I don’t mean to be glib but this is probably a more damning indictment of American elite culture than the Iraq Invasion.

actual communism

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class. New piece laying this out: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

🤡OIL DEMAND WILL KEEP RISING🤡 What are the IEA assumptions that make rising oil demand so improbable?

IT'S LAUNCH DAY FOR @iea.org #WEO TODAY! These are the things you need to know 🧵

India says #adaptation financing needs to exceed nearly 15x current flows. #COP30 pib.gov.in/PressRelease...

Busy day today but note the U of Michigan consumer sentiment survey just reported its lowest reading in its 65 year history. Well done Donald!

"Do you think taxes should be raised on billionaires?" Democrats: 🟢 Yes: 95% ⚫️ No: 2% Independents: 🟢 Yes: 75% ⚫️ No: 12% Republicans: 🟢 Yes: 48% ⚫️ No: 32% Read it here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀

"It is no stretch to imagine ICE agents snatching people from voting queues and thereby deterring U.S. citizens who speak with an accent or have dark skin from exercising their right to vote." No benefit of the doubt for these guys anymore. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-time-t...

"For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. [...] For the first time in centuries, the elite no longer feel they need educated workers and soldiers to uphold and reproduce the system." thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.” Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

@70sbachchan.bsky.social You'll enjoy this piece research.gavekal.com/article/unra...

Honestly how are pharma companies not allowed to sue these people into the ground. I'm really asking.

This clutch of fucks… we literally put a sex-crime ring at the center of global power. Utter madness.

Odds of Ed Miliband being next PM are hugely underrated.

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777485...

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.

"Dahbour is the philosopher whose thoughts turn all the time to the debate between localists & nationalists, who broods on self-determination, on how Globalisation provides the basis for increasing ethnic conflict..on ecosovereignty as a positive political structure" www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/eco...

Oh my this text! This should be read and especially by so called liberal left-wing! I Will recommend professors and teachers in my sociology faculty to get in to these thoughts & arguments. Might come later to point out some of the arguments that have also puzzled my mind & why I have been critical.

* China's clean-energy exports and overseas clean-energy investments are surging

you should quit social media if you can. if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

NEW: Global fossil fuel use will peak before 2030 – unless 'stated policies' are abandoned Contra some terrible news coverage, IEA World Energy Outlook shows coal near peak, oil peaking by 2030 & gas by 2035 (see chart) What's going on? 🧵 + cool charts www.carbonbrief.org/iea-fossil-f...

There are FIVE BIG RISKS. Cash, collateral, tenant churn, circular financing, and debt. You've probably heard of some of them. But here's the analysis of how they connect.

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

this is just such a stark contrast to the general Western mood that climate politics is dead. THIS is what climate politics is about (the political economy of decarbonization). Everything else follows.

Ethiopia last year banned the import of new gasoline-powered cars. Nepal reduced import duties on EVs so much that they are now cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines. Brazil raised tariffs on car imports to compel Chinese automakers to set up plants inside Brazil. Etc

back from brazil @nzpolicylab.bsky.social supporting Lula's industrial policy :) "At this year’s climate summit, the US is out and Europe is struggling. But emerging countries are embracing renewable energy thanks to a glut of cheap equipment" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c... bsky.app/profile/kate...

"Dahbour is the philosopher whose thoughts turn all the time to the debate between localists & nationalists, who broods on self-determination, on how Globalisation provides the basis for increasing ethnic conflict..on ecosovereignty as a positive political structure" www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/eco...

13/ “Beijing is offering cheap, clean power, employment, trade and a route to prosperity. Washington is offering tariffs, policy chaos, White nationalist memes and South Korean workers in shackles after a raid on an EV battery factory.” ht @davidfickling.bsky.social bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

My dad sings in an incredible semi-professional choir in Portland and I’ve heard them sing this so many times and I cannot tell you how jealous I am that I don’t get to be one of the voices you never hear but you couldn’t live without who makes this sound possible

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal. If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Aurora Borealis from Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

Trump: Take a look at this if you want to see detail. Most people do a sign and paint it on the wall. So that's half inch thick bronze. Carved. By a very talented person. And it's brass. It's pure brass.

Imperial Irrigation District’s camera on the Salton Sea near Niland, California, exploding with Aurora color.

TRUMP: You have to bring in talent INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America TRUMP: No you don't. No. INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?

Imagine being an actual rapper and your most famous, most catchy song is you spelling your name at someone. (Meanwhile in my head, forever: the name is Mamdani - M, A M D A N I)

I think he specifies it was all the *car* billboards but still very notable! Here in Sydney I reckon we’d have 50% non-EV billboards, and there are plenty of EVs around including Chinese ones

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

You can read Sabrina's excellent essay by subscribing for just over £1 a month to support our work: www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemma/

'Elon kan reed buks' and 'Noah can't read signs' are the two things giving me life this week onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

Progressive groups are calling for Chuck Schumer's ouster after centrist Dems' shutdown cave. Dem senators' phone lines are "exploding" with the same demands. So far, Senate Dems don't have a ton to say. New at @zeteo.com w/ @swin24.bsky.social @premthakker.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...