“No matter what happens to Cuba, this is a clear signal to other countries that renewables are something that they need to focus on.”

@cashman.bsky.social interviewed by @cnn.com on our report detailing how Cuba can break free from the US blockade with renewables.👇 edition.cnn.com/2026/05/13/c...

An inconvenient truth from @giuliomattioli.bsky.social: “To make car use reliable & convenient, we made the use of other modes less reliable & convenient, for example by giving cars priority over the use of street space. Moving in the other direction would require taking some of that space away.”

DC brain: The two most significant events of the last 2,000 years: the founding of my religion and my country’s middle class tax revolt.

The comparison should really be with things that cost a $1 trillion. Trump’s War on Iran Could Cost Trillions theintercept.com/2026/03/17/t...

Preconditions for a new USAID post-Trump should foreground the saving lives part, and get rid of the "advancing our interests" part — which included regime change initiatives and money hoses for US contractors (neither of which advance the interests of everyday people anywhere).

I’m pleased to share my latest report for @transitionsec.bsky.social: Sunrise After the Blockade. The report argues that cheap solar could help Cuba break free of US energy dominance — and that the world should help pay for it. transitionsecurity.org/sunrise-afte... 1/

“Once a driver of stable employment, jobs in the arms sector have declined even as military spending soars.” @tkbarnes.bsky.social exposes the broken relationship between the Pentagon’s soaring budget and secure jobs. transitionsecurity.org/labor-of-the...

I am pleasantly astonished how much more the media is covering the climate & ecological impacts of war in the last year compared to when I started working on this stuff a decade ago. Just this week we have coverage in really diverse outlets- Wired on one hand, the Lancet on the other. Links below.

“The case for solar in Cuba is so compelling and what the US is doing is so cruel ... it is creating a humanitarian crisis on purpose.” Our latest briefing by @cashman.bsky.social on Cuba & breaking free of US energy dominance in Yale Climate Connections 👇 yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/as-c...

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

“The US’s energy dominance strategy seeks to entrench dependence on fossil fuels, stall the green transition and strengthen US power.” Our new briefing by @cashman.bsky.social on how Cuba could break free from the US blockade with renewables in @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

“Cuba’s crisis is part of the US ‘energy dominance’ strategy, using coercion and force to control energy supplies and, ultimately, Cuba itself.” Cuba could break the US blockade with renewables — & the world should help pay for it. 🖋️ @cashman.bsky.social www.transitionsecurity.org/sunrise-afte...

a new report by @cashman.bsky.social at @transitionsec.bsky.social on the US’s war on Cuba, the resulting energy crisis in Cuba, and a possible counter to the US strategy of energy dominance transitionsecurity.org/sunrise-afte...

“Cuba is in the midst of a US-imposed energy and humanitarian crisis.” Our new briefing by @cashman.bsky.social examines how Cuba could break free of US energy dominance with renewables — and why the world should help pay for it. www.transitionsecurity.org/sunrise-afte...

“We’ve had heavy bombers, US strategic bombers, being launched from British soil to strike Iran. It’s a key part of the US strategy and it means that we are unfortunately involved in this illegal and destabilising war.”

Khem Rogaly on @lbc.co.uk 👇

This is exactly what @cashman.bsky.social and I warned about last week in @the-breakdown.bsky.social: oil shocks have all sorts of bad outcomes- higher prices hit working class people the hardest, windfall profits for oil companies, and as seen here, justification for new fossil fuel production

“Security cannot be achieved through force projection in the Gulf. In the meantime, the people of Iran & working-class communities across the world will continue to suffer the consequences of US fossil energy dominance” 🖋️ @pmbigger.bsky.social & @cashman.bsky.social www.break-down.org/oil-war-ii/

"Windfall profits are the hidden redistribution that happens with every oil shock...They are perfectly legal, thoroughly opaque and a recurring part of the system, as we see now with the war on Iran." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The war on Iran is part & parcel of the US’s omnicidal ‘energy dominance’ agenda, turbocharging the climate crisis today while rooted in the long standing architecture of a fossil fuelled empire.” 🖋️ @pmbigger.bsky.social & @cashman.bsky.social for @the-breakdown.bsky.social 👇

Part II of our symposium on the American-Israeli war on Iran. @katemac.bsky.social on the long-term effects of the closing of the Strait of Hormuz on oil markets and petrostates @pmbigger.bsky.social and @cashman.bsky.social on the Omnicidal Fossil Empire www.break-down.org/oil-war-ii/

Our final tally of the climate pollution cause by Israel and allies' assault on Gaza is out today in @cp-oneearth.bsky.social. Emissions are not the most important reason to demand an end to the US & Israel's aggressive, illegal military interventions, but they are yet another reason to demand it.

