Your kids are probably spending *way* more time with chatbots than you realize, and you probably won't like what they're hearing, warns @lisamjarvis.bsky.social Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

"The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court’s rulings." newrepublic.com/article/1997...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Probably because business as usual is easier. Simply stop insuring risky properties and keep making huge profits by investing the rising premiums, often in the very fossil fuel companies causing the problem

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.

This alone would be enough to justify impeachment for any prior Congress. Threatening to pull access to public airwaves of people who criticize you? Textbook dictator.

Seems really bad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"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...

Misinformation is why we can't have nice things, part 2,036: Brits have worked themselves into a lather imagining an innocent battery farm is a generational tragedy waiting to happen - @lararhiannon.bsky.social Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

With encouragement from Trump and Musk, online maniacs doxxed, swatted, death-threatened and otherwise harassed FEMA workers trying to respond to hurricanes last year, @zhirji.bsky.social @davey.bsky.social & @jasonleopold.bsky.social report Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

@markgongloff.bsky.social identifies key policies to tackle the property insurance affordability crisis: rein in fossil fuels, build climate resilience & make housing more affordable. As @moira.bsky.social says, “The more we reduce catastrophe risk, the less we need the safety net of insurance.”

A sliver of good news from @liamdenning.bsky.social: "it doesn’t matter if you believe renewable energy is unreliable & expensive, what matters is if datacenter developers & utilities believe that. Judging from ongoing development, they don’t." Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

When the world's biggest insurer says climate change has pushed traditional home insurance to its limits, it's already too late to start preparing. And we are in no way ready for a post-insurance world. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

What is to prevent Brendan Carr from canceling the licenses of affiliates who accurately report election results unfavorable to Trump? Or a scandal involving a Trump associate? Or bad economic numbers. Unbridled authoritarianism.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

i have been wrong on these predictions before, but pulling kimmel off the air and ending colbert at this season are two ways to put a big and easily understood spotlight on all of this elite corruption and capitulation

just really reminded of vladimir putin pulling a satirical late night puppet show called "kukli" (dolls) that mocked him off russian tv in 2002

Canaries just dropping left and right in this coal mine www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Of the 24K heat deaths in Europe this summer, 16,500 were attributable to human-caused global heating, per a new study from @granthamicl.bsky.social & many more insideclimatenews.org/news/1709202...

My first reaction was to LOL, but then I read the story & got increasingly depressed by these failsons getting wealthy via corruption & taking cheap, clean energy from actual people to fuel their vast shitcoin empire while their dad slams the door on new sources www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump is trying to kill Vermont's superfund law by saying it usurps the federal government's "exclusive authority over greenhouse gas emissions," while at the same time having his EPA say the federal government won't be managing greenhouse gas emissions www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Climate policy is economic policy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"corporations that claim to report the news or 'help' people understand what’s going on have chosen not to see something that is very clear and very observable. They have failed us and our political class has failed us." - @jysexton.bsky.social jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...

Starting to sense a pattern over the past 2 to 25,000 days

*mournfully* This is a problem on the left (posters on the website 'blue sky') AND the right (the united states federal government)

Trump's massive raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia is huge news all around the world. But in the US it's barely even reported, much less discussed and explained. Something fundamentally wrong with US media.

in my inbox this morning: Can you really call yourself prepared for the coming apocalyptic hellscape if you don't have a fully electrified armored SUV?

In China and Europe, they're starting to pay EV owners for giving power back to the grid. Here in America, we're working toward a future where we ride donkeys to our jobs in the coal mine www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/artic...

Solar greening: solar panels improved soil chemistry, moisture retention, and even signs of vegetation recovery. Shading from panels reduces surface heating and evaporation, creating a cooler and more stable microclimate dailygalaxy.com/2025/09/chin...

Welfare for an industry that makes hundreds of billions in profits and ravages the climate is civilizational self-harm. End it now. Gift link to my @opinion.bloomberg.com column about the new study from @collinrees.bsky.social & @oilchange.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

New from @collinrees.bsky.social and @oilchange.bsky.social : The US government gives the profitable, polluting fossil-fuel industry *at least* $34.8 billion in subsidies every year. Think how much housing, health care and/or cheap, clean energy that money could buy oilchange.org/publications...

Time to fire more data collectors, I guess: New US government payroll benchmarking just revealed the economy has 911,000 fewer jobs than previously thought

as a supreme court justice I love authoring several opinions giving the president absolute power the same day his pedophile drawing is published in a major newspaper

Climate change is an economic emergency, part 1000: More than $1 trillion in US wages has been lost to wildfire smoke alone in the past 5 years. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

America gonna ban Tylenol before guns. Weirdos

Completely out of control

I ride on NJ and NYC public transport that is falling apart from a lack of investment but is still the shining example of public transport in a country devoid of it. But sure, yeah, Europe is the one falling behind

As a climate person, I want oil to be expensive to reflect its toxic externalities and hasten its obsolescence. But as a human being, I have to enjoy US frackers' inability to drill, baby, drill the way they were promised

Manufacturing jobs fell by 12,000 and are now down by 78,000 so far this year, in case you for some reason thought massive tariffs were going to spark a US manufacturing renaissance.

Translation: The jobs numbers will look much rosier after we fire the neutral data collectors

The lesson of the past decade is that the real secret to success is to be world-historically terrible at your job

Spent five minutes staring at this trying to work out what it had reminded me of. Realised it was this horrifying passage from George Orwell’s 1984.

Lots of bad news here for the many US communities that could be benefiting from the economic opportunities associated with the energy transition but are being thwarted by Trump/MAGA. BUT states have enormous financial clout and could use that clout to put out a welcome mat for this investment.

I imagine this same dynamic will play out on all fronts: health innovation (mRNA vaccines, e.g.), university research, next gen batteries, and on and on. Things we got started here that could’ve been huge economic advantages will just go abroad. Maybe we will be the world leader in meme coin scams.

The clean-energy revolution isn’t losing to Trump. It’s simply relocating, leaving the US behind Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If Democrats were smart they’d tie this directly to GOP attacks on renewable energy. Massive if, I know.

We need a better system for classifying hurricanes that gets across the actual risks to people. This new paper proposes one www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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