Gotta get orders from the boss ahead of the meeting, right?

Wow this story. Want to understand the opposition to wind energy? See what @timmonsroberts.bsky.social has been telling us ...

Wow this story. Want to understand the opposition to wind energy? See what @timmonsroberts.bsky.social has been telling us ...

Bari Weiss, Tucker Carlson, Elise Stefanik ... wait, just hear me out now, what if all the so-called defenders of free speech were just people who can't their arguments to stick because their ideas suck?

Maybe don't senselessly fuck with Canada, 🇺🇸's biggest export market for whiskey and a whole lot of other things? 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/d...

Bad things happen when you hire opinion hacks to run media outlets Bad things happen when you hire non-academics to run universities Bad things happen when you hire businessmen to run the government Etc. Etc. Experience & expertise matter. And actual relevant expertise.

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

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Enjoyed @jeffcolgan.bsky.social's new piece in which he builds on my idea to elevate climate change as structural factor alongside anarchy in IR. He argues anarchy, nature, & innovation are ordering principles that shape units & interact. 1/ academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u... Last oil tanker the Trump team seized was on the Sanctions list for serving Iran. This second oil tanker is not on the Sanctions list. Slowly but surely the Trumpists ratchets their actions up to and beyond legal limits. #Petro-Aggression

Historically, vehicle manufacturing & exports was the path to GDP growth. USA and Canada used it; then Japan in the 70s. The fact that China is positioned to dominate the next gen of global cars should tell US & Canadian leaders a lot about their current strategy of doubling down on fossil fuels

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/u... Last oil tanker the Trump team seized was on the Sanctions list for serving Iran. This second oil tanker is not on the Sanctions list. Slowly but surely the Trumpists ratchets their actions up to and beyond legal limits. #Petro-Aggression

Holy crap chart from Gallup

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

"If my country engages in industrial policy to increase the manufacturing share of my economy, then whether you like it or not, my industrial policy becomes your industrial policy in reverse." jacobin.com/2025/12/glob...

FBI Director Patel is busy talking about his romance with his girlfriend on Katie Miller’s podcast at 6pm.

I'm at Brown University. Massive manhunt for a shooter all around me. Hard to describe how this story from Australia hits right now.

"There's an active shooter near Barus & Holley Engineering. Lock doors, silence phones and stay stay hidden until further notice," Brown Univeristy posted on its website.

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Ah, oil and war. Petro-Aggression takes many forms. No love for Maduro, but there are good ways to pressure his regime, and not so good ways. This has no law. No int'l coalition. No real effort to legitimize. Just force.

Resource politics scholars: @profmichaelross.bsky.social and I are organizing a panel for the 2026 APSA meeting in Boston on the topic. We want to hear from young and emerging scholars with work to present! you can message us here or email me at my work address.

Just so we're clear how this works 👇

This a really great expert view on money in US politics. Worth a read.

Great visualization about how warming in the Arctic (like we're having right now) is leading to colder winters with more snowfall 👇

Next year's Climate Pipeline Project is at Columbia University. Great for junior scholars in PS, across fields. Application deadline is tomorrow! Ht @nilskupzok.bsky.social politicaleconomy.columbia.edu/news/call-pa...

Great thread on pol persuasion by the always smart @kwcollins.bsky.social

6/ "1) Biggest wealth transfer in American history. 2) Kills solar industry, raising prices 3) almost a trillion dollar cut to Medicaid 4) nursing homes shutting down 5) energy shortages 6) 4.5 trillion in NEW DEBT. — I promise you this bill is worse than you think." - @brianschatz.bsky.social

I am firmly convinced that if our beloved Transatlantic friends do not continue to pound, loudly and mercilessly, on Europa’s head, our most beautiful continent will never realise that we are standing alone, exposed to the storms of an unknown tomorrow. 2/3

Back when Dems governed like they meant business.

Back when Dems governed like they meant business.

This is the correct take on the whole Zillow fiasco (and fire maps, and hurricane maps) 2023 PCAST report essentially called for this as well - it's been a recognized gap in capacity for years bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...

Climate change is killing workers. The fix is simple. Water. Shade. Rest Breaks. Our new Health Affairs study: California's heat standard was associated with a 33% drop in heat-related deaths among outdoor workers. Now it's time for OSHA to adopt a federal heat standard. tinyurl.com/4wejjhkd

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

"Carbon capture & storage plan gets scraped for data center" really captures the 2025 energy scene in a nutshell

The Indian state of Rajasthan produces more solar than any other. It has rejected a 3.2 GW coal power plant, because the bids to build it were more expensive than bundling renewables with batteries. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

cant unsee once you get this, the only thing you want in your country is FAR more public investment

Just in last 48 hours: -President pardons Honduran prez serving 45 years for conspiring to smuggle cocaine to US -BUT ALSO on verge of war w/VZ based on unsupported claims its govt. is smuggling cocaine to US -DefSec openly committing war crimes -Trump envoy selling out Ukraine for deals with Russia

big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Are we winning yet? 😢

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Who among us fully understood the extent to which the loyalty vs. competence tradeoff for government appointees was such a crucial guardrail for democracy? Few since Hannah Arendt.

COP30 final agreement makes no mention of fossil fuels. 🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The current historical moment - esp. embodied by the return of President Trump - has let pundits push a need for so-called "Climate Realism". @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I are pleased @iojournal.bsky.social let us write our thoughts on this and subsequent trends in global climate politics. 🧵 below:

Many people think about cold in Northern Europe if the Atlantic Ocean current system #AMOC fails. But that wouldn’t be the only problem for Europe by far. This new study shows that severe drought is another one. 🌊

Very excited about this @iojournal.bsky.social special issue on the future of global governance and world order – many (short) thoughtful pieces, perfect for teaching! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...