Very sincerely, every bit of travel we do in an EV, on a train, on a bus, on a bike/e-bike, by walking or rolling, or by other active transport, helps the climate, helps air quality, and helps national & economic security. We should fund these as national security infrastructure.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

OK, crash course in oil. Oil has two main gradings, viscosity (light or heavy) and sulfur (sweet or sour). A light (low viscosity) and sweet (low sulfur) oil is easier to process into gasoline and other products than a heavy and sour one, so the light & sweet oil commands a premium price.

even by their own account of the plan (“law enforcement operation”) this is straightforwardly murder, so I guess we’ll see if the whole shooting somebody on 5th Ave thing was actually perfectly accurate

is the concept that you can kill 40 random people in executing a criminal warrant for one guy

President Trump said on Saturday that Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the U.S. run the country. Less than two hours later, Rodríguez made clear she viewed the U.S. as an illegal invader that must be rejected.

The best sentence I read yesterday, abt 10 yr reunion of Harvard '06: archive.ph/vDj55 What's happening to us is somewhat about oil, more about energy, & entirely about this sentence. Which is why there hasn't been mandatory climate ed at Harvard, or anywhere, in 60+ yrs it's been the biggest issue.

The energy problem embedded in consumer democracies is in this excellent thread: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Without even taking a position on an event, at face value this is the outcome of a nation with 15 of the world's top 20 universities. Trump, Inc., soon to be Vance/Thiel Inc., is an R1-university generated project. Though disorienting it's easier to understand what's happening after that's absorbed.

I keep expecting Paul Verhoeven to interrupt this press conference “Cut! Let’s try that again only more subtle and grounded.”

Outlets can ask the 17 House Dems who voted for Trump's trillion-dollar Pentagon budget if they still think they're right: Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez ( #WA03), Adam Gray ( #CA13), Josh Gottheimer ( #NJ05), Henry Cuellar ( #TX28), Vicente Gonzalez ( #TX34), plus Don Davis ( #NC01), etc.

Chevron, the only major U.S. oil producer in Venezuela, has been a leading donor to the International Republican Institute, a nonprofit that supported the political opposition in the country. Former opposition leader Juan Guaidó pledged to protect oil giant's assets in 2019.

Utterly shocking that the country that invaded Iraq for oil and suffered zero consequences internally or externally is doing it again.

"The Hague in the Netherlands was the 1st city in the world to enact a law prohibiting advertisements for fossil fuel products & services... the decision to implement the ban challenges norms& conventions that drive fossil-fuel consumption worldwide & sets an example for other governments to follow"

I often use this account to critique the problems of a nation with 15 of 20 of the world's top universities, but in Musk's case, he's so exceptional I can't see blame solely being on our system. Except for his major investors, likely all graduates of our R1 universities.

Under Irish law Musk can be jailed for 12 months for being a director of a company distributing CSAM. Section 9 of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998. 'X' is a company registered in Ireland.

Most of our intellectual capital, not just financial capital, is invested in making the rich richer. For every @adambonica.bsky.social pointing inequity out, there are 100x or 1000x sharp tax strategists making it work. In the US, if you're a top student, the highest paid careers concentrate wealth.

guys, "the judges at the ICC are being sanctioned by the USA and can't access their iphones or bank accounts" and "why aren't any countries banning twitter or prosecuting elon musk for owning a site that manufactures CSAM" stories are the same story

The top 15 billionaires got $1T richer in 2025. Remember the all the handwringing that stimulus checks were too generous and ruined the economy? If we’d sent that $1T to households instead, total stimulus would’ve exceeded all 3 pandemic check rounds combined. How is this the responsible option?

Make masks FIT and FREE! As we experience a record breaking flu surge and the ongoing effects of COVID, now would be a great time to ramp up efforts to make high quality N95 masks free and widely available. Really wish free mask distribution was a regular feature of progressive events for example.

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

"Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of OpenAI, donated $25 million to a super PAC controlled by allies of President Donald Trump in September, according to a new filing with the Federal Elections Commission."

This is my first (and likely only) thread combining data and literary analysis of a 17th Century satire. When Trump rages against windmills, it’s deeply weird but even more so that it parallels Don Quixote. I've been tracking data on his windmill statements. Lately, he's really been tilting. 🧵

Ethics ≠ intelligence, and wisdom ≠ intelligence, but ethics ~ wisdom. If LeCun got what he thinks he wants, it's possible the first thing it would say to us is "Stop."

