The Great Censoring has begun.

It pays to fight back. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Cool UCLA detail - bird sounds from 'Lovin You' - "Wonder insisted the song needed chirping birds ...; Rudolph says he, Riperton and Wonder ventured to UCLA’s botanic gardens with a microphone and a tape recorder to get the sound." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT: A federal judge just issued a ruling that allows Revolution Wind project to resume work. This is a win for workers and should be upheld.

One of the world's largest copper/cobalt mines in the DR Congo is now in play as Glencore looks to unload the asset. The last time a mine this size was sold, it solidified China's dominance in the global cobalt market. Watch our analysis:

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

Joanna Lewis, Sam Geall, Lauri Myllivirta, I and some others quoted in this Brook Larmer piece on China's global green-tech ambitions. This is part of the focus of my forthcoming book "Chinese Global Environmentalism," out later this year. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

Hardest photo taken in the U.S., I'd have to say…

Genevieve Lakier is who everyone should be reading on the risks of government jawboning in the Jimmy Kimmel case. @genevievelakier.bsky.social

I think this may violate the 1st amendment www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Job-killing, value-destroying.

The details of the Jimmy Kimmel situation reveal that Trump has adopted one of Viktor Orbán's most effective weapons against the free press www.vox.com/politics/461...

This is the clearest explanation of the visa situation of the Korean workers in Georgia I've seen. B-1 and ESTA. Temporary workers here to help get the battery plant up and running. Own goal. youtu.be/U4Vt0uf1FcY?...

NEW – Q&A: Will China and the BRICS fill the ‘leadership gap’ on climate change? | @anikanpatel.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @yixiansun.bsky.social Jennifer Allan @jamesnorman.bsky.social Beatriz Mattos @katelogan.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/WVyH1Y0

If we’re going to have Chinese style autocracy in the US, I’d also like the renewable energy infrastructure, high speed rail, electric vehicles, investment in science, and good food.

California isn’t backing down on offshore wind power despite Trump cancellation www.latimes.com/environment/...

The Trump administration and Trump himself seem to think the Hyundai/LG ICE raid was an own goal too. “During a visit to Seoul on Sunday, Christopher Landau, the U.S. deputy secretary of state, expressed deep regret over the Koreans’ detainment.” www.wsj.com/world/asia/s...

ICE quota theory for the win!

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.

BBC interview with one of the Korea workers who was shackled and imprisoned. This was nothing but an American own goal. Attempting to blow up the largest economic development project in Georgia history. Billions in investment, thousands of jobs for Americans. youtu.be/fcwJtWU4fn4?...

Lawsuit challenging Trump funding cuts to the UCs. www.latimes.com/california/s...

A travesty. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

Fully incapable of taking the temperature down or calling for unity

Certainly notable how much of this has to do with transgender students, "anti-Western" foreign students, and allegations of affirmative action in admissions (including asking for everyone's SAT scores, which UCLA does not require, consider, or possess). Not much to do with antisemitism here. 🤔

The terms of the shakedown attempt. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Chinese researchers and firms are accelerating the race towards the next generation of battery technologies, and this will undoubtedly reshape the fortunes of countries heavily reliant on cobalt and nickel exports.

Significant, on many levels.

Oh what a difference 37 hours makes! christ, what a clownish asshole...

There are apparently good people on both sides, but only bad ones on the left. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

On Andy @revkin.bsky.social podcast, several of the authors of our climate response spoke to Andy about our response. Here's my explanation of why I participated. www.youtube.com/live/auIXk-A... There are some boring parts (parts where I'm not talking) but the whole thing's worth watching IMHO.

This is how you compete with the rest of the world on EV charging and EV adoption, you don't rest, you continue to increase momentum. AB 39 focuses on requiring every city in the state to have a plan to expand charging, especially in low income and underserved areas. Fantastic!

Last week, energy cooperation was centre stage at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meetings. How will China’s energy investments influence the energy transitions of SCO member states? 🔗 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/8ldHfBk ✍️ Lin Zi, Shalinee Kumari, Farahnaz Zahidi Moazzam

I believe it. Hyundai was the #2 EV brand in the U.S. for a few years before GM finally caught up on a diverse EV lineup and leveraged the incentives to pass them after ceding the #2 spot when they killed the Bolt to make EVs $10k more expensive. Compelling, globally competitive EVs will thrive.

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Any criticism of Patel and Bongino’s failure to solve crimes must also acknowledge past FBI director Chris Wray’s failure to podcast and sell supplements.

I'll let you know

Seeing much disinformation about the situation. Hyundai isn't pulling out. The factory will be completed but with a 2-3 month delay. We'll still have the best in class EVs, made in America, with very high U.S./Canadian parts that American automakers refuse for stonks.

Zambia’s $100 million Chisamba solar plant, built by China’s PowerChina and financed by ZESCO, promises relief from crippling blackouts while prioritizing power for mining.

China’s BYD led among Chinese EV brands in Indonesia in August with 2,562 wholesale units as the overall car market fell year on year. Aion finished ahead of Denza, sharpening competition among Chinese marques under Indonesia’s EV tax breaks.

As of this moment, it appears: -Chicago has stopped Trump. -Harvard has stopped Trump. Bullies stop only when they meet resistance. And they keep moving until they do. Who knows what tomorrow brings. But for today....

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

More job killing, value destroying actions from the Trump administration

What an extraordinary and complete waste www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...