Every effort you make to stop using fossil fuels not only addresses the climate emergency but cuts the legs out from under tyranny. There is no greater ecological or geopolitical mission for people who like their world inhabitable and democratic.

No discussion of democracy. No discussion of elections. Plenty of talk by Trump about running the country and taking the oil. Let’s not forget to thank John Roberts for his role in immunizing this international criminal.

Lady took his prize

"Trump has complete disdain for the system of international law. He looks at the world through the eyes of a 19th-century imperialist, but with 21st-century weapons. The peril made brutally clear in the first few days of 2026 is one that will ultimately be faced by everyone."

UK Foreign Office: "Um, well, you know, it's complicated, special relationship, we're watching closely."

Every effort you make to stop using fossil fuels not only addresses the climate emergency but cuts the legs out from under tyranny. There is no greater ecological or geopolitical mission for people who like their world inhabitable and democratic.

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

And it seems possible that Trump’s vision for regime change is to get rid of Maduro but possibly leave the Maduro regime and the military in power. The man loves his dictatorships….

Typically hard hitting piece on Trump’s regime change efforts in Venezuela, by @nickcohen.bsky.social

Trump's actions in Venezuela shows why it was wrong to dismiss his threats to Greenland. If he's willing to do this, he will be willing to do anything

Trump is slurring and stumbling through his crazed speech announcing the takeover of Venezuela with a completely make-believe story of national security threats ended… and now he’s segued to claiming that Washington DC is for the first time in memory a place where restaurants are “again open”

The US Congress is now as toothless as Putin's Duma:

Yes, Maduro is a bad guy. But the President now says we will “run” another country of more than 28 million people for an undetermined time. How many American service members will be put in harm’s way — without even a vote in Congress?

I think Trump cleared this with Putin last week, showing who he truly looks to for actual oversight.

"Russian commentators have frequently suggested that Latin America lies in America’s domain just as Ukraine was under the Russian shadow. Vladimir Putin thinks the same of much of eastern Europe. Xi Jinping will draw his own conclusions." Apparently this attack was originally planned for Christmas.

International law won't constrain Trump's thirst for oil. But every solar panel that goes up makes crude reserves that much less valuable billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.

Just think what could be achieved without the Trumpian headwind.

Trump's audacious and probably illegal capture of a Venezuelan leader of doubtful legality suggests he believes he has the right to intervene, i.e. grab what he wants, anywhere in the western hemisphere. Europe, already worried by Trump's Greenland rhetoric, has been warned

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Love the sound of these rewilding plans but cannot read about them without thinking about the fact small donors are raising money to hand over £30m to *one chap* who has inherited a tract of land *the size of Athens*. Very British story, somehow.

2025 comes to an end. It’s been a strong year for deployment and innovation, but a worrying one for energy politics. Moves like the US pause on offshore wind show how quickly progress can be undermined by polarised debate. Here’s hoping 2026 brings calmer, more evidence-based energy policymaking.

Christmas has come early for me, thanks to my friend, the brilliant @zaraslattery.bsky.social. One of the v few self-printed copies of volume one of our graphic novel, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS. A labour of love for both of us. One day a publisher may agree and publish it *prays to the comics gods*

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

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I guess it's true, although the biggest problems WE face are computers vomiting up endless slop, intellectual property theft, electricity hogging and water draining uselessness that's fueling a potentially destructive economic bubble.

Canada’s growing clean tech sector has created thousands of high-paying careers — many of those in methane reduction. Our new measures to drive down those emissions will cut pollution and could create nearly 35,000 new careers in the field by 2040.

China added 500+ TWh of electricity in the past 12 months. Coal fell ~66 TWh. #Solar delivered ~75% of net growth in both China and the U.S. over the same period. The difference isn’t direction — it’s speed. China is growing ~4× faster. Now #BESS is scaling, turning capacity into firm power.

Colour and Light. New #SweeneysProgress Winter Solstice Patreon post. @gregorynorminton.bsky.social

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

Hype. No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.

“.. Not since the U.S. allied with Joseph Stalin during the Lend Lease Act has a White House official enjoyed such frequent, personal access to a Russian or Soviet leader. “Witkoff has yet to visit Ukraine.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

Few things more full of life than a dead tree. Here's (I think) some crimped gill fungus on a bed of moss fruiting from a fallen oak. Sounds almost yummy, doesn't it?

This development could by itself take out most of the remaining gas generation in California, and on sunny days a good chunk of electricity imports as well. 🔌💡 bsky.app/profile/dust...

Never thought I'd hope to see a Cheney run again for public office, yet here we are.

Man it's awesome to have a research paper sum up everything we've been saying about lazy automakers delaying EV adoption for the last quarter century.

" Instead, internal reports suggest that the White House’s violent boat-smashing operation in the Caribbean was merely a backup plan when a potential war on Mexico fell through." A reckless, criminal administration. newrepublic.com/post/204619/...

Solar power is expected to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2033. ☀️🔌💡

Anyone even on the periphery of the publishing world has known this festering open secret. I expect Walliams will make up for lost income as another Free Speech Martyr on the GB News circuit.

anyways that’s enough brain damage for me but main takeaways here: -Gen Z conservatives are Hitler Youth 2.0 -Basically all of them support JD Vance as the next president -They hate Muslims, Latinos, and women (not surprising) -All of them complain about affordability and healthcare lol

“That is the most insidious corruption…Trumpism gets its defenders to insist terrible things could never happen…Until Trump does the thing. At which point these same people insist the thing which could never happen must happen. That it is right, good and necessary.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Illuminating reporting and analysis in @science.org breakthrough of the year package. Don't miss the photo essay. www.science.org/content/arti...

The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”

Last Inside Politics before Christmas. Come for some thoughts on the state of the parties, stay for the excessively long list of Christmas tunes at the bottom of the newsletter:

Publishers come here and look how special this is!

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.