The Trump regime doesn't care about lives of people in Iran and other countries targeted by the US empire. And it also doesn't care about financial hardship faced by people at home. As long as Big Oil oligarchs keep making profits.

NEWS: The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels starts FRIDAY in Santa Marta, Colombia. Ahead of it, the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma has endorsed the Fossil Fuel Treaty, which calls for for an equitable, just phaseout of fossil fuels. 1/3 www.wecaninternational.org/PressRelease...

There goes another bad-faith argument for carbon capture and storage. It was never about "decarbonizing hard to decarbonize" sectors. It was always about perpetuating fossil fuels.

And by supposedly liberal governments in Canada, UK, Germany, Australia. Elite power disapproves of climate protest, because it questions fundamentals of power relations. This is true regardless of which mainstream political party is in charge.

If you knowingly use a piece of software that is fundamentally designed from the ground up to fabricate text, you are not doing "hallucinations", you are doing criminal fraud and it should be described as such in media coverage

“By wrapping itself in our name, this company sought to borrow our credibility, our deep connection to this land, and our reputation as careful stewards of our natural and cultural resources … a deliberate effort to appear locally rooted.” AI data center project isn’t making any friends in NM.

Are you a lover of Middle Earth, incensed by the tech industry's misappropriation of Tolkien? This outstanding essay is for you. www.zig.art/p/its-time-t...

A company that has issued an extremist anti-democratic manifesto should not get a single contract from any self-proclaimed democratic government. Which would be a huge problem for this company, because their entire business model is to profit from public contracts.

It's stunning how these Silicon Valley bros have the nerve to call other people "elites." Yes, bros, we have elites in this country. You.

Also, diesel taxes aside, this provides ZERO benefits to people who don't own cars and don't fly. Who are the poorest people. A windfall profits tax with proceeds distributed equally to all, and making public transportation free, are much more equitable and sensible solutions.

In any even remotely functional democracy, the NYT expose on the Supreme Court's shadow docket should be a bombshell that forces any politician who claims to believe in democracy and rule of law to prioritize Court reform. We need investigations, impeachments, expansion, term limits etc. 1/3 🎁🔗

The US took giant steps backwards with the construction of the interstate highway system, the conscious decision to let passenger rail atrophy, and the consequent explosive growth of sprawl.

An entire corporation motivated by dangerously anti-democratic white supremacist ideology, couched in faux intellectual language. Any government doing business with this company is complicit in an authoritarian project.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Most elected officials who want to roll back climate policy in the name of "affordability" give the game away with their support for data centers. They don't really care about affordability, they just want excuses for corporate friendly policies.

This is honestly the best case scenario for the FBI under Trump. Better an incompetent drunk than someone competent turning it into Trump's personal gestapo.

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...

Taking a look at how Big Oil is making an extra $30 million an hour in profits from the war on Iran. Featuring @basavsen.bsky.social, Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

This Tax Day, check out how much money you, a normal person, save thanks to Trump's tax giveaways to the oil and gas industry. Spoiler alert: It's almost definitely a drop in the bucket compared to the ~$35B fossil fuel companies get every year. trumpotax.com

If you own oil wells or pipelines, yes you do!

The mass murder suspect tells the court, you have no right to put me on trial. Only I have the right to judge my own actions.

Contrary to US government propaganda, reliance on fossil energy raises costs and exposes economies to risk. Many countries are waking up to this fact.

If we are ever going to recreate American democracy as a system that ostracizes rather than rewards liars, journalists will need to root out climate denial by covering it as unacceptable public discourse — *even when* it’s articulated by the powerful. Talking to you, @nytimes.com!

“We want the county commissioners to see — and have to step over — what they’re bringing and rolling out the red carpet for here in Hagerstown,” said @dattil.io, founder of Hagerstown Rapid Response. Via @98rock.bsky.social www.98online.com/chalk-lines-...

🌐 NEW | Analysis: Global fossil power generation fell in March after Hormuz closure due to solar & wind growth ⚠️ Fall in gas-fired generation offset by large increases in solar & wind power, not coal w/CREA's @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social energyandcleanair.org/fossil-power...

For all the whining fascists do about being marginalized in state-funded institutions like universities, the alternative ecosystem of thinktanks, conferences and other entities is incredibly well-funded and state-backed and attracts a steady stream of opportunistic grifters as much as true believers

They criminalized opium by claiming Chinese men were seducing white women. They criminalized heroin claiming Black men were raping white women. They criminalized marijuana claiming high Mexicans were raping white women. See the pattern here?

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

This is heartbreaking. These are the foothills of the Himalayas, an incredibly beautiful place.

There's this weird thing in major media where not understanding things or, worse, finding middle ground between terrible things and good things is considered serious leadership.

No one likes data centers except Big Tech, politicians in their pocket (of whom there are way too many), and journalists, commentators, and academics who are either gullible or bought.

This is going to be a colonial geno- and ecocide and it makes me sick to think about it.

Another "success" of the "amazing new technology" invented by Silicon Valley bros.

Neither of our mainstream political parties have the courage and vision needed for the urgent task of dismantling the fossil fuel industry.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

And the easiest people to fool with this authoritative tone are mediocre white journalists at large media outlets.

Good for EU regulators that they value the lives of children and air quality more than the profits of those who make these monstrosities. I

Nearly 20,000 people have been detained in just over a year, in the DC area. READ THAT NUMBER AGAIN. The impact? Communities living in fear, avoiding public life (going to work, dropping their kids at school), and constantly questioning the occupation of our city. ICE OUT NOW 🗣️

This is an insidious myth exploited by "centrist" politicians to argue that we need to win over right-wing voters, by pandering to them if needed. It drives the entire political system to the right.

Exactly how I feel about BJP supporters. The evidence has been there for decades now that what it stands for is Hindu upper caste supremacy. And for good measure, for all the Jagdish Bhagwatis out there, the economy is a shitshow and our international standing is shredded. Bigotry is killing India.

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

"I think Maine is the canary in the coal mine."

This is a disturbing political direction for a nominally progressive institution.

The article is worth reading (as is Empire of AI). But the thing is...we don't even need there to be existential AI risks, per se (though they're likely real)—these fools wreak social & economic havoc the old-fashioned way: vast pollution, lies, & self-dealing. They're an old story with new toys.

Good that VA Dems are not falling for this. Cutting gas taxes is the stupidest and most regressive way to address high gas prices.

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

“For 60 years, car advertising has programmed us that driving is freedom, that driving—even reckless driving—is a symbol of status & power. But what if a car marketing vet (our own @tomflood.bsky.social) used his skills to highlight the insanity of car culture?” HT @usa.streetsblog.org #UrbanTruth

You can see here pretty clearly why having a criteria of 100% renewables for data centres *on its own* can end up forming a permissions pace for a very harmful industry that hurts the cause even when it's 'clean'

"Whitey on The Moon" got a lot of undeserved flack/pushback a few [years] ago, from people not fully understanding what it felt like for the Black community to see millions, billions poured into space exploration— programs Black people were SPECIFICALLY EXCLUDED from participating in, for DECADES—…