.chron.com/sports/astro...

Something the man @mikeduncan.bsky.social will tell you at great and entertaining length is how long it takes for revolts to get off the ground, how often they fail, and how hard it is to predict exactly when they’ll pop off. Slowly and then all at once is a good rule.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

"The question then becomes what a world without traditional home insurance will look like. In the US, at least, we’re failing to answer that question, for now leaving homeowners to bear the high and rising costs." @markgongloff.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The fossil fuel industry took summer from you.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Guy who only cares about the Third Amendment: So far so good, no sign I need to pull out the sofa bed yet.

ah, well

A complete collapse of political norms around virtue and ethics since 2016. This celebration of cruelty and violence, and the encouragement of the public to take joy in violence against others, is very unhealthy for society.

Gas stove makers quietly delete air pollution warnings as they fight mandatory health labels - Grist grist.org/accountabili...