French oil major TotalEnergies is on trial this week in the city where the Paris Agreement was created Judges are examining, for the first time in 🇫🇷 history, whether a big oil company can be legally required to curb its production in line w/ climate objectives insideclimatenews.org/news/1902202...

The First Amendment Coalition (@facoalition.bsky.social) sits down with investigative journalist Robert J. Lopez to discuss how he fought for public records on child farmworkers in California’s Central Coast. firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/be...

From EVs to AI www.eenews.net/articles/can...

Palantir paid zero income taxes last year itep.org/palantir-pay...

Old man flipping off a right-turning Waymo as he crosses the street

this argument asks the reader to reframe human intelligence/cognition in machinic terms flipping the default/baseline from which intelligence is measured/understood to machines. basically reducing human cognition to mere neural connection, making erroneous comparisons & inflating llm capabilities 6/

The US has become a climate bully. The sabotage of the IMO shipping levy is the most dramatic example. The pressure on Vanuatu to stop its legal efforts is the most recent. My new piece for @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/18/t...

“disliking something and ignoring it are different activities” www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

The LA Times just published an exposé showing that opponents of South Coast AQMD's proposed zero-emission appliance rules generated thousands of fake comments using AI. Based on these fake emails, the Board voted down the rules last year. They need to reconsider it! www.latimes.com/environment/...

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@fieldnotes.co's thread on how the oil & gas industry pushed EPA to rescind the endangerment finding, but is now scared the extreme rollback could leave it vulnerable to "polluter-pays" laws and lawsuits. ⬇️

A co-founder of Black Lives Matter Minnesota arrested by federal agents last month described having his legs shackled and being asked if he was an “immigrant or agitator.” Meanwhile, a school board member said she was forced to pose for photo shoots with agents. capitalandmain.com/trump-admini...

World monitor Online map + dashboard for monitoring the global situation on a wide range of issues: ship traffic, conflicts, protests, cyber threats, fires, military activity and many others. worldmonitor.app #geoint #osint

Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.

Oregon joins a slew of states looking at Climate Superfund legislation: www.eenews.net/articles/ore...

Orwell predicted AI slop

“The cloud” was good branding, perhaps it should have been the haze, or the mist…

DOD let Border Patrol fire a laser at something they thought was a cartel drone but turned out to be a metallic balloon. FAA said its authority was encroached and civilians were in danger, and closed El Paso air space for 10 days. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Completely misremembered his name. It’s Matt Shumer.

US used Anthropic's Claude during the Venezuela raid, WSJ reports reut.rs/4rLsGNp

"LA28 says that with help from an outside legal firm, it conducted a review of Wasserman’s past interactions with Epstein and Maxwell, with Wasserman’s full cooperation: 'We found Mr. Wasserman’s relationship with Epstein and Maxwell did not go beyond what has already been publicly documented'"

Nobody tell the EPA about its GHG Equivalency Calculator

Trump is shrinking the EPA more quickly & aggressively than ever before, culminating in this week's move to rescind the crucial "endangerment finding" underpinning key regulations of planet-warming pollution. Here's what it all means (a gift link @bloomberg.com): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Prediction markets seem like a good way to inject corruption into the very DNA of a society.

This is so hideous: www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

Morning where strangers are friendly and chatty then my lunch container violently shatters on the floor. The universe restores balance.

An interesting window into how power and media function: The CEO of an elite Manhattan dinner party club says she invited @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social alongside billionaire Carl Ichan and others to a dinner, asks Epstein for more invite ideas. 2011.

These animals in Little Rock beat a Black journalist as he covered school desegregation in 1957. L. Alex Wilson died a few years later www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8J...

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.

The addictive design of social media is a major problem with serious impacts on public health and endangering democracy Our new report reveals intense #lobbying by Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap to block or water down EU measures against social media addiction 🚨 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/a...

US forces board Venezuela-linked oil tanker in Indian Ocean without incident reut.rs/3ZKRuJL

Seems bad www.reuters.com/business/aut...

By me: UN human rights and business expert Fernanda Hopenhaym says companies dealing in illegally seized Venezuelan oil face legal exposure Despite US claims of legal impunity drilled.media/news/hopenhaym

It's interesting to see him recognizing the world in which he amassed power is waning so he must kiss insurgent ass to survive bsky.app/profile/onek...

Super cool that the world’s most notorious pedophile was going to great lengths to ensure the world’s most dangerous fascist was healthy so he could carry on leading “the movement”

Reactions to this week's newsletter have ranged from, "This is an absurd premise," to, "This is happening already in my city." So, pretty much what I've come to expect from writing about the energy economy. insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202...

Freelance rates are the same or worse than 10 years ago, which I believe were also the same or worse to ten years prior. bsky.app/profile/anto...

Fevered Epstein email to British politician about studying the way brain cells “coomunicate.” Dorm room bong sesh stuff

The Trump administration is eroding vital climate data www.economist.com/science-and-...

Epstein files doing the biggest right-to-left-coded pivot in history aje.news/57ny6o