I reject the terrorism and genocide threatened by the U.S. president in my name as a U.S. citizen.

NEW: On a climate policy conference call just now, Jamie Court of @consumerwatchdog.bsky.social revealed that @calenergy.bsky.social recently appointed a Shell lobbyist to a deputy director role.

I’m losing my mind with the earnest posts about the moon trip next to the threats of civilizational erasure

“A whole civilization will die” is what he said. Not “widespread bombing” or even “destroy Iran” bsky.app/profile/bloo...

Russia invading Ukraine was the first Petro War of the 2020s. The second, U.S. and Israel vs. Iran, is in the midst of a major escalation: bsky.app/profile/70sb...

NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.

Iran threatened to strike the $30B Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi, a major project involving global tech firms, as tensions escalated alongside Trump’s warning of possible rapid destruction of Iran. #Iran

Always read @jfern.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/prof...

NEW STORY! In 2023 @gavinnewsom.bsky.social stood on a vast landscape in Imperial Valley, declaring California's lithium revolution had arrived. But now the plans are mired by fighting, the feds are trying to kill renewables, and AI, not EVs, reigns. What's next? capitalandmain.com/newsom-promi...

How a perilous US rescue mission in Iran nearly went off course reut.rs/4sifKyz

Video of damage after Iranian strikes on energy infrastructure in Kuwait.

6/ Ebipere Clark, advisor to Nigeria's central bank originated ELECTROYUAN "The bet is that the world keeps buying electrification stack, comprising hardware, finance, warranties, service contracts,& then discovers that settlement in RMB is the path of least resistance" afripoli.org/electroyuan-...

The sad state of environmental affairs due to the war on #Iran and retaliatory strikes captured in one satellite image on April 2, 2026 from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Sentinel-2 in the Strait of Hormuz

Based on this chart we should replace solar panels and wind turbines in California with dairy farms. We need millions of shitting cows to beat climate change.

There are world-changing amounts of minerals underneath California’s “Lithium Valley.” But extracting them has proven difficult. Hanging in the balance is a vast and thirsty farming region enduring the slow-motion devastation of climate change. capitalandmain.com/newsom-promi...

@nickcunningham.bsky.social from Gas Outlook went out in the field with Sharon to see the evidence for himself. We like the opening. "On a hot July day outside the town of Orla, West Texas, Sharon Wilson pulled over along a dusty roadside and set up her camera." And everything that follows.

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

They’re making lead dino nuggets for kids. bsky.app/profile/lati...

Communities across Imperial Valley are now contemplating what dwindling water resources might mean for their region and for the rest of the country, which relies heavily on the region’s water-intensive farms for winter vegetables. capitalandmain.com/a-drying-col...

The Colorado Times Recorder reports on ICE’s sprawling network of unofficial detention sites:

Trump: "the Strait will open up naturally" clearly there is no plan for the Strait.

Orwell originally was deciding between calling his book "1984" or "The Last Man in Europe." Goes to show it often helps to choose the concise option.

April fool’s there’s no rocket

Check out Aaron's awesome reporting

Some photos I made for @aaroncantu.bsky.social’s story about broken lithium promises in Imperial Valley for @capitalandmain.bsky.social

NEW STORY! In 2023 @gavinnewsom.bsky.social stood on a vast landscape in Imperial Valley, declaring California's lithium revolution had arrived. But now the plans are mired by fighting, the feds are trying to kill renewables, and AI, not EVs, reigns. What's next? capitalandmain.com/newsom-promi...

One month in to the war, some people are ready to call it. This energy shock will accelerate the world to a cleaner, more electrified future. “Electrification will be seen as the shock absorber,” says @70sbachchan.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

Invisible plumes and ‘terrible pollution’: the reality of the US gas sites rated ‘grade A’

Imagine if the Viet Cong had the ability to bomb Monsanto for making Agent Orange bsky.app/profile/fare...

China produces more oil and refined liquids than Iraq, UAE and Kuwait combined!

There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Weeks ago it could end in a matter of weeks. Weeks later it could end in weeks. bsky.app/profile/pbsn...

McAllen Texas should be last stop on green line bsky.app/profile/cost...

woops, forgot the link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/m...

Americans today have very little tolerance for collective sacrifice, in fact it’s antithetical to our culture. See: Covid. That’s a big liability in a war of attrition.

Story here: www.reuters.com/world/us/ira... Updates TK:

There's been a tonne of interesting stuff to read on China's green export boom, developmental green industrial policy & even US energy transition politics in the past couple weeks; here is an annotated list from me & @70sbachchan.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Someone overlay @globalenergymon.bsky.social data of oil fields and refineries onto this

It’s been two weeks of articles with heds like “Here are Trump’s three options. They all suuuuck.” www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/america...

New today: “The Department of Homeland Security is not being clear intentionally about what their plans are, what they’re deploying in the region, and so it’s up to us in the community to track and document and report on it. This is how we fight back.”

Feel like a nerd when I write "gasoline" instead of "gas" in a story, but they're different things!

Or in the face of wars of choice in the Persian Gulf.

As the first reanalysis data become available, I think I can say with a fairly high degree of confidence that the March 2026 heatwave will go down as the most anomalously extreme heat event ever observed at any time of year in the southwestern U.S.

Commodities firms still working on assumption the war wraps up next month. bsky.app/profile/ship...

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