🚨 NEW: In #Ohio, oil & gas lobbyists helped draft a #CarbonCapture bill that could let them bury dangerous CO₂ waste & shift liability to the public. Uncovered records show industry wrote talking points, handpicked sponsors & shut out critics. #CCS www.canarymedia.com/articles/car...

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

We are being lied to about the methane emissions produced by US oil and gas. They claim that 20% of US gas production has been certified to have almost no methane emissions. It isn't believable. It isn't based on science. Unfortunately the media doesn't challenge it.

FT: “Liberation Day: Bulls freed from their gains” Are we #winning yet?

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

Hey @harvard.edu , don’t fold. Stand and fight.

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

It’s important that people from all walks of life and background, and all rational political perspectives, show unity in support of democracy and the rule of law on April 5, somewhere near you. Show your love for your country and for what it should—must—stand for: handsoff2025.com/

Trump’s fav book? Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Fav character? Roark, whom Rand modeled after a real-life psychopathic kidnapper/murder (whom she admired!) Rand’s description of The Fountainhead’s theme? “One puts oneself above all and crushes everything in one’s way to get the best for oneself.”

@justinmikulka.bsky.social is spot on, as usual. We cannot allow PR dressed up as science to replace actual science. Real science is never proprietary.

Their "analysis" would not survive any real peer review. As you say, they do not bother to share the details of what they did, but even a quick look shows some severely strange assumptions. It is not science or engineering. It's PR support for their clients in big oil & gas.

“When autocratic regimes take hold, solidarity is the only defense.” Stand up, stand strong, stand together.

History books won’t make sense of this either. It will be up to psychology studies.

I don't really know how to feel about the fact that all the weird threads I've been following for the past 20 years are suddenly coming together in a truly unsettling knot, but maybe I can at least help to connect the dots in a somewhat useful way? drilled.media/news/network...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

I’ve asked this question before. Now I’m SHOUTING it. Where the HELL are the Democrats? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/where-the-hell-are-the-democrats

I shouldn’t be surprised that Paul Weiss, Exemplar of Capitulation, is also lead council defending ExxonMobil against climate accountability lawsuits. Of course! #corporategreed

This simply cannot stand. @pressley.house.gov @repauchincloss.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

This is one of the best visuals I’ve ever seen to illustrate how our choices today shape our climate future

Carbon capture in any form delays the energy transition. That is precisely why oil and gas talks it up.

Roses are red Whales are gigantic I texted the war plans To the Atlantic - P. Hegseth

First they came for your due process rights, and you said nothing for you had not committed a crime. Then they came for your right to privacy, and you said nothing for you had nothing to hide. Then they came for your free speech rights, and you said nothing.

*The* reason Big Oil loves to talk about carbon capture (CCS! DAC! ‘Clean’ hydrogen!) is that carbon capture in any form delays our pivot away from fossil fuels. Follow the money, Occam’s razor, and all that jazz.

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Pop quiz: What do lasers, FM radio, bar codes, Google search, iPhones, cures for childhood leukemia, Pap smears, mRNA vaccines, electric toothbrushes, the Heimlich maneuver, and Viagra have in common? Answer: All are the direct result of US government investment in universities & research. #MAGA

My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes. Any questions? Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath

If I could speak to the heads of big law firms, I would ask: Is the risk of losing some clients worth betraying your oath to the rule of law? To everyone nodding but refusing to take a stand, I say: You are ignoring Martin Niemöller’s message. It is you that Martin Luther King Jr. was condemning.

Ben Rhodes in the NYT

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

I’m biased, but there’s no more important time to support independent journalism than right now!

This is really the whole ball game right now, *particularly* among the institutions that make up civil society. (my parents definitely had this poster when I was growing up)

Where are the vertebrates?!

Conway: “People need to start doing the right thing because it is the right thing.” @georgeconway1fnz.bsky.social gives an eloquent explanation of why the moral cowardice of Paul, Weiss is such a huge problem.

And that’s on that 😌

Amen. 🇺🇸 They want you to believe this is radical. It isn’t.

I’m tired of all the moral cowardice. And now I’ve never been angrier about it.

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Trump et al. are following Putin’s (& Hitler’s!) playbook of purposefully telling absurd, enormous lies about a future target of military aggression (Canada!) as a way to soften the resolve of Americans against such a foolhardy plan. A very good analysis by Snyder. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Changing from gas to climate-friendly electric appliances often involves expensive retrofits, but companies now offer appliances that plug into a standard outlet. My latest for @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/03/19/n...

Ask yourself: Why would anyone who wasn’t an asset of the Russian government do this? Why would any decent human being do this?

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending $14 billion in climate grants.

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.