Pretty sure the rule should be, “Don’t lie about the dead.”

If you got introduced to #MIO7 progressive candidate William Lawrence by the Huff Post attack piece that misrepresents both his politics and his sophistication in building multiracial movements for real change... Then check out his actual political agenda and you will know why he is being attacked.👇

Most governments find the loss of entire world regions to uninhabitable climate scenarios and the untold suffering of humans - and animals - easier to imagine, than the transition away from oil and gas. As Amitav Gosh said, the climate crisis is a crisis of our imagination.

‘If you’ve ever held yourself back from discussing the climate emergency because “it’s too controversial”, it’s because the oil industry has strategically invested in your silence’ Margaret Klein Salamon @climatepsych.bsky.social

I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

Michael Cembalest is out with his annual energy report for JP Morgan and it's full of fascinating stuff, but this graph jumps out: Trump is succeeding in stifling America's clean energy boom. Absolutely ceding the field to China.

Finally found something that they're willing to fight.

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

It now costs more to cause climate change than to prevent it

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

If other news was reported like climate change:

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

A painful consequences of #Climate silence: "Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible." - Carl Jung #TalkClimate

I feel like the Democrats have this extraordinary opportunity, with Trump’s massive unpopularity and how much he’s promoted fossil fuels and gotten us into oil, wars, etc., and the Democrats are just wasting it!! Make the damn association, already!

The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.

Aaaaannnnnddddd—it’s official, and unanimous: a one year moratorium on large data centers in the city of Seattle! 💃🎉🔥

This is more money than all annual Department of Energy geothermal power, solar power, and wind power research and development spending, combined.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

This is so misleading. It isn’t the US that’s benefitting. It’s US based oil companies. Americans are suffering, not benefiting.

California gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra just took half a million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. This on top of the max contribution from Chevron. When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

Feels like next time we should not let the 500 worst people in the country be in charge of everyone else

This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.

339 PPM.

Think polluters don't have enough money to pay for the damage they've caused? Think again.

The trope of the "angry environmentalist" is basically a form of severe pathological reality-denialism from centrist journalists who cannot process or understand at any level we are talking about something universal, physical and just fundamentally extremely unavoidable, here

If BYD were allowed to enter the American market, they’d wipe out Tesla overnight— along with the entire U.S. auto industry. I used to support basic protectionism, but not anymore. I’ve come to realize that we’re actually protecting the bad guys, like Elon Musk. Enough of that.

I honestly don't know why we're still even discussing this situation as if it is not literal Confederate traitors who've take over the GOP and are putting the finishing touches on what they tried to achieve with the Civil War. like, what's another *plausible* explanation for what's happening?

fighting drought by harvesting energy. you love to see it

The Voting Rights Act was a product of a disruptive social movement.

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

Reminds us of this @theonion.com banger.

As a Jewish person, this is an assault on the very values of liberal pluralism that have made the US a comparatively good place for Jews to live.

Our society has a massive blind spot when it comes to how dangerous these giant trucks and SUVs are to everyone outside of them.

44% of Americans are very worried about climate change — among the highest levels since 1989 — and 63% believe the US government is not taking enough environmental action, the highest since @Gallup.com started polling the question in 1992.

This is at the heart of how I think about climate security right now. "The question isn’t whether we can preserve the world as it is and stop climate change, but whether we can plan for those changes to be as minimally destructive as possible." Great piece by @katearonoff.bsky.social l

A preliminary scientific “synthesis report” circulated to the 50 nations at the conference on fossil-fuel phase out in Santa Marta, Columbia, recommends real-talk "action recommendations" including the ban of new fossil infrastructure and fossil-fuel phase-down targets in NDCs. This is the way!

Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan. It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%. The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal. I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

another tax we should do is a $1,000 dollar tax on every passenger helicopter ride. seriously though why don’t we do this

What's wild about all the folks freaking out over the expensive luxury car story is that U.S. carmakers started openly telling everyone ~ 10 years ago that they would stop making affordable cars and only make giant, luxury trucks and SUVs. And then, they did exactly what they said they would do.

Over 8 billion reasons to ditch fossil fuels in one photo.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.