Oil and gas vs wind emissions in the real world.

legitimately wild congestion pricing wasn’t an issue in New York’s mayoral election

Another Reuters exclusive The Biden administration acquired evidence in the last months of its term that senior officials in the Israeli government were openly discussing the ongoing use of Palestinians as human shields by the IDF in Gaza. They sat on the evidence.

"We expect prices to average $4.00/MMBtu in 2026, 16% higher than in 2025, primarily due to increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports amid flat production growth" Exporting US gas to make US oil executives even wealthier off of the backs of the US public. It just has that 2025 vibe!

The change "could quickly place as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people at risk of returning to the streets...All are disabled — a condition of the aid — and many are 50 or older."

For Democrats willing to promote fossil fuels as clean energy, the payoff is pretty nice Other Dems who've joined Natural Allies receive anywhere from $180K - $250K per year. It doesn't appear to be a full-time job either.

Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Economist Hyman Minsky explained how speculative debt issuance can endanger an entire economy. A new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report applies this to debt finance for data centers: how the AI bubble could burst & how to think about the potential bailout. publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

Coal and oil to peak by 2030: IEA’s World Energy Outlook gasoutlook.com/analysis/coa...

US gov sent high-level delegation to a gas conference in Greece. Trump admin wants to use Greece as an "entry point" to send a lot more LNG to Europe gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

Neon-clad protesters stage '80s aerobics demonstration outside Portland ICE facility. They called it “Sweatin’ Out the Fascists.” https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2025/11/neon-clad-protesters-stage-80s-aerobics-demonstration-outside-portland-ice-facility.html

FEDWATCH: “.. The chaos is escalating, with 3,800 flight cancellations since Thursday, and some states reporting a 40- to 60% increase in visits to food banks. Some of the disruption is evident in private sector weekly economic indicators .. and even the price of electricity.”

"Cheniere Energy disclosed in a securities filing last month that, thanks to the most recent Treasury notice, it was entitled to a refund of $380m of previously paid alternative minimum tax" Trump is carving up the tax code unilaterally to hand $ to corporations while cutting $ on food for people

any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience

There’s a really strong possibility that the Trump administration’s efforts to weaponize the death of Charlie Kirk against their enemies was the height of their power. They’ll be on their back foot with high unfavorable ratings now and people are going to start smelling blood in the water.

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

get a fucking grip man, my god

Rubio threatened a bunch of poor countries to vote against what would have been a landmark agreement on maritime emissions. Gangster diplomacy www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

⚠️ Breaking: Hochul administration approves 3x rejected, Trump-backed NESE pipeline, the first of its kind in New York in at least a decade. Story: nysfocus.com/2025/11/07/n...

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

“A Toronto mom says her 12-year-old son asked Tesla’s AI chatbot, Grok, which soccer player is better: Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi. After some back and forth, she says the chatbot asked her son, 'Why don't you send me some nudes?'” www.cbc.ca/player/play/... (this is just appalling.)

attention Portland

Hold your wallets, everyone, OpenAI is talking about taxpayer backing so it can continue its data center building craze without having to show profitability. www.wsj.com/video/openai...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Since April's election, oil and gas lobbyists notched at least 177 meetings with federal officials — a third of which were in September alone. If Tuesday's budget is any indication, they successfully persuaded Prime Minister Mark Carney's government www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...

Reminder that US shale wells experience a precipitous decline in output almost immediately after their initial burst of production. In 2024, the industry had to drill 15,000 new wells just to keep production steady, to offset declines from already existing wells www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’” @reuters.com #Chicago www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...

Chanos:

Plastic over-production and over-use remain very significant problems!! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Asking communities to accept or even subsidize projects that will raise their utility bills — then, eventually, threaten their jobs — is a surefire political winner.

total mystery why this guy didn't get reelected.

what a thread, what a success

quite a chart from WashPost www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Pennsylvania Gas Producer Sues Capital & Main Over Its Reporting on Health Risks Capital & Main stands by its reporting and vows to fight the suit. capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania...

Lina Khan, as she is announced as being part of Zohran Mamdani’s transition team: “I think what we saw last night was New Yorkers not just electing a new mayor, but clearly rejecting a politics where outside corporate power and money too often.”

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

Win tracker go BRRRRRRRRRR

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Huge news: MSNBC projects passage of California's Prop 50 as soon as polls close. Gives Dems up to 5 more seats in US House, offsetting Trump's Texas gerrymandering

The thing about partisan gerrymanders is that if you cut them too close, a wave election for the other party flips almost all those seats. 👇🏻

🚨Potential supermajority in the Virginia House of Delegates for @donscott757.bsky.social and @abigailspanberger.com. Not something I thought I'd be tracking tonight.

No no no, did he pre-cope in private? Not fair, we deserve at least 4 paragraphs where the feelings shine through

Once more, for old times’ sake

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.