Trust in institutions: very hard to build, very easy to destroy

@noahpinion.bsky.social: "Electric cars are a superior technology. They are going to win." #alwaysbecharging

A Chinese immigrant named Chaofeng Ge died in ICE custody. He was found hanging with his hands and feet tied behind him in the “hog tie” position. Deaths within these camps continue to rise, with more people dying in the last nine months than in the entire previous four years. Abolish ICE

Russia is waging a brutal war of aggression. These are not the actions of a country that is seeking peace.

Jesse Peltan: "1,000 TWh of solar in China so far this year." 🌞🌞🌞 nitter.net/JessePeltan/...

It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)

'Vogtle’s two new #nuclear reactors in Georgia is a cautionary tale written in soaring electric bills and a growing political fallout. The people of Georgia are paying the price, literally, as their utility bills have skyrocketed by over 40%' nuclearcosts.org/finally-some...

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

holy moly our Hopkins lab data @nzpolicylab.bsky.social is in the IEA's energy bible!! the cool kids are actually reading the IEA World energy outlook 2025 till page 76 and not having heads turned by the silly trumpist pressure CPS scenario getting all the headlines.... www.iea.org/reports/worl...

If the NYT told the story of the homeless teenager exploited by Matt Gaetz with even half as much empathy as it tells the story of Olivia Nuzzi, it would be in danger of committing journalism.

Das ist der Kern der rechten Politik hüben wie drüben. Einigen Menschen muss es schlecht gehen, damit es anderen gut geht. Das ist rein zufällig auch zugleich der Kern unserer aktuellen Art zu Wirtschaften.

Diese Bundesregierung erhöht den Preis für das Deutschlandticket der Bahn und macht Fliegen wieder billiger (Senkung der Ticketsteuer). Das ist völlig verrückt.

An interesting tidbit in the joint status report filed in the Broadview ICE facility case today: ICE says video from inside the facility "between October 19, 2025, and October 31, 2025, has been irretrievably destroyed" and can't be produced in discovery. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71832...

Once a leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing. From deforestation to carbon pricing, vital policies are being watered down in the name of ‘competitiveness’. But Europe is shooting itself in the foot. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the COP is an important milestone every year, the real engine of global climate action is now industrial policy. That’s why next Friday, as COP closes, we will launch the Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer. Register in-person: luma.com/cd2255t4 Sign up for the webinar: bit.ly/484IS5o

Climate effects aside, just the sheer scale of our emissions are astounding. Humanity makes more CO2 every year than all other materials we produce combined

Insane in the brain.

China is the dominant factor driving the economic challenges that the German economy is currently facing - not too much climate protection or the shut-down of a few nuclear reactors.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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“All of this, all of the tactics of (senior Border Patrol official Gregory) Bovino, all of the tactics of ICE have been unlawful in the vast, vast majority of arrests,” Mark Fleming, National Immigrant Justice Center attorney, said in a news conference Wednesday."

Part of a bizarre performance which included comparing himself, “a kind of dissident”, to Kara-Murza sitting next to him (the latter was not happy).

This puts the "solar farm is spoiling the view where I walk my dogs" complaints into perspective

We took a Minsky-style approach to understanding the refinancing risks across the sector and how they all interact. In other words, we made a TON of T-Charts to show exactly how capital flows. Balance sheets gotta balance!

Today's new @publicenterprise.bsky.social report is a comprehensive analysis of the capital structure of the entire AI sector: data center real estate, GPU markets, private credit, you name it. It's also a financial risk management framework for policymakers! publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

"Data centers are an asset with the characteristics of both real estate and infrastructure: Data centers have tenants, large tech companies, that are undertaking expensive long-term capital investment plays with fast-depreciating assets and minimal cash flow..." publicenterprise.org/report/bubbl...

Evidence that new US sanctions on Russian oil are starting to bite: "China's state oil companies and some Indian refiners are avoiding buying Russian oil due to concerns about falling foul of secondary sanctions." Link: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

Gopinath via Tooze: "a dotcom-sized adjustment to US equity markets would today inflict losses of $20tn on US investors and $15tn on the rest of the world. That is 70% of US GDP and 20 per cent of the rest of the world’s. More than enough to spark a severe recession." www.ft.com/content/ac77...

davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene... This by @davekarpf.bsky.social is very, _very_ good. Much traditional media is badly geared to understand movement politics, and often, it helps to actually know stuff!

Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years! ✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger ✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001 ✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich) ✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today

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...

I really need to get to bed, but I just poked my head out the back door again. This is the view from my deck. All of this is looking south. When the geomagnetic storms are like this, the oval overshoots me and stretches into the US, which is why so many are seeing it tonight. #aurora

The @iea.org’s World Energy Outlook is here ❌ Ignore the hype on an extended shelf life for fossil fuels Renewables + electrification = an energy revolution ⚡ Let’s unpack what it all means 🧵1/8

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.

"Oil demand and emissions in the transport sector fell by 5% in the third quarter, but grew elsewhere by 10%, as the production of plastics and other chemicals surged." #China is cutting oil demand in transport. Has that ever happened in Western countries? www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Not sure where this institutionally biased left-wing BBC was hiding during the Brexit and Corbyn years

"Fossil demand has been flat for industrial energy since 2014, for buildings since 2018, for road transport since 2019, & may peak for electricity this year. 2/3 of countries have already seen peak fossil demand in end-use sectors, & half the world has seen a peak in fossil fuels for electricity."

How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance. China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...

Just imagining the media on Earth 2 on a day when President Harris's aides are fighting to withhold food stamps and raise healthcare prices for tens of millions of Americans while she hosts a former affiliate of al-Qaeda and ISIS in the Oval Office

World's biggest isolated grid hits new peak of 89 per cent renewables, led by rooftop solar reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-bigge...

Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right). It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions. Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions? 🧵 1/2

I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.

The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country. We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Hier nachgelegt ein ausführlicher Thread zur Dekonstruktion dieses "Beitrages" von Blome. Man sollte es nicht einfach nut als ein harmloses Pamphlet sehen, sondern als Teil einer neoliberalen Kampagnenarbeit, die der AfD und ähnlichen politischen Strömungen sehr gefallen dürfte /1 🧵

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools