“Trump is openly threatening a war crime,” said Ken Roth, a former executive director of @hrw.org. “And people aren’t saying anything because they’re numb to it.” Story w/ @tmgneff.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Each year nuclear adding only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days. Game over.

I predict future pardons. The NY AG office is going to have to act if this is in its jurisdiction.

China’s top battery makers have gained more than $70bn in market capitalisation since the US and Israel attacked Iran www.ft.com/content/b122...

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

Remember, the Trump administration is ALSO losing its stupid war on green energy.

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

It's dated 2025, but my new piece in American Review of Canadian Studies just posted online: "Evaluating the Resilience of US and Canadian Climate Policy." doi.org/10.1080/0272...

Remember when DOGE was destroying foreign aid because it was supposedly too expensive? The entire US foreign aid budget in 2024 was $62 billion. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

WSJ editorial board on SAVE America Act: “Kamala Harris in 2024 won college graduates and voters earning over $100,000 a year. Mr. Trump carried those with no degrees and lower salaries. Which coalition is most likely not to have passports and birth certificates handy?” www.wsj.com/opinion/save...

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

call me old fashioned but I don’t think anyone should have to trade for “no deporting US citizens” we should get that one for free you know

#CurryFiles released! By court order (via @ucs.org & @envdefensefund.bsky.social) 100K+ pages of document have been released, detailing effort by Judith Curry/John Christy/Steven Koonin/Ross McKitrick /Roy Spencer to discredit scientific case for federal climate action: www.edf.org/media/record...

This is not good.

ChatGPT, how can I make US policy towards Cuba even worse than it's been for most of the last 65 years?

I have had COUNTLESS convos where reporters ask me “okay but Trump hasn’t actually deported as many people as Biden (or Obama), right?” and what I try to stress in response is “the real story is how hard it is, and getting harder, for us even to know.” Must-read. apnews.com/article/trum...

Not sure of the precision of these claims but the sentiment is spot on.

This is absolutely shocking and should raise all the alarm bells

Who needs @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ? 🤦🏼‍♀️

Paired with other comments and actions, such as attacking both Venezuela and Iran while negotiating, why would any state trust the US enough to make a deal?

Tired. Wired: replace UK in that sentence with Germany, Japan, Canada, or Saudi Arabia.

Using an effect of the war to justify the war was done in Iraq too. The terrorism unleashed there by our invasion showed Iraq was a key front in the war on terror.

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The WSJ says that Caine told him exactly what would happen, and Trump blew him off.

Whatever happened to worst case planning? In fact, this has been a realistic scenario since 1987-1988 when the USN escorted vessels facing threats during the latter stages of the Iran - Iraq war.

Doesn't change the vibe.

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence indicates that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and is not at risk of collapse any time soon after nearly two weeks of relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment, according to three sources familiar with the matter. uk.news.yahoo.com/exclusive-us...

This is what all that macho warrior talk means in practice.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon tells Congress the first week of the Iran war cost the US $11.3 billion, an AP source says.

Achieving the UK’s climate goals costs less than the economic impact of one single oil shock - climate committee finds @suspol.bsky.social @fossiltreaty.bsky.social @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mr Smith Goes to the Harvard Institute of Politics

Freedom, amirite?

Both the U.S. administration and the Kremlin are backing Viktor Orbán in his bid for reelection in Hungary. (It would be his sixth term.) They are doing it openly and fervently. This says a great deal about our times. And what it says is: very bad news.

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

I’m starting to understand how one might go bankrupt running a casino.

should be pretty straightforward to work out how big a subsidy this is to oil that we're paying for

This may not be the strong threat he thinks it is.

This is premature. Go back and recall the "On to Damascus" stories from late spring and early summer 2003. Here's a good example of skepticism at the time: www.brookings.edu/articles/aft...

And just like that we’re back to “Department of Defense”

Maybe Trump would have gained some popularity from killing Khameini if he had bothered to explain ahead of time to the public why he was starting the war. But he didn't.

First, a bit odd to be fighting a war where our main ally is Israel and the others are Muslim and imply we are fighting to stay "Christian nations under God" 🤨

This is great TV even if she's now been canceled.

PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell? COLBY: Defer to you R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war' C: Defer to you R: That was actually you

Iranian Foreign Minister: “We don’t see any reason to negotiate” (aje.news/0avpno?updat...)

Per the FY23 NDAA, ODNI is required to submit unclassified reports to Congress and public every 6 months on the status of the Iranian nuclear program. So Gabbard should have released 2 such reports since the March threat assessment. Where are they? www.congress.gov/bill/117th-c...

What's the right word to describe apparently corrupt trading -- when you are not merely an insider, but actually the regulator? uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-b...

Trump is now defending “forever” wars. The linchpin of his populist-style critique of the foreign policy establishment was that it got us into “forever” wars. Trump isn’t just defending his war with Iran. Now he is claiming that he can wage “forever” wars “very successfully.”

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?