"The Transition Security Project estimates that the 2022 energy shock cost the EU and UK $1.8tn between 2022 and 2025, while US firms made $241bn in windfall profits. Higher inflation pushed up interest rates, making capital-intensive renewables harder to finance than fossil fuels."

“Instead of clinging on to a broken transatlantic partnership, Europe needs to develop an independent foreign policy based on international solidarity, restraint and climate collaboration.” Our briefing in @theguardian.com 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great write up of the tremendous work by my colleague @cashman.bsky.social showing the absurdly huge cost that Europeans are paying for hitching their wagon to US LNG instead of going all-in on renewables.

The US–Israeli attack on Iran will deepen the cost of living crisis. The last energy shock cost Europe $1.8tn. Europe’s leaders have backed the illegal war that may cause the next shock. The transatlantic alliance is Europe’s trillion dollar bill. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org/trillion-dol...

The U.S. torpedoed a ship w/ 180 crew that was 2k miles from Iran It had just been in a joint exercise that....the US had also been in. The ship “thought it was safe in international waters,” said Hegseth, “instead, it was sunk by a torpedo,” Just 32 survivors. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/w...

It's worth noting that Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Denmark, facing aggression, all negotiated with the US and made extraordinary concessions. Nevertheless, the US attacked Venezuela and Iran and is blockading Cuba. The US wants control, not concessions.

Next week, Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie will force a vote to stop Trump’s march to an illegal, disastrous war with Iran. Call 1-833-STOP-WAR (1-833-786-7927) to connect with your Reps to urge them to vote YES on the Khanna-Massie War Powers Resolution.

“As a Palestinian, the best moment of my life was being on top of an Israeli weapons factory with a sledgehammer being able to destroy that site. And knowing, that just that by being there and causing damage, they would have to shut down. Not just while I was there, but for weeks after.” Huda...

The Secretary General’s spokesman, for a second day, failed to speak clearly or defend UN’s Albanese against a manufactured misinformation campaign: bsky.app/profile/drop...

The NYC Policy Forum is a very exciting new project which I am thrilled to be part of.

New definition of sovereignty dropped

Rep. Thomas Massie and I have requested a meeting with Todd Blanche to ask why the senders of these emails have been redacted. Concealing the reputations of these powerful men is a blatant violation of the Epstein Transparency Act we passed.

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Everybody who perpetrated this while covering it up should be in the Hague www.reuters.com/world/early-...

My gosh. Alex Pretti was notifying neighbors that Trump and Vance's agents were chasing a family. A mob of agents then tackled him and broke his rib. He thought he was going to die. Then the very next week, he came back out to support his neighbors. And a mob of agents killed him.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I'm sorry, this is just fan fiction. There's no way you can look at the United States' record of intervention and flagrant violation of international law and write this sentence.

i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states

It's cool that these guys just use pepper spray casually now, against people who are wholly within their rights, without a moment's hesitation. Several shots of them using it as they climb into their cars and drive away, not even a pretense of urgency or need. Just a parting "fuck you" to them.

Sunday, at least 7 ICE agents stormed a house and took an elderly man out into the freezing cold, wearing only his underwear and a blanket. He was a member of the Hmong community, which came to the area from Laos in the 1970s after siding with the US in the Vietnam War. Notice the suppressors 1/2

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

Pretty amazing. While leading “Columbians for Academic Freedom,” Bari Weiss sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia professors fired. While leading “The Free Press,” Weiss is spiking stories to cover for a president who’s sought to get pro-Palestine Columbia students deported.

CPC Deputy Chair @repilhan.bsky.social and Whip @chuygarcia.house.gov along with the Progressive Caucus are supporting two resolutions to end Trump’s brutal military campaign in Venezuela that has killed 87 people.

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

The U.S. government continues to kill people for the amusement of the President and other members of his administration.

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture. 🔍 Zoom in…

New from our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social. Larry Summers' banishment from positions of influence should be permanent.

let's simulate a nuclear winter to control climate change --- The EcONoMiST