Musk and Trump have surrendered global clean-energy leadership to China without even a brief arm-wrestle over it Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The CO2 Newsletter, (1979-1982)- by the late William N. Barbat, a geologist who "got it," is a revelation . Enraging (b/c scientists - & some politicians - knew, but couldn't get the action that was needed to happen.) Terrifying too, obvs. All 18 issues will go up this year. First one, Mon Jan 5.

Last week, Mamdani announced city roles for Julie Su and Sam Levine; the city could enforce its laws "requiring food delivery companies to properly pay and protect drivers," among others, as David Dayen covers today.

In news that should surprise no one…

Mamdani: Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of sancocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block? Where else could a Muslim kid like me grow up eating bagels and lox every Sunday?

This is an extremely useful organigram, very similar in concept to something I recently saw from one of the major German foundations that has been tracking and attempting to unravel Trump's corrupt empire. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lincoln Varnum, an engineer, was laid off when Trump cut offshore wind research funds. He hoped Maine’s Republican lawmakers would condemn the cuts. None of them did — not even Sen. Susan Collins. He described Collins’ silence as ​“rough,” since he had voted for her multiple times in the past.

Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books

As always, my last post of the year reminder... Reducing emissions will reduce future climate warming and impacts. The time is now. Visualization made by globalcarbonbudget.org. Thanks for being here in 2025! I appreciate all the support 🙂

something I'm proud of that didn't get as much traction on here: i made chicagoaqi.com, a tool for visualizing environmental data and collecting community input (also a tool for exerting political pressure on the city)

the area around Buenos Aires (Argentina,🇦🇷) is experiencing a heatwave and the demand of electricity triggered a power outage, fortunately during nighttime. Visible from space , by morning most of the power was restored. but the heatwave continues, so we'll see.

With the ironic twist that the individual who has done more damage to the oil industry than anyone else, Musk, has become richer than anyone else as an unintended side-effect of climate policy, and has moved further to the right than anyone else.

Should people have cheered the Southern states for enacting Jim Crow by passing bills in the legislature. Reminds me of Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd" Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men Some will rob you with a six-gun And some with a fountain pen

We’ve made a graphic of just 180 lowlights of Trump's all-of-government attack on climate, giving a sense of how his minions woke each morning in 2025 asking fossil fuels just how high they needed to jump that day gift link from @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Since I wrote this in early November the Carney government has admitted they are not on track for 1.5 or 2 degree targets, and said they'd need a "significant change in policy" to get on track, and then promptly signed a pipeline MOU with Alberta and rolled back more climate rules..

Get your flu shot and mask up ppl. Influenza A and specifically type H3N2 is wrecking both patients and hospitals right now. I am so serious some of the patient complaints are- “Like coughing up razor blades” “My body is on fire” “It hurts to breathe” (typed out by pt)

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

Indonesia remains in the West the largest, least noticed part of humanity

I highly recommend adding a paid subscription to @mskellymhayes.bsky.social for next year. Her posts keep me informed, grounded, and hopeful amid all the chaos and pain.

Always appreciating @cityatlas.bsky.social 's attention to eastern US air quality. Cleaning up this dirty air (eg. ending fossil fuel emissions) would be an incredible boost to the health and happiness of the 100+ million people who live in the region pictured.

Noticed on LinkedIn...

Tonight, in the atmosphere map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...

"Professor Daly shows that if existing, pending, and proposed gas-connected data center sites all operate at full capacity, they would emit up to 16.6 MtCO₂ per year — equivalent to 68% of Ireland’s total national emissions in 2023." @hannahdaly.ie www.techpolicy.press/what-ireland...

I have an active research agenda exploring electricity affordability that I want to fast-track given its enormous potential public good. Funding and hiring may be slow to materialize in these times but putting this in ether if anyone wants to collaborate/join forces www.eenews.net/articles/ele...

ABSOLUTE MADNESS Night Minimums up to 64F in Illinois NIGHT TEMPERATURES TYPICAL OF JULY Hundreds oF records pulverized allover Central States with up to 8F margins and the weekend will be hotter,in some areas much hotter. It s the most extreme event in US climatic history.