Absolutely blasting us with right wing propaganda to destroy everything that kept us together. 2/2

Absolutely. It was revealed earlier this year that CIA supported Finnish social democrats because they thought it was the best, most cost effective way to keep the soviet union at bay in the north and I definitely agree. Seems like Russia learned their lesson and flipped the script on us with 1/2

But if you have one EV battery catch fire, it seemingly justifies questioning the entire energy transition.

Bloomberg says AI data centers are driving up U.S. wholesale power prices — in some regions, electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

#Electrotech gets cheaper as it scales with costs falling ~20% every time deployment doubles – unlike fossil fuels, which get costlier the more we extract them 💰 It already captures 2/3 of global energy investment & drives all net growth in energy jobs. https://loom.ly/XP_xA0c

🏦 Banks had more than USD$1.1tn in exposures to fossil fuels on their balance sheets in 2023, a new report from @financewatch.bsky.social found. That’s why there’s a need for a systemic climate risk buffer, said Julia Symon, one of the authors of the report.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

the bedtime thing rips my heart in half. i would not have a fraction of the creativity i possess without my dad not only reading us books but literally making up stories on the spot every night. cannot express how lucky i was and how sad i am for children being raised by chatbots

China's LNG imports are down roughly 20% this year. They were supposed to drive global demand. Then we were told it would be India. I looked into that and in March I wrote this about India and LNG "I’d say the predictions for LNG growth in India are delusional." Proven true so far this year.

On the same day the Conservatives blame net zero and renewables for high energy costs, a detailed new study explains how Spain's net zero and renewables have given it some of the lowest power prices in Europe. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

For the geoeconomics fans (or, indeed, discontents), my brilliant colleague Cornel Ban has just launched a substack on that very topic:

One of the things i loved about Britain, despite its other failings, was a cross-party understanding and respect for evidence. Climate action was supported by Thatcher, Cameron, Johnson and May. Now, the Tories have been fully captured by ideology over evidence. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The excuse most often provided for turning away from green measures, for expanding fossil fuel production, for ignoring the science, is pragmatism.... this is dangerous drivel". @profbillmcguire.bsky.social hits the nail on the head www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Have you considered making guns harder to get? No. What am I asking? Of course you haven’t and won’t. apple.news/A8_hqTLtnSs2...

If Koch-funded "news" outlets like the "Daily Caller" lie about things as provably false as this, what else are they lying to you about?

Now open access on @tandfresearch.bsky.social! Ní Chasaide, N., & Ó Riain, S. (2025). Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation. Review of International Political Economy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Energy Secretary Wright denies that the administration's focus on LNG exports will inflict higher prices on U.S. households & businesses: “it’s hard to overstate the scale of shale gas production” potential in the US. Actually, it's quite easy and quite commonplace to overstate that potential.

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Europe, take note. Act accordingly.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Nigel Farage's Reform Party isn’t democratic—and that should worry you youtu.be/QAL_mADPVnk?... Nigel Farage's Reform Party isn’t democratic—and that should worry you

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Faschismus.

Renewables are a masterclass in learning-by-doing. Each doubling of deployment cuts costs via experience curves: better manufacturing, finance & supply chains. Result: Solar now cheapest new power in many regions Falling battery costs enable flexibility Electrification gets more attractive

Social Media is making a lot of people dumber unfortunately.

Every single day there's a new documented horror perpetrated by ICE and if your instinct upon seeing these horrors is to suggest that abolishing ICE is an imprudent demand then you can just tell me you're waiting for Hugo Boss uniforms before you join the goon squad. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Keine Angst, es ist nur der Hersteller der Software, die uns alle ununterbrochen überwachen soll; dass er einen fanatischen politischen Gestaltungswillen halt, ist kein Grund zur Beunruhigung

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

Excellent reporting from at @inthesetimes.com that draws from some of my work. The labor movement still hasn’t got its head around the way the institutions of capitalism have changed between the 1930s and today. If the workplace needed democracy then, today pooled assets do as well.

Important new report.

Ahead of tomorrow's @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social Transatlantic Forum, I argue that political forces, rather than economic fundamentals, will determine the future direction of the international currency system. Link below. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

"The Energy Department has added 'climate change,' 'green' and 'decarbonization' to its growing 'list of words to avoid' at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy," At the Office of Energy, Efficiency, and Renewable Energy www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Really, Reform UK? THIS is what you're going with? That this man, who served as an MEP next to Nigel Farage for years and was made leader of your party in Wales by current deputy, Richard Tice, is just "one of tens of thousands of people Nigel meets on an annual basis"?~AA

Solar v Trump, no contest

Trump claimed last week at the UN: “They [China] build them, but they have very few wind farms. So why is it that they build them and they send them all over the world, but they barely use them?” The answer is: they actually do. China has more wind power than any other country in the world.

The Ministry of Truth has spoken.

An observation by Brad that chimes with Alan Beattie‘s: „If I were the US farm lobby I’d be baffled and dismayed at this point. Long given a privileged position in US trade policy (…) it is not a big feature of [Trumps] current trade strategy beyond notional pledges to buy soyabeans.“

Classical bubble inherent to capitalistic investment hypes seems to be forming. I reckon it will hit the US the hardest, given that most giant data centers are being built there.

Stupid: every country in the world, every scientific institution in the world, every serious scientist in the world. Smart: US conservatives. Plausible!

Insane! Social media is making many people dumber and dumber 😞

Is that what Republicans call "freedom" and "liberty"?

Lost place in Bonn (Germany).

Lost place in Bonn (Germany).

Insane.

"In Europe, the technocrats who govern [...] share the same incomprehension at the offensive they are facing. They [fail to] acknowledge that Trump and the tech bros’ goal is to impose regime change on this side of the Atlantic as well."

As we scale up renewables, one thing becomes crystal clear: without storage, the energy transition will stall. Batteries aren’t just for cars. They’re also crucial for grids, industry, and heating. Great short from DW.

income inequality visualized. also why you can't find decent middle quality goods anymore. it's just the top 20% (mostly the top 5%) and then everyone else ritholtz.com/wp-content/u...

Ganz normale Börsennachrichten ... "Laut dem Wall Street Journal und The Times soll er (Thiel) gewarnt haben, dass das Regulieren von KI „die Ankunft des Antichristen beschleunigen“ könne. Für Thiel (...) steht KI nicht nur für technologische, sondern auch für spirituelle Machtfragen."