'Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing surveyed more than 950 institutional investors (...). The headline result is simple: more than four out of five expect to increase allocations to sustainable investments over the next two years. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

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The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?

Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands. Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Why Venezuela’s Oil Won’t Matter and Why Heavy Crude Is First Off the Market - CleanTechnica cleantechnica.com/2026/01/06/w...

The US stands alone in dismissing the problem of climate change.

The New York Times has probably the best, succinct analysis of the brutal killing of Renee Nicole Good. They use multiple videos and camera angles to prove that Trump and Noem are lying when they rant about Good deliberately hitting an ICE officer. Good was murdered by Trump's goons.

Nightmare-inducing headline from NYT

This is all so impossibly dumb, but nested in the dumb is “crypto-empowered states.” Crypto is just poorly regulated finance. If a whole state is crypto empowered, then it just has a loosely regulated financial system. That’s not new or special.

Übrigens: Die deutschen Neo-Faschos stehen in Sachsen-Anhalt und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern kurz vor einer Machtübernahme. Die wollen auch Massendeportationen, wollen auch sowas wie #ICE. Macht euch keine Illusionen. Wieviel von dem Widerstandsgeist auf US-amerikanischen Straßen werden wir hier erleben?

* zooms in on "If all Dems/Independents voted no, given absent Republicans, the vote would've failed" *

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

Really good video breakdown of the shooting of Renee Good illustrating that yes, this was cold blooded murder by an ICE agent.

If they could do this to Renee Nicole Good, they could do this to you. This is a lawless regime.

Kristi Noem: "Renee Good was a domestic terrorist."

Right after Renée Good’s disgusting murder, a ICE goon was filmed kicking her memorial candles. Absolutely vile.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

This is not the law.

If you’re scared of a Honda Pilot driving less than 5 miles an hour, with its wheels pointing away from you, you should not be working in law-enforcement… You shouldn’t have a gun. You shouldn’t have a badge. You should find a new line of work.

I always thought the term "cosplaying" was overused until ICE/CBP started showing up everywhere. Look at this guy, does he think it's Fallujah? (It's a high school in Minneapolis). www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

1/Quick thoughts on Venezuela oil and what it means for world politics. Rather than a simple story of corporate oligarchy, more about Trump putting himself at the center of spoils that can be used to consolidate power i.e neo-royalism. www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...

Trump repeatedly insisted to NYT that Renee Nicole Good had tried to run over the ICE agent that shot her. When the journalists said that it doesn’t look like what happened Trump insisted they watch the video together — which then unequivocally shows this was bull. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Kleptocrats gonna klept. Shout out to @greatdismal.bsky.social whose “the Peripheral” anticipated much of this. hopefully we avoid the jackpot

The same people who yesterday were dismissive of when the Capitol police got the shit kicked out of them by a bloodthirsty mob are today claiming a bunch of unharmed ICE goons were in mortal danger from one woman.

RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.

Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works. Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us. dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

@iolahughes.bsky.social: "China - the largest BESS market - brought online more capacity in December alone than the US - the second-largest BESS market - did in the full year! 🤯🤯" #battchat nitter.net/RhoMoIola/st...

Americans enter 2026 with much lower expectations than last year, particularly on the economy, China and politics, according to Gallup. Drops are sharpest among Republicans news.gallup.com/poll/700448/...

With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

looking back at now once again trump loyalists statements on jan 6 is crazy because it really illustrates how they’ve managed to sanitize what everyone knew was going on. the jan 6ers were ultimately successful it seems

Solar does not necessarily need a lot of land!

It's almost like they don't actually have a net zero commitment.

The Trump administration is closing a NASA research library in Greenbelt, Maryland. The facility houses countless books and records that are unlikely to be digitized. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

Five years ago.

Is the #Maduro abduction really a “war for oil”, as many seem to believe? Unlikely. Venezuelan oil is low-quality, infrastructure-heavy, slow to exploit, in an already oversupplied market. Is it about democracy? Obviously not. What remains is the pornography of fascist power. I can do what I want.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Game of distractions, too

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

Wall Street loves AI: "Heightened concerns about a potential AI bubble are also expected to drive increased hedging activity in the credit default swap market, further boosting trading volumes."

Trump's Razor: The pettiest explanation is usually the correct one.

it’s about oil and yet from an energy markets perspective that doesn’t make much sense, unless we assume USG all but seizes control of US oil companies. Karthik Sankaran outlines the doesn’t-make-sense reasons here: responsiblestatecraft.org/venezuela-oil/

Well they said they were against bringing freedom and democracy to other countries and, in their defence, Venezuela isn't getting any of that

“There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025 While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy” @esqueer.net bsky.app/profile/gwag...

Nobody ever said the death throes of the fossil age would be pretty or peaceful

Oil still seems to be a central element of US empire.

#AI may indeed exacerbate our bad academic habits: #LLM science summaries were nearly five times more likely than human-authored science summaries to contain broad generalizations (95% CI [3.06, 7.70], p < 0.001). And newer models over-generalized more; not less! doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #philSci