1/ Every Trump accusation is a confession. A tale of two funds. 🧵⤵️ For years, the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) was attacked by Trump allies as an unaccountable climate “slush fund.” Now compare it to the new ~$1.7B “Anti-Weaponization Fund” tied to Trump’s IRS lawsuit settlement.

Just thinking about this in the context of the GGRF, and am starkly reminded that their every accusation is a confession.

Brilliant!

The consequences of this straight closure will get really, really bad, but we have the tools to make sure nothing like this ever matters again.

The only, and I mean only, two consistent policy themes in this administration are: 1. Promoting white supremacy 2. Selling US fossil fuels

It's definitely past time to create the 5 1/2th Circuit.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

I for one would like to be much more babied. Coddled even.

I'd take poptimism over slopulism any day, friend.

Amazing research out of UC Berkeley: "Off-grid renewable energy combined with heat batteries or heat pumps could cost-effectively supply one third of U.S. industrial heat demand."

He admit it

Shapiro's racist condescension is all the more gauling since Jackson is one of the sharpest jurists ever to sit on the bench. Also, I hate that this maroon shares my son's name!

¡Grácias a @monicaaraya.bsky.social! Pura vida 🤝 puramente eléctrica

And as if summoned from the deep by some grave incantation, the cursed replies issued forth in a great swarm...

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When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

This tax season I had to speak to the IRS a few times, and each time I thanked them and reminded them of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's famous quote: "I like paying taxes. With it, I buy civilization."

For any new fossil fuel project, what matters is the price outlook a few years down the line, not the price today or this year. "Probably low, but possibly very high" is a terrible price outlook for long-term investment.

Two things all Americans should be doing after this strip-and-charge travesty of this public servant: 1. Raise holy hell that Kash Patel is abusing his office, demanding an investigation and his removal. 2. Wear nicer underwear, because they could come for you next.

The most plausible explanation I have not heard entertained is that the attempt was real but well known about in advance, and the administration chose the time and place to foil it to maximize their preferred optics.

When people fight against consequences for the far right, it's nearly always the ersatz slippery slope argument "if someone abused or misapplied your precedent it would lead to a bad outcome," and really never "if widely but properly applied your precedent would lead to a bad outcome."

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

NEW: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that key actions Trump took to delay solar and wind projects across the U.S. were illegal (me for @heatmap.news)

Simple rule: the Senate should not confirm any appointee to any post who can’t say clearly who legitimately won the 2020 presidential election. Not just who was “installed”, but who won the vote and the electoral college.

It's only inflation when the Fed does it. Otherwise it's from the sparking price increase region of France bsky.app/profile/theb...

This is so much better than my post saying Walsh's reply was stupid.

This is...stupid.

After so many misplayed geopolitical moves, I see the administration is scrambling for new ways to project American influenza.

Lucifer's Bonobo?

It is easy as a climate person to get in the habit of scoffing about trees bc so much greenwashing is blanketed in promises related to trees. But trees are real-deal incredible climate assets, and it is a travesty that only white/rich people in old neighborhoods get to have them.

I felt this was hyperbole until the NYT piece today on the 2016 Clean Power Plan emergency stay.

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

CASAR: You've met with CEOs, you've met with billionaires. How many have you met with that have lost their health insurance? RFK Jr: I've met with the advocacy community on virtually everything C: Have you met with any of the 1.4m who lost their coverage? K: They're almost all illegal immigrants

They could be ER doctors too. Gaming, it's almost just like real life.

🎶Graham'll tease you, he'll unease you Served on a platter just to please you, but...🎶

destruction of the voting rights act by a partisan court that thinks the blacks have it too good is on par with the ignominy of the courts that gutted the 14th amendment and killed the 1875 civil rights act

If this happens, I really believe it is the sleeper game changer of EV penetration and oil demand destruction.

I see your Drake, and raise you my Geese.

The fossil gas industry is buying up Democrats.

Come for the historical materialism, stay for the lived experience.

We're fooling ourselves to think this is "just the internet" or "twitter isn't real life." Look around. Look at the f'ing US government! Twitter is more real to the people running it than "real life" is! All their, ahem, lived experience ia mediated & shaped by it. Demonstrably, luridly so.

For those who think Hungary's election means that autocracies aren't autocratic after all, I beg you to think things through a bit more.

Wait what, they stopped?

A toll on the Strait of Hormuz isn’t technically a carbon tax, but ... it still kind of is? @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social does the math of what Trump’s latest astounding act of climate policy means: heatmap.news/energy/trump...

1. Relentlessly, ceaselessly focused on pursuing awful shit. 2. Vaguely, generally in support of good shit, but timid & excessively prone to going along with awful shit out of fear. You can argue that neither is good, that you'd prefer another choice, but you can't argue they're the *same*.