Good thread from Dave about the new IEA "Current Policies Scenario" making a lot of the headlines. Here is a very quick mock-up I made of what this scenario assumes for solar PV additions through to 2035, with historical context. I'll let you decide whether this seems likely.

Did You Know???… The conviction of police deputy Sean Grayson for the murder of Sonya Massey is *the first time in US history* a cop was convicted of murdering a Black woman

Once again, yes, I'm familiar with the different revenue streams involved. And yet once again, I want to point out that the entire federal budget for area studies & foreign language fellowships <nationwide> was $86 million. bsky.app/profile/mcop... Show me your budget, & I'll show you your values.

“ ‘A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge.’ ”

The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry

Good news. NY Court orders the State (finally) to implement our climate law and follow the Final Scoping Plan from the Climate Action Council, passed 18-3 in Dec 2022. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Massive escalation at the ICE facility. Federal agents made multiple arrests (at least 4), threw out gas, and shot tons of pepper balls. Heard one of the people arrested screaming minutes later. Not possible to get a visual.

In cities, street space is a really scarce (and under-valued) commodity. Increasing vehicle size costs everyone. And vehicle weight determines your impact on the wear-and-tear of cities. So this kind of public policy is really just common sense.

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

Just launched 📣 CGS's new flagship website on Country Climate Ambition offers critical insight for the Paris process through in-depth analyses and policy recommendations for major-emitting countries, as they set and seek to achieve ambitious 2035 #NDCs: www.country-ambition.cgs.umd.edu

A belief of mine that I’ve not only questioned but almost completely reversed is that people respond politically to their materiel conditions. Since COVID I think most people live in a world mostly mediated by what they see on TV or their phones and respond more to that than to reality

She’s beauty, she’s grace, and she just won the whole Junior Villa race. IT'S BIGGIE 🎉 We'll see you next week for the big Fat Bear Week bracket reveal.

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Thinking of this quote again in light of the Korea / ICE debacle at the Georgia auto plant.

⛵️JUST IN | “The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) has begun the final leg of its historic journey to help break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza. Yesterday, 18 boats set sail from Catania, Italy.

One of my sources of hope and inspiration is the growing Indigenous-led buffalo rematriation movement. It combines ecological restoration and cultural reconciliation to begin addressing the legacy of genocide to both Native cultures and the land. We can remember our way forward... 🎁🔗 #ClimateSky

This is all just being said out loud now on the air on Fox “News”, instead of away from the cameras like before. That’s what’s changed. They’re testing the response and normalizing the idea at the same time.

would you believe they are DOING THIS in the Finger Lakes region of NY? because they are! check it out: carbon “offsets” that aren’t tree planting or sketchy high tech schemes, they’re funding insulation and heat pumps for households to help them get off fossil fuels fingerlakesclimatefund.org

Today @merkley.senate.gov and I released a report on our recent trip to the Middle East. Our inescapable conclusion: the Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Tune in as we discuss what we saw and where we go from here:

New Mexico is set to become the first state to offer free child care for all families regardless of income starting in November. 👶 www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...

Buckle up, babes, the fattening is almost upon us. Mark your calendars: Fat Bear Junior: September 18-19 Fat Bear Week: September 23-30

Floatis! I call 602 Floatis because he is the Floatato and Otis' offspring!

Remember the Gaza Humanitarian Fund? The shady American nonprofit run by a Christian Nationalist that was given full control of food aid distribution sites in Gaza? Its parent organization GH solutions hired members of an American white supremacist biker gang to run security for the all the sites.

Mandla Mandela, a grandson of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, says he’ll join the Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza with an aid boat from Tunisia. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5phozp

I’m once again working with a city writing new integrated transportation & land use policy, and we’ve been discussing whether to PRIORITIZE walking, biking and transit, or achieve “BALANCE.” This is a key conversation where I sometimes give a fast and simple answer, but the truth is more complex. 1/

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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If like me you saw this post and said that’s great but didn’t listen, I recommend listening. It’s a good sound.

You'll want sound on this one...🔊👈 Just remember, you don't hate cities, you hate the danger and chaos of cars in cities. Design for people and you'll restore life.

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

A new Israel Democracy Institute survey reveals 64.5 percent of Israelis, including half of the surveyed Netanyahu's Likud voters, favor a cease-fire and hostage deal that includes IDF withdrawal from Gaza www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Famine has been officially declared in Gaza for the first time by the UN-backed global hunger monitor.

“This famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed,” the report says. “...an immediate, at-scale response is needed. Any further delay – even by days – will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of famine-related mortality." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This article fails to mention that 1) oil and gas gets a generous tax credit even if they use carbon capture for "enhanced oil recovery"—ie to inject CO2 into depleting wells to force out more oil—or that 2) there is literally no IRS verification of any capture claim before a credit is granted. 🧵

"The destruction of the satellites — which will be abandoned and allowed to eventually burn up in a fiery descent into Earth’s atmosphere — marks the latest step by the Trump administration to scale back federal climate science." www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/c...

If you wouldn't be willing to let it close / stop existing / whatever, you already own the liability. Don't sell the profit.

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

Rabbis in San Francisco are blocking the street in front of the Israeli consulate. Food for Gaza now! Free the hostages! End the killing!

Five years ago, Morgan State University’s president had a big idea: He said the HBCU would earn Carnegie R1 status by 2030. Despite Trump cuts, the Baltimore university has already hit the numbers it needs to qualify, five years earlier than expected: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif has been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside Al-Shifa hospital.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimates that the US killed 70-140,000 people - mostly civilians- by dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The latest death toll estimate from bombing and shooting people in Gaza - mostly civilians killed by Israel - from 10/23 to 1/25 is at least 84,000.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Among the things we are going to look back on and realize we needed to do to help stave off authoritarianism was DC statehood. Lots of regrets when you lose a democracy, but this will be one of the big ones for us.