"The newest round of sanctions takes explicit aim at China's intake of Iranian oil, potentially ratcheting up tensions with Beijing ahead of the Trump-Xi Jinping summit next month" w/ @mikesoraghan.bsky.social @politico.com subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

After almost 15 years, today is my last day at POLITICO. I’m on the hunt for my next challenge. If you’re looking for a designer/illustrator/editor/writer with almost 20 years of media experience, let me know. The newsletters live on! (I’d love it if you bought a subscription to The Omnicosm.)

Lots of E&E News greats are walking out the door today. A true tragedy.

Damn. That is indeed some awesome talent lost to a buyout

".. The reporter, Hannah Natanson, has spent the past year covering the Trump administration’s effort to fire federal workers and redirect much of the work force to enforcing his agenda." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

begging and pleading for bluesky to give a shit about what’s happening to hannah natanson

There's a lot of places where the Trump administration is cracking down. #pipeline safety enforcement is not one of them. www.eenews.net/articles/pip...

There's a lot of places where the Trump administration is cracking down. #pipeline safety enforcement is not one of them. www.eenews.net/articles/pip...

“He said, ‘I cannot breathe, I cannot breathe.’ After that, we don’t hear his voice anymore and that’s it.”

“We’re in a time when looking over your shoulder is just about the only way to look.”

Wow. A youtuber exposed fraud the mainstream media ignored? Actually, no. @nytimes.com @startribune.com have been reporting on it for years. But they focused on fraud, not race or nationality. This piece from 2022 www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/u...

My colleague @mikesoraghan.bsky.social with a great explainer on why the global crude glut complicates the president's plans to "get reimbursed for everything that we spend" in Venezuela. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Former U.S. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell dies coloradosun.com/2025/12/30/b...

The @60Minutes episode on El Salvador's CECOT prison pulled from @CBSNews this weekend. Have a look: www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

$3 gasoline and <$60 oil means tough choices in the oil business. But for plenty of people who make their living in oil and gas, one choice is still easy. They're with #Trump. www.eenews.net/articles/the...

Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!

Worth reading . . .

And yet @politico.com uses AI that sends glaring errors to our subscribers and violates our ethics standards. Tell POLITICO management to follow it's own rules for accurate, ethical journalism and sign our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

Every FERC pipeline fight starts with throwing elbows to rack up resolutions for and against at city halls and county boards. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Every FERC pipeline fight starts with throwing elbows to rack up resolutions for and against at city halls and county boards. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

He Was the Face and Voice of Gaza. Israel Assassinated Him. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Inspector who worked on Mountain Valley pipeline says it was built unsafely. Operator @EQTcorp says feds checked and called MVP safe. What those feds say: We're not telling you anything subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he and Trump shut down a New York wind project because Biden "rushed approval” with “flawed science." Can he back that up? He just releases 27 blacked out pages www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

In the wake of $744M verdict against an oil major, Trump-world is has knives out for the Louisiana Republican's who've backed the litigation to get Big Oil to restore the marshes www.eenews.net/articles/law...

In the wake of $744M verdict against an oil major, Trump-world is has knives out for the Louisiana Republican's who've backed the litigation to get Big Oil to restore the marshes www.eenews.net/articles/law...

"Of course, Trump could agree to let his name out or sign a privacy waiver."

The FBI redacted President Donald Trump’s name, as well as the names of other prominent public figures, from the Epstein files under privacy exemptions. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

EXCLUSIVE: A DOGE appointee told independent regulators they are expected to “rubber stamp” approvals of new nuclear reactors, three people with inside info told us. The directive comes after Trump said he wants to quadruple the U.S. nuclear power supply by 2050.

NEW: We asked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.”

Apparently there’s a video United Healthcare doesn’t want you to see www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/i...

Gotta quit all of Amazon or else unsubscribing just from Post is basically nothing to Bezos

New masthead: Democracy Dies

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WTF? “Atalco polluted public land and state waterways with the most toxic non-radioactive elements on the planet and allowed that pollution to continue for months — never notifying the outside community. lailluminator.com/2025/06/02/r...

NEW: Journalists at POLITICO and E&E News are heading to arbitration this week to hold management accountable for violating their contract through reckless AI use. ▶️ Sign their petition to show your support here: bit.ly/PENGuild

Proud to represent this group holding management accountable to journalism ethics even as we use new technology

This is about holding journalism and technology to the same high standards

Seemed like @realDonaldTrump and @GovKathyHochul had a truce on Empire Wind and NE #natgas pipelines. Then Team Trump said she "caved" and agreed to approve two new gas pipelines. www.eenews.net/articles/whi... Will another shoe drop soon?

We're proud our AI agreement has safeguards for journalists jobs-and company ethics, to allow AI use in a way that works for us, not against us. @politico.com already agreed that AI-generated content should be subject to the same standards as human-written articles. It needs to follow the contract

Last year @PENGuild became one of the first unions to win AI protections in a contract. Now, we're going to enforce them. Read it here www.wired.com/story/politi...

If @politico is going to have AI, it should know that Row v. Wade has been overturned. #Cmon www.wired.com/story/politi...

There's been a lot of Firsts in the second Trump administration. Today it's the first month with no #pipeline safety enforcement www.eenews.net/articles/pip...

Protect and defend editorial cartoonists this World Press Freedom Day

Ann Telnaes, Wash Post, Pulitzer Prize for delivering piercing commentary on powerful people & institutions with deftness, creativity – and a fearlessness that led to her departure from the news org after 17 years. https:/ /www.pulitzer.org/node/ann-telnaes-washington-post-0

The U.S. has a lot of oil and gas. It doesn't have the most. www.eenews.net/articles/no-...

Trump Ally Seeks To Topple Pipeline Safety Enforcement #news #environment @mikesoraghan.bsky.social reports for @eenews.bsky.social EJ Today Headlines: www.sej.org/headlines/list www.eenews.net/articles/tru...