Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

Deals are my art form. Some people get their kicks in different ways, but for me it's always been doing beautiful deals.

Deeply shameful to be an American right now. The only thing more shameful is being in a position of power and doing nothing to stop this

"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg

Global warming is a slowly meandering ghost

Seems like a good day to re-up this post from some years ago on why we have free universal services. Which I realize, now, anticipates a core argument of Against Money: We can't understand the purpose of public services if we think of them as equivalent to money payments. jwmason.org/slackwire/wh...

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

Gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Great Ember Report! Electrotech (solar, EV, battery & more) leapfrogs fossil fuels in emerging countries. Why? An example: A decade ago, solar required 5 times more upfront capital investment than a coal plant. Now, solar is less! Solar has free fuel! ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

Yet another study showing that love for our children — and care for future generations more broadly — is a powerful, persuasive climate message, especially when it’s directed at rich people.

This is a point I make all the time. Although some people see empirically oriented philosophy as heterodox, it is far more in line with the history of philosophy which didn't have a clear distinction between philosophy and science.

reporter who only covers really big protests and never covers local organizing: why is this protest I'm covering so big and where is all the local organizing

we could instead drive on electricity and save the corn for cool ranch doritos

the actual DOGE

Students in my energy class are generally surprised to learn that the lifetime cost savings of electric cars vs. gasoline are, in many settings, driven more by maintenance cost savings than fuel.

This is one of the most important issues with the global food system, yet it is often ignored. Put simply, we don't actually grow much *food* in our farms around the world. Instead, we grow grossly inefficient animal feed and biofuels. drawdown.org/news/only-ha...

New from me: by the end of the week, the war in Iran will likely have cost $25 billion, with Trump poised to ask for $200 billion more Below is a writeup, but the meat of it is this table, which shows what an equal amount of funding could cover domestically www.americanprogress.org/article/by-t...

The IEA’s “Sheltering from Oil Shocks” pamphlet reads like a Degrowth manual

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Our analysis, shared exclusively with @theguardian.com, shows that the brutal assault on Iran released 5m tonnes of CO2 in the first two weeks. The environmental consequences of this war will last for decades to come. Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

Cool cool, I'm calling for policy changes that sustainably improve prosperity and health and happiness and equity while cutting oil demand across whole human systems, but I'll try to do my part too 🫡

Our friend the Sonoran Green Toad is a small, colorful toad who lives in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico! They spend most of their life underground and are mostly found during breeding season! (photo by Robert Dobbs)

Your revolution is over, Mr. Atreides. The bums lost.

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

Imagine an economy that values care and repair 🌹 🌳

Central insight of ecofeminism

I anticipated that the energy transition would not go smoothly but I seriously underestimated just how stupid it would be

Yes, believe women. But men need to start speaking up about other men's bad behavior in ways that are startlingly unusual katemanne.substack.com/p/one-weird-...

Never thought I’d live to see a state university course description approvingly cite Oswald Spengler 😳 Otto Neurath would like a word from beyond the grave

As Socrates famously said, the unexamined life is not NOT worth living.

I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway

Don’t write a bad popular book it’s all you’ll be remembered for 🦋

My obituary for Habermas in @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/03/habe...

The more I think on recent work by @gruberte.bsky.social @jlappen1.bsky.social @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jmijin.bsky.social and friends, the more inevitable it seems that governments will need to take over/wind down certain fossil businesses to avoid catastrophic failures and inequities. This...

In rural Tennessee, 16 middle schoolers waiting for cheerleading practice to start made a TikTok video seeming to role play a school shooting. The sheriff's office charged every single one with a crime. www.propublica.org/article/soci...

The current world chicken population is larger than the planet-wide non-chicken bird population not just today, but at any point in the history of earth.

Colorado is the first state where advocates have secured a court ruling forcing prison officials to stop using solitary confinement to compel labor from incarcerated people. “It’s exciting and it’s amazing,” says one advocate in the state.

This semester, we will be reading selected chapters from "Everything flows", edited by @djnicholson.bsky.social and John Dupré in our Reading Group. All interested are welcome to join us at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (room NDEF04/346). If needed, we can also arrange hybrid meetings. #HPBio #PhDSky

The climate impacts of fossil fuel CO₂ will last longer than nuclear waste.

It's also hard to choose the pedestrian/bicycle/public transit/density option when you may not have experienced it, it may not be available to you, it's often maligned and disparaged, and it's largely only achieved through collective effort rather than individual choice.

Can this be a solution?

rebecca solnit today rebecca solnit tomorrow rebecca solnit forever

$2bn/day, with $2.8bn/day in munitions alone over the first two days. I tend to think of myself as a Large Number Scale Understander but this is just mind-boggling amounts of money.

